Eggman yawned as his alarm went off, and he turned it off. Orbot and Cubot rolled in with breakfast.
"Wakey-wakey; eggs and bakey!" Orbot grinned, handing the doctor his breakfast. Eggman scowled at him. "Don't ever say that again."
Orbot placed the food tray on the doctor's lap and continued. " Today's the day we're finally going to defeat Sonic with your new weapon, so I thought I'd make you a special breakfast!"
"You thought?!" Eggman snapped. " You don't think; you're artificial intelligence, and even that's only half right."
He glanced at the empty glass and frowned. "No fresh-squeezed orange juice?"
Orbot held an orange juice up and sucked its contents through his robotic teeth, and the juice came out of his finger into Eggman's cup.
Eggman grimaced. " Suddenly, I'm not so thirsty. Is my Egg Tank ready?"
Cubot held up a tank top with Eggman's logo on it, and Eggman frowned. " My other Egg Tank?"
Pretty soon, Eggman was all set in his egg tank. The genius peered through the ship's spy goggles to witness the current events... Amy setting up the movie camera, Knuckles and Sticks setting up the projection screen. He pressed a few buttons again, and the camera moved to Tails, Penny, and Sonic. Penny was munching on some candy, and unfortunately some of the pieces went down the wrong side of the throat, and Sonic quickly patted her back, forcing the piece of candy out. She took a few coughs before giving Sonic a thankful smile. Sonic smiled back, and after a reassuring lecture from Tails, the three went into the movie shop to grab a movie from the counter.
"Movie day, eh? Spoiler alert; I win, you lose!" Eggman snickered. He pressed a few buttons on his control panel and gave his orders. "Play my battle music."
Instead of the hip-hop battle music Eggman wanted, a Hawaiian type music played in the background. Eggman sighed. "Close enough." He shook it off and drove to the beach.
"Man, I've been waiting to see this one!" Penny giddily said as she sat down on a fold up chair next to Sonic.
"And we get to enjoy it with you." The hedgehog said, poking Penny playfully on the nose.
"Stop that!" Penny laughed, batting his hand playfully away.
"Shh!" Amy hissed. "The movie's starting!"
"Oh, right." Penny said, quickly turning to the movie. The last thing she wanted was to get on Amy's bad side.
The movie went on for a while, and the next scene that happened was Comedy Chip parachuting off an airplane.
"I guess that wasn't the men's room door." Comedy Chimp said. He burst into laughter, and the rest of the gang laughed.
Knuckles frowned. "I don't get it."
Sonic turned to Tails. "Nice job on the projector."
"Thanks!" Tails said with a grin. "I had to re-orient the screws..."
Amy glared at them, silencing them. "Shhh! No talking!"
Knuckles and Penny drank their slushies. Amy glared at them. "Shhh! No slurping!"
"Aww..." Penny whined.
"SHH! No whining!" Amy snapped, causing Penny to wince. "Shh! And no wincing!"
The sound of thunder rolled behind them, and the sound of robots clanking alerted the gang. Amy turned to the bots with a hiss. "Shh! NO ATTACKING!"
The bots crawled up to the gang, and Sonic instantly got in front of Penny protectively, smashing away the bots. She yelped as a robot claw grabbed her, but thankfully Sticks' boomerang saved her. Sonic quickly zoomed her to Tails and turned back to the battle and instantly wished he didn't- a crab bot was already making its way towards them, and the human girl clutched her bo staff, shaking and hiding behind Tails.
"Tails, incoming!" Sonic warned.
Tails grabbed the warning and quickly held the camera in his hands, and pressed a button. The laughing sounds of Comedy Chip echoed over to the robot, and he crashed to the ground due to the loudness of the laughter.
Penny and Tails shared a high five, and Sonic sighed in relief.
Eggman rose his periscope, and readied his weapon to trap Sonic. He steadied his weapon until it was posed exactly where he wanted it...directly at Sonic.
Eggman smirked. "Activate super weapon!"
