Egg Command Tower

[Rose Fox]

“Space time continuum?” She muttered silently to herself, musing over the entries. It indeed brought her up to speed. But, she still felt the need for more information. Quickly, she tried to find any more information about the dimensional rip. While she was at it, she also tried to get her hands on Robotnik’s current location.

[Dr. Robotnik]

Entry 22345445 - Recorded three weeks ago

I have no idea what happened.

At first, this looked like it was going to be the usual turn of events for most of my lovely schemes. Sonic and Blaze arrived to stop me and Nega-Robotnik after we collected all seven normal emeralds and all seven Sol emeralds. They used the power of the emeralds to go super, of course.

And this normally would be the part where I write about how they completely destroyed our scheme on the spot in super form. But that's not what happened.

For a moment, I thought I saw the emeralds completely shatter into pieces as they were going super. But I didn't get a good look, because immediately afterwards a bright flash of light blinded me and I was knocked unconscious. While I was down, I heard a great deal of rumbling in my sleep. Then when I came to, I thought I was going insane. My base is now sitting right in the middle of a city formerly called Station Square.

Not knowing what else to do, I decided to take over the city. My empire building never sleeps, after all. Strangely, there didn't seem to be any military around to oppose me, and Sonic didn't appear either. Only the local police gave any resistance, and they fell quickly to my forces. In any case, I renamed the city Robotropolis after I took it over.

Soon, I will be sending out scouts. I need to find out what happened to the rest of the world. If the emeralds shattering did that to my own fortress, who knows what else is out there now? One thing is for certain...I hope this dimension or reality merging or whatever it is removed that hedgehog from existence. I've never been that lucky, but I can always dream...

[Rose Fox]

“Chaos controll, huh?” she muttered to her sliently as she looked at the entirey.

‘This is intersting indeed…’ She began in her thoughts, ‘This all happened three weeks ago, yet to me it was only three –days-. And everything’s gone to hell, thanks to the damned hedgehog.’

Her fist clenteched at the meer mentioning of the name, her face contoring to anger. But it quickly went away as soon as she thought about different things.

‘But this puts a dilightful damper on my ogrinal plans. If the Doctor is truly alive, and not some kind of hoax, …..’

A headache began to form her head. She hadn’t thought about Robotnik in a while. And already the events where slowly beginning to flash in her head. She tried to control this and sighed sligtently to herself. No, she couldn’t just assume he was alive even by the log entries. Beginning to type, she then began to try and find Robotnik’s current location. Sure, she heard he was going to “Soleanna”, but where the hell was that!

[Nail Strafer]

Rose wouldn't find Robotnik's position in the computer, but it would note that the vast majority of the Egg Fleet was surrounding the Soleanna metropolitan area. No doubt Robotnik was probably there, since his Egg Carrier flagship was participating in the action.

By this point SWAT Surveillance began to pick up on unusual activity in Robotnik's personal files. Someone was going through them, but he was far away and in the midst of that battle. But it looked like whoever was accessing the files was in the building. He began to run a trace so that the intruder's position could be pinpointed.

[Rose Fox]

Rose began to find that there was a lot of activity going on in the server. Smiling to herself, she quickly forced her laptop to shut down. She was going to have no time wasted to be traced. Putting her computer back in her bag, she began to exit out of the room; her dear Hennery on her shoulders. If all went right-and it should- the robots would be none the wiser about her roaming the base. After all, she placed herself into the system. Granted, a few select SWATbots still might know she was an intruder, but anything else should look her by.

But she wasn’t going to take that chance at least with the robot in the room. She would exit out as quietly as she came in; as soon as she was out, she would begin to run down the hall.

[Dr. Robotnik]

SWAT Surveillance sent a message to all SWATbots in the vicinity when Rose shut down, including those with Alta. Alta too would hear the message. "Attention...we may have a hacker inside the Egg Command Tower. I do not have an exact position. Repeat...no exact position. Everyone be on the lookout for the hacker."

Alta's SWATbots would promptly spin on the spot and head back for the tower.

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Up ahead, Rose would be getting close to the hole she'd used to enter the long, shiny hallway. However, a subtle hovering noise could be heard coming from the hole.

[Rose Fox]

She stopped suddenly as she heard the noise coming from the hole. Quickly putting Hennery into firing position, she awaited whatever robot to come through. She put her shoulder against the wall where the whole was place; so she would have a better chance of the robot not spotting her. Once she saw the thing come into view, odds where she was going to shoot it down.

--

Alta turned around abruptly as her heard the messaged being played.

“Now that’s DEFINITELY Rose!” Alta exclaimed, as he quickly followed behind the SWAT bots.

[Dr. Robotnik]

The Spybot that had been released into the sewers briefly poked its head into the hole, looking this way and that. However, the circular bot didn't see Rose as she'd curled up behind the wall support. It began to hover the other way, away from the command tower.

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The SWATbots and Alta would soon find themselves back inside the main lobby. The main elevator was already opening up, preparing to accept them.

[Rose Fox]

Rose managed to control herself from firing at the Spybot; because she soon realized that they robots would be able to know just where she was if she shot the thing down. Like an automatic alarm. Thought she wasn’t about to put Hennery up. If she was to continue on, she was going to need to shoot down some robots; since they were likely to get in her way. Which made her question herself; what was the point of resisting when the robots when they belonged to the Great Dr. Robotnik? She went out of her hiding spot, as she began to run again; making the corner with tip toeing and running at the same time.

'Because it would be too easy to just to give up. she smirked to herself, as she thought, 'Not to mention the fact that I refuse to take orders from robots instead of Robotnik himself.'

She would certainly be scorned for it, but at least it gave this dimension Doctor a taste of what she could accomplish.

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Alta paused as he looked around the lobby. Though he didn’t pause long as he was the first into the elevator waiting for the other SWATbots to follow him. Once they would get in, he would make the elevator go down to the lowest level. After all, Rose managed to get into the base fairly quickly without being realized. There was no possible way she was upstairs. Unless she managed to travel up that fast despite tight security; But it was improbable.

‘She would of took some time hacking’, he thought to himself, ‘So she must have gotten in a safe spot quickly. Now the main question is, what floor?’

[Dr. Robotnik]

[I'm going to do the two scenes out of order this time, so that it flows better.]

As soon as all the SWATbots were on board and Alta pressed the button, the elevator rapidly descended to the basement levels. A loud ping announced they had arrived, and the doors began to open.

--

Rose would make it back to the power room unimpeded. However, at the opposite end of the room, she'd see a bright square of light pierce the darkness. Silhouetted against the light would be the figures of Alta and the SWATbots. The SWATbots immediately began running out of the elevator, and spread out to cover as much ground as possible. This would have the effect of making Alta's silhouette more apparent from a distance.