The Day the Earth Stood Still.

By Rose Fox


Well, first off HAPPY EEAOY!!! ^_^ I’m glad that Eggman Empire is still up and running, by Doc Eggman. NEVER LEAVE US AGAIN, DOC!!!!!!!!!! >_< Second, I’d like to sorta dedicate this to Jen Irwin and MaRaMa-TSG for Jen was the one who sorta gave me the idea for this and for just making -me- see the light in Robotnik and MaRaMa-TSG for being an awsome person and fan ^_^.....okay, so I don’t really know here -that- much, I just like her art......don’t hurt me. >_< I will also have to note that the story line goes with both games and Sonic X story lines, so it could be confusing if you don’t know the right stuff.

And before I start, the story that got me this little idea was called ‘ A Most Unlikely End’ It’s not that heat wrenching as Jen’s, but if it’s serious, then my job is done.

( Note: If Jen reads this, I am sorry for all the ‘Eggman’ s. ^_^’ .....It was hard for me too, lol. ^_^;;;;)

And now, for the story, of When the Earth Stood Still.
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“ AUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!! CURSE YOU, YOU SPINY BLUE ABOMINATION!!!!” The overweight scientist yelled out in rage, shaking his fist angerly in the air at him, the two robots Decoe and Bocoe being silent as usual. The blue hedgehog simply smirked wide, snickering a bit with his clenched hands on his hips.

Eggman gritted his teeth. Oh, how he wanted to wipe that smirk off his face! It mocked him so! Once again, like the many times, Sonic had utterly destroyed his robot that he thought would wipe that hedgehog off the face of the earth forever, but it seems that like the rest, it had failed miserably.

“ I -WILL- Get You Someday, Sonic!” He yelled out, as Sonic continued to mock him with his grin. “ Sure ya will Egghead.” He said to him, in a sort of confident tone, with a pinch of kidding. He gritted his teeth harder. “ Well, now that, that’s done, time to take this place down!!!” Sonic declared in a happy tone of voice, a wide grin on his face as he stared at Eggman.

“ You may have foiled my attempt to kill you, Sonic, but that doesn’t mean I won’t let you destroy my base, too!!!” Dr. Eggman shouted, further annoyed by the spiky blue hedgehog.

“ Catch me if you can, Egghead!!!” Sonic shouted out as he speed out of the room, and into the hall. “Your not getting away that easily!!!” Eggman shouted, going down the steps of the upper platform and running after him, Decoe and Bocoe going after him.

“ But Doctor, we can’t catch up with him!!!!” Decoe shouted to him as they ran through the halls to the control room. “ Yes! We couldn’t possible catch up! We are too slow!” Bocoe replied, as Eggman ignored them. He knew it. He very well knew it.

Of all the years he’s fought with him, he knew it. But it never stopped him before and it won’t stop him now. He might as well try and say that he did. Giving up showed a sign of weakness and he was -not- going to let that happen, ever.

He continued to run through the many long hallway of the base, just beginning to lose breath, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong. Sonic was fast, real fast, so the base should have been self destructing long ago, and yet nothing has happened. Not one single thing.

Maybe he just wants me to get there before he destroys the control panel. He thought to himself, Yeah......that would seem like him, only wanting to mock me in my face more.....

He soon turned a corner when he began to slow down to a jog.... and then down to a walk and then just stopping completely. He looked down. In pure shock he looked down. He’s mouth gapped a little in surprise as he stared down on the floor, utterly shock and dumbfounded. Before long, the two robots caught up with him, doing the same as him and stopping behind him, looking shocked as they stared at the floor.

They couldn’t believe it. They just could not believe it. There, on the floor, was none other than Sonic the Hedgehog, with a square piece of metal flat on top of him, that had came from the ceiling above, only showing his head, arms that are stretched out, and his feet. He wasn’t moving. Not an inch or a sudden twitch, he was just laying there, motionless and the rest of his body relaxed.

The Doctor soon began going over to the other side, stepping on the side part of the panel to not squash the hedgehog any further as he went over, once he did, he bent over to see Sonic’s face. His eyes were closed, loosened, but you could tell he died quickly with only little pain, his mouth gapped in a shape that showed the same as his eyes, but a small little stream of blood coming form his mouth showing inside injures.

Dr. Eggman blinked behind his glasses as he looked over at Sonic’s motionless left hand, picking it up and feeling for a pulse. Not one beat. His heart was stopped, and was cold to the touch. There was no doubt about it. Not one single doubt.


Sonic the Hedgehog was dead.