Hearing a laser being fired, Penny turned around and narrowed her eyes, seeing Sonic's danger. The human girl grabbed Amy's hammer and let out a yell, quickly slamming the laser out of Sonic's way.
"Fortunately, I'm prepared for this. Activate super-duper weapon!" Eggman pressed a button, releasing a plasma ball at the human girl. Penny let out a shriek of terror, and Sonic quickly zoomed her out of harm's way. The laser that missed Sonic smashed into the plasma ball and a lightning struck the two...
...and everything went white.
Eggman groaned to the sound of his alarm beeping, and reached over to it and turned it off. Orbot rolled in, breakfast in his hands. "Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey!"
" I told you not to say that!" Eggman growled at him.
Orbot grinned happily. "Today's the day we're finally going to defeat Sonic with your new weapon, so I thought I'd make you a special breakfast!"
Eggman raised his eyes suspiciously. "This seems awfully familiar. What's going on here?" Eggman put his tray aside the exact same time Orbot squeezed fresh orange juice, and the juice landed right on Eggman's lap.
Eggman grumbled in annoyance.
Once again, Eggman seated himself in his Egg Tank, ready to catch Sonic. Once again, he fired the laser at Sonic, and Penny once again saved Sonic's life. Eggman shot a plasma ball right at Penny, and Penny let out a shriek, but luckily Sonic saved her just in time, pulling her in his arms and zooming to a safe place. The laser hit the plasma ball as soon as lightning struck it, and everything went white.
Eggman groaned as he opened his eyes, and Orbot rolled in with a tray of food. "Wakey-wakey, eggs..."
Eggman abruptly stood up, glaring at Orbot. " If you say "Eggs and bakey", I swear I'll dismantle you!"
Orbot shuddered.
Eggman sighed, clutching his head. "This is nuts. I'm reliving the same day over and over."
Feeling someone tug his side, Eggman glanced down to see Cubot holding the Egg tank top.
"No, nothing?" Cubot asked, holding it up.
Eggman walked into his laboratory and started making notes of the current events, trying to figure out what to do. Math equations started floating everywhere. Getting annoyed, Eggman turned to Cubot. "Cubot, stop playing with my hologram thingy."
Cubot quickly pressed the hologram machine, and the math equations disappeared. Eggman hummed thoughtfully. "I've got it! When my laser, the plasma ball, and the lightning collided, the fusion reaction caused time to fold back in on itself!"
Orbot and Cubot glanced at Eggman curiously.
"So, I just have to avoid going into battle! Piece of cake!" Eggman laughed evilly, but everything turned white once again.
Eggman found himself lying in his bed. "Well, that didn't work."
Orbot and Cubot entered with breakfast, and Eggman glared at them. " I don't want eggs and bakey!"
The two sighed and rolled off. Eggman was left to his own thoughts. "Same day over and over again. Maybe this isn't all bad! I can keep refining my attack on Sonic until I can get everything just right!" Eggman swatted the tray of food on the ground and handed Orbot a mop. " Just because there's no tomorrow doesn't mean I want ants today."
Orbot sighed, and went to the mess.
Eggman once again faced failure as Penny rescued Sonic from the laser. Eggman growled, and everything went white yet again.
Penny let out a shriek of fear as a robot grabbed the hammer she was borrowing, and Tails quickly used the laughter of Comedy Chip to force the robot to release Penny, who grinned at Tails.
Eggman growled, and everything went white.
Eggman lifted his bed covers, snickering as an idea came to his mind. He moved to the movie shop and stole all the good films, leaving one or two good ones behind. Sonic and Penny frowned as they glanced at the empty movie shelves, only one case fell to the ground.
The fight happened again. Penny let out a yelp as the robots grabbed the hammer she borrowed. Tails thought quick and tried to free her, but it didn't work. The kitsune glanced at the mime case in shock, and turned to Penny with a shrug and a wince.
