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(Coolshaymin)

Coco was sitting on the steps of one of the many library's of the Life Sphere. She wondered why the Life Sphere had so many library's, some of which were unfinished but she was not the one to judge. She was currently looking at information about the man who was going to interview her about getting the job as technical adviser of the Life Sphere. With the information she looked up Coco saw some bad things related to Eggman, which made her quite suspicious with the interview. She even wondered how someone like Eggman even has the position he had now...Oh right, the gang wars. An event that happened before Coco came to Li, but still, if there was no gang wars then Coco theorised that someone else that was more, friendly would of gotten Eggman's position.

"He should be here any minute now. Hopefully if I don't say anything to offend Eggman, like bring up his late grandfather and cousin then this interview could go off without a hitch. Heh, if only my mom would see me now, getting a job at age 8, if I had a mom." Coco subdued, deciding to watch a 15 minute video from the genius minds of TEDDY while waiting for Eggman to cheer her up for the interview.

[Coolshaymin]

A large doctor in a red coat, wearing goggles over his eyes and being followed by a plumber that was as famous as the doctor was infamous. This pair, despite being odd in every way except sharing the thematic color of red seemed to hang out quite a bit. It was probably due to Mario taking a bit of his daily duties to check up on the doctor and also be there for interviews over defenses. The doctor was aware if it was not for Mario he would probably be in a cell right now. Due to the law of Leaders not being able to judge those they have familiarity with Sonic was not able to do away with him. Or whatever you chose to call that faker.

"Mario, go set up the room, I'll make sure if the potential employee is here yet," Eggman spoke to the plumber who nodded cheerfully before heading over to a librarian by the desk and starting to talk to them. Eggman looked around and soon noticed an anthromorphic animal watching something on her laptop. She fit the description though he had to let out a sigh. Just what he needed for a 2nd in command, a TAILS. "Coco, I presume?" Eggman spoke up as he looked down. "I take it you took some time to do research? That's good. Knowing who you are dealing with is an attitude I can admire," the mad doctor said with in a gentlemanly manner. Well, he had ettiquete at the very least. "Just follow me and I will take you to the room me and Mario set up for these interviews," Eggman said after a moment as he went to a book case Mario was standing in front of with noticeably three books missing.

"Why, hello, Coco! It's-a me, Mario!" Mario introduced... though he did not need it as he started putting some books into place. One was red and labeled with an M, another was orange and labeled with a Screw Attack, and the third was blue and marked with an emblem of Sonic's face. With that, the book case lifted up to reveal a... wall? Well, that was anticlimatic. "Mario is-a here," Mario spoke up. "Leader voice recogonized. Welcome, Mario." a robotic voice replied as the wall opened up behind the staircase to reveal a room full of red, yellow and grey devices. Computers, machines and technology of all types. Machines and computers of all kinds. "We moved these devices I was not using we collected here. I imagined them to be good for looking into potential workers. Now, take a seat," Eggman said as he walked over to a glass looking table with some device under it. Mario took a seat on the left side and Eggman took a seat on one of the ends. There was still two chairs, one facing Mario and one facing the doctor.

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"Hmm, maybe I should play some solitaire next." But Coco realised that there wasn't time for that when a shadow overlooked her. Not just any regular shadow, an egg shadow, she turned and looked up to Eggman. "WO---I mean, it's nice to meet you Doctor Eggman, it's Coco Bandicoot but yeah you got it right!" Coco jumped upwards. But she was not going to hold out her hand so Eggman can shake it. She's not sure where that hand could of been.

He could of been using for anything...Like murder.

Coco followed Eggman into the library, laptop under her arm. She soon came across Mario and interrupted him before he could finish. "Mario? I think everyone in this sphere has heard of you already since you and Samus are the good stable leaders of this sphere." She turned to Eggman. "I always research sir!" She informed the egghead, before entering the room once Mario opened it. "Wow, this room is amazing. I presume my workplace will look like this if I do get the job?" She looked back towards the two men before coming across the chairs. She sat on the one that faced Eggman, before turning and seeing the one that was facing Mario.

"Oh, who's going to sit on that chair?" She looked back to Mario and Eggman, placing her laptop on her...Lap and questioning them before the interview.

Unless this was somehow the interview already?

[Coolshaymin]

"Yep! Technology is an important part of our-a defenses. We give those-a with the high ranks equipment to help out," Mario nodded at Coco's question as she sat down opposite Eggman. "No one else will be showing up. However, congratulations on picking the right seat. Mario is mainly here to overlook things. I will be the one looking over your credentials," Eggman announced as Mario wrote down something on a journal he was pulled out of his overalls. "Regardless, I understand you have experience taking down a mad d0ct0r with your brother utilizing your technological know-how. I have actually met Neo Cortex on this planet while gathering some supplies from an old base of mine. Tell me about that some to start off with. 
Mario, go over to that computer for a moment," Eggman requested to Coco and Mario to which Mario nodded and headed over to the computer and started typing on the keyboard.

The plumber was not that technologically savvy but he knew enough from what Eggman told him to operate these things. This computer was special and he felt like he knew what Eggman was wanting him to do at the terminal. Still, he waited for Coco's response to Eggman's question.

