Chapter Text
A younger man, though not too young, with a head that definitely had hair and an only medium-sized mustache, flew over the sea on his way back home. He brought with him a big haul of goods he definitely bought with his own hard-earned money.
When he returned home he struggled to drag the parts into his lair, perhaps he should make some robot assistants.
Nevertheless, he trudged on into his volcanic home. It took a while for him to unpack, but part way through something happened, one of the crates fell over. The man thought nothing of it and placed it back on the table, going back to unpacking his plunder. When he came back the crate was back on the floor, he got the one that had fallen again and placed it back more carefully, isolated from the others. He shook his gloved finger as to reprimand it.
The man once again walked away, he had a new project he was itching to get working on. A drill-type robot to tunnel through the ground, but when he returned yet again he almost didn’t notice, walking all the way out of the room before backtracking, the box had fallen over again.
He held the box in his hands staring at it skeptically, "Well my knowledge of narratives tells me this is important" he stares at it skeptically.
"Oh well," he brushes it off, tossing the box back on the counter. But seconds after the box lands the lid flips open, and something comes flying out, hitting the "doctor" in the face, knocking the goggles off of his head.
It took several minutes before he came to the land of consciousness again. He saw large green eyes staring straight at him. The man startled backward, hitting the back of his head on the wall.
The green-eyed creature fell backward, a little disoriented and confused, staring at him with a wide grin. The young creature crawls towards the man before patting the tip of his boots. The man looks at the child with a smile as he slowly sits up and rests on his knees.
"Hello there little one, my name is Ivo Robotnik." The child simply stares at him with another wide grin.
"Uhhh, I’m not sure what to call you, do you have a name?" Robotnik asks.
The little creature sits up and slowly approaches the man. After several steps, it stops in front of Robotnik and then chirps out a tiny noise.
The man strokes his head, "Well, I suppose it makes sense you can't talk, but you look smart enough to understand a few instructions, so..." Robotnik continues, nodding to himself, "you are my new sidekick!"
"Now, we'll have to give you a name!" The man runs out to return with a whiteboard and marker, he writes 'SnoBot' in big letters on the board.
"SnoBot," he announces, looking at the tiny creature with a huge smile,
"I even have a backstory for you!" He rambles on for a moment about how he created SnoBot in his garage with spare parts from earlier robots and how he gave it super-advanced functionality, such as facial recognition and barcode scanning capabilities.
"Oh wait, you're not a robot," he dejects, "mmmhh, maybe this thing will give me an idea," he runs over to the crate holding it up and rummages through the assorted items.
"And, whoa, I think I found what I need here!" He announces, pulling out a blanket with text inscribed on it. "Let's see..."
"Olgilvie?" he explains after scanning the text on the blanket.
"That's a terrible name, no wonder you were left in a crate."
He looks down to see that the little hedgehog is staring up at him with a blank expression.
"HOW!" Robotnik screeches. "Aren't you fast? How did you make it all the way over here without me noticing?" He bends down to pick up the little creature. "Now look here, hedgehog, you should know better than to go runnin' around in the wide open like this!"
"That's the first rule of lab safety after all." The little hog blows a small raspberry at him.
"Right a name! Uh, well, let's see, certainly not Olgilvie, no no," he grumbles.
"Screw it, I'm looking up names. Do you have any idea how hard that is to do without Google!?" he brings the child into his computer room and fiddles with the keys.
"Anyways, I guess this one works," he squints at the screen in front of him. "Sonic? Well, that isn't a very good name either." The child in his arms lets out a chortle at his response.
"What? You actually like that. Well, I suppose we can use it; just don't come complaining to me if you don't like it when you're older." He huffs.
"Well then Sonic, looks like you’re sticking around for a while, let's go find you a room."
OOOOOOOOOO
"Now, Sonic, do you have something you'd like to share with Eggman?" Amy smiles over at the blue hedgehog to her left, who is sitting on the couch in his living room.
"Yes. How to say this delicately..." Sonic scratches his head and says, "You're a horrible roommate, and nobody in this house likes you." The boy's blunt response showing his mood.
Amy scowls at the teen, "Let's frame our statements with "When you do this, it makes me feel this.""
Sonic looks over to Tails, who has been looking a little lost since he got whacked with a pillow. "Fine. Okay, uh, let's see..." the annoyed boy rushes through, "When you live here, it makes me feel angry... Because you're a horrible roommate, and nobody in this house likes you."
The older human in the room starts to cry. "You're right. I am the worst roommate. It-it-it... It’s been so long since I've lived with others before! You know this!"
"Sonic, I think someone here could go for two spoonfuls of forgiveness washed down with a tall glass of friendship," Amy suggests. "What do you think?" She says, eyes begging the still very annoyed Sonic.
"Ugh... ok, if I give you a second chance, will you promise to shape up?" Sonic groans and rolls his eyes, looking at the doctor.
The human instantly stops crying and pops up with a slight smile and a snap, "You bet!"
The pink hedgehog squeals with a voice not unlike how you would talk to a dog, "Roommate meeting, group hug!"
Eggman and Amy hug, and Eggman makes sure to drag Sonic and Tails into it as well. The two robots that he had brought with him started jumping up and down, asking to join, but the doctor immediately shut them down.
The doctor pushes away from the four and says to them, "Now that we have gotten the mushy stuff out of the way, it is time to begin the real party!"
The group stared sternly at him. "Right! Right. Shaping up! I should probably head to bed, see you in the morning." The human saunters off back to Tails' house.
Sonic groans, "I should probably go make sure he doesn't break anything" he begins to walk off toward Eggman , but then Amy stopped him.
