Cackles echoed throughout a dank, wet castle in the outskirts of the two kingdoms. A large shadow in the window appeared moving back and forth. Colorful dust and bottles flew in every which way. Foreign incantations were spoken from what seemed to be coming from the tallest fortress tower.
"Yes…yes. All will be complete as soon as I get my hands on those eight jewels. With the sacred Umbrian Emerald and the 7 ancient Chaos Emeralds together I, Ivo Robotnik, will gain the power of the 'Mystique One', ruling the Flora kingdom, then the Umbra kingdom, eventually the whole universe!"
A slightly obese man with a bushy mustache stared into a large crystal ball, the ball itself revealing images of the outside world. The evil wizard eagle eyed the undoubting female monarch walking back to her secure abode. Since he knew her father, King Aster, kept the emeralds in a place where no one would suspect it, 'Eggman' (as Sir Sonic called him while battling him) needed to conspire a plan to get to them. The Umbrian Emerald was easy to find but there was one problem: that pesky guardian will bar him from laying one finger on it. Plus, that prince will be hard to beat, since he is powerful.
So all these years he's thought about a sly scheme to get what he desired without that blue hedgehog in his way again. Then it hit him.
"Hmm, besides Prince Shadow, being the most powerful and aggressive, and Sir Sonic, being the most interfering and annoying, and that Umbrian gem protector, being the most protective and determined, who is the weakest link of the bunch? Oh of course….why didn't I think of it before?" He hit his head carelessly with the palm of his hand. "Our lovely rose-Princess Amy Rose that is.
"It's perfect! Surely that old king must've told her where those 7 emeralds are. What he didn't do is tell her the true powers of those jewels. All I have to do is use a little magic on her, at all costs if I need to, and a tiny bit of manipulation on the whole country. They will be on their knees, begging me to not harm their precious future queen no more, the king surrendering the emeralds to me…it's perfect…oh so perfect…it's the brilliant idea to end all brilliant ideas! "
Ever since that idea, he's kept a watch on Amy with precautionary thinking. One flaw: Sonic. He lived to serve Princess Amy. The greatest and fastest knight in the world has to have a duty he always had hanging over his head, which is protecting a future head of state, particularly a woman… Although he is considered a free spirit, so there is a positive side to things. He isn't too tied to watching Amy 24/7. It's not like he's in love with her or anything.
Already having an idea pop up in that genius head of his (a rarity; normally his genius ideas turn out to be numbskull ideas), Eggman zoomed through his spell book finding a certain incantation….