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What a hectic week that was... I can scarcely remember most of it, but I had enough cognitive capacity left in me to understand that I had been changed into a Tangrowth and shifted priorities completely. Whatever may have come of that to produce negative results, I must apologize. Cress was rather... clingy.

Brushing that aside, may I bring up an issue that has been bothering me since the day it was instated? I understand the necessity of an alternate means of governance to suppress the riots, but surely there remains enough stability to call off martial law by now... I have been observing the news almost religiously, and the levels of mayhem have decreased significantly over time. Moreover, the robot force, while successful in getting the public dissonance to simmer down, appear to have unintentionally created side-effects. In times of crisis, it is natural for some freedoms to be limited by necessity, but some of them are completely arbitrary to keeping the public at rest and, as such, uncalled for. While efficient at taking commands and carrying through their duties without question, robots aren't the best at using discretion, I have come to find. All they can do is what has been programmed into them, so they fail to use their best judgment when apprehending people. It is as though they have no common sense. Arresting a man for honking at a non-human pedestrian for jaywalking? Detaining a girl for bringing unsealed food items into the city? Disallowing my brother and I to return home? Worse yet, injuring people over senseless law enforcement that shouldn't have anything to do with current tensions.

This is ludicrous. It's too much. It's stifling. The robots must go. I am fed up with living in fear. As a matter of fact, I am sorely tempted to hose down any and all mechanical menaces that so much as cross my path! Why should I let them have their way with me? At the very least... I, Cress, will request that they be removed from campus. I can't be the only one who feels this way.

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Is this a case of looks being deceiving? Knuckles relayed a story to Cress that made it seem the reverse was true. What if we're not taking him seriously enough?

Then he would have an upper hand that is bred from sloth and ignorance.

Where are you going to start with your robot hunt?

Robot hunt? Well, if I were to conduct any sort of movement, a public post wouldn't be the optimum place for a concourse of ideas.

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That said, for a rudimentary assessment, we have a few options.

1) Fight the robots. This is the most militant option, and probably preferable as a last resort only.
2) Overthrow the man in charge. However, I suspect that attacking him would be the same as attacking the robots, like agitating the queen of an ant colony will incur the aggression of her subordinates.
3) Contact the mayor. Cress alone couldn't possibly get his attention, but if an entire school's worth of people seemed concerned... perhaps he would take notice. If not, then we may have to attempt contacting another party, and if that fails, we may need to resort to force.

I would prefer to try diplomacy first, but my first try at it failed. Dr. Eggman will not take negotiation.

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[YES OF COURSE I SHE MEANT TO DO THAT, privates are a go.]

I'll be the first to admit diplomacy isn't my strength, but questioning the mayor seems like a better idea for the time being.

This is a being who was able to single-handily punch the Aparoid Queen into submission. Why entrust Eggman to do his bidding, and poorly at that?

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[SOMEONE was going to. Not like what they were talking about warranted privacy just yet.]

You make an excellent point in that regard... I can't say I was around to witness the Aparoid War nor do I have a wholesome grasp on the mayor's character or deeds, but Dr. Eggman is clearly not cut out for a fair job nor is he to be trusted. I have heard he is not against unethical practices from Knuckles and if my brief research gathering session bore me any fruits, his main goal is nothing short of dominating everything he can get his hands on, no matter what he has to do to achieve that. He has even gone so far as to bend the very fabric of space and time.

[And it was here in this research session that Cress realized an epiphany- Eggman was the true party responsible for Time Eater a year ago, when he lost his brother for a brief moment in a pocket of time that never held together in the timestream he was currently in. This only inflamed his resolve.]

He has dangerous capabilities. Out reprieve is his ignorance and his ego. He's been thwarted fairly easily before, not that I'm trying to dismiss your concern.

I think we are capable of stopping him.

I just want to make sure Tabuu won't decide to try and stop us.

So you're suggesting the mayor is who we should be worried about instead?

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I don't think it's a bad place to start, in lieu of stirring the proverbial robotic hornet's nest.

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