Fade Away

[INTRO]

(Static crackles across giant screens. Eggman's logo flashes everywhere.)

EGGMAN:
Citizens of the world!
Your genius has arrived!
The age of chaos is over—
The age of Eggman has begun!

(Robotic laughter echoes.)

[VERSE 1 – EGGMAN]

Look around, see the cities I command,
Steel and circuits stretching across the land.
Every tower, every drone,
Every signal bears my throne.

The heroes run, the heroes hide,
Yet my machines multiply.
A thousand plans, a thousand schemes,
I turned ambition into reality's dream!

[PRE-CHORUS – EGGMAN]

I've conquered skies,
I've conquered seas,
The future bends
According to me!

[CHORUS – EGGMAN]

So fade away,
You're yesterday!
A shadow can't compete
With the world I made!

Every screen,
Every light,
Shines my name
Through the endless night!

(The broadcast glitches violently. The lights dim.)

[VERSE 2 – MEPHILES]

How amusing.

You speak of power,
You speak of fame,
Yet history forgets
A conqueror's name.

Your metal armies,
Your grand display,
Will rust and crumble
One day.

I need no kingdom,
I need no crown,
For all things living
Eventually fall down.

[PRE-CHORUS – MEPHILES]

You chase control,
You chase renown,
But every empire
Eventually drowns.

[CHORUS – MEPHILES]

You'll fade away,
Just like before.
A fleeting spark
That burns no more.

For I am the silence
Beyond the light,
The darkness waiting
At the edge of sight.

[DUET]

EGGMAN:
You call yourself darkness?

MEPHILES:
And you call yourself a king?

EGGMAN:
I built an empire!

MEPHILES:
Built on a fragile thing.

EGGMAN:
Machines obey me!

MEPHILES:
Fear obeys me.

EGGMAN:
I shape the future!

MEPHILES:
I erase destinies.

[BRIDGE]

(Music intensifies. Screens explode into static.)

EGGMAN:
I am the mastermind!
The architect!
The genius they cannot reject!

MEPHILES:
You're merely noise.
A passing sound.
A boastful fool
Who won't be found.

EGGMAN:
You think you're unstoppable?

MEPHILES:
I know exactly what I am.

EGGMAN:
Then face me!

MEPHILES:
Gladly.

[FINAL CHORUS – BOTH]

EGGMAN:
I will never fade away!

MEPHILES:
Everything fades away.

EGGMAN:
My empire's here to stay!

MEPHILES:
Not for a single day.

EGGMAN:
The future belongs to me!

MEPHILES:
The future belongs to none.

BOTH:
We'll see who's left standing
When the battle's finally won!

[OUTRO]

(The broadcast collapses into static.)

EGGMAN:
This isn't over!

MEPHILES:
No.

It has only begun.

(A chilling laugh echoes as the signal dies.)