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INBOX FOR escordvi

Greetings! You've reached the personal inbox of Dr. Eggman. I'm not sorry I missed you because I almost assuredly have far better things to be doing right now. Actually, that might not even be true. There is a non-zero chance I just don't like you! Either way, feel free to leave a message.

Or don't.

If you're important, I'll get back to you, so spend this time questioning your worth to me and that should give you the answer you seek. GAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Don't bother! All you'll do is get in the way and break things! I'm sure you'll take one look at the man's work and decide to destroy it because it got your quills in a bunch.

[Eggman begins marching off in a huff.]

Fine, I'll look into this, if only because I'm sure you'll try and frame me by painting me as the culprit. That's all you rodents seem to want. Honestly, you don't even wait for me to come up with any good plans. There's an order to these things, you know! It's part of the sequence!

Why do you care what I decide to do with him? [He's not destroying your stuff, not at the moment. So what does it matter to him if he wrecks Turo's place? Unless they're both up to something together.

...

Surely Turo would report to him if something were amiss.] Preventing those "good" plans from happening is the point. [Because nothing good ever comes from Eggman.] There aren't many robotics experts that are criminals like you. People would have come to their own conclusions without our intervention. [....So he's doing the doctor a favor by bringing attention to these robots now???]

Pah! Just like everything else about your genetic makeup, your logic is tragically flawed. Your assertions of criminality can only be backed by a conviction, and the last time I checked, you flea-bitten fools have yet to put me on trial. No, you'd rather just be judge, jury, and executioner. Such stalwart heroes. Your options are either murder or forced lobotomy.

I may be evil but at least I don't pretend to be something I'm not. Not if I can help it.

[He blatantly ignores Shadow's questions about Turo because all of this nosing about is getting on his nerves. Honestly, the nerve to ask for help and then get on his soapbox about morality?]

[He trudges back to his warehouse compound and opens the main door.]

Throw it anywhere on the floor. Try not to destroy any of my things. Then you can stop bothering me.

[The place is crawling with miniature Radniks, working themselves until their gears strip to keep the place up to Eggman's standards. He's certainly been busy, there's some fresh charts and schematics up. Looks like he's very interested in where Elah went off to. And he appears to be working on a personal submersible.]

I don't recall ever claiming to be a hero, doctor. [He is the Ultimate Lifeform. He is not bound by any rules or alignments. He does what he deems is necessary. Even if it turns the world against him.

There's a heavy thud once he enters the warehouse, setting the machine down on a open patch of ground. He is choosing not to destroy anything as he looks around the lab. The radniks...still acting harmless. Some investigating the new robot friend he brought back with curiousity. He'll walk around, eyes locking onto the schematics for a submersible.]

That didn't answer my question. [He didn't miss how Eggman started his ramblings about flawed logics and yadda yadda.]

You're right. I didn't.

[And he doesn't plan to.]

So, unless you have other business.

Or you brought creamer.

I've nothing more for you.

[Eggman moves to a console and sets the crystal down on a makeshift scanner. Something that will allow his machine to map its crystalline structure. With that, he sits heavily in his chair, facing away from Shadow.]

... [Uh-Huh. If he was expecting him to leave anytime soon, he isn't. Not often does he come to see what the doctor's been up to. So of course he continues to shuffle around behind Eggman while he works. Off course, he doesn't expect the doctor to have everything out in the open, but he may as well take note of what he allows him to see.

A few times he'll glance in the direction of Eggman, eyeing what he was up to with the crystal.]

[Eggman sighs a very dramatic sigh.]

What are you doing? Why must you insist upon snooping?? What more do you want??

... [He sits on one of nonfunctioning bots then. This is the current issue he's focused on right now. He isn't budging until progress is made. It also be foolish to leave the doctor after practically providing him with unknown tech.]

DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS IS GOING TO TAKE HOURS?! SHOULDN'T YOU BE OUT THERE HUNTING MORE OF THESE?!

If you want me to help you're better off bringing me more of the crystals! I don't care about the rest, it's all junk!

[It's not exactly all junk, but at this juncture, he's more likely to scrap anything from this machine out of spite for having to deal with it.]

You're wasting time flapping your lips. [He refuses to budge. Nothing can happen for hours, and Shadow will still be keeping his eyes on Eggman until results come. Not that he would absolutely trust it, but a means to track the doctor's progress remotely could get him off his back.

...] How many more do you need?

[Oh that's it.]

[Eggman spins around in his chair and crosses his arms defiantly.]

I refuse to take orders from the likes of you. You want my help? I help on my terms. You're the one who needs me, otherwise why would you even be here?? Goading me into keeping my good reputation won't work, I've already revealed myself as the despot genius that I am!

[He pushes himself to his feet and stomps over to Shadow. He knows the hedgehog isn't intimidated by him. In fact, Eggman is far outclassed here. He's got no army, no armada, no weapons capable of outright defeating Shadow.]

[But he's not about to be the stooge to a self-important genetic stew with a messiah complex.]

You want something. You've been asking questions. So, what is it? It's too early for this cloak and dagger nonsense and I haven't had my coffee.

[The fact he's not getting up from his own makeshift seat as the doctor approaches, says how much he isn't intimidated by the tall cartoonishly round man as he shouts at him.]

I simply can't sit here? [He's been letting the doctor do his work at his desk this whole time. Nothing has been destroyed, hasn't tried to convince him to behave in any way. And technically, he already has the fox on this as well and could have chosen not to bother with the doctor. So, why do this to begin with? The words are at the tip of his lips, but it won't come out, just because of who he's dealing with. Brows furrowing instead with annoyance at the very thought he was considering it that's the reason he's here.]

No. You can't. And you're quite lucky that I don't have the means to move you at this moment.

[His words are practically strained through gritted teeth. He's being looked down on. All because he's not a big enough threat currently.]

[Well, that will change one day. He already has so many irons in the fire. Especially a big, red, chaotic one.]

[Regardless, he whips around and he marches back to his console.]

If you want a means to track them, it will be easy enough. I just need to isolate the crystal's unique energy frequency. But it will take time to build, however.

[He is just sitting there. Vibe checking you. Either way, when was the last time the doctor was ever a real threat to him? He will continue to sit and observe, listening, crossing his arms.]

Hm. [It would quicken the search. Perhaps pinpoint where the main base of operation is.]

You're strangely less combative. Whenever you crash my compound, you tend to hurl threats.

Don't tell me you require coffee as well. If that's the case, you're the one who should have brought creamer.

Unless the Ultimate Lifeform takes his as black as his quills.

Would threatening you make you work faster? [What would be the point right now? He can't kill the bastard, and he was the one who initiated contact this time.]

I don't need coffee to do what's necessary. Coffee beans would suffice anyway.

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