Tails Doll yawns as he gets up from his bed; most robots didn't have to sleep, but Eggatha forgot to add the anti-matter to his internal software, so he has to deactivate for some hours once in a while, or else he would run out of energy. He didn't sleep very well last night, but, honestly, after knowing seven hellish monsters are out there trying to destroy the world, and that you're the only one that can stop them, who would be able to sleep that well?
"Good morning, beautiful world." Eggatha says as she joyfully jumps out of her room.
"Oh, hey." Tails Doll says, honestly not surprised by the way Eggatha is reacting to the situation, if this happened some weeks ago, he would probably be very surprised, but when you're living with Eggatha Robotnik, you learn to expect anything "So, did you find the monsters?"
"You mean those things the old guy was talking about?" Eggatha says, casually "Turns out they are on a constant stealth mode; it's impossible to detect them until they become active, so we'll have to wait for them to make their move first."
"How convenient." Tails Doll says "It's almost like the author made like this so he would have an excuse to have us go on a bunch of less important adventures without having to worry about the incoming end of the world."
"So, what are we going to do today?" She asks "I was thinking about going to that place to get that object that does that thing."
Suddenly, the door to the house is kicked open.
"AH!" Eggatha screams in surprise as she jumps on Tails Doll's arms.
"Everybody, freeze!" Pandareos Holmes screams as he invades the house and prepares his 10th century fire lance "Hehehe, did you really think you could escape from me? One thing you should learn is that I never, ever, let anyone escape for long."
…
"Who are you?" Tails Doll asks, confused.
"What do you mean?" Holmes asks.
"Wait, I thought he was your friend." Eggatha says, also confused.
"I'm Pandareos Holmes." He explains.
"Who?" They both ask.
"You know; the swordsman." He explains.
"Hm?"
"One and only descendent of Sherlock Holmes."
…
"I fought you two in the village in the middle of the desert." He screams.
"Would you believe me if I told you that pretty much all of the stuff you just said describes, like, 30 different people, and that all of them want to kill us?" Eggatha says.
"Why, you two idiots." He says as he tries to think of a better way to explain "I'm the guy that was going after the evil Mary Poppins."
"Oh, you're that guy!" Eggatha says, suddenly remembering.
"Wait, wasn't that guy dead?" Tails Doll asks.
"No, no, I think, that was the guy from the job interview." Eggatha explains.
"Wait, those were two different people?" Tails Doll says, shocked.
"Yeah, I think…" Eggatha explains "It's a little hard to remember that stuff after the fanfic has been on hiatus for over two months."
"Oh, enough with that shit." Holmes says as he points his fire lance towards them "I did like you said and got a gun, now you're gonna tell me where Aurora is, or else I'll fire."
"We don't know where she is." Tails Doll says.
"Well, then it seems like I'll be forced to…"
"I think I could find out where she is if I tried." Eggatha says, interrupting Holmes.
"Well, alright then, but…" Tails Doll says "Can you please get off my arms? You're really heavy."
"So, I just searched for all reports of storms appearing out of nowhere and combined it with a list of musical artist who tried to play professionally while using the name of an already existing band." Eggatha says as she types on her computer "Then I hacked into some security cameras on the area, and used an app I created to search for her face, and here she is."
As Eggatha presses a button, an image of Aurora walking in public appears on the screen.
"This was taken just today, on Metropolis." Eggatha explains "She has been there for a few days, probably because of the musical talent show that is going on; if we go now, we might catch her."
"Alright." Holmes says s he walks towards the door.
"Yo, where are ya going?" Eggatha asks.
"To Metropolis." Holmes responds.
"Oh, no you won't, we're coming with you." She says.
"No we won't." Tails Doll complains "Last time we saw that girl, she almost killed us."
"Oh, come on, it will be fun." Eggatha says.
"It will be dangerous." Tails Doll explains "What am I going to do if you end up dead?"
"Well, if you want, I can just stay home and play in the mud."
