#also when will sonic and tails get to hug again :( they couldn’t this time either sega stop baiting us!!

[d0d0-b0i]

eughrhghh….frontiers….

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #amy rose #knuckles the echidna #sonic frontiers #my art #ty 🙏 frontiers for making me use my tablet again #hadn’t touched it in over a week #will hopefully be outta my funk now B) #eughhh….EUUAGGHHGHH… #the writing… ITS SO GOOD THIS TIME EURF #excited to see what they do next :) #also when will sonic and tails get to hug again :( they couldn’t this time either sega stop baiting us!!

[kibybun]

Hi. Can I ask you to write about Aizawa or Hawks and their darling, who constantly joked about death and eventually she committed suicide, please? I love your writing💞 You are so awesome and talented and cool. Thank you so much for your work💕

Oh my gosh, thank you so much! I hope you like it!💞💞

Platonic Yandere Hawks x suicide joking reader

Tw: Yandere, suicide, self harm, angst

Enjoy!

💛Hawks first met you at the sports festival, showing off your quirk and demonstrating power. You caught his attention rather quickly.

💛Not only were you adorable but intriguing as well. You wore long sleeves, even though you looked uncomfortable in them, and you seemed oddly quiet compared to everyone else, shying away when they come up to talk to you.

💛Another thing that stood out to him was when you were doing the calvary battle. No one came to ask you to join their team, but you didn't go out and ask to join either. You just stood there until a purple hair guy came up to you, most likely getting you to join his group.

💛Though, you seemed to change. Your fighting style and the way you use your quirk changed.

💛It bothered Hawks the whole calvary battle but he was put at ease when some kid with a tail backed out due to the other guy brainwashing him.

💛You end up backing out too, much to Hawk's dismay.

💛Even though you weren't fighting anymore he still keeps his attention on you, not seeing your other classmates or students.

💛He watched you zone out and silently cheer for your classmates, finding it adorable as you watch in awe at some of the battles.

💛The sports festival ends and he follows you home, only to make surd your okay. Once he got home he quickly put in a request for you to come intern with him before going to bed.

💛When you went back to school you were excited to see if anyone wanted you to intern with them, knowing you wouldn't get as many requests like Todoroki or Deku.

💛... two. Only two requests.

💛It hurt to look at the board and see that you one of the most unwanted students in class 1-A. You thought you did really well and maybe impressed more than two people.

💛You get your list of hero agencies and sink deeper into your self pitty when you realize that one of the agencies werebt even specifically asking for you. All the students got requested by them.

💛That leaves Hawk's agency.

💛You didn't know much about him and his work so this was going to be awkward.

💛When the day came to board the subway and head off to your internship, no one wished you goodbye. All the groups and clicks were together, walking each other to their respective trains while you again, stood alone. You ere used to it though.

💛You board the train and zone out, nearly missing your stop.

💛Right as you get off the train your vision is filled with red feathers. Low and behold the pro hero who requested you.

💛His charisma hits you as you instantly feel welcome. He makes witty remarks about the train being too slow as he begins walking with you in tow.

💛Along the way you ask him why he wanted you to intern with him. He smirks and responds with a "Why wouldn't I?" That didn't answer your question.

💛He walks you to his agency and introduces you to all his other interns. After that he shoves you towards the bathroom, telling you to change into your hero costume.

💛He sure didn't waste time as the two of you begin patrolling the city. It seemed very rushed and eager but you prefered it over having to sit in class and do quizzes.

💛During patrol Hawks starts questioning you about school and life almkst like an uncle or brother would. It was very odd to you, considering you never get asked questions about yourself.

💛You felt so pitiful not being able to tell him your birthday, you had forgotten it, but somehow he was so understanding and kind about it.

💛It wasn't long before all of his fans flocked to the two of you, shouting questions and begging for autographs. You didn't like how all the people were surrounding you and Hawks could tell.

💛He uses his wing to shield you and hastily shoos the crowd off. After that he asks if you're okay and checks to make sure you didn't get hurt.

💛His intentions weren't to sleep with you, no. They were pure. He almost saw himself in you, alone and blocked off from the world. He just wanted to protect you and make sure you knew you weren't alone.

💛It was working too.

💛In the short week you were with him you had laughed the hardest you had in awhile and smiled more. You even considered him your bestfriend.

💛The one downside of your friendship was he couldn't see your cries for help.

💛While one roofs or flying with him you'd make jokes about how easy it would be to fall and die or how fun it'd feel to free fall.

💛He'd only laugh these off, thinking it was some kind of dark humor, because if something was wrong he'd trust you to tell him.

💛When the internship was over you had to hold back tears as he hugged you goodbye. Of course he gave you his number to keep in touch but it wouldn't be the same as sneaking away from work and eating fried chicken.

💛The second the train left you felt how alone you were. You didnt want to text him right away because that would feel too needy. Should you even text him? Was he doing it just to be nice or did he actually care?

💛You leave those thoughts behind as your phone buzzes. It was a text from Hawks. "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

💛Your mood brightens as the two of you continue sending dumb chicken jokes, memes, and puns, with the occasional "dark humored" joke from you.

💛You make it home and your texting slowed, mainly due to Hawks having to work. You didn't know he was actually flying outside your house, making sure you were okay before flying off to buy you a dumb looking teddy bear.

💛Slowly, your mood begins to brighten with the constant reassurance of Hawks being there. He knew the right things to say at all times. Self conscious about your outfit? Incomes a barrage of compliments and confidence boosters. Nervous about a test or presentation? Boom, paragraphs about how amazing you are and how you can do it.

💛It almost made the emptiness inside go away.

💛Problems don't just go away, and it really shows.

💛Whenever you couldn't text or call Hawks your loniness sinks in. You had no other friends besides him. Your parents weren't the beat either with their comments about what you're doing or what you're wearing.

💛It only reminded you of all the reasons for the scars on your arms.

💛But before you could act on those reasons he was there. It was always magicly when you were crying in bed or fumbling with a sharp object.

💛Over time Hawks picked up on your thoughts and feelings, causing him to watch over you every second he could. He loved you so much, he couldn't lose you.

💛The amount of cute gifts he gets you griw over time. More stuffed animals, more snacks, more little trinkets. Anything to make you happy.

💛And again, it worked. The nights you spent crying or staring numbly at the ceiling slowly decreased. You also threw away the razors you had hidden, determined to stay clean.

💛When the work studies came you were the happiest you've ever been. You got to be with Hawks again.

💛Upon seeing him you were greeted with the best hug you've ever gotten along with fried chicken for lunch.

💛But something was off this time. He seemed a little more paranoid walking around the city with you, more eager to be inside at night, and disappearing at night.

💛It worried you, making you overthink the hole situation tenfold.

💛What if he was trying to avoid you? Where you being that annoying? Maybe he was tired of you. You should just leave him alone.

💛He hugs you goodbye as you leave, still conflicted.

💛Sadly your thoughts only grow stronger as time goes on. His texts become shorter and less frequent, making you think he was tired of you. His constant gifts had stopped as well

💛Hawks couldn't control his lack of contact with you. He wanted to spam you with memes at two am like he normally did but he was given a mission that couldn't be compromised, even at the expense of your friendship.

💛You fall back into your dark place without him. You were reminded of how forgettable you were to everyone, how you had no friends beside him, how your parents were disappointed in you.

💛What's the point in living in pain?

💛You start cutting again, just wanting to feel something again. You stop sleeping and eating, not feeling the need for it anymore. You completely passed out during training due to this.

💛One weekend you ride a train away from your town and into the one where Hawk's agency was. You were looking for him, a sign, anything, to tell you to stop.

💛The streets were empty and he was no where in sight.

💛You fight yourself at the top of a business building, hands trembling as you sent a final text to your only friend. You told him how much he ment to you, how grateful you were to him, how sorry you were for being annoying and taking up so much of his time, how this was goodbye.

💛You got to feel the wind rush past you. You were right about it being fun to free fall.

💛Hawks was talking to Dabi when his phone buzzed. Thinking it was the commission he checked it.

💛Dabi watched as Hawk's smug demeanor turned to confused then broken. He watched the pro hero fall to his knees and clutch his phone, nearly cracking it.

💛Dabi didn't even have a chance to ask what was wrong as Hawks flew at super sonic speed away from him and up into the sky.

💛He first scanned the buildings looking for you, wiping the tears from his eyes to try and see better. When he couldn't find you he swoops down low to the streets to see if he could catch you before you hit the ground.

💛He stops when he sees the splatters of your body of the ground.

💛He collapses next to you, sobbing as he looked at your remains.

💛It was his fault. He should've been there so much more. He should've watched you more carefully than he did. He should've killed those fuckers who thought they were better than you.

💛You should've lived.

💛Hawks lays there crying, going over all the things he did wrong and how it should've been him to die.

💛The morning comes and police officers tape off the area, pulling a now broken man away from you. They clean the area and leave.

💛Hawks mindlessly sits in the spot you were in, hoping this was a nightmare.

💛Night falls and Dabi managed to find him. He tells Hawks that he saw the news. It was odd for him to feel sympathy for a hero but here he was.

💛Hawks stands and grabs Dabi's hand, placing it on his face before begging him to set him ablaze. He didn't want to live in a world without you.

💛Dabi backs up, retreating his hand and looking at him stunned. What exactly did you mean to him?

💛Hawks continues to beg and pleas but Dabi continues to refuse. Too bad Hawks would do anything to die at this point.

💛Hawks shouts out his plans to spy on the league, to manipulate and destroy them from the inside. How he would kill them all in secret if he could. How it would be the best feeling ever to watch them die in betrayal.

💛Dabi falls for his trap. Rage was the only thing he could feel as his fire engulfed Hawks, semding him to the grave in a firey blaze.

💛He ran from the scene, leaving another body in the same spot.

kiby~💚

#bnha hawks #hawks #hawks x reader #keigo tamaki #mha hawks #my hero academia keigo takami #bnha #my hero academia #yandere hawks #yandere Keigo #yandere #yandere x reader

[maggyoutthere]

It's funny how I'm actually putting effort on this. I'm putting actual effort on a shitpost.

Anyways I said I'd write a bad sonic creepypasta so here it is. Here's the catch: I like how its turning out so imma make it a 2-pary story. This is the first part. It doesn't have any scary shit but it has the basics for a shitty creepypasta: someone gets a old pirated/unreleased/defective game and tries them out despite getting warned that bad shit might happen.

Again I'm not a fluent English speaker so expect some grammar error and stuff like that ._.,

So ladies, gentlemen and non-bis, I present to you-

Sonic: Battle of Metal and Blood (Part 1)

Synopsis: Teen gets nostalgic mid-quarentine and starts playing old Sonic games. She asks for some cheat codes and shit happens.

So for context; I'm a 17 year old girl stuck home because of quarantine.

It had been 4 or 5 months since the virus sent everyone home. Students were playing Animal Crossing and DOOM all day to fill in the summer hours since no one could go outside. I never liked going to the beach so I was never really bothered by it.

Like many people, I found myself going back in time to easier phases of my life. I was rewatching old cartoon shows from my childhood, getting into MCR and P!ATD and just living in pure nostalgia. I also started getting into gaming again, even going to the point of setting up my Wii again just to play Epic Mickey, but I didn't exactly grow up with the Wii. I was more of a Playstation kid, so much that me and my bro got a Playstation 2 from our cousin when he eventually bought the 3rd one for himself.

My cousin was older than us; I remember him being 16 or 17 when I was like 12, so he was kind of our gaming hero. If there was a level in Crash Bandicoot we couldn't beat, we'd call my cousin and he'd do it in 15 minutes. He knew all the cheat codes, all the secret levels and extra content for the games he had; he was like a genius to me and my lil bro, so when he gave us his old Playstation 2 and games me and my sibling knew we were in for a treat.

We got this Sonic Gems Collection for the Playstation 2 from him. It's like a port of various older Sonic games like Sonic CD, Sonic The Fighters, Sonic R and so on. I grew up playing that game, especially Sonic The Fighters since I wasn't very good at the racing games.

I still had a working controller and a lot of free time so I asked my bro for help setting up the console. The thing was so dusty I was actually scared it wasn't going to work. We clicked the power button and the light on the console turned on. Me and my brother held our breaths as we put the DVD in the console and crossed our fingers. As the screen lit up with the SEGA logo and music started playing, I just hugged him and cheered. He set up the console in my room so I could play without having to go to his room (he was the one keeping all the electronic stuff) and told me to have fun.

I didn't even know where to start. There was so much I wanted to play now that I actually knew what I was doing. I thought about starting with my favourite one out of the bunch: Sonic CD. I'm a sucker for the retro 2D pixel games so that was a must. It was better than what I remembered; the music was so catchy and the art style was vibrant and it stood out from a lot of games nowadays that go for a washed out "hyper realistic" look.

As I kept playing, I eventually reached the level where Amy tags along with Sonic for a while before Metal Sonic bursts through a wall and kidnaps her. Oh yeah, Metal Sonic was a thing. I remembered him from Sonic R and Sonic The Fighters - and the fact he was in the fucking cover art of the DVD case. I absolutely loved the fucker in the games though. He had a cool design, and the idea of the villain being a copy of the hero gone wrong was so interesting to me at the time.

I ended up passing the level and even making it to Stardust Speedway. I was sweating since I'd never come this far at any game. My bro was there cheering me as I tried not falling on spikes or getting hit by Metal Sonic's attacks. I ended up making it till the end on top, but it was kinda sad seeing Metal crash face-first against the door like that.

I was done with that for a while, so I went ahead and played Sonic R and Sonic The Fighters for nostalgia. Again, the fucker was there, either as a boss or as an unlockable character. I ended up noticing how there were a bunch of games missing. There were empty grayed slots with question marks instead of the game titles. I couldn't understand if the game was broken or if there was something I was supposed to do, so I called my cousin in hope he would somewhat tell me what to do. He ended up explaining how the game made you complete all the other games to unlock new ones. I thought that was kinda stupid so I asked him if he had any cheat codes or something to make the whole thing available. He told me he was going to dig up his old stuff and ring me again if he found anything.

A few hours later, he sent me a message telling me he'd found something that should work. He told me he did have a cheat code but he thought it was best if I didn't do it. Here's the transcript from his message.

"There's something that might work but it's kinda weird. I got this memory card from a friend of mine and he said this should unlock all the hidden contents within the disc, but when I tried it some weird shit started happening. Most of the sonic games were unplayable no matter how many times I restarted the console or cleaned the disc. There should be an extra game slot but that's just a glitch. Something about the system trying to make up storage for the extra code. Just don't click on anything that looks like a glitch and you should be golden"

Well that was a bit discouraging, but we agreed to meet that afternoon so he could give me the memory card.

When I got home and plugged the cartridge into the slot on the console, I was kinda scared. What if the thing exploded or something? I gave it a try and the thing actually worked! As I clicked on the games section, everything was there! There were some vectorman games but I didn't know who that was at the time so I didn't really care about them. What I was more interested in was the museum. There were a bunch of unlockable promotional art and illustrations there that I never got to see as a kid, so you could imagine how joyful I was when I saw the museum section filled with pages upon pages of illustrations and renderings of the games. Some of them weren't even on the Gems Collection like some screenshots of Sonic Heroes.

I went back on the game menu and was surprised to see another game entry below all the vectorman ones. It was called "Sonic: Battle of Metal and Blood". What the hell was this? It surely wasn't in the cover art and a quick google search turned up nothing. Was it a glitch? It couldn't be; it looked too clean and intentionally made to be a glitch, not to mention that whole game titles don't just appear out of thin air. Game or not, something was programmed in there. I concluded it was probably someone's fan project that was in the memory card my cousin gave me. Why hadn't he mentioned it though?

I was too curious to turn down a mystery like this one, so I got up first to make a cup of coffee since it was already getting late. As I returned from the kitchen, I remembered to look at the synopsis of the game. I can't remember exactly what it said but it was something along the lines of:

"In this sequel to the famous Sonic CD, step in the shoes of Sonic's friends as they face their biggest challenge yet. Control Amy Rose and Miles "Tails" Prower and fight against the metallic faker himself, Metal Sonic, and stop him before he puts his plan to become the only Sonic in action"

Woah, that sounded exciting; I wasted no time. I got all cozy, kept my cup of coffee next to me

And pressed START.

To be continued in part 2

#sth #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #creepypasta #creepy story #short story #sonic gems collection #sonic: battle of metal and blood #battle of metal and blood #maggy moment #shhh i actually like how its turning out #i'm not that good at writing but this is the best i've written in a while

[broken-clover]

AU-gust Day 11- Farm

I return with more ridiculousness!

I will admit I am not a total expert on Sonic Lore, but I played Sonic Heroes growing up and I love Big the Cat (I mean, dude loves frogs, it’s only natural) so this might be a bit bizarre compared to the rest of what I have so far, but here’s a quick Sonic fic with team Rose being good buddies!

Amy hadn’t been expecting to spot a familiar face on the train, but it was a delightful surprise to spot a familiar pair of floppy tan ears, with an upbeat chao circling around them.

“Hey, Cream!” She stuck a hand up in the air and waved as she approached the younger girl. “Long time no see!”

“Miss Amy? Hello!” After a brief moment of confusion, Cream smiled and waved back, with Cheese bobbing excitedly and kicking his little feet. “Are you heading to Mystic Ruins, too?”

“Huh? Yeah, that’s exactly where I’m headed, how did you know?” Amy tilted her head and pulled an envelope from her bag. “I got this invitation…”

“Me too!” Cream smiled, pulling out an identical one. “How exciting! Yours is from Mr. Big as well, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. I wonder what he’s up to? It sounded like he was excited to show us whatever it was that he’s been working on.”

Amy pulled the letter out of its sleeve and unfolded it so she could read it again. She had seen his handwriting before, so it was clear to her that he had been insistent on writing their letters slowly and carefully to make them look nice. It seemed that this, whatever it was, was very important to him, and he wanted his friends to see it.

‘Dear Amy, it read, in thick black letters. ’I’ve been working on something very cool! And you are a very good friend. I want you to come see it, please! Please come to Mystic Ruins next tuesday, I will wait at the train station so I can show you! I hope you like it!

-Big the Cat’

“Any ideas what his ‘something cool’ might be, Cream?”

“Hmm…” The rabbit tapped at her chin, with Cheese mimicking her. “He’s a fisherman, maybe he caught a very large fish that he wants to show us?”

“That might be it. Maybe he’s gonna make dinner out of it!”

“I suppose we’ll find out very soon, won’t we? It shouldn’t be much longer to the station.”

The two girls spent the rest of their short trip chatting about what they’d been up to. It didn’t feel like there had been much of a wait when an announcement came over the intercom.

“Mystic Ruins station, we are approaching Mystic Ruins station. Please do not attempt to exit the train until it has come to a complete stop and the doors have been fully opened. Have a nice day!”

“Oh! Cream, this is our stop!” Amy took her smaller companion by the hand and led her out onto the platform once the train had stopped. As soon as they did, both girls spotted a familiar figure at the bottom of the stairs.

“Mr. Big!” Cream fluttered down, trailed by Cheese and Amy.

“Nice to see ya!” Amy flashed him a smile and a wave. “Glad we didn’t show up too early.”

“You came!!” Big threw his arms around the girls and pulled them into a tight, warm hug. In one hand, he held what appeared to be a pile of straw tangled together.

“Of course we came!” Replied Amy. “We’re excited to see that big surprise you were talking about!”

“Daw, well I’m super excited to show you! I’ve been working really hard on it!” When he finally let them go, he dropped the strange thing in his hands on their heads.

“Huh? What’s this?” The hedgehog pulled the object off to get a better look at it. “Is this a hat?”

“Yeah-huh! Straw hats are super important!” Big’s tail wagged behind him in excitement. “Let’s go! I really want to show you!”

The two obliged, though they were undeniably curious, both regarding their destination and the peculiar straw hats. They had to have some sort of relevance, but nothing came to mind- well, maybe that wasn’t necessarily true. As they began to wander a beaten path into the thickets, the waxy leaves dripped moisture, and Amy noticed that she never noticed any water fall down her back with the hat’s brim in the way. Maybe that was it?

“Are we going to your house, Big?” Amy asked, realizing that the route was familiar.

“Sorta!” He replied with a good-natured chuckle. “It’s right by it.”

Cream bounded up to him, with little flaps to help her jump. “Mr. Big, can I ask a question?”

“Yuh-huh!”

“Where is Froggy? Isn’t he usually with you?”

Amy couldn’t believe she hadn’t noticed. They both knew how much Big absolutely adored his small friend. Why wasn’t Froggy with him?

