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Midget in a hazmat

[No, really, there is what looks like a midget in a hazmat suit, with a little note pad in its hands. It stops after several steps, looking around the hub, confused. This...did not look like where they were just three seconds ago. Not even close. Too bright...and...flying rings? The circus? Or...

Also said hazmat suit is covered in smelly gunk, but don't let that deter you.]

((OOC: Check her journal. I have no shame.))

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[Having just returned from a wonderful little tour of the replica Robotropolis—quite a lovely little stroll through good memories—Eggman had found himself still lacking any real information about the nature of this Zone.

So that was why he'd hopped back through into the lobby … only to find himself sharing it with what he could only presume to be either a Mobian or Snively underneath the concealing safety suit.]

I think you can take that off.

Huh?...Oh, right.

[And off comes the helmet! Sheepishly she looks around; even as she looks at Eggman, though, there is definitely a lack of recognition in her eyes.]

Must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Sorry for that.

[Princess Sally? For a moment, Robotnik was taken aback, but ever-careful to not let it show on his face. Not that, with the opaque glasses and immense mustache, it would be easy to detect if he did, but having a strong poker face was a good quality.

And she didn't seem to recognize him at that. Such … potential. He grins in a manner that could be called friendly, if a little predatory.]

Yes, well, it seems we've ALL taken a wrong turn.

I guess so!

[She looks around some more.]

This is...is this a government building? Never been inside one of them...

[He folds his arms behind his back and moves to stand besides her.]

Hahaha, no, I'm afraid it isn't. This is, as strange as it may seem, some sort of alternate dimension.

[He offers one hand to the short girl.]

Dr. Ivo Robotnik, at your service.

Alternate...dimensions? It does sound like science fiction...

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik? She goes to shake his hand.]

Oh! Sally. Sally Evergreen.

[Evergreen, not Acorn, hmm? He puts on his friendliest tones.]

Oh, let me guess. Put together my name and what I just told you, and I'll bet the conclusion you're drawing right about now is 'I'm talking to a mad scientist'.

[At this, she can't help but sheepishly chuckle. She had to be nice to the humans, after all. Hell, this could even be one of her bosses.]

Well, I admit the name does sound pretty out there! But it's not the most unusual I've seen.

I can only imagine!

This place is basically a large, single story building. These rings–

[Here he gestures to one.]

–allow for transportation to various locales, which I assume to be for the purposes of recreation.

I admit, I don't quite understand it myself. And I was in the middle of a project too when I arrived.

[Such a project it was.]

Yourself?

Actually, I was...checking the electric gauges in the city sewer system.

[She looks slightly embarrassed at this.]

I'm supposed to check in with my supervisor in an hour...

[That's right, Princess, keep the information flowing.]

As long as there's nothing to be done about it, I would try to not worry about that kind of thing for now.

But … a sewage worker? That seems hardly fitting. You seem quite intelligent. And I can't imagine it to be an easy task with all that fur.

[That's right, Robotnik, keep her talking. She honestly has no clue. None whatsoever.]

...The fur's the reason I am a sewage worker.

[Slight hint of bitterness in her tone.]

[Big red exclamation mark time. Metaphorically, of course. There it is. There's what's going to pull this all together.]

…now that hardly makes sense at all.

Tell that to everyone else.

[Her teachers, her classmates, her co-workers, her employees. Those people who told her she couldn't go see a movie or enter a restaurant or play on the same playgrounds as all the other kids. Almost everyone.]

It's sad, but humans can be cruel to their own. Just because someone doesn't fit within the normal–

[He'd sure know all about that, if not for entirely sympathetic reasons.]

–they strike out at them. You're no different from anyone else.

Heh...you sound a bit like my parents. They say that to me a lot.

Ah, so the intelligence is hereditary!

[He claps her on the shoulder, though it's a bit of an effort, given the immense difference in height.]

Keep a stiff upper lip. Someday, people will come to their senses and see you for what you really are—just another human being.

I...hope so, Dr. Robotnik.

[If not, there's always the surgery...if she could ever get the money for it.]

Just … one final word of caution. There are beings here who bear a certain physical resemblance to you. I don't believe them to be humans like you, however.

And they seem somewhat unbalanced, or perhaps delusional. Would you believe that I have been accused of actually being a mad scientist since I found myself here?

[He shrugs, an exaggerated motion. Everything about the man is exaggerated.]

I would try not to take what they have to say at face value, but that's just me.

Really?

[Huh. Well, just became someone had an odd name didn't mean they actually were odd. She totally understood where he was coming from, especially since she was always accused of being a freak, a monster. But she knew she wasn't. And besides that, the doctor was treating her so respectfully. How could he be a mad scientist? He didn't act like the ones in the movies and books!

~~Though, how did they look like her...oh well. She'd figure it out eventually, right?~~]

Of course, I'll make sure to keep that in mind if I do see anyone who looks like me.

Yes, I have.

[No, he hadn't. Not yet, anyway. He offers a sweeping bow to her.]

An immense pleasure meeting you, Ms. Evergreen. I hope that if you find yourself in any difficulty, you won't hesitate to request my assistance. But in the meanwhile, I really must return to exploring this place and perhaps finding us both a way back home.

[A subtle and untrue implication that they were from the same place, but not technically a lie either. With that, he proceeds to wander off in a random direction, and right before her eyes, hops through a ring and vanishes.]

!

Wow...

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Midget in a hazmat

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I love this AU, by the way. Now I want to do something with it myself.

Aww, duuuude, thank yoooou.

Yeah, seriously, it's golden.

Do you have AIM or anything like that? XD

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