Chapter 54: Eggman's Explanation:
I am Blaze the Cat! The former princess of the Sol Dimension!
Ohhh, my head! Where the fuck am I? Last thing I remember, I was
confronting a group of mysterious men on the beach, but then one of
them knocked by into a tree with a bomb! Am I dead? If not, where
am I? And why is it so dark? And what happened to Blaze and
Rouge? I WANT ANSWERS, DAMN IT!
Within the depths of the ominous lair was a small, dark cell containing nothing but a small bench chained to the wall, as well as the still-unconscious girls. Shortly, one of them woke up. It was Blaze. She sat up and held her head.
"Ugh, what happened to us?" She pondered, slowly lifting herself onto the bench, "And what about those criminals?"
Suddenly, Amy was the second to wake up.
"Rouge? Blaze?" She asked.
"I'm over here." Blaze replied, prompting the lost Amy to look in her direction.
"Okay, just what the hell are you wearing?" Amy asked, seeming to have no intention to worry about where they were first.
"Huh?" Blaze asked, looking down at herself. The clothing that the girls had been wearing before they were knocked out had been discarded while they were asleep, and replaced with skimpy, skintight, black leather G-string bikinis. The outfits also came with spiked collars that could not be removed via any visible methods, and high-heeled go-go boots that matched the bikinis.
"What's going on here?" Rouge asked, having woken up last.
"That's what we're trying to figure out!" Amy replied, "All we know is that we were all knocked out during a fight with some masked criminals, placed in this cell, and dressed up in these stripper costumes."
"Hmm?" Rouge asked, looking down at herself, "Well, whoever captured us doesn't have too bad a fashion sense. I'll take this any day over those hideous stripes that have been worn by gazillions of people."
OF COURSE she would say that! Blaze thought.
"That's not important right now. First, we need to try and escape this prison." She said, "...I know!"
She walked over to the wall of closely-packed bars that was blocking the girls' exit, and clamped each hand tightly around one of the bars. Scrunching her eyes shut, Blaze proceeded to charge up her pyrokinesis in an attempt to melt the bars, though this didn't work, and instead she received a painful shock in the neck.
"AAGH! Damn it!" She cursed, holding her neck with one hand, and looking at her other, which only managed to emit some steam.
"What?! But I thought you said it was water that stifled your powers!" Amy said, nervous now.
"Right, but somehow I can't even raise my temperature by even a fraction of a degree. Something in this room must be the issue." Blaze replied, "...Or maybe it was this thing!"
Blaze attempted to remove her spiked collar, but to no avail.
"Hmm, let me try!" Rouge said, stepping up to the bars, "Stand back, guys!"
She then proceeded to initiate a screw kick. However, while charging up the attack, she suddenly started spinning at a slower rate, and upon launching into the bars, she simply bounced off and flew into the wall. The other girls went to help her up.
"Yup, it's the collars that are able to stifle our powers somehow." Amy said, "And given that, I'm not even gonna attempt to do anything, since we're all wearing them."
"Well we can't use our powers with these on, and we can't get 'em off, so...what do we do now?" Rouge asked, before noticing a light shining through the bars.
All three girls got into a nervous fighting stance as they were greeted by Orbot, holding a lantern as he approached the cell.
"Ah, you've awoke! Splendid!" He said, "The boss will see you in just a moment!"
Orbot pulled out a small remote and pressed the single button on it, lifting the bars and allowing the girls to escape.
"Wait a minute!" Blaze whispered in Amy's ear, "Isn't that guy one of Eggman's minions? What's he doing here?"
"I don't know." Amy muttered, confused as well.
The three girls proceeded to follow the robot out of the small, dark corridor, whispering a plan into each other's ears.
"NOW!" Amy yelled, diving onto Orbot, knocking his lantern to the ground and extinguishing it instantly.
The other girls joined into the fray and started tackling the small mech, attempting to disassemble him so they could escape. However, Orbot pressed the single button on a remote identical to the one he had used, yelling: "Help! Assistance! It's Urgent! Guys!"
Almost immediately, three more robots entered the fray and each of them lifted a girl off of him, holding their arms behind their backs.
"What?!" Rouge asked.
