This is the longest chapter in the story, but not by that many lines.

Chapter 8: Hidden Past Revealed

After a fairly long journey, Simy & Talulah get back to Tails' workshop. Amy spots them and says, 'Hey, nice to see both of you still OK. Well, you're not exactly in full health, but I mean...' Simy then says, 'It's OK, we know what you mean,' and he put Talulah down, and all 3 went inside, where Sonic, Tails & Knuckles were still. Knuckles sees them and asks Simy, 'Let me ask you a couple of questions, why didn't Eggman kill you in the base? Why did you refer to him as 'Master' the other day, and how do you know so much about the robots?' Simy sighs and says, 'OK, you want the truth, I used to be Eggmans' apprentice.' Everyone gasps, and Sonic says, 'WHAT?! You were an apprentice for Eggman, why?' Simy answered, 'It's not like I wanted to do it, this started back when I was young.' Everyone gathered round Simy, and Tails asks, 'So, what happened?'
Simy explained, 'Back when I was about 5 years old, my parents had disappeared mysteriously. I tried to find them, but I got nowhere. For 10 years, I searched for clues about my parents' vanishing. Until one day, someone approached me...Dr. Eggman, who said, 'I have found your parents, but you must do me a little favour 1st,' desperate to find them, I accepted. He wanted me to design newer, better robots to help him take over the world. But this was only good for 2 years, then Sonic entered the scene. I'm sorry for all the destruction Eggman's robots have caused. Then, nearly 2 years after that, I displeased Eggman and he imprisoned me, but the robots had 'A.I. Mk 1' at the time, so they weren't that smart, and it threw me in the same cell that my parents were in. It was then that I realised, when I tried to hug them, that my 'parents'...were holograms...I then found out my parents died around the same time they disappeared. Once I found out, Eggman tortured me for a month so that I'd never leave...' Sonic asks, 'Wait, out of all the times I've destroyed Eggmans bases, one after the other, how come I've never seen you?' Simy answers, 'Because i'm never in the same base as Eggman when you showed up. I did pray that you'd find me and help me out, but I was in a secret base that couldn't be found...'
Knuckles then asks, 'So, since you were at that base, you must know where it is then, right?' Simy replies, 'Wrong, because whenever I WAS taken somewhere else, I'd be blindfolded, and stuffed in a box so I couldn't see where it was. Then, several weeks ago, I managed to escaped the base north of here, and tried to find somewhere safe to go. But Eggman deployed some of the new robots to hunt me down. Then, a few days ago, they caught up with me, so I ran away, until I found a rock to hide behind. These robots were lacking in proper scanners, so they couldn't see through solid objects, and I thought I'd be safe, but then their scanners picked up Sonic's movement, and that's when I got worried. It wasn't until Sonic was almost finished that I realised the full potential of my abilities...' then Knuckles asks, 'You mean you didn't know you had more power than just speed until a few days ago?' Simy answers, 'Yeah, I only had my speed to get from one room to the other quickly while I worked for Eggman...so anyway, I felt like I had to help Sonic, but my mind said I couldn't, yet my heart said there was something I haven't discovered, so I followed my heart, and jumped in, and as Sonic saw, it helped. And now Eggman is probably plotting my death and trying to finish project 'Y-25'...'
Tail interrupted, saying, 'Project 'Y-25'? What's that?' Simy shudders, but answers, 'It's a highly modified machine, capable of mass destruction. How much destruction, I don't know, all I did was design it's body, and some early core sketches, as well as A.I. Units, but those were only rough ideas, so if he uses some of those ideas, then he...might...' then Simy's eyes widened. Amy asks, 'Is something wrong?' Simy replies with a scared tone, 'He doesn't know how my designs work, he'll try to finish them himself, and they might not work properly, causing 'Y-25' to malfunction...'