For a moment, both girls wondered if their companion’s bright mood was going to be immediately soured by the fact that he’d misplaced his beloved friend again. But to their surprise, Big continued to smile, and laughed once again.

“You’re really good at guessing, Cream! Really good!”

Neither of them were entirely sure what he was trying to convey. Especially with the steadily increasing sounds of something in the distance. But it wasn’t a confusion that lasted long. The tall plants gave way to a neat little clearing where the man’s humble shack stood- but it was immediately apparent that some renovations had been made. A little barnhouse had been built into it, and neat little fences had been erected around a couple of nearby ponds.

“A farm!” Cream chirped with glee. “Mr. Big, your house is a farm!”

Well, that sort of explained the hats. Amy suddenly realized what the odd noises were. “Not just any farm...it’s a frog farm!”

“Heehee!” Big seemed equally excited. “Surprise! I was making a little house for Froggy, but then it kept getting bigger and bigger!”

He led them to the small barnhouse. A good portion of it was devoted to another small pond, where several frogs relaxed on lilypads and let out melodic croaks. “Froggy! Hello!” Big scooped up a familiar specimen and held it out to his guests. “Froggy has a lot of friends now. An’ I feed them and take good care of them!”

“They’re soooo cute!” Cream said. “I used to think frogs were a little creepy, but you really showed me how cute they can be, Mr. Big!”

“All frogs are good frogs.” Big nodded. “You two can hold them, but wash your hands first! Dirty hands are bad for frogs and it makes them sick!”

There were a pair of spigots built into the wall over a little basin. “I guess it makes sense for a lot of frogs to live here.” Said Amy, as she began scrubbing her hands clean. “It’s so damp out in Mystic Ruins, they probably like it here!”

“I can’t imagine what it would be like, being wet all the time.” Said Cream. “But I guess I’m not a frog. They probably don’t know what it’s like having fur all over them, either.”

“There is a kind of frog that has hair!” Big piped up from the other end of the barn, where he was sitting with Froggy. “It’s not really hair, though. Just looks like it. It also has tiny claws!” When the girls came back, he stood back up and ushered them towards the water. “Holding frogs is kinda hard the first couple times, but I’ll help you!”

Big scooped one off of a lilypad. The animal seemed completely unfazed by it, and simply let itself be held. He offered it to Cream. “Here! This one is very calm, he will sit still for you!”

“Woah, they really are all smooth and slimy…” Cream’s expression was a mix of fascination and faint unease. “Am I holding him right?”

“Yeah-huh! Keep up the good work!” After making sure the frog was secure, Big bent over the water again and scooped up another frog. “Amy, here’s one for you!”

She had gone in expecting to be completely fine with the whole thing, but as soon as she felt the wet stickiness of it, she squeaked in panic and flinched back. “It feels weird!”

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to.” Big said, though he still looked disappointed.

Amy steeled herself. “No, I can do it! I can do it.”

“Okay.” He tried holding it out to her again. Amy lifted her hands to accept the frog...only for it to jump and stick to her face.

“EEK!” She shrieked, only barely stopping herself from swatting the thing clean off. “It’s on me! It’s on me!”

“Hold still! I’ve got it.” With a couple of attempts, Big managed to take it off, and he held onto the frog carefully to keep it from hopping off.

Cream gave an empathetic wince. “Sorry, Miss Amy. Are you okay?”

“M’sorry about that.” Said Big, placing the frog back in the water. “That doesn’t usually happen.”

Amy’s expression was blank and unreadable. A bit of slime plastered the bangs to her eyes. After a moment, a faint smile twitched at the end of her lip.

“Heh...ehehe...hahahaha!” Despite the mess, Amy began to laugh, smiling brightly. “I guess that means it likes me!”

#AU-gust #writing #sonic the hedgehog #big the cat #Amy Rose #cream the rabbit

[cutegirlmayra]

Commission receipt: Ember’s Story, another chapter

Ember’s Story Commission Receipt

@marydragneell Commission for The Flares That Come From Ashes (Another chapter to Ember’s story)

Time: about 2 months or so.

Review: @marydragneell :  OMG IM ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH IT ❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤ The beginning is so cute 😍 how ember and manic are with each other. Her being in manic's band❤❤❤❤How cute and adorable they are together. Love the sinister appearance of mephilis perfect for him. Manic being a awesome badass for his girlfriend. Shadow acting jealous in such a cute sibling way. The perfect reaction to her trigger of seeing someone she love hurt 💔 ❤The recomforting ❤🖤❤🖤❤🖤❤ Just manic calling shadow big bro XD and pocking fun of shadow. All the " i wanna get your blessing ". Perfect representation of the duality of ember mental state, her nature and how she act. AMAZING BATTLE SCENE!!!!!!!!!!! The characters grow 👌 And the fact that you show that the fusion did left a permanent impact on her.

Me: Boy it was fun! Thanks again for the opportunity. ^//u//^

Paid Amount: 60$ for 50+ pages to add to the wonderful story of Ember the Immortal Wolf, prototype to Shadow The Hedgehog, and embedded with the rejected Cursed Emerald.

Product Preview: With permission from @marydragneell, here is the ROUGH DRAFT of the product.

The Flares that Come From Ashes

Another short story for the amazing Mary!

By: Cutegirlmayra

"La, la, la~" Ember tapped the mic, then garbled some gibberish to clear her throat. "Do, ray, me." She spoke, smiling nervously as she seemed a bit spooked by the stage lights. "Come on, Manic. You really think I'm ready for all this?" Ember twiddled her claws lightly against each other, ducking her head slightly as she tried to see through the blinding spotlights and turned to see the rest of the band practicing in their own respective places on stage. "It just seems... like maybe I'm not cut out to be in a band." She rubbed her arm, shyly admitting her fears of joining his group.

"Nah, girl. You really are ready." Manic, leaning against the side of the stage, finally walked out to reveal himself and stood beside her, drumming her shoulder, then her head, then her mic as she giggled and pulled her head slightly away from his reach. "You just need some confidence singing in front of others, is all."

Ember smiled sweetly, blushing at his cute charms. "This will be a lot different than helping Shadow at..." she gagged, not wanting to say G.U.N's name and still having a biased against them.

"Right. No more secret missions." He winked to her, then leaned with his arms crossed on the mic. "Babe, you really think you can't have a first debut with my band?"

"I'm just..! Psyching myself out!" she shook her head, her long coat swishing with the motion as her tail fluffed out in hopes of getting herself pumped. "Let's practice, just one more time!" she gripped the mic and he moved for her, but placed a hand right where hers was on the mic, then moved it up to show that he would stand there as emotional support. He gripped the mic to hold it steady for her, and for a second, their fingers intertwined, just the pinkie and ring finger, making Ember smile at his tender touch of compassion.

"Remember your diaphragm is your strongest tool, use it well. But it needs to breathe." He teased, leaning to her cheek to and letting their faces touch. His breath was warm, and the scent of their last home-cooked meal made her giggle and wiggle her nose a bit. Tingles came from her hands up to her cheeks, and she blushed at how close he was.

Nodding and swooning at his flirtations, she finally took a deep breath... honing all the knowledge about music, tempo, and breath-control he had been teaching her and began to sing lightly.

"Louder, Ems!" he bounded towards the edge of the stage, "Louder, girl!" then jumped off, moving back and spreading his arms out. "We gotta hear ya in the back!" he started drumming on the chairs, "I can't hear you, and I'm up in the front!"

She tried to sing a little louder, swishing her body back and forth but still nervous and more focused on what he was doing.

"Where's my girl's voice? I thought this was a rockin' concert!" He drummed louder, since she couldn't see through the lights, letting her know he was now towards the back of the venue they were playing at tonight.

She took both hands and pulled the mic's stand towards her, the wires whiplashed and she hoisted it up above herself, belting as loud as she could a powerful note that suddenly blasted through the speakers like an avalanche on a mountain's side.

The whole of the arena shook in the vibrations, making the band behind her almost lose balance and a few plug or stuck a finger in their ears from the deafening sound.

"Whoo! Now that's what I call a lion's roar Friday and no canary Saturday! Yeah!" He seemed to be hyped about her new found sound but his band mates all shook their heads and itched inside their ears again, hearing a ringing from that loudness.

They clearly weren't thrilled about her almost blowing out the mics, but she patted it lightly and whispered, "Sorry." with an embarrassed smile. She just wanted to get back at Manic, trying to prove a point that she didn't want to—literally—bring the house down.

However, Ember was only focused on pleasing Manic at the same time. She still wasn't the best at making friends, but with the ones she was able to gain, she treasured them dearly and without hesitation.

She trusted Sonic and his gang, Shadow—obviously—and lastly Manic... first and foremost.

She was still a little hesitant about Rouge... but that was just because she worked close with Shadow, and she didn't like how close they seemed to be in more ways than just work...

Either way, this was family. What she had wanted from the very beginning. To not feel alone or useless... Manic and the others accepted that she was dangerous, but also that she was loving, funny, and sweet.

Sure, she could be sassy, but only when provoked to and by appropriate means... sometimes.

She giggled, thinking of times she's purposefully ticked Sonic off just to make Shadow smile. Though he'd scold her, it would be a light whack on the head, and she knew by the light pat afterward where he hit her that he was glad she shut his annoying mouth for a change~

Most of the time, she acted a bit like the gang's grandmother. She would pick flowers with Cream, try and help Amy to learn to sing, and duke it out with Knuckles! She wasn't always keen on the technical stuff Tails liked to do, but even then, she let him research her powers every now and then. Showing off her strength was fun too, but Shadow always told her to hold back a bit... which was hard, since Ember could get super competitive!

"Hey, let's go over some songs real quick. We still got time." Manic hopped up to the stage and sat on the edge, pulling out some sheet music and pointing to some parts. "You struggled before with this one but I think you've nailed it since. Still, no harm in rehearsing and making sure it's picture perfect right?"

'Perfect..?'

Ember lowered her mic's stand back down lightly to the stage. sorrowfully, she was pulled out of her funny, perfect memory and placed in another conflicting stance. There was no better word to dampen her spirits than that one... and it hadn't been so long since she felt so imperfect and dangerous. It was definitely something she struggled with, but worked hard to overcome within herself.

Those children... they were still screaming for food or hugs. Maria... and Dr. Gerald Robotnik... they were still marveling at Shadow before he had awakened.

Some things never changed, but her memories of not being able to save anyone... those were the hardest to lock away and turn her mentally gazing eye from.

"Huh? What's wrong, Ems?" Manic got up, noticing her change in demeanor. "Uh oh, did I cramp your style?" He moved his hand in an old 90's way and she shook her head, realizing he was trying to cheer her up again.

"Shadow's the ultimate life form... the perfect cure or whatever..." She swished her body to the side, ignoring his cuteness for a moment to try and explain herself. she nervously held her hands behind her back and rubbed them together too, trying to hide her fidgety nature. She sighed a long, breathy wind out onto the mic from her nose and then felt arms around her waist. "H-hey!" she blushed, getting lifted up into the air, her arms coming out by her sides.

"Well, it's true no one's perfect." Manic tickled her with his long, hedgehog nose by her exposed belly, making her fidget to get out of his grasp. "But your perfect for me, babe. I don't need you to do the world's sense of perfection, but only your very best self should be on this stage. Alright? Otherwise... I'm gonna have to have a private session with you in the back..." he turned her around and began to kiss her neck, making her laugh at his suggestion.

"Oh, no audience, eh? Taking the pressure off?" She teased, patting his chest lightly to pretend to get him off of her.

"Emm... something like that." He head-bumped her forehead affectionately, "Just us two. Playing... somewhat what we're supposed to do." He took her hands and pulled them out a little to her sides, just messing with her and helping her loosen up.

Her tail wagged slightly and she looked up with a red muzzle. He really was a charmer... "Are all hedgehogs born charming?"

"Naaaah," Manic let one of her hands he was holding onto go and waved her compliment off in a comical way, "Your brother was created with his natural, flaring smile." He gestured to his smirk and she fell to the ground laughing. "Engineered to be devilishly handsome, I suppose. Your family has good genes."

"Hand-selected." She teased back and the two fell in howling laughter on the ground, rolling to their backs and having their arms grasping around their waistlines, the tip of their heads right up by each other's.

"Yo, can you two stop acting so precious?" One of the band mates smiled to them, "We need to get back to practice, you know. And you two would be wise to do the same, as well!"

Manic just nodded, pretending to be serious again. "Right, mate. Of course, don't let us stop you guys from your hard work either." He held up a hand and as soon as the member turned around, he expertly threw a lightly spinned drum stick to hit his head.

"Ow! Why you-!" Then the whole of the band started laughing, jumping in to dog pile Manic.

Ember smiled at the ruckus, wagging her tail as she got up to avoid the squabble. Seeing how close he was to them, made her happy... but... She crawled away from the fight, hugging her legs to resist the urge to join them. Though she really, really wanted too jump in and roughhouse with them. She knew she was a bit too powerful to do that though... So her ears bent back and she placed her head on her legs, waiting patiently and enjoying the boys' playful wrestle match, all in good fun.

"We don't care if you bring your girlfriend in to sing, but do you have to be so cute with her, Man!?" one stated and she blushed. They never really officially told anyone... maybe just Shadow, but he denied it fiercely.

She wondered why... after all, Manic kept her away from Shadow most of the time. She stayed out of trouble too... so why was he so opposed to him?

He had stated he was fine with her having friends, so why not a boyfriend? Last time he saved her from Scourge, Shadow had admitted Manic wasn't so bad a guy... maybe he was prejudice against his hippie vibe persona? Though she knew in her heart he was raised in the rough streets where he had to steal most of the time... maybe that could be a player in Shadow's obvious disapproval of him?

"Lay off, dude, I can't help but want to hold her. Got a problem with that?!" Manic grinned from ear to ear, hitting the blokes off in their tussling sport before they all seemed to be done with messing with him. Panting and looking tired, they probably just needed to blow off some of the nerves they were feeling. It was their big night too... Ember couldn't screw it up.

"Whatever, just keep to a schedule. Kiss and coo after the performance, okay?" One went to get his fallen shades for his eyes and shook his head, just making fun of his friend.

"Yeah, at least we can avoid it then." Another stated, giving Manic a nudge in the shoulder as brothers would do.

"The love police, Ember. They're everywhere!" Manic got up with a quickened step, stumbling over as fast as he could back to her, scrambling to stay on his feet but really just crawling to her. She just couldn't help but fall for him over and over again... as he kept falling over and over trying to get to her.

He helped her up and she jumped to her feet, "Maybe we do need to just go solo then."

The band groaned and they laughed, "Don't take our best drummer, Ember." They teased in reply.

But as all seemed to go back to normal, the band rehearsing and Ember warming up her voice, a strange wind storm picked up... there was a rustling in the leaves as they flew up towards the stage lights... causing gentle shadows over the harsh beams of white. The wind blew a warning sound, bellowing as though trying to speak over Ember's singing voice. But in the darkness of the sky there twisted out a small, purple portal. It's mouth gaped wide, spinning with loops of different shades of darkness like blues and purples into a wavy effect in the black sky.

Finally, looking away from Ember a moment as he drummed, Manic sensed something off as his quills picked up in the wind's fierce direction. He stopped by reaching out and touching his drums, stopping the beat and vibrations to look around. "What is that?" Manic held up a hand for the others to also cease a moment... and listen. He then turned to his band, "Get on guard, dudes. There's only one thing that makes me this chilly." He began, getting off the drums and clutching his magical necklace a moment, "Dangerous schemes..." he narrowed his eyes towards the purple portal.

They all hurried to the back of the stage as something misty and liquid dropped like runny goop from the rift in the sky. It began to form from the shadows around it, rising from the ground in what looked like a misty, disfigured water fountain. A figure solidified... rolling its head into place and crooking its two arms out like a scarecrow in the isle of the arena...

The figure had distinct hedgehog quills... then a white tuff that looked almost grey a moment... bluish gleams from its silhouette.

It almost looked like... That obsidian color...

"...Shadow?" Ember stated in disbelief as the rift blasted away as though something fiery were on the other end. Flames that torched the sky and even blinded the band who tried to shield themselves with their arms. "Ahh..!" Ember felt like the flames were brighter than the stage lights... At last, the figure looked itself over, as though checking to make sure it survived whatever had brought it here.

The colors were slightly wrong, the grey instead of the red... what was this? An illusion? Some sort of trick?

His eyes were covered in what seemed like a green glaze, though it was clear it did resemble Shadow, in a striking way.

"Strange... this time was my only escape... I don't have long before Sonic and his friends blow out my other half..." He then sharply looked over to Ember, narrowing his eyes as he felt the pull of an odd chaos emerald. "Interesting... I sense a great sorrow in your chest... mind if I remove it?" he slowly, creepily moved in a zombie fashion with flimsy gestures with his hand to point at Ember. "It won't take long... but it will be painful... hahahaha." He laughed as though an axe hacking at stone.

"This doesn't look so good!" Manic grabbed the silver necklace that dangled loosely by his chest and a set of magical drums—different than his band's—sprung into existence through sparkles from the arena. "Get out of here, Ember. I don't think this guy is anywhere close to being your brother."

"B-but..." She covered her cursed emerald, and looked to Manic. "What about you? I'm not just gonna run while you take on this... this thing!" She was clearly spooked, but would never abandon Manic.

'It could be a clone,' was her first thought, remembering Shadow's stories and how Eggman had cruelly tormented him by making him think he—himself—was nothing more than a fake. Luckily, he was the original, and Ember could tell that right away... though she had never seen a clone.

"Shadow... I haven't heard that name in a long time." The figure slid his foot up to step forward, "Nor have I heard... Brother?" He seemed to twist his head as though stretching his neck back. "I wasn't aware there were more of his kind... but that explains why that dark essence hasn't eaten your life away just yet..." He was like a ragdoll, and quickly seemed to regain himself, rolling his spine as up to straighten himself, but instead his back lurched back and his arms dangled again to his sides. "I need a host soon, or my very being, the will and mind of Solaris, will be destroyed fully in my flame body, Iblis... Which Sonic currently is trying to defeat." His words made no since to them, but Ember gathered that he knew Shadow.

"You know Shadow The Hedgehog?" She stepped forward, but Manic just looked back at her, worried.

"I... drew my form off his shadow." His head lowered as his eyes seemed to pierce like spears through to her core. "And soon... I'll draw form from you as well..."

"Ember, don't listen to him! I can feel his vibes, he's no good!" Manic tried to warn her, getting antsy on his drum seat. However, she seemed entranced with the idea of someone that looked like Shadow... maybe another experiment?

Though she had a perfect memory, she knew for a fact that Gerald hadn't created any similar copies of Shadow...

'Flame body?' she wondered, her ears flicking as she pondered his words. 'Form?'

"Ah, I see you're of the sensible kind... excellent. Hahahaha..!" The figure laughed in his sadist way again, plotting something... "I was ripped apart from my other half by your... brother..." He gestured to his body, "I assume his form now only to survive, but since I have failed after merging with my glorious true form again... I have no choice but to rewrite time while I still have a silver of flame left in me... Reunite me with a new half, and I can tell you what will befall Shadow in the future... The persecution... the misery of his shamed life." He wildly swung a hand out to her, the side of his body faltering as he tilted with his outstretched hand, down and to the side.

Ember was immediately pulled into that promise, wondering what he meant and if he was somehow tied to another time. She stepped forward again, but this time Manic grabbed her arm back, "Ember, don't-!" he warned, but this figure only laughed at his attempt.

"Ember... what a befitting name... the last flares of my life... mixed with the ashes that shall soon be the remainder of your own... It's perfect poetry... hahahaha!" The figure stood like a scarecrow again, laughing as more dark flares formed around him, rolling his head back in dark humor.

At that last sentence Ember stepped back, and the lure he had over her lessened.

However... for Shadow's future's sake... she wanted so desperately to know more.

"I escaped a deadly fate, I only want to release you from your imprisonment... and allow it to be my salvation." He gestured his hand out to speak, seeing he had her strung on his previous words, "But not just my own... but to save your fellow immortal... as well..."

"He has answers. I knew G.U.N would betray us!" she began to grow angry, her fangs bared with her clamping bite as she gritted her teeth and growled.

"Yes... the world will never accept you... After all, we're both of the dark." He lowered his head, having her emerald embedded in her chest glowing the same purple mist with darkness lining its power in his crystallizing eyes with magma red glowing from the sockets... "Together... we can change the future." He flashed in a light and seemed to crystallize fully, "Now then... with the last of my power, I have altered time and come to this world... Ember... Give me of your power!"