"You guys too?!" Blaze asked.
"Where did you guys come from?!" Amy demanded.
Orbot stood back up and let out a brief and somewhat quiet evil chuckle.
"You bitches would be pretty interested in learning the whole story. However, I must keep my lips sealed, as the boss wanted to tell you all personally! Plus, he has a surprise for all of you; one so grand it'll make you jump right out of what little clothes you have on." He replied.
"Wait! 'Boss'?!" Amy asked, only to receive no reply.
The girls were soon escorted to an unknown area via the four robots.
I'm Silver the Hedgehog! The hero of the future, today!
Seriously, this past week or so has been pretty tumultuous!
First, Sonic leaves the house for an unprecedented amount of
time, then he shows up, looking like his god-forsaken incarnation
from the new TV show (which admittedly is a guilty-pleasure for me),
and now we find that our wives (in my case, my fiancé) have been
abducted! And as far as the latter goes, no amount of psychic ability
could help me prepare for it! I may be able to predict future events, but
only if my attention is undivided, which it obviously wasn't! Regardless, I
hope we're not too late to save the girls!
Meanwhile, in the lower levels of the fortress, Sonic, Silver, and Shadow were all hurrying up a spiraling flight of stairs, which (much to their surprise) was the only thing to be found inside the tower.
"Well this is odd." Silver said, looking around, "You'd think these criminals would be more competent in managing a huge, hidden organization like this!"
"Agreed. There's no front desk to file past, there's not a soul around to defend the place, and look! We're almost at the top without falling into a single trap!" Sonic replied.
"Well if you look around, there really isn't much to protect to begin with." Silver said.
"Well this is just goddamn bullshit!" Shadow said, "I think I've changed my mind about this being my sequel! It's too fucking bland!"
The other two hedgehogs rolled their eyes. Soon, the trio arrived in an empty, spacious, dome-shaped room at the top of the tower, which greatly resembled the inside of an IMAX theater. They stopped running (and in Shadow's case, skating) and looked around, before noticing the staircase below them retracting until it tucked itself into a slot in the wall all the way down by the door they had come through. Immediately afterwards, the hole in the floor that the stairs used to come through closed itself.
"You were saying?" Shadow asked Sonic.
Back in the unknown area, the girls found themselves in a large bedroom lit only by hundreds of candles on the walls, with two soft, emperor-sized beds with emu-feather pillows and seal-skin bedding. There was a row of three armchairs against the wall opposite to the beds, which the girls sat in upon having their arms released.
"Hang tight, wenches!" Tribot said bluntly, before stepping out of a door opposite the one that the group had come through for a bit. When he came back in, Dr. Eggman was with him, not wearing his usual clothes, but rather a pair of tighty-whities with the words 'Get A Load Of This!' written in red on the back, and an open vest that matched the girls' outfits in both color and material with no shirt underneath. He was also not wearing his aviation goggles, and his usual shades had been replaced with ones that only had a bottom-half to them, providing everyone else with a clear view of his eyes.
"Eggman?!" Amy, Rouge, and Blaze gasped in unison.
"Surprised you remembered my name after so long!" The fat scientist replied with a chuckle.
"Answer this right now, fatass! How did you survive after the last time you fought Sonic?! Because I remember seeing you dead in your coffin with my own eyes!" Amy demanded, only to receive a painful lash by means of a whip that Cubot was armed with.
"Refrain from speaking to the boss in such a confrontational manner!" Orbot replied, pointing a gun identical to the one Tribot had used on some dogs a while back right at the pink hedgehog's forehead.
"And why'd you capture us?!" Rouge demanded, only to be whipped by Hexbot.
"Alright, take it easy, mechs! I'll answer all of their questions!" Eggman said, sitting on the bed nearest to the chairs, "For starters, after I was killed, Hexbot and Tribot over there just happened to come to this world from the Sol Dimension to find their boss, Dr. Eggman Nega (who you had apparently killed as well). And along the way, they used a special resurrection gun to revive Orbot, Cubot, Nega, and of course me. ...Man, it feels weird to talk about yourself dying in such a casual manner!"
"Just get to the point!" Blaze said, only to be threatened with violence.
