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WHO: Sonic!! And whoever feels like also being at the volcano for some crazy reason??
WHERE: Volcano Zone
WHAT: WE'RE GOING ROCK HUNTIN'
WHEN: Late September, early October, something like that
WARNINGS: NONE, will update as needed

NETWORK

What's up kids, it's ya boi Sonic! I'm heading out to the volcano to check things out, see if there's anything weird up there. Not inside, don't worry. If any of you sciency types want any rock samples or whatever, maybe for sciencing out how this all happened, let me know. I can haul back as much as you need.

or maybe volcanoes are more your speed

[He doesn't really wait around for anyone to go with him the first time he makes the trek to the volcano (he's gotta go FAST OK), but Sonic is definitely in the area long enough for people to maybe catch up with him if they feel so inclined. He'll also travel to and from the area multiple times over the course of a few days, willing to show down should anyone want to head that way with him. He's not completely rude.

He may spend a significant amount of time running around in the wilderness before stopping to stuff a bunch of rocks into a bag, or scooping ash or dirt into some kind of container. Maybe it isn't super exciting, but even Sonic can't be EXTREEEEME all the time. Sometimes a hedgehog's gotta just chill and do a little sight seeing!

He's nuts enough to go up as high as he can of course, but he can also be found near the base of the volcano checking out the damage there.]

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Sure is. Just another one of the fun little mysteries, I guess. I just chalk it up to aliens these days.

[Which, let's face it, isn't the strangest thing either of them have ever dealt with. ANYWAY, Sonic slings his bags over his shoulder and starts

walking

ugh this is going to take a million years. At least it's easy to determine which direction to go, y'know, on account of the GIANT VOLCANO being very large and very visible.]

Speaking of your oh so important schedule, any luck scraping equipment together yet?

Of course! Just what do you think I've been doing since I arrived? Wasting precious time like the rest of you addle-brained do-gooders? If I'm going to get off this rock and back to my precious Empire, I can't afford to sit around.

[He waves Sonic off dismissively and starts to also head in the direction of the volcano.]

[He's had some success in scrounging for parts and whatnot but not so much in finding a suitable place to set up a base of operations. There's too much...cohabitation for his liking.]

So, what? You've found like, a screw driver?

[Sonic doesn't doubt that Eggman's been busting his ass to get settled, ol' Eggster isn't the kind of guy to just sit on his ass and do fuckall. Never let it be said that Eggman doesn't have drive, buuut Sonic's gonna give him shit anyway. Buut also maybe try to be semi-helpful if only because he also wants to get off this rock.]

Have you heard about the Replicator, yet?

Fool. A coin could serve as a functional screwdriver. I don't require precision tools. Yet.

And yes, I've heard plenty about it and its limitations.

[He'd prefer to say less about that subject for now. Five items a month is not ideal and he needs to consider long and hard on how to optimize his requests.]

No doubt you've used it for some frivolity.

[He just waggles his hand dismissively. Blah blah whatever precision tools pshfff]

Didn't really get a chance to. I used it to make some cleaning supplies for the hospital, aaand then the next month we were underground.

[Doctor lady already scolded him for wanting to use it to replicate chili dogs. He was responsible and did not 8(]

A surprising amount of pragmatism and restraint coming from you. Perhaps being trapped here has forced you to overcome some of your more obvious weak points.

[Or someone with more sense barred him from doing something stupid with it. Regardless, he still needs to mess with the replicator himself.]

You say you spent a month underground in that bunker. Are large events like this volcano a common occurrence?

And with those weak points overcome, I'm even more undefeatable than I was before.

[he hasn't overcome shit, he just knows when it's time to be an adult vs when it's time to be a shithead.]

I haven't been here as long as most people, but it does seem like big stuff happens pretty regularly. My first month here was pretty dead, the Agrii set up a fair or something. I think I mentioned that. After that though, most of the people in town vanished for like a month. The few people left behind with me said that everyone else was drug off for something called Calibrations, some of 'em think different aliens are responsible for that. From what I've heard, it sounds like the aliens are able to like, put people's memories on display? I don't really get what the point of it is.

Anyway, the people who were stuck in Calibrations said that the place we were stuck after the volcano thing looked almost exactly like the area they stayed during Calibrations, only worn down and busted. There's obviously a connection there, but nobody's been able to really find it yet as far as I know.

[why yes, Sonic is chatty when he's bored. At least he isn't saying annoying shit?]

You say that, but you have a veritable bevy of weaknesses I'm more than happy to exploit.

[Eggman doesn't interrupt but tries to take careful mental notes of everything Sonic is willing to divulge. The possibility of another alien species had crossed his mind and hearing of this 'Calibrations' business solidified that thought further in his mind.]

Has anyone chronicled what has happened here? Are there records from when the first abductee was brought to this world?

[He's just going to ignore that crack about weaknesses PISS OFF HE HAS NONE!!]

I couldn't say if anyone in particular has anything written down. If people were using the network that long ago though, their posts should still be available. Could give us some insight?

I'm honestly amazed you've survived this long. Without your two-tailed toddler to do all of your research for you, you're practically useless.

