Eggman's Underwater Base- the Return of Old 'Toys'

[Lans]

"Doubtful. I have no recollections of encountering either of your unit models before." Silver stated as he stood down from attack mode.

[AnT]

"Hey, Sonic-face, we didn't say we met. But I think our dead bodies were on some wires back in the Death Egg; almost like we were USB'd to the Death Egg computers. You probably jump-started us when you were snooping around in the computers, haven't you? Don't lie! We sensed your bar code, or whatever that code thing is! Ba-HA-hur-HAA!!"

"Ooooo! Buuurn! Hee-hee!"

[Lans]

"Possible. My Eggman Empire security files were deemed out of date by the team the reconditioned me and deleted, thus I was forced to bypass the security protocols, possibly triggering a program that activated you. However I fail to see how this action could burn myself or anything in the vicinity, as the equipment did not overload or malfunction in any way. Also, bar code systems are commonly used for retail and warehouse purposes, not for security computers. You may wish to run a self diagnostic on your logic processors."

[AnT]

Grounder blinked at his brother, "Uh...what did he say?"

"Beats me! But if you excuse us, Sonic-Face, we got some lost chow-time to catch up on!"

Spinning their legs, and tread-wheels, like crazy cartoons, Scratch and Grounder bolted into the kitchen.

[Lans]

"I am not 'Sonic-face'. My unit designation is Silver Sonic mk 3, GUN Refit Model Protection Unit!" Silver said to their backs as they left.

[AnT]

It's hard to figure out how, but the Dumb-bots came back outside, each holding a tower of food.

"Yeahyeahyeah! Machine gun, Raid exterminator. Whatever! Race ya to the game room or whatever they call it, Grounder! Ba-HA-hur-" stepping on Grounder's head, Scratch dashed down the hall. "-HAAA!"

"HEY!!!" and his short brother treaded after him, leaving a trail of dust.

[Jamie Lee]

Elsewhere, in the recreation room, a series of loud explosions and other various sound effects could be heard. On top of them all were the elated shrieks of a little black robot who was twisting around in his seat while furiously beating his thumbs down on a video game controller.

"YEAH! TAKE THAT! HAHA!" Bokkun cried triumphantly as he jerked his controller to the side. "BOOM! PEW PEW PEW! BANG!" the little robot laughed hysterically, before suddenly going wide. "WHOA!" he cried, ducking and giving his controller another jerk. "You big dummy! TAKE THAT! BAM!"

[AnT]

Unaware that a dark shadow looms over the little robot.

"Ba-HA-hur-HAAAAA!!!"

And the two bots slammed their rears on the couch, probably catapulting Bokkun in the process
[dice=6]. And yet, they still had their stacks of food perfectly balanced in their arms, without effort.

"Hurry up, Scratch!! I think we're about to miss Pokemon!!" Grounder whined, flailing his free arm about.

"Hold your horses, drill-face!" Scratch said, grabbing the remote. [rand=135196390579527040973494386486093488996306861421176739743055807934]

[Garland]

An android in the corner of the room, playing an 8-bit game, stood up and paused, turning to face the others with a look of irritation. "You guys are loud."

Then he blinked.

"Bokkun, did you get Dr. Eggman's permission to invite friends over?"

[Jamie Lee]

[dice=6]

"WHOA!" Bokkun suddenly cried in surprise as he was launched into the air. He made a flip before catching himself mid-flight and hovering there angrily, the game controller still in his hands.

"HEY! What's the big idea you buncha big bakas?!"[rand=29502459363804292252325149859623002836476538260024304697697152860991]

[AnT]

The drill bot blinked, as always. "What's a baka? Is that a bread or something?"

"Who cares? We're watching!" Scratch snobbishly said, oblvious to the android as he pulled out a sub from his food tower. "MMmm...fish grinder! Yum!"

"Oh yeah! I think I have some cheese-melts!" and Grounder took a sandwich from his own tower while changing the channel. "YaY!....huh? What happened to Misty? Who's the girl in the skirt?"

[Garland]

Ishnt blinked at the newcomers, tilting his head. Then he remembered a message given while he was busy cursing at a bottomless pit. This was probably those guys RK was talking about, but just to be sure...

"Uh... Hello. Who exactly are you?"

[Jamie Lee]

"They're BAKAS!" Bokkun yelled angrily before zipping down in front of the two's view of the TV screen. "Change that channel back!"

[AnT]

"HEY!!" Grounder whined, mouth full of food. "We're not bread! We're Scratch and Grounder! The SSSSS-Squad!"

"Yeah!" Scratch finally took notice to Ish. "And what's a human doing in Dr. Robotnik's glorious base?"

[Garland]

Ishnt closed his eyes a moment before opening one and looking at Scratch and Grounder. "You do know that Dr. Eggman himself is a human, right?" He paused a moment and opened both eyes, looking more confused than before. "Wait, Dr. Robotnik? Did he give you permission to address him that way?"

[Jamie Lee]

"'Duh. That'd be an insult to the bread. NOW PUT MY GAME BACK ON!" Bokkun continued to fuss before making a swipe for the remote control.

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[AnT]

[dice=6]



Well Bokkun managed grab it, but Grounder's grip still stuck on the device.