"Anyway, I'll get to the other question in a bit, as it connects to what I'm about to say. The following story is very dear to me, and among the most vivid in my aging memory. It also concerns my rivalry with your friend Sonic. But enough of my rambling, here's the full story:"
{Some may tell you that Sonic and I became mortal enemies simply because he was the one who stopped me the first time I attempted to turn the woodland creatures into a Badnik army...but that's simply not the case! In actuality, it was a mere lust for revenge that has been going on for years! You see, I was not always evil. I was once a kind, young man of about 27, with a teaching degree almost in my hands, who got along well with other members of society and even had a girlfriend by the name of Glendana, who I spent the majority of my time with. She was smart, friendly, and sexy as all hell. One day, we were out in the forest and were in the middle of the best day of our lives; we'd had a picnic of wine, cheese and grapes, and had just finished making love right on the grass as we overlooked the gorgeous and scenic canyon over the ledge right by us. Still lying down with undone clothing, I paused and attempted to move our relationship another stage forward by proposing. After I pulled out the ring and knelt down and said those sappy words and all of that shit, I was just about to ask if she would marry me. However, before I could even get one word out of her, a blue blur sped by, too fast to make out, but fast enough to blow a hornets' nest from one of the trees above and right onto Glendana's head, ruining her hair and prompting each and every insect to start stinging her until she started to swell and began slowly dying from the large amount of venom! We managed to run away from the commotion, and as we caught our breath against a tree, a copperhead snake who was lurking in the grass sank its teeth into her ankle, and was only scared off by a lone, rabbid wolf who started aggressively approaching us! We both tried to run, but Glendana tripped on her high-heel and just as she was getting up, the wolf pounced, knocking both her and (unintentionally) itself into the deep canyon to perish! I could only watch on that faithful day as my only true love vanished. Overtaken by anger, I hurried home and after getting degrees in technology and robotics, and growing out my mustache, I swore revenge upon all the animals in the world for killing my main source of happiness, especially Sonic the Hedgehog, since he was the one who set up that whole incident! Even though my many attempts at destroying him have failed, I have never given up!}
"With all of that said however..." Eggman continued, "I have toned down the intensity of my plan over the years, in that the only animals I truly care about destroying now are Sonic and his friends. However...I am willing to spare his and all of their lives if and only if they let me and Eggman Nega take over the world with no resistance, and if they comply, I'll even set the three of you free so you can live your normal lives again. And that's where your question comes in, Rouge! The reason I have captured you ladies is to exact my revenge on Sonic by forcing him to feel what it's like to have love and pleasure taken away from him, by making you into sex slaves for both myself and Nega, and holding you captive here, before destroying him so that he dies in a state of depression! ...Unless he agrees on the negotiations I just mentioned."
All three girls sat there with neutral expressions on their faces, clearly not moved at all by the tragic story.
"So lemme get this straight: You went through all of that just over one girl?" Blaze asked.
"I think he's lying," Amy replied, "Not only do his actions during most of his previous schemes have nothing to do with destroying the animals and avenging this girlfriend of his (along with the fact that he only just now confessed that she was the reason behind this), but given the current circumstances, I think he's probably just doing this for the pleasure."
"Damn straight!" Rouge added, "And of all people to avenge! This Glendana person sounds like she was a total bitch anyway! Even if he isn't lying, that's a pretty stupid motive for taking over the world!"
"How dare you!" Eggman yelled, his hands curled into fists, "That's it! With that comment, I think I'll wreck you first! And both of your friends here will have no choice but to sit there and watch as you get laid by both of us!"
As if on cue, Eggman Nega entered the room, wearing an identical outfit to that of his counterpart, though his underpants read 'Can You Make It Here?' written in pink on the back. Amy and Blaze gasped as metal rings suddenly appeared out of the armchairs they were sitting in, trapping their arms and legs in place. They looked up and watched as Dr. Eggman harshly shoved Rouge onto the bed, where she was instantly immobilized by metal rings as well.
Laughing manically, the two doctors then stepped in front of the nightstand between the two beds, prompting Hexbot to move towards them, carrying a platter with two large bourbon bottles and two small, plastic bottles full of Viagra pills. Each doctor grabbed one of each, and after dumping an entire pill bottle into their mouths, clinked the jugs together and gulped down every drop of their contents.
