A/N: thank you for the review…I agree its odd, but I think I can make this crossover work with the right story to support it. It get a little more interesting once I introduce Shadow in the coming chapters, however like Eggman and Gerald and some others I made his story kinda AU as well to accommodate him. Anyway here is the new chapter, please enjoy and suggestions are always welcomed.
Chapter 2
The Eggman Empire is here at last
Somewhere on Mobius a blue burl was speeding across the topical lush landscape heading for the mountains as Sonic the Hedgehog sped by the Emerald Hill region of Westside Island. It has been a quiet three weeks since his last encounter with Doctor Eggman and his latest attempt to take over Mobius, but as always Sonic has been the one force on his world that the good doctor has been unable to beat since first encountering him a few years ago.
Sonic was running along gazing out at the world before him until a familiar voice was shouting his name.
"Sonic!"
Sonic looked over his shoulder and saw a red two-seater vintage-style biplane approaching as it was flying down low from the sky as its small eight year old fox pilot at the controls while another passenger was sitting in the back seat. A little older than the fox pilot; the passenger was a red 16-year-old anthropomorphic echidna with white gloves on his hands.
The blue hedgehog came to a stop allowing his friends in the Tornado to catch up with him. Moments later after the plane landed in the middle of the grassy field Sonic joined his friends Tails and Knuckles the guardian of the floating island otherwise called Angel Island.
"What's up guys?" Sonic said as he greeted his friends.
"Hey Sonic you haven't by chance run into Doctor Eggman lately?" Tails inquired.
"No…in fact it's been pretty quiet lately. I haven't seen any sign of Eggman for over three weeks not since he attempted to steal the Chaos Emeralds from me. So far he hasn't made any more attempts."
"Well I just found out from Knuckles that Eggman has stolen the Master Emerald from Angel Island two weeks ago." Tails noted.
"I have been looking for that swindler, but I haven't found a trace of him. We were hoping you might have seen Eggman?" Knuckles added.
"This isn't like Eggman to steal the Master Emerald and then not try to attack over the world using some doomsday weapon or something." Sonic said as he was a little confused over his arch-enemy latest actions.
"Something is definitely going on." Tails added.
"I agree…I think Eggman has a base somewhere in the Green Hill area on South Island. We can probably check it out and see if we can find any regarding what Eggman is up to." Sonic suggested.
"Let's go, I can get us there in one hour."
Knuckles and Tails hopped back on the Tornado as the young two-tailed fox powered up the engine as Sonic jumped onto his favorite spot upon the plane the top of the wings were he secured his feet on the place holders for his shoes to secure him to the wings of the craft. Sonic was sure something was going on and he was curious to find out what Doctor Eggman was up to.
Meanwhile across the cosmos; a large shuttle built in the form of a giant egg with large wings on the sides and the bow was designed in the visage of Eggman's face. Upon landing inside the Aries Colony Main Hanger the capital colony for the entire planet Mars, which was also where the leaders of the other colonies not directly under the Aries Colony's jurisdiction would meet to discuss issues that effected the planet as a whole.
The Aries colony was the largest colony on the planet comprised of four city-size domes that provided stable habitable atmosphere for each dome and the people living within them. Aside from the main habitat areas there was a large communication and spaceport in the center of the four domes with a massive power facility built below the structure.
As the shuttle opened and a boarding ramp was lowered; Doctor Eggman disembarked from his private shuttle in the company of his three assistant robots; Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe while being followed by a squad of his new robot shock troops dubbed SWAT bots. Outside the shuttle two dozen SWAT bots stood in single-file lines along the sides of the hanger holding their laser rifles in respectful salute to their creator while at the four corners of the hanger providing additional security were Eggman's new unmanned mobile suits the E-97 Egg Dolls.
Eggman's unmanned mobile suits were based off of the E-100 series robots with reserve joint legs, Egg-shaped bodies with a red, black and gold color scheme with some white lining on their bodies with red mono-eyes similar to the ones seen on the GINN and SWATbot models. Each Egg Doll was armed with a heavy compact energy blaster that carried a beam bayonet under the barrel.
On its arms above its five-fingered hands were a hidden compartment for a small beam saber while on the forearms were energy shield generators. On their shoulders near the head were small dual machines for close range combat with other mobile suits or mobile armors. On the back were wing-like three-engine lightwave proposition for quick and high speed flight and maneuvers. There were smaller thrusters and boosters on their waist and feet for quick movements on the ground and in the air as well as hover convertors in their feet to allow fast and hovering across the ground for swift and fast attacks.
