Egg Air Field.

[Decoe and Bocoe]

Bokkun flew away from the Doctor; now floating more beside him as he looked at Rose with an angry expression.

“Oi! Dare ga yōsei o yonde imasu ka?!?!”

Shaking his head in disappointment, Bocoe looked towards Rose with a series face.

“And what do you mean by Eggman-sama’s absence?”



“…That he’s been dead for seven years…..”*



“Oh, is th-” Before he could finish, he stopped; realizing what had just come out of the women’s mouth. All three of the bots looked at Rose in absolute shock; putting them into a long pause.

“D-D-Dead?!” Decoe started out, the first one to break the pause with a stutter. His arms hung loose at his side as he hunched over.

“For Seven YEARS?!” Bocoe exclaimed next, his hands going up to his hair as he seemed pre-paired to pull it out.

“How can that be possible!?!” Bokkun was the last, exclaiming out in disbelief.



(* For the sake of flow, I didn't put in that Alta basicly speaks up in a very nervous, dull tone to answer them; since he figures Rose wouldn't. It's in a meek manner, since he doesn't know if Rose will go psyco if he mentions it.)

[Dr. Robotnik]

At Rampage's harsh comments, Robo moved to put a hand on his shoulder as if to calm him...but then thought better of it. He thought touching the rabid badger might make him do something unpredictable, which wasn't a good thing with that gun so close at hand. The doctor thought he might bite his hand off.

Somewhat sternly, but not overtly angry, Dr. Robotnik spoke in a calm voice.

"Rampage, could you please relax? Getting trigger happy all the time isn't a trait I like in my employees either."

After that, he listened to the little exchange between Rose, Alta, and the robots. In contrast to the robotic trio, he simply gave a little shrug.

"So what if my alternate self is dead? I'm not him, am I?" The doctor blinked, as he realized he sounded very foolish for his last sentence. Chuckling, he said, "Anyway, so how did I die in your dimension? I'd hate to make the same mistake twice."

[Rampage]

“Oh, no! Don’t. Kill. Me. I’m. So. Afraid."

That, was positively, the absolute WRONG thing to say.

"You should be." Rampage growled in a dark threatening voice as his finger squeezed the trigger of his Mauler rifle, aiming the shot straight for Rose's knee cap. At nearly point blank range, Rampage had very little chance of missing. That and between Rampage already having his weapon leveled at Rose, despite Robotnik's attempted intervention all he'd have to do is pull his trigger finger. A motion that would likely be hardly noticeable given Rose turning her attention away from Rampage.

The shot to the knee cap would be far from lethal, but extremely painful. The intense high energy shot would sear a deep hole into Rose's knee, possibly exiting right out the back of the knee at this close range. Even with the marvels of modern medicine, short of a full knee replacement, Rose would likely feel the pain of the impact for years to come. And that is precisely why Rampage fired where he did. He didn't want to kill Rose. He is far to ruthless and sinister for that. He wanted to make her suffer. Everyday she lives with that injury, every time she limps on that leg, he wants her to remember the price for crossing Rampage.

As for Robotnik, Rampage was beyond caring what his reaction would be. Even if he was just as fresh a recruit as this Rose character, he wasn't about to be talked down by some prissy emo-fan-girl. If she's going to stick around, then he intends to make sure the pecking order is established NOW.[/b]

[Rose Fox]

When she heard the gunshot, she looked toward the badger with a strange look; wondering what was shot. But, as though in slow motion Rose soon found out that, it was her; as she collapsed to the ground. For a while she felt no pain, but once the initial shock was over, it flooded through her nerves system. Quickly placing her hand up to her mouth and biting her index finger as she began to scream in excruciating pain.

“Rose!!” Alta exclaimed, his face turning to perturbed, as he quickly knelt down next to Rose. His first act would have been to exlciam ‘are you okay’, but he quickly mental slapped himself before he could. Looking around in a panic, Alta finally got an idea. He took his jacket off, and began to try to tear the sleeve off his sweatshirt. After all, he didn’t know how immiedent medical help would come. But as he tried, he was soon diverted, looking at Rose in an almost horrifying expression. At first, he thought he had just been hearing things; that it just sounded like what he was hearing. But as he looked towards Rose, he found out he wasn’t mistaken.

She was laughing. Of course, she was in excruciating pain; she was still partly screaming. But at the same time she was laughing, and quite hard. The expression on her face showed the same mixed expression; happy but in horrible pain.

“…Rose?” He uttered quickly, in concern. He didn’t know quite how to take it; you would think someone wouldn’t be laughing. He feared that she may have snapped even more.