"HEY!! It's mine!!" he whined, trying to pry the remote away from Bokkun. [dice=6]

As he played 'tug-of-war' with Bokkun, Scratch decided to shed out his curiosity.

"Why we need permission? That's his name! And he hates that 'Eggman' name the stupid hedgehog always calls him!" These bots must had their circuits burnt. Calling their glourious-ness 'Eggman'? Scratch should tell on them, and he'll be praised. After all, Robotnik called himself Robotnik; no doubt......or at least he think he did.

Knowing the Dumb-bots, their circuits probably got fried; thinking their master called himself Robotnik. [rand=9453233940589135660306209441257289381717241517248650472325296426]

[Garland]

Ishnt stared at them with half-lidded eyes. "No, I think you're mistaken. Well, my name is ES-003. You can call me Ishnt." He tilted his head then, looking at Bokkun. "Couldn't you play one of the other games in here?"[rand=803285733121608103410736435603800656917616263472855325759317224046]

[Jamie Lee]

[dice=6]

"I... had it... FIR--YEEOW!" Bokkun's hand slipped free and he did several flips in the air when Grounder jerked the remote. Unfortunately, still holding the game controller with his other hand, he ended up becoming entangled in its cord.

"Grrr... No!" he puffed his cheeks out in response to Ishnt and began trying to wiggle his arms loose. "I was playing that first! Tell THEM to play something else!"[rand=122241414628574076919273285418328664844059858004419756161551701523]

[AnT]

Nah-NYAH!!" after Grounder stuck his tongue at the poor imp-like bot, he hopped back to his seat, grabbed a pie, and changed the channel. "OOO!! Dr.Robotnik's suing someone! YAY!!!" a big bite of the pie, he took. "Gee! He looks pretty smexy in that suit!"

Meanwhile, his brother was still talking with Ish.

"ES-wha? You mean you're a robot?!" he asked with awe. He never seen a Badnik that looked like a human. This probably means Robotnik is making bots to look like fleshy-freaks so they can blend in and take them by surprise. Ingenious, that Robotnik is...as usual. "Well I'm Scratch, leader of the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad! Ba-HA-hur-HAAA!"

"And I'm Grounder, and I have PIE!!" he announced with glee, watching the trial.

[Jamie Lee]

"I'm Bokkun, and I'm gonna BLOW YOUR FACE OFF if you don't gimmie that remote back!" he continued to wiggle against his bonds. Almost had an arm free!

[Garland]

Sigh.

"Okay, fine. Scratch, Grounder, isn't there anything else you'd like to do? There's a bunch of games in here." He turned, looking around. "I'm pretty sure there's even another TV free somewhere around here..."

[AnT]

Grounder mocked the little robot like a school yard bully, but Scratch rolled his eyes. Sure he wanna torture the little snot in the wires, but he rather stay out of trouble (?!?!) until Robotnik arrives.

"Oh fine! Come on, Grounder! I'm sure there's a bigger TV here that we can-" he failed to notice his hand lean on a small console on a table.

A giant plasma screen TV lowered from the ceiling, while a curved couch arose from the floors. The walls opened behind the TV, revealing the majestic underwater world.

"OOOOooooooo!!!!" the dumb-bots blasted for the couch, taking advantage of that TV's remote.

"Hee-hee! This is better than that puny TV. You can keep it, imp boy!" said Grounder, tossing the other remote at Bokkun.

Scratch reached for his food tower while resting his talons on a table. "So, pal!" he said to Ish. "How's His Superme-ness handling losing the Death Egg?"

"Yeah, when we woke up, it was totaled. Stupid hedgehog..."

[Jamie Lee]

Finally managing to free himself from the cords, Bokkun stuck his tongue out to the two robot's backs as they left. With a snatch of the remote he switched his video game back on... only to discover that in all the commotion it had never been paused, thusly, he found himself staring at a game over screen. He grit his teeth together tightly.

"... Grr...."

[Garland]

"The Death Egg? That was a while ago..." Ishnt thought about it a moment. "I wasn't there first-hand, but after the fall of the Death Egg, Dr. Eggman was able to recoup his losses. He made a pretty incredible machine called the Egg Carrier, but it ended up being destroyed... And now there's this submarine base."

On second thought, that was an ill omen. A troubled look appeared on Ishnt's face.

[AnT]

Grounder giggled at the shows he kept surfing, but Scratch gawked at the android. "Egg Carrier? How long were we out?"

[Jamie Lee]

Bokkun, meanwhile, had taken a blank piece of paper out of his shoulder bag and was in the process of writing something...

[Garland]

Ishnt performed a quick check of his database. Though he hadn't been there personally, a catalogue of key points from previous schemes had been uploaded to him. "Let me see... If you're talking about the Death Egg I think you are, then it was more than five years ago. There was also one a couple months back, but your models don't seem to match the robots produced during that one."

[AnT]

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"WHAT?!?!?"

[Jamie Lee]

Suddenly... a couple of paper airplanes smacked into Scratch and Grounder's heads respectively. Were they to open and read them they would be greeted with the following message:

BAKA!

(This message will self-destruct in five seconds.)

Bokkun, meanwhile, was back to focusing on his video game.