The Doctor stood up straight and just stared into space, still in shock. “ Doctor?......Is He........?” Decoe and Bocoe said at once, breaking the silence. “ H-..........................He is!!!! Sonic’s..............Dead................He’s........Dead, He’s DEAD AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!” He answered, laughing insanely with happiness. He began walking down the halls, still laughing with glee, repeating the line ‘ He’s Dead!!!” Over and over to get his breath in as he continued to laugh, and soon he also began jumping in the air kicking his heels together. Decoe and Bocoe watched the Doctor look like a mad man as he soon was out of sight by turning a corner, now only able to hear his insidious laughter.

“ D-Decoe?” Bocoe said, with fear in his voice. “ Yes, Bocoe?” Decoe answered back. “ Wh-...............why do I have a bad feeling?” “ I don’t know.....but I have it too.” Decoe answered back, the two robots both shivering. Something bad was going to come of this, and they knew it. They knew it.

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The robots he passed looked confused as the Doctor laughed, repeating the line over and over, making some puns, including one where he was just passing a bucket, kicking it, and unknowingly hitting one of the robots that was looking at him dumbfounded, making him fall to the ground even more confused than before.

Despite all of this, the Doctor didn’t notice it one bit. Not one bit. For once in his life, he was happy, more happy than he’s ever been. He hadn’t felt this happy since the day he created his first robot, since the day he begun his work, he had never felt -so happy-. He continued, going into his private lab, which no one was to enter but himself, going over to a control panel and placing his right hand on it, his left going over where his stomach would be, bending over from the sheer pain of him laughing.

He couldn’t stop, he couldn’t stop, and in fact besides the pain, he didn’t want too. He didn’t last long staying at the control panel before placing his right arm with his left and backing up, and stumbled, his back hitting the wall, and he was still laughing, as though he would never stop, slowly sliding down the wall, now his right hand covering his face.

( Note: GOD!!! This guy has LUNGS!!!! O_O Yeah, getting tired of writing laughing, folks, sorry for that...>>)

Soon, he was sitting on the cold floor, his head up against the wall, as his laughter began to die out, finally able to get breathes of air without it going out on a laugh. And yet, at the same time his laugh winded down, it lost it’s tone of happiness. When he got to a simple chuckle, it was a nervous chuckle sounding grim, and there he stopped, heaving with breathes. And there, he begun to think to himself.


He’s dead. Finally dead......no longer will the accursed hedgehog foil my plans........mock me with his grin .......destroy my machines.......no longer able to run or save the people of this earth........never to run...... never to enjoy life......never to see his friends again......‘And my spirt will be lifted, Never More’...........

He shook the thoughts out of his head. For one moment, it sounded as though he was sad for the pesky rodent to be dead...... and then quoting from The Raven?!?!?! He seriously needed some rest. He looked at the clock in the room, seeing the time. “ 6:00 (P.M.).? Ahhh....what the heck.......it’s not like I haven’t done something like this before....” He muttered to himself as he got up, straightening his jacket out and opening the closed door. As he walked down the halls, the robots no longer looked dumbfounded. Everything was back to normal with him.

Except for the robot who got a bucket kicked at him, still on the floor with a dumbfounded look. That also goes for the robot who is tightly curled up in a curtain. But lets get on, shall we?

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The Doctor couldn’t stay still. It was only 12:00 by now, and since he had begun sleeping at six, he could not stay still. He groaned as he constantly turned on another side, his top pillow covering his head, right arm clenching the top edge of the pillow, sheets only covering his feet due to his twisting and turning from the memories that continued to play in his head. Old memories of old time from the beginning of his evil career to the newer parts of it, like Ark, the Metallix’s incident.

Wasn’t it he who warned them when the Metallix’s army was going to ambush them once they repaired there ship? Wasn’t it he who disguised his own ship as there own to make it look as though they were good and dead? Wasn’t it him who helped Sonic calm himself down when he was using the negative energy of the fake Chaos Emeralds? Wasn’t it him who did a lot of things to make sure nothing happened to them? Was he simply kidding himself this whole time that he wanted Sonic good and dead? Did he.......Care.......for him.........?

These thoughts tore through his mind as he slept, a nightmare begining created in his mind as we speak.

Dr. Eggman stood in the room, looking wide eyed, and utterly scared of the figures in front of him with glowing yellow eyes that seemed to pierce through his body. “ We’re going to kill you, Eggman!!!” The first one shouted angerly. “ How could you kill him? How could you!!!” The second screeched out, making him wince at the sound of it, “ You Killed Him!!! And You’ll Pay for that!!!” The last one bellowed out in complete anger.

He began backing up to the wall. “ N-no!!! I.-.............It Wasn’t My Fault!!!” He said in fear, breathing heavy, quivering in fear. “ I didn’t Do it!!! I-.............It wasn’t my fault!!!” He pleaded once more, down sliding down to the floor as the figures began to engulf him in darkness. “ I’M NOT A MURDERER!!!!!” He shouted out before there was only darkness and the evil laughter coming from the figures.

