Chapter
4
"This is it. All the tests results show this should work."
Came Eggman's voice. Eggman was standing in the middle of a lab room
with all kinds of super computers, lab tables, and
what-not.
Eggman although still fully dressed had suction cup status monitors
stuck all over his face and arms and everywhere. There were a few
eggbots standing around the room as well should they be needed.
Eggman picked up a vile of liquid from the table and held it up in
front of his face. "This chemical mixture will release an enzyme
into my body that will warp my metabolism changing every aspect of my
physicical features. My data shows that this chemical should be
foolproof. But do I really want to put this in my body." Eggman
thought for a few minutes. In his hand he held the fruit of his
labors but would this mixture really help him or might there be a
slight chance he could've miss calculated. Eggman gulped. It was
obvious he was very tense. He pulled the cork out of the vile and
slowly brought it to his lips. He started to break out in a sweat
from the all the tension. He took a breath and quickly leaned back
gulping down the mixture in one gulp. "Mmm cherry flavored."
Eggman stood waiting for the chemical reaction to take place bracing
himself for what would come. Eggman looked up at the monitor but
nothing seemed to be changing. Then all the numbers on the monitor
started changing rapidly. "What's this but I fell no diff-"
Eggman was cut off by sudden sharp pain in his stomach. "AUUGGHH!"
Eggman collapsed to the ground his entire body felt like it was being
torn apart. The Eggbots in the room started to run towards him but
Eggman yelled for them to stay back. The pain was so great he thought
he was going insane. Eventually Eggman passed out from the pain. He
lay on his back in the middle of the room. After a few seconds it
seemed like Eggman was starting to shrink. His coat was still rounded
but it didn't look like there was a stomach underneath it holding it
up. Then his face changed. It went from a fat chubby face to a
defined pointed chinned face with a now noticeable neck. Most notably
however was the orange hair that was starting to grow from his
previously bald head.
The eggbots ran up to Eggman when they saw
that the numbers on the monitor had
Stooped changing so quickly
and one shook him to wake him up. "Wuh what. What's going on I
feel different" Eggman started to get up. Two eggbots
anticipated he would need help and made a grab for his arms but were
surprised to see him get up with little effort especially after what
he had gone through. He took his gloves off because his hands were
dampened with perspiration but he noticed that his hands were no
longer chubby but were bony and lean looking. He couldn't believe
what he was seeing. Then he noticed that his sleeves were stretching
over what couldn't be his arms. He pulled his coat off and thought he
most be dreaming. Were once he would have saw a huge egg-shaped gut
and skinny muscleless arms he now saw a lean cut upperbody and two
huge arms that only a body builder could hope for. Eggman wiped his
eyes he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He felt the hair of his
eyebrows up against his hands as he wiped his eyes and thought "(wait
a minute I don't have eyebrows.)." not even noticing that his
plus size pants had fallen of and he was only wearing a pair of
underwear he pulled off the suction cups on is body and ran to the
nearest bathroom. Eggman reached for the doorknob but noticed that it
had only taken him a second to get to the bathroom and he hadn't
broken a sweat which wouldn't be weird even for Eggman except this
particular bathroom was in the next wing over from were he just was.
Eggman shook this off and entered the bathroom. He walked in front of
the mirror and turned around to face it. Eggman couldn't believe what
he saw. Looking back at Eggman instead of the out of shape obese
doctor was this lean muscular man with hair and a lot of it. Eggman
was so thrilled to see he finally had the full head of hair that he
had lost over the years that it took him a minute to realize the
project had been a success. "Yes it worked I need to test my new
abilities." Eggman left the bathroom and hailed an eggcart to
come get him. He already had one foot in the cart when he thought
"(wait I don't need this thing to carry me around anymore.)"
Eggman told the bot driving the cart to go on. Eggman started walking
down the coridor. Then he started jogging. Then he started running.
