Tactical Operation Register: The Reconquest of Arsenal Pyramid
"Egg Robo, make sure this recording catches all the moments of this mission. I want to keep it as a precious...ah, cut this first part, shall we? Don't want anyone seeing this..."
The platypus in front of the camera let out a cough and cleaned his robes. When he opened his beak to talk, there was a sudden cut and the doctor was observing the camera very annoyed.
"Very funny, Egg Robo. Very funny. Anyway, let's repeat this again, shall we? And I have such a long speech prepped for this..."
With a cough, the platypus spoke.
"As I said, I am Dr.Starline, a proud member of the Eggman Empire. In June of 2XXX, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, a.k.a Doctor Eggman, has given me the duty of recovering the structure that the group of Zeti known as the Deadly Six had hijacked in their takeover of the empire, and proceeded to ruin it when they decided it was too much of a hassle. Peh. Cowards are still gonna get their just desserts. Regardless, I gathered a bunch of Egg Pawns and Egg Robos to help me take it back while Doctor ordered Metal Sonic and E-123 Omega to gather territory from the Egg City."
The camera panned to the Arsenal Pyramid.
"Back when Doctor conquered the world, this place was one of the pillars from which he launched his world conquest, spewing more Badniks than any measly factory could hope to. Sonic and that blasted Rookie blasted it to smithereens, and then Neo Metal Sonic proceeded to rebuild it when the Shattering happened, the Zeti then using it to generate their troops. Today, I return it to it's rightful owner...but it doesn't it will be easy. Those Zeti, brutes as may be, are
spiteful brutes, and demonstrated abilities that are, to say, very curious..."
He picked a bunch of dirt, it going through his fingers.
"I am not a believer in the mystical arts but...whatever was done with this place, it changed it. Part of me feels ill just from being here. I'm sure Doctor will eventually solve it, naturally, but I just can't help but wonder how they did this. So I will try to be as swift as possible here."
He put up a map.
"I got a scheme from Arsenal Pyramid from the archives. There's the possibility of being traps on the way there, so I will use the Warp Topaz to get there from top and try to start from there."
A portal opened.
"Mission is about to begin, Doctor Starline, out."
"Starline in. Shit, why I had to be right this one time?!"
He ducked over a blast of energy going over his head. An Egg Robo and he pointed guns and fired, the sound of an explosion going off in the background.
"Alright, that seemed to be the last of the E-1000s...no losses yet, pretty good," the Platypus had a smirk in his face. "Alright, things are even worse than I expected. I don't know if there are any rogue stealth units nearby, so a quick recap."
With a cough, the frazzled platypus began his story.
"So, I got in the command room. The place was barely operating, mostly being defenses and the camera fed. I tried to patch up the fed for communications. However, there seems to be jamming devices in the place. Probably somewhere outside. I tried to at least see if I could connect the network to send some sort of signal to Sage, but this network seems to be of the closed type - which wasn't in the schemes," the platypus curses. "Of all things for that brute to wisen up, did it have to be on cybersecurity?! Probably some work he forced Thorndyke to make. But that's not even the worst part of the assignment."
An Egg Pawn dropped the head of a Caterkiller on the ground.
"Firstly, those brutes let out a few Rogue Badniks in the region. I'm unsure if Sage's calling even reached them, but the fact that a lot of Super Badniks are guarding these - SHADOW ANDROID!"
A flurry of fire. Starline has to duck to avoid a punch to the face before Eggpawns dogpile the rogue Badnik and shoot it down.
"Good grief...so, Super Badniks are sprawling everywhere. Very unfriendly. But that's not the worst part. In the fed, on the center of the factory...the cameras showed a bomb. Would say the size of a standard-model Egg Mobile, nested on a pile of explosives. Mental calculations say it would crumble the foundation of the factory and completely destroy it. The factory itself is not too badly damaged, I think the Zeti thought it would be too much of a hassle to burn it down and were just expecting for some sucker to try their luck in turning it on and watch as it went down in flames. Guess they never accounted for someone like me to teleport and see the trap. Tough luck."
He polished his Egg Gun.
"I have to neutralize the bomb before I disable the jammers, but that's also the part most well-guarded of the factory. It's basically filled to the brim with Egg Hammers, there are Toxomisters turning places of the factory in No Man Lands and I saw some Big Icedus roaming around. Seems like these next few hours are gonna be full of fighting," a sound echoed. "I think I'm hearing some fliers. Starline, out."
"Eat shit, you treacherous-!" the platypus said, blasting an enemy Egg Robo on the face.
"He can't pass through these halls! Focus fire on the Hammers!"
"...how did these fools managed to get fresh coffee beans in this region?" he wondered, looking at the cup of joe he had, sipping it...before spitting it out. "Oh, that's why. Water sucks ass. Why even have a coffee machine here, this place is mostly - HOLY SHIT-!"
The platypus attempted to clean some marks of coffee from his clothes, the enemy machine nothing but scrap on the floor.
"So, it seems that Chuck fellow is a devious one. Abusing of someone's love for coffee like that should be illegal..."
"Keep eyes open! Hotaru Hi-Watt to my left and - MEGA CHOPPER FROM ABOVE FUCK FUCK FUCK-"
"...alright, last one," the doctor said. "Starline up. Last rogue Badnik was eliminated. Arsenal Pyramid is far more labyrinthic from the inside the schemes showed..." he cracked his neck. "Ugh. So much pain I haven't felt sore like this since my college days. But we are here for the last obstacle."
He looked at the suspended bomb, enormous.
Egg Robos were hovering over the explosive, held by four long cables, while Egg Pawns cleared the debris.
"So...a single glance tells me this thing is pretty much designed to blast anyone that tries to disarm it to kingdom come. It has to be suspended by wires just because of that. Not the type of thing you would want to keep in a tactical location, but absolutely what you would want to deny resources...yet again, they couldn't prepare for me."
Aiming his glove with the Warp Topaz, a large portal opened beneath the bomb.
"Egg Robos, shoot the wires!"
The machines obeyed, hitting the wires as the dangerous explosive fell into the portal.
A few seconds later, a large wave of water passed through, Starline barely stepping away on time as he closed the portal.
"Knew sparing energy for this teleport would pay off..." he grumbled more to himself. "I dropped the bomb in the waters of a nowhere beach I saw in my trips. Shouldn't cause too many issues for anyone...especially the doctor. Now the Egg Pawns are gonna find the jammers and I'll be able to communicate with Eggman to report my success. The Egg Robos meanwhile will fix whatever was broken and we should be able to put it back up."
He gave a grin.
"Ah...a task worth of me, indeed..."
The video ended with him falling flat with the back on the ground.
"Owch...I'm almost missing being shot..."