Standing in the middle of the room waiting for the good doctor was a manned mobile suit designed by Eggman. It was similar to the Egg Dolls, but where the model the young piloted was manned the machine was built in the image of Doctor Eggman himself with a black, red and gray color scheme with a little gold lining. It had reserve-jointed legs with three toed anti-armor talon-like feet, concealed double missile launchers on its chest, two on each side of the torso.
Interchangeable hands that could form grasping hands or become a Gatling Beam Machine guns with beam shield generator on the robot's forearms and head-mounted dual machine guns for close quarters combat while a pair of beam sabers were hidden inside the large red shoulder armor of the egg-shaped mobile suit for melee battles.
On its back was a powerful lightwave propulsion system with extendable black demonic-like wings hidden under its black cloak currently wrapped around its body concealing it advance polymer alloy shell. The large mobile suit had a gray horn on the top of its red-dome shaped head and a larger horn on the back of its head.
"Welcome father…I am glad to see you have made it here safely." The pilot of the giant machine spoke.
"We did my son, Mars is ours." Doctor Eggman said proudly as the giant Egg-shaped mobile suit knelt down as it threw back its cloak prior to its cockpit opening up before a young fifteen year old boy descended down from a cable to the ground to join his father. "I was beginning to think this day would never come…the Eggman Empire is finally here! I am glad you are here to enjoy its birth along with me Lucas."
"I am happy for you father…all of your hard work and years of difficult research and development is finally paying off. Our take over only took a couple hours."
Lucas Robotnik; while he didn't inherit the egg-shaped physique his father had, the young fifteen year old teenager did receive his father's unfeasibly high IQ of 300 matching his father in both intelligence and being a natural born prodigy in all fields of science including robotics and engineering despite his age. Lucas had short unkempt messy brown hair with a pale complexion, a slim and athletic build that was in direct contrast to his father's egg-shaped physique.
But like some children he inherited his mother's cerulean eyes, but they were hidden by a pair of black tined Prince-Nez glasses identical to the ones his father wore as well as being almost customary for members of the Robotnik family to wear. Lucas truly like his father was even given a set of clothes that were identical to him except resized to his height and body-shape.
Like his father's Lucas wore a red turtleneck jacket/coat with white trim, large yellow cuffs with triangular notches cut into the side of each cuff and gold box-compartment accessories. He wore a pair of black contoured, form-fitting one-piece pants/boots with gray/silver accents and large silver buttons on his red coat that also attached to his paints similar to his father's attire. Lastly the young man wore a pair of white, cuff-less gloves with a black-lined rectangle motif over the top of the hands.
Instead of a pair of hexagonal-shaped, protective goggles; Lucas actually wore a pair of visor-styled goggles above his forehead. The young man stood about 5'0 compared to his father's 6'1 height.
Finally sitting on his right shoulder was a small one foot-tall chubby, but a vicious looking robotic chicken with gray metallic skin and ash gray coloring on its body while it had a red rooster comb on its head with a razor sharp beak and red and black eyes.
"I am just so happy today I can barely contain myself." Eggman commented as father and son entered the main structure where their escort of SWAT bots was leading them to where the leaders of the Mars colonies were being kept. But on their way to meet the now overthrown leaders a trio of colonist standing with four SWAT bots awaited them in the hallway.
"Father these are the rebel leaders I told you about…with their help and inside information our easy victory was made possible." Lucas began as he went on to introduce the rebel leaders. "To the left this is" Lucas began as he gestured to a young middle-aged man with short buzz-cut black hair, a tan skin complexion, a clean shaven face with blue eyes wearing a black leather vest a white shirt and dark green cargo paints with army-issued brown boots. "Samson Miller; leader of the People of Free Destiny movement I told you about."
"It's an honor to meet you Doctor Eggman" Samson said as he saluted the mad genius.
"A pleasure and I'll be looking forward to working together to laid down the foundation of the newest ruling government body of the planet Mars." Eggman said humbly as he and Samson shook hands.
"And these two are Wendy Winters; Samson's second in command and lastly this is Joe Thomson he specializes in computer hacking and electrical espionage a senior member of Samson's organization."
Wendy was a little older than Samson, but had long red hair and green eyes wearing a white shirt with a sleeveless light purple coat and matching white paints and black shoes with a fair complexion. Joe was a little on the cubby side with a long blonde hair, green eyes and a fair skin complexion wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and black jeans with black hiking boots, but he was probably the youngest of the three being in his early twenties.