"Ember, please." Manic didn't like holding her back, but he knew something was off. "You've accepted yourself, remember? The world doesn't matter, but those who love you do!" he gently tugged on her arm again, trying to get her to stand behind him on this one. "Please... this guy doesn't have your best interest at heart! Isn't that obvious?!"

"But he might have Shadow's..." Her eyes softened, but she didn't want to just shake Manic off. She knew in her heart that would be wrong, "If there's a way I can help Shadow..."

"Keeping you alive and happy will help Shadow!" Manic spun her around, turning her gaze from the figure, who lifted his head in a twitching jolt at losing sight of the cursed emerald... "If Sonic defeated him and he's running, don't you think that's a bad sign?" Manic tried to convince further, "I just can't have you go with him, Ember. Please, listen to me. Just this once, okay? You can ignore me the rest of the concert but hear my words now, at least now, Ember!" He was struggling to have her look at him, but she just kept ducking her head. She hadn't seen him this worked up before, but the idea that Shadow's future could be spared... But was he really a bad guy from another time and world? Would Sonic know of him?

She longed to have joined in that playful wrestle with Manic and his friends... If she was rid of the cursed emerald, could she live a normal life? Would her immortality fade and she could have a life with Manic? Finally end this suffering? Would her super powers fade and she could be a regular lady without a single care in the world?

Or would the world be better off without her... if she was so dangerous, maybe at least... she could leave Shadow with some hope for his future...

Impatient, the figure's being rose in the air. "I am Mephilis the Dark. I'm your only means for salvation." He began to form what looked like a crystal in his hand. It carried down to form a crystal around his body, and soon, he blasted into a hardened form with seemed to have a silver tuff that looked strangely like a bird... "Come to me, chaos emerald! Join your form to a more suitable host!" he formed a purple sphere in his hand and threw it towards her, a large dark beam flung behind her to block the other members of the band from interfering.

A huge ridge was created in the stage, and the others moved away to escape the glowing beam before Manic turned to see Mephilis charging through the air towards Ember, reaching for her emerald.

Ember's eyes looked ready to reflex... but relaxed... as though thinking it was time to accept whatever fate had in store... maybe for the greater good.

"No!" Manic slammed his drum sticks against his magical drum set that blasted out a sonic boom.

Mephilis pulled back to block the attack,... "Grr...ahhh!" In frustration, he was held back.

Manic looked to Ember, a sense of urgency and concern in his eyes, "Look, I've lived on the streets! Take my advice and get outta here or I'm gonna have to fight this guy!" he seemed really serious, "Go!" he was done saying please, and Ember could see it.

With regret at not trusting him right away, she looked back at Mephilis, then Manic. "You run too, then!" she cried out, but he was already locked in a battle with the strange figure now known as Mephilis... as dark orbs launched towards him but Manic played a sick beat that blasted them away.

"No! Go find Shadow! I'll stall him!" He seemed dedicated to the fight. "Trust me, I'll be okay! You guys go too!"

The bandmates all hesitated as well, but then took hold of Ember, trying to pull her back and let them flee with her.

"Noo..!" She shook them off, almost throwing one of them, "I won't leave you!"

However, the bandmates looked to each other and one put their hand on her shoulder, "Look, Ems. He's Sonic's brother, right? If he says he's got this, we gotta trust him." He nodded to her, "That weirdo's after you, right? He's only trying to protect you. Come on, we can fight another day. Especially when we learn more about this impostor!"

She took one final look back at Manic... "Promise?" she knew he would never go back on one...

Manic didn't say anything... but gave a light nod. "Take care of her for me, boys... her brother can keep her safe and I'll figure out more about this dude. Go now!"

"Manic..." She felt tears coming to her eyes but with an orb being sent her way, a bandmate stepped forward and whacked it back with his guitar. At least, he tried, but upon impact the guitar exploded and sent the bandmate flying back.

Ember outstretched her hand and grabbed him, moving with the others to retreat. "You better promise me... in your heart! I'll be waiting for you! Otherwise... I'm... I'm coming for you!" she was rushed with the bandmates out through the back...

"I don't take lightly to people trying to rip my girlfriend apart!" A side of Manic that Ember hadn't really seen in him came out, a protective and hardened side of Manic she didn't know was there.

She knew he lived on the streets, was a thief and all, but he always talked about having honor with it.

As she took off, she could hear him bantering with Mephilis, and knew he'd be somewhat okay. She could picture him winking to her, blowing her a kiss, and saying to find somewhere safe. But the only safe place right now would be... ughh...

She groaned in her thought process, "Shadow's going to be so mad..."

G.U.N HQ

"I didn't bail on Manic! He's not into fighting, true, but he knew something was up and I just didn't listen to him. I wanted to know what future that look-a-like was talking about for you, can you blame me?" Ember tried to explain herself, but Shadow turned around abruptly to cut her off from any further justification she would have thrown at him.

"Yes, and I will." He moved to the other side of the room, "This is bad timing. I get a headache when you say his name, and I can't remember where I would have met him. You say he has my form?" he looked back at her as she nodded, once figuring out he wasn't talking about Manic.

"Truthfully! I thought it was you at first..." she held her head down, worried about Manic again, and then tried to give him her best 'pleading little sister wolfie eyes' to get him to help.

Shadow just sighed, taking a moment to accept that she wasn't making things up for his attention. "Fine. I'll look into it, see if Gerald-"

"No! I know his secrets, this isn't one of them!" She swiped her arm out, declaring it thus. "Let's not waste time with reading insignificant files! We have to go and get Manic!"

"Calm down, sweetie. Your boyfriend's defeated but he isn't dead... yet." The womanly voice flew down from the rafters, flexing her wings out and patting Ember's head. However, the action was taken as a insult, Ember thinking she was demeaning her by making her feel like a child being comforted, "There, there. What a whiny little sister you can be sometimes. Especially since you're a number one target for that escapee recently."

"Rouge." Shadow's eyes narrowed to her, as if telling her to remain silent on that.

"Escapee?" Ember thought a moment, moving her fingers as if trying to put two and two together, then her eyes widened in shock. "SCOURGE!?" Ember gripped her head, then looked wildly to her figurative brother, "Scourge is out now, too!?"

"Apparently, seeking revenge." Rouge walked around her and headed towards Shadow, folding her arms. "You were instructed by G.U.N to track him down, yet you didn't even warn your own sister yet?"

Shadow just verbally let out a groan at her spilling the information without going over it with him first. "I didn't want to worry you." He looked to Ember, "I would have handled it silently, no need to get you fired up over a rematch."

Ember would have liked the idea but now was not the time, "E-Everyone's after me cursed emerald!" she shouted out like an Irish leprechaun, but stuttered in trying to make the atmosphere lighter than what seemed like impending doom... "So he's broken out of prison, there's a time traveling—I guess—looney now. Anything else I missed?" The room remained silent, eyes turning away from her. "Great, this is too much for a young, single, totally attractive immortal wolf to handle." She dramatically leaned against one of Shadow's desks as he glared at her.

"Knock it off. Try and act seriously for a change." He scolded.

"Isn't that why G.U.N... 'let me go'?" she did the bunny ears, but clearly she was fired from working alongside Shadow.

"You were a menace to them. You couldn't see it the way I... no, the way Maria wanted us to see them." He turned back to her, and she was slightly triggered on her name, but just shook her head.

"I've handled way worse before... than just losing Maria." She turned her head away, but knew Shadow was probably throwing daggers into her back with his eyes as she said that. Those kids... it was more than just Maria at this point, so... much more.

"...Look," To break the tension, Rouge stepped in-between, holding her hands out to calm Shadow and try and reason with Ember. She seemed to be struggling finding a good way to accomplish that... however, "You can't stay at G.U.N if you don't work for them, and since your last boot, Shadow and I have lovingly referring to you as the new apprentice to that hippie." She seemed to lower her eyes as if annoyed by that.

"Boyfriend, and I'm not a hippie." Ember folded her arms in protest, then stuck her tongue out at Shadow, knowing he didn't want to refer to Manic as that.

"Is it official, though?" Rouge raised a shoulder up over her cheeky look, disguising her clear curiosity but also sinister ploy to get her to admit that nothing had really happened yet between her and Manic...

Ember flinched, holding back wanting to fight her.

"Either way, your brother doesn't like that crowd, apparently." She looked over to him, "Jealous, maybe?"

"Enough, Rouge. He protects Ember, that's all I need to know." Shadow turned back to the door of the facility, having it open as guards waited with shields and guns, ready in case Ember 'acted up' again.

"And he's not a hippie!" Ember was humored by their efforts but was too busy with other important problems to 'play on G.U.N's fear' though she wanted too... badly.

"I disagree." Shadow kept walking and she walked behind him.

To lessen G.U.N's concerns, Rouge also walked behind her. "Seems to be the underlining case... I think you disagree wholeheartedly." she shrugged her arms out.

"Thank you, Rouge." he didn't pause in his stride.

"-That maybe he doesn't like the fact that you're spending so much time with another hedgehog other than himself." She covered her mouth with the back of her hand as Ember gasped and Shadow tensed up, turning his head around.

"Rouge!" he scolded.

"Uh oh, did I touch a nerve?" Playing innocent, Rouge smiled and looked away from him, seeing as Ember also seemed touched and went to hug him. However, he outstretched his hand in an attempt to hold her back.

Upon exiting the steel facility of G.U.N, the team decide to drop in on Sonic, seeing if the team of adventuring friends had any luck with remembering this enemy... but to their surprise—"Huh?"

"I've never heard of someone with the ability to shape-shift like that..." Tails placed a book down, trying to look through his journals but nothing was popping up about this strange Shadow figure...

"Maybe you have an admirer, Shadow." Sonic tilted his head back and to the side, giving Shadow a cheeky grin sneakily, but Shadow was too observant for his teases. He just rolled his eyes at Sonic's antics, choosing not to entertain him with a response.

"According to Ember, you were in battle with him before." Shadow explained, giving his full attention to Tails as Sonic dipped his head down and smirked, seeing as Shadow was trying to take everything too seriously again for his tastes.

"Oh? Must have trounced him then!" Sonic gave himself a hearty fist swing, as though to celebrate his victory that he didn't even understand had happened or would happen yet. "Maybe he's from the future? We could ask Silver..."

"No good, there's nothing about him here. Technically, if what Ember says is true, he does sound like it's his 'past' to him..." Tails deciphered through Ember's perfect retelling, trying to pinpoint terms that could lead to an answer.

"You assume I'm not?" She played, looking to Sonic to show that his sense of humor wouldn't go unnoticed.

He gave her a quiet snicker with his eyes closed, enjoying the fact that at least one immortal had some charm.

"N-no, of course not!... heeeyyy..." Tails worried he had upset her, but seeing her and Sonic's shoulders bouncing and grins, he knew they were laughing together. "Don't pick on me..." He whined cutely.

"Oh, never Tails." She swished her tail behind her, "Never without the intent to sweetly embarrass you."

He sighed and continued, "Anyway,... we don't know if it's our future or past. Not for certain, but it does sound like something that was currently occurring for him, and he knew he wouldn't be around much longer in that time-frame of space..." Tails tried to think over what Ember said, it was still hard to identify where this villain would have originated from in their timeline.

"Another world? Dimension, maybe?" Sonic questioned, trying to help him out with half the thinking.

Tails scratched his chin, moving his torso around before gripping his head in frustration, "Oh, I just can't figure it out! I need more information..." He looked downhearted, unable to help. "I'm sorry..."

"Don't worry, Tails." Ember lightly patted his head, "Maybe he's just some jerk, that's all we need to know, right? A bad guy..?" She still wasn't sure about that... he seemed to know about Shadow's future...

She was still curious about his origin... but mostly about what he knew of whatever future he had seen or known for Shadow...

"A-Aren't you curious?" Ember turned to Shadow, who walked over beside the couch and folded his arms, facing away from her. "Whether he's an enemy or not? He tried to take your emerald, which I believe sustains your life since you are a prototype. He openly admitted that Sonic had fought him and was winning. Wouldn't that mean he is?" He turned to look at her over his shoulder. "I've always known my path would be full of human fear and deceit. But I don't do it for myself... you know who I promised. I can't withdraw from this life, even if I know it will be misfortune in the end. My form will only be useful for such things as pertain to this world... If this Mephilis uses my form and seeks to remain in this world by your power, then he is corrupting both our purposes." He tightened his fist.

Ember rubbed her arm, sensing she had struck a nerve. She didn't want to push the subject and trigger the tragedy, but she also knew he didn't understand what she was actually asking, "That's not quite what I-" but before she could finish, the door to Tails's workshop slammed open.

"Get this kid some place to lay down!" Rouge had shoved the door open with one hand and holding Manic by her other arm. He was slumped over, his head down and slowly looking up with a bruised eye, squinting it open slightly to look around. He was clearly hurt, his arm around Rouge to support himself as she tried to get him over the step and into the house.

"E..Em...Ember..." he spoke faintly with a weak strength that barely let him slide a foot under himself to help Rouge move him easier.

His black eye shut again as Rouge looked over to Shadow, "Let's get him on the couch. I went to check on him like you asked me to... but..." Sonic and Shadow moved swiftly, lifting him from Rouge's care and placing him on the couch as Ember's eyes trembled, seeing someone she loved so much in pain...

She covered her mouth, "No... no more... no more hurting..." she shut her eyes, unable to bear the sight any longer.

So many memories... of the ones she's grown to care about hurting so much... because of her.

Manic coughed, being laid on the couch as Sonic gave him a worried smile, "Like old times, eh? What happened to you, Manic? At least tell me you won... right?" He meant to say 'are you okay?' but that was just how him and his brother spoke to one another.

"Oh yeah, I did decently." He tried to open his eye more for his brother, giving him a playful wink. "Ouch..." He flinched, the action might have been too strenious. But that didn't stop Manic from trying to pull it off.

She had pictured that wink... but now it was so very, very different...

He was hurt.

It was all her fault...

Though that villain should be to blame, Ember couldn't help but direct the guilt to herself.

"They got the better of me... still, my Bandmates got Ember to Shadow, and they themselves found me pretty banged up... but those two... they made a deal." Manic's last words had caught the attention of everyone in the room.

He looked over to Ember, seeing as she was lost in her own thoughts, looking anxious. "Hey, don't be afraid, Ems. I'm okay... really..." He tried to grab her attention, but she was lost in her own self-grief and pity. "I just got beat up by some powerful, wicked bad dudes, no biggie. I'm still here, see?" He smiled kindly, though worse for wear, he outstretched a hand in compassion towards her.

He wanted her to come to him... even though he had gotten hurt for her sake?

She slowly approached, but her memories of the fallen were a lot for her to take.

She didn't want him to suffer the same fact as others who had known her.

"Shadow was right." She fell to her knees and cried, unable to grab his hand as the others watched her in shock. "Our only future is misfortune... especially for those around us..."

They all looked worriedly towards her, but remained silent in her sorrowful display, not knowing how to comfort her.

"I should have stayed!" she cried out, "You should have let me fight beside you..!" She wiped the tears from her eyes as he smiled at her gentle display of compassion towards him, but also knowing she didn't want anyone's sympathy, just like Shadow. He was too prideful to comfort her, so he just let her cry, closing his eyes to give her a moment of respectful distance.

"Look at my girl... so strong, like her brother." He looked to Shadow, almost like to mock him for not being emotional about his tragic fate either. "Heh, I didn't want to see you hurt either, Ems. I did what a man should do." He nodded his head back to her, dismissing Shadow, who opened his eyes to try and judge what he meant by that. "Protecting the people you love isn't easy, it isn't easy for anyone, but that doesn't mean you don't take risky chances to ensure their happiness."

"How does this make me happy!?" Ember gripped and shredded some of Tails's wooden flooring... "How does this make anyone happy!?"

"... I am happy, knowing you're not hurt, or worse." He tried to get up, but began to show the pain and couldn't quite do it. "Now come on, Ems. Come sit with... me." Ember worriedly raced to him, skimming his back and letting him rest his head on her lap as she gently eased him into letting her sit down and look after him.

"Dummy, I can heal faster than you!" she helped him relax again and he gave her a huge, dorky grin.

"Does this mean you'll take care of me? Man, so worth it!" he joked, settling into her loving care.

She gently massaged his shoulders, rubbing his chest, and trying to self-comfort herself that he was alive. "I am glad you're alive... but I refuse to just let you talk me into running off like that again... I don't care how mad you get."

"Heh... I guess saving your life is only good for a one-time thing, eh?" Manic closed his eyes, and even with everyone staring at him, he leaned his head towards her and began to try and take it easy. "You're so used to Shadow always partnering up along side you... I just wanted to be a daring, brave hero for you... at least once."

Shadow twitched an eyebrow, but moved swiftly over to Sonic and Manic, seeming to want to change the subject and ignore the two's intimate moment. "We need you to tell us exactly what happened." he spoke with a lot of authority, but also with a hint of annoyance... maybe he just wanted to get more details out as soon as possible?

Manic turned his head slightly to Shadow, then smiled weakly. "What's up, big bro?"

Shadow flinched again, "I asked you a question. It's urgency couldn't be more dire."

"...Isn't that the same thing?" He looked jokingly up to Shadow and then to his brother, "Did you see him march over here like I'm some kinda crook?"

"You do have your head in his sister's lap, bro." Sonic folded his arms, giving him a sly look.

"Ha, I'm not the dog here." He looked lovingly up to Ember, "I'm a gentlemen."

She leaned down to his head, lightly kissing it. "You're a gentlemen rogue." she teased, "Stealing my heart and all."

"But she gave you her lap freely." Sonic snickered under his gloved hand, giving a sideways glance to Shadow, seeing his reaction.

Shadow refrained from making a comment, but it was clear he was starting to get upset.

Ember tilted her head, "Shadow? Does this really bother you?" She couldn't understand why, but wondered if he really was protective of her or not.

Shadow turned his head away, and after a long, awkward silence, Manic spoke up again.

"Can't a man catch his breath first?" he turned his head to Rouge, "Can I get some water? My mouth's a little dry here..." But Ember bent down and kissed him again, instead. "Woah..! Did I die and go to heaven already?" he marveled at her, but she just giggled as Rouge covered her mouth and seemed to enjoy the young lovers having their 'catching up' moment before retreating to the kitchen. She slid her hand over Shadow's arm, whispering something for him to relax and then came back with some water, handing it to Ember to help Manic drink.

"Let him rest a moment, Shadow. There's no use in pushing him too far." Rouge stated, nodding towards Ember. "Besides, your sister can get more out of him than you ever could~" she teased. Ember smiled up to Rouge, realizing she wasn't as bad as she thought...

At least she was siding with her and Manic, for now, anyway.

After gulping down some sips of water, Manic gave out a long, happy sigh. "Ahhh... now that hit the spot. I feel much better, able to talk more now, too." He looked to Shadow. "That guy called himself Mephilis the Dark, right? While we fought, he was insanely strong! No matter how much I hit him, he never seemed to fade in strength all that much... however, I think I almost figured him out, at least his fighting style, but..." He trailed off and looked away, seeming disappointed in the turn of the events, "That's when that Scourge guy showed up with his gang." Manic narrowed his eyes a moment, remember the encounter. " I remember his name alright... They jumped me and my drums formed back into my necklace... they held me down and beat on me as Scourge demanded to know where Ember was, but Mephilis must have saw him as an opportunity to find her as well."

Ember bit on her lower lip, worried about them tag-teaming to find her...

"I don't know why Scourge agreed, but I have a feeling he's not gonna be honest in that arrangement... but then again, I don't think Mephilis was too keen on honesty or trust either... They all look like backstabbers to me, and they're all after your Cursed Emerald, Ember..." He looked up at her again, lifting his hand to cup her face a moment. "But don't sweat it, I'll make sure they never get you. Mark my words, babe." They touched foreheads a moment, as Sonic and Tails looked to each other, concerned.

"We'll try and figure out where Scourge is and what he's up to with this guy. If they are hunting Ember down, we should plan out if we're gonna bait them or hide her." Tails gestured a hand out, stating the necessity for a plan, but Shadow immediately stomped up to him.

"There won't be a need to use Ember." he stated, looming over Tails. Tails moved back a bit, but Sonic countered by moving up towards Shadow, stopping him from intimidating his friend.

"If they've teamed up, who knows how powerful they are now. He interrupted Manic's fight, and are probably after the other emeralds. Me and Tails will try and split up our gang, find out if they're heading to Angel Island or are abandoning everything to find the impure emerald." Sonic tried to bring reason and logic into his actions, which calmed Shadow down a bit. "If you and Manic take Ember, Rouge can go off on her own to try and spot them and stay as a spy. We'll cut them off before they can cause any further trouble. But let's hope they're only after Ember... that trouble we can ambush, sound good to you?"