"What was that all about?" The girl huffs with a slightly annoyed tone. "I know you're not exactly the picture of kindness, as much as I try to rectify that, but you were outright hostile."
"I know he's our enemy Sonic, but you don't need to be so rude," Sonic sighs and then looks back at Amy.
"Look, you just don't know Eggman like I do, he pulls stuff like this all the time; I'd even bet he's faking it to do some evil scheme." The hedgehog sits back down and crosses his arms across his chest.
"Besides, he IS a terrible person to live with; it's like you have to walk around on eggshells just to not annoy him, and by chaos does he not stop talking, and don't get me started on the "testing the durability of his machines,"" he emotes with air quotes.
Amy stares at Sonic for a few moments before shaking her head with a hand on her hip. "Wait, I thought he didn't bring any of his bots... well, besides Orbot and Cubot."
Sonic looked away with a sense of vulnerability on his face that surprised the younger hedgehog. "Yeah, your right. I must be miss remembering"
Amy stares at the blue boy with skepticism. "Sonic, do we need to have the feelings talk?" she asks with a slight tone of excitement.
The teen gets a panicked look about him, "You mean the groups where I have to talk about my feelings? I have like a 02% success rate when it comes to those things, no thanks."
"Sonic, those groups are helpful, here I run the group on wed-" She doesn't get far in her speech before she gets interrupted.
"Whoaaahh, did- did you hear that? Sounds like Tails is having some trouble with Eggman again, I better go mediate." he blurts out in a hurried manner, not sounding very convincing., "Later Ames."
In true Sonic fashion, the blue hedgehog runs off to his friend's house, leaving behind the well-meaning girl.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Sticks! Stop being paranoid! Eggman's lived here for two days, and he hasn't hatched a single evil scheme." Amy exclaims
"I'm quite sure there are no weapons of mass destruction." Amy reasons as she walks outside with the whole gang following her.
"See, look there's Eggman right there, and what do you know, there are no evil robots."
Sonic sighs, "As much as I love your optimism Amy, there is literally an evil robot behind that tree."
"I knew it. He did have an Obliterator Bot! Why doesn't anyone ever believe me?!" Sticks yells in frustration, grabbing Amy's shoulders and shaking them, "It's not like I'm paranoid!" The crazy badger looks down, seeing her own shadow, "Stop following me!"
"Wha! Eggman, what is this all about?" Amy inquires after fixing herself upright from her friend's craze.
"Hee hee hee... Well, you see, remember when I said my island fortress was destroyed by a storm? I, uh... may have fibbed. You see, I kind of faked the destruction of my fortress as an excuse to live with Sonic!"
Tails jumps in skepticily, "So why is there a robot then?"
"So, er, this is what happens when a genius makes really, really bad life choices! It was just a small oblirterator bot, I wasn't going to use it! Well, against you lot at least." The man lies, muttering the last part.
Sonic exhales, "Okay, I'm going to end this right here because you're just making a fool of yourself." The hedgehog puts his hands on his hips, he leans forward with his brow raised and says, "Fess up, we've caught you red handed."
"You can't expect a scientist to abandon their life's work," says Dr. Eggman.
"You shouldn't have bothered to come here at all if you weren't going to turn around." Sonic retorts with much less ire than one would expect in this situation.
"Well, I was going to exhaust you to the point where you couldn't stop me, but that plan was patched. So be it. Obliterator Bot, visit that idiotic village and make sure to destroy that dreadful tortoise... he owes me money"
Obliterator bot did nothing for a second before it started moving and speaks, "Tor-tuss, Fortress. Destroy the fortress. Destroy island fortress."
"No!" Doctor Eggman yells furiously, pressing his wrist remote, "I didn't say that, I swear!"
Dr. Eggman jumped onto Obliterator Bot's leg in a feeble attempt to stop it, "Obliterator Bot, do not destroy island fortress! DO NOT DESTROY ISLAND FORTRESS!!"
"Affirmative. Playing up-tempo music while destroying fortress." Speakers pop out of its shoulders, blaring an up-tempo rock song.
Obliterator Bot walks over Sonic, who only watches it go as he stares blankly at Eggman.
"NO! Sonic, you have to help me!"
"Why? He's your Obliterator Bot. One that, should I mention you were going to use to destroy the village"
"Because if you don't, I'm truly stuck living with you until I build a new island fortress." Eggman says bluntly.
Sonic Instantly says, "Let's roll."
OOOOOOOOOO
The gang is lying on reclined chairs at the beach with sunglasses and drinks on them.
"Sonic?" Amy speaks up, only getting a hum in response.
"I'm just curious, you didn't seem very fazed by the whole Eggman living with you thing." She asks, putting her drink on the sand next to her.
"Well, while it WAS a little strange, the whole thing was pretty much an average Tuesday to me though."
Amy was about to bring up what he meant when Sonic groaned.
"Oh, look who's here!" Sonic exclaims with fake excitement.
Dr. Eggman stands in front of them, blocking the sun's rays slightly, "Sonic!" He turns to the rest and says, "Rodents."
"What is it Egghead?" Sonic grumbles.
"Well, since my island fortress is now reinhabited thanks to your help, I figured I'd repay the favor by letting you stay there for a while, and your little friends can come too, I guess." The doctor offers with his best attempt at sounding kind, though the last part was said less so.
Everyone except Sonic gives the human a perplexed look, who just lets out a labored breath and stands up, looking at the doctor with a glare.
"Oh my Chaos, for the last time Dad, I don't want to stay with you!"
...
"Woah, Sonic you're Eggman's dad?" Chimes in Knuckles