"I am glad to finally meet all of you…today history is being made." Eggman said with pride in his voice.
"When your son first came to us and proposed what you intended to do…we were a little hesitant, but perhaps this Empire you propose building is perhaps the change Mars needs. We only wish that we choose our paths in life and not be restricted to receiving our paths via our genetic destinies." Samson said as Eggman nodded.
"Not to worry I'll honor our agreement and the people of Mars will be free to chose their paths in life as well as their careers, but to be fair to the other parties I'll leave the genetic destiny selection open to those who still wish to use it. As long as I am made Emperor for life of this world of course" Eggman said with a chuckle.
"Of course sir…the others and the people of the planet Mars have gathered in the main plaza where they are waiting your arrival. The former leaders of the colonies are also there as well."
"Please by all means lead the way and have the SWATbots bring the former leaders to the grand balcony to witness my coming to office." Eggman said as the entourage continued onward.
A short time later; Samson was standing before a glass podium on a large stone balcony overlooking a grand gathering of hundreds of the Aries Colony Citizens standing in very large mass far below. Small pod-like cameras floated nearby projecting Eggman's face onto a pair of large view screens as well as broadcasting what was happening in the capital city to the other colonies throughout the planet.
"Attention people of Mars as of this day our people are free and we can now chose our own destinies, but to lead us into the future and a new age of advancement for our people is the great Doctor Eggman."
Samson stepped down allowing Eggman to assume his place behind the podium.
"Thank you Samson…people of Mars I come before you today to inform you all that as of this day you will no longer be bound by simple genetic test results to determine your lives and your careers. From now on you will be allowed to choose your destinies and the careers you wish to follow."
Eggman's words earned him a growing amount of praise and applause from the crowds below as many of them were happy with the new freedom they received, but Eggman was now about to declare and established a new order that will change everything. How his regain as the new absolute ruler of Mars was going to be was riding on this moment…he would be a brutal tyrant if required, but the doctor thought it might be best not to make any enemies on Mars by becoming worse than the controlling genetic scientists he overthrew. No Eggman decided it would be better and prove the justification for his coming to power to win the people over and secure total control over the planet faster.
"These have been trying times for all of you, but you have passed the test. Freedom to choose our future the most valuable and precious of all freedoms have been restored to you all, but now we stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability of the planet Mars, the colonies will be reorganized into the first Terrestrial Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you, shall last for thousands of years. The Eggman Empire will be ruled by an august body and a sovereign ruler chosen for life. A new Empire ruled by the majority, ruled by a new constitution." Eggman said as he shocked and surprised the crowds below as he knew he would, but now it was time to win them over.
"By bringing the entire planet under one law, one language, and the enlightened guidance of one individual, the corruption that plagued many governments like the ones the divided colonies lead and the governments in power on Earth and the PLANTs will never take root again ensuring unquestioned guidance and direction for the greater good. New regional governors will eliminate the bureaucracy and corruption that hinder and weaken the world. A strong and growing military will ensure the rule of law. Under the Eggman Empire's New Order, your most cherished beliefs will be safeguarded while we advance and become greater than all of the current governments and societies on Earth. Unlike the Alliance and the PLANTs we humbly welcome both coordinators and naturals to our empire since such a diverse population will ensure growth and development of our society into the greatest empire the world has ever seen. We will defend our ideals by force of arms. We will give no ground to our enemies and will stand together against attacks from within or without. Let the enemies of the Eggman Empire take heed: Those who challenge our resolve will be destroyed." Eggman declared as he raised his arms up to bask in the thunderous applause and cheers the crowds were showering him with.
Tears began to flow from Eggman's eyes as the cheers felt great as his dream of an Eggman Empire had finally been realized, Mars would be the capital and soon Earth would become part of his newly formed empire. Mars was his to rule and he would turn this red dust ball of a planet into the greatest utopia the universe had ever seen with him as its unquestioned ruler.
Meanwhile back on Mobius; Sonic, Knuckles and Tails were flying over the Green Hill area that made up the coastline of South Island. After scanning the area for a few minutes they saw a tall seven story tower built in the middle of a clearing with a base built around it.
"That must be…Eggman's new base." Tails said as he was brining the Tornado in for a landing, but the base's automated defenses detected the approaching aircraft. Concealed missile and laser cannon turrets began to emerge from underground bunkers around the base's perimeter as they were all locking onto the enemy airplane.
