A/N: Time for chapter 3! Ahead of time there will be some mild swearing in this one. Anyway, let's see what that engineer has planned to make.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Sega except my OC. Soldier belongs to Valve.
For the next 2 weeks, Kor resided himself to his house to draw up the plans for his project. A decent-sized mound of paper had formed in his trash can from discarded ideas. However, today he managed to draw up something he thought seemed good enough.
"Well damn, took awhile but hopefully if everything goes as well as I hope in mah head, this beauty will give Eggman's forces a bad day". He chuckled to himself at that.
On the blueprint it had a robot that roughly resembled a flying insect with a large shell. The face has 2 pairs of eyes, the lower ones being the biggest along with a large mouth that had 2 pincers with it. The drawing also depicts it having 4 metallic wings that fold into its body when not in use, 6 legs in total of equal size, and having a long metallic tail. A circle is drawn around the tail with what looks to be a minigun or rotary cannon to be placed there. Two squares are drawn in the middle of the robot to show internal compartments to be used as weapon bays. Kor takes a moment to look over the design before rolling the blueprint up and heading to his basement. There, a teleporter from his old days as a merc sits running. He steps onto it and vanishes from the room.
Last week Kor had found a sizeable outpost in the middle of the forest that was a good distance away from Knothole. The old place looked to be used by Gray, given that he saw a dead robot based off the Engineer, his old job. He still chuckles at the fact he's using his dead foe's facility for his own purposes. It also took a hell of a time getting the electrical systems together, including shocking himself a couple times, but he managed to get the generator and computer systems up. After the red fox teleports in, he places the blueprint on the table.
"Hmm, I have an idea about what kind of missiles and rockets to use, but what about the gun..." He racks his brain about possible placements.
He did have the thought to use a copy of the Heavy's minigun, much like how he saw one with the giant robot versions of him, but he deduced it lacked the firepower needed to punch through heavily armored targets. Sure, with some upgrades, "Sasha" could punch through multiple enemies, but Eggman's robots were tough customers, much tougher than Gray's. When Eggman worked with that old man, Heavy had an issue punching through those things with his gun, even with the upgrades.
However, Kor then gets an idea. "Hmm, maybe Ol' Solly can get me a few favors."
He walks over to his other teleporter, which leads to his home world and teleports out. Some time ago, he managed to connect to a teleporter that was left standing in of the bases the mercs used, and this one led to the base known as Hydro. He exits out the teleporter and looks around the place. The base has shown its age due to lack of combat but thankfully the generator still runs.
He grabs a nearby phone and dials a number, then waits a couple seconds before hearing a familiar voice. "WHO IS THIS?! HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER?! YOU BETTER BE A RIB MAN OR SOUP CAN SALEMAN OR I REACH THROUGH THIS PHONE AND SNAP YOUR NECK!"
Apparently, Soldier somehow managed to get into the army and is almost a general. Kor still wonders how he even got into it in the first place knowing how insane the man is, especially since he was denied by every military branch in the past, but then again his roommate was a magician for God's sake.
"Solly, ease up pardner. It's me." Kor said in amusement.
"Kor? Haven't heard from you in months, how's the whole fox journey treatin' you?" Soldier says with a chuckle.
"Alright I guess. Hey listen, think you can get me a some weapons from the army?" The engineer asked.
"Sure thing! If any weapon is good it's an American-made one! I would love to see the poor son of a bitch who meet the end of my-" Soldier ranted on before Kor cut him off.
"Yeah, before you go on ramblin' about that I need the best rotary cannon they have along with some good rockets and missiles." The engineer stated.
"Can do! I'll place the order and have them mailed to ya within the day! Speaking of which, did you kill the fat basterd on that other world yet?" Soldier asked.
"Nope, not yet at least." Kor chuckled.
"Well when you do kill him, you look him in the eyes and smash him with your boot! Then you send his fat communist carcass in a box to his-" Soldier ranted again before being interrupted.
"Ok first he's not even communist, and I'll be waiting at Hydro for the shipment." Kor sighed.
"Alright. Take care fox maggot!" Soldier said, hanging up.
After that, Kor shakes his head. "Guess some things never change." He smiles with a chuckle.
-Back in Knothole-
While Kor was busy getting his weapons, Nicole was monitoring some systems outside of Knothole in her database. Sally reported that Kor didn't appear to be in his house, so they figured he already left to work in privacy. However, being an advanced A.I. had its perks. She noticed that a computer system had been activated recently. The location was a couple miles away from Knothole, and then she realized it was an old outpost that had been used by Gray in the past. She quickly connects with her handheld computer, which was with Sally at the moment. Currently, Sally was trying to find her brother to discuss something with him.
"Sally, I need to talk with you about an important matter." Nicole said.
"Sure. What is it?" Sally asked.
"There's been a computer system reactivated at an outpost from our late enemy." The A.I. stated with concern.
"You have any idea who it is?" Sally inquired.
"No, but chances are it might be Eggman looking for old files he could use against us." Nicole said.
Sally ponders this. "Could be...however Kor hasn't been seen lately and knowing Gray was his enemy, it could be him as well. Think you can sneak into the system and see whose using the terminal?"
"Sure. With a system as old as that they wouldn't notice me intruding." The A.I. stated with confidence.
With that, Nicole unplugs herself from her handheld and homes in on the location of the terminal. Over the months, Nicole had been getting steadily stronger in being able to hack systems at a distance. She still preferred to be jacked in manually as it's easier and doesn't put much strain on her. Since the location was a couple miles it only gave a faint signal, but with some boosting she managed to enter the old system.
As she looks around throughout the terminal it doesn't appear that Eggman has accessed it. However, she comes across a few files that had been uploaded recently. She opens it and finds blueprints with designs on them. To her, it almost looks like an improved version of Eggman's badnik series of buzz bombers, yet she can tell it was drawn by someone else. As she studies it more, she hears a whirring sound in the room. Cautiously, she uses a webcam to see what it was. Her surprise turns into shock when she sees Kor stepping off a device while trying to push some heavy boxed-up machinery stacked on each other.
"Kor?!" She said, accidentally talking through the computer's speaker system.
"Nicole?!" In his surprise, he ends up pushing the boxes a little too fast and the one on top falls on him with a loud crash. "Ow..."
A/N: Looks like Nicole stumbled upon something she wasn't supposed to see. Also in relation to the robot Kor will be working on, if you ever saw the movie Wreck-it Ralph it looks similar to a normal cy-bug, with obvious modifications to it. Anyway hope you all enjoyed this one. These chapters are steadily getting longer.