"Oh yeah, that's the stuff! Ya' like that, huh?" Nega said, wiping his mouth as he eyed the disgusted looks on Amy and Blaze's faces.
Chuckling, Eggman got onto the bed in a crawling position, staring Rouge down with an evil grin.
"Mmph!" Rouge grunted, trying to adjust her position by just a tiny bit, "Face it, Doc! We're not gonna let you take advantage of us like this! Once we get out of here, you'll be reported for your abusive and sexist behavior faster than Sonic can get to wherever we are, and they'll put you away forever, if not put you to death!"
Eggman suddenly dropped lower onto her body, causing her to gasp in fear.
"I swear, if you make one more snarky comment, I'll beat your ass so hard...well, actually it'll make you look even sexier!" Eggman warned.
Rouge groaned.
"Seriously! You're drunk! You're not well! You wouldn't be doing this if you hadn't taken all of those drugs!" She yelled, desperately attempting to talk sense into the intoxicated doctor.
"What are you talking, about? I'm not high! I'm just aroused! I haven't done it in over 20 years!" Eggman replied, "Now...bring the medication!"
Obediently, Cubot walked up carrying another platter, this one having three needle-tipped syringes with a translucent liquid inside them that was the color of melted butter.
"Oh hell no! You're not gonna get me high too!" Rouge protested.
"Ohhh, this isn't a drug! It's more of a...well, I can't think of the word right now, so I'll put it bluntly and say that it's a mixture of all STDs known to mankind!" Dr. Eggman replied.
Rouge gulped, before sweating profusely and panting as the doctor proceeded to slowly bring the needle down to her arm before pulling the trigger. The injection was almost completely painless like most shots, but still horrifying. Tossing the syringe into a nearby wastebasket, Eggman started leaning in even closer, putting his hands all over Rouge's body and puckering his lips up presumably to make out.
Ugh! Why me?! Rouge thought, Why am I stuck under some wasted fat guy who doesn't even know proper sex positions?!
Before Eggman could do what he wanted however, a siren went off, startling everyone in the room. Orbot quickly went up to a control panel in a corner of the room and shut the siren off, before pulling up a screen, showing slightly blurry video footage of Sonic, Silver, and Shadow standing around trapped in the spherical room at the top of the metal tower, appearing to be confused over what was happening.
"Ah, it seems they took the bait, hook, line, and sinker!" Eggman gloated.
Without hesitation, he pulled on his usual red jacket to look presentable on camera, and stepped up to the control panel, pressing a button to turn on the screen, with Eggman Nega following suit.
"One, two, three!" He said to his counterpart.
The two evil scientists proceeded to start cackling upon ending the countdown, as if rehearsing for a play.
Inside the tower, the three hedgehogs heard the laughter echoing throughout the room, and started looking around for the source. Suddenly, multiple projections of the scene inside the lair appeared on the walls of the dome, startling the three into a fighting stance.
"Eggman?!" Sonic said in a combination of anger and shock.
"Why hello there, pesky hedgehogs! It's been a very long time, now hasn't it?" Dr. Eggman replied.
"You know, somehow I'm not surprised that you came back to life." Shadow said, "After all, I killed you once singlehandedly in the past."
{A cutaway began, showing Shadow the final cutscene of one of the non-canon endings of his own game, standing over the destroyed Egg Dealer and the collapsed Dr. Eggman. "Goodbye...doctor!" He yelled, before karate chopping Eggman in the neck, killing him. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Eggman yelled in defeat. A few hours later, a translucent white version of the doctor who lacked legs floated upwards out of his body, and looked around. "Wait! What am I doing?!" He asked, "I need to be there for the true ending!" The ghost popped back into Eggman's body, causing it to come back to life. He then forced himself back into a stand and hurriedly ran off.}
"Enough stalling, pinheads!" Silver shouted, "How are you two alive after those beatings you received?! And where's Blaze?!"
"I think I'll pass on explaining that." Eggman replied.