"...Ember doesn't do well with plans." Shadow glared back at Ember, as though implying that she needs to agree to this too.

Ember nodded her head, looking determined to get back at Scourge for hurting Manic, and also hoping to find out what this Mephilis the Dark guy knew about Shadow... and if it was true or not.

"You've gotta let me come with you, Shadow." Manic winced in pain as he got up, which made Ember panic and grab his arm to help him. "I care about her just as much as you do... I may not be as strong or accomplished at saving things like Sonic is... but I'm just as good as my brother when it comes to protecting those I cherish..."

Sonic nodded, giving his brother a thumbs up for his bravery. "You won't find a better man, Shadow!"

"...Alright." Shadow conceded. "I don't need any further convincing. If Ember wants you along to help, I won't oppose." He began to walk out the door, "But listen... heed this warning... Scourge, we understand his ways, but Mephilis, we do not. We need to be cautious, for Embers sake." He looked to her as if saying she really needed to act mature during this, and Ember just embarrassingly looked away, still holding Manic's arm as he kissed her cheek to try and cheer her up.

"Ugh." Shadow turned away, disgusted by the display of comforting affection, and walked to open the door. "Come on, we should keep a constant movement..."

"Your brother once protected the president before, right?" Manic wanted to encourage Ember that he probably knew best, but she just laughed.

"And tried to destroy him."

The room grew silent.

Then Sonic let out a huge roar of laughter, gripping his stomach.

Scourge and Mephilis, on the hunt...

"We've scowered everywhere for this girl! Why is she so hard to find?!" Scourge kicked over a burning trashcan, watching it's tin tink against the dark street... there were people screaming to escape the fires, and Scourge just looked at his hand, gripping it tightly. "What good is causing mayhem and panic if I know I'm not the most terrifying thing out there!?"

Mephilis had his arms crossed, standing next to him, looking like stone... "I think we'd get along... if you weren't so deranged." He mused to himself, turning to him as Scourge got right up in his face.

"I only make friends with subordinates. We agreed you'd let me do this my way! Flush out the rat with flames!" he threw his hand back to the burning city. "Besides, you look as twisted as I am..." he muttered under his breath.

"I have no issue with you burning the world... but as for sniffing or snuffing her out, I doubt you'd find her." He moved with strange elegance, and placed his hand on the ground. Shadows of whispy, black vines began to mutate around him, "If what you say is true... then her emerald has negative chaos energy... compared to it's seven, pure siblings... it's power can't be controlled or harnessed... It's a mad stone. One who needs a host able to contain and manipulate its madness..."

The darkness began to grow, dodging the fires but being born from their flickering shadows cast to the walls as well, upon the walls they danced... and began to search for every living soul... Like a reign of purple and misty hound dogs, falling over each other as they searched for the same... strange... energy...

"What's that your doing?" Scourge growled, scowling at him doing something without an order from himself. "I don't like things done behind my back!"

"...Finding the diamond in the rough..." Mephilis laughed, his dark power moving under screaming feet, the fires burning everything they touched. He had missed this feeling... but soon, with the Cursed Emerald, he'll have it all over again... "The shadows I'm made of are linked with a strong connection to the ultimate life form... if she is at all with Shadow, I shall know of it... and take what I need to survive."

The shadows, almost like the fire from which they were spreading, continued forth out of Mephilis and searched with a lapping, slithering haste that seemed to crawl everywhere in a furious urgency.

Soon, they were outside the city, spreading themselves into the forest. Little Flickies hid in their tree truck holes and cowered from the impending doom they seemed to send.

One of the shadow tips lingered as though to spike through a piggy that was holding its bunny friend, shivering in fright. It came closer before it sensed something, and immediately slithered towards where Shadow was, diving into his shadow...

Mephilis tilted his head, as Scourge once again grew frustrated. "Did you find something..? Care to share with the rest of the class?" He bent down and gestured a hand up as Mephilis just creepily turned to him, but didn't look directly at him.

"I found him... I'm... listening and looking to see where they are..." He heard Shadow speak and was pulled back to the moment at hand.

Shadow, hiding behind a bush with Manic, were clearly alone for right now. "She's well hidden?"

"I told her to stay put." Manic grumbled, "But you know Ember... she's always excited about a new test of strength."

"This isn't a game, she'll listen to you." Shadow was once again so serious, and it was really bumming Manic out.

"I know, I know. But she'd do anything for you." He smiled to Shadow, "You know, she's really attached to you. It broke her heart when G.U.N said she couldn't work with you anymore. It felt like they were taking something else away from her too." He explained, wondering if Shadow knew.

Shadow remained silent,... a moment went by before he sighed quietly and spoke up again, gentler this time. "I tried to warn her. She wouldn't follow orders... G.U.N is different from the past, they're trying to live better than they were..."

"You forgave them, which I respect." Manic nodded his head to him, "But for Ember... it's kinda a betrayal."

He looked away, "G.U.N was run differently in the past. They've learned to accept my power as long as it's used for good means."

"Their means." Manic countered, fiddling with a twig as Shadow glared at him. Manic was momentarily distracted with the twig, playing with it and bending it but not to the point of snapping before looking up to Shadow and then throwing his hands up in apology, and hoping he may calm down and back off a bit from the intense glare of annoyance. "H-hey, now! I'm only saying what Ember's told me. You know, you two should really talk more... she misses you." He gently put the fallen twig back into the bush. "She feels like this twig here... broken off from every family she ever made. Too dangerous to stay with anyone for too long... and mostly hunted down for her power. You can understand how she feels, can't ya?" He gave him a half-forced smile, "You have to understand... how much she longs to be in a real family..."

Shadow 'hmph'd to the side, "She's always been sensitive." but there was a warmness in that tone... A bond that Manic was happy to see shine through.

"Hey... is that a smile?" He teased, gesturing to the gentle curl in Shadow's lips.

Shadow patted Manic's accusing finger away and flicked his nose, "So she's gathering berries and other wild provisions?"

"While we remain lookout, yeah... she didn't like that plan all to much." Manic made a face and Shadow only chuckled.

"That is Ember." He joked,"And you were pretty useless in that condition... I'm... glad you recovered well." the two shared a mutual moment of fondness for her, and then looked to one another. It was as though Shadow had accepted that fact, that Ember loved Manic, but also that Manic was a good man. For a moment, he gave a look of acceptance, before looking off again. "Ember... Heh." He seemed to be thinking back on their adventures together. "She's headstrong, like Sonic. Doesn't stand still for a moment... all this and more... is why she's who she is. Which is exactly why I worry she may never find a decent job in this world..."

"She's doing pretty good at singing." Manic volunteered the idea, trying to lighten the downplay on Ember's talents but Shadow only made a face. "What? Singing don't jell right with you, big bro?"

"Don't call me that." He looked annoyed again.

"All I'm saying is maybe Ember isn't cut out for army or military stuff. She's not like Rouge, a secret agent and spy. She can't always be stealthy," Manic started.

"She longs too much for the attention." Shadow mused to himself while Manic just lowered his eyes and looked back at him as though thinking he was purposefully being a downer now.

"She's powerful, yes. But she also has a powerful, beautiful soul to her as well." He started drumming the ground, "We each have our own rhythms, Shadow. Maybe her's is better suited to things outside of fighting?"

"Yet, she loves to tumble." Shadow joked again, which made Manic just throw his arms up and laugh.

"You're not gonna give my thoughts on Ember the time of day, are you?" He seemed to realize Shadow was blocking him out, but Shadow just pushed his head down, done talking about this for now.

"Just duck down low and do as you're told... Ember wants you here, that's why you are here." He warned him, but Manic just scooted on up to him, moving his hand and seeing a brotherly side of Shadow showing.

"Hey," he grinned widely. "I've been meaning to ask you... I never did get your blessing on asking Ember to date me."

Shadow seemed to lose the slight smile he had, turning to one of more worry and anxiety.

"I wanted to make it more official after I talked with you about it, but you were always caught up with work," Manic continued, but didn't notice Shadow's shifting eyes, and the fact that he adjusted his squat away from Manic. He seemed so unsure of the topic... but what was really bothering him? "And I didn't want to tip Ember off too early about it... Mind if I ask now?"

"No." Shadow abruptly stated, closing his eyes as though to tune Manic out.

Manic took a moment to wait and process that, before speaking up again, "No..? On the timing or..?" he finally turned to try and read Shadow's expression, but Shadow kept a low-profile when it came to his emotions.

"Ever." Shadow moved away from him, and as he did so, the shadows began to move and peer around him, as though fading and glitching out of reality.

"Now hang on a sec-" Manic got up with him, trying to stop him from retreating during an important—and vulnerable—conversation before seeing the abnormality start rising up and swarming the shade around Shadow's silhouette on the ground.

"W-woah!" Manic got up from his squat, "Shadow, what is that!?" He pointed, as shadows seemed to spray out like vines whipping the ground, like an octopus's tentacles lashing out from a spaced hole on the ground, in the shape of Shadow...

Suddenly, they faded into nothingness... Shadow's shadow... was immediately gone.

"Grk..! GAHH!" Mephilis pulled his hand up, the shadows quickly retreating as if being drained back to him forcefully as he gripped his wrist. Scourge had stomped on his hand, seeing him flicker, and thinking he was going to leave them.

"Where ya going, friend?" he sneered, grabbing him and pulling him up as he continued to glitch out and in of reality, causing Scourge to barely have a hand on him. "What are you thinking of doing? Running!? Getting out of the deal!? WHERE IS SHE?"

in his wildness, Mephilis was also held back by Scourge's team: The Destructix. However, in a flash of light, Mephilis completely broke free of them and sent a blast out to knock them back. Slowly moving towards Scourge in his strange movement way, he then fired out a huge beam of power to skim Scourge's ear, spooking him back...

"You're not king... yet." Mephilis landed a manipulative intimidation, faking that they were one in the same goal. He looked at his hand again, examining the strange rift of time and space... his time was running thin. "I could erase you all from ever being born... but I chose to use my power to aid you... if we don't move now... my existence in this timeline will fade... and my own world events... vanish." He glared, threatened by the limited moments he still had.

Scourge may be in a hurry, impatient without question, but he could tell that Mephilis was trying to deceive him just as much as he was trying to trick Mephilis... "You gonna back-stab me, Dark? Better do it while I'm in a good mood..." He smirked, getting up in his face again and not fearing the power he demonstrated earlier; or at least, shaking it off. "Ember's mine. I'll rip the gem out, then you take it as host, and I control you. We all in accord again?"

Mephilis just stared at him, and as though dismissing conflict, moved Scourge aside with a soft swing of his arm. "When I am host to the Cursed Emerald... you shall have a world that will burn in black flames..." He continued on, dipping as though sinking down into the shadows...

Scourge was getting ticked off, "He'll set me aside for the last time... do you have what I asked for?" the team showed him that the portal Mephilis created did in fact lead to a forested area, and seemed to have Manic with Shadow.

"Excellent..." Scourge put his sunglasses back into place, then adjusted his crown. "Let's stick to the plan for now... we'll deal with Darky later..." he then snapped his fingers for Fiona to speak up again. "What about Sonic and the other Chaos Emeralds?"

"They've fortified the island. It will be tricky... but with Mephilis's portals, we should be able to-" She stopped as he spun around, grabbing her waist, and gripped her to him.

"Shh... you're so fidgety lately..." He cooed, lowering his sunglasses, "Babe, all I'm asking is that we plan for that guy to be smoke and dust by the time I get the Cursed Emerald..."

"R-right." She sweat-dropped, knowing that he planned to ditch Mephilis as soon as possible. "In that case~" she flung the paper back behind her, letting it drift in gentle sways to the burning grounds behind them. It was clearly her report from her spy mission, and decided to loop her arms around his neck, "We'll need a long rope... or you'll have to chaos teleport our merry band of thieves..."

"And I, their king." He shoved his face into hers, kissing her as the others waited while they messed around...

Rouge watched as they all disappeared into the portal... behind them, thousands upon thousands of burnt ruins... and flying pieces of flaming fabrics blew in the wind...

"I have to warn them!" she worriedly began to fly into the alley but turned when someone cried out for help, and flaming beams from streets and houses began to topple over one right after the other, some in the distance and others sparking as lamppost exploded as they hit the ground. "...They need me too, though." In her moment of conflict, she flew towards the burning city...

"Please be alright... Shadow... Manic... Ember..." she pleaded under her breath, "I'm leaving them to you all now."

Ember was forging but finding it hard not to pluck a berry with her claw, and then lick the juices and call it 'not eating' her bundle.

She knew Shadow would disapprove but Manic? He'd probably think it was funny. She hummed as she tried to not think about all the evil people that were after her. After all, it wasn't new, it was just kinda exciting. She was immortal, never really aged, but seemed to have never truly lost her immaturity at finding humor in even the most outrageous and life-threatening circumstances.

Sure, you get hurt, but as long as its only her getting hurt she's okay with it.

She thought back to Maria and Gerald Robotnik, how no matter what went wrong, they were always together.

The kids she'd look after and who'd treat her with their skits and plays to entertain one another... they were always together.

Shadow, however... seemed to be more concerned about his 'duty' then spending much time with her.

She loved going on missions with him, trying to impress him. He always acted like she was a liability though... even though he knew how powerful and capable her abilities were.

She could control some chaos, she could do some amazing feats, why did he always scold her on her strength and acting first before asking questions later? She was very much the same with doing something and apologizing later, her simple mottoes, she supposed. It was just her nature, and it seemed to bother Shadow... Was it truly her downfall? Curiosity only killed cats though, not wolves.

Even so, Shadow was kinda always protective of her, now that she thought of it. Even before he accepted her as his experimental prototype for his creation, he seemed to have a distaste for leaving her be too long. Isn't that what brothers are supposed to do? She couldn't really know... but seeing how Manic and Sonic joked around, verses Sonic and Tails, or Manic with his bandmates... it seemed like Sonic and Manic could goof off, wrestle, and even tease without worrying too much about the other.

So then... what was Shadow's deal? Why didn't he trust her... why didn't he want her around..?

She felt her tail swish down to the ground at the thought... She had always taken care of others, maybe that was Shadow's way of showing affection too?

Wasn't she overprotective? Wasn't she always on-guard? Perhaps she just hoped her and Shadow would be different. A true sibling bond.

She would want to return the favor, but how? He didn't even like hugs... but they did trust each other, right?

She trusted him... he seemed to trust her... was Rouge right? Was that why G.U.N kicked her out? Simply because they did trust each other but maybe two experiments was too much for them.

She paused and looked at the food in her hand, growing sorrowful again. Was the world jealous, or just Shadow?

He was the perfect weapon... the cure to all humanity... and yet, she was meant to protect him.

Then why... does it seem like he's protecting her?

Were they really... ever gonna be like a real family?

Or were they already one? But an imperfect one?

She slowly... let her hands fall and the berries drop out of her arms. Sighing, she looked to where she knew Manic and Shadow should be, "I got the food... some of them aren't stabbed... hehe..." She tried to play off her pondering emotions and licked her claws again. "They're good, at least." she teased.

No one answered...

"Shadow?" she called, trying to look over the foliage and tree trucks. "Manic?"

But no one answered.

She narrowed her eyes... and began to sneak around to see what she could find.

As she twisted herself through the bush, she let out a quiet gasp and plugged her mouth, seeing Manic and Shadow each tied up by what looked like shadowy vines that clung and tightened with their struggling movement.

In her surprise, she comically looked for somewhere that could conceal herself. So while still covering her mouth, she dived into what looked like a mossy patch near some water, and let the moss cushion her hasty fall to hide.

"Chaos... Spear!" Shadow was able to shoot out some beams to hit back Mephilis and Scourge's team, but Scourge took out a knife with a refined blade and held it to Manic, then a gun with a black coating and held it to Shadow's head.

The others had successfully dodged the spears, and snickered at their futile attempts.

"You can't contain me, I'm-!" Shadow began but realized these shadows had a strange power to them... he didn't realize they were infused with his own shadow... thus making them successfully able to contain him and his own power.

"Quick the light spectacle and realize when you're beat." Scourge pressed the gun's barrel against Shadow to move his head back against the tree they were tied up too. Manic couldn't reach his necklace, but Mephilis saw his attempts.

Floating on some shadows with his arms out wide, he turned to instruct Scourge, "Rip that silly trinket by his neck... Let him know true despair, when one holds no power, and takes everything away from you..." sadistically, he held up his hand, as if a dark sense of torment was awakening once again in him. He crushed his fists together, "I want to see the look of helplessness... as I take that light of hope from his eyes..."

"Oui! What'd I say about you giving me orders?!" Scourge flicked the knife under the necklace, "Only I'm allowed to do that!" twisting the sharp side of the blade to his necklace's bond around his neck, he yanked it off of him, pulling back the band and making his neck snap a little back as he tried to resist having his precious, childhood power and gift removed from him.

"Nooo..!" Manic saw the magical necklace fly through the air, glistening in and flipping through the gaps of light through the trees... his most precious possession left to him, which reminded him of his beloved mother... like having his family torn from him when he was an infant. It fell to the dirty soil and barely made a noise, due to the soft ground beneath...

He hunched a little, already seeming defeated by not having any special abilities, and now... not even having his only means to fight back besides his natural struggling force. "Now... I'm really mad." Manic gritted his teeth, some tears forming on the sides of his eyes. "I won't let you get away with this... with hurting Ember... or with taking any of my family from me!" he looked up with eyes full of righteous vengeance.

Shadow had never seen this side of Manic before, and it surprised him somewhat, but now was not the time to be in awe. Instead, he noticed that Manic and Scourge had created a kind of opening. This distraction allowed him to sneakily reach back and get a firm touch on his communication device. Swiftly, and trying to be discreet about it, his G.U.N training kicked in and he began typing in coordinates for Rouge and Tails. Hoping the signal wouldn't get spotted by the others... Shadow hid the device under his gloved wrist as it sent the code, however, transferring it to the others remotely was going to take some time...

Mephilis, highly sensitive to Shadow's movements, rose his head in Manic's defiant spirit and tenacious attitude, but sensed something off with Shadow. He was delighting in Manic's sorrow and frustration, but that would have to wait for now...

"He's fidgeting too much..." Mephilis lifted his hand and in a whirlwind of speed, slashed Shadow in the head and knocked him out. "There... that's better... Hahahah!" his infamous laugh carried through the forest, as Ember's hands twitched in rage.

Her Cursed Emerald began to glow...

"Heh, I like your style." Scourge used the bunt side of the gun to knock out Manic from his neck, "Now what? Where's the girl!?" Scourge turned to Mephilis, pointing the gun to him... "I think you already figured this out but... I don't like to be kept waiting..."

Ember couldn't contain her rage anymore, the insanity from the Cursed Emerald drove her out of hiding, her emotions spiraling out of control. This wasn't the first time, but she wanted it to desperately be the last time anyone messed with her friends and life. 'I'm tired of people telling me not to fight!' she felt her body lose control as she ran on all fours to defend her beloved family...

"RRAHHH!" She jumped into the air, the curse in full swing as her entire body was filled with her insanity mode flaring to life. "Let them go!" Black flames burst from her purple emerald, and Mephilis's eyes reflected their glow.

"Yeeess... You'll do nicely." He seemed fixated on the dark power it contained, seeing it as the perfect host for this new timeline.

Her eyes burned white as she came down, but Mephilis moved quickly back, floating on his shadows as the earth shook and cracked under her power.

"Alright! An ultimate showdown! At last!" Scourge readied himself, but Mephilis drifted in front of him, his shadows like a catching up behind him. "What!? What are you..? Out of my way, freak!"

He shot the back of Mephilis's head, "I'm tired of this game!" But Mephilis's head just bent forward with every shot, and it was clear nothing was penetrating through his crystal hide... The bullets looked squished and condensed upon impact with his quills.

He slowly turned back... "I'll deal with you... after my form becomes permanent in this world..." He was fading, but reached out to Ember, "I can kill Shadow, and he has the power to destroy your beloved friend as well..." He then gestured to Scourge and Manic. "What will you choose? Immortal... a prototype? You were made to be a mistake, to learn from... But with me, I can give you your ultimate purpose..." He lifted his arms up into the air, showing the half-destroyed moon. "There must be revenge that you seek... much like your figurative brother..." He slowly turned his attention back to her. "I have the means to control your cursed emerald... join to me, child of error, and I shall make you the key to all destruction!" he clenched a fist up by her, showing his resolve to want to 'help' her.