Penny's eyes widened as the crab bot slammed his hammer at her, causing her to tumble to the ground, clutching her leg in pain. Sonic was about to run towards her, but stopped for some reason, tensing up.
Eggman snickered. That hedgehog had every right to tense up. "I've got you now, Sonic!"
Eggman fired his laser at him, trapping Sonic in a spherical force field. The hedgehog let out a yelp of surprise.
"SONIC!" Penny screamed from the ground, reaching towards him. She let out a whimper as robots surrounded her, carrying her off as well.
Eggman laughed. " Yeah-he-he-hes! This day will go down in history! The day I captured Sonic the Hedgehog along with his girlfriend!"
Everything went white.
Eggman shook his head as he found himself yet again resting in his bed, and Orbot flew in. "Wakey wakey..."
Eggman stared at him and turned over, and Orbot sighed in disappointment. "But I have bakey..."
"I can't take another day of the same day." Eggman said, curling up in his covers.
After getting dressed, the doctor went into his laboratory, eating a donut and staring at a whiteboard.
" String theory, super string theory, string cheese theory." Orbot muttered at the doctor's side. Hearing munching, the two looked up to see Eggman eating a donut.
"You really should eat healthier." Cubot spoke up.
"It doesn't matter." Eggman said, sighing in defeat. He pulled out a pair of scissors and snipped off his moustache, causing Orbot and Cubot to scream in shock.
"None of this matters. Tomorrow will just be a do-over, anyway." Eggman sighed.
Cubot glanced at Eggman in interest. "Really?" The robot asked, and he splashed water on Eggman, and grinned. "See you tomorrow!"
He quickly took off.
Dripping wet and cut off moustache in his hand, Eggman turned to the white board and started wiping the results off with a worried frown. " It's no use. I can't figure this out alone."
Eggman left to find Sonic, Penny, and Tails, and luckily he managed to stop them right before they left the movie store.
"I need your help!" Eggman said hastily.
Sonic frowned, pointing behind him. " Cartoons are over by the counter."
Eggman chuckled nervously as Penny popped a candy in her mouth. "Yes, yes, very amusing, but that's not why I'm here."
"What do you want, Egghead?" Sonic asked in annoyance.
Eggman chuckled nervously again. "Um, funny story, you're really gonna get a kick out of this. I was attacking you with my Egg Tank, when a freak accident caused an endless time loop!"
"There's no such thing as a time loop!" Tails frowned.
"That's what I thought, too!" Eggman said, and he turned to Penny. "Oh, by the way, you're about to choke on that piece of candy."
On cue, Penny began choking, and Tails and Sonic quickly ran over and helped her get the candy out of her mouth. Sonic patted her back gently as she coughed, and Tails stared at Eggman. "Lucky guess."
Eggman continued. "Sonic is about to get a message from Amy saying the projector is all set up."
The communicator beeped, and Sonic glanced at it. He turned to Eggman. " Love to help you out, Egghead, but we got a movie to watch."
"Sonic's been promising me this forever!" Penny said with a grin.
"I hear there's a cool twist ending!" Tails added.
Eggman crossed his arms. "Turns out Comedy Chimp's partner is a ghost."
Tails, Sonic, and Penny stared angrily at Eggman, and Penny sighed. "Fine, you win. Let's get a table at Meh Burger and you can tell us everything that happened."
Once seated, Eggman told his tale. "There was a one-in-a-million chance that when the laser, the plasma ball, and the lightning collided, it would create a time anomaly like this!"
Tails wrote down everything while Eggman spoke.
"It resets, charges for a while, then explodes, and the day starts over!" Eggman concluded.
"You look excited, Tails." Penny noted. "Whatcha got?"
Tails glanced at her with excitement. "I know how to fix it!"
Everything went white.
" There's no such thing as a time loop!" Tails said with a frown. Penny shook her head at Eggman, popping her candy in her mouth.
Eggman sighed. "You know what? We need to start this earlier! What say I pop by your house first thing today?"