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Coco smiled, realising that she was already doing well with the interview and was impressed with what Mario said. "Really? That sounds geniustistic!" Coco gushed to Mario, before looking back at Eggman, who started to talk about...Cortex. Hearing that name made Coco imagine a chalkboard so she can start scraping down it with her fingers. But of course, this was reality and Coco decided to simply nod when Eggman mentioned his name. "Oh yes, I did hear that the evil Doctor Cortex was on this planet also. Then again with what happened before I came here, so did everyone else I know, like maybe my brother Crash." Coco dearly missed Crash but was not worried about what would happen to him, since he could take care of himself even without Coco's help.

Coco took a deep breath when it was time to explain some...History regarding Doctor Cortex.

"Well I first met Doctor Cortex when I was a simple bandicoot. He kidnapped me and turned me into...Well, what I am today. He was intending to turn me evil, after his last two Bandicoot experiments, my brother Crash and his girlfriend, Tawna, turned good and escape Cortex's clutches. I also escaped into a jungle around Cortex's base and that was when I met Crash and Tawna. However sometime later, Tawna left to date a member of the mafia and me and my brother didn't run into Cortex again for awhile.

Except one day, while my computer battery burnt out, I asked Crash to get a new one, however he didn't come back after awhile so I left to investigate. Eventually I found him working with Cortex, who said he turned good but was making a suspicious raygun that was aimed at our world that needed a certain type of crystal to operate it. Obviously suspicious, I found out that said raygun, called the Cortex vortex, was going to turn everyone on earth into Cortex's mindless slaves once he gets the crystals that he needed to power it up. I managed to warn my brother thanks to my excellent hacking skills of Cortex's scheme and he prevented Cortex from returning to the Cortex Vortex with the crystals he got from tricking my brother...

Then there was that one time in which he summoned the evil brother of my friend, Aku Aku to mess with history along with a man who was able to control time called N Tropy. I helped a lot during this adventure and together me and Crash took down the three. But Cortex did eventually come back...And even more unfortunate, the next encounter we had to team up with him to stop an alien from destroying the earth and turning it into a car park. And the encounter after that, me, Crash and two of Cortex's minions who had to work with us during this adventure because Cortex was cheating fought Cortex and three of his friends over a truckload of power crystals, which if his team won, would of resulted in the apocalypse!" 

Coco took a deep breath, having finished summarising events of four adventures that could be made into games!

"And that was basically the encounters with Cortex that I remembered."

[Coolshaymin]

Eggman listened patiently as Mario prepared the test. She was going on... quite a while so he was using up quite a bit of patient and this is only the FIRST interview! "... Thank you Coco Bandicoot, but I meant specifically the part important to including you on the team. Still, you showed some understanding of intellect around machines and using that to thwart Cortex. That kind of adaptability could be very useful. Though I want to see it myself. Open your laptop, Coco," Eggman replied before pointing to Coco's laptop. She would find that it was going a bit haywire following Eggman's insisting. "Mario has uploaded a powerful virus to it. I promise no permanent harm will come to it. However, you need to take down this virus quickly or else it will force your laptop to shut back down. Show me how you plan to handle this," the doctor explained, though he did not mind if Coco prematurely attempted to rid her computer of it.

"Oh, by the way, no protection software will work. I made it to work around the most powerful of firewalls. You need to take it down manually or quickly program something to override it. Time is running short," the doctor went on as it seemed the test was to make sure Coco's abilties were still up to par.

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Coco quickly closed anything suspicious on her laptop when Eggman asked her to see it, before showing it to him. "There's my laptop, aka my main workplace, well second workplace if I get this job." She looked back at her computer that was doing alright before looking back at Eggman, then back at her laptop again where Coco had noticed that it now had a virus, which was a part of a test that Eggman and Mario had given her to prove that she was up for her new job.

So now Coco has a limited amount of time to get rid of the virus, which she quickly figured out how. "Oh getting rid of virus is easy if you know how to make programs to override it. You just take the few codes that haven't been infected by the virus in question to make something that will override even the most dangerous of malware." Coco proceeded to type several things on her now infected laptop. Dealing with viruses was a weekly job for Coco since she often get's viruses every five to ten times a month.



With the codes she has, Coco had created a virtual woman who's sole purpose is to get rid of the viruses on Coco's laptop. "I am Betty Newbie. Please, let me deal with this virus and future viruses that wish to do harm to this laptop." She waved at Coco, Eggman and Mario, before she got out a fire extinguisher and proceeded to neutralise the virus with it. The extinguisher shot out a rainbow coloured beam which quickly started to revert Coco's laptop back to the way it was before Mario gave it the virus.

"No, no, NOOOOOOOOOO!" Screamed a tiny voice from Coco's laptop as it was erased thanks to Betty's protection of her new home.

A few seconds later, Betty had successfully cleansed Coco's laptop. "Thank you Betty." She grabbed the laptop and slowly closed it, ignoring Betty's cries of fear. "Wait, don't neglect me!" Was the last thing she said before Coco closed the laptop and looked back at Eggman and Mario.

"What did you think?" She smiled to the two at her job in getting rid of the virus. She hoped she passed the test.