Egg Flag Ship

[Decoe and Bocoe]

“Nothing is impossible for the great, Eggman-sama!!!”

By now, Bokkun had taken to floating a few feet away from the Doctor, but was still at his side; facing the two androids. Sitting up, Decoe looked at the messenger robo with dull eyes, and added something snarky.

“Except beating Sonic-san.”

Bokkun was quick to anger at his response, his fist clutched tight and his entire body seemed to move in beat with his yelling. “BAKA!!! Even –if- Eggman-sama hasn’t beaten Sonic, NOTHING is impossible for him!!! How dare you say such things!!!”

“Well, technically he’s right, until he does beat him.” Bocoe replied mono-tone, his eyes closed as his hand stayed in his pockets. While the discussion had been going on, Decoe had finally stood up; dusting himself off.

“BAKA TACHI, YOUR ALL BAKA TACHI!!”

Decoe seemed to pay no mind to the little robot, looking far more annoyed than insulted. “If you going to speak Japanese, you might as well as speak –all- of it instead of mixing it together with English…” he started simply, "It's confuseing when you mix them together."

(Note: To make something in Japanese, plural, you put Tachi at the end. And yes, I’m making them speak a mixture of Japanese and English for a reason [or more preferable, Bokkun, since saying Baka just sounds better than Idiots]. )

[Dr. Robotnik]

Robotnik was about to give some harsh words to Decoe, but then he made a really good observation. "Why ARE you speaking in half-English and half-Japanese anyway? It doesn't make any sense to me..." The doctor actually strode away from them as he said this, stroking his chin in thought.

And why would my alternate self program them to do that anyway?

The doctor then suddenly whirled around with a flourish, like he was throwing aside a large cape. "In any case, I already know what my next plan will be. Hehehe..." Robotnik rubbed his hands together with a big grin on his face. "I won't give up on Soleanna so easily, but my robots need to be powered up. And I know just where to go to find a good power source. My spy bots have given me very good intel on that..."

[Decoe and Bocoe]

“Ah, you know where a Chaos Emerald is?!” Bocoe exclaimed, his face brightening up a little.

“Well it has to be.”Decoe started off, folding his arms as he looked at Bocoe seriously.“We wouldn’t have been Chaos Controlled without them!”

“Speaking of that, what caused it anyways? And if we did, why are we not back in the human world?”

Decoe looked concerned as he looked over towards the Doctor. He was obviously thinking deeply on what Bocoe had just pointed out. It was true, why were they not back in Chris’s dimension? They saw humans, but anthro like Sonic as well. Something wasn’t quite right with this, not to mention the fact that the Doctor didn’t know who they were.

“Dr. Eggman-sama? Just what’s going on anyways…?”

[Dr. Robotnik]

Robotnik sighed when his robots asked for an explanation.

"I just finished going over this with Sonic...but...okay..."

He grunted some and gave a little 'ahem' before launching into a quick summary of the dimension merge.

"This wasn't Chaos Control, but it did involve the emeralds. In my old dimension, I had allied myself with Nega-Robotnik, yet another version of myself from some other dimension."

He rolled his eyes for a second. Robotnik couldn't believe how unbelievable and nutsy this sounded as he talked about it.

"We acquired all of the Chaos Emeralds, plus the Sol Emeralds from Nega's dimension. Of course, Sonic showed up to stop us, with help from Blaze the cat. Both of them went super. But apparently having so much emerald power concentrated in one spot was too much for the fabric of reality and time to handle. The emeralds all shattered, then there was a bright flash of light and..."

Robotnik waved his hands around.

"...this world was created from a mix of times, worlds, and dimensions. But it's okay, as far as I'm concerned. The only official military left to oppose us is the Soleanna military, and they're the only other city now aside from Robotropolis. If we take over Soleanna, then we rule practically all major civilization, and I think the rest of the world will fall quickly.

"Anyway...the emerald fragments are scattered around out there, but I now know of a place where there's a large concentration of them. We're going to gather those fragments up, and I'm going to use throughout my forces as a new energy source. Then our next invasion will begin."

The doctor grinned as he rubbed his hands together, in anticipation of starting up his next plot.

[Decoe and Bocoe]

Both of them stood there and stared at the doctor with wide eyes. It seemed liked a lot of information for them to take in. It wouldn’t be too long, before Bocoe would be the first one to speak up.

“Wait….what?”

Decoe smacked Bocoe in the side of the head at his response, causing Bocoe to begin to rub the side of his head as though he was in pain.

“Oh, that explains everything.' Decoe started out, as though he was ignoring Bocoe’s response, “ So, will we be going there right away?”


“Will there be lunch?”

Both of them looked over at the little robot that was still floating in the same spot. He had his hand raised as he looked over towards the Doctor. Decoe and Bocoe in unsion raised an eyebrow at his question. The little messenger robot glanced over at them for a second before finally seeing there reaction.

“What? I’m hungry, and you idiots didn’t bring anything to eat!” Bokkun exclaimed in defense, looking at the two with mean eyes.