"HA ha ha ha look at the doors passing by this is incredible and
I don't feel a bit tired." Eggman stooped in front of a door and
opened it reveiling a lab room with various equipment for monitoring
health. He walked over to a treadmill and got on it. The treadmill
had speed settings varying from crawling speed to mach three. He had
put those faster settings on there because he knew Sonic could run
that fast and he wanted a perfect treadmill. Eggman set the machine
to measure the speed of the runner and starting running. Already he
was going about 500 mph so he decided to see just how fast he
possibly could go. 600…700… Eggman was starting to sweat now but
kept going. Mach 1… mach 2…. Mach 3! Eggman hit Sonic's top speed
but was still accelerating but before he could go much faster the
treadmill started to shake and fall apart. Right before the machine
fell apart Eggman jumped off and landed a few feet away. "I.. I
can't believe it I'm faster than Sonic the hedgehog!" Eggman
thought if he was faster than Sonic maybe… He walked over to a
punching machine that could measure a blow from even Knuckles the
echidna. Eggman pulled his fist back and threw a punch at the
machine. "That's an incredible score." Eggman said. "Now
this time for real." Eggman pulled his fist back and threw all
the strength he could build up at the machine causing it to fall to
pieces. "This is incredible I'm stronger than Knuckles the
echidna." Eggman was ecstatic. Then he though there's one more
thing he needs to see if he can do. He made his way to another room
nearby. Inside was a chaos emerald inside a glass case. "This is
the chaos emerald that I snatched after the battle with Mecha Madness
the fools never realized that I had it. This is just what I need to
perform the last test." Eggman picked up the glass case and took
the chaos emerald in his hand. "(Now then lets see if this
works)" Eggman held the emerald up and concentrated on it then
he could fell the emeralds power start to flare up it was working he
was going to do it. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Eggman wasn't sure if
anything had happened he walked out into the corridor and saw an
Eggbot in mid step frozen. He had done it he had used Chaos control
to warp time. Now he had to see if he could warp himself using chaos
control. The time warp had worn off and Eggman was ready to try
again. This time the chaos emerald's energy started to flare up
sooner. "CHAOS CONTROL!" Eggman shouted and a millisecond
later he was gone. He appeared on the deck of the Eggarachnid. "Yes
yes it worked I have natural abilities now no one will stand in my
way." After a good evil laugh Eggman noticed he was still in his
underwear after all none of his clothes were the right size anymore.
Eggman ran to the edge of the ship and jumped down to the bases
floor and started running again to yet another of the many rooms. In
this one oddly enough was a variety of clothes and materials and a
sewing machine. Eggman went to work using his newly acquired speed to
quickly fashion together a red spandex suit with a yellow R in the
middle of the chest (R for Robotnik). Next Eggman went over to a
closet and pulled out a hammer and various items used when making
shoes. He quickly made a pair of red boots to go with his new outfit.
He put on the suit and the boots and steeped out of the room. An
Eggbot was walking by and Eggman stooped it. "Eggbot see what
I'm wearing there are measurements in the that room go make ten
more." "Yes sir." Said the Eggbot's electronic voice.
Eggman ran to another close by room and went inside. The inside of
this room looked like a barbershop and there was an Eggbot with
scissors and what not. "Good afternoon sir here for a mustache
trim as usual." "No today I have hair to be managed as you
can see." "Ah yes very good sir then I take it Project Neo
was a success." "Yes it was and what a success it was just
get a load of this." Eggman said as he was flexing his right
arm. "Yes very nice sir please have a seat I've got just the
thing for all that new hair of yours." Eggman sat down in the
chair. The Eggbot put a cloth around him to catch any hair that falls
and started to cut the long orange locks that covered Eggman's head.
About 30 min.'s later the Eggbot finished cutting and styling
Eggman's hair. It was still long but slightly spiky now and was cut
short around the side burns. "It is finished Robotnik sir what
do you think". Eggman looked closely in the mirror. "Hmm
nice job. Good work Eggbot that will be all for now." Eggman got
up from the chair and left the room. "Now that I have natural
abilities I need to comfort Sonic" Eggman was running to the top
floor of his base but stooped about halfway there. "Wait before
I go looking for Sonic I need to gather the other six Chaos Emeralds.
That way Sonic won't stand a chance to even touch me." Eggman
reached the top floor and got to the edge of the base. He forgot to
take into account the base was in the middle of the ocean. "Ooooh
of all the rotten mumble I'll need to take my Egg hovercraft to
shore." Eggman pulled a remote key chain out of his pocket and
pressed a button. A few seconds latter His hovercraft, the one he's
often seen sitting in, showed up. "About time" Eggman said
as he leapt in and started to fly towards shore. On the way there
something came to his mind. "Hmm a new appearance and a lot of
new abilities. I need a new name for this new body Eggman makes me
sound fat like I used to be. But I'm sure Sonic will still call me
that. Ah that reminds me I forgot to write a report on the success of
project Neo." Then the answer to Eggman's question came to him.
"That's it I know what I'll call this new form. From now on I'll
be called Neo Eggman. AH HAA HA HA HA HA!" Eggman continued to
laugh as his hovercar zoomed along into the distance
