Eggmanland Amusement Park - The Eggiest Place on Earth

[Dr. Mechano]

In the heart of Eggmanland stood the doctor's citadel and main base of operations - an enormous structure built into a gigantic golden statue of Eggman himself. Surrounding this base was the elaborately-decorated amusement park district of Eggmanland - featuring rides, games, live entertainment, and other attractions at all hours of the day.

As such, the amusement park had become the crown jewel of Eggmanland - a place where its citizens loved to gather, shop, socialize, and have fun. A sizable crowd of humans, thropes, and robots alike were merrily milling about the park already.



"Ahh, I never get tired of this place!" Eggman said, strolling into the amusement park's main courtyard with Ada and Milo in tow. There were gift shops and food stands on either side, and a short distance away, some poor sap in an Eggman mascot costume wearily waved at passersby. Eggman grinned at the costumed performer, and shouted, "Lookin' good!" just as he did every single other time he saw him.

Approaching an ice cream cart, Eggman greeted the attendant, "Greetings, shopkeep! I would like one frozen custard with extra eggs! Also, she's with me..." Eggman gestured down toward Ada, "So fix her whatever she likes!"



The man running the concessions stand nodded, "Eyy, you got it, Doc! Comin' right up!"

He smiled down at Ada as he prepared Eggman's order, "And what'll the little lady be havin' today?"

[Jammerlee]

Rising up onto her tippy-toes, Ada looked over the flavor menu. "Umm," she hummed to herself. "How about a strawberry frozen custard?" she asked, rocking back on her heels. She idly took a hand and brushed at her pant legs as she looked over at Milo. "What about you?"

@sebacon@ Bacon, who had spent the majority of the time glaring at Milo, approached the cart and tried to reach up to see the goods being sold by the vendor. A look of longing washed over his expression.

[Val]

Still feeling somewhat traumatised from Eggman’s threat, Milo simply followed behind the pair in a catatonic state. It wasn’t until they stopped that he blinked and realised where they now stood. Despite his demure outward appearance he was fairly competitive and often found himself in this district during his free time playing the arcade games.

While hesitating to left the Doctor and Ada place their orders before wondering if he was allowed to get something of his own the coyote noticed the forlorn expression on the small ballhog infront of him. It wasn’t exactly lost on him that Bacon did not approve of him but still…he felt sorry for the poor thing.
Taking in a sharp breath through his teeth Milo muttered “Pleasedon’tblowup.” Under his breath before swiftly reaching down and scooping the porcine badnik up and placing it on the vendor’s stall before recoiling just as quickly.

Clearing his throat he offered a weak wave to the vendor himself, “uh…d-do you have any rum raisin? If that’s okay?” His gaze moved to his Emperor for any sign of disapproval.

[Dr. Mechano]

"Order up!" the attendant shouted, handing everyone their orders.

He took Eggman's money for his and Ada's orders, then turned to Milo, "5 Rings, buddy."



"Egg-cellent as always!" Eggman said, merrily snacking on his dessert, "Hohoho! Because custard's made of eggs, you see."

He paused and grinned for a moment, a bit prouder of that joke than he had any right to be, before glancing down at Ada, "...Ahem! Anyway, Omelette, where would you like to go next? Any particular rides or attractions catch your eye?"

[Jammerlee]

@sebacon@ Bacon's eyes went wide as he was scooped off the ground. He struggled and grunted in Milo's grip until being set back down. The little pigbot blinked, looking around at the much higher vantage point he now sat on. His nose twitched and he made a few confused grunts before giving a sideways glance back at Milo.

Ada squealed at the sight. "Omigosh hold that pose!" she said, reaching for her camera and snapping a few pictures. The ballhog blinked a few times before getting up and looking for an easy way to get back down. Ada took an opportunity to get a lick of her custard as she put the camera away before turning back to her father. "Hmm.. how about... that one!" she said, pointing at a poster advertising a magic show by none other than the Heavy Magician.

@sebacon@ Bacon gave a frustrated huff as Ada turned her focus away from him and his plight. He looked back at Milo with a few uncertain snorts.

[Val]

“I..I was trying to help.” Milo muttered to the disgruntled Ballhog, holding his hands up defensively. At the attendant’s prompt he shoved a hand into his pocket, fishing out a handful of the golden ringlets and offering them over in exchange for his treat.

At this point he wasn’t even really sure if he was still invited along with the Robotniks or if he was simply following them around like an awkward stalker now.
Twisting his face with a look of uncertainty, Milo glanced back to Bacon shuffling about and hesitantly offered his ice cream out for a taste…not that he had any idea if he even –could- taste it but...worth the offer.