I'll just have to do it myself. Much like everything else.

And how is it we're not there yet?! Honestly, how do you stand going anywhere on foot??

[Get ready for a couple hours of this, Sonic.]

[they went from useful conversation to BITCHMAN in less than 5 seconds, a new world record]

I can stand it 'cuz I'm real fast. I could have been there and back again three times over if I wasn't slowing down for your saggy old butt! Why dontcha build a car if you're so smart!

I would if I had even the most barest of essentials! Having to start from the ground up is aggravating to say the least!

I'd even take Orbot or Cubot right now! To say nothing of Metal.

Aw, bummer, huh.

Not so sure how Orbot or Cubot could get you to the volcano faster. Do they transform into roller skates?

...That'd be kind of hilarious, actually.

They wouldn't be able to but they'd at least be relatively decent company.

[Look, Orbot and Cubot might be bunglers, but they're his bunglers.]

That's probably the nicest thing I've ever heard you say about literally anyone. It was borderline complimentary!

[awww, does Eggyweggums wuv his wobot childwen??? Maybe stop sending them off to get their asses beat ya prick????]

Nonsense! If they annoy me, I can simply kick them into the volcano! That's all!

You say that, and yet you still have them in spite of how annoying they constantly are. I dunno man, seems sus.

There is nothing "sus" about it! They have their uses and as long as they continue to be useful I won't melt them down into slag and convert them into cupholders for my Eggmobile! As long as something has function I'll usually spare it unless I get bored of it!

Much like why I haven't destroyed you and your furry resistance!

Oh, please. You've tried to destroy me so many times, I've lost track! Unless all those failures on your part were just practice, you're talkin' out your giant, stupid nose!

Maybe if you skipped all the gloating and fancy details you'd stand a better chance? Just get the job done! Starline did a better job of almost blowing me up, you keep tripping at the finish line!

All these years and you still don't recognize the game for what it is.

I could ruin the world in an afternoon. I could rain fire down and burn everything you know and love into nuclear ash. I could poison the world, I could rip apart the very ground you live upon. If it becomes inconvenient for me, I can just move on. There are plenty of worlds to consume. I can be like a plague of locusts if I should choose it!

It's never been about the destruction, Hedgehog. The destruction is a means to an end. Your end. The moment I decide that the game has ceased being amusing is the moment I can choose to end it.

You and your little friends are a distraction. The unknown variable in all of my grand experiments. What's an Empire without a few dissenters and revolutionaries? I'm not in this to play solitaire.

And that is why Starline failed. He lacked vision. He was playing chess while the rest of us were playing charades!

No...you win because I haven't raised the difficulty level enough. But if we start at level ten?

Why...think of all the fun we're missing out on from levels one through nine?

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[Sonic's first impulse is, naturally, to be a little shit and just brush all that off as Eggman stroking his ego and/or trying to get into Sonic's head, but actually this might be importantish? Maybe it is all just bullshit, but screw it, they have a long walk ahead of them. Might as well try to crack the Eggcode a bit.]

You really do make it sound like this is all just a game to you. The longer we go back and forth over the fate of the world, the more it definitely feels like one.

I dunno, man. You talk big, but then when you try to shoot big, it almost always explodes right in your face. If you 'raising the difficulty' means losing control over the situation completely, I'd say we've already hit level ten a couple times.

And to think, you could have won it all...but you spared the innocent "Mr. Tinker."

And so I persist. Like the sun rising every morning. All by your hand.

Psh, more like a cockroach.

[Oh hohoooo okay. Being the speedy little thing that he is, Sonic's been walking ahead of Eggman a little way. He won't be able to see the brief flash of irritation that crosses the hedgehog's face, but even then it's probably easy enough to assume that he's struck a nerve.]

Kicking people while they're down isn't my style, Eggman. I don't regret the choice I made, and I'm not responsible for the choices you make. That doesn't mean I won't shut your plans down at every turn, and you know that I will.

Yes, keep telling yourself that. Keep parading yourself about like the moral superior. You've done a great thing, after all! The ends justify the means!

I'm sure there's plenty who would agree with you. What were their names again? Starline's over-emotional failures? Surge and Kit?

Face it, rodent. You've hurt just as many people as I have just by virtue of letting me go every time we cross paths. The only difference between us is that you burden yourself with cleaning up the mess; languishing in the past while I, on the other hand, am always looking to the next idea.

Do you spend hours before bed staring at a mirror and rehearsing this stuff? Or are you just that good at improv?

[credit where it's due, the man has a way with words. Just maybe ignore how Sonic says that a bit snippier than usual.

Man Sonic wants to just kick Eggman in his weird Eggass and leave. It would be so easy, but Eggman would not doubt consider that a win and therefore become even more annoying. Sonic can barely tolerate this, he doesn't need Eggman thinking that he's got some sort of victory over him.

So he will stay, deflecting as per usual.]

Well then, maybe all this is a sign that karma's real. If both of us are so bad for the world, maybe the universe decided to stick us someplace where we can't run anyone else's lives.

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