However, Ember—still wild—had already broken through Scourge's goons that had come around from behind, and slowly hunched over at Mephilis's words.

The Destructix's lay panting on the ground, remembering last time... and knowing they're efforts were futile.

Even Scourge looked pathetically over to them, seeing that without Mephilis, taking Ember head-on again might be a bad idea...

Her eyes seemed vast and hollow, as though Mephilis's words meant nothing in this state. Instead, they were simply filled with the power of negative chaos energy...

"You have a choice..." Mephilis began, speaking plainly as he could tell that Ember was no longer present, but only the Cursed Emerald's protective recognition remained. "Surrender yourself to me... or let me take over your current host's form." he flicked his fingers out, before jamming his claws into Shadow's side again. "Otherwise... I make your host's life even worse... more alone than ever before... and you, the soul who reigns over her... forever. Hahahaha!" he had figured it out, her emotions got the better of her and let out it's full power. He truly was clever, and using Shadow as a trigger, hoped the Cursed Emerald would be fueled off of her emotions, and get even stronger. "Do you now see where my loyalty lies? Now... let us join together! We shall rule this world with a burning blaze!"

Ember's power skyrocketed as her body jerked forward and then back, seeing Shadow reel back in pain before going unconscious again. It was as though the amount of empathy felt in that moment gave Ember's body the same amount of pain as it saw Shadow endure.

"Mortal... immortal... nothing escapes fate." Mephilis pulled out his claws, his shadows released Shadow from his bonds around the tree truck and he fell forward. Mephilis never ceased in his dark pleasure of torment and pain, laughing and laughing in his sadistic delights, leaning his head back as though to gloat and strike envy. "It never gets old... seeing the fear and hatred on their faces... when I kill all they care about..." Was he speaking to himself? Or to Scourge?

Now it didn't matter what he knew about Shadow's future, it was clear he wanted a ill fate for him, and for Ember as well... Though trapped inside her own mind, Ember clawed for redemption. 'Manic... everyone... if I let this fiend live, he'll tear apart the whole of what I've found!' she pounded against the dark energies that kept her locked up tight. 'My emotions... they're not meant for evil! Cursed Emerald... you're not cursed anymore! You're my power! And I choose to use you to protect my family!"

Mephilis all at once... became her new G.U.N.

Getting a momentary grip on herself, Ember reached into her chest, scratching and digging to try and pull the Cursed Emerald out of her. 'I can't lose him!' she began to cry through the searing pain as her claws bore into her flesh. However, it was instantly healing itself, burning to seal the scars she was making. She couldn't pull it out, and it wouldn't be ripped from her either... soon, it back-lashed and forced her into a full state of control, meaning that it now had full power over her... and was completely consumed in her emotions once again.

"Join me, Cursed one!" Mephilis spread his shadows around her, but the Cursed Emerald controlling Ember's body tilted its head, only interested in destruction.

Bursting into raw chaos energy, Ember's body looked more like a giant, standing wolf than anything else... her power radiated into a beast in it's rising aura...

Mephilis was slightly taken aback, "This power... Iblis would be pleased." He laughed, "Very well, I shall take you on!"

Dark orbs were thrown towards Ember's body, but she shredded through them with her dark energy claws, her true form hidden within the massive dark aura-wolf. It blasted the shadows away that tried to consume the Cursed Emerald, showing that it wouldn't be taken without a fight.

Manic's head looked up, feeling the shadows loosen and weaken from around him as he fell down from the tree he was tied too. "What... what happened?" he looked to his necklace, and reached for it in a sudden moment of clarity.

"Ah-ah-ah." Scourge kicked it away, mimicking Sonic's infamous finger wiggle and grabbing him into a choke hold. "Who said you were allowed to wake up!?"

As Manic struggled, trying to reach for a punch, it was clear Scourge was stronger than him. "Hahaha! Pathetic! She chose you over me!?" He raised an eyebrow, "I'll let Mephilis weaken her down a bit first, after all, I tried to fight her and look where that got me?"

He threw Manic as he slammed against the tree, falling back down and struggling to get up.

"But you? That's the easy part. You don't have your precious little girlfriend to protect you." He pulled out his gun, firing off some bullets as Manic rolled on the ground to dodge them. "Darn that Dark... he took all my bullets like it was nothing..." Scourge rolled his shoulders back, arching his steps around Manic and tossing the gun after it seemed emptied of bullets. "Guess we'll do this the old fashion way..." He took his knife and and then stomped directly on Manic's necklace, making Manic look up and glare in his pain.

"You're gonna end up just like him..." Scourge flicked his head to Shadow's limp form, as Manic gasped, seeing it.

"Shadow! No!" he cried out. "Shadow! Get up! Ember needs-!"

"Nothing but death!" Scourge laughed, "Same's gonna come to you, and I'm not sorry. Let's consider it a mercy kill, eh? You don't have to see your doggy dame maimed before your eyes!"

But as soon as he said that, Manic jumped at him and began to push back, grabbing his arms. "I may not be as strong as you... but I'm ten times more clever than you!" he slid his foot between Scourge's feet, then pulled it back around his foot to have him trip and fall backwards.

Manic's drum necklace skidded from the action over the ground. Manic reached and grabbed it with a tumble, rolling before having it glow in his hands. "And she picked me because I'm handsomer shade of green than you! The ones that not representative of envy!" Manic summoned his drums, then took out his drumsticks and began warming up with a drum roll. "I don't think you can take this beat, Scourge!" he began to fire off sonic booms from his drums, pushing and shoving Scourge down, as the knife in his hand was pulsed back by its sonic power.

"Grr..! No!" Scourge used his super sonic speed to start moving to dodge each drum beat. "You think you're stronger than your own anti-brother!?" but right before reaching the drums and seeing the white in Manic's worried eyes as Scourge reached out for him...

"HRRAHH!" Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles jumped from the bushes, tackling into Scourge as Manic stopped playing in awe.

"Everyone!" Manic's eyes widened and then relaxed in relief. "Thank you." He breathed out, and then looked to see Shadow starting to get up on his feet, gripping his torn and pierced side.

He crawled towards Ember's insane, dark aura-wolf form as though desperate to reach her.

"Em...ber..." He stumbled to his feet, but looked a bit woozy from the loss of blood. "I'm... com-...ing..."

"Shadow!" Manic unsummoned his drums and kept a firm grip on his magical necklace, but grabbed Shadow to help him stand better. "What'd he do to you?"

"Urk... She... needs my... help." He tried to move forward, but Manic helped him not fall.

"I know, I know! But she'd never forgive me if I didn't help you first!" Manic looked to see Scourge's crew start coming too, and Ember's insane form fighting Mephilis. "This looks ugly... I know you guys recover fast, what do you need me to do?"

Shadow gave him one look, and he knew.

Save Ember...

for me, in my place.

Mephilis began compiling all his being into one, super mass of his collective consciousness. "Now... you're mine!" as though a miniature storm, flashes of lightning formed around the purple mass as the shadows circled all around it quickly, helping to move it towards Ember's insanity frame. Diving into Ember's form, other shadows leaped up from the shade of the trees to tie her down as she remained on her feet, growling and straining against their takeover.

"At last... though not Iblis... you and I shall be... Cursembaris!" Mephilis's ball of dark energy blasted the dark aura-wolf as it howled in defiance, but was absorbed into his purple and blue darkness, which then engulfed Ember's body.

No matter the power of the Cursed Emerald, Mephilis the Dark soon sealed himself in fire within it's core...

The shining emerald suddenly dulled with shadows, and soon...

"I can't waste another moment..! You're power must fuse with mine, or I will fade from existence of all worlds! I can't fight any longer without a host... You will do nicely! Hahahaha!" Mephilis got her down to her knees, as her form took on a crystallized state, and her eyes shifted to Mephilis's own...

Suddenly, her form was overwhelmed by flames, bursting up and spreading out to form her into light that mixed with his shadows.

The fire raged and burnt the ground beneath as she was lifted into the air, and then made into a black flame, crystallized, large wolf.

Cursembaris looked at it's new body... moving up to its full height, it laughed manically in a monstrous howl that blasted the wind back and forced the others to brace against the wind storm.

Suddenly, with the power of a cursed chaos emerald, it summoned many shadows. All resembled his previous form: Mephilis, and a deadly horde began to materialize to finish off Mephilis's original goal as Solaris.

"Now... to finish off this world... and burn it all, as I have promised you, Scourge... Hahaha!" Mephilis's voice was mixed with Ember's, and their laughter was more fine-tuned, making it sound even more sinister than before...

"Grk..!" Manic forced himself up, his drums ready for battle again. "I've fought you once and held my own! Release Ember, now!" he hit the drums hard, but the fused creation just flicked his wolf's paw, and thousands of the shadow-horde began to run towards Manic.

Cursembaris laughed through it's crystallized body as though cackling howls from rocks banging against an echoing cave... Ember's voice being drowned out by Mephilis. It stalked around the battlefield as though eyeing its prey, watching Manic desperately fight back against the horde. It kept it's head low, readying to pounce at any moment...

The shadows were destroyed by different drumbeat sonic booms, but Manic was already feeling the weariness setting in. Gritting his teeth, he tried to send the blasts where they needed to go.

"This world will be too easy..." Mephilis mused, holding a clawed, crystal paw out, as though ready to hunt. "I will destroy the ultimate life form... take out Sonic once and for all,... and then leave you as a toothpick for when I'm bored!" Cursembaris's snarl spewed fire through its bared teeth. This was driving Manic insane, he hated it with a deep passion and anger, hearing Ember's lovely voice mingled with such evil.

Shadow, still hunched over, brought out his hand to his side, 'I can't let this stand... I won't lose her. I won't lose anyone else!' He looked up at his sister, seeing a form which he didn't know or understand. His fist tightened, "I had to let you go once... I won't do it again!" He took off his limiters, preparing himself as he stored his power up. "Chaos... spears!" he was able to successfully target a few spears that pierced through the shadows, having them automatically disintegrate and then strike through Cursembaris's crystal hide. They were made of pure light and chaos energy, stabbing with an effect into a dark being like Mephilis and the Cursed Emerald meant it began to weaken the shadows around it, causing actual damage.

It's crystal wolf body was jammed back with each successful spear glowing an area of effect around it, spreading light through its being...

"Hopefully... you can... push through it..." Shadow fell back to his knees, then fell down as his body began to recover and forced him to yield.

It's head slowly looked up to Shadow after examining itself, and almost with concern, it stared... until Mephilis's voice, the dominant sound, rang through again in it's muffled cry. "You'd injure your own sister..? For the sake of the world..? Shadow... I never thought you so cruel..."

Shadow frowned openly, his fangs bared, gripping his injured side as he twitched helpless on the ground. "I'm not aiming for her..!"

Cursembaris tilted it's head, then turned to see Scourge had fought off Sonic, throwing him off of him but seeing his team still apprehended. He glared to it and charged, jumping and grabbing the Cursed Emerald in glowing purple as he was burned by its natural protection of itself. "My turn!" his eyes blazed with power... though the Cursed Emerald wanted to lash back and fight, it was being controlled by Mephilis... So it could only sear him for now...

"This power is meant to be mine!" Scourge used all his imbued Master Emerald strength to try and force the Cursed Emerald out. The natural repulsion was actually working in his favor... The gem began to move out from the spiraling flames and dark purple mist... Thanks to Shadow's Chaos Spears still giving the creature splotches of yellow glowing light to weaken Mephilis's control and power over it.

"N...Nooo!" Mephilis, weakened by the now exploding Chaos Spears Shadow had thrown, felt them pulse off with every hit from Manic's other light and sound based attack...

Soon, Scourge's tug-o-war was actually succeeding, as his gloves were consumed in flame, his insane smirk never left him.

Manic's feelings pounded the drums with a powerful beat that exploded his sonic booms to push Mephilis back and Scourge closer to pulling the Cursed Emerald out. Shadow watched as he flicked his fingers and wrists, letting the Chaos Spears go off one by one in rhythm with Manic's attacks.

Howling into whimpers, Cursembaris reeled its massive form skyward, leaning its head back in the pain and slowly defusing at Scourge's persistence.

"Nooo..! I refuse to lose! I must at least destroy Sonic The Hedgehog! The Iblis Trigger!" Mephilis began to fade... his time running out. He turned to Sonic and his gang, who were unsure of how to approach the creature without getting burned. Bringing out the pure Chaos Emeralds, Sonic turned Super, and stared into the magma stones that made the being's eyes... dead in their centers as his form glowed the same way the Chaos Spears had...

"You want some?" He gestured to his new, light-based form. "Come and get me!" he bolted off at incredible speeds, flying behind Cursembaris and charging into it's neck. Digging his way through, Sonic pushed and punched the Cursed Emerald towards Scourge, helping to remove it.

According to Tails, if the Cursed Emerald was removed from Mephilis, Ember would return. He noticed the shift of polarity around the two converging timelines that were still being affected by Mephilis's presence, and determined that if they stalled long enough, Mephilis the Dark would fade from this reality, his own being wiped out in the process...

"Why... can't I... fight back?!" Mephilis's voice rang through as Cursembaris swung it's head around, trying to resist the urge to create more destruction and hacok. With all these forcing whamming into it, causing great damage to the Dark forces controlling it, the light side began to shine through...

It leaned it's head up, it's eyes filling with the white fire that Ember's would have had if still in her insanity mode.

"I ... won't... hurt... my family."

Ember's voice... was finally in control.

Scourge—at last—had gripped a Chaos Spear that hadn't exploded yet, feeling his hands burn from the light of that as well as the whipping backlash from the Cursed Emerald, and ripped it out of place. He forced it deeper into the beast, jamming it behind the Cursed Emerald and desperately trying to excavate it out as he wiggled the Chaos Spear around to hopefully pull it lose. Finally, he ripped Ember's fusion out from Mephilis as he faded away in a blaze of glory.

"Ah... HAAA...ahhhhh..." Mephilis's form began to drift towards the ground, as Ember's landed in ashes... "Now... I shall truly be... forgotten..." Mephilis's consciousness, a purple mass of shadows, slowly dwindled out on the ground... a puddle becoming less and less... before all at once... getting blown gently out of reality and time...

Ember opened her eyes gently, seeing the ash below her clawed fingers drift as scourged sunglasses tank'ed against the ground near her. As Mephilis disappeared, Super Sonic slowly returned down to the ground, and looked around for Scourge. "Where is he..? What..?" He saw the sunglasses, as Ember seemed to refuse to reach for them.

Super Sonic remained silent, horrified but also dropping his jaw at the fact that the heat had been so intense that perhaps... Scourge was was burnt into oblivion too...

He turned his head down and closed his eyes, but in his moment for the dead, Scourge was glowing green behind him. "Aw, I'm touched." and then sucker-punched Sonic. "But if that emerald won't budge, I'll kill her and take it for myself!" Hearing that he may try and fuse with the Cursed Emerald, Ember slowly got up, clutching her now completely black and soot-covered chest... forcing herself upright.

Shadow gripped his side and stumbled over to Manic, giving him a nod. He knew now that Manic would do whatever it took to protect Ember and keep her safe. Giving him a thumbs up... he turned to Ember, mouthed words she only wished she could have heard... and then collapsed.

"Shadow!" Manic didn't leave his drums again, seeing Scourge crash Super Sonic against multiple trees and then grab Ember, still trying to control her power.

However,...

"You never learn..." Ember muttered, sending him back in a backlash as she moved her arm and let him grab the Cursed Emerald again, but was blown so far away in its fury... She then, seeing the damage done, knew what last thing she should try.

Surrendering fully to its cursed power, she leaned her body back. "Shadow... I love you too. I won't forget again... that you accept the good I see in Manic, and that you don't want to lose me just as much... as I'd hate to lose you too." She let out some tears, as the Cursed Emerald began its last stand at defending itself. "Manic... I've seen you struggle, and do everything within your power to protect me... I won't forget this... I won't forget your love and devotion. Even if you only have the power of a mortal... you fought an immortal cause. You have gained your victory... And I will love you forever." Then she spread her arms out, "I'll remember... but you won't need too... This awful fate... that threatened my friends and family... will never be again." She closed her eyes, as Manic tried to run to her, "Chaos... Unleashed." A huge white light engulfed the entire area...

Time was rewritten, as is what the power of the Chaos Emeralds can do... though this power was reversed in that it could completely rewrite fate only if severely threatened by removal and/or death.

Ember was sitting down with Manic after the concert, leaning on his shoulder. 'Finally... Peace.' she thought to herself, proud that she was able to muster the courage to perform after all the emotional and painful turmoil of the time that never was...

Only she alone remembered... Shadow's figurative blessing to Manic in a simple accepting thumbs-up, and that mysterious figure that she still didn't know who or what he was... She had already called Shadow to warn him about Scourge's escape and they found him right away. It was as though she saved her family without a single soul knowing about it.

'Good... who needs another gloat, anyway?' she joked within her mind, smiling as Manic kissed her forehead, still thinking she was just calming down from stage fright.

Shadow's Chaos Spears had weakened both Mephilis and the Cursed Emerald's power, allowing Scourge to pull her out. Then, when the spears disappeared, Ember had control over her insanity power for a split second, and used it to go back... knowing Mephilis wouldn't be there to screw up her future this time... But the unleashed Chaos came with a price...

She leaned up to look at Manic, "When I predicted Scourge's eventual escape, I also told Shadow how much you cared about me... I think he's willing to see that I want time with him... and with you, too." she gently put her hand into his, grasping it lightly. "Is that alright?" she looked down as though shyly to his hand.

He chuckled to himself, growing nervous. "W-what? What brought that up all of a sudden?" He rubbed behind his quills, but she fiddled with his long-hanging bangs as he smiled warmly to her. "Did you learn my secret?"

"What secret?" she looked away, pretending like she didn't know he wanted Shadow's blessing. She had heard a lot through Mephilis's fusion with her, and his shadows and knowledge of them were something she was able to discover. Though... she still didn't understand his reasoning when she searched his mind for 'Iblis Trigger' or 'Solaris'. It was all too confusing, anyway, and she didn't stay fused for too long either.

But his influence over her was still there... the longing for destruction, the cunning and manipulation... her Cursed Emerald's flame would never glow the same...

"Never you mind how I know things~" she teased, fanning them away and disregarding her own sinister thoughts that she would push away. She was strong enough to resist whatever power was still infused in her emerald... she didn't care. She only wanted to use her power to protect those she cared about. The power would be used for nothing else, "Just come here and tell me what a great singer I was tonight..." she cupped his face, knowing he really did try everything to protect her in that other, erased timeline now. They kissed very sweetly, but he soon pulled her into a deeper, more passionate moment.

"You sang like a dark angel." he slowly moved over her, as she spread her back slowly against the stage's floor, letting him make his way over her. "Like a siren through the sea of lights..." She was feeling her heart rate escalate with the moment when...

Suddenly, a voice came from the rafters.

"Now, now, you two." The alluring woman's voice slyly added, "Play nice! After all, I'd hate to tell Shadow that when he sent me to look after you, that you and your new boyfriend —who he so graciously allowed for you to be with —were being naughty..."

Rouge's voice rang a thousand times in Ember's ears and mind when she pulled away from Manic and shook her fist in frustration. "SHHHADDDOWW!" she whined in disapproval, not liking that he sent Rouge to spy on her, still thinking her a child.

"Hmph!" she folded her arms, turning from Manic and pouting. "He still can't trust me!?"

Manic just laughed, "Ohhh, now I see the family resemblance!" he pointed to her frown and then clutched his head and stomach, belting out a hardy, but joyous cascade of laughter.

She couldn't help it, she may be imperfect but so was the rest of the world. She had a family... and no matter what twists in time or space was brought their way, they would always love each other, and want to spend time with one another.

That brought her peace. Love and family, imperfect people being perfect for each other.

She hugged Manic and laughed too, enjoying the moment with him, as Rouge smiled sweetly down to them and then flew off, giving them their alone time and space... since this was the timeline within this universe's space that they could do so... without any distractions or restraints~!

END.

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[esther-ti-designs]

Hey everyone, uhh so I have some tea for you all.

So I met this guy (I’ll refer to him as J) during the last meeting of the quarter for the graphic design club last fall.  Here’s everything that happened between December 5 through February 22.

December 5

Honestly, I haven’t noticed J at any of the previous meetings, but that one night, he just came up to me out of the blue and complimented me on my cozy winter gear.