But, as he looked in concern, Rose soon grabbed onto Alta’s shoulder, pulling herself up into a sitting position; and grabbed the collar of his shirt with her other hand. Her laughing was harder, than before as she looked straight into Alta’s face. And before Alta could react, Rose managed to stop her strange gurgling of laughing screaming to say one thing.

"IT’S ONLY A FLESH WOUND!!!"

Complete bewilderment went over his face as he stared into space, while Rose rested her forehead on Alta’s shoulder; pounding her fist into the open space next to his neck. Her other hand quickly went to her mouth as she bite her index finger; still laughing and yet crying out in pain.

[Decoe and Bocoe]

Before any of them at the time to react to the Doctor, they heard the gunshot. Almost immediately, the two reacted like guard dogs, as Rampage blew Rose’s kneecap off. Being so close to him, Bocoe would easily put in a full, standing, nelson hold. Not only would the badger find his arms dangling in the air; but due to the obvious size difference between him and Bocoe, his feet would be off the ground. And thanks to his strength and his invulnerable defense, he could withstand any of the badger’s struggling.

“HEI!!!” Bocoe shouted out, not realizing he was slipping into Japanese, “ANATA WA ANATA GA NAI O SHITE IRU TO OMOIMASU KA?!”

“Ā, anata wa kurutta no ka?!” Decoe shouted as he grabbed onto the barrel Rampage’s gun with his right hand, as he bend his natural arm against the bend of his elbow, in hopes to get him to release the gun. “E, sore o wasurete iru....” He muttered to himself, as he looked over towards Alta. “Kanojo wa daijōbudesu ka?!”

“That’s a STUPID question!” Bokkun shouted, looking towards Decoe as began to float slightly in front of the Doctor; facing towards him. “Eggman-sama, do you want me to go and get help?” He asked very sincerely.


[Translate:
Bocoe: HEY!!!, \WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?!
Decoe: Yeah, Are you crazy?!, Eh, forget it…\Is she okay?!]

[Dr. Robotnik]

Robotnik couldn't believe it. Rampage had actually shot Rose, and right in front of him no less. He literally did not believe he was seeing this for about two seconds, but once his senses came back and Rampage was restrained, he immediately shouted into his personal communicator as he backed away.

"SWATBOTS! GET OVER TO ME NOW! SWATPODS IN THE AIR! GIVE AIR COVER! MEDIC BOTS! ON ME!"

Up in the sky, several black dots immediately started speeding towards the little group, gradually coming into focus as the SWATPods Robotnik had called. Meanwhile, heavy clunking footsteps wound sound all around them as SWATBots rushed in to cover Rampage.

“Eggman-sama, do you want me to go and get help?”

Without missing a beat, Robotnik shouted at the little robot. "YES! DO IT NOW!" And then he picked back up shouting orders into his communicator. Once he was done, he spoke to the now restrained badger, still standing behind him.

"Rampage! What were you thinking?!" Sighing, the doctor walked back and forth, as he paced around. He still couldn't believe what he'd just seen. Resuming his talk, he pointed straight at Rampage. "You wanted to fight for me, but you're never going to get to do that now... I will NOT tolerate this sort of behavior in my ranks!"

[Rampage]

Rampage just laughed heartily all the while as Bocoe restrained him and everyone else scrambled around frantically. He was rather enjoying watching Rose suffer. More over, the way these bots were jumping to her defense made the situation all the more amusing to him. As everyone else was shouting, either at him or into communicators or whatever, Rampage sneered mirthfully at Rose, taunting her with barbed remarks. "HAH!! What's the matter, Princess, need others to fight for you? Where's your precious brains now, Princess? For all your brains, you sure don't have enough sense not to pick a fight with the likes of me!!"

When Robotnik finally turned to address Rampage, he finally stopped struggling in Bocoe's grasp, giving the doctor his full and complete attention.

"You wanted to fight for me, but you're never going to get to do that now... I will NOT tolerate this sort of behavior in my ranks!"

"Oh, aren't I?" Rampage's words were slow and deliberate. His voice rang out like an empty pipe, but filled with force and determination.

"I'm not too worried about that, Boss." Rampage laughed out. "Whether you want to believe it or not, you NEED me."

Rampage paused to let that thought sink in for Robotnik. "We both know your bots are no match for people like Sonic. He'll chew them up and spit them out so fast it'll make your head spin. And these two?" Rampage added, nodding his head towards Decoe and Bocoe. "They could be outsmarted by a postage stamp."