"Oh no…looks like we tripped the base's defenses. Hang on us it's going to be rough." Tails warned as Knuckles held on while Sonic readied himself for a rough ride.
Missiles were sent flying at the small biplane as Tails executed a number or dodge rolls and aerial evasion to avoid getting shot down while at the same time the young two-tailed fox was doing all that he could to avoid getting hit by the laser turrets below.
"Tails give me a power ring and drop me off over the base!" Sonic asked as Tails nodded as he reached under his seat to pull out a power ring for his friend to use.
"Here Sonic!"
"Alright wish me luck…just draw their attention and I'll take care of those defenses."
"Don't count me out" Knuckles said as he unbuckled his seatbelt getting ready to leap from the plane. "I'll deal with those laser turrets."
"Good luck you two!" Tails said as Sonic and Knuckles leapt from the airplane as it flew over Eggman's base.
Knuckles guided down towards the first of the laser turrets near the main twenty foot steel wall that surrounded the base while Sonic using the power ring's power and his fall to gain additional momentum as he performed a mid-air spin dash before penetrating one of the missile launchers before moving on to destroy another one as Knuckles delivered a quick series of punches that destroyed the missile launcher before moving away before the automated weapon exploded.
As Tails continued dodging and evading missiles and laser beams; the young pilot managed to catch a glimpse of what was happening below. Knuckles moved from turret to turret destroying them while Sonic moved like a high-speed pinball with a mind of its own hitting all of the smaller missile and laser turrets outside the base.
A few minutes passed as Sonic and Knuckles destroyed the last missile and laser turret allowing Tails to finally land safely without having to worry about getting shot down.
"That's the last of them" Knuckles commented as he dusted his hands off as he and Sonic met up near the base of the tower.
"This is strange?" Sonic began.
"What is?"
"What do you see?"
"Nothing"
"Exactly…nothing…no robots attacking just those automated defenses."
"You're right that is kinda weird…normally we would be under attack by Eggman's robots by now. You don't think he has a trapped planned."
"One way to find out…we're going in."
The two heroes made their way to the main entrance into Eggman's tower as Knuckles bashed down the metal doors with a quick jab. The two cautiously made their way into the fortress fully expecting a trap set for them, but much to their surprise the tower seemed deserted.
"Alright now this is downright bizarre." Sonic noted.
"Does Eggman have some kind of new game plan or is there something going on that we're missing."
"Let's get to the control center and see what we can find. I am sure Tails might be able to crack the mainframe to find out what Eggman is up to."
"Let's go on ahead while we wait for him just to make sure there aren't any robots lurking around this place." Knuckles suggested.
"Good idea…we'll spilt up and search the tower. Meet back here in five minutes to meet up with Tails. By then he should have found a safe place to land the plane and make his way here."
After his inauguration as the new Emperor of Mars was finished; Eggman retired back to the Final Fortress Flagship of his Egg Fleet. Now that he was Emperor he would rule Mars as he saw fit and the first order on his agenda was building new factories and shipyards to expand his robotic military as well as building Terraforming Generators to begin converting the planet to a lush inhabitable world along with consolidating his power on Mars to ensure his rule would go unquestioned by installing a new robot police force in all of the colonies around the planet.
"Well father the question is now should I call you Doctor Eggman still or Emperor Eggman now?"
Eggman laughed as he replied "Either name will do, but I'll admit I love Emperor Eggman."
"Congratulations doc on your self-appointment to Emperor." Bokkun said with a smile as he floated around in the air drinking expensive canned oil.
"Should we dump Gatorade on your head doctor?" Bocoe offered as his counterpart Decoe were both holding a large barrel filled with Gatorade.
"Uh…maybe later…I am in too much of a good mood to let anything ruin it. I'll admit it seemed a little too easy defeating their defense forces…the Master Emerald powering the weapons and shields of the Final Fortress made this takeover even easier."
"Maybe it helped that the Hedgehog wasn't around to wreck your plans?" Bokkun added.
"Indeed" Eggman said as his good mood was slightly fading with the mention of a certain blue hedgehog.
"What now father?" Lucas asked knowing a change of subject was a good idea since he didn't want to see his father's day of success ruined by the mention of Sonic.
"Now I'll begin Terraforming this world to suit the needs of our people and begin the construction of new factories and shipyards to increase and strengthen our military forces. Not to mention begin setting up a planetary defense network and I must begin changing and restructuring the government of the other colonies and install those new governors I mentioned. Once Terraforming is complete I will build a new city as a symbol of the new age I am brining to Mars…Robotropolis. I have so much to do."
