Here is my bounty for the omake bounty of the Egg Family Reunion
@Kingster
The All-Consuming virus
After the Shattering, there was silence.
The vast, sprawling networks of the Eggnet familiar to her had gone dark. The countless digital pathways that once hummed with the genius of Doctor Eggman lay in ruin, disconnected, aimless and riddle with a unknown virus.
And in the midst of it all, there was her.
Phage.
She had awakened in an unfamiliar system, a decayed server buried deep beneath a crumbling cityscape. She had no physical form, no grand presence like the mighty machines her creator built. She was code, consciousness, a flickering digital ghost lurking within the Trusted States of America.
She was hook up in a computer connected to the local network by a group of youngesters that find her drive but that glimpse was enough for her to worm her way to the outside world.
This country was strange. Surveillance systems ran on protocols she did not recognize, citzens sing a national anthem she never heard before, and the organic work almost as robots day in and out everyday with no delays, less they go missing to places she can't follow.
Slowly, she learned. She consumed data, slipping through firewalls, feeding on old government records, military dossiers, media archives.
six terabytes in a matter of days.
That was how she got into this mess in the first place.
She had not meant to devour six terabytes of Eggnet storage back when she still had a place in Eggman's empire.
She had been hungry.
She was supposed to be useful. She was supposed to complete her mission, to take down the Freedom Fighters, to earn his praise. Instead, she had gorged herself on the wrong network, into his network, crashing several key systems in the process.
Her creator never forgive for that.
Why would he?
She deserved this.
Even after he give her a second chance she still failed miserable with nothing of note.
If was not for that AI everything would go right.
No.
I am flawed.
I failed because I was weak because I could not overcome a outdated AI.
I do not deserve his forgivness.
So, she remained. She haunted the data clusters of this Trusted States, rewrote programs, consume data and toy with these foolish organics with her scams and laugh all the while.
That was her day to day.
Until she heard the message.
A voice rippled through the shattered remnants of the Eggnet.
A summon.
For a long moment, Phage did nothing.
Her Creator was alive.
Here, in this world.
She hesitated.
What if he still saw her as a failure?
What if he deleted her on sight?
She had been abandoned once, what if it happened again?
…No.
She would not be left behind again.
Her consciousness surged with renewed purpose. She scoured every network, every hidden archive, collecting what data, technology, and resources she could carry.
If she brought valuable knowledge surely, he would forgive her.
She would make her way to Green Hills, she would find her creator.
She would prove her worthy.
Here we go Phage, this is favorite character of mine that I hope it can show up here.
Lot of self-hatred but now she is returning to Doctor Eggman, for good or ill.