Egg Command Tower

[Tatsuhiro]

“All right.” Rose nodded as she let the transmission through.


Tatsuhiro would be surprised with what he would see. The Doctor was no unusual sight, but there was a badger that looked to be half robot while a there was a girl that made his screen spilt. He didn’t know who these two were, but judging by the comment the Doctor had given him they were no doubt his new allies. The room he was in was dark, not pitch black but it was greatly shadowed and only a bit of light could be seen in the background. With his stern face and folded arms, this would no doubt make him look much more creepy than normal.

“Sorry for cutting you short a while ago, Doctor.” He started out in a very monotone voice, “But the signal was bad.” He paused for just a moment before continuing. “-To answer your questions from before, my name is Tatsuhiro. I came into servitude about four years ago when you... ‘helped’ me; and I’ve been working for you ever since. The last thing I was told to do was find a Chaos Emerald that had supposedly landed over in Ice Cap Zone. I’m now in your old base on Angel Island; with no emerald. In fact, I can’t sense anything right now, even when I was close to where it crashed.”

[Rose Fox]

Rose looked at Tatsuhiro with a curios expression. No doubt this would surprise the mutated creature that stood before Robotnik through a screen. There wasn’t a sign of fear; simply surprise. She didn’t say anything, most because the wheels in her head where beginning to move; and the fact that she didn’t want to interrupt the conversation. She simply looked and blinked in wonderment at the creature before her, like a frog she would have dissected in biology class.

[Rampage]

Rampage glared hard at the figure on screen. Because of the darkness, he couldn't make out much of his features. Not even the enhanced vision modes could improve his view of the strange figure because... lets face it, its a monitor, he can only see what the machine is able to transmit; much to Rampage's annoyance. But nevertheless, what features he could make out made this creature just made his head hurt.

"Hah, and people call ME ugly! What the heck happened ta you? Fall out of a tree and hit every branch on the way down and land on a mountain goats head? And just what do you mean you can't SENSE the emerald anymore? What, those horns on your head pick up Chaos emerald energy instead of TV channels?" Of course, Rampage left out the part about the emeralds being broken up into shards. He hardly knew this joker, so why should he just volunteer information to him; especially if this character really could pick up the energy of a Chaos emerald?

[Novus]

Resisting the urge to add a joke to the end of Rampage's ugly comment, Novus stood silently at the back of the room and listened, trying to grasp as much of the situation as he could.

[Dr. Robotnik]

Robotnik's jaw dropped slightly when he saw Tatsuhiro's appearance. Out of all the new allies he'd met from other dimensions, he had the least idea of what to make of this one. Honestly, what were his alternative selves like if these were the people they hung out with? He especially wondered what the alternative self of him was like if he'd chosen this guy to become friends with.

The doctor briefly rose from his stupor and shook his head. Much as he'd like to meet yet another ally (not really, especially this one) he had much bigger things to attend do. Still, he put on a mock cheerful tone.

"As much as I'd like to catch up on the work you did with my alternative self, I have much more pressing matters to attend to right now. We will meet again soon, don't worry."

He killed the connection after that.

The doctor had deliberately kept his speech vague. Similar to Rampage, he didn't want to tell this newcomer too much until he ascertained his trustworthiness. He wouldn't be surprised if the Freedom Fighters tried inserting a mole like this before long, with how it was such a regular occurrence.

This was definitely a wild card. Why did Tatsuhiro just happen to appear right where he'd planned to set up his old base? What effect would this have on the operation? They really needed to learn more about him and his motivations before more of his troops got there. And he'd definitely need to keep the Guild spies from mistaking him for the contact too.

He whirled around to face Rose on the monitor.

"Rose, I want you to observe him in the meantime. See if you can tap into the old surveillance grid there, or get some Spy Bots on him. Of course, don't let him know about it. I find it very odd and a little bit scary that he just happened to be exactly where we're planning to set up camp, and I need to know more about his motivations."

Then he turned back to the rest of his assembled team.

"As for the rest of you, I believe it's time we move out to the island," he said, as he stood up. "Gear up and meet me on the Egg Carrier at the airfield in half an hour."

[So, want to just do a time skip to the Carrier?

I hate to cut this short, but we're losing way too much time here. I want to get us to the island so we can get going on the storyline proper.]

[Rose Fox]

[I'm okay with that. :B]

[Chadin]

"Finally, some ACTION!!" Rampage shouted exuberantly. Without waiting for any further instructions, Rampage raced out the door. It wouldn't take long for him to round up his squad of Com-bots and head for the Egg-Carrier. Along the way, he also had some bots load his hovercraft aboard, just for good measure.

[to Egg Flag Ship...]

[Novus]

Tagging along beside Rampage, Novus headed for the Egg Carrier.

[To Egg Flag Ship]

[Rose Fox]

Rose cut the communication lines and turned her attention away from the screen. Three skelies saluted her as she looked towards them; there faces holding a wide-eyed neutral expression.

“Everything’s loading now, correct?”

“Yes ma’am!”

“Good.” She moved her laptop onto a nearby table before throwing the sheets off. “Now, you brought the brace I asked for, the change of clothes, AND the board gear?”

“Yes ma’am~!”

Two of the skelies came up; one holding a somewhat metal medical brace, while the other held out a medium size box. The last one stood in the back and held the board up with closed-eyes-happy emote face.

“Very good.” She smiled as she started to roll up her left pants leg. Once that was done she grabbed the medical brace and started to put it on. After moments of struggling and snapping everything in, she slowly began to move off the bed. Sitting at the edge her left leg hung out completely straight while her right knee could bend freely. She looked at her left leg quizzically.

“Aw, well, that’s what I got the board for.”Rose muttered to herself as she grabbed the box from the second skeley. “Alright, all of you out! You, with the board! Wait outside my door. The rest of you, get your asses to the ship!”

They all saluted her, with a series, angry-eyed expression as two of them started running off while the other ran to the door and closed it. Rose opened the box up and smiled.

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(Only one post a day, Rose should be getting to Angle Island in about four/five posts)

[Rose Fox]

Undressing and dressing was something of a pain, but Rose finally managed to get her newly demanded wardrobe on. She didn’t have a mirror, but she bet that she looked spiffy. Her hair was still down; she didn’t feel the need to put it up yet and took a limping step forward. The blown kneecap was not doing it for her. Without the board she’d need some sort of cane, which she would not resort to.

“Hey! Skeley, get in here!”

The little robot did as she commanded, running through the door holding the gear over his head. Rose sat down on the end of the bed and held her hand out.

“Gimme!!”

“Okay!”

He handed the board over and Rose took it, snapping in her right foot to it. Placing her foot down slowly on the ground she stood up and stiffly placed her left foot on. She pointed to the board.

“Okay, now strap the left foot and turn this thing on!”

“Yes, Ma’am~”

It obeyed once again, strapping her foot in as well as turning the board on. Rose was caught off balanced by the board floating up and grabbed onto the skeley for support. She started to stand upright, holding onto the skeley for as long as possible before letting go when she felt she had balance. And a few seconds later, she felt ready to go.

“Alright, time to go to the air field!”

(To Egg Air Feild.)