Chapter 8
-CLICK-WHIRRRRRRR-ZZRAP-BLEEP-
~WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS?~
~RECON INFO REPORT FOR OVERLORD~
~YOU MAY PASS~
-K-CHUNK - K-CHUNK-
The passing robot waited until he could hear the door close before walking to a nearby deserted corridor and unloading his cargo. He opened a hatch on his stomach and brought out the piece of hardware that formed the center of his mission. A spy-cam. The robot smiled, as he replaced the hardware and continued down the corridor.
"Piece o' cake, as my nephew would say! Heh heh heh…" The old blue robot muttered to himself as he tried to look like he was supposed to be there, as a patrolbot passed. Finally he made it to where he wanted to be: the Service Elevator. He entered and immediately closed the doors behind him. He pressed a button near where his ear would have been if he hadn't been roboticized and spoke, "I'm in position. No one suspects a thing." A strong voice played back to him in his "ear":
"Right. Good work Charles. I'll see if I can do this…" Charles, as was the robot's name, turned off his receiver and waited in the elevator.
Meanwhile, in another part of the massive complex, a huge robot by the name of Rudyard turned off his receiver as well.
"Alright, Rudyard, this is what you've been training for, don't blow it…" He said as he ducked into a side room. He ripped open a wall panel and smiled as he saw the wires, just as planned. He ripped a few out of their circuits, and replaced them in different ones, making a tangled mess. Rudyard seemed to understand it, though, and suddenly he ran out of the room, closed the door, and made his way back to the underground.
Charles' elevator started moving. He watched the monitor inside as it displayed the floor numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way up to the maximum of 10, where beyond that there were no buttons. The elevator kept rising. The monitor didn't display the numbers anymore, so he counted in his head, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, then the elevator stopped. The doors opened, and he saw no robots. He saw nothing but massive machinery and a huge supercomputer, and something that was perhaps the most dangerous thing he could have seen, and that was Robotnik.
He was sitting in a chair in the center of it all, his mechanical body attached to the supercomputer, in deep thought. Charles saw all of this through a hole in a wall, and he quickly looked away and brought out his spy-cam again. He placed it into the hole, and it fit perfectly. He knew that on the other side of the wall, the camera was generating a hologram so that no one could see it, and he quickly re-entered the elevator and rode it down to floor 1. When he exited, he made his way back to the front door, nodded at the door robot, and went to the side of the complex. He entered a very concealed hatch in the ground, and no one saw him.
Charles sat at a computer, and turned it on. Robotnik and his control room came into view. Charles made a triumphant gesture with his arm, and quickly turned off his computer and got to work.
-CLICK-WHIRRRRRRR-ZZRAP-BLEEP-
~WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS?~
~RECON INFO REPORT FOR OVERLORD~
~YOU MAY PASS~
-K-CHUNK - K-CHUNK-
The passing robot waited until he could hear the door close before walking to a nearby deserted corridor and unloading his cargo. He opened a hatch on his stomach and brought out the piece of hardware that formed the center of his mission. A spy-cam. The robot smiled, as he replaced the hardware and continued down the corridor.
"Piece o' cake, as my nephew would say! Heh heh heh…" The old blue robot muttered to himself as he tried to look like he was supposed to be there, as a patrolbot passed. Finally he made it to where he wanted to be: the Service Elevator. He entered and immediately closed the doors behind him. He pressed a button near where his ear would have been if he hadn't been roboticized and spoke, "I'm in position. No one suspects a thing." A strong voice played back to him in his "ear":
"Right. Good work Charles. I'll see if I can do this…" Charles, as was the robot's name, turned off his receiver and waited in the elevator.
Meanwhile, in another part of the massive complex, a huge robot by the name of Rudyard turned off his receiver as well.
"Alright, Rudyard, this is what you've been training for, don't blow it…" He said as he ducked into a side room. He ripped open a wall panel and smiled as he saw the wires, just as planned. He ripped a few out of their circuits, and replaced them in different ones, making a tangled mess. Rudyard seemed to understand it, though, and suddenly he ran out of the room, closed the door, and made his way back to the underground.
Charles' elevator started moving. He watched the monitor inside as it displayed the floor numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way up to the maximum of 10, where beyond that there were no buttons. The elevator kept rising. The monitor didn't display the numbers anymore, so he counted in his head, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, then the elevator stopped. The doors opened, and he saw no robots. He saw nothing but massive machinery and a huge supercomputer, and something that was perhaps the most dangerous thing he could have seen, and that was Robotnik.
He was sitting in a chair in the center of it all, his mechanical body attached to the supercomputer, in deep thought. Charles saw all of this through a hole in a wall, and he quickly looked away and brought out his spy-cam again. He placed it into the hole, and it fit perfectly. He knew that on the other side of the wall, the camera was generating a hologram so that no one could see it, and he quickly re-entered the elevator and rode it down to floor 1. When he exited, he made his way back to the front door, nodded at the door robot, and went to the side of the complex. He entered a very concealed hatch in the ground, and no one saw him.
Charles sat at a computer, and turned it on. Robotnik and his control room came into view. Charles made a triumphant gesture with his arm, and quickly turned off his computer and got to work.