Tails Doll suddenly stops moving for a second, as he has a small Vietnam flashback, right before shaking his head.
"Oh no, not again, I'm not cleaning that up, screw you, we're going." Tails Doll complains.
"Alright; Mr. Holmes, we decided, we will…" Eggatha tries to sound epic; however, when she looks back, the room was empty, as Holmes had already left without them.
"So…" Eggatha says "Can we stay here and play in the mud instead?"
"No." Tails Doll screams as they follow him through the door.
"So, in a scale between one and ten, what gender are you?" Eggatha asks Tails Doll as they sit on the train, which was taking them to Metropolis.
"Well, personally, I sexually identify as a Fortnite player." Tails Doll explains "And when I head out of the game, I don't take any dubs, I just whine and I take an L."
"Well, this chapter is officially dated." Eggatha says, a little bored.
"Well, I can't say it's funny, but I got to say it's pretty funny." Tails Doll explains.
"And I have no belief, but I believe you're a walking contradiction." Eggatha explains "Speaking of which, isn't Aurora's new band called Green Day?"
"Well, damn, she couldn't even copy a good band." Tails Doll says "I'm joking, of course; Green Day is fine."
"So, what's your favorite band?" Eggatha asks.
"I really like Rolling Stones, personally." Tails Doll explains "What about you?"
"Well…"
"Can you please stop playing earrape Vanilla Ice in public every time you get the chance?" Tails Doll complains.
"Well, I didn't know they would kick us out of the train." Eggatha whines as they finally reach Metropolis after walking for a few hours.
"Alright, so because of your little stunt, we missed the show I bought us tickets for, and now we'll have to find a way to buy tickets to the next." Tails Doll explains.
"Didn't you bring any money with you?" Eggatha asks.
"Oh, I'm sorry for not bringing any money, maybe I wouldn't need more money if a certain someone hadn't got us kicked out of the train." Tails Doll says, a little angry.
"Alright, alright, my fault I guess." Eggatha says "But don't worry, I'll get us money in no time."
"And how are you gonna do that?"
"I'm gonna open…" Eggatha jumps on a nearby car and points her finger towards the sky "A coffee shop!"
"I think there's already a fanfic about that." Tails Doll says.
"Oh… Wait a second…" Eggatha says, as she stops and thinks for a second, right before striking her pose once again "I'm going to open a hotel!"
"Get off my car!" A random guy screams.
"So you really can start a successful line of five stars hotels and become a millionaire in only half an hour." Tails Doll says as he counts the money they had made "Who knew?"
"I knew it, because I know everything." Eggatha responds.
"Everything?"
"Yeah, everything."
"Alright, so, what is the meaning of life?" Tails Doll asks.
"Spaghetti, obviously." Eggatha responds.
Suddenly, the door of the hotel opens and the two of them jump back to behind the counter.
"Hello, welcome to a totally legitimate successful line of five star hotels, please keep in mind that the real owner of the hotel is totally not knocked out in room 237." Eggatha says with a big smile "How can I help you?"
"You seem familiar, do I know you?" Holmes asks as he finally reaches the counter.
"What? No, I don't relate with ugly people like you." Eggatha explains.
"Wow, talk about the client always being right." Tails Doll says.
"Well, anyway, I need a place to hide for some hours until some evil minions who work for an evil Mary Poppins forget about me." He explains "Can I stay here for some minutes?"
"Oh, of course." Eggatha explains "That will be 80 trillion dollars."
"Really?" Holmes asks.
"Well, it's like our slogan says: If you don't want to pay, then just go away." Tails Doll says with a smile.
"Alright, alright." Holmes says as he gives them his credit card.
"Thank you, have nice stay." Eggatha says as Holmes enters a random room.
"That guy is really weird, don't you think?" Tails Doll asks.
"Food is my favorite dish." Eggatha says randomly.
"Yeah, point taken." Tails Doll says.