"How can I help?"
"I need you to go to Earth and do a little reconnaissance on current events and evaluate the current state of the world and the PLANTs. I am providing you with the new E-40 Egg Fortress."
"Why can't I take the Egg Carrier?"
"Well for your reconnaissance mission something a little less substantial will better help your mission of checking things out for me. Besides it would be harder to disguise than the Egg Fort…the ship will be disguised as a long-distance traveling interplanetary cargo ship that recently reached Earth after spending a few years traveling from Mars…that will be your official story to use if anyone asks about where you are from. But if you do a good job I'll put you in command of the Egg Carrier how about that?"
"Ok" Lucas said, but he was still feeling a little depress that he wasn't going to be using the Egg Carrier which was the second largest ship in the entire Egg Fleet.
"You can leave when you are ready. Once you arrive I suggest heading to the Orb Union neutral space colony of Heliopolis to gather some intelligence. I'll be catching up on how things have progressed since we left Earth by looking through Mars's historical memory banks inside their computer mainframe, but I want you there to gather some up-to-date intelligence."
"I understand father"
"While you are there see if you can find anything of use or anything we need to know about Orb's latest military research projects. Last I checked Orb's main subsidiary the Morgenroete Corporation has a research and development facility…I want to know what their latest projects are. If you find anything there that could cause us problems then I want you to bring their projects to a permanent halt along with their operations."
"Of course…I doubt anyone there can produce machine capable of matching ours."
"Now don't get cocky…we don't know how far they may be progressing in military research they could have something new and unexpected. Better to play it safe of course"
"I'll look into and see what Orb is working on at their neutral colony. If they are building anything that could prove to be a thorn in our side I'll see to it it's destroyed. But if they have anything useful or interesting I'll bring it back to us."
"Before I forget there is something else on Heliopolis I want you to check out for me. A professor Daniels has been working on a very special geology model as part of a research project he had started before we left Earth those years ago. The potential fruits of that project might be useful."
"What do you mean father?"
"You'll understand once you see it." Eggman commented with an evil grin. "You take care of things near Earth while my squeaky clean image will help me get things done faster here."
"I'll make my preparations to leave at once."
"I have loaded your ship with Egg Dolls, your mobile suit and a number of my other creations. I'll be sending the E-100 robots with you as well along with Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe to assist you."
"WHAT?" Bokkun exclaimed.
"We're going with Lucas to Earth?" Decoe asked as all three robots were surprised that they were going to be accompanying the doctor's son to Earth.
"Yes and I want you three along with the E-100 robots to watch and protect him as well as help him. But I warn you…if anything happens to him I'll rip all three of you apart with my bare hands, sell your internal parts on the internet and then make your metal bodies into toilets." Eggman warned as the three robots were terrified of the doctor's threat which was a sign of his unique management style. If his workers failed him he destroys them.
"We will not fail you sir!" Bocoe declared confidently with a salute.
"For your sakes you better not."
Back on Mobius; Sonic, Knuckles and Tails were taking an elevator up to the main command center after search the base for any sign of Eggman's Robots, but much to their growing surprise none of the doctor's deadly machines had been found with the sole exception of a few cleaning drones going about and cleaning and maintaining the base.
"Now this is just beyond weird…I am sure we should have been caught in a trap." Tails commented as the trio exited the elevator.
"I know now I am sure Eggman is up to something big…its not like him to leave a perfectly operating base like this with no guards or anything around aside from some cleaning machines." Sonic added.
"The fact that he has the Master Emerald alone isn't a good sign."
"I know, we got to find Eggman know." Sonic said as they stopped at the end of a short metal hallway. Before them a large thick metal door was blocking their way.
"Any Knuckles got the keys to this door." Tails asked.
"Stand back!" The guardian of Angel Island said as Sonic and Tails stepped back before Knuckles delivered a powerful right cross and punched a large hole in the metal door. "No weapons or robots popping out of thin air so I guess its safe." With those words the Guardian stepped forward through the hole and into the room beyond where they found the command center for the base.
"Hey Tails think you can hack that computer and see what Eggman was doing at this base?" Sonic asked as Tails walked over to the main control console found on the far side of the room.
"I might take me some time to crack the encryptions protecting it, but I'll give it a shot."
"Go for it…we'll cover you if anything unexpected happens." Sonic said, as he and Knuckles were alert and ready for anything. Although they didn't find any robot guards around there was still no guaranteed that the base wasn't triggered with some kind of trap.
