Sasuke's POV.

Morning comes by the next day. I was asleep in a tree. Tobi left after the meeting. Anyway, before Julian and I set some business, I must clean up myself. I searched for a nearby waterfall and here it is. I took off my clothes and the earpiece. Anyway, I don't need that thing anymore. I could use another communication device so that I can call the others if they found and captured those targets. I entered the waterfall as I clean up myself for a few minutes. Once that is done, I put back on my clothes. I walked to the outskirts of the city to see the mad doctor is looking over it. I sat down on the grass with him.

"Getting used to the changes, Julian," I asked.

"Yes, I'm already getting used to it," was his reply. He happens to look down. "I can't believe what I missed all those years."

Now I understand how you feel, Julian. I took out a picture of Sally years ago before she become the way she is now. I looked at it for a few minutes before I turned to him.

"Just so you know, the bond between me and the princess has been severed long ago," I squeezed the picture right in front of him to show my point. "Anyway, as we're reunited yesterday, that's it. Our bond is destroyed. Too bad she hasn't realize that."

"Well, that's good of you to do something like that," Julian complimented.

"Years ago, I learned that having friends would weaken one from his ambition," I remembered that time when the Sound Four attacked me in the Hidden Leaf. I was defeated and given this statement by them. This really causes me to leave the village, cutting my ties and sever the bonds of the people whom I'd been friendly with. A future with them is no longer what I want anymore, only revenge.

"And that's the thing you should do," he replied back with a sinister look on his face. "Your friendship will just hold you back from your quest of revenge."

"I couldn't agree more," I said, coldly.

"So this is New Mobotropolis, huh?" Julian looked the city. I got a feeling he might have a plan to take it over. "If that's the case, then I'll just turn the city into New Robotropolis."

"When you are going to do it," I asked.

"At about three days," was the reply.

"Lien-Da, do you have the devices that he can use of?"

"Why yes, Sasuke," she replied as she shows the things Julian needed to take over the city. It consists or robots; not just any robots, but the new models. There's also the knockoff versions of Sonic and friends. And there's also the five controlled humans.

The mad doctor has reacted quite well, judging by the look on his face.

"Surprise, doctor? You'll need those in order to take over the city, right?" I asked.

"Thank you, Sasuke, for bringing those things to me. But what about the Roboticizer blueprints?"

"I also saved that for you," Lien-Da brings out a disk as she hands it over to Julian.

"Excellent," Julian is satisfied with all that he has.

"Those things are under your control now, not that other you from an alternate universe. To tell you the truth, that guy was such a phony, a fake. But you are the real Dr. Robotnik," I said with a smile on my face.

"That's thoughtful of you, Sasuke

Too bad he doesn't know that I'm going to betray him as soon as I learned enough from him. I thought.

I decided to make an offer. "I agree to work under you, Julian, but I got two conditions."

"What's that?"

"One, don't get me involved in your plan to take over the world. I'm not interested in that, only revenge is what I'm interesting of," that's my first condition.

"Fair enough. What else?" Julian asked.

"Two, I appreciate you're going to teach me how to build things, but there's one thing I don't like to learn how to build it," I replied coldly.

"What's that?"

"The Roboticizer," was I said. I don't like that invention.

"Why not?" the mad doctor is surprised when I said it. "You can use it to turn your targets of revenge into your very own army."

The truth is, he makes a good point. However, I'm not interested in making that kind of people into something like that. For revenge, I mostly prefer my targets to be dead, not alive and being slaves.

"The thing is, that Roboticizer of yours is very disgusting. Turning your enemies into robots and your personal army? That's disgusting coming out of you. I mostly prefer my targets of revenge to be dead, not alive and being slaves," I explained this in a cold way.

"But..." Julian is trying to convince me.

"I said no, Julian, and that's that. You can teach me to build whatever you like, but don't get me involved with the Roboticizer."

As Julian started to sweat on this one, it looks like he can't convince me to teach me on how to build a Roboticizer.

"Okay, Sasuke, I won't let you get involved with the Roboticizer."

This brings me satisfaction. Just then, we noticed someone is about to come out of a house.

"And speaking of the Roboticizer," I managed to carry some binoculars on my way here. As I looked at it, it's Mecha Sally stepping out. "Oh look, doctor. If it isn't the roboticized princess, Sally Acorn."

"She's roboticized?" the doctor himself then changes the look on his face to be delighted. "If that's the case, then I can use her against Sonic! After all, she is his girlfriend!"

"Don't get your hopes too high, doc. Just watch," I said coldly.

As we looked at the city, we then see Sonic coming out of his house. He takes a pretty interesting sight at her as he runs towards her. I noticed that Julian is getting excited on seeing this, and he says about hoping Sally would crush his archnemesis for him. Too bad he doesn't know what she's really doing at that moment. As Sonic went by her, Sally just hugged him. That's one thing people could find affection.

"What the-?" Julian couldn't believe the sight he saw.

"By the way, Sally here has regained her free will. In other words, she's herself even as a robot," I provided the explanation.

"But how? Last time I roboticized her, she couldn't get her free will back," he explained that event which Sally already told me about it. "By the way, her name was Robot 3390."

So people get named after being roboticized, huh? Well, that's a very interesting topic.

"Just how did she get her free will back?" Julian is really desperate for the answer. I decided to show him.

"If you want to know, here it is," I activated my Sharingan. I'm sure Julian saw that before. As I did, I showed him of what happened last night, mostly in Mecha Sally's mind, that is. I showed him of how I destroyed his other self's programming.

"What is that?"

"My Sharingan can allow you to see what has happened in a person's mind," I replied. "Very interesting stuff, huh?"

"I see," Julian is really paying attention. "Anyway, I would try to build something to get that programming back so that she can be under my control this time."

I don't think so. I thought.

As he started to walk away, I grabbed him by his right arm. I make another request.

"Forget it. Sally got her freedom back and that's that."

"But..." he sure really want to make things his own way when in fact he's just a pawn in my plans.

"I said that's final, you fatso," I coldly give him the death glare. That really scared him enough to give up that plan. I let go of his arm. "Besides, I got a better use for her. She may not be working for us, but she can be persuaded. But she doesn't know that she's doing our work."

As Julian thought about that, he nodded after a few minutes of thinking.

"Hey, very good idea, Sasuke," he said in agreement.

"Anyway, I'm going down there. I'm going to test out her skills. Just watch," I am about to leave the grassy field as I went on my way to the city.

"Okay, I'll watch," was Julian's reply.

I went back to New Mobotropolis as I'm about to show Julian here that not only I'm grown up, but also I have become more stronger than the last time I fought against him. He'll be seeing some new development in me and it's gonna be exciting.