KNUCKLES
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Knuckles just got the map details from the screen on his comms when Shadow alerted him to a development with the Chaos Emeralds, "Uh oh... We defiantly don't want those going off anywhere near the castle... Lead the way." Knuckles said while following Shadow's lead. They had just turned down a corridor when many of Eggman's Badniks began to fill the corridor, they seemed to be malfuctioning due to exposure from high amounts of chaos energy, "What in the...?" The Badniks seemed to be ripping each other apart, the energy spilling out of defeated Badniks and entering the remaining few, until only one was left, though it's being was unstable, shaking uncontrollably, it turned to see Shadow and Knuckles before darting away and escaping via one of the many vents in the area. "What was that thing!?" Knuckles blurted abruptly, looking down the corridor. He turned to Shadow, "I'm guessing the Emeralds are in there, right?" Knuckles pounded his fists together, "Then let's knock and see who's home." Knuckles said as he began to approach the door.
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ROBOTNIK
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Robotnik looked on at the screen as the hedgehog in the room got zapped, but he seemed to have engaged the Emeralds before the electrical shock occurred, it seemed to be having a curious effect on the room, and the visual knocked Robotnik for a loop, the odd color of the energy being emitted seemed to short circuit Robotnik's already fragile grip on reality. He utterly snapped. He began shaking rather violently, his spasms caused him to act on muscle memory, he entered a several lines of programming into his computer before hitting the execute button. Suddenly the ground unit Badniks, who had fought the defenses of the Acorn kingdom back to the castle gates just suddenly ended their assault, they began moving in irregular patterns, many acting out certain emotions such as laughter, sadness, fear, and rage, though they made no vocal noise. Robotnik then crawled out of his command room, he scuttled down the hallway before finally sitting down, babbling incoherently to himself while drawing on the wall with a piece of chalk he believed he had, though the chalk wasn't real, he was writing something, one word over and over again, 'BadEgg' through his babbling his always seemed to keep a smile on his face, he began rocking back and forth as he continued his insane activity.
"It's too cold, far too cold... Ha ha heeheehee!" Robotnik turned to his left.
"No, I don't believe I heard that song before, please play it again." Robotnik sneered right.
"It wasn't my fault, they all hated us! Hated Grandpa!" Robotnik held his head up against the wall.
"Why? They always loved Colin more..." Robotnik returned to rocking back and forth while writing 'BadEgg' over and over, he then let a phrase slip out, "Computer, execute termination protocol, initiation code: Epsilon, Gamma, Gamma." With that a massive shake occurred thorough out the Death Egg, the termination protocol killed the Engine entirely, forcing the Death Egg out of the air, on a collision course with Castle Acorn.
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APPLEJACK
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Applejack only got maybe a couple of hours of sleep, she had horrible nightmares, she relived seeing Big Mac as a roboticized monstrosity, how that awful 'Eggman' convinced almost everypony that she and her friends were behind the destruction of Cantorlot, and the horrible monsterous form that Discord attained when he combined his essence with the Chaos Emerald. "This ain't doin' me no good... I'm still shook up from that whole mess..." Said Applejack, panic finally receding as she started up her usual routine. "Maybe I should talk tah Twilight about this... Maybe she got a spell that can nip this 'bad dream' buisness in the bud." Applejack left her house and headed in the direction of Twilight's tree home, hopeful that she might have a solution to her current dilemma.