So J and I happened to be taking Intro to Design that quarter and we talked about our group projects for the class, which we just turned in earlier that day (I had just pulled two consecutive all-nighters and had just taken a 3-hour nap prior to the meeting, so I was very sleep deprived at this point).  We continued our conversation while walking down some stairs and outside the building, and he asked me about other clubs that I’m involved in, to which I told him that I’m the secretary and Head of Hufflepuff for the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) and that I’m also in the ballroom dance club.  He seemed very interested in HPA.  He mentioned that he played second violin in the video game orchestra (VGO) and that they were having a quarterly concert that weekend.  A friend in HPA had promoed the VGO concert the night before, but I wasn’t really interested, as I had no knowledge of video game music.  J and I exchanged Instagram handles and later that night, I answered all of his questions about HPA.  Then on Sunday, sort of at the last minute, I found out that a few friends from HPA were going to the VGO concert and I went along because $5 for a concert is not bad, and I haven’t been to an orchestra performance in a while.  The concert was so much better than I expected!

December 9

Finals week just started and J randomly asked if I was studying on campus 👀

December 11

We met up at a boba shop near my apartment to study for the Intro to Design final (it was raining pretty hard and J refused to have me bike out to campus in the rain).  We studied off a Quizlet set for about 3 hours until my laptop’s battery was running low, and then we talked for another couple hours!  It turns out we have a lot in common!  We’re both only children, 22 years old, left-handed, design majors (J is actually a design and managerial economics double major), and we play the violin (I used to play violin and cello, but I digress).  Oh and we both have an iNTeResTinG injury story haha.  Then, before we went our separate ways, he gave me a one-armed hug, which I couldn’t reciprocate because I had my arms full with a cup of boba and my umbrella.

December 12

J DM’ed me out of the blue asking for my Spotify wrapped up.  I normally don’t give in to trends easily, and this was something I wasn’t really interested in sharing with the entire world, but I shared it with him anyways (Spoiler: It’s mostly Game of Thrones soundtracks, Taylor Swift, and BTS).  Despite being an orchestra nerd, I find it really difficult keeping up with popular music, and my musical taste stays fairly consistent even several years later.  I was kind of expecting him to laugh at my musical taste, but he actually complimented me for liking dramatic tv/film soundtracks.  And then we arranged another study session right before the design final.

December 13

The Intro to Design final was supposed to be 50 questions, all multiple-choice, no trick questions.  It was supposed to be really easy, and I thought we got almost everything down at the previous study session.  So why were we having another study session right before the exam?  I thought either he really wanted an A in the class, or he wanted to see me again before we went on winter break.  Right before going in for the exam, he asked if I wanted to meet up again for a “post-final celebration” when we were done with the exam.  Okay, now I was really starting to think he wanted to spend some more time with me before winter break 👀

So after the design final, we walked down to one of two boba shops on the edge of campus and downtown.  We both ordered our drinks, he got some popcorn chicken, and we talked for four hours!  I can’t remember everything we talked about, but time really flew by.  And then, before we went home, he gave me a one-armed hug again.

December 14

I had plans to fly home to LA today.  I had spent the previous night cleaning my apartment and packing stuff (I managed to forget to bring a pair of sneakers because, for some reason, dumbass me decided to wear heeled boots to the airport because ~fashion~).  I was sitting in the airport, about to board the plane, when I got a message from J.  He remembered that I was flying that day and was asking if I got home safely.  Aww he actually cares.  I told him that I would be boarding soon and will be offline for the next couple hours.  And then I updated him when I got off the plane, when my parents picked me up at LAX, while we sat in the typical LA traffic, until we all made it home.

December 15 - January 5

Over the next few weeks of winter break, we messaged each other a couple times every day.  We shared pictures of the holiday decorations in our home, and I shared pictures and video clips of my pet bunny too.  On Chistmas Eve, he asked if I had any plans, to which I told him we were going out for dinner to celebrate my mom’s birthday.  He wished my mom happy birthday and I passed the birthday wishes to my mom. “Hey mom, my friend says happy birthday.” “Thank you — who???” And I had to tell my mom about J (whoops).  Her judgmental ass was not exactly happy to hear that J is a Caucasian dude from yeehaw country, and after showing her J’s Instagram feed, she was not a fan of his art style smh.  Anyways, the day I was coming back to Davis, J was like AHHHH you’re back!!!!!!!  Just pure excitement 💖

January 9 - 16

We met up at yet another boba shop after the first week of classes.  Our meeting was shorter than all our previous meetings, because I had to bike back to give an apartment tour later that afternoon.  Two weeks into the winter quarter, we met after our design studio classes and walked to an HPA meeting together.  We also went to a graphic design club meeting together, after which he offered to drive me home so that I wouldn’t have to bike with the cold wind on my face.  I trusted J at this point, so I gratefully accepted.  I think my trust in him went up at least 10 times in this moment, because J managed to secure my small and heavy bike to the bike rack on the back of his car, which already had his bike strapped in.  After dropping me off at my apartment, he invited me out for dinner that weekend (it was also MLK weekend).

January 18

J picked me up at 7.  The restaurant he chose was hella ~ f a n c y ~.  It was an Italian restaurant downtown with dim lighting and pasta priced at $13 - $16.  He said he didn’t know the place would be that fancy and that he trusted Yelp’s description of “casual Italian.”  I told a friend about our sort-of-date night and she thinks J picked a date-y restaurant on purpose 👀  Oh and my mom went the extra mile of writing down J’s name, the place we were going to, and I was to call home at 10 PM (I ended up getting back and called an hour early).

February 14 - Valentine’s Day ❤️

Unfortunately, J never came to another HPA meeting because the campus radio station, KDVS, holds meetings at the same time, and he’s trying to get a job with them.  And we don’t really see each other very often because design classes are usually 3-hours long and J is really busy with 5 classes.  But J has been super excited about Yule Ball ever since he met me.  J came over while I was tabling for ticket sales.  He mentioned that VGO was going to see Sonic that night, and invited me to hang with VGO.  Let me tell you, it was quite an experience and definitely not the typical Valentine’s Day date.

We pulled into a Sonic drive-in for dinner (because gotta get in that Sonic mood lol).  A girl introduced herself as D (name altered to protect identity, of course).  She clearly has some sort of leadership role in the group because everyone pays attention to her, but she constantly makes jokes about being everyone’s daddy.  The jokes are so vulgar and obscene.  It was like weirdest video game nerd and band kid hybrid (J later tells me she’s a violinist.  What?!  Orchestra people are usually super chill lol).  After dinner, we get in our cars and head down the street to the movie theater.  The VGO had reserved seats in Row J.  J and I had just booked our tickets several hours earlier and we were in Row F.  Throughout the movie, someone in the theater yelled at every pivotal moment (including, yes, that Tails reveal in the post credits).  J thoroughly enjoyed the movie and laughed along with whomever was yelling behind us, while I knew absolutely nothing going into it, except that Sonic is a blue hedgehog that can run super fast.  J also gave one additional bit of info before the movie: Sonic really likes chili corn dogs for some strange reason???

So that’s how my Valentine’s Day went lol

February 18

J came by around 3 in the afternoon, right before we were going to pack up for the day, and purchased a Yule Ball ticket.  He’s obviously very excited to go to Yule Ball with me but he says he doesn’t know how to dance.  I told him we have a waltz lesson planned.  He’s like aww and says he wants me to personally teach him (my heart 💕).  And as always, he gave me a hug before leaving to go to class.  Recently, I noticed that J has been giving full hugs instead of his usual one-armed hugs, though it depends on the situation.

February 22

✨❄️ Y u l e   B a l l ❄️✨

J and I arrived separately at Yule Ball because I had to help set up the venue for the event and I had spent the entire day working on an Azkaban wanted poster prop and literally finished it two hours before our meeting time for setting up the venue.  The dance was supposed to start at 7 PM and J got there early enough to help me out with last-minute decorations.  I had signed up to be in charge of the photobooth from 7 to 7:30, but no one came for pictures during that 30-minute period, so I was free for the rest of the night.  J and I had a fantastic time admiring the detailwork in the decorations around the venue and laughing and dancing to the weird selection of 2000s music.  J did pretty okay with learning waltz basics and I gave him tips here and there on standing in closed frame, balance, the slight tension in the left hand, etc.

Sometime towards the end of the night, my ballroom friend pulled me aside for a bathroom chat and asked if we’re dating.  I don’t know???  We haven’t decided to call it official so ??

After helping clean up everything at the end of the night, J dropped off a friend and right before turning to drop me off (I live across the street from that friend), he remembered that I hadn’t had actual food all day prior to Yule Ball (aww he actually cares, and he probably wanted some extra time with me even though my apartment was right there).  So we went downtown for (a very late) dinner.  While we chatted over food and boba, our conversation drifted towards soundtrack music and I mentioned The Theory of Everything soundtrack, my favorite soundtrack besides Game of Thrones.  J immediately searched up The Theory of Everything soundtrack album and streamed it on the way home (that’s some serious dedication right there), and he liked it!

Oh and I forgot to mention that J forgot to bring a jacket and I had a very warm scarf and coat, so we held onto each other with a one-armed hug while we walked to his car.  I really love his hugs, one-armed or full hugs.

I usually post a picture from Yule Ball every year so here’s this year’s!  Yep, that’s J.  And we’re both Ravenclaws :)

I’ll end this post here, so I don’t end up with a romance novel in a single post lol

#i've told some discord friends and their reactions were like omg pls get married already #i'm dYinG from all the cute reactions #harry potter #harry potter alliance #yule ball #yule ball 2020 #uc davis #j #wow look esther actually talks

[jouska-the-deer]

Denial

(Alright, I’m gonna actually put the warnings up front this time instead of just in the tags like I do for most of my fics. 

This fic contains mentions of torture, but nothing is stated explicitly. It also contains descriptions of destroyed populated areas and violence near the beginning. If you know these kinds of subject matter make you uncomfortable, please do not read this fic. I really don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings...

Also, spoilers for Sonic Forces.

Anyway, I hope the people who do read this enjoy.)

The wind howled as Shadow skated up the large hill, dodging charred trees and destroyed robots along the way.

This area had been terribly affected by Eggman’s presence. Had Sonic not stopped him a couple days ago, the burnt landscape would have become a construction site for whatever Eggman desired. Thankfully, that didn’t happen. Less thankfully, the area still reeked of smoldering plants and stagnant water from a nearby collapsed town. At least the fires were dead now.

As Shadow reached the top of the hill, the town now coming into view, he finally saw the person he was sent all this way for. It was sheer luck that he was even here, considering how long ago he was sighted and how quickly he usually travels.

Angered screams and loud thuds rang all throughout the area, the source emanating from Sonic. He charged from tree to tree, spin dashing into their trunks and bouncing off, leaping to the next in a blue flash. Occasionally, he would stop to land a few punches and kicks to the charred wood, blackening his already dirty gloves and shoes even further.

It did not appear that he noticed Shadow’s arrival, which Shadow didn’t particularly care about. He was fine with allowing him to have his outburst since there was nothing else he had to do at the moment. Plus, he figured Sonic would find a reason to fight him if he was still in this state, which would be a huge waste of time. So, Shadow stood with crossed arms as Sonic continued with his little rampage.

Charging up a dash, Sonic launched himself at a tree, taking it down with a loud crack. He rebounded off and watched it fall, a black cloud of dust rising from its impact. Then, in a flash, he was at the side of the summit overlooking the destroyed town.

Everything was in shambles. Buildings crumbled to their foundations, roads cracked and covered with toppled power lines and trees, pools and ponds filled with disgusting murky water that would never be safe to touch. This wasn’t the only town like this. This was all the cities, towns, and villages that Eggman had got to. That Sonic couldn’t stop him from destroying.

Another scream erupted from his lungs as Sonic pulled his quills and fell to his knees. With a long whine, Sonic planted his hands on the ground in front of him, allowing some of his weight to shift to his arms. His limbs trembled as he gave into his worsening exhaustion, ready to lay there on the singed grass for as long as it took for his body and mind to stop screaming at him.

“Ahem.”

Sonic jolted upward, turning on his heel and facing Shadow with a cheery smile, or at least an attempt at one. Within a half second, he was standing a few feet from him.

“Hey, Shadow! You need something?”

Soot covered most of Sonic’s fur, his gloves and socks an ashy grey. And not only were his quills covered in dust like the rest of his body, but they were also splayed and covered in debris. The fact that Sonic could possibly think that he could get away with acting fine in this state annoyed Shadow, but he ignored it.

“I’ve been sent here by GUN to inform you that they have a number of available therapists to see should you decide you need to talk to one. All of the expenses would be covered by GUN. I suggest that you go.”

Sonic took a step back, his face contorted in discomfort.

“Yeah uh, no thanks. I’m alright.”

“Sure you are,” Shadow scoffed.

“You think I’m lying?!”

As his body tensed for a hypothetical fight, Sonic attempted an intimidating look. Shadow was not phased whatsoever.

“Would you consider what you were just doing as, ‘alright’?”

Letting out a huff, Sonic took a few steps away and crossed his arms.

“I was was a little mad about being stuck on that stupid Death Egg for a while, but I’m all good now.”

Shadow kept his voice soft and controlled.

“You spent six months alone in a cell, with records saying were tortured.”

Sonic jumped, his quills raising a small amount. However, he soon turned around, speaking in an annoyed manner with his arms gesturing wildly.

“You got that right! The food was so bland that burnt toast would have tasted better! And the whole place was a snore fest. Every day was a fight against relentless boredom. They didn’t even have TV!”

“And, there was nothing else that could have bothered you?”

Blue ears flicked as Sonic crossed his arms again.

“What? No. Nothing else happened. It was just really boring.”

A hint of concern was seen in Shadow’s expression.

“Are you sure?”

Sonic’s tone became noticeably stern.”

“Yes. Nothing happened.”

“Hmm…”

Shadow’s gaze shifted away, going silent for a moment.

“What?!” Sonic impatiently questioned.

Looking back at him, Shadow let a bit more of his concern make itself visible.

“Rouge recently found security footage of your time on the Death E-”

“-It wasn’t as bad as it looked! Okay?!”

His rushed words were filled with fear, rather than anger. While Shadow hated the fact that Sonic interrupted him, he let it slide, for now.

“I didn’t see the footage,” he calmly informed.

“Oh.”

Sonic cleared his throat, smoothing his quills back and trying to look composed.

“Well uh, yeah. Nothing really happened.”

Shadow let out a tired sigh.

“Rouge requested that I give you a hug for her.”

Sonic snerked.

“What?” he chuckled.

“She was very distraught from the footage and wanted to give you a hug, but she’s too busy to do it herself.”

“Sorry, but I’m not all that into hugs.”

“And you think I am?”

“You can just tell her you gave me one if you need to.”

“She’ll know that I didn’t.”

This was beginning to feel annoying.

“How?”

“She just can.”

That’s a dumb explanation. Sonic huffed.

“Well, then tell her I just didn’t want one.”

“She won’t be satisfied with that answer.”

Sonic was feeling thoroughly angered. Shadow had to go. Now.

“Why don’t you think for yourself instead of having her tell you what to do!? I know you don’t want to give me a hug, so just leave already!”

Shadow sharply inhaled, rightfully angered by that insult. But, he slowly let his breath out, trying to keep himself relaxed.

“I agreed with her that a hug may be helpful to you.”

Sonic groaned, his ears going back and his teeth flaring.

“I don’t need any help! I’m fine! Nothing happened to me!”

The air went silent, Sonic standing his ground and Shadow pausing in thought. Then, Shadow turned around, his air shoes lighting up.

“You know how to get ahold of GUN if you need anything.”

He was about to go when Sonic stopped him.

“Wait.”

Shadow looked over his shoulder.

“If you’re actually worried Rouge will know you didn’t give me a hug, you can give me a quick one just so you can say you did without lying.”

His air shoes dimmed and Shadow turned around, stepping forward and pulling Sonic into a hug.

A second passed.

“Alright, Shadow. I’m sure that’s good.”

Sonic tried stepping away, out of Shadow’s arms, but he maintained his grip. Blue ears went back, Sonic’s tone slightly annoyed.

“Shadow?”

He tried again, but he was locked in.

“Shadow? What are you doing?”

Not a word. He just stood there, his arms locked in place. Even statues weren’t this still and ungiving.

At that point, Sonic just huffed, accepting his fate until Shadow finally let go. Normally, being trapped like this would make him extremely uncomfortable, but he was just too tired to care anymore. The last couple days were tiring, well, more accurately, the last six months- ‘Don’t think about that.'

Besides, if he was being honest, Sonic would admit that it was kind of comfy. Shadow wasn’t constricting him, just holding tight enough to make it so he couldn’t slip away. It wasn’t like the rib-crushing hugs Amy used to give, and it wasn’t as awkward either. Of course, it was still awkward. Sonic wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t into hugs. But still, it was nice to finally have contact with another person after- ‘Don’t think about that.’

Well, he did get a hug from Tails shortly after getting back. It was a little shorter than he would have liked, though. Maybe after he’s done checking in on the damage and pitching in on the effort to rebuild everything, he’ll go see him. That is if Shadow would let him go eventually! Seriously, what’s he doing?!

“How long are you gonna hold me hostage?! You’ve been hugging me forever now!”

No response, as expected.

Sonic sighed. He was too tired to fight his way out, the hug actually didn’t feel too terrible, and he was done helping out for the day. Other than getting back his personal space, there wasn’t really a reason to try and get away. But it was getting harder to think of things to occupy his mind while the time passed. Things other than-

Okay, maybe looking around would help. Except, there wasn’t really much to look at. Just burnt trees, singed hills, and what was left of the sunset. The sky was pretty much just a dull reddish purple, and he wasn’t going to see any stars anytime soon. There was so much smoke in the sky that stargazing was nearly impossible in some places. At least there was more to look at now than when he was-

Maybe thinking about friends would help. They always cheer him up! Well, except when they’re Shadow and STILL WON’T LET GO! Anyway, it was nice to see them all again. Tails apparently wasn’t feeling too great for a while, but he was definitely doing better now. Amy was distraught when he was first gone, but used her feelings as motivation to keep fighting. A little cheesy, but also pretty cool of her. What Sonic found most surprising was Knuckles leading the whole resistance, with a lot of help from Amy of course. Apparently, Silver showed up to warn Knuckles of all the bad stuff that was going to happen, and Knuckles just assumed the role as commander of the resistance. Speaking of Silver, it was nice to see him again.

See, that isn’t too hard. What was Sonic worried about? This would be easy! Just think about his awesome friends until Shadow gets bored and lets go. He had a million friends to think about too! Like Vector and Espio and Charmy and Cream and Vanilla and Big and Rouge- uh, maybe not think about her. She was sort of the person who got him into this mess. Though, it was doubtful that she wanted Shadow to give him this ridiculously long of a hug. Unless she really did feel that awful about- ‘Don’t think about that.’

About what she saw on the security footage. ‘Stop thinking about it.’ Everything that happened. ‘Nothing Happened.’ For an entire six months. ‘It was just really boring.’ While Eggman took over. ‘Stop.’ Leaving him in a cell. ‘It didn’t happen.’ Alone with nobody to talk to. ‘I wasn’t too lonely.’ Except when his robots would show up. ‘It wasn’t that bad.’ Show up to- ‘It’s over! I’m fine now!’ To- ‘Why am I still thinking about this...’ To- ‘...To make my life a nightmare…’

The sky was almost completely dark now. It was getting cold, but the wind had died down a lot. Silence took over until it was broken by a short sniff.

Sonic’s eyes burned, tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. His breath was shaky and harsh, his body trembling. A tear slid down his cheek, alerting Sonic of his current situation. He was crying. He was crying and Shadow was right there. This is embarrassing. Have to get away now.

He pushed back against Shadow’s grip. It didn’t do anything. Shadow was too strong, and Sonic too tired.

Sonic gave up, falling forward and wrapping his arms around Shadow for support. More tears rolled down his cheeks as he began to cry openly, his sobs louder and breaths heavier. Even if he could back away, there wasn’t a point anymore. He let himself cry since he couldn’t stop it anyway.

After a while, his sobs softened and tears stopped falling. Sonic wiped his eyes and nose with his dirty glove, probably leaving gross black marks on his face, but he didn’t care. He was too tired to care.

Once again, he tried backing away, this time without much effort put into it. Finally, Shadow let him free, and Sonic took a few sluggish steps away. Without much thought, he let himself fall to the ground, his quills absorbing most of the shock. Most, not all, as the sudden stop did make him grunt with mild pain. He laid there, staring up at the greyish purple sky until he heard something. Wait, did Shadow just sit down?

He pushed himself up and into a sitting position, noticing that yes, Shadow did sit down a few feet from him. Sonic huffed in annoyance.

“Seriously. What are you doing?”

“The same thing Rouge did for me.”

