With Mecha Sonic, Robo Knuckles, and Tails Doll defeated, you've successfully kept Chicago safe, and dealt a blow to Eggman's forces. Still, there's a lot that's left unexplained. Who was that mysterious voice? Why did these robots look so different from the ones you've seen before now? Why didn't Sonic and friends recognize them? There's no answers to your questions today, unfortunately.
You'll be escorted home by the trio after everyone's picked themselves up, healed off the damage, and had a moment to recover. Feel free to play out the immediate aftermath and/or the return to the base in this post!
Would it not be more responsible, then, to make it a certainty that he would not?
[It's easy enough to do. He'd thought about it for a moment back in the Lab. One step off the side of that tower and the entire problem would have been neatly solved - only, he couldn't do that in front of Arven.]
Do I want to be here? [Really, what does that matter?] It is preferable to where I was before. I have not been of much use, but so long as I am not taking up any resources, I suppose that may change at some point.
[It was a waste. Of life, of potential, of finding a way to rectify whatever damage had been done no matter how impossible such a task may have seemed. If dying would fix everything, then Viktor would not have been standing here in the first place. There had to be a way--no, he knew it was possible. Even a machine could be liberated from the force that controlled it.]
...I think 'preferable' is not the worst start one could make.
[It's hard to say he likes this place. Yes, he's always dreamed of going out and exploring the world himself, just like the children got to...and now he can! He's working, somehow, even outside of the crater! Still, he supposes that dream never involved wandering alone through a dead world. His outings are not fun adventures; they're mostly just depressing. As for the base...well, it's just a nicer building for him to sit and work alone in.]
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cw: suicidal ideation
[It's easy enough to do. He'd thought about it for a moment back in the Lab. One step off the side of that tower and the entire problem would have been neatly solved - only, he couldn't do that in front of Arven.]
Do I want to be here? [Really, what does that matter?] It is preferable to where I was before. I have not been of much use, but so long as I am not taking up any resources, I suppose that may change at some point.
cw: more of that
[It was a waste. Of life, of potential, of finding a way to rectify whatever damage had been done no matter how impossible such a task may have seemed. If dying would fix everything, then Viktor would not have been standing here in the first place. There had to be a way--no, he knew it was possible. Even a machine could be liberated from the force that controlled it.]
...I think 'preferable' is not the worst start one could make.
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[It's hard to say he likes this place. Yes, he's always dreamed of going out and exploring the world himself, just like the children got to...and now he can! He's working, somehow, even outside of the crater! Still, he supposes that dream never involved wandering alone through a dead world. His outings are not fun adventures; they're mostly just depressing. As for the base...well, it's just a nicer building for him to sit and work alone in.]