The long-legged pronghorn deer Mobian walked carefully into the abandoned facility. The green furred young woman tightly clutched her staff, the metal toes of her hoof-like boots clicking lightly on the ground. Her name was Clove, and she was a cyborg, an Egg Boss of the Eggman Empire. She only reluctantly served her lord, as her sister Cassia had a health condition that only Eggman could keep at bay. But as Eggman was a scientist rather than a physician, he could ONLY keep it at bay and not cure it. She kept this fact from Cassia, not wanting to steal her sister's hope. She, like all Egg Bosses, wore a variant of Eggman's clothing, her pants black and her coat gray with white highlights and gold, square-shaped buttons. Her boots had gold trim, lining the shape of her hooved feet.
She walked through the abandoned mine shaft, ready to trigger her staff's energy scythe at a moment's notice. Around her, four Motobug badniks and two Egg Pawns, their glowing eyes acting as flashlights, acted as her bodyguards, the Egg Pawns carrying energy rifles. Things had been going wrong at the mine shaft, hindering the investigation into a possible well of magical Golden Rings. Equipment failures, up to and including explosions, were happening at random with no known cause. Knowing that Eggman would get grumpy and possibly punish her if a potential source of power was lost, she decided to lead an investigation into the mine, having the Motobugs record everything and broadcast it back to the base.
Her younger sister, Cassia, didn't want her to go alone. But Clove had refused to risk any of her troops, and had gone in with only Badniks for backup. She would do whatever it took to protect her sister.
"Scan for any anomolies. Report immediately if mechanical failure starts to occur," Clove ordered. The robots all confirmed the order as they moved deeper and deeper into the facility. Clove didn't like how quiet things were. It made her nervous.
Eventually, they came to a blockade, stones collapsed along the path. She frowned, and ordered the Egg Pawns to stand back. She began to examine the fallen rocks, trusting in her cybernetically enhanced speed and agility to get her out of danger should something go wrong. As she examined the rocks, she noticed something. A strange light pulsing at the back of a tiny hole. She peered in close, trying to get a better look at it. "It looks almost like Dark Ga-" she stopped when she recognized what she was about to say. She realized her mistake moments too late, and was about to call in one of the Egg Pawns to look at it in her place, when a burst of purple smoke shot out. Before she could stop herself, she inhaled it, coughing and wheezing. She clutched at her throat, desperately gasping for breath, coughing up blood as her vision went black...
When she woke up, her uniform was in tatters. The robots and the Mobini powering them were all ripped to shreds, and Clove could taste blood in her mouth. Frightened, she found her staff and used the energy scythe's light to guide her out of the cave as fast as possible. She had to get back to base. She needed to figure out what happened, why her clothes and her robotic minions were destroyed.
She told herself over and over again that the Mobini didn't have bite marks in them. That the blood in her mouth was her own.
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