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Cassia was pretty restless after pretty much.. Nothing happened over at that pyramid. Wanting something to do, she took the Super Egg Robot up north-east, to see what was in the snowy region of Soleanna.. And found an Eggman Base!

It was offline, though.. Nothing she can't handle! Heading deeper in to what she soon found out was called 'White Acropolis', she disconnected her E-2000 from the Super Egg Robot (not before marking where it was, though. Can't afford to lose it.) and went around from badnik to badnik until everything was operational again. (Admittedly, it took a LOT of effort, but she's not gonna mention that. She IS the only witness, after all.) If only Clove could see her now!

Mod used for screenshots: Biscuit's Halo CE Custom Beta Overhaul.

2:36 A.M., Ring time: The last scheduled missions return to base. Some hours later, the base is infiltrated via pelican by Spec-ops Elites, triggering the Battle of Alpha Base.

60 hours into the mission to 68 hours into the mission: The Master Chief fights waves and waves of flood across four floors of The Library to retrieve the Activation Index. Upon returning to the Control Room, the true purpose of Halo is revealed: eliminating all life in the galaxy to starve the Flood. Quickly turning on 343 Guilty Spark, the Chief proceeds to go through the valley disabling pulse generators to buy time to destroy the Pillar of Autumn.

Once all three were disabled, Cortana then used the ring's teleportation systems to transport Chief to the Truth and Reconciliation to retrieve the captain's Neural Lace. Upon discovering that Keyes is part of the Proto-Gravemind, the captain's face is destroyed to retrieve the Neural Lace, after which the Master Chief immediately backtracks to the hangar, retrieves a banshee, and begins the long flight to the Pillar of Autumn's crash site.

There had been.. surprisingly little resistance to the takeover. Cassia expected at least some big names she'd recognize to show up.. But, nada. None of them! Only two mobians even showed up, and she talked one of them down! (And an Angel, no less!) Not that she's complaining.. Having a success on this scale was better than coming out empty-handed..

But, now that it was all said and done, in came the boring parts: putting out the fires, slapping Eggman logos on things that didn't deserve it, and mentally preparing to give some kinda report on this when Eggman eventually asks.
She is NOT the kind of person for that stuff.. Ugh..

Cassia was a bit stumped on what to do after getting access to what apparently is the Egg Carrier after all. While.. 'inspecting' the badniks on the ship (figuring out what they even were, since they didn't exactly look like eggman's typical stuff), she happened to notice a city to the southwest.

She did need to prove herself to the Doctor, and there was an opportunity right there.. What better way to show competence than to take over a Principality?

Hurrying back to the bridge of the ship, she changed course for Soleanna, giving out orders to the Egg Carrier's badniks in the mean time to get ready for.. Combat operations. (Though, come on, it's just gonna be a bunch of humans down there, civilians too. Won't be too hard.)

Once the Egg Carrier gets in deployment range of the principality, Droves of the ship's Egg Flyers and basic Egg Gunners depart the ship to begin securing the streets. Until then, the flying fortress circles rather ominously over Soleanna.

NOW LOADING...

When Cassia was told to 'Take a shuttle off the runway and find a suitable ship at the Aquatic Base', she was half expecting this to be an elaborate way to get her shafted to some kinda base like Akhlut's, especially since she doubted any 'ship' as Eggman tended to define them could get there.

Still, she went there anyway, relying on autopilot since before this she had no idea that base existed. On arrival it looked quite.. Different to the usual look of Eggman bases, along with some bizarre looking badniks guarding the place. Definitely not his usual designs, that's for sure.

Though.. There was what could be described as a 'hangar'..

When she entered, she first noticed a repainted E-2000, leaning forward with an open torso.. Then she saw the giant ship. It vaguely looked to resemble an Egg Carrier in it's general shape, though that was about where the similarities looked to end.

Not seeing a way up that wouldn't take ages, she decided to try out the E-2000, doing the totally intelligent option of climbing in (with a bit of effort given the height), being startled as it closed around her.

The inside was.. Hollowed out, including the head (to house, get this, her head), just enough to fit her. It took her an embarassing amount of time to figure the controls out, and when she did she put the badnik mech suit into the plane mode (which admittedly was uncomfortable) to fly into the.. Egg Carrier (It's shaped close enough..).

Changing the E-2000 back to it's standard form, she continued up to the bridge and promptly set the ship to fly out of the underwater base (apparently the hanger leads to a see-through tunnel surrounded by the nearby water. Neat.) and into the sky.

OOC: The gist of this cutscene [The Sonic '06 Egg Carrier and the E-2000 mech suit] has been approved by u/Eggman1991 ))

Ignore the political captions, i got it from the meme template site so it wasn't possible to remove. Did my best to put the text over it.

The Striders nearly killed me! But with the unfortunate sacrifices by civilians, they were weakened enough for me to JUST scrape by. Luckily enough, though, my buddies who survived Fort Knox made it through this too. Really hope nothing happens to them in the future.

Sorry i started recording so late, i was distracted on arriving since we were getting shot at. Unfortunately, most of us died retaking the Bullion Depository. They REALLY didn't want us to win. Fortunately, though, the HECU (what's left, anyway) wins again!

They thought it would be safe since the zombie population in the state has been going down recently! 😆 Surprised that i found some officers here, pretty sure they were the cause for the reinforcements. Stopped by Fort Campbell on the way here and charged my PCV, what a relief. Rescued a few people, too!

Recorded this on a helmetcam. I found another soldier along the way over here, and he agreed to help me clear this place. I was surprised to find civilians, even more so to find them alive. Not entirely sure why one of them at the end thought i was Freeman.

Hey guys. It's me. The one HECU soldier from the earlier tweet about the USA rising up against the combine. This is gonna be a monotonous task, so uh.. I figured i'd post this so i could have something to not go insane to.

(( OOC: Found the post's image at { linked post from r/gmod } ))

It had taken nearly a whole gosh darn week of walking (made hell with the fact she insisted on keep the chair on the journey), but Cassia and her travel buddies have finally made it to Egg Base Alpha! Why Alpha? Because she made the arbitrary decision to go to the Egg Bases in alphabetical order. Finally arriving, though, she isn't exactly getting the best feelings from the place..

Neo had been contemplating what to do as of recent, before the idea finally hit him. His original master had been dreaming of Robotnikland (Or, rather, Eggmanland by the time he had overthrown the Doctor), and so arose an idea of building the amusement park to see if the new Robotnik would make proper use of it. It would primarily be him putting in the work, as he quite simply needed something to do.

I had a brain blast when i remembered Markiplier and Cassia were both gamers. Therefore, this 3 minute moonpiss came to be.

Cassia yawned, trying to focus on the shmup she was playing, though it was rather hard given she'd been at this nonstop for hours. The morning was gonna be so awful, and that's not counting the chastising she'd probably get from Clove for doing this so late at night.

Fighting back another yawn, she, feeling a bit lazy (can you blame her?), pauses the game and falls asleep in the chair she was sitting in. It was quicker than going to her bed, fixing it, then climbing in and then sleeping anyhow.

When she wakes up, she isn't in the chair, but face down in a bunch of grass. Sitting up, the chair is on it's side a few feet away. Taking a look around, she's pretty confident she's nowhere near anything she recognizes, just a bunch of grass.. And grass.. For as far as she can see. Her rather elegant response to her predicament? "..Ah, crud."