Oh, so now he can talk? Took him long enough. Well, while he was finally speaking, might as well try and figure out what was going on.

“And what did she do?”

“Help me feel better.”

Sonic rolled his eyes.

“You aren’t exactly Mr. Sunshine and Rainbows you know.”

“That doesn’t matter.”

“Okay, sure. What are you gonna do, hug me again?”

“I’m going to sit here until you decide to do what you need to feel better.”

He rolled his eyes again, huffing with annoyance. Shadow retained his neutral expression.

“You could get up and leave at any moment,” Shadow stated. “I’m not stopping you.”

Silence, then a groan followed by Sonic turning away from him.

It was completely dark now. While the stars and moon did add a small amount of light, it was heavily diluted by the smoke in the sky. At least Sonic was able to see fairly well in the dark, and Shadow had near perfect night vision. Not that it mattered all too much in the moment, as they were currently sitting on the hill with nothing to look at.

Sonic thought about leaving. If Shadow wasn’t lying, he really could just get up and leave… Though, for some reason, he did really want to. Maybe it was the fatigue. Maybe he just felt lazy. Or maybe he knew that he needed help. ‘I don’t need any help. I’m fine.’

He glanced over at Shadow.

Neutral expression. Arms crossed. Doing nothing. Of course.

By now, Sonic’s anger had mostly cooled down. But boredom was starting to set in, and Sonic definitely didn’t want to deal with feeling bored. Okay, time to say something, anything, just to push the boredom away. He did have a question about the whole situation, and Shadow did seem more open to answering stuff now.

“So, is this really what Rouge did? Just sit there and wait for you to do something?”

“Yes.”

“And it worked.”

“Mmm hmm.”

Sonic let out an annoyed sigh.

“Well, I’m not you. What makes you think that what you’re trying will work the same on me?”

“I know you want to feel better, but you’re too stubborn to admit that you need help. I just have to wait until you stop denying it.”

“I don’t need any help!” Sonic growled. “Nothing’s wrong! I’m fine!”

“Hmm…”

Shadow simply continued to sit there in silence, with Sonic doing the same.

Boredom started to set in again. While Sonic definitely didn’t want to talk to Shadow more, there wasn’t much else for him to do. That is unless he decided to leave, but he knew he needed help- ‘I don’t need any help.’

“So uh, what did you do?”

“Hmm?”

He briefly considered not repeating himself. But, might as well clarify and continue talking, otherwise, he’d just be left with his thoughts again.

“If this is what Rouge did with you, what did you end up doing?”

“I went to a therapist like she asked.”

“Oh.”

Sonic briefly looked away, thinking for a moment, then looked back.

“You don’t exactly seem like someone that’d just go to therapy.”

“I wasn’t. But I needed to go, and it helped ease some of my stress.”

It was so odd. Seeing Shadow talking about anything that could make him look like less than the perfect being. Talking about how he needed to see a therapist, and how it actually helped. It was sort of comforting. Knowing that even Shadow could admit that he couldn’t deal with his feelings on his own. But…

“Can’t I just try to get over what happened? I’m sure I will eventually.”

“You don’t ‘just get over’ things like that.” He sighed, looking off into the distance. “You can choose to let your experiences affect your actions, but you have no control over how they affect your thoughts. No matter how much you try to stop thinking about what you’ve been through, it’ll stick with you forever.”

Shadow stood up, looking down at Sonic, who had his eyes locked on him.

“So you keep pretending everything is fine, or you can accept the help that’s being offered to you.”

Slowly, Sonic’s gaze lowered to the ground.

Shadow did have a point. ‘No he doesn’t.’ Sonic could already tell that he wasn’t going to stop thinking about what happened anytime soon. ‘I will eventually.’ And maybe talking to a professional about everything might help. ‘It might not.’

He looked back up at Shadow.

“What if the therapist I see doesn’t help?”

“Then you can find a new one. GUN has multiple, and it’s doubtful that all of them would fail to do their job.”

“I…”

“I could also see if the therapist I had is available to you.”

“...”

His eyes were on the ground again.

This could finally help. ‘I don’t need help.’ Not only with what happened on the Death Egg, but with all the other things he’s gone through as well. ‘I’ll get over all that eventually.’ It could help with the stress. ‘I’m not that stressed.’ It could help with the constant fear. ‘I have every right to worry about my friends!’ It could help with the nightmares. ‘They aren’t that bad.’ It could help make dealing with everything a little easier. ‘I don’t need help…” It could help with all the guilt. ‘I…’ It could help. ‘I… I need help.’

Sonic let out a long, shaky breath, pushing himself off the ground and standing up. He paused for a moment, then looked up at Shadow.

“Alright… I’ll go.”

The corner of Shadow’s mouth lifted into a soft smile.

“I’ll make some calls to see when everyone is available.”

As Shadow lifted his communicator, Sonic released a short relieved sigh. He too softly smiled, feeling a small amount of relief.

“Thanks.”

#Sonic Fanfiction #Sonic Fan Fiction #Sonic the Hedgehog #Shadow the Hedgehog #Sonic Forces #Sonic Forces Spoilers #Torture Mention #Destruction Mention #Violence #Sad #Holy smokes for once I didn't write a ship fic I am proud of myself! #I hope people will enjoy this despite the darker tone #Actually compared to Pink Asters 2 and First Christmas Together this isn't much darker. #I'm just worried about making people upset which is why I put the warning at the beginning

[sonisis]

Bring on the speculations!

Anon you made my night! I went back to my computer for this! So I guess there’s a limit to how many videos can be in one post so the ones I couldn’t post the video to I will include the link.

For context: Anon wants to know hints that Sonic likes Amy through the main story game also the fandom’s speculations, I’ve been collecting a lot of these for years.

Also this will contain many spoilers to past Sonic games. I also tried my best to keep it in Chronological order.

Classic games: 

So the ending animation to Sonic CD Sonic rescues Amy and for a brief moment he makes sure she can stand and that she’s ok before he leaves. Even with his first encounter with Amy he never pushed her away.

Onto the Modern games:

Sonic Adventures had a couple I couldn’t find specific scenes so I linked the part to the video.

First one is how Sonic got nervous when he saw Amy, she didn’t even hug him at that point. The first couple Modern Sonic games has Sonic studder a lot when he’s around her. Later in that clip he gets ready to protect Amy when ZERO approaches them, then Amy runs off and he chases after her but once he looses her he gets worried that ZERO might have gotten her, he’s really worried in this scene. Clip ends at 40:00

After Sonic goes looking for her he sees her in ZERO’s grasp so he chases them immediately. Once he catches up he’s ready to fight but the ZERO gets beamed up to the eggcarrier with Amy and Sonic yells “stop” and gets upset when he looses her. clip ends at 5:00

https://youtu.be/sYP6fX7Nrw4?t=3m31s

When Sonic was facing of Gamma he was ready to deal the final blow, Amy asks him not to hurt him and he just accepts it.Then a little after when the Eggcarrier he tells Tails to take Amy to safety prioritizing her safety over his. Clip ends at 9:50

https://youtu.be/sYP6fX7Nrw4?t=8m42s

The last cutscene Amy calls out to Sonic first. He was about to go to her but not until Tails and Knuckles show up, he doesn’t move for them. clip ends at 11:00

https://youtu.be/WxSC3MYvkSM?t=10m36s

Sonic adventures 2 same thing with adventures 1 i couldn’t find specific clips

When Sonic finds out the island was going to blow up Amy is the first name he mentions. clip ends at 8:57

https://youtu.be/BjnWv1zQnP0?t=8m40s

When Sonic’s eyes follow Amy as she jumps up in the air.

https://youtu.be/BjnWv1zQnP0?t=16m15s

When Sonic’s walkie-talkie gets intercepted by Eggman Tails yells “Sonic, Amy was.” and Sonic got really worried (He sounds a lot angrier in the Japanese verison) clip ends at 20:35

https://youtu.be/BjnWv1zQnP0?t=20m26s

The hostage negotiation turned out to be a trap and Sonic’s last words were “I’m counting on you Tails, and Amy take care of yourself” It’s speculated that he asked Tails to him and Amy out safe, also when Sonic was talking to Amy he used  a caring voice. Then if you keep watching the clip Sonic survives and his first concern was Tails and Amy and asks Knuckles to save them. Clip ends at 26:47

https://youtu.be/BjnWv1zQnP0?t=23m14s

The last scene has Amy Approach Sonic, he didn’t want her to worry so he told her “let’s go home” Clip ends 17:47

https://youtu.be/6I1vDD6WDgM?t=17m20s

Sonic Battle:

When Sonic leaves Emerl with Amy he starts to call her Mom, Amy starts to think this is a test from Sonic to prove her worth as a future wife and he never corrected her. A lot of the times Sonic studders around Amy in this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6HZWF-xK40&index=101&list=PL045830D87CEA48C0

Sonic Heroes:

So It’s never explained what exactly happened after the Fight between Team sonic and Team rose.But Knuckles remarks “Are you still playing with that Girl’s heart again Sonic?” Later Cream says “I can’t believe Sonic did that just so he could get away, Mr. sonic must be really-” So Sonic did something but it was never shown or mentioned Clip 1 ends at 0:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tzl3TNGd7Y

Sonic Riders:

Although Sonic was a little annoyed by Amy at the beginning, when Amy said she’d cheer him on he silently nodded.

https://youtu.be/bBUZ8AZDvno?t=13m42s

Sonic was about to kick Eggmans butt but then he saw that Eggman had Amy hostage and thought the safest way to save her was to wave dive. clip ends at 23:22 if you watch a little longer though you see Sonic letting Amy chase him to her heart’s content as an apology.

https://youtu.be/bBUZ8AZDvno?t=21m6s

Sonic Rivals:

Eggman traps Amy and Tails into cards and Sonic is ticked.clip ends at 0:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-9H_qMdJM

Sonic remembers about Amy’s card and hurries to save her since her life energy was going to be used at that point.

https://youtu.be/Lh-9H_qMdJM?t=5m30s

Sonic Riders: Zero gravity:

Son gets embarrassed when Amy talks about Fated lover being able to find each other. clip ends at 8:00

https://youtu.be/tQSuRXAUpIo?t=6m42s

Sonic pushes Amy ways when the enemy goes after them then shields her from a blast then proceeds to stand up for her when Jet is being rude to her, but the best past was the fact his face showed anger when Jet started pointing a finger at Amy. clip ends around 14:05

https://youtu.be/tQSuRXAUpIo?t=12m15s

Sonic cries out to Amy out of worry since she was being chased by a robot clip ends at 27:16

https://youtu.be/tQSuRXAUpIo?t=25m9s

When he looks back at Amy he smiles, he didn’t look at Tails he looked at Amy. clip ends at 7:00

https://youtu.be/yE8cU9UomAU?t=5m36s

Sonic Unleashed:

I’d like to note it was around this time Sonic stopped studdering around Amy and Amy wasn’t as upfront about dating at this point.

This one is probably one of the biggest Sonamy hints in canon because Sonic gets upset when Amy doesn’t recognize her and he even reaches out for her. HE REACHES OUT MAN!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2CmFGc1gY

He picks up Amy and looks down when she looks back at him and runs, he didn’t know if he could tell her it was him because she didn’t recognize him the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUPqYi1Mg8

You can agree to go out with her (My theory is this is the date mentioned in the back knights)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSf2F1Edquo

Sonic Generations:

After Amy easily swats knuckles against a tree Classic Sonic looks in amazement and looks up to Modern!, Modern Sonic is all embarrassed.

https://youtu.be/UHqpV08RR8c?t=25s

Sonic Lost World

This is where there was a slight difference to Amy’s Personality where she’s calmer now and Sonic is a little more comfortable with her.

Amy’s last message, she left it on a cliff hanger before her message disconnected. Sonic really panicked at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mm9nVMKl9Q

Other possible timelines or unknown timelines:

Sonic 06′ (The unspoken Sonic game that technically never happened)

Even though there’s that whole Elise thing going on he’s really thankful to Amy.He rarely uses the soft voice that he uses. clip ends at 12:35

https://youtu.be/rxKyTee8m0o?t=12m2s

Sonic Chronicles: the Dark Brotherhood (Does this timeline even exist?)

So this one was hard to find honestly because the videos that were available didn’t show every answer Sonic could’ve said, but whenever Sonic talked with Amy he had at least 1 negative comment, 2 nice or on topic comments, and 1 flirt comment. If you play your route correctly Sonic professes his love for Amy. You either are really nice to her, a jerk, or a smart ass. Sonic didn’t have these many options with the other girls. So I guess this one can sorta count as Canon buuuut this timeline doesn’t exist in the same timeline as Modern! since they do end up in space, for like a really long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqy0rhSvTg

Sonic and the black knight ( I would consider this one in the regular timeline but I don’t know)

At the beginning he got dragged in when he was supposed to be on a date with Amy. He eats his Chili dog but he protected what was Supposed to be Amy’s chilidog even looking relived when he saved it. 

Then we have when Sonic meets Lady of the Lake(Who looks exactly like Amy) Sonic puts his arm around her while complimenting her.

And lastly the scene that confirmed Sonic and Amy had a date:

Sonic Boom:Shattered Crystal

When Amy looses a fight Sonic gets worried and when he looses connection he threatens to give Lyric “the big beat down”. Clips ends at 1:21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avb5H7mwwU

After beating up Shadow he angrily asks where’s Amy, then when Lyric sends a hologram message Sonic imminently insults him. clip ends at 11:26

https://youtu.be/6avb5H7mwwU?t=9m53s

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic and Amy enjoy a relaxing view, he almost taps on Amy’s shoulder to say something but he hesitates. If he was going to say something like “Can we go now” he wouldn’t have hesitated, that or he cared because Amy said “For once nothing is chasing us.” clip ends at 26:22

https://youtu.be/SSDZwUZ2wIY?t=25m20s

And then there’s the Mario and Sonic Olympic games, there’s been some dialog with Toads that asks what Amy was to Sonic. I don’t think he answered that one.

So yeah these are all the speculated hints of Sonic’s true feelings. I’ll try to add more to the list whenever a new game comes out. I didn’t include some of the app games, I think some of them had dialogue in them but I’m not sure. I hope this helps!

#sonamy #ask me anything #ask me sonamy things plz I love them

[jolienjoyswriting]

Sonic - Random Encounters, Ch. 5-B

An alternate take on Chapter 5 of "Random Encounters," a Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction story.

This extra chapter is what you get when you end up shipping two characters together during the writing process, but have no idea what to do with them, so you let things go wildly off-the-rails.  That being said, it's very non-canon and, honestly, kind of trash. The actual "ship fic" I wrote, later on, is much less trash.  (:

Word count: 6,453 – Character count: 37,169 Originally written: August 23rd, 2018

Following an eventful night, David finds himself joined by some very friendly company.

"Sonic the Hedgehog" and related characters and concepts created by Yuji Naka and © Sega Games Co, Ltd. Ruby Moon the Rabbit and "Coloris the Coloris" created by and © RubySp00n

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    Daylight was shining through the broken part of David’s blinds and into his apartment, the morning that followed.  And, as if to spite him, it was hitting him right in the face.  He gave a little grumble, feeling stiff and irritable…  Had he even slept?  He had no idea… but, he intended to try again, whether the sun wanted him to or not.  The floor was cold… but, the comforter was warm.  Soft, too…  And… wait.  Why was it moving?  Or… breathing…?

    He tensed up, suddenly remembering how the previous night had ended.  A peek under the covers confirmed what he thought he was feeling: Coloris was hugging him around the waist and sleeping soundly, her front pressed to his back.  Her legs were also hugging his tail, which was snug against her own back.  He didn’t remember doing that…  But, before he could take a second to figure out how it had happened… he noticed something else – something to his front.

    A glance down made him uncomfortably nervous.  He wasn’t sure of when, much less how… or, why… but, there was a person wrapped in his own arms, that morning, hugging a pillow and sleeping soundly with their back to him.  Even with the big, cream-colored ears a plush, red hair blocking his view… he knew it could only be one person…     Ruby…?!

    That morning… was filled with questions, for David.  He knew Coloris had slipped under his comforter the previous night and hugged into him… he had some vague memory of her pulling his tail around her… and, he even remembered finally nodding off, after staying tense for what seemed like hours.  But… he could not, for the life of him, remember Ruby joining them, much less come up with a reason as to why she was pressed against him instead of the other girl.

    It was every guy’s dream.  But, for some reason… he just wanted to…

    “Wake up.”     To the raccoon’s surprise, the girl at his back stirred and slid back.  He could almost hear her blinking at him… before she snuggled close and happily murmured.     “Nn… Fibe more minglends…”     Too bad that the person he was actually talking to was being a little less cooperative.     “Ruberry’s not a morning person,” the pixel-cat said after a cute little yawn.  “‘morning, by the way!”     “Uh…”     “I’m not much for mornings, either…  I like to spend all morning cuddled up in aaall the blankets!  A nice, fluffy tail works, too!”     David shivered as he felt a hand run over his.     “But… gosh, I slept so good…!  Thanks, for letting me sleep with you, Mr. David.”

    It was an odd situation, having one girl invade his personal space while the other kept his arms hostage.  He shouldn’t have felt tense…  It really was a dream come true in a lot of ways!  They were both so soft – especially Ruby – and warm enough to relax even the tensest of people.  But… given that one of them was an egotistical, temperamental girl and the other was a kid with a death-touch… he just couldn’t let himself enjoy it.  Still… he knew he’d curse himself out, later, for what he was about to do…

    “C’mon,” he said, giving Ruby a nudge.  “Up.”     “Hrrn…”  She squirmed and wriggled before rolling out of his arms and stole the entire comforter before curling into a blanket-ball… seemingly, on-purpose!  Unfortunately…     “O-oh…!  G-gosh…”     That had an effect on the other girl, too.

    “I-it’s so chilly this morning, Mr. David!” Coloris noted, tightening her grip and squeezing herself closer.  “Wish I had soft, snuggly fur and a fluffy tail to keep me warm!”     That’s what she thought.  But, honestly…     “Wait.  You’re…  You are cold, aren’t you?”     He was.  Granted, he’d been too busy amusing himself by poking at the bunny-cocoon – which made funny, growling noises, every time he did – but… as he lay there… he was shivering.     “I don’t think Big Sis is gonna be up, anytime soon.”  The other girl hummed before casually suggesting, “Wanna cuddle in bed?”     A bright blush crept up under David’s white facial fur.  For a moment, he considered giving Coloris a straight answer of “No.”  But… between the chill that was starting to set in and the fact that Ruby just plain would not cooperate… he was starting to reevaluate his position.

    “Mr. David?”     The cat-girl gave another blink as she watched David roll over.  A moment later, she brightly smiled and pulled him inward, happily returning the tight, loving hug he’d given her.     “S… sorry…” he nervously whispered.  “Cold…”     “You sure are!” she giggled.  “Poor baby…  Let’s get you under some nice, warm covers!”

    With some difficulty, the two had gotten up and made their way to the couch-bed, early that morning.  David sat at the edge and kicked off his shoes while Coloris gently removed her knee-length boots and set them aside.  When the raccoon tugged at the fingers, he noticed her start to do the same… which sent a shiver down his spine.     “What?” she asked, quickly taking note.  She was giving him a curious smile.     “Gloves?” he asked in return.     “What about them?” she giggled as she removed the one.     “Uhm…”     At least, she’d tried to.  To her surprise, she found that hand captured by his own bare hand, fingers sliding between hers as he pressed down.

    “How come we’re holding hands, Mr. David?” she asked with that same smile.  “Not that I mind…  I like you, too!”     “Uh…”     He really had made things weird, he realized.  Really, it was kind of a knee-jerk reaction and an attempt to keep her glove on…  He briefly considered the possibility that doing what he had could have killed him… but, as he sat there holding her hand… he remembered another part of what Ruby had told him.     ‘Her arm-sleeve…’     And, he let go.

    “You’re so silly, Mr. David…” she told him as she brought her hands up and started removing her glove, again.  “But, I like you.”     He offered an uneasy grin, feeling a little stupid for what he’d done.  Without another word, he slipped his other glove off and watched her do the same.  Before long, all she had on her arms were a pair of light-grey arm-sleeves which went from her fingers to her elbows.  If his mind hadn’t been elsewhere, he might have found them kind of cute.  But, as she wiggled backward onto the bed and reached for the comforter, he found himself wondering…     Her bare touch…     Yeah… her bare touch was deadly… and, despite the fact she was wearing only the smallest amount of fabric over her hands… she didn’t seem to be doing any harm to the bedspread.  But, for some reason… that made David curious…     “M… Mr. David…?”     More curious that he should have been.