[Jammerlee]

@sebacon@ Bacon's eyes went wide at the frozen goodie. He looked up at Milo and then back at it several times before mashing his snout into it. Squealing gleefully the porcine badnik's heard jerked in an odd sort of way and his eyes momentarily frizzed up with static.

Having her attention caught by the badnik's sounds, Ada turned back and gasped. "Oh, Bacon, no!" she said, running over and grabbing the pigbot off the stand. Bacon grunted in dismay and struggled to get out of her arms, his little limbs flailing toward the direction of the ice cream. "Shh, come on, Bacon, calm down! You know better than to try to eat people food! You'll short yourself out again!"

[Dr. Mechano]

"Hoho, splendid idea! Heavy Magician's tricks are a sight to behold!" Eggman said, leading the way to the performance, "I'd know, after all; I built her myself! Err..."

Eggman turned around, just noticing Ada tend to Bacon. "Whew, good thing you caught that, Omelette. You've become quite a good caretaker to little Bacon, haven't you?"

"You may not know this," Eggman said, now addressing Milo, "But Ball Hogs are first-generation terrestrial Badniks. And as such, they're not water-proofed. Later land models were given more efficient water-resistance, though. Just one of the many improvements I've made to the Badnik line over the years. Hohoho..."

Eggman could have droned on for a while about his ingenious robot designs, but was cut short by the blaring loudspeakers throughout the park.




A short distance away, on an outdoor stage, an elaborately-dressed Eggrobo poofed onto the scene in a puff of smoke, bowing theatrically to the audience.

"Come one! Come all! To the most dazzling magic show in all of Eggmanland!" the Eggrobo boasted, "Behold, the great...! The powerful...! The amazing Heavy Magician!"

The audience began applauding, much to Heavy Magician's delight. She just adored attention, and these performances were the perfect chance for her to show off.



"Oho, looks like the show's already starting!" Eggman said, walking briskly, "We'd better hurry on over there!"

[Val]

More anxiety ontop of more anxiety. At first Milo had just stood still, as if feeding a deer, as the pig badnik buried its snout into his ice cream. It was...nice. For a moment he thought that maybe Bacon wouldn’t seem to hate him anymore after this, like he’d succeeded in proving he just wanted to be friends. Then the Ballhog had glitched and shuddered.

As Ads ran over and took the tiny robot away Milo was left feeling mortified. What if he’d inadvertently caused some permanent damage to him? Hearing Eggman’s comment about water proofing just made him feel more incompetent. He should’ve known this. Now Bacon and most likely Ada too, wouldn’t trust him for potentially damaging her pet.

Hunched forward in a mortified slump, the lavender coyote simply followed behind until his ears twitched at the proud announcement of Heavy Magician. He had to admit he’d never seen her shows, magicians were something he’d…never really been interested in. Taking a few licks of his cone before it started to melt, he shuffled in beside Eggman, looking for a seat. Maybe the sit down would give him some time to calm himself at least.

[Jammerlee]

Having taken a seat between her father and Milo, Ada took a look at the coyote and took notice of his torn up expression. Bacon was still staring intensely at Milo's ice cream and occasionally pawing in the direction of it. Ada gently swatted at the pigbot's ears with a small "Bacon, no, that's bad for you."

Returning her focus back on Milo, she chewed on her lip, adjusted her hold on Bacon, and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hey," she said. "Don't feel bad over Bacon, please? You didn't know any better and he doesn't care."

@sebacon@ In response Bacon just gave a huff and stuck his snout into the air.

[Dr. Mechano]

"Ooh, it looks like we have a special guest, everyone!" Heavy Magicial snapped her fingers, and her spotlight moved into the stands to shine down on Dr. Eggman. From the now darkened stage, Heavy Magician continued narrating, "Why don't we give a hand to my creator, the genius Dr. Eggman, everyone?"





"Ohoho! Oh, you're too kind..." Eggman grinned and waved back as the crowd applauded for him, "But do go on! ...Seriously, go on."



Suddenly, Eggman's own voice echoed from the stage.

"Yes... I just love being the center of attention, don't I?" said a voice eerily matching Eggman's, even though the doctor's lips weren't moving, "After all, I'm the greatest scientific genius of the world - Dr. Eggman!"

Another spotlight shined down on the stage, and in Heavy Magician's place was... Eggman? Or at least it looked a lot like him.