Sonic then says, 'Who knows what could happen, we need to find the last Chaos Emerald quick, how long do we have Simy?' Simy answers, 'Knowing Eggman, I'd say about 2 days. But the problem is...I know where the last 1 is...' Knuckles buts in and says, 'How's it a problem?' Simy replies, 'It's in Eggmans base, the reason I had 3 was because I took them from his storage room while I was escaping, but Eggman seemed to know better and kept the last 1 on him, but that's not the worst of the problems...' Tails asks, 'What could be worse than the last Chaos Emerald being in a heavily guarded base?' Simy slowly answers, 'Project 'Y-25' only needs 1 Chaos Emerald to power it up...we'd need to attack his base and take it...but like Tails said, it's heavily guarded.' Knuckles then replies confusingly, 'Wait, why would it only need 1 emerald to power it?' Simy replies, 'Well, not quite power it, more like control it, it's power comes from a custom generator capable of keeping it going for weeks, the Chaos Emerald is just to keep the A.I. under control, because it's that advanced, it needs a lot of energy to maintain it. And don't ask why it couldn't be toned down, Eggman wanted the best of the best, no exceptions.' Sonic asks, 'So, how do we get the Chaos Emerald? We can't do anything with just 6...' Simy responds, 'I know, but it's also my fault the base is well guarded, because of the motion tracker settings I designed, so it's almost impossible to get in or even out, as you can clearly see,' as he points at his bandaged wounds. Tails then says, 'Motion trackers...' but Simy interrupts, saying, Before you get any ideas, these trackers have thermal AND heartbeat...sensors...' Simy then smirks and says, 'but now that's just given ME an idea...'
Simy draws out an above view of Eggmans base, and explains his idea, marking points as he goes along, 'Right, the front entrance is here, me & Sonic will get the attention of the guns, but we have to run perpendicular to the entrance...' Amy interrupts asking, 'What's perpendicular?' Tails answers, 'It means Sonic & Simy are going to run sideways, as in...' Tails points out to Amy on the map, '...the entrance is there, but they'll be going from here, in this direction, so the bullets have much less chance of hitting them,' 'Simy replies, 'Exactly, and while the guns are distracted, Tails can go round the edge of the base, planting EMP bombs...' but Tails interrupts, saying, 'But we don't have EMP bombs because I don't know how to make them...' then Simy replies, 'Hold on, give me a minute,' and he picks up a piece of paper and a pencil, and starts drawing very quickly, then after 2 minutes, Simy slides the paper over to Tails, saying 'You will now, these prototype models will pop the electricals of any machinery...' then Knuckles asks, 'So, can't they be used on 'Y-25'?' Simy replies, 'No, that can absorb electrical energy, that's another reason a Chaos Emerald is being used, to keep it's power under control, as well as the A.I. unit.' Knuckles asks, 'Wait, what am I doing, are you making me baby-sit the girls because of what I said the other day?' Simy answers, 'Tempting, but no, once the EMP bombs disable all the guns, the 4 of us are going in, where there'll be loads of robots, so we'll need as much muscle as possible...'
But then Amy buts in and says, 'Hey, can I join the fight to?' Simy slowly replies, 'Well...I don't know, I mean...what exactly can you do? No offence or anything, but you seem a bit on the...weak side...' then Sonic puts his hand on his face, saying, 'Oh, you shouldn't have said that,' Simy asks, 'Why...' but then Simy felt a smack hit him, and he flew through the roof, and towards the jungle. Amy had hit him with her Piko Hammer. Knuckles asks Amy, 'Was that necessary? Come on, he has bullet wounds...' then the door opens and Simy was standing in the doorway, covered in leaves, he shakes the leaves off, spits a twig out and says, 'Don't worry, the hammer didn't hurt much, the roof hurt a little and I had a soft landing in the jungle, point taken Amy, your with Tails & Knuckles. And Talulah, you'll have to stay here, or hide in the jungle, i'm saying this because of your burns, I don't want to risk your safety, OK? I know I have worse injuries than you, but I know about the base, that's why i'm going,' Talulah nods, and says, 'OK.' Simy then says, 'So, that's it, me & Tails will get to the EMP bombs, it won't take any longer than a day to make the sufficient amount to take out all the guns, so we'll have the rest of the afternoon to make the EMP bombs, rest tomorrow, then we attack early the next day, but that doesn't mean we'll catch Eggman by surprise, he's prepared for anything.' Sonic responds, 'Don't worry, we know that.' Sonic, Knuckles, Amy & Talulah leave as Simy & Tails start work on the EMP bombs.