[Rampage]

Meanwhile as Robotnik was explaining his current plans and bringing everyone back up to speed, Rampage's vessel was drawing nearer. "Hm... either the Doc's bots are even dimmer than the one's I knew, or this ship looks enough like their own that they just don't care." As he pondered, Rampage ran his real hand across the underside of his muzzle. He particularly seemed to rub the part where his fur stopped and his metallic jaw began. The transition between what he 'FELT' and the perfectly smooth metal surface that he could feel only because of of his real hand and artificial sensors that detected the touch but paled in comparison to the real thing. It was a sensation that he simply never adjusted to and even now drove him to distraction. With a snarl he shook himself out of his daze and slammed his real fist on the console.

"Well, might as well see if he uses the same comm frequencies as me." He grinned with a menacing smile and flipped a switch to activate the video feed. If this worked, Robotnik would see Rampage's face appear on one of the no-doubt many monitors inside the hangar bay and hear his voice through the sound system. At the very least, Robotnik's own personal communicator might tip him off that someone is attempting to hail him.

"Well, polish my faceplate and call me a mirror. If it isn't olde Dr. Robotnik. Here I was just going for a Sunday stroll and fancy me bumping into to you." Rampage's broad, mischievous grin practically spelled out in glowing neon signs that he was being coy. The question now, was how Robotnik planned to react to it.

[Dr. Robotnik]

"No no..." Robotnik shook his head, looking rather sad. "Between the Freedom Fighters and the Soleanna military, they've done quite a number to the fleet. We'll have to go back to Robotropolis first. Besides, this new operation's going to require plenty of digging equipment."

Before he could say more, the nearby navigation screen opened up a window displaying Rampage's half-metallic face, as he grinned at the doctor.

"Well, polish my faceplate and call me a mirror. If it isn't olde Dr. Robotnik. Here I was just going for a Sunday stroll and fancy me bumping into to you."

Robotnik raised an eyebrow, as he marched over to the console. He would have been a lot more surprised by this, but today seemed to be full of surprises. The radar screen showed an unmarked contact approaching the fleet. He supposed that would be this newcomer. Before initiating a conversation with the badger, he switched off the console's microphone and video feed before turning around to Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun. "Make sure all forces have an eye on his ship," he said, pointing to the marker on the radar.

After that, he turned the console's microphone and video feed back on so that Rampage would pick up his voice and image. "Who are you? You don't look like you're part of the Soleanna military, and I definitely don't remember you being with our fleet." An idea seemed to strike him then, as he cast a glance back at the trio of kooky robots. Returning to Rampage, he said, "Let me guess...you worked for a Robotnik in another dimension too, right?"

[Decoe and Bocoe]

Decoe and Bocoe turned towards the screen and looked at the screen in shock. It was obvious that the badgers appearance was off-setting to the two. But the Doctor’s voice managed to get them out of the state.

"Make sure all forces have an eye on his ship,"

The two simply nodded back rather than answering, before they walked over towards the consol where the raider was stationed. Bokkun hid behind the two, frightened at the badger, but trying not to show it at the same time. As Bocoe kept his eyes on the raider, Decoe punched in the commands for the Egg-pods to keep an eye out on Rampage’s ship. Though he didn’t quite dare tell the Egg-pods to close in, in fear that the anthro may do something hasty.

[Rampage]

Rampage's evil looking grin widened into menacing smile that revealed his razor sharp metallic teeth. Simultaneously, Rampage's real eye lid closed to a slit with mirthful glee. But his robotic eye lacked eye lids, leaving his robotic eye the exact same size and giving rampage's expression and extremely odd and unnerving appearance. "Still the sharpest thumbtack in the package I see. Yes, you could say that. You could also say I was a powerful ally too. Y' can call me Rampage; cause that's what I do. You want that forest gone, it's done. Matter 'a fact, I've killed my fair share of Freedom Fighters. Been a whisker's thickness from kill'n a certain blue hedgehog on more than one occasion too. But here, I am flap'n my cyborg mouth off. How's 'bout you let me in so we can chat, man t' cy-beast?" As Rampage finished speaking, his voice became lower, and because of this, his voice, which already sounded like it was being projected out of a plastic pipe took on a much darker tone.

[Dr. Robotnik]

While Rampage was trying his best to look intimidating, Robotnik didn't seem to be wavered. After all, he was the one with an entire battleship at his disposal. And he wanted to keep it that way.

That's why he wasn't going to just let Rampage into the Egg Carrier with a simple request. While he felt like he could trust Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun after meeting them, Rampage definitely didn't give off that vibe. Despite his obvious enthusiasm to battle the Freedom Fighters, he also looked like someone with an ulterior motive. Either way, Robotnik didn't feel good letting someone like that so far into his inner sanctum willingly. Robotnik wanted more time to gauge Rampage's character before allowing him to get closer.

"How about you just fly alongside us back to Robotropolis, hmm? We can talk just fine over the radio. I may have an assignment for you soon, as well."

He gave a small smile to the cyborg.