Suddenly, three weird guys dressed in purple come running through the door.
"No running in the hallways." Tails Doll screams.
"Sorry." They scream back at him, as they walk towards the counter.
"Hey, miss, have you seen a weird guy coming around here?" One of them asks.
"Oh, that really depends on what you would describe as weird." Eggatha responds.
"Tall guy, walking around with a sword." He explains
"Oh, I think I know who you're talking about." Eggatha responds.
"So, where did he go?"
"Well, if you want to know, that will be around 160 quadrillion dollars." Tails Doll explains.
"All of that just for information!" The guy scrams "Are you high?"
"Well, I can fly, so I guess I could go pretty high right now if I wanted to." Tails Doll responds.
"Yeah, that's a good point." One of the other guys says.
"Yeah, alright, here." The guy says as he puts a bag of money on the counter.
"Thank you sir." Eggatha says as she picks up the sack of money "The guy is on that room right there, now get out of here, you're ruining the view."
"Ok." The guy says as he walks towards the room.
"So, what is your guys' story?" Tails asks to the other two.
"Oh, we're just, here, doing our thing." One of them explains.
"Oh, that's nice." Tails Doll responds "You know, there's a Wii U on that room right there; if you want, you guys can play Mario Party while you wait for him."
"Oh, I heard Mario Party is pretty fun." One of them says.
"Alright, I guess we have some minutes to kill." The other responds as they walk towards the room.
Eggatha pulls out a remote control from inside her pocket and presses a big red button, making the room where the first guy had gone to explode.
"Three, two, one…" Tails Doll counts.
Suddenly, a gunshot can be heard from the other room, as one of the two guys had just killed the other; The Mario Party effect.
"Alright, no more mister nice guy." He says as he leaves the room with an angry expression and points the gun at Eggatha's head "Tell me where the guy with the sword is, or you're gonna die!"
"Oh, ok, but before you kill me, would you mind taking two steps to the right?" Eggatha asks.
"Oh, ok." He says as he does like Eggatha had asked.
Eggatha reaches for a letter behind the counter and pulls it, making an anvil drop right on his head.
"Did you get that from the Looney Tunes?" Tails Doll asks.
"Nah, the Looney Tunes got that from me." Eggatha says as they pick up all of their money and jump from behind the counter, walking through the door and leaving the hotel forever.
"Well, here we are." Eggatha says as she looks around the empty stage "Wasn't this place supposed to be filled with people?"
"Well, it isn't surprising that nobody showed up." Tails Doll explains "We're talking about a random nobody who can't even come up with an original name for her band."
"Maybe it would have been better if she had stolen from a good band this time." Eggatha says.
"Oh, Green Day is ok." Tails Doll responds.
"Meh, I've seen better." Eggatha says.
"If you bring up Vanilla Ice again, I swear I'll throw you of a cliff." Tails Doll says.
"How about I throw you two off?" A voice screams from behind them, but before they could turn around, the heat in the room instantly grows exponentially; melting down the metallic floor beneath their feet, and making them fall down into a trap.
"Outch, my back." Tails Doll screams as Eggatha gets up, noticing she had fallen right on him "I told you you're heavy."
"Oh, look what we have here, if it isn't Miss Eggatha Robotnik herself." Aurora says ironically, as she hovers above their heads while sitting on a cloud "I've been doing some research about you, you know; I heard you caused the end of the world to begin; isn't that right, Trip?"
"Nah; that was mostly Sonic's fault." Eggatha explain "So, what have you been up to?"
"Oh, me? Not much, really." Aurora responds "A couple of shows here, some copyright lawsuits there, and a bunch of storms and lightings."
"Seriously, Eggatha, my back is hurting, like a lot." Tails Doll says from the ground "you really need to stop eating chocolate in the middle of the night."
"So, that guy with a sword has been following you since we've last meet, which is perfectly fine, I don't want to get involved into whatever you do in your free time, but I really don't like when people invade my house and point some weird object at my face." Eggatha complains.
