Egg Command Tower

[Dr. Robotnik]

After some time, the doctor's eyes began to flitter as he regained consciousness. Rose had removed his tinted glasses for the operation, so the lights overhead positively blinded him. He grit his teeth as he shut his eyes again, but the lights relentlessly assaulted his eyes. With one arm he reached around, and found the shades on a small table next to his bed. Quickly he put them back on, now feeling much more comfortable.

It took him a second to realize he had just done it with his injured arm. He couldn't help but freeze as he looked at it. It was as if nothing at all had happened to that arm yesterday. He couldn't believe that just yesterday this arm had been crushed when he wrecked his egg pod. Looking around, he spotted Rose quietly sitting off to the side.

"Rose...this...it's amazing. Thank you."

[Rose Fox]

From staring into space, she reacted first by simply blinking, looking a little surprised. Even perhaps, as though she might have been waking up a little. As she looked over towards him, she could already tell that everything had worked; or almost everything. He could certainly move the arm now, but she didn’t know if he could feel anything. Either way, as the Doctor thanked her she gave him a slightly puzzled look.

“Oh...It’s nothing.” she answered very plainly. “Now I can see for myself that you’re arm is moving, but I need to know if you can feel. Also, I think it’d be best that we not tempt fate, so I’m going to suggest to you not to over-strain that arm of yours. I’m sure it’s fine, but a week from heavy lifting wouldn’t hurt either.”

Rose seemed to be more glum than anything else. She did feel a little tired, so that might have been partly why. But, mostly it was just how old she felt. It was strange now, but she had been just been a somewhat old woman before hand. And as weird as it sounded, the whole business with the nanites was just making her feel older. It didn’t help that she was staring at her childhood friend who has aged, while she now appeared to be in her twenties. She let out a sigh as her eyes glanced down at the table.

“I absolutely hate this business...” She muttered, though loud enough for him to hear, “You know I’m sure most would be ecstatic about being young again-But not me.”

[Dr. Robotnik]

The doctor briefly raised his eyebrows at Rose somehow sounding nonchalant about him being healthy, but he did nothing more.

And now I come face to face with another of her mood swings...

By this point he'd grown somewhat used to them and thus didn't have much of a reaction himself. Just as long as she didn't go to Ax Crazy mode he was fine. He decided to respond to what she'd said about his arm.

"Now that you mention it, it feels somewhat numb. I don't think all the feeling has returned to it yet."

A small sigh, and then she mentioned how she didn't feel happy about being young again.

"So...why not?" he simply asked.

[Rose Fox]

“Well, for one I’m starring at my childhood friend who has aged due to the years, while I sit here somewhat ageless; if not simply young.” She looked at the ceiling bringing a clenched fist to rest on her chin. “There’s also the sea of regret of about twenty-six years slamming into my face...” a sudden look of surprised brought her arms back down to the table as she continued. “Oh! And the fact that I seem to be having a little- well, that’s an understatement really. I seem to have developed bipolar tendencies since the nanites being injected. Of course, you’ve seen that already. Most likely due to you and the sudden change from forty-three to twenty-five or so. It’s a rough estimate....”

About that time she paused to look down at the identification card that was facing the wrong way. She unclasped it from the pocket and looked at it. She seemed to be thinking of something as she stared at the plastic. After a momentary glance, she threw the ID lightly across the table over toward the Doctor.

“There’s a little reminder of my real age, of what I should really look like about now.” She began simply as she once again brought her hands together. “You can ignore the G.U.N logo. Getting funding is always hard. And not much leg room to reject offers. Though I suppose it was the worst place to be when I was trying to ignore your existence.”

Then again, trying to ignore the existence of the man who piratically took over the world is hard as it is, but she wasn’t going to bother mentioning it.