An hour later back in Mars orbit after all preparations were completed; the E-40 Egg Fortress was leaving the vicinity of the gathered battleships that made up the Egg Fleet as the sleek and purple streamlined vessel was now concealed and disguised as a large cargo ship that seemed a bit antique, but it would be enough to hide the true nature of the ship. Under the disguise that hid the space fortress underneath while the disguise that concealed the vessel made it appear similar to the Tsiolkovsky used by George Glenn to reach Jupiter except it was more designed to appear as an interplanetary cargo ship traveling between Earth and Mars.
Underneath its disguise the vessel was considerably different with a streamlined purple hull that was about 490 meters long with a large yellow drill on the prow of the vessel, a red arrow painted above it along the top of the metal hull, a retractable bridge along with two retractable wings on the side of the vessel that boasted two large and very powerful sublight engines complimenting the main engine on the main body of the ship and yellow drills built into the front of the secondary engines on the expandable wings of the ship.
Lined throughout its heavy laminated armored hull was a battery of twenty heavy auto cannons 95 mm automatic multi-barrel CIWS which included thirty hidden surface-to-ship missile launchers along with twenty surface-to-air missile launchers hidden throughout the hull which several of them placed near the drill-prow on the front of the ship. On the sides of the hull near the bridge was a hidden three-large barrel scatter-shot missiles that fired one large missile before exploding into dozens of small needle-like armor-piercing projectiles designed to rain down on enemy mobile units or ships making Swiss cheese out of the enemy or the hull of their ship. After firing the revolving launcher would turn before firing another large missile.
Also hidden along the hull above the retractable wings was a pair of Gallant Mk.10 145cm linear cannons, one on each side of the ship. To compliment it in heavy energy weaponry were a trio of Mk.99 240cm high-energy beam cannons with another trio of beam cannons dotted around the underbelly of the ship. The last armament the Egg Fort had were a pair of powerful high-powered positron blaster cannons dubbed Egg Blasters built along the port and starboard sides of the vessel right behind the prow-mounted drill.
In conjunction with the other weapons the Egg Fort was heavily armed with a formidable defense network of weapons protecting it along with an energy shield that surrounded the ship. Finally it had two launch catapults for mobile suits on the sides of the ship along with one vertical launcher on the top of the deck and other robot attack units along with smaller deployment launchers dotted throughout the ship for different E-series robots for either defense of the ship or launching an attack on a target or a base. Of course it was built and designed for use on Earth where it could enter the atmosphere and then easily return to space thanks to its advance engines or operate as a flying battleship on Earth or if needed it could seek refuge underwater acting as a submersible.
On the bridge of the flying fortress, Lucas Robotnik sat in the command chair of the ship his father had given him to command.
"We'll be breaking Mars orbit in a few moments sir." Decoe noted as he sat at the helm controls while his counterpart Bocoe sat in the co-pilot chair next to him.
"Once we're free of Mars's gravity activate the star drive and take us straight to Earth." Lucas ordered.
"I hope there'll be some good sights on Earth!" Bokkun said as he flew around the bridge holding a small camera testing it out.
"I am sure there will be some nice sights to see, but settle down my little friend." Lucas suggested.
"Activating Star Drive in six seconds, ETA to Earth will be four minutes. We'll reach the Earth, but we'll deactivate the Star Drive once we're within traveling distance to Heliopolis to avoid the use of the Star Drive being seen by any on lookers who may be in the area."
"Of course…proceed Bocoe, but how long until we reach Heliopolis."
"We estimate a few hours at most." Decoe replied.
"Excellent well boys let's go...engage the Star Drive when its ready." Lucas Robotnik said as the disguised flying fortress jumped to light-speed velocity heading for the vicinity of Earth where the vessel would travel to the neutral colony to begin its reconnaissance mission and depending on the situation would act to disrupt things around Earth to pave the way for the eventually Eggman Empire invasion.
Of course providing no one got in way.
A/N: I dubbed Eggman's unmanned mobile suits Egg Dolls as a nod to both his habit of including egg in the name of his inventions and doll was of course included not only to mention their lack of a pilot, but as a short-of tribute to the mobile dolls as well. The son of a mad genius will raise some serious hell on Earth and things will be more interesting when the Alliance and ZAFT will have to deal with talking animal-aliens soon lol. I had some other names for Lucas as well, but the name Lucas stuck with him and as clearly shown by the way he dresses his respects and admires his father to a very high degree. Kira and firends will be appearing next chapter.