Chapter 2, The Phantom ruby.

Modern dimension.

Mystic forest, Dr Eggman's secret base.

Dr Eggman was currently inside his secret base hidden deep within Mystic jungle, times had been hard for the Doctor lately, all of his recent plans had ended in failure and he was currently on the run from G,U,N.

Eggman was looking at a computer screen trying to come up with a new idea to conquer the world, one of Eggman's aide robots known as Orbot hovered over to the Doctor carrying a sandwich.

"Doctor perhaps you should eat something, you've been working non-stop all day" said Orbot, Eggman swatted the sandwich away "I don't have time to eat, I need to think of a new plan before G,U,N catchers up to me" he said.

Orbot hovered away from the Doctor and towards his companion Cubot, "Wow the boss sure has been in a bad mood recently" said Cubot, "I know, and I fear that his mood will only get worse until he thinks of a new plan" said Orbot.

Suddenly the whole base started to shake as if there was an earthquake, "What's going on" said Eggman in panic, the Doctor checked the computer and learned that there was an unidentified energy source outside the base.

Eggman growled "It must be G,U,N they've finally found me, well I'm not going down without a fight" he said as he jumped into his EGGwalker.

The Doctor now in his EGGwalker stomped down the halls until he reached the front door of his base, the metal door opened and Eggman opened fire, "Die you scum" he shouted.

Eggman ceased fire and looked around in confuse, there was no G,U,N solders or G,U,N robots in sight, the only thing the he had hit was some nearby trees that now lay smouldering on the ground.

"That's strange, if it wasn't G,U,N than what was that shaking and that energy" thought Eggman, still confused the Doctor used the EGGwalker to perform a scan on the surrounding area and found that whatever was producing the strange energy was now sitting at his EGGwalker's feet.

Eggman looked over the side of his machine and saw a glowing magenta coloured ruby laying on the ground, he climbed out of his EGGwalker to get a better look at the ruby.

"Strange this isn't a Chaos emerald, or a Time stone" thought the Doctor as he went over all of the different mystical jewels he know of in his mind, Eggman looked at the ruby considering whether or not it was safe for him to pick it up.

Finally the Doctor's curiosity got the better of him and he reached for the ruby, as soon as he touched it there was a blinding flash of light that forced Eggman to cover his eyes, when he uncovered them what he saw took his breath away.

Eggman was now standing in the middle of a high-tech city filled with robots that he had only dreamed of creating, then Eggman caught sight of some organic people, they was all bowing down and worshiping a giant gold statue of the Doctor.

Eggman felt tears of joy forming in his eyes, this was his city, his world, the one he had always dreamed of building, before the Doctor could enjoy his city anymore there was another flash of light and he was standing back In front of his secret base.

"What no, bring it back" said Eggman as he shook the ruby, the Doctor looked deep into the ruby and his eyes turned purple for a split second, Eggman climbed back into his EGGwalker and re-entered his base cradling the ruby as if it was a new born baby.

Eggman returned to his lab and was greeted by Orbot and Cubot, "Hi boss, do you destroy those G,U,N solders" asked Cubot, "Quiet you, I have more important things to do than listen to you malfunctioning piece of scrap" said Eggman.

Eggman placed the ruby into one of his machines and began to perform tests to find out exactly what he had found, Orbot and Cubot watched the Doctor work focusing all of his attention on the ruby.

Eggman continued to perform scans and other tests on the ruby for almost an hour until he was finally satisfied, "Incredible, if my calculations are right, and they always are, than this ruby holds unimaginable power, perhaps even greater than that of the Chaos emeralds" he said with wonder in his voice.

"Wow that's great boss, so what's this thing called anyway" asked Cubot, Eggman thought for a second "I'm not sure, I'll have to think of a name for it" he said.

"What about the Supreme sapphire" suggested Cubot, "But sapphires are blue, this is a ruby" corrected Orbot, "Then what about the Precioustone" suggested Cubot, "That's taken" said Orbot.

Eggman tried to ignore his robots as he looked at the ruby trying to come up with a name for it, suddenly the ruby flashed brightly for a second and a thought popped into the Doctor's head, "The Phantom ruby, it is called the Phantom ruby" he said.

Both robots clapped their hands, "Excellent name Doctor, how did you think of it so quickly" said Orbot, Eggman wondered the same thing, "How did I come up with that name, it just popped into my head" he thought.

Eggman's eyes flashed purple for a second and he suddenly no longer cared where he got the name from, "Never mind that now, what's important is that I now have a new weapon, and with it no one will be able to stand before the might on Dr Robotnik" he said as he broke out in a maniacal laugh.