But none of this woke him up, he simply endured this horrifying dream, sweat coming off his face, until he heard somthing that was not from his dream, but from the outside.

“ Hey Eggman!” Sonic’s happy greeting voice range out.

Dr. Eggman’s eyes shot open, as he lifted himself from laying on the bed, only to fall off the edge, landing head first, his feet still on the bed. “ Oww.....What in the world?....” was all he could mutter out of his mouth. He picked himself off the ground, standing up, straightening his jacket, when he heard it again, “ Hey Eggman!!!” He jumped, turning around to look behind him to see nothing there. He could of sworn he heard it from behind him....

“ Gaaaaaaaahhhhh.......my mind is playing tricks with me....maybe if I got some more rest, I-”

“ Hey Eggman!” it rung out, now repeating it’s self over and over again, creating a continuous echo effect. He grabbed his pillow from the bed and put it over his ears, hoping to die the sound out, but it was just as clear as before he placed it on his head. “ GAAAAAHHHH!!!!! WILL YOU SHUT UP, YOU STUPID HEDGEHOG?!?!?!?!” The Doctor yelled out, throwing the pillow hard on the ground.


It didn’t answer. It just kept on. It was driving him mad. He opened the door and began to run, hoping that maybe the voice was coming from his room that if he ran out, he would no longer hear it, but that seemed to fail as well. He continued to run, wanting the hedgehog’s voice to stop. Why? Why was this happening?!?! He didn’t kill him!! He didn’t mean to-

He stopped with thinking, shaking his head to discontinue the line, saying to the voice as though it heard his thoughts, “ I want you Dead, you idiotic Rodent! You -KNOW- I hate You! Why won’t you just leave me be?!?!?!” But it didn’t stop. The voice continue to ring on, as though it was going to haunt him forever.

As he ran through the hall, he saw that one of the doors was opened and when passing by it, he did a sharp curve into the room and closed the door. It stopped. As soon as the door was shut, the voice was gone. Sonic’s cheerful voice was no longer echoing through the halls making it just like any other night, dead silent. Dr. Eggman looked around, his head twitching with ever move of his head. He wanted to make sure it was gone.

Nothing. It was just like any other night. Dead Silent. Dr. Robotnik sighed in relief, turning around....to see Sonic’s body on one of the examination tables. He jumped at the sight, but soon sighed, shaking his head, and walking towards him. “ Oh man.....something is going around here and I don’t like it.” He was soon at Sonic’s side, looking at his motionless body, raising a brow. “ I wouldn’t be surprised if you had something to do with it, hmm.” He muttered, placing his right hand on the edge of the table. He began to chuckle lightly.

He looked at his face. “ Well, well, well, Sonic, my admirable adversary, just look at yourself now. Didn’t expect to die like this, ehh?” He said, beginning his gloat to the lifeless body, a grin on his face, “ Getting crushed by a ceiling tile. A TILE. Out of all my machines, what I make that finally kills you is a -loose- ceiling tile....heh, heh, heh!” He chuckled a bit before continuing. “ You’ve gone and done it to yourself now, hedgehog! You’ve ran your last run. You’ve destroyed you last machine. You’ve had your last fight, and when you died you weren’t able to say goodbye! Just liked I always dreamed....” He could feel his throat beginning to get dry. “ Just...like I’d dream.......”

“ And here you are now. Dead. Just a lifeless body that can no longer be used. That is no longer needed on this planet. A simple memory is all that’s left of you....” His right hand clenched on the table. “ I wonder what they’ll think of you, dying on them.....dying on them when you were most needed. Letting me, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, take over the world and do as I please without the likes of you to stop me........with no one that could truly ...... stop... me..........”

His teeth began to grit, his hand now hurting from clenching the side so hard, breathing in and out deeply. He then just stared at him, just stared, until his anger made him grab the lifeless hedgehog’s throat with both hands, pulling it so that he could be eye level with him. “ YOU HAD TO -DIE- ON ME, DIDN’T YOU?!?!?!?!” He scientist screamed out in anger, shaking the body violently, “ YOU JUST HAD TO GO AND GET YOURSELF KILLED, DIDN’T YOU, YOU STUPID, IDIOTIC, MORONIC HEDGEHOG!!!!!!! YOU......Just....had too....die....”

He could no longer hold it. He let go of Sonic’s body. He couldn’t hold it in any longer. He felt weak.....unable to keep his body up. The tears he had been fighting back this entire time could not be held in any longer. He soon fell to his knees, slowly taking off his glasses. Once they were off, he gentle placed them off to the side. His eyes were shut tightly, still trying to hold the tears back, but it was no use since you could see small bits of the at the edge of his shut eyes. He placed his right arm on the table, placing his face near his elbow and began to cry.

