EggMemo: Rouge The Bat
Rouge the Bat...one of the most well-known treasure hunters in the world and wanted criminal for her flashy heists that led to quite some precious gems being "relieved" from their owners.
I remember first meeting her during my heist of the ARK, when I tried taking the whole world hostage. At the time, she seemed just a fool way over her head, trying to get the Master Emerald for herself before I tried to swoop in to get it from that damned Knuckles before he cracked it into a million pieces. I didn't bat much of an eye at the time other than being naturally annoyed at her frustrating my plans at the time.
And then she somehow sneaks into my hidden base - just as she did right now - and offers her services to Shadow and me. To steal the Emeralds that G.U.N. had in their custody. At the time she seemed like a blessing for a seemingly tough situation - again, paralleling what happened here - and I accepted her services and Chaos Emerald. I thought that she was simply a fool I could manipulate into doing my bidding, but it couldn't be further from the truth.
For you see, Rouge had this nasty habit of doing spy work to help her pay up for her crimes: doing some sniffing around in one corner, and reconnaissance work in another. As a master thief, she can infiltrate in almost any place in the world provided she has the time, resources and motivation to do so. At the time of the ARK incident, she was doing work at the bidding of the president of the United Federation to investigate the matters of the Ultimate Lifeform (Shadow) and to stop my plans from using the Eclipse Cannon to hold the world at gunpoint - at which she eventually succeeded and I even helped, after having revealed the truth of my grandfather's purpose for the weapon.
After that, she returned to her old ways of being a lonely treasure hunter/jewel thief...that is, until she found one of my hidden bases during the period Metal Sonic took over control over the empire and had me imprisoned. At the time, I had found Shadow after his presumed demise falling from the ARK to Earth and decided to study him to create a new series of Super Badniks, the Shadow Androids. When I realized Neo was hijacking it, I hastily sealed the hedgehog away with my final E-100 Badnik, Omega, as a sort of guard dog to assure they wouldn't be found. Except that Rouge did find them and set them free from their duties and against me. Yes, even Omega. The machine had developed a
grudge because I didn't put him in battle and wanted to prove his power by
pounding me and my machines to fine dust.
See why I did stop developing the E-Series? Troublemakers, all of them.
Either way, Rouge ended up forming the newly-christened "Team Dark" and helped defeat Neo Metal Sonic and set me free...and then proceeded to turn into big pain in the asses whenever they joined to fight me. Ugh.
But this new bond created a weakness of sorts for Rouge. Loyalty. Bonds. Friendship. She would choose the former without batting an eye if she had to choose between saving Team Dark and all the jewels in the world - including the Chaos Emeralds.
Judging by what Towers said, I would say she's sure that the only person who would help Shadow without hesitation is me. The Restoration likely has a negative vision of him due to the copies of the Phantom Ruby causing mass destruction during the war against my Empire and G.U.N has its fair share of skeletons in the closet with him due to all he did in their worlds...or so I assume, anyway. From what I've seen, Tower's power base is too weakened to guarantee that Shadow won't be killed.
And so, she turns to me. Because if Rouge can trust in the good heart of people, she can trust in their self-interest...ugh. And she came at the time I needed someone of her talents the most.
Can you understand why she drives me up the walls?
