-Robotnik-

Everything is going as planned. My last strike must surely have destroyed that feeble bunch of fighters who call themselves a resistance! Pah! Their ability to fight began dying when I killed Sonic - he's as good as dead, after all - and died completely when I destroyed that Chaos Emerald! Now all they have left is their pathetic struggles! Even Shadow, so assuredly confident as he was when we first met, even though he can allegedly match Sonic, he too has been defeated and will soon be destroyed! If, of course, they are not all dead already. For I am Emperor Robotnik now, ruler of the world and its terrified denizens! What little resistance any have had was utterly useless! Now my domain stretches across the entire planet, and -

beep beep beep beep…

Argh! What is making that racket?! The motorised chair rolls across to the appropriate control panel before I've even finished the thought. Quick and efficient, a thousand times more so than anything my opponents have created, my system is alerting me to - What?! One of my bases? Something is trying to get past my defences to where I have stored one of the Chaos Emeralds! My robots have a reaction time of only a few milliseconds, but somehow, whatever this thing is, it's destroying them without seeming to get at all damaged! How can this be?!

I call up the camera views, some of which are useless, blank with static. One shows a view down a hallway, in which stand - two squirrels?! So, I didn't destroy them after all! No matter. Attempting this is undoubted suicide! I will take control of the robots myself and destroy these invaders!

I lower the headset over my eyes. Virtual reality gives me the instant impression that I am now the robot. Picking up on my brainwaves, if I desire the robot to move then it will. These are my greatest creation yet, capable of anything I can conceive! The Hyper Metal Sonic robot was useless because it operated by Sonic's intellect, but my own is the controlling genius in this machine! I/it uncoil and bring my/its weapons to bear on the empty grey room ahead, then it/I head straight for the door to annihilate these pathetic intruders. There can be no escape!

Hah! There they are, in the corridor to the left! It's that red-furred squirrel again, and his brother, too! At last! They have somehow evaded my forces for this long, but now I shall destroy them both! I/the robot fire, shooting them with all the lesser weaponry as I/it build up power for a more powerful shot. Somehow, as he has evaded the lesser robots, the red-furred one avoids all my/its shots, but I/it hit the other several times. And then the impossible! I send a laser beam to make that grey squirrel dodge, but it visibly curves towards him and hits his shoulder! The involuntary surprise reaction causes me/it to pause for a moment, and then the red one steps out, shouting "Now!" and they fire together -

The link is broken, destroyed while the robot was under my control! I have safety systems to protect against this happening, but the headache will still last some time. I will destroy the pathetic resistance! How has it survived so long?! From now on, all my weaponry will be brought to bear on these few fighters who dare trouble my great empire! Whatever they're planning, they shall not succeed!