"Well, what can I do?" Aurora says "He thinks you're a clue that could lead to me."
"Yeah, he is kind of right. Eggatha says "So, he probably isn't ever going to leave me alone until he catches you."
"So, you need me to be captured so you can live at peace…" Aurora says "And since you know about me, and about what I did to my parents, I think letting you go could end up disturbing my peaceful life as well."
"So it has come to this?" Eggatha asks.
"Yes, it seems like it has." Aurora responds.
"Seriously, Eggatha, after I put my spine back into place, I'm taking you to the health club, because oh my god, how heavy can a kid get!" Tails Doll screams from the ground.
Suddenly, Eggatha pulls a hidden pistol from her dress and tries to shot Aurora, however, the air around her body gets to freezing temperatures before she could, putting her on a block of ice.
"Well, that was quick." Aurora says, as she floats down near Eggatha "So, what to do next? Absolute zero would be boring, so maybe hit her with a lightning? Or I could just make a hurricane."
Suddenly, the block of ice starts to weaken as Eggatha's body starts to heat up, due to a heating machine she had added to her dress after her last encounter with Aurora, as she breaks through the ice and grabs Aurora's throat with her hands, and presses a button on a small machine hidden on her dress, which turns her gloves into metallic gauntlets.
"You didn't think this would be this easy, did you?" Eggatha asks.
"I didn't actually." She says as she somehow appears behind Eggatha and throws a lightning towards her, which Eggatha catches with her hands and throws back; however, it passes through Aurora, as if she wasn't there.
"What the hell?" Eggatha asks.
"Heated ground, cold air; the light moves between the heat and the cold and creates a reflection." Tails Doll explains, still trying to fix his damaged spine "It's a mirage."
Suddenly, four different Auroras jump towards Eggatha, who punches them all several times, making them disappear; eight of them appear around Eggatha and try to attack, but she presses a button on her gauntlets, creating a small bubble of energy around her, which strikes all of the mirages at once.
"You think you can get away with doing this to me through your little mirages? Well, think again." Eggatha says s she looks around "As we speak I'm contacting my secret network of spies across the USA…"
Before Eggatha could continue, she is pierced through the chest by an umbrella coming from behind.
"You know, people say the pen is mightier than the sword, but I honestly think the umbrella beats both any day." Aurora says from behind her.
Suddenly, Eggatha grabs the point of the umbrella with one of her gauntlets and presses a button, sending an electrical wave through the umbrella, electrocuting both Eggatha and Aurora for some seconds, until Eggatha manages to open her hand once again, making the electricity stop as smoke comes out of both of their bodies.
"Hey, Mary, you seem a little…" Eggatha says weakly "Thunderstruck."
"You just had to, didn't you?" Aurora says, as she falls to the ground, while Eggatha falls to another direction, making the umbrella snap in a half, with part of it on Aurora's hand, while the other part is still sticking out of Eggatha's back.
"Hey, Eggatha, are you ok?" Tails Doll asks.
"Don't worry, dude, you guys seem way too worried…" Eggatha says as she puts a small bomb on the ground "Why don't you just light up?"
She presses a button on the bomb, making it detonate, but instead of an explosion, all that comes out is a blinding flash of light; Aurora sees the light coming and tries to dodge it, however, her body was way too damaged for her to move this fast, and she ends up getting hit; the light also hits all of her mirage clones, making them vanish.
"AHHH!" Tails Doll screams "Warn me before doing that next time!"
Aurora screams as she covers her eyes in pain; Eggatha, who was not affected due to her sunglasses, notices her opponent's temporary blindness, and slowly gets up; this umbrella in her chest hurts more and more every time she tries to move; she manages to get back on her feet just for a second, as she overcharges her gauntlets with energy once again, and punches Aurora in the face three times, the last of which causes the gauntlet to explode due to the overuse of energy, damaging both Aurora's face and Eggatha's hand, as they both fall to the ground in pain.