"Yeah, you have no idea how many times we've needed to tell the whole story to your...friends over here!" Eggman Nega added, pointing to the girls over in the corner as the camera panned over to them.
The three girls realized that they were in communication with their men, and started hollering.
"Sonic! I'm in here! You've gotta hurry!" Amy yelled.
"They're making us into sex-slaves!" Blaze added.
"Hurry up and stop them before it's too late!" Rouge said.
"Duhhh!" All three hedgehogs groaned in unison as they fell backwards onto the floor, eyes replaced with hearts at the sight of what the girls were wearing.
"GUYS!" Amy shouted, prompting them to immediately jump back to their feet and focus, "Eggman's much more cruel than we ever thought! Please come and stop- OW!"
Amy was cut off, as Tribot whipped her and the other two girls across the back (and in Rouge's case, the front), causing them to wince and groan in pain.
"Heh heh heh heh heh...That should keep them quiet for now! We wouldn't want them disclosing anything to you, now would we? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Eggman Nega gloated, he and his Mobius counterpart back on the screen.
As they heard the two doctors laughing maniacally, the three hedgehogs were overcome by intense anger at the sight of what had been done to the girls. Eventually, it became too much to handle for Shadow as he started to rev up a spin-dash, his form surrounded by glowing, red and yellow auras.
"Y-You...you BASTARDS!" He yelled, launching himself at one of the projections on the wall, only to bounce off without even leaving a mark.
Sonic and Silver were quick to catch him as he fell, and after getting him to his feet, Sonic stepped forwards.
"Alright, Eggman! You listen here! I know I've said it numerous times over the years, but this time, you've really taken things too far! And y'know what? I'm not even gonna make an egg-pun this time! I'm gonna give you the exact same beating I gave you almost two years ago, though there'll be even more pain. I'll skin you alive with my own quills, so that every blow you receive hurts much more! I'll continue to whale on you even after you're dead, and take delight in licking the blood off your corpse!" He threatened, with Shadow and Silver looking at each other in disbelief at the sound of such violent words coming from his mouth.
"I-I'll do all I can...and then start an electric fire from your own machinery...and...and b-b-burn you to ashes with it! ...And...and I won't stop until not a trace of you or any of your minions remain! I'll...I'll..." Sonic continued, though he was overtaken by his powerful emotions and knelt to the ground, quietly sobbing.
As he did so, Silver looked down somberly, while Shadow looked away from the projections, his hands still curled in fists of rage. The three girls were still watching them too, shocked and now deeply saddened by how the doctors' plan had managed to break them down.
Sniffling, Amy started wiping some tears from her eyes. After a deep breath, she started to talk.
"No, Sonic! You haven't lost yet! You still have time! You're the fastest thing alive after all!" She said, the two laughing doctors and the four robots not appearing to be paying attention to her pep-talk, "And you can't pick now to give up! You're the strongest, bravest, and most handsome hero I've ever seen! You've never lost to Eggman before, so why should you lose this time?!"
Sonic looked up to show that he was listening, a glimmer of hope entering his eyes.
"Even if me or the other girls don't make it out alive, I know you'll still be able to stop these douches, along with anything they toss at you! ...I-I love you, Sonic!" Amy finished, her eyes glossy and shaky with tears.
By the end of the advice, Silver and Shadow had looked up too, their spirits lifted somewhat.
"You're right." Sonic replied with a sniffle.
Suddenly, the evil laughter stopped.
"Wow! That was a record!" Eggman Nega said.
"Indeed!" Eggman grinned, pressing a large, red button on the control panel.
Inside the tower, the three hedgehogs felt the floor beneath them starting to shake, followed by a tingling sensation that told them that they were gaining significant altitude at a fast rate. Outside on the beach, hundreds of people, (both tourists and residents) gathered around the clearing and watched in awe and horror as the tower shot upwards into space.
It turned out that the tower that Eggman was believed to be in was a disguised rocket, serving as a mere trap to stall the hedgehogs, and was now blasting them off to an unknown destination.
"Holy shit!" Knuckles exclaimed, partially shielding his eyes from the sunlight as he watched the rocket ascend.
"Whoa!" Junior added.
"Alright, Sonic! You can do it! Kick some ass for us!" Tails added.