"Hooo hoo hoo hoo! It looks like there's more than one of me!" Eggman's double laughed, pointing to the audience, "Clearly this man is just a good-looking imposter in the audience! He could never hope to match my brains, my good looks, or my magnificent mustache! Yooosh! I hate that hedgehog!"



The audience laughed at Heavy Magician's impersonation, but Eggman grumbled quietly.

"Pfft, what? That sounds nothing like me."

[Val]

At Ada’s touch the coyote flinched, like he’d been splashed with ice cold water. His blank stare interrupted by being dragged back to reality.
Letting out a sigh, he nodded. “Right…I just..t-tried to help and I didn’t know..”

Before another word could come from Milo his head snapped forward to the centre stage as Heavy Magician began making her announcement. As soon as the spotlight hit the Doctor, Milo seemed to shrink away from it as if it would burn him.

At Magician’s impression the bewildered coyote found himself looking franticly between the Eggman on stage and the one to his side. “H-How did…she do that?”

[Jammerlee]

Ada's hand slipped away to cover her mouth when the spotlight came down. When Heavy Magician began to do her impressionist act, she couldn't help but begin giggling and snorting. "But she sounds just like you!"

@sebacon@ Even Bacon was snickering at Magician's antics.

[Dr. Mechano]

Eggman started to object, but decided against it as Heavy Magician continued her performance. Grumpily, he crossed his arms and continued to watch.



Heavy Magician bowed, and in a cloud of mist, returned to her original form.

"Of course, spot-on impersonations aren't all I do," she said, reaching into her hat, "Watch and be amazed, as I survive the dreaded... the deadly... scrap metal compactor!"

The audience gasped as a smaller curtain lifted, showing an industrial machine used to scrap machinery in junkyards. Heavy Magician, as a demonstration, set a handy steel girder on the device and flipped it on; The compactor smashed it flat with no trouble.

"Now behold!" Heavy Magician said, stepping behind the machine, as if to climb onto it... However, instead, she merely remained behind it - obscured from the audience's vision - and projected a hologram of herself climbing onto the smash platform in her stead. Continuing to speak from below, she continued to rile up the crowd, "Watch as I defy certain demolition! ...And please, don't try this at home!"

Snapping her fingers, the compactor slammed down on the holographic illusion she was projecting, with a deafening thud. After a moment of silence, it retracted to reveal... not the broken-down wreckage of a former robot, but rather nothing at all. As the audience gasped and murmured, Heavy Magician confidently strolled back out onto the stage and took a bow.

"What can I say? I always give a smashing performance! Ooh ho ho ho!"

Heavy Magician threw her head back in uproarious laughter, before stopping suddenly, and gesturing out to the audience, "For my next trick... I'll need someone from our lovely audience to assist me! Any volunteers?"

[Val]

Like a wonderstruck child Milo found his anxiety quickly being chased away by the awe inspired by the Magician’s death defying. The young man’s jaw hung slightly open in a dumbfounded smile as he watched Heavy Magician climb into the compactor and the sudden thud of the machine “crushing” her causing a horrified gasp from the coyote…followed swiftly by applause at the reveal she was alright.

At the request for a volunteer, Milo swallowed hard. Despite the sudden flood of newfound fear in the pit of his stomach at the idea, he felt the urge to raise his hand. Before he could though, he glanced to Ada at his side, “D-Did you wanna go for it? I bet she’d pick you.”

[Jammerlee]

"Hmm.." Ada thought to herself. "OOO, OOO!" she set Bacon down on the ground and hopped up, thrusting a hand into the air and pointing at Eggman while using her other hand to try to lift up his arm by the sleeve. "You should volunteer Daddy! You love being on stage!"

[Dr. Mechano]

"Wait, what?" Eggman asked, as the spotlight shined down on him.



"Well, well! It looks as though our gracious leader himself has volunteered! Give him a big hand as I magically transport him onto the stage!"

Heavy Magician snapped her fingers, and a cloud of thick smoke appeared around Eggman, as his seat suddenly gave way to reveal a trap door that he was swiftly sucked through.



"AaaaaAAAAAHHH!" Eggman shouted, before being dizzily tossed onto the stage from another trap door, nearly blinded by the stage lights as he hazily looked out toward the audience, who applauded his "transportation."

Eggman scowled at the robot and began to grumble, "Heavy Magician, what are you-"



"And now," Heavy Magician continued, deftly ignoring Eggman and drawing attention back to herself, "The esteemed Dr. Eggman will assist me with my newest trick!"

