"I'm starving." Sonic smiled as he and Penny waited in line for their meh burger. "Next exit in munchie town population: Us."
Penny giggled at his actions. "Their burgers are the best."
"I know, right?" Sonic asked.
However, as Penny and Sonic made it out to get their order, Eggman stepped up and hopped right in front of them. "Hey, no cutsies! I was here first!" Eggman claimed.
"No, way, Egghead!" Sonic growled, putting an arm in front of Penny. "We've been waiting!"
"Well, I believe that the barrel-chested gentleman with a luxuriant mustache was here first." Dave, the Meh Burger waiter, said, ushering to Dr. Eggman.
"What?!" Sonic growled. "Are you serious?"
Penny gently put an hand on his arm. "Sonic, don't cause a scene." She said to him, a warning tone in her voice.
"That's how it is!" Eggman laughed victoriously. "Score one for Eggman!" He started doing a little victory dance here and there. When he finished, he smiled down at them. "Just gotta flash the stash,"
Sonic and Penny groaned in annoyance.
Later, Eggman was enjoying his burger, while Sonic and Penny, on the other hand, were waiting, really annoyed with what just happened.
"Oh, that's good. How's yours?" Eggman called over to them. "Oh, right, yours isn't ready yet." He sneered. "Should've been faster, Sonic! Ha ha!"
Dave finally came up with their own hamburgers. "OK, here we are." He said, setting down the tray in front of them. "Two double burgers with extra pickles."
"We said no pickles!" Sonic said angrily. Penny frowned at her hamburger, silently taking the pickles out.
"Oh, this is just the best day ever!" Eggman laughed.
The two sighed in annoyance.
While Sonic and Penny were eating lunch, Dave walked over to Eggman, excitement written on his face. "I'm Dave, big fan of yours, sir. I studied all of your attacks, the bebop gambit, the layer gambit, the gambit!"
"Oh, yes, it was doubly risky!" Eggman said. "I like the cut of your jig. How would you like to be my unpaid intern?"
"It'd be an honor to work with you without pay." Dave said.
"Did I mention I like you jig cut wise?" Eggman asked.
Noticing Penny glancing over at Dave and Eggman, Sonic turned around and got a glance at the whole situation.
"Ugh. Good riddance with that guy." Penny mumbled, taking another bite of her hamburger.
Sonic nodded.
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"Wow!" Dave excitedly cried as he looked around the layer. "I can't believe I'm really here!" He turned to Eggman. "Where do I start?" He asked.
"Only you're just an intern, there's an important job that I don't trust Orbot and Cubot to do." He turned to the boy and held a mop.
"Mop the bathroom."
"Mop the bathroom?!" Dave cried. He whooped joyously and grabbed the mop. "Wow! You know, back at Meh Burger, I had to be a manager to do that!" Taking the mop in his hand, the former Meh Burger manager danced happily and ran out to do his job. Dr. Eggman turned to his robots, saying, "You two could learn something from this kid,"
Orbot and Cubot frowned. They soon turned a corner to find Dave emptying out the trash.
"This new intern worries my circuits." Orbot informed his friend. "I fear his enthusiasm for the most minimum tasks causes us to become inferior by comparison!"
"Yeah, and he's making us look bad too!" Cubot agreed with his fiend. "He does more sucking up than my cousin Susan! And she's a vacuum!"
What they didn't know was that Dave was watching, hate drawing on his features. He had to do something about those robots, and fast!
Later....
"Cubot?" Orbot asked as he searched the layer for his friend. "Cubot? Cubot, where are you?" He called. He noticed a room with the door half open. He walked in. "Are you there?" He called into the darkness.
The round robot began to scan the room with his flashlight eyes, when he felt something plop on his face. The robot placed his hand to his forehead and realized it was oil. Terrified, he looked up to see a trap door on the ceiling, which was layered in oil. Orbot pulled the string to the roof, and Cubot came tumbling down.
Orbot screamed when he realized that someone had dissembled his friend.
"I could have my robots do this," Eggman was saying to Dave as Dave cleaned out the room. "But there's something about unpaid work that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside."
Dave continued to clean when he saw something that caught his eye. "What's this?" He asked, pointing to a machine in front of him.
"That's my old doomsday device." Eggman smiled.
"It's magnificent!" Dave exclaimed, circling it. "I bet it could destroy a hundred worlds!"
"Well..." Eggman stuttered. "Maybe not a hundred. If I connected that power supply." He chuckled. "But one, definitely."
"Dr. Eggman, sir." The doc turned to see Cubot walking over with a dissembled Cubot. "Sir. It's Cubot! He's been dissembled!"
"I don't have time for you two." Eggman frowned. "Can't you see I'm enjoying quality time with my protegee?" He placed his hands in between his eyes, trying to remember the conversation. "Oh, yes. You were praising me." He turned to the robot. "You were leaving."
