The Decepticons and Eggacons were patrolling the deserts with the Eggacons and Combaticons being more gleeful. \u201cOh, this is just PERFECT!\u201d cheered an Eggacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAin\u2019t it, though?\u201d agreed Onslaught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYeah, peachy,\u201d muttered Ravage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCome on, where\u2019s your sense of adventure?\u201d asked Onslaught. \u201cLook at us all! Searching the Middle Eastern sands for priceless artefacts! Hey, maybe I should get myself a whip and hat! Harrison Ford, eat your heart out!\u201d His foot then touched something. He knelt and saw that it was a blue ring, roughly the size of a standard gold ring, and was decorated in the usual Arabic art style of leaving no blank space. The Eggacon ran a scanner over it and grinned when he got the readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSky Eggacon 79462 to all forces! World Ring located! Repeat, World Ring located!\u201d It tried to pick it up\u2026only for its hand to pass through. \u201cWhat the?!\u201d Onslaught tried to pick it up but met with the same results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOkay, what?\u201d He took over the call. \u201cAll forces, this is Onslaught. The World Ring\u2026okay, I\u2019m gonna say it as I see it, our hands are passing through it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSame with you, huh?\u201d asked Brawl as his own hand passed through a red version of Onslaught\u2019s ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSame here,\u201d remarked Thundercracker once he and Shockwave found the Purple World Ring after giving Megatron the sitrep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou guys too?!\u201d asked a tank based Eggacon as he stood by the Cyan World Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?!\u201d demanded Laserbeak as he considered shooting the White World Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt sounds like Morgane missed some detail!\u201d muttered Frenzy as he furiously tried to pick up the Green World Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t blame me!\u201d argued Morgane as she and Eggman stood by the Yellow World Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho told you about the Rings?\u201d asked Eggman, a guess forming in his mind. Morgane then growled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cErazor!\u201d She pulled out a shining oil lamp and rubbed it. \u201cErazor Djinn, I have my first wish for you!\u201d Purple smoke then spilled forth from the lamp\u2019s spout and the Erazor Djinn stood before her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCommand, Mistress Le Fay, and I will obey,\u201d he intoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpare me the pious servant act! We\u2019ve found the World Rings, but our hands are passing through them! I wish for you to explain why we can\u2019t pick them up and if you knew anything about it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is a compound wish, Morgane. That usually means it\u2019s two wishes. But, given our common goals, I will only count it as one. I DID know that none except a legendary hero would touch them. The World Rings are tied into the hero\u2019s\u2026genetic signature, I believe is the modern phrase. The hero once entered the world of the Arabian Nights, a blue rat you would know, Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSONIC?!\u201d yelped Eggman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd his own genetics are copied over into a foe you would know, Mistress Le Fay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cArthur!\u201d growled Morgane. Her face then softened. \u201cWe can still salvage this! Let THEM do the work for us!\u201d she realized. She rubbed the lamp again. \u201cErazor, my second wish! I wish for you to make this easy for our enemies to find while we lie in wait!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat will mean no obstacles, Mistress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is fine. We shall be obstacle enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen your wish is granted. You have one more left\u2026as per our arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou will be released when our goals are realized, not a second sooner!\u201d The Erazor Djinn bowed as he returned to the lamp. \u201cIn the meantime, I will conceal us all until the Seven World Rings are gathered.\u201d Morgane then started weaving a spell, opening well-stocked underground bunkers to help everyone wait out the Autobots\u2019 search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hedgehog woman, Maria, was looking over something on the moon base. She was alone, so she had the run of the place. She decided to do some research. She went to the search engine, Egg Look Up, and typed \u201cEggman\u201d into the search bar. She found various news results of Eggman\u2019s schemes. What caught her eye, however, was an article about Eggman\u2019s attempt to control the Space Colony ARK. There was a word that gave her pause. \u201c\u2026Robotnik?\u201d she muttered. She changed what was in the search bar to \u201cRobotnik\u201d and got more results. She found a picture of an old man that looked like Eggman, but without his girth. The man was identified as Professor Gerald Robotnik. Maria then felt a flash of pain enter her head for two seconds. During that, more memories were unlocked. \u201c\u2026Grandfather?\u201d she asked. She then pieced something together. \u201cBut\u2026but I\u2019m a\u2026hedgehog\u2026am I?\u201d Maria then noticed something related to Professor Robotnik\u2019s article, a file called Project: Shadow. More pain entered her head, and she remembered a dark figure that always stood by her. Maria then typed \u201cProject: Shadow\u201d into the search bar, only to see a message asking for a password. Maria started thinking and came up with \u201cGlory\u201d. It was an incorrect password, and it reduced her amount of tries by one. She had two left. She tried \u201cEggman Empire\u201d, but it wasn\u2019t right. She thought long and hard\u2026until she thought about what she once said to the dark figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI beg you! Give them a chance to be happy!\u201d her past self pleaded to the dark figure as it vanished in some sort of tube. Present Maria then typed in \u201cMaria\u2019s Wish\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAccess granted,\u201d replied the computer. She then got a look at the file folders related to the project. There was a folder titled \u201cFinal Result\u201d. She opened it and found the files and images relating to the results of Project: Shadow. One of the files mentioned that the project could be replicated. The scientists did so but added human DNA to the mix instead of only hedgehog DNA and the genetic material of a race called the Black Arms. Her mind then flashed onto a monstrous looking creature with no legs, talking to Professor Gerald outside an experimentation tube. She then saw an image of the resulting creature of hedgehog and Black Arms DNA, a black and red hedgehog with shoes, gloves, and rings on his ankles and wrists. The dark figure of her memories was then replaced with the hedgehog. She then remembered more. She had Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome once, a terminal illness that rendered a person immuno-compromised and made the body cannibalize itself from the brain down. Professor Gerald promised her that Project: Shadow would help her visit Mobius and help her be cured. She then remembered a conversation with a younger, trimmer Eggman, though she called him Julian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJulian, you can\u2019t do this!\u201d she begged. \u201cAll people deserve a chance to be happy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaria, you and Grandfather are idealistic fools!\u201d snarled the younger Eggman. It was then that she truly felt\u2026anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought you would carry on the Robotnik legacy of making people happy, but I see I was wrong. She turned from the man and saw her face\u2026her old HUMAN face! Maria screamed in pain as her life was pieced back together, right up to the point where a bullet went through her. She then saw the hedgehog in an escape pod, pounding on the glass and screaming her name. The memories then stopped, and Maria woke up in the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Julian!\u201d she snarled. She spotted the Chaos Emeralds, then put them into a sack, bar the green one. \u201cNow, let\u2019s see if I can do this.\u201d She raised the Emerald into the air. \u201cChaos Control!\u201d She then vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAlert! Alert!\u201d called the computer. \u201cBase empty! Security compromised!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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