Then Rampage cast his venomous gaze on Rose and Alta. She's no good to you in fight. You can see it in her eyes. She may carry a gun, but I doubt she knows how to use it properly. The boy is even more useless. If he could fight you'd see it in the way he walks, or stands. He's just a coward like the other one."

Rampage turned his hard gaze back on Robotnik. You want to take over the world? Than you need a soldier like me. Someone who'll get the job done, no matter what. Someone who doesn't fear death or pain... someone like me."

Rampage tilted his head menacingly, displaying his grizzly metal jaw and his ever-visible shining teeth. "Sonic is the one who did this to me. Blew half of me to kingdom come. You were the only reason I'm standing here today. Used the Robotizer on me to replace the parts I lost. I owe you one. I'm loyal to you Robotnik. I want that Hedgehog's head on a PIKE just as bad as you do. If you want to take over the world you need to kill every Sonic, every Freedom Fighter, every last THING that stands against you. I can make that happen. But if that's going to happen, I will not stand idly by while a pompous emo-fan-girl insults me expecting to face no consequences. So long as she stays out of my way, there won't be another incident."

[Rose Fox]

The screams a pain would soon, slowly decrease, as Rose lifted her head and looked towards the badger. But instead of a grimace of pain, she was grinning very wide; which gave her a very sly expression. Of course, the pain was still there, but Rose now could ignore it after its initial run. It wasn’t the worst thing she’s been in after all.

“Oh, hohoho, you silly little bastard,” Rose began, in an incredibly strange* tone. “I have to give you a brownie point- wait, no, Make it two…- TWO brownie points to you! You’re a lot smarter than I thought…”

Pausing a bit, looking over to see that Alta finally managed to rip a strip of his sleeve, she continued as she gained her bearings.

“Sure, Decoe and Bocoe may be completely moronic,” she stated, closing her eyes for a second, “But they're a wild card. Sure, they mess up, but I know them to pull off some good things once in a while. Just depends on how luck is looking at them.”

She didn’t seem to notice as Alta was bandaging the knee; though she did feel. it. Though her mask wouldn't show it. Alta used two strips to cut off the blood circulation before covering the knee up as she went for her bag.

“And yes, Alta is a pansy. But you’d be surprised that his spine appears in the strangest of places. And of course he can’t fight; what do you expect out of a closet-bookworm robotisist? RAMBO?” Chuckling a little after her own horrible joke and even imagining it, she added a bit more “ Alta’s good with the robotics, and he’s got a lot of strange yet interesting ideas.”

Now looking back at the badger, she gave a small sigh. “Then there’s you. I won’t deny that the doctor needs someone like you. I fully see your side of the argument. Problem is though, it sounds like –you- can’t succeed either. You say Sonic blew your half off? What’s to say that he can’t do it again. And when you criticize the Doctor’s robots, don’t you realize your criticizing yourself? After all, you weren’t –born- a cyborg, now were you? If Robotnik was the one who patched you with those cyborg limbs, wouldn’t that mean the robotic half is a flawed? I guess that would mean Sonic would easily chew up that half and make your own head spin.”

Pausing for a second, as her computer finally turned on, she began to type into the consol. The pain was still going; she could feel it courseing through her leg. She kept her attention stayed on it for the duration of her speech; keeping the pain in the back of her mind.

“And don’t get me wrong. You have a far better mind, than any simple programmed robot. But, that still makes you flawed like everyone else. And I may not be able to fight, but considering I’ve survived my head being cracked, debris piercing through me, Sonic Spin-dashing me, and explosion happening around me, and able to get out of a high-defense prison I’m not completely useless then am I? Hell, this hole through my knee is nothing compared to what I’ve been through. All it does for me is give me hope for a robotic leg. That would be –sweet-. Then I could be able to kick Sonic’s dead corpse harder than with my stupid human leg.”

“No matter which way you look we all have are different flaws and different advantages. So pointing them out just to make yourself look better doesn’t work. It just makes you look like a complete, pompous fool. And it shows your true concern. You may be loyal to Robotnik, but it’s for your own damn reasons and not his. If you were truly loyal, you would know that Robotnik can use all the help he can get; and I know you’re not –that- stupid not to realize that. It’s for you, not the Empire. Though, granted you are definitely something the Doctor needs doesn’t mean that you should be so easily trusted. If the Empire is ever to succeeded, it needs anything it gets it’s hands on, whether it be brains or brawn. Considering that Decoe and Bocoe seem to have some combat experience, so I’d say we have roughly three brawns. And since three heads are better than just two, that makes three brains. So I guess we have a nice even half.”

