The disturbance certainly left the temporary station of the Overlander's forces in a state of emergency. Alarms started blaring from the remaining stationed ships. The robots nearest to the impact had been sent into temporary shutdown as other troops began rushing to the position in an orderly fashion, clearing out the rubble from the former third ship that was stationed at the spot before surrounding the crater. Not too long after, a swarm of Scanner Bots poured out from the dark interior of the main landed ship through the now-opened entrance, followed suit by the man himself. The massive Overlander stepped out of the shadows, clad in full armor, presumably out of concern from the sudden 'assault' on his property, and immediately began heading towards the site of the impact with thunderous, long steps, the horde of flying machines following behind like some sort of pets.

"What. Happened?" the hulking man demanded with a quickly raising, aggrevated tone from the robots around the hole, not even looking into it yet.

"Unknown lifeform, Lord Robotnik. Approximately 150cm in height, covered in spines or fur, unable to determine much else from current position." the robot closest to Robotnik's left responded.

Finally, the Overlander peered into the crater with his glowing, visor-like eyes. An uncertain, unstable frown sat on his face, mildly switching into a full-on grimace every so often. "...That..." he pointed at this... Creature. "...Is the... Prrrrojectile?" he asked, wheezing a bit at the absurdity of the suggestion. "Scanner units... Sweep-scan surrounding area outside fooo-rrrest!" he took an interrupting gasp as his voice began getting rather shaky near the end. "Foooooorrrrrwaaa-a-a-rrrd." he finished with the, ironically, even shakier whisper of an order as he pointed generally away from the impact, the scanners following him quickly spreading out across the forest, flying beyond.

"As for... That. An... Hmmmnnn, interesting specimen. I want it in my perrrsonal laboratory. Bring a body bag, and... Sssstrrrap it down just in case." he ordered, taking a deep breath through his mouth. "I want detailed readings, hook it up to my rrresearch desk, I will be over shortly..." he finished talking, turning around 180, and marched off back to his command ship.

Luckily for... Certain individuals, there had yet to be any suspicion towards their presence or incoming arrivals, although the robots did not cease their searching patrols throughout the area, now aided by far more limber scanners. The guards at the scene, as instructed, carried the presumed dead blue creature off in a half-closed body bag to the Overlander's ship, while others began clearing out the area of the impact from debris and disabled bots. Soon enough, their unknowing captive was strapped to a table in a surprisingly well-lit, white-plated room with machinery and items that would appear honestly alien to just about anyone unfamiliar with them. Robotnik, as well as two assisting guards eventually entered the room, with the Overlander, of course, outside of his armor.

"You, check for Lifesigns, keep it unconscious if it's alive. You, connect the main spine to its body." Robotnik ordered, then went to sit himself down on the chair in front of the computer which currently said "NO CONNECTION" on the monitor with a green wireframe of a mechanical spine and ribs spinning horizontally. As the robots went to work, confirming Lifesigns and then injecting this creature with an unknown liquid, and finally connecting the metallic, skeletal apparatus to its body, it was strangely apparent that the wrist-mounted device this unknown entity had was removed, likely before it was brought in here...

The day had started out like any other for Sonya albeit a whole lot earlier, it was her day off and eager to be far from the comforts of home, she idly wandered through the forest on her way to sit and spend hours fishing of all things. The irony in her distaste for the idyllic hobby wasn’t lost on her but it was a decent distraction, and helped her feel closer to him on her worst days.

While on her travels she paused to lean down and inhale the familiar sweet scent of the woodlands wildflowers only to stop short when she felt the hairs rise on the back of her neck. Perhaps it was instinct but somehow the fennec doctor knew that something bad was about to happen. She barely had time to process what happened next as multiple trees came crashing down around her much to her alarm and had it not been for her gut feeling guiding her she would have remained completely exposed after darting out of the way of the timbre pines. Flattening herself against a tree that had just about managed to miss out on a slashing, when she dared risk a peak she felt her stomach churn. She was looking at some sort of base camp and not only that but there were dozens of humanoid looking robots sweeping the area. And there was only one person she knew that was capable of creating mechanical monstrosities like this, but that couldn’t be the case Amy made sure of it didn’t she? none of this was making any sense!

Knowing that she couldn’t afford to stay in one place for two long without her position being outright compromised Sonya skilfully and soundlessly hoisted herself up into the confined branches of the tree she’d been pressed against straining her neck to get a better view at what had to be dealt with. This was bad really bad, and then just when she thought things couldn’t get crazier they did. Out of nowhere a storm suddenly began brewing but for Sonya there was an almost odd sense of familiarity about the way it occurred. As thunder boomed her large fluffy ears half flattened against her head, but still she sat ridged waiting. From the distance she was at she couldn’t make out nearly as much as she wanted to but a glimpse of an electrically charged portal opening up was more than enough to spur her curiosity. However she knew that she couldn’t just go rushing into this she needed a plan she needed back up.

Tapping at her communicator she rattled off an emergency SOS message on a wide range frequency. “If anyone is reading this, this is Sonya Heart, I’m messaging for immediate back up! this is an emergency if anyone is reading this please hurry and please be careful the forest is being patrolled by unusual looking robots and I don’t want to think about what will happen if any of us are caught by one of those.”  

 

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