Aurora is the one who manages to get up this time, as he overheats the air around her piece of the umbrella, making it start to burn, and tries to stab Eggatha's face with it, but Eggatha manages to block it with her other hand, which gets pierced and starts to burn, but this gives her the chance to hit her once again with her already damaged hand, making Aurora once again fall to the ground.
"This… is being harder than I expected, honestly." Aurora says, as she slowly puts her hand inside her mouth, and pulls out a tooth Eggatha had punched out.
"Yeah… it really is." Eggatha says as she pulls out the piece of the umbrella out of her hand, which starts to bleed.
Eggatha tries to stab Aurora's eye with the heated metal piece, but it instantly freezes as the air around it goes into absolute zero temperatures.
"You are a really problematic person, you know that, right Eggatha?" She asks.
"Yes…" Eggatha says "Yes, I know."
Aurora finally manages to open her hand, and a small tornado comes out of it; the tornado quickly grows, to become a gigantic cyclone, which takes the entire building out of the ground and throws it towards the sky.
"What is this, a free trip to Oz?" Tails Doll asks.
Eggatha pulls out another hidden gun and tries to shoot Aurora, however, all of the bullets melt mid-air due to the sudden change in temperature; one of the walls melt, allowing Aurora to fly away through it while being carried by a controlled gust of wind, however, Eggatha catches her with a grappling hook she had hidden on her gauntlet, and is pulled by the wind as well.
"How many hidden weapons do you have?" Aurora complains.
"I lost count on 94 million." Eggatha says as she starts to climb the rope, and approaches Aurora.
"Eggatha…" Aurora says angrily "You're pissing me off."
As Eggatha finally manages to reach Aurora and tries to attack her with a hidden knife, a lightning summoned by Aurora strikes the both of them, making Eggatha fall from the current of air, down into the city, while a nearly unconscious Aurora is carried away, leaving a sandstorm behind; to make sure she is not followed. Eggatha manages to pull out a hidden hope on her dress, activating a parachute, however, the parachute was heavily damaged due to the lightning strike, and it rips apart, leaving Eggatha on a freefall; she loses consciousness some seconds before she hits the ground.
"AH!" Eggatha screams as she jumps out of her bed "What the hell?"
"Oh, you woke up." Holmes says as he enters the room "That fight really messed you up, but you're healing pretty fast."
"Yeah, I altered my genetic code to make myself harder to kill." Eggatha responds, as she looks around "Why are you still here?"
"Hey, Eggatha." Tails Doll says as he enters the room "After the cyclone stopped, I called the crazy guy with the sword and he brought us back home; also, my back is better now."
"Great." Eggatha says, still not fully woken up "Where is the umbrella girl?"
"Escaped again." Holmes explains "You have to see how Metropolis got after that hurricane of sand, there was almost nothing left."
"Yeah, we do seem to bring a path of destruction with us to wherever we go." Eggatha says, finally waking up for good "So, what are you going to do now?"
"I'm gonna follow that sandstorm; might be the best way to get to her." Holmes responds.
"And what are you going to do when you catch her?" Tails Doll asks "She will end up sending you to the hospital."
"Don't worry; I know what I'm doing." Holmes says "Do you guys want to come?"
"Nah." Eggatha says "We need to stay here to prevent the end of the world when it starts."
"I'm not gonna pretend I know what you're talking about, but alright." He says as he walks towards the door "Also, you two, please be careful, she might end up coming after you as well."
"Don't worry, we'll be fine." Tails Dolls says, as they both wave to Holmes while he leaves "Man, that guy really is something, isn't he?"
Eggatha nods, as they silently look at the door for some seconds.
"Can we play in the mud now?" Eggatha asks with a smile.
Tails Doll pokes her right in the place where she had been stabbed by the umbrella, making her give a quick and loud scream.
"Alright, alright, no mud."