Suddenly, a gigantic yellow tophat fell onto Eggman, obscuring him from view.



"Hey!"



Several more hats fell onto the stage as well. Then more. All in all, there were a dozen person-sized tophats on stage - all identical to each other - and they began to rapidly shuffle, switching places. While they did this, Heavy Magician calmly floated there, not even bothering to keep track of their whereabouts.

"As dizzy as our dear doctor's getting," she continued as the hats kept mixing about, "I, the great Heavy Magician, will be able to use my magical foresight to tell which hat he's under!"

The hats' shuffling slowed, and finally came to a stop. "Now, where could Eggman be? By tapping into my mystic mind's eye... he must be... there!"

Heavy Magician pointed to one of the hats, and as it lifted up, there indeed was Dr. Eggman, just as she'd predicted.

"Give our lovely assistant a hand, folks!"



Eggman's crankiness at being whisked into this stunt was offset by the audience's reaction, and instinctively, he smiled and bowed at the crowd.

Of course, he knew how the trick was performed. Heavy Magician was a robot; All she had to do was detect Eggman's heat signature from beneath the correct hat. But he had to admit, it did make for a dazzling trick to the crowd, and he was glad to see them having a good time.



"Thank you all so much! You've been a fantastic audience!" Heavy Magician waved, "Be sure to catch my next show - you never know what amazing feats I'll show off next time!"

And then, in a flash, she was gone.

[Val]

Admittedly Milo did flinch as the Doctor was transported to the stage, the sudden eruption of smoke and the sudden screaming catching him off guard. In no time at all however he found himself transfixed once more by the “magic” being displayed. Even if he knew there was somehow a logical explanation for the tricks, he still couldn’t help but marvel at the showmanship. Of course it was to be expected, Heavy Magician being a product of Dr Eggman.
It wasn’t until he felt the cold of his melting ice cream running over his fingers that he snapped out of his staring and hurriedly tried to make up for lost time on his treat. While some people may take Heavy Magician’s exit as a sign to take their leave as well, the coyote elected to remain in his seat. Whether he was still invited to spend more time with Ada and her father or not, he just hated being caught in a crowd and wanted to wait til everyone else was gone first.

[Jammerlee]

As the crowd began to disperse, Ada jumped up and came running up toward the stage, Bacon following behind. The young girl beamed brightly up at her father. "That was amazing!" she cried, nearly tossing her frozen custard. Bacon oinked in agreement at her side.

At that moment, Eggman's cellphone began ringing.

[Dr. Mechano]

"Er, excuse me a moment..."

Eggman pulled out his phone, which bore the Eggman Empire insignia and blared out a ringtone of one of his battle themes, and answered it.

"Dr. Eggman here!" he said, realizing that he neglected to glance at the caller ID before answering, "...Who is this?"

[Val]

Seeing Ada rush down to her father, leaving him alone, Milo decided to brave the crowd of filtering people leaving to follow her. Dodging the rude bustlers while munching on the cone left from his ice cream, he managed to make it down and jogged over to the Robotnik family. He still felt like the third wheel and found himself just tapping his food nervously as he watched Eggman on his phone, wondering whether something was wrong…What if Sonic was attacking? What if Eggman ordered him to protect Ada? He couldn’t handle that kind of pressure. His heard leapt just at the idea.

[Jammerlee]

There was a moment of silence on the other end. "It is.. Metal Sonic." the voice on the other end finally responded with an air of confusion. "I need to speak with you. It is urgent. Where can I meet with you?"

[Dr. Mechano]

"Urgent?" Eggman asked, "Ahh, I'm with Ada at the amusement park right now."

He glanced over at Ada and Milo as he mentioned her, "But I can head back to HQ to speak with you. Just give me a moment to wrap things up here. Over and out."

"Omelette," Eggman smiled placidly at his daughter, "I know we just got here, but we need to go home now. Metal's on his way back as we speak! ...Maybe all three of us can try again for a day at the amusement park when things calm down, okay?"

[Val]

All three of us?! Did Eggman mean him or…Metal? M-Metal Sonic!? If Metal Sonic was calling the Doctor it had to be important.
Stepping forward Milo gave a salute. “Uh s-sir. I just w-wanted to thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you. It was an honor. A-And I’ll be waiting for the next time Ada comes by the shooting r-range to help with her marksmanship..” He still couldn’t believe that was his new official role now. He felt a part of some closely guarded secret, trusted only to the most loyal of the Empire.