Through the Looking Glass: Chapter 7-C
Doctor Ivo Robotnik: Chapter 7
Dr. Eggman had arrived at the ruins of the town that his robots had bombarded that morning in his little flying craft. He did not bother bringing any of his ridiculously large add-ons with him, as he knew he needed the extra space for when he would go retrieve the Master Emerald later that day.
However, he was now content in hovering above the town's ruins. Pretty much the entire town had been decimated by the robots the day before; now all that was left was a bunch of piles of rubble with very small contigents of grey smoke rising from the ashes. The game factory of the L.O.G. was now a mountain of rubble in the center over which the sun dangled precariously. Most of the survivors that the robots decided not to take back to the base were now wandering aimlessly, beckoned on by the robots as they all looked for the strongest person there.
Finally, however, the robots seemed to take notice of a rather large brute with green skin and a white lab coat that was milling around as aimlessly. The cuts around his disproportionate eyes seemed to heighten the sense of pity towards the creature, who was already frightened enough as it was. However, the robots (and especially Dr. Eggman) had no sympathy for the figure, and so he was roughly grabbed by the robots and brought right in front of the doctor.
"Ssstrange thingsss let Klungo go!" exclaimed the creature in a sort of half-wail.
"Oh, I don't think so," replied Eggman, having no pity on the ogre even though he was terrified. "What's your name?"
"It isss Klungo," replied the ogre. "Mean man let Klungo go."
"I will, on one condition," replied the doctor, taking a sheet of paper out and handing it to the ogre. "I want you to dig up every piece of rubble in this stupid town, and I want you to find two sparkly jewels. And if you don't do that, then these robots here will exterminate you. And don't even think about trying to bring me the wrong jewels. They look like they do on that paper. Got it?"
"Klungo getsss it, but Klungo hungry too..." replied the ogre as he scratched his head.
Poor Klungo was then hit over the head by one of the robots as Eggman leaned over the edge of his vehicle. "You can eat after you've done what I tell you!" he shouted loudly. "Now get to work!"
Slowly, the ogre stood up, rubbing his head as he groaned in pain. "Yesss, sssir...." he replied.
Klungo had then begun to move around, lifting stones as he moved around.
After around three hours of the poor ogre being abused left and right by the two robots that Eggman had come with, Klungo returned to where Eggman's vehicle was. He waved his arms around in futility at the fact that he had found nothing.
"It isss no ussse..." began the ogre. "Klungo no able to find jewelsss..."
Eggman was quite obviously not happy to hear this. "Try harder!" exclaimed the doctor, rising from his seat slightly.
"But Klungo check under all ssstonesss..." replied Klungo desperately. "Klungo no sssee ssstrange jewelsss!"
The doctor frowned, and then he grabbed a wrench that he so happened to have with him. With three rapid strikes, he had hit the green creature over the head with enough force to leave a dent there. The creature reeled slowly, and then he fell to the ground, blood oozing from his wounds.
"That is not good enough!" cried the doctor, almost maniacally. "Now, get up!"
But Klungo did not get up. For Klungo had been unable to get up after how hard Eggman had hit him. Groaning in anger, the doctor turned to the rest of the citizens.
"All right!" he shouted, effectively scaring everybody else that he had left at the ruins of Showdown Town. "The rest of you! I want you to start looking under every stone and every broken pipe in this bloody city, or else I'll have you all gunned to death by my robots! Now move--!"
Before Eggman could finish his sentence, a droid came up to the doctor and lightly tapped it on the shoulder.
"READINGS INDICATE STRONG CHAOS ENERGY SPIKE AT THIS POINT." A projection on the air was then shown, and a rather bright dot protruded from this screen quite annoyingly. The doctor, however, seemed pleased by this. "COURSE OF ACTION RECOMMENDED?"
Seeing this, the doctor's unamused expression morphed into one of twisted joy. Laughing maniacally and confusing the townspeople even more, he looked to the robot that had delivered this news.
"Excellent," he muttered. "Send all troops here to that point. And this time, I'm coming with them!"
With this, the robot's projection died, and Eggman powered his thrusters. His robots all followed suit, and soon every last one of Eggman's troops had pulled out of Showdown Town. This left the bewildered townspeople to look around.
Finally, a rather large yellow figure with a ruined crown on his head had run over to the downed ogre, bending down as he checked on him. There was no pulse, there was no breath, there was nothing to indicate that the figure was still alive.
"Klungo...?"
And with a lack of reply, the great Jinjo King knew that Klungo was dead.