Ch54: Orbot's Confession

"So what's going on?" Sonic asked me as I hid us from view. Eggman was now talking to Orbot and Cubot, the dumb robots that Eggman has as his personal servants. And they were talking about the aliens they were capturing. "Shh... we'll jump out when the time is right. I'll let you know when that is," I smirked at him as we simply waited for Eggman's monologue to be over.

"34, 35, 36... bah! Not nearly enough aliens!" Eggman exclaimed. "Want us to get more?" Orbot asked. "No! I want you to get me a cheeseburger and a shake." "That'll be easier! Cheeseburgers don't run as fast as 'em lil' alien varmints!" Cubot said in his western accent. "At least that part was kept intact," Chaos said in my head. "No kidding," I smiled back.

"Idiot! Get me more aliens! I need their Hyper-Go-On energy to power my weapon! And when I get enough of that sweet energy, nothing will stop me! Not Sonic, not Sapphire, not anyone! I swear that this time, NOTHING will stop me!" Eggman exclaimed. "Now," I smiled as I grabbed onto Sonic and had us jump out as Eggman began to laugh. "Um... boss?" Orbot asked as soon as he saw us.

"SONIC?! SAPPHIRE?!" Eggman exclaimed. "Who're you calling nothing?" I asked, making an L shape on my forehead. "Eh?" Cubot said. "He said that 'nothing will stop me, and Sonic and Sapphire are going to stop him, it was as if the boss were calling them, nothing," Orbot said. "Heh. You ruined the joke, but that's still funny," I smiled at Orbot as I gave him a wink. "Fine! Since you're so smart robot, you take care of this mess! Release the Big Boy! At least I know he won't screw it up! Especially because of a little something I did to you during that party, Sapphire," Eggman smiled maniacally.

"Wait, what did you do to me again? Information via monologue please!" I exclaimed as I grabbed onto Eggman's Egg Mobile with my hair before he could speed off. "Grr! You want information?! Talk to the idiot robots!" Eggman exclaimed as he actually used thrusters and shot out of my hair's grasp and off into the distance. It was then that I saw what Eggman meant when the Rotate-o-Tron came out.

It was completely unlike the boss I'd seen in the games as it had spikes all around it's head, hands that looked like they were just in a fire and searing red hot, and the Ferris Wheel parts of the boss were now triangles instead of platforms. "Oh crap... I... I think we may have screwed up again..." Chaos gulped as Sonic went off to fight the boss. I knew he'd be able to survive this, even if he hadn't faced it before, so I grabbed onto Orbot and Cubot before they could run off.

"Unhand us you vile woman!" Orbot exclaimed in his reserved voice. "Eggman said you'd give me answers, now give them to me. What did he do to me at the Soleanna party?" I asked as I held Orbot upside down. "I know! He inserted a little bug into your head while you got busy with Sonic!" Cubot exclaimed like a dumbass. "He did WHAT?!" I exclaimed out loud. "Y-You probably shouldn't have done that, my Cubist pal," Orbot gulped.

I saw the Rotate-o-Tron in the distance smoking from Sonic and I knew I was right to not worry, but I still held the two bots in my grasp. "Where's the bug?!" I exclaimed at the duo. "I-It's no longer there, we swear! He just needed the info for this game and whatever came after! After that, he detached it and that was that! Please just let us go!" Orbot actually begged.

"Where did he place it when it was there?" I asked him. "On the back of your right ear, just under the fur," Orbot shivered. "Robots can shiver?... I think you may be scaring him too much..." Chaos said. I immediately felt the back of my right ear with my hand and felt nothing but a tiny indent. It was most likely from where the bug was. "Fine. You told me, now go," I growled as I let go of the two and simply flew off to grab Sonic from the Rotate-o-Tron, since he'd already made it blow up in the process of my interrogation.

"So what happened? And why was that boss surprisingly hard to take down?" Sonic asked me as I lowered us to the ground. "The two idiot robots blabbed everything..." I growled as I seethed in and out in anger. "That Eggman... remember that party that we did that thing?" I asked, wondering if he would. "Oh no... don't tell me..." Sonic frowned. "Yep. That overweight asshole bugged my brain just like Gaige's! And the worst part is that he probably saw us have sex! It makes me so mad that I... I..." I growled until I finally collapsed into tears.

"Sapphire... it's okay..." Sonic tried to console me as I fell into his embrace. "No it's not! Eggman violated our privacy, violated my thoughts and Chaos's, and now he knows everything from this game onwards... he even knows the levels that had changed in the iPod! Do you know what's going to happen now because of this?! He's going to change the levels AGAIN!" I exclaimed in a full monologue of my own.

"Sapphire... don't you worry about this," Sonic said as he hugged me in the gentlest way possible. It calmed me down somewhat, but I was still upset. "We'll make sure that Eggman can't do anymore harm to you. And that starts with finding our friends and splitting up. There are four different planets around here and one giant space fleet that I know could use some adjustments. What do you say? Wanna go ahead and find the others so we can fix all of this... and we'll make sure that Eggman won't be able to harm you anymore." "T-Thanks, Sonic... I needed that..." I sniffled as we went off in search of the others. It didn't take long to find them either, as well as yet another certain person that I didn't expect to show up with us.