Oh yeah! I finally updated this! Sorry I didn't sooner, but I had writer's block on the brain. I will say that it's clearing up now, thankfully. This chapter will sort of mention/explain a bit of stuff from You Never Know, in case you haven't read that. Oh, and I do not own Eggman's robot trio. So now, on to Chapter 12. (In other news, the line button works again! Yay!)
The Final Base was a technological marvel, one only upstaged by the Cybex fortress and Mr. Prower's laboratory. Everything was made out of metal, and various blueprints for robot designs littered the walls like wallpaper. The appliances were all made out of the remains of old robots, dating back to about twenty-five years ago (around the time of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game). Mech and the twins gazed upon it in awe, while Eggman chuckled at their reactions.
"Lovely, isn't it?" Eggman asked, gazing at some of his own designs. "I swear, I almost thought I would never see this place again." The Doctor turned towards one of the hallways. "Bocoe, Decoe, Bokkun, I order you to come here at once!" Three robots entered the room. One was tall, lanky, and gold (Decoe), one was short, squat, and silver (Bocoe), and the third was tiny and black, with two ear/quill like things sticking out of the side of its head (Bokkun).
"Dr. Eggman, you have finally returned to us," Bocoe stated, as he and Decoe made a bow. Bokkun just glared at his creator.
"What took you so long?" Bokkun asked. "We've been stuck here for two whole years! Do you know how boring that is?"
"Fascinating," Mech muttered. "Actual olden-day robots. I didn't know that they still functioned."
"Excellent," Eggman said, not paying attention to anyone else. "Robots, good to see you are up and running. Now, I need you to get to work. Bocoe, Decoe, go and put the security system online. Bokkun, go open my chambers for me."
"You just returned, and you expect us to work?" Decoe asked. "What could be so important that you have to start now?"
"No time to explain," their creator answered. "Now, as for the rest of you, Mech shall accompany me to my destination. Akumu, Yume, and Ghost shall stay here until I send for you, alright? My robots will show you where you can and cannot go later. Now, we must be off. Come, Mech."
"Yes sir," Mech replied, following the cyborg out of the room. All the robots had soon left, leaving Ghost and the twins alone.
"Never expected that this would happen," Yume said after a while. "We go off to find Mom and the others, and then poof! We're stuck with our parent's arch-enemy, a gang of wacked out robots, and some emotionless hedgehog who doesn't even have a soul! Talk about different."
"Yeah, sure is," Akumu mumbled, not really paying attention. His eyes were going from blueprint to blueprint on the wall, not really thinking about what he saw. One thing, however, caught his eye. "Hey, what's that one supposed to be?"
"Which one?" Yume asked, looking as Akumu pointed out a nameless blueprint.
"See that?" Akumu flew up to the blueprint for a better look. "I wonder what this is supposed to do. There's no name on it anywhere." At this point, Ghost looked over at the blueprint, his near-albino like eyes scanning it silently.
"Hey Ghost, do you know what it is?" Yume asked.
"I have seen it before, but I do not know where," He replied. "It seems quite familiar, but I do not remember where I have seen it. In fact, I do not remember much at all. I suppose that is a side effect of losing my soul."
"Oh," was all the twins could say. It was hard for either of them to imagine what life would be like without a soul, partially due to the fact they weren't exactly sure what a soul was (then again, who does?) Eventually, Bocoe and Decoe returned to them.
"It's been a long time since any living creature besides Dr. Eggman himself has been to one of his bases with his permission," Decoe noted.
"Really?" Yume asked. "How long ago was that?"
"If I think about it, I believe it was the day you two were born," Bocoe explained. "There was quite a fight that day, if you didn't know. One of you was almost killed."
"Which one of us?" Akumu asked. "Why would someone try to kill us?"
"I believe it was this rabbit called Ebony," Decoe remembered. "He was trying to win back your mother, and get rid of your father. In a last ditch effort, he tried to kill…I think it was you," Decoe pointed at Yume, who looked surprised. "Your father was luckily able to use Chaos Control in time, so Ebony ended up killing himself instead of you."
"We had to clean up the body afterwards," Bocoe added sourly. "And then, Shadow and Sonic destroyed that base a few weeks later, so that Dr. Eggman could not harm the children." Yume and Akumu contemplated this, while Ghost was in his own thoughts.
"Sonic…Shadow…I know those names," Ghost thought silently. "In fact…"
"So, think you can beat me?"
"Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehogs. They have something to do with my past." The gray hedgehog continued to think about this, even after Bocoe and Decoe began to lead him and the twins to their rooms.
Well, I tried to make it a bit longer. I know the next one will be. I'm sorry about the chapter shortness for this, but I will make it up with the later chappies. Anyway, see you soon!