Orbot hung his head sadly. This was something he'd had to take to someone else.
At Tails's shack, Sonic and Penny watched as Tails unleashed his new invention. "Here it is!" He smiled. "The Reversed Polariser. It takes any force and pulls it and reverses it!"
Sonic and Penny watched curiously as Tails pointed the Polariser to the machine and shot it at the water in the toilet. The two watched in amazement as it reversed the toilet water.
"That's great, Tails!" Penny grinned.
"I'm glad you have an interest in my inventions." Tails smiled. "Unlike some people I know." He frowned at Sonic, who was staring at the plunger he picked up.
"What?" He asked.
"We're looking at you, Sonic," Penny smirked.
"Me?" Sonic asked. "What did I do this time?"
"You know what?" Penny asked, placing a hand on her head in annoyance. "Just let this one skip."
"Guess we won't be needing this anymore." Sonic smirked, tossing the plunger away. However, just as soon as he tossed it out, it seemed to hit someone on the head outside. Hearing a door knock, Sonic, Tails, and Penny walked over to find Orbot standing there, with the plunger on his head.
"Hello. Odd request." Orbot said. "Could I trouble you to reassemble my dismantled friend Cubot?" He asked, and motioned his hands to a dissembled Cubot.
Penny gasped in shock.
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"Great job," Eggman informed Dave as he walked in to see how the boy was doing with vacuuming. "Next thing I need you to do is clean up the robot's litter box."
"Actually, Dr. Eggman." The boy began, clearing his throat. "Now that you consider me your protegee, I was kinda hoping to get a little more evil experience... like... concoct a scheme together... maybe I can pitch some ideas?" He asked excitedly.
However, Eggman shot him down by saying: "Listen, Dave, you're a terrible kid and that's great! But you have to start at the bottom of the evil ladder and work your way up."
"But I've spent a year and a half at the fast food industry." Poor Dave tried to point out.
"Let's give it a few more weeks." Eggman continued.
"A few more weeks?!" Dave couldn't believe it. He got furious. "A few more WEEKS?! I CAN'T SIT AROUND HERE DEFINITELY! WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM, A MEH BURGER?!" He asked angrily, and dodged off. He ran to a nearest room and locked himself in. Eggman soon came up and started knocking on the door.
"You come out this instant." Eggman snarled.
"No! I'll show you! I'm gonna build an evil genius no matter what you say!"
Eggman frowned. Hearing building tools and machinery in the room, the doc leaned in and put his ear to the door.
"David. What is going on in there?" Eggman asked.
"Nothing!" Dave growled.
"You stop right now, young man! That is my doomsday device!"
"Well, you should've blocked the power supply in here and maybe then I shouldn't have put the power supply in MY PANTS!" He growled angrily.
"You're not wearing any pants!" Eggman pointed out.
"My shirt has pockets." Dave pointed out himself, and continued working.
"That better not be what I think it is." Eggman said after a while.
" It depends if you think it is a doomsday device and I just have to SAY THAT!" Dave growled.
"Actually I thought it was my Paganini press. But this is worse!" Eggman yelled.
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Meanwhile, Sonic, Orbot, and Penny watched Tails put Cubot back together. Soon, Cubot came back to life. The girl sighed with relief, putting a hand on her heart.
"You didn't actually doubt Tails, did you?" Sonic asked the girl teasingly.
"Shut up." Penny smirked at him.
"Watch what you're grabbing there, bozo!" Cubot growled.
"Cubot! Huzzah! He's fixed!" Orbot turned to his friend. "Cubot, tell us what's happened to you."
"It's Dave!" Cubot cried frantically. "He dismantled me!" He moaned. "And I like being mantled!"
Sonic, Tails, Orbot, and Penny looked at each other, all sharing shocked expressions.
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"He's activating my doomsday device, hu?" Eggman asked angrily as he tinkered with something. "I'll show you!" He pulled out a sandwich out of a heater and ate it, and glanced at his own doomsday device.
Eggman pushed some buttons on his computer and started the device.
Let the games begin!
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"What's that?!" Penny panicked.
Sonic and the others were discussing what they should do with Dave when weird alarms came from Tails's computer. They ran over to it and opened it. "There's two weird energy signatures in Eggman's layer!" Tails announced.
"What are they?" Sonic asked.
"Judging from how powerful and unstable they are, I'd say it would be some kind of doomsday device." Tails turned to Sonic and Penny. "Two of them!"
"Oh boy....." Penny muttered.
This sounded serious.
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"I'll have you know that I just set off my doomsday device!" Eggman called down the hall. "And it's gonna destroy the world even bigger than that one!" He proclaimed.
Hearing something smash his wall, he turned around to see Sonic standing there, and letting Penny off his shoulders. "Game over, Eggman!" Sonic growled at the doctor, putting an protective arm in front of her. "Shut off the Doomsday devices!"
