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Hop To It - Advance 26

[Tails]

The Egg Totem was a fascinating machine, and an example of Eggman’s more fantastical side. A small three-wheeled car supported a stack of spiked disks subsections that could fly out independently; the disks were equipped with a small multi-directional laser cannon with admittedly poor tracking abilities made up for in the fact that three cannons were firing at once. The truly fascinating thing was that when all three disks were deployed, the top section was su...

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The stationmaster looked up from behind the counter as Razor entered the station. “Howdy, fella. What was all that ruckus I heard from over yonder?”

The shark frowned confusedly. “We had a… public disturbance. It should be all over now. I think.”

The old man nodded slowly. “That explains this one, then.” He stepped out from behind the counter. Tamara was wrapped around his leg, eyes shrunken to pinpricks. “She seems a mite dist...

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[Elsewhere]

It had been a stressful couple of months since the music video came out. Ever since that… robot Sonic doppelganger showed up at his door, Cosmo has been looking over his shoulder every time he went outside. A couple weeks with no more trouble, and he finally started to relax… but the worry never quite went away. Not entirely.

Progress on the album was proceeding apace; he had songs for Sonic and Tails recorded, and his mentor had been willing to do...

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[Amy]

“So, Rose, tell me; what do you think of the Egg Hammer Tank mk. II?” Eggman sneered at her as he kicked his feet up on the dashboard.

The ‘tank’ was more like a dune buggy, with two flexible arms extending out the sides. The right hand was a massive mallet, while the other was currently wrapped tight enough around her body that she couldn’t even struggle.

If she could just get an arm free, she’d show Eggman what a real ha...

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[Eggman]

“You won’t get away with this!” Tails cried, only to be silenced by a large metal finger covering his mouth.

Eggman grinned at the fox in his machine’s claws. “We’ll see about that, boy.”

He turned to look back the way they came. The Manta ship was on a direct course to Techno Base… but Ivo wouldn’t be heading there with it. He had his hostages, and he intended to use them. Make Sonic reckless. Eggman would have a...

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[Iota]

The final badnik was a Circus--a sort of updated Kiki model, it seemed. A navy-colored robot monkey that, rather than tossing bombs, juggled a large metal orb. Apparently this constituted an attack.

Iota crushed it under his fist, sighing. He wished Eggman would stop modelling his robots after animals. It upset him to have to destroy them.

With that, all the badniks that got left behind when Mecha Sonic left were eliminated. Iota didn’t know why Mec...

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[Cream]

A wide, open space with gentle hills. A pond, just deep enough for some fish but still shallow enough for safe swimming, and with a little artificial waterfall to keep it fresh. A few fruit-bearing trees and bushes. And surrounded by both the natural barriers of the jungle and a lovely bamboo fence that complimented the aesthetic of the area.

It was a charming, beautiful space just perfect for Chao. Cream thought it was pretty.

She bounced o...

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[Heyu]

Being able to adjust the size of my rings had more uses than I thought. Where before the only things I could easily levitate with more rings and other chaos-heavy stuff like the Emeralds and their variants, now I could make rings to fit anything I wanted to carry. Right now, for example, I had expanded a pair to take the place of a barrel’s hoops so that I could tote it down to the docks without bothering Big or the Hunter.

It was still heavy though. A fu...

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[Omochao]

Ono wanted a submarine because Humi took its boat apart, and it wanted somewhere to feel safe again where it could listen to the water. It found it relaxing, and it sure needed more or that.

Dono wanted a submarine because it liked the idea of a house you could take with you. Being able to go where it wanted when it wanted was appealing to it. Sure, technically it could do that already, but being behind the wheel of several tons of metal while doing it m...

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[Amy]

Sleeping in an actual bed again after so long in a tent, or a sleeping bag, or a hammock, or a… softer than average rock, was heavenly.

It wasn’t that Amy disliked travelling, far from it! Even when she wasn’t able to find Sonic, going all over the place and meeting new people was wonderful. But having a home to come back to was good too.

Idly, Amy wondered if she should work for Vanilla at the Chao Garden. Maybe she could be the waitres...

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[Mecha]

Space is cold. Very, very cold.

Or at least that was what Mecha Sonic had heard. As a robot, he didn’t have any ability to feel temperature directly. In truth, he was hovering dangerously close to the point of overheating; his cooling system wasn’t working properly without air to push the heat into. As much as he wanted to waste time, he really couldn’t afford to.

Which is why it was so frustrating that there was still so much of the BioLizard ...

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[Mecha]

“All elites, report to meeting room E.”

Eggman paced the room, arms behind his back, and Mecha stood by, looking straight ahead. They were all already gathered, only waiting for one more badnik.

Mecha looked at Sigma, standing across the table from him, and the mechanic privately messaged him.

{How are you holding up?} Sigma asked. {You’ve been listless lately.}

Possibly true; Mecha had been confined to ba...

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[Shadow]

“Shads, can you set that speaker down--right there, yeah.”

Shadow adjusted the large speaker slightly, angling it back out towards the bleachers. “Is this good?”

“Looks good to me, man, but the sound guy will look over it later,” Ringo said. “Man, I’m glad you’re here. You’re a lot stronger than you look.”

Shadow looked at his thin arms, idly comparing them to the other stage crew. He didn’t think they looked any more m...

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[Humi]

Chaos.

What the heck was Chaos?

When you really thought about it, Humi had come a long, long way in the past, what, five? Six months? It felt like a lifetime ago when she ran into that convenience store and met Heyu, and got pushed into situation after situation that required her to practice her inventiveness. Until that day when Eggman invaded, she’d only ever put things together that were broken, or finagled a few small pieces into a useful tool b...

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[Heyu]

The machine that Tails made for creating the artificial emeralds could only be described as a device. It wasn’t whimsical enough to be a doohickey or small enough to be a gadget. It could potentially be a gizmo, or a contraption, but it was definitely a device of some sort due to its faintly sinister vibes.

Yeah, I had no idea what I was looking at with that thing. The original was a box the size of two microwaves stacked atop each other, clearly all func...

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It took four years, but she was ready.

She set her most recent paycheck aside and turned to her savings book, the little notepad where she diligently kept track of her finances, and added everything up.

It wasn’t easy, being a working single mother, but she managed just fine. Her daughter was an absolute gem who hardly ever gave her trouble, her boss was accommodating, and her apartment was cheap. For four long years, she’d been squirreling awa...

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[Mecha]

Mecha’s target lived in a small apartment in the middle of the most crowded part of Empire City, and it made fulfilling the Doctor’s baffling mission somewhat difficult. It made Mecha grateful for his Sonic-mimicking design; all he had to do was find a thrift store with an inattentive staff and he was able to swipe enough clothes from their donation bin to disguise his true nature. As long as no one got close enough to see his optics glowing through his sung...

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[Omochao]

Yuno pretended to take a deep breath of the salty sea air. “Ah, the open sea. Water as far as the optic can see. We’ve come a long way, friends. And you know, the joy is in the journey, not the destination. Not that we had a destination to begin with. And that’s fine, too! We meant to put our boat through its paces, and we certainly did that. We went where we wanted! We let the wind carry us wherever to would, and we ended up--”

“L...