For one of the first times of his life, he was crying, sobbing, over Sonic. And he couldn’t believe it. After all these years of hating the blue pest, he just now figures out that he was only kidding himself. And not even he knew it. Not even he.

But his grief crying didn’t last long. Before long, the red flood lights were out, flash wildly as the speaker repeated the word, “ INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!” His eyes shot open as he lifted his head. “ Oh now, this is not good................” He said to himself. He picked up his glasses, placing them on his noes and then quickly looked around for a cloth to wipe the noticeable tears on his sleeve. He managed to find a white, small square piece of cloth, picking it up to notice the dried blood stains on it. His eyes went wide seeing this, then remembering that Sonic had a small stream of blood coming from his mouth, and whoever had brought him in the room was decent enough to wipe it off.

The Doctor looked left and right before folding the cloth into a tiny square, keeping the blood stains on the inside before wiping the spot where he had cried on. After that he simply placed it on the table that Sonic was on and left the room. He walked down the halls, going towards the control room, to looks at the security cameras to see who was breaking in at a time like this. And then out of no-where, there was a rumble. He stopped, raising a brow as he looked towards the right wall where he had hear the rumble come from. He looked back towards and took five steps when the right wall was knocked all the way over to the left. Hearing this, he tensed up and looked behind. Out form the dust, stepped out Knuckles the Echidna, cracking his knuckles while staring coldly at him. “ You know, if I were you, I’d run. Then again, why would I want to be you?” He growled. Dr. Eggman gulped, saying, “ Who told you?” “ Bokkun told us everything.” Knuckles replied.

Oooohhh God no, not Bokkun!!!! Dang it, Bokkun!!!” He shouted, beginning to run for his life. “ GET BACK HERE EGGMAN!!!!” Knuckles yelled, chasing after him. Before long, without looking behind him, he heard the voice of Amy, who no doubtingly had her hammer at hand. “ Where’s That Eggman, I’m going to pound him into the ground for killing my Sonic!!!” She shouted out angerly. Dang it, Bokkun, you made them think that -I- killed him!!! When I get my hands on you....

And then it hit him. What if he couldn’t? What if they.........? He shook the thought out of his head. No, no, they wouldn’t kill me.....would they?!?![/O] For one of the first times he wasn’t sure. He wasn’t sure. After the thought, he now knew that Tails was with him as well, as he heard his voice. “I’m Going To Make Him Pay!!!” He shouted out. Boy was he in deep water. Before long, he ran into a room........a room that just happened to be a dead end. And not only that, it looked smiler to his dream. [I] Oh......Oh, God no......I’m gonna......

His thoughts were intruputed as he heard Knuckles’s voice say, “ End of the line, Eggman!!!” The Doctor turned around to see the three. Knuckles had his right fist in his left hand, looking as though he was going to mutilate him. Amy was gripping her Hammer, signs of tears were shown on her cheak, and Tails only had his hands in a tight fist, showing the same signs as Amy, but some tears were still flowing for there was water on the edge of his eyes.

He slowly began to back up to the wall, they could tell that he was tense by his shoulders that were up more than usual. “ Ya’know, Eggman, right when I think you went low enough you get even lower....” Knuckles began, trying to hide the anger in his voice, but it was too obvious for someone to not notice. “ Wait. Listen. I can Explain-” “ Oh, but Bokkun has done and explained for us Eggman, and he told us you killed Sonic!” Knuckles replied back. “ I did NO such thing. -I- Didn’t Kill him!!” Eggman told them in his defense. “ LIES!!!!” Knuckles yelled out, pointing his figure towards him, “ I May Have Fallen For Your Tricks Before, But This Is One Trick That NO ONE Could Fall For!”

Oh great, now I’m getting the ‘The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf’ Medicine.... Eggman thought as he stared, terrified of the three. “ I’m -NOT- Lying, I swear!! Whatever Bokkun told you is false-” “If Everything he said was false, then where’s Sonic?” Amy asked angerly. Eggman paused, before continuing, “ Except for Sonic’s death. Whatever he told you about me, -that’s- false. I Didn’t Kill Him!!! I Was Running down the hall to the control room when I found him dead on the floor crushed by a ceiling tile!” “ Sonic couldn’t die from a ceiling tile!” Tails shouted out, “ Your not fooling anyone!!!” “ I -SWEAR- I didn’t kill him!!!! I’m -Not- A Murderer!!”

“ -That’s- what you say.” Tails replied as they all started towards him. And it was here that Dr. Ivo Robotnik, morally known as Dr. Eggman, was now, officially cornered, the wall at his back and his only exit was blocked by the three you were coming towards him, no doubt to kill him for the blamed death of there friend.

And here, all seemed hopeless...................