Eggman cracked up. "Shut off?" He asked. "Who puts an off switch on a Doomsday device?"
"Sonic, he makes a valid point." Penny told her blue best friend.
Sonic groaned and called Tails. "Bad news: There's no off switch."
"Well, yeah, who puts an off switch on a Doomsday device?" Tails pointed out on the other hand.
"So what now?" Sonic asked.
""It's a long shot, but it's our only chance. If we increase the energy output of both devices, and get them vibrating on the opposite frequencies, then there's a small chance they'll cancel each other out."
"Yeah, just a second, pretend Penny and I aren't science kids?"
"Get Eggman to increase it's power. I'll do the same with Dave," Tails said before shutting off his piece.
Sonic and Penny turned to Eggman, who was waiting with a celebratory hat and a party whistle. "Eggman!" Sonic called to him. "Dave supercharged his machine with a thousand volt batteries!"
"High voltage batteries, hu?" Eggman snarled. "I'll show him!"
Very soon, they were all working on the Doomsday devices. It was taking a long time, and Penny was starting to get hungry. Sonic had Orbot and Cubot lead the girl to the kitchen, where she fixed something up. To Penny's surprise, Sonic joined her.
"You need anything?" Penny asked.
"Eggman is making me get him a sandwich," He complained, getting the peanut butter, jam, and bread out. He soon fixed it, and zoomed off. Penny sighed a little, waiting for her pasta to cook.
Soon, he came back. "Sonic?" Penny asked.
Sonic said nothing as he fixed up the sandwich, and the girl giggled when she noticed his mistake. He zoomed off again.
The girl turned back to the stove to start draining her food.
He soon zoomed back again, taking a knife and cutting the bread.
"Eggman won't leave you alone with the sandwich thing, hu?" Penny joked.
Sonic grumbled a no, and zoomed off to give Eggman the sandwich the genius desired.
Penny sighed a little, finished her lunch, and hurried back over to Sonic and the others.
"Hope this works..." Tails mumbled on Sonic's communication watch.
Sonic, Penny, Tails, Eggman, and Dave watched as the machines created a strange destroying tool.
However, it darkened.
"What the what?!" Sonic asked.
"That's more like that!" Eggman smirked.
"There must've been some small power discrepancy!" Tails cried as he joined Penny and Sonic at the door. Sonic looked at his hand, to see that he held a battery. "Let's not point fingers." Sonic said, looking at Tails. "The important thing is how are we going to reverse it?!"
Penny looked excited. "Sonic, you're a genius!"
"That's it!" Tails looked like the same idea had hit him. "My Reverse Polarizer! If you can get close enough, you can reverse the gravitational pull and force it to close in on itself!"
Sonic looked down at Tails. "But...." He began.
"But if you're too slow, you will be pulled into the black hole forever and your existence will be erased."
"Too slow?" Sonic asked fiercely. He grabbed the Polarizer from Tails's hand and smirked. "You're forgetting who you're talking too!"
Penny's eyes widened. "Sonic, I don't think you should...."
"Hey, have a little faith in your blue friend," Sonic smiled, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Trust me." Sonic smiled. Penny and Tails watched the blue blur take action. The girl watched as he hopped on certain furniture to get closer to it.
"Be careful..." Penny muttered, and Tails grasped her hand.
"he'll be ok, Penny." He smiled.
However, a huge flash from the doomsday devices exploded.
"Sonic...." Penny muttered.
To her relief, the girl saw him falling towards the ground, and crashed on Eggman's porch.
Sonic moaned.
"You still think a plunger could've worked just as well?" Tails teased, while Penny on the other hand looked so shocked.
When Sonic got out, the girl grasped him in a hug.
"Penny?" He asked.
"Don't scare me like that again." Penny whispered.
Sonic smiled gently and grasped her in a hug. "You know everything was going to end up fine, right?" He asked, breaking from the hug and putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Yeah, right. I never should've doubted you!" Penny grinned.
"You're absolutely right." Sonic smiled.
As for Dave... he was kicked out of his job. "You little twerp! Your internal days are through. YOU'RE FIRED!" Eggman roared.
"Well, you are going to give me a positive evaluation, right?" Dave asked nervously.
Eggman growled at him. "GET OUT!" He yelled.
Dave took off running.
He then turned to Orbot and Cubot, who were chuckling.
"You two! I'll give you an assignment." Eggman said.
"We're back baby!" Cubot smiled.
Eggman held up a mop and water bucket. "Mop the bathroom."
The two robots slumped in disappointment.
Back at Meh Burger....
"They'll pay for this." Dave growled angrily. "THEY WILL PAY!!" He laughed evilly before returning to his confused looking customer. "You want fries with that?" He asked.