Penny popped another piece of candy in her mouth and choked, and Sonic and Tails quickly rushed to her aide as everything went white.
" There's no such thing at a time loop!" Tails said with a frown.
"So I've heard." Eggman said. He pulled out the Comedy Chimp movie. "How bout we come to my lair and do some math? Maybe watch a movie?"
"I hear there's a cool twist ending!" Tails grinned.
" I wouldn't know." Eggman sighed.
Eggman's lair...
Tails stared at Eggman in shock. "I can't believe it!"
Eggman turned to Tails. "What? What is it?"
"Comedy Chimp's partner was a ghost!"
"Yeah, who could have seen that coming? Can we focus, please?
"What we need is a shell made of super-dense matter to contain the recurring explosion!" Tails said.
"I'll have to invent it!" Eggman grinned.
Tails stared at Eggman.
"Don't worry, I have lots of time." Eggman said.
Eggman finished the ball and turned to Sonic. " Okay, let's get it to the beach!"
Sonic tried lifting it and frowned. Eggman hummed. " Did I mention it's super dense?"
"So is Knuckles. Maybe he can lift it?" Penny suggested. "He's perfect for the job."
"He's gotta close it around the anomaly just before it explodes!" Tails said.
"Okay, so how do I get you to believe me about the time loop right away tomorrow?" Eggman said.
"Uh..." Penny glanced at Tails and Sonic uneasily, and everything went white.
"There's no such thing as a time..." Tails began.
"Last night, you dreamed you were being chased by a giant sock puppet." Eggman said in annoyance, his arms crossed.
Sonic, Penny, and Tails stared at each other.
Eggman finished creating the ball and turned to Knuckles and nodded. The echidna picked it up and winced. " Oh, my neck itches."
"Seriously?" Eggman sighed. He shook his head and scratched Knuckles' neck, who sighed happily. "Little higher. Little higher. Oh, too high! Yeah, right there."
Eggman uneasily glanced at his controller, and everything went white.
Knuckles grunted as he tried to lift it, but yelped, dropping the ball. "Ow! My back!" The ball landed right on Eggman's foot, who yelped.
"Oops, sorry."
Everything went white.
Knuckles grunted as he lifted the shell, and his communicator beeped. "I'd better take this." He tossed the shell off, causing it to crack through Eggman's floor.
Eggman glared at Knuckles.
Everything went white.
Eggman stood at the beach with Snic and the gang, talking about the current events. "Itsy-bitsy problem. Knuckles doesn't seem to want to fix the time loop."
Penny and Amy stared at Knuckles. "Knuckles, is there something you want to tell us?"
"No." Knuckles frowned, looking away.
"Knuckles..."
Knuckles sighed in defeat. "Okay, okay, I have a dentist appointment tomorrow! He's gonna pull my tooth!"
Amy turned to Eggman. "Let me try to reason with him." She turned to Knuckles, clearing her throat. "Knuckles, the dentist wants to help you. Good oral hygiene requires..."
Sticks let out a trill, holding a small rope in her hands and lunged for Knuckles' mouth. Penny let out a gasp of horror as Sticks pulled out the tooth that was bothering Knuckles, and held it proudly in her hands.
Knuckles chuckled. "Hey hey hey, problem solved! What was I supposed to do again?"
Penny sighed.
Everything went white.
Eggman groaned as he sat up, turning off his alarm. Orbot rolled up, holding breakfast. "Wakey-wakey, eggs and...Sausages!"
Eggman stared at his tray and began whooping joyously, happy that his plan worked.
"We're out of bacon. Don't be mad." Orbot said.
Eggman chuckled, grasping Orbot in a hug.
"Want to hear about the broken vase?" Cubot asked.
Eggman paused and turned to Cubot. "Don't push it."
Everything went white.
Cubot grinned as he held the camera in his hand. "I wanted to capture this beautiful moment for posterity!"
NEXT CHAPTER: EGGMAN UNPLUGGED