Chapter 25
Dr. Ivo Robotnik
The ground shook so violently that it was barely possible for each of the group to communicate with each other. Sonic tried to listen as best as he could but the noise was far too great for any word from Angel or any of the others lips.
Amy was with them now, and Sonic thanked heaven that she was alright, but the world had shown different for the summer camp. Each of the buildings had some extent of damage done to them. The boys' cabin was torn in half from one of the great cracks in the earth. No one was hurt, thank goodness, but several were panicking and questioning what was going on.
Several crevices were coming through the camp now, and the earthquake had somewhat intensified. Mr. Eggman had disappeared, but Sonic knew his remote control had something to do with this. The ground shook with violent tremors, each one feeling as if the world was jumping.
He and the others were fleeing the outer edge of the camp now, and most of the campers followed suit. They weren't the earliest ones waiting at the end of the camp grounds, but they were among the first.
When they all got to the end, they turned back to see that the cabins 8, 9 and 11 were completely demolished, all with at least half of the cabin missing, 11 was completely gone. It had disappeared when the crack near it widened and swallowed it whole.
Sonic and the others watched in horror and confusion as each crack widened and took up more and more ground. The camp grounds were nearly destroyed now.
"WHATS GOING ON?" Knuckles screamed, confusion swimming lively in his voice.
"WHAT!" Sonic asked him, the grounds constant shuddering and trembling muffling his voice.
"WHAT!" Knuckles screamed back.
In all their confusion and constant trading of the same word, the others had noticed a major change in the quake… it had stopped.
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!" Sally screamed at them, and then pointed at the camp "Look."
Both of them just looked at her for a moment, turned towards each other, and then turned around to view what had happened. What they saw worried them greatly.
The about a third of the camp grounds had been sunk into some sort of crater. The crater was only a few feet deep, with rubble and debris piled within it. The other two-thirds were nothing but the trees of the forest, now tilted slightly inward from the craters under-arch.
"What is that?" Sonic half-whispered to himself, now inching towards the strange crater. He merely stepped a few feet when the crater itself started to quake violently.
The gravel on the inside of the crater shook without end and the trees leaves were vibrating in sync with the quakes. Then the strangest thing happened to the crater… it started rotating. Slowly but surely, the crater spun, carrying the broken debris and trees with it.
Within only a few seconds the crater had stopped turning and was now vibrating slightly again. Then, without any warning, the crater shot up violently, making appear like a dome coming from the ground. The trees responded by flying out of the ground, their leaves soaring off of them and the roots flailing in the air. The trees flew threw the air for a while like spears and landed all over the camp, colliding with buildings and shattering glass before they finally stopped.
Sidney became terrified at the sudden exhale of the earth and clung to Tails' arm tightly, wanting this strange and horrifying nightmare to end. To her dismay… this was only the abrupt beginning.
The dirt started to slide off of the dome, revealing a brilliant metallic silver object underneath. Then a few dozen of strange, thick wires started to snake out from beneath the dirt below the object. They arched over and shot into the new earth on the surface. They appeared to be pulling on something, for they were wriggling about oddly. Then the large spherical object made its final appearance, now showing what the wires were pulling on.
When the last of the egg-shaped sphere came levitating above the ground, the wires suddenly straitened, giving it more support. They appeared now to be less bendable than solid metal rods.
Although inwardly, the entire group was panicking, physically, they stayed put, wondering what they should do. The egg-shaped silver thing didn't seem at all threatening, but they all had their doubts. For minutes the thing didn't make a single gesture, allowing plenty of conversation time, but no one dared speak for one unexplained reason or another
"Dear me!" said the egg, somehow projecting its voice throughout the crowd, the voice was not unfamiliar to anyone however. The voice was Mr. Eggman's. "Look at all your frightened faces. I must be out of my mind to suggest scaring you all out of your wits like that." Then a sadistic cackle followed his perfectly punctuated voice.
"Now, I think, it is about the time that I bestow upon you my true identity. My name is not, in fact, Mr. Joseph Eggman…." He paused for a moment, expecting a few in the crowd to laugh. None did however, probably still in shock and fear of him, so he continued "My true, birthright name is Ivo Robotnik… Dr. Ivo Robotnik. And let me introduce to you, my hemispherical fortress… the Death Egg."