The face on the ID would be recognizable, if only slightly due to the obvious age she would have been. But it would be obvious that the years hadn’t been nice for her. She looked very worn, even though her expression was somewhat neutral. White hairs had started to show themselves, if not just a bit in her hair; which was cut very short. Certainly she looked different than the Rose now. Of course, the Guardian Units of the Nation’s emblem was plastered onto it, as well as her name and her position; which read “Head of Bio-Tec Research”.

[Dr. Robotnik]

The doctor looked with some small surprise at both Rose's picture and the fact that she worked with G.U.N. What she'd said told the story of why she was there though, so he just didn't question it. She just simply couldn't get money anywhere else to fund her research. While it cut him up a little inside to know she'd worked for them, well, she clearly only did it because she had to. It wasn't because she wanted to.

"Did the transformation hurt? How long did it take from when you started to where you are now?"

[Rose Fox]

“Three hours.” she answered shortly, “And I was unconscious all the time. All I felt was a little dizzy whenever coming out of the capsule. Found it a little hard to walk, punched a mirror- had a hard time trying to kill the rat we’d injected with nanites to get a tissue sample to find out what was going on. And found out how it’s cellular structure had rejuvenated it’self and such.”

Looking to the side for a brief momment, she brought her hand up and waved it side to side.

“But enough about me, how have you been? I suppose since you never knew Colin that you’re brother Colin did exist to take all of the attention off you and send you to ten years in jail. Oh right, the Colin out there is Colin Jr. I hope that gives you some insight as to how absolutely stifling your bother was.”

[Dr. Robotnik]

"Only three hours?" the doctor's mouth held open at the end of that line in surprise. "That's remarkable. I was expecting you to say it was a slow process that would take months."

More words about his family. He had a brother in an alternate timeline? And he was in jail for ten years?

"So what was Colin like then? More or less like Snively?"

[Rose Fox]

When he mentioned Colin, her face went into a sort of dull, angry, pout. It would be pretty clear to see without saying a word that she didn’t like him at all.

“Ohnonononon.” She replied, “No, no. The only thing they have in common is the fact that they seem to like to steal you’re spotlight. Colin was always a big brute. He became the general of the overlander army, wouldn’t you know it. Of -course- he did, you’re parents were so proud of him, lavishing him with praise while you got perhaps a pat on the back once in a while...” She glared over to the side with a much more enraged face, “I loathed him.”

[Dr. Robotnik]

The doctor gave a halfway smile. Mr. Colin Sr actually reminded Robotnik of himself a lot from what Rose said. He too sounded like he had an overinflated ego. While the two of them would have been similar, it certainly didn't mean they'd be friends. They'd be too busy trying to outdo each other.

"It's a good thing then I never met the man. It sounds like I would have been at his throat a lot. Besides, who needs competition? So...a brute? As in an impressive build, much like my own?"

Despite the doctor himself being rather portly, he said the last part with complete honesty and no irony or sarcasm. After all, the doctor believed himself to be the most important individual on the planet, so of course his decision to gorge on food wasn't a bad idea.

[Rose Fox]

[okay, time for the iky-girly bits. Yandere after all]

“Urrggghhhh” Rose replied, rolling her eyes. “HARDLY. He just looked like some stupid jock idiot. With a stupid hair cut. And was stupid....”

Strangely, but perhaps not out of no-where, had taken his last comment seriously. And as she talked about Colin more she appeared to get much more childish with her explanations. Of course her tone shifted when she closed her eyes and put on a pleasant smile on her face.

“ Not at all as handsome as you are~” The particular brand of praises sounded much like a terrible obvious swooning school girl. So obviously not subtle, it was like an elephant in a glass room. Now all you had to imagine to make this picture perfect is some semaphored glittery managa bubble backgrounds and everything was perfect. She even giggled a little afterward. Of course, she seemed to snap out of it as her eyes shot open. Putting up a closed hand to her mouth, she gave a very akward cough and looked over towards the side; blushing to boot.

“A-anyways....” She started off timidly, “ I was wondering....you wouldn’t happen to be recording this at all? There are a few things I do need to tell you personally....I’m terribly sorry, I forgot to ask before.”