While Mecha Cream was busy set up her former home into a research/power plant and her mother and Unit 935 were set up a base on the opposite side of Southern Baronies. Mostly to distract everyone and keep the attention on them. Thus keeping peering eyes of mobians and other away from what the young rabbot was doing deeper within the forest at the Chao Garden.
Back in Robotropolis things were buzzing as not only did Robotnik have to deal with the troublesome Freedom Fighter that pop out again. However these new ones were different then the last group as might have been just as small. Yet he quickly learned that quantity did not always mean quality as while they struck with the force an army. A very very small army going up a global superpower that was able to hold their own and not get crushed.
What really pissed him off was that he could not manage to find out where they were coming from as he knew the name of their base, which was called Knothole. However despite having a global empire he was unable to find a single village to stop a single group championed by a single mobian. Though on the bright he did find out about the Chao and how roboticized version of them could be used a batteries. Though process on that was slow but steady. Slow that only small portion of his force could use them thus not being on the front line. It was steady enough given time that would most certain change.
"I hate that hedgehog!" Robotnik said rather pissed off that once again the blue thorn in his side had once again screw up with one of his plan.
"Carefully that might become bad habit at the rate I have heard you say that" a voice said coming up to him.
Strangely enough it was not Snively the only other Overlander normally in Robotropolis. No this was some one else completely different. For this person was Robotnik's older brother Colin decided two years before the Great War ended. He took seventy Overlander families into space to look for new planet to call home. He and those he took with him would rather search for new planet rather have to live with the shame of lossing to the supposely inferior mobians. Only because his little brother was providing them the brains to match their brawl.
However after spending seven years of searching for a new planet to call their own. They came across what appeared to be very ancient machine that contain very detail information on every planet and moon within 4.53 billion miles of the sun. After reading the info it was decided that this search for another planet to live on was not going to work. Even if used the massive gravity of this planet called Jupiter to speed themselves up to make travel time even short. There was no telling that if the ship would survive going that fast, thus no way getting past the last planet documented as Pluto without taking twenty three years. Moons were possibility however Colin had not really planned this 'lets go to new planet' idea beyond simply finding another version of Mobius to live on. So have ended in failure they turned around while they still had the chance. For according to their current course they had only three choices to make and they had to be fast.
First, use the gravity of Jupiter to speed up
Second, do nothing and risk getting caught in the gravity of this planet thus be unable to escape
Third, turn around and head back to Mobius
Taking the third option they turned the ship around and managed make it back only a year at full speed. Once they had landed they were surrounded by Robian and having apparently landed in what according to the ship's system was the within the Mobian's capital city. Of course it was rather shock to their systems as they did not think they had been gone long enough that something like this would have happened.
This when Julian or as he was now going by Robotnik appeared before them. Claiming that he was only playing with the Mobians and that once he had gain their trust. He then turned and stabbed them in the back taking over their main city and make them into form that he found was fitting for them. They were inferior to Overlander thus they should serve them as servants and workers. Claiming the roboticizer as his own invention(not one he simply stole) said that the Overlander won the Great War. With the tactic of slowly but surely chip away at their forces from the inside out.
However jealous of Robotnik's success the others of their race did not agree with him thus he had been the sole ruler of Robotropolis, which was what he re-named the Kingdom of Acorn's capital Mobotropolis. Also at the loss of their main force (the Kingdom of Acorn) the Mobian refused to admit defeat thus they continued to attack him. Making so that he used his new found empire to teach them their place as nothing more the servants and workers for Overlanders.
When questioned on why turn them into robots, the answer was given that they were not going to listen any other way. This way they will not question what is their role in this world and how can they be savages when they only able to serve their superiors as their programming tells them.
Normally Robotnik would have never liked when Sonic appeared yet at the time his appearance was just perfect. It made even more perfect when he just appeared having blasted through some swapbots that Robotink had with at the time. So when he tried speaking with his older brother, the blue hedgehog was immediately shot down both figuratively and almost literally.
From his point of view Sonic had just attacked his younger brother out nowhere and for no reason. Thus cementing the idea that mobians were still violent savages as well boosting the lies they had been feed about what had gone while they were in space.
So former inhabitants of Megapolis(the name of their city) settled in with Robotnik rather then going back to their original home. The reason was they were told somebody had invaded their home and occupied it. Of course that somebody was him yet they did not need to know about that though.
Although while almost everyone bought the bull that Robotnik was feeding them back up through Colin's own son Snivel. Who told his father after he kicked him out he went to his uncle (Julian/Robotnik) to serve with his plan to take the mobians down from the inside. There were two that did not seem to think that they were being told the whole story. Sonic did not seem to being acting savagely and when shot out he was utterly shocked. Why would someone that attacking be shock at being shot at since guns were not something new to mobians after all. The second being just why Robotnik (as he now referred to himself) was alone in this city with only Snively and no other Overlander. If he really won the Great War even with his past crimes he would have at least had the managed to get the support of other Overlanders. Since there was some portion of them that decided to stay behind.
These two that had been Lady Anges and her granddaughter (Colin's step daughter from his second wife) Hope Kintobor. They tired to get other to listen to them that not everything Robotnik told them made sense and that they ask to see proof of his claims. Not because they did not believe but if what he really said was true then why not let them see documents of it. That should not be a problem if they were telling the truth as they had been gone for six years and some kids were even born in space at that time. Hope being one of them that were.
Yet Hope was also the only one of her generation that did not hold same hostility towards the Mobians that other Overlanders did. Something that cause her to stand out amongst the others who did simply because it what their elders taught and display to them What also did not sit will with her was having robian around as they only added to the lifelessness feeling of the city. Of course when she brought this up to her uncle and her father (which she consider him since never got to know her biological father) they just said that it was fitting for the furry menace. They can not cause any problems as robians and most certainly know their place this way. Adding this is Robotnik told her and everyone else that the only mobians that he turned into robians were those that were dangerous one that had hostile towards him and other Overlanders.
Again another thing she did not think made sense as she many have only know of mobians from lessons given during her time in stasis. However she found it rather hard to see that their entire race was full of savages and utterly violent. Sure the one called Sonic seem violent at first the just destroyed those swapbots, however when shot at he was shocked more then anger. Could they possibly be making a mistake here as her uncle was criminal and consider a traitor.
After being discovered to use Overlanders in his experiments he was sentenced to 10yrs in jail then escaped to join side with the Mobians. Even if he did do this as he claimed to take them down from the inside there still the fact he used Overlanders as test subjects. When she asked about her older brother's nickname and given the reason for it. It kind of easy to see that maybe these two were not the best people to be siding with after all. Sure they were Overlanders like them but that did not automatically made them good just like not all mobians were savages that should be turned into robian so they can finally be in their proper place.
So breaking the rules and explore around Hope was well hoping to find something that tell her the truth about what happened after they had left the planet. Other were letting prejudice and other things cloud her judgment just blindly believe what she was being told about the last eight years of Mobius.