Jump 102: Sonic the Hedgehog (Movie)

Jump 102: Sonic the Hedgehog (Movie)

Location: Green Hills, Montana
Age: 28
Identity: Absolute Madman

[100/1200]  Blue Devil
[500/1200]  Something That Belongs To Me
[Free]      Your Name Is General Nobody Cares
[600/1200]  Lab Rat With Teeth
[800/1200]  I Calculated Its Spinal Curvature
[1100/1200] Look What Came Out Of My Egg Sac
[Free]      Scientist Style
[1200/1200] Mobile Laboratory

The short version: when the incident in Green Hills went down, not only did Dr. Robotnik get deployed with given carte blanche to do as he saw fit, but the President apparently took that as an opportunity to visit the beleaguered town as well. It's not as though it added too many extra factors to an already complicated situation - aside from the local sheriff being abruptly overwhelmed and then all but pushed out of the way as the Secret Service practically took the town over - but at least it meant that Robotnik actually had someone present who could hold an intelligent conversation with him.

"Ah! Doctor! A pleasure to see you!"
>"Mister President! Always good to see you. Are you here to kiss babies and steal their candy, or are you actually going to help?"
"Ah, you know how it is, always multitasking to keep the other political dogs at bay. But somebody's got to do the dirty work, otherwise the system falls apart."
>"I keep telling you, this is why robots are superior."
"Eh, we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't think that line would get you elected president, though."
>"Ha! Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to be president?"
"More than Lex Luthor would have. Ah, well, I'll leave you with Major Bennington here-"
>"Who?"
"-General Nobodycares-"
>"Ah."
"-and wish you good hunting. Try not to blow up any landmarks this time, would you, doctor?"
>"Well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs..."

Always a delight, that one.

Of course everything going straight to hell in the space of about a day and a half was completely predictable.

Robotnik getting exiled to another dimension and eventually getting his hand on a chaos emerald, well, that was perhaps a bit less so... but the outcome wasn't really in doubt either, to be honest.

>"I... hate that hedgehog."
"Yeah, that's how that tends to go throughout the multiverse with your analogues."
>"How did- oh don't tell me. You're on some sort of pan-universal adventure, and different versions of that blue would-be lab rat are there too?"
"Eh, sorta. Not all that many, maybe a half dozen so far? Thing is, though, this version of you? Is the ideal one. You're not literally shaped like an egg, you keep your ego from overwhelming your intelligence, and frankly if you had half the resources the other versions of you were handed on a silver platter, you'd have conquered the local world cluster ages ago."
>"So in the multiverse's equivalent of golf..."
"Most versions of you have a hell of a handicap. Yours is zero."
>"An unexpected compliment from creation itself."
"Yeah. Tell you what though... since I am a cheating cheater that cheats, why don't I just give you the sum total knowledge of all the data I borrowed from other versions of you?"
>"Do you really think I would do that? Just stand on the shoulders of giants and steal from myself to make better badniks?"
"Yes."
>"You're damn right. Give me that delicious data."

And so Robotnik conquered the world about six months later. Precisely two days later, he decided it was less stressful to just let everyone do what they wanted to do anyway, and fucked off to space after restoring the status quo.