As she stopped to gain a small breath, still continuing to type onto the computer, she soon rolled her eyes up in a dull expression.

“As much as I hate to say it, we need to do ‘teamwork’. Hell, Sonic’s not the only thing that’s screwed the Empire over, and it won’t be the last. If anything is able to succeed, everyone here needs to realize that and help with each other’s particular flaws. If we don’t work together, then nothing will ever get accomplished and nothing will ever get done. We’ll get nowhere if all we do is scrabble; all we'll do is end up killing one another. It’s common sense. If you’re not up for it and just want to cause a commotion, then you might as well be killed. You’d just be dead weight to the Empire; and it would be better if we had a fully roboticized version of you that got along than a cocky-ass badger who thinks he’s better than everyone else simply due to brawn.”

She sighed incredibly heavily, as though a load was taken off her chest.

“Damnit all. You made me take the damn positive side! I hate looking at people positively. And what’s worse is that I’m going to be confined to a bed for I don’t know how long. Geez. That’s the only bad part of getting injured….”

By now Alta had finished up his bandaging as Rose continued to work, he looked at her strangely.

“-THAT’S- the worst part?!” Alta exclaimed, in a concerned tone, “What about the pain of the injury?”

Almost immediately, the pain raised back through her leg. “ITHURTS, NOWJUSTTHEHELLUPSOICANIGNOREITK?!?!!!”


[ Rose’s Haksplz_OwO_? is in progress. This is one out of two posts to hack into Rampage’s cyborg parts. If he has any defense for this he should say so in the next post. If not, Rose will be able to completely hack into him.]

(* Strange tone: I didn’t feel like describing it for it would end the flow. Basically, it’s somewhat sounds like she’s angry but it’s more happy than that. It may also come off as sarcastic. Also, sorry for such a long post. But at least I finally got to let Rose have a speech.

Edit*: URRGGG. FORGIVE ME AND MY HORRIBLE TYPOS! DX
Edit**:And for the fact that Rose did something out of left field. Fixed it now though.)

[Decoe and Bocoe]

Bokkun quickly flew away; a look of fear on his face when the doctor yelled at him. Normally, he would have cried, but he had to do what he had to do.

The two looked at the badger with an angry expression on their face when he mentioned that a postage stamp could outsmart them. Even more so they looked at Rose when she agreed. But, they were surprised that she said something good about them. In fact, they were surprised at everything she had to say.

Wasn’t she supposed to be crazy? Did that mean everything she spouted out would be nonsense, though? But she wasn’t spouting off nonsense, she was spouting out things that to them made sense. Even though they were stupid, even they had said something that was true; only for the Doctor to brush it off.

But it wouldn’t matter what they thought, it all mattered on what the Doctor thought. And they already knew –his- flaws. And one of them was hard-headedness. In that thought, the two of them looked towards the Doctor, awaiting his reaction.

[Dr. Robotnik]

Robotnik wasn't listening closely to Rampage any more. The fact that he'd shot one of his own allies over a little insult kind of overrode all that. Once both Rampage and Rose had finished yelling at each other, he picked up the conversation.

"Rampage..." For a second that's all he'd said. The doctor seemed to speak gibberish for a minute as a he paced back and forth. Only little snippets came out here and there like "--can't believe--" "--alternate selves were CRAZY--" "--going nuts--" He still couldn't believe what he'd just witnessed between the badger and Rose. After a moment he regained his composure, moving to look the restrained Rampage in the face.

"All right... I'm in agreement with Rose on her idea. I'm just going to roboticize you fully so that we don't have any more incidents like this. If you shoot your own allies over a little insult, then I have no idea what else you will do once I give you more important responsibilities. I would be better off having no one filling your job than you filling it.

"And I don't NEED you either. It's only been a few weeks since the dimension merge, and I'm already picking up allies like crazy. There's bound to be more Robotnik loyalists out there, and I don't think it'll be all that hard to find them. So there will be lots of people around, ready to fill in for your job. Anyway, I think your ride is here."

A SWATpod landed next to the group and some SWATbots walked out carrying a large, heavy cage between them. They clunked the cage down, and swung open the door. One SWATbot motioned for Decoe and Bocoe to throw him in.

"Please deposit the prisoner here. We will take him to the Egg Command Tower's prison."

Robotnik looked over to see a white SWATpod dropping down next to the group as well, this one with a red cross on it. Two smaller (and considerably friendlier-looking) bots quickly rushed over with a stretcher between them towards Rose. They gently picked her up and started moving her to the stretcher.

"Don't worry Rose. My personal medical bots should take good care of you."