    Before she could slip under the covers, David had gotten her attention.  When she turned around to face him, he held his hands out for her, fingers pointed her way and palms facing up.  He maintained a cool, somewhat-aloof expression as he watched and waited for her to act.     “Are we playing more hand games, Mr. David?” she asked, tilting her head.  A second later, her face lit up with a bright smile.  “Oh, I know!”     And, without any warning at all… she slapped her hands into his.     “Pattycake!”

    David was the one to blink, then, as Coloris manipulated and guided his hands in a rhythmic pattern, slapping palms, bumping backs, nudging knuckles, and even touching finger-tips, on occasion.  All-the-while, the raccoon stayed tense, wondering why nothing seemed to be happening.  Another thought occurred, then…

    “M… Mr. David…?”     He pulled his hands away… only to hold them up for her, palms facing forward.     Coloris seemed confused… until she smiled and swung her hands at his.     “High-five!”     But, that wasn’t his intention… which she realized shortly after he pulled away.

    “Too slow…?” she asked, her smile becoming a little less confident.     He brought his hands back, holding them up a second time.     “Hands,” he told her… which, thanks to a spike of nervousness, sounded less like a request… and, more like an order.     “H… hands…?”     Unsure of what he wanted, she brought her own covered hands up, holding them parallel to his.  She didn’t dare try and high-five him, again…     “Mr… David?” she nervously laughed.  “What’s… this game?  Oh, I know!”     Suddenly… she grabbed his hands, fingers locking between his, and gave a squeeze!     “Hand-hold!” she told the raccoon.  And… that was the last thing he remembered hearing.         “Mr… David…?”

    And, that was the first thing he’d heard after everything went black.  He was pretty sure he’d died… if not from her action, then by a heart attack.  But, as his eyes fluttered open, he noticed that he was still in his ratty apartment… and, from what he could tell, was still breathing.  What’s more, there was something hovering over his face… something kind of colorful.

    “Gosh!  What happened?”     He gave a blink of his emerald eyes, breathing long, slow breaths as he stared up at the face of a concerned kitty-girl.  She was smiling… but her eyes showed a lot of concern.     “What… happened?” he quietly repeated, causing the girl to smile a bit more brightly.     “You fell down!  I think!” she excitedly giggled.  “I guess you’re still tired, huh?”     The raccoon blinked a second time, then looked around…  He was laying on his couch-bed and, to his surprise, his head was resting on something that didn’t feel like a pillow.  His eyes drifted to the nearest solid object… which was a dark-gray thing, situated “above” him.  It was kind of furry…     “You’re okay, though… right?”     He then noticed… there was a lime-green outline, surrounding the gray.  As his eyes continued, they eventually met with an outcropping, a few inches up.  It was then that realized…     “Upside-down…?”     “I know you are, but what am I?”     The girl covered her mouth and giggled, again, closing her eyes.  Technically speaking… neither of them was upside-down… but, from either of their viewpoints, both of their heads actually were.  From that discovery, it didn’t take long for David to guess…     “L… lap…?”     The girl poked a sleeved finger against his nose.  “On the nose!” she cheered, which made him examine his situation a little closer.

    Apparently… when he’d blacked-out, Coloris had pulled him over and placed his head in her seated lap, which explained the gray “wall” “above” him, as well as the “outcropping” of light-gray fabric with a lime-green trim.  Wait.  Outcropping…?     “Oh– oh–!!”     Suddenly, he sat up and spun around, causing the girl to wince!     “Are you okay?”  She offered a slightly-confused smile.  “Why’s your face red?”     He hadn’t meant to… he really hadn’t!  But, while he getting his bearings… he’d started staring at her chest.  From the underside.  Granted, with her body covered in that form-fitting suit, he didn’t actually see anything… but, he was worried that he might have offended her.  Given how cheerful she was acting, though… that didn’t seem to be the case.

    “S… sorry…” he said, deciding to be cautious to see what happened.     “For what?”  The girl’s head went to one side, her fluffy, apple-colored bangs and fringe sliding over.  Apparently, she hadn’t even noticed him staring at her chest…     “Uh…  N-never mind.”     Something he was very thankful for.     She blinked as he said that, then gave a friendly smile.  “Okay!”

    After another moment of awkwardness, David took off his belt – while Coloris removed her scarf – and they shuffled up to the blankets of the couch.  The idea of snuggling into a nice, warm bed still sounded good, to him… but, after potentially risking his life, then embarrassing himself with Coloris… he wasn’t sure if he really wanted company.  Still, when she crawled over and gave him another of her cute li’l smiles… how could he possibly tell her “No?”  And, so…

    “Mmm…  This is nice and cozy, huh?”     He tensely laid there, avoiding eye contact with the girl as they shared the couch-bed.  She seemed pretty happy to be there… and, under other circumstances, he probably would have been, too.  But, given the previous night and the ongoing morning… he wasn’t entirely sure.     “Little chilly, though…”     The raccoon raised an eyebrow.  Coloris was still smiling at him… but, something else was happening, too.  She was wiggling…  Not just wiggling, but wiggling closer!  And, as if to confirm was he was seeing, he heard her say…     “Let’s snuggle!”

    When she nudged herself toward him… he shuffled back.  When she tried, again… he moved away, again.  It wasn’t until the third time that Coloris noticed.     “Don’t… you wanna snuggle?”  She offered a hopeful smile as she added, “It’ll warm us up!  Plus, it’ll be even cozier!”     David… was hesitant.  When he didn’t answer…     “You… don’t wanna snuggle, huh?”     He blinked.  All the positive energy had left the girl’s face, leaving behind a somewhat-hurt look.  Apparently… she’d really wanted to be in his arms… or, be held.  Both?     “I-it’s okay, Mr. David!” she suddenly said, putting on a forced smile.  “I snuggled you aaall night!  We… we don’t have to snuggle more…”     With that, she turned around… and, as if trying to add to his growing guilt, she shuffled away, stopping at the farthest side of the wide sleeping surface.

    For several moments, David just stared at the back of the girl’s head.  She wasn’t making any noise and wasn’t moving…  He briefly wondered if she was even breathing…  But, after quite a while of watching, he noticed something.  At least, he thought he had.     He blinked, continuing to focus on her…  Sure enough… the girl was twitching.  No, not twitching…  Trembling… albeit, sporadically.  No, that was the wrong word, too.  He knew what she was doing.

    The girl was shivering.  She was cold!

    Craaap…

    “E-eh…?!”     Coloris jolted, her body tensing up.  Something was touching her…  Not just touching her… but, something had taken hold of her around the shoulders.  Slowly, she looked to her left… then, she brightly smiled.     “Y-you don’t have to if you don’t wanna…” she told David.  But, without even being asked, he slid his arms down around her middle and pulled her in, making her giggle with joy.  But!  He wasn’t done…     “O-oh…!  Hello!”     To her continued delight, he’d slid his big, ringed tail between their legs and up her frontside.  She was quick to wrap her arms around it with a happy murmur.     “Oh, Mr. David…” she contently sighed.  “I… I hope I didn’t make you feel bad.  I was okay!  Really!”     “Shy…” he quietly told her, causing her to look back at him, once more.     “Shy?  Really?”  She giggled, again.  “You don’t seem like a shy guy to me!”     He chuckled as well.  He wasn’t sure if that was a compliment or just a comment… but, it was certainly amusing.     “Actually, I’m kinda surprised you didn’t ask Ruberry out, last month!  B-before… um… all the bad stuff, I mean.”     He blinked.  “What?”  That came out of nowhere!

    “Lots’a people ask Big Sis out!” she explained.  “She’s really popular!  But…”     Her voice lowered and she whispered…     “I think she has her eyes on this one cute guy…  I forget his name, but he seems nice!”     She paused to give his tail a hug.     “I liked some of her boyfriends.  I didn’t like some of them, though…  Some of them were… weird… or, they acted funny around me…  Like, this one time?  Big Sis went to use the bathroom?  And, this guy came over and was like, ��So, can’t help but notice you’ve been staring at me, the whole night…’” she said in her best “guy voice.”  “Of course I was!  I really wanted to pet his tail!  But… he was having such a good time with Big Sis…”     She shook her head.     “Anyway, the guy smiled at me… kinda like you smiled at Ruberry, last month!  Then… he tried to touch my hair…”     A sudden, tight squeeze to his tail caught his attention.  Between that and the long silence, he got the idea that…     “I don’t like it when anyone touches my hair.  Not even Big Sis!”  She paused, again, before clarifying… “I just let her ‘cause… ‘cause, she’s Big Sis!  Ya know?”     “Only child,” he suddenly told her.     “What?  Really?”

    David blinked as she girl shuffled in his arms.  He had to lean back as she turned around and looked right into his eyes.  Oddly, it seemed like she’d lost interest in his tail, being more interested in him, himself!

    “I dunno why…” she said with a friendly smile, “but, I thought you’d have a sis or a bro, or something!  Guess not, though, huh?”     Her smile brightened… then, she looked down, seeming a little sad.     “You know… I don’t have any bros or sises, either.  Ruby… isn’t really my sister…”     Hearing Coloris call Ruby by her actual name… made him feel a little odd.     “B-but, don’t get me wrong!”  The girl looked back up with a bright smile.  “Ruberry’s been the best big sis a little sis could ever want!”     “Only child…?”     “I…”     Again, she looked down… but, she’d also bit her bottom lip.

    “Mr. David?” she called, after a moment of quiet thought.  “Can you keep a secret?”     “Sure?”     As she brought a hand up, he jerked back.  When he noticed that it was closed… except for the pinky finger… he suddenly wondered if she was going to do what he thought she might.     “Pinky-swear.”     Yep.  She was.     “Promise that you won’t tell anyone what I’m about to tell you, okay?” she asked as he wrapped his right pinky around hers.     “Promise,” he said with a smile.     There was a long pause… then… she started giggling.     “S-sorry,” she said when he tilted his head.  “I can’t take your cute face seriously!”     He blinked, feeling his face warm ever-so-slightly.  She thought he was cute?

    “Um… anyway!”  Coloris squeezed his pinky to hers.  “Promise?  Again?  Sorry.”     “I promise that I won’t tell anyone–”     “Not even Ruberry!” she suddenly interrupted, giving him pause.     “Uh…  I promise that I won’t tell anyone, not even Ruby, abo–”     “Ru-berry!” she corrected, giving him another pause to blink.     “I promise,” he said in a particularly-fast way, not wanting to be interrupted a third time, “that I won’t tell anyone including Ruberry what you’re about to tell me!”     Coloris had to blink, then… but, soon enough, she giggled.     “Is that’s a pinky-promise?”     “That’s a pinky-promise,” he repeated with a smile.     “Okay!”  The girl brightly beamed.  “Remember, if you ever tell anyone, I’ll know!”     She leaned in, showing… an uncharacteristically-serious grin.     “And, I’ll get’cha!”     His fur bristled as, without any warning, she flicked her finger, tossing what looked like micro-sized confetti at him.     “Bless you!” she laughed.  The “confetti” had made him look away and sneeze.     With that, they released hands and settled back down, ready to continue.

    David patiently waited, watching Coloris kind of fidget and avoid his gaze.  He was really curious what she could possibly tell him that was both a secret and something that he didn’t already know.  Fortunately, he didn’t have to wait for very long.

    “Mr. David?”     His head tilted to one side.  She looked right at him, gave her best smile, and said…     “I… lost my memory.”

    David grinned.  She was joking, obviously.  When her smile started fading, though…     “Oh.”  She wasn’t kidding.  “Oh, Sai…”     “I-it’s not so bad!” she told him, realizing she’d made him worry.  “I just… don’t remember where I came from…  That’s all!”     “Not bad,” he repeated, giving her a smile.     “And… I don’t remember my family… or, if I had any…  Where I lived… what I was doing before Ruberry found me… how I got there…”     “Um…”     “Yeeaaah…”

    For several moments, David just watched Coloris as she kept her head bent downward, staring at nothing.  She didn’t seem that upset… but, at the same time, he knew that not knowing her own history had to be troubling.  Heck, he’d be pretty upset if he forgot the last 18 years-or-so of his own life!  Though, he probably wouldn’t miss his Freshman year of high school, if he was being completely honest.  What a mess that was.

    “Could… be worse.”     Coloris looked up.     “Met Ruby,” he said with a friendly smile… which she returned pretty quickly.     “That’s what I mean!” she brightly said.  “I lost a bunch’a stuff… maybe…?  But, I gained a bunch’a new stuff!  Big Sis… friends like Saffie and Dani…  You…”     “Me?” he repeated, causing her to nod.     “We haven’t known you for very long… but, you made my big sis happy.”     “I… did?”     “She said you were nice and fun to hang out with, the one time you did it!”  Coloris brightly smiled.  “I think so, too!”     “‘Nice…?’”  He blinked.     “Mr. David, you’re really nice!” she exclaimed, throwing her arms around his shoulders and hugging him.  “And… you’re cute and fluffy and like hugs, too!  I’m glad you make Ruberry so happy…  She likes you!”     He smiled, again.  That made him feel kind of proud, in a way.     “I think… she likes you-likes you, actually…”     Then, he blushed.  That was news, to him.     “B-but… don’t tell her I said that…!” he immediately heard her whisper.  As she looked away, she added, “I think that was a secret…”     There was an awkward sort of pause before she looked up and sweetly asked…     “Is there anyone you like-like, Mr. David?”

    “Not… really,” the raccoon quietly answered.  He was still a little dazed and flattered from the indirect – though, unconfirmed – declaration… but, given how few friends he had, and how few relationships he’d been in… he could honestly say that there was no one of interest to him.  Before they’d had their fight, he’d considered asking Alexandria out, once-or-twice… but, he ultimately thought that they were too close to do something like that.  It was… kind of a silly thought, he knew… but, he really didn’t want to risk ruining a lifelong friendship… just for a kiss from a pretty, purple-eyed girl.  Ironic, considering that it was ruined because of another girl.

    “There is someone, huh?”     He blinked.  Coloris was giving him another serious look… one filled with compassion.     “Boy… Big Sis is gonna be sad,” she said with a soft laugh.     “N-no,” he told her, feeling his face warm, again.  “Just… thinking.”     Suddenly, she snuggled against him, tucking her head under his chin.     “It’s okay, Mr. David…  If you have someone you like-like, it can’t be helped.  I just think it’d be neat to have you as my ‘big brother…’”     Her voice lowered as she whispered…     “You’re so nice…”     She really knew how to tug at his heartstrings without trying…

    “L-little early… to talk about marriage?”     “Oh, but I bet you’d look handsome in a tuxedo…”  She snuffled back up and brightly smiled.  “It’d match your cute face!”     “I–!” He blinked.  “Wait.  What?”     Coloris gave a calm sort of smile, looking at him with closed eyes.     “Nothing, Mr. David…  Just…”  Her smile became a grin as she told him, “‘Thinking…’”

    There was another awkward break in the conversation.  She just smiled at him while he gave an odd, half-confused look.  Why had she said that?  Was she teasing him?  She was definitely being playful… but, teasing?  No, no…  And, if that wasn’t it…

    “Is there someone you like-like?”     Coloris opened her eyes, staring at his face with a confused look of her own.     “Huh?”     “Is there someone you like-like?” he repeated, his own expression completely neutral.     “I like you!” she exclaimed before trying to give him a hug.  She had to blink, though, when he nudged her back and stared at her.     “Not what I asked,” he told her.  “Is there someone you… like… like?”     “Nope!”     It was his turn to blink, again.  She’d given that answer so quickly… so completely without reservation… that he had a hard time accepting it.     “You sure?”     “If I did, I don’t remember.  Amnesia, remember?”  She grinned, a little.  “But, right now?  There’s no one that I like-like, no.”     Well, there went his fun…  He was hoping she’d act all squirrelly, or try and duck out of answering the question.  He hadn’t been expecting a straight, serious answer.

    “To be honest…”     He blinked, watching his friend.  She was looking to one side, seeming lost-in-thought…     “I’m not sure if there’s someone I could like-like…  I love just about everyone!  But… in a platonic way.  You know?”     And, again, he hadn’t been expecting an answer like that.  Mostly, because she always acted like a little kid.     “After Ruby found me,” she said, using Ruby’s actual name, again, “I’ve mostly been hanging out with her and her friends…  I just like hanging out and playing games and learning things!  We went to the library, one time, and…”     He waited… then, he tilted his head, wondering why she’d suddenly trailed off…     “You okay?” he ended up asking, genuinely wondering…     “Mr. David?”  She paused before looking up at him.  “It is… normal?”     “What?”     “Is it normal… to… to not be interested in boys?”     “Um…”     The urge to make a joke was so strong…     “Probably.”     Thankfully, he suppressed it.

    “Ruby likes boys.  Sappie likes boys, too!  Not sure about Dani…”  She frowned.  “I’m a girl… right?  So… why don’t I like boys like they like boys?”     “Can I… be serious, for a second?” he asked with unusual clarity.     “It’s kinda weird when you do that…?  But…”  She gave a nod.  “Okay.”     “Sometimes… some people just aren’t looking for relationships,” he told her.  “Sometimes, not even a fling.  Sometimes, people are happy, alone.”     “But… I have friends!  I have Big Sis!”  She gave a hollow chuckle.  “I’m not alone…”     “I explained that bad…” he said with a sigh.  “What I meant was–”     “I know…” she interrupted, startling him.  She looked into his eyes, again, as she quietly explained, “Some people just aren’t interested in being more than cuddle-buddies.  Heck, some people don’t even like that!”     She snuggled into him with a content murmur and a warm smile.     “I don’t like people, like that.  Cuddling rules.”     “Heh…”  He gently held her, giving a chuckle.  He preferred it when girls let him cuddle them, too… but, it wasn’t always a sure thing, he’d found out the hard way.

    After a couple of moments of cuddling, Coloris leaned back and looked at her friend.  She had an odd look about her…  It was kind of confused, but at the same time, curious… but, also… cautious.     “So, Mr. David…”  She paused before asking, “It’s normal to not like boys, like that?”     “Sure,” is what he was thinking of saying.  Instead, he positively said, “Absolutely.”     “And… it doesn’t make me… weird…?”     “Nope.”  He tapped her on the nose, drawing out a giggle.  “‘fraid you’re normal, Sai.”     She gave a happy hum… then, she looked down.

    “What if…  What if…”     He tilted his head, wondering what she was thinking.     “What if I liked girls?!” she blurted out.  And, for the first time that he could remember… he saw her blush.     “That– that’s normal, too,” he told her after a second.  It’s not that he was bothered by the idea…  Rather, he really hadn’t expected her to just barf something like that out!

    “I-it is?!”  She gave a heavy blink before asking, “B-but… isn’t that bad?”     “Some people think so.”  He smiled as he said, “Idiots.”     “They are!” she agreed with a bright smile.     “Can’t help who ya love,” he continued.  “Guy… girl… stop sign…”     “Okay, now you’re just being silly,” she giggled.  When she noticed him give her a dirty look, though…  “O-oh…  Were… you being serious?  I-I’m sorry!  I–”     She had to blink when he put a finger over her lips and smiled.     “Sorta-silly,” he told her, making her smile.  “Some are attracted to… ‘non-standard’ stuff.  ‘Live-and-let-live.’  Long as they don’t throw it at me, don’t care.”     “Yeah… yeah!”  Her smile brightened.  “Mr. David… you’re so smart!”     “You, too, Sai.”     “I am?”

    He turned his head down at the question… then, he gave her a sheepish look.     “Real-talk?  Thought… you were a kid when we met.  In your head, at least.  Now…?”     He offered a warm smile to the confused girl.     “Know you’re not.”     “You thought I was a kid?”     When he gave a skittish sort of nod, she hummed…     “Is that why you didn’t flirt with me?”     “What…?”     He blinked, yet again, as the girl smiled at him.  It wasn’t her usual cute-and-sweet smile, though.  No, there was something different… something kind of subtle…  Almost… sly…

    “You kinda flirted with Big Sis, at the arcade,” she commented.  “You complimented her and said nice things!  You said you liked my outfit, too… but, that was all.  Sooo… was it ‘cause you thought I was a kid?”     “I… uh… I mean…”     “I wanna be flirted with, too…”  She brightly smiled.  “Go ahead!”     “W… what,” he squeaked.     “Flirt with me!” she repeated.     “Can’t just…  Doesn’t work like…”     “What?  Aren’t I pretty enough for you?”     His face scrunched.  Was she…  Yeah.  Yeah, she was totally smirking at him…     “I…  You…  F-flirt…?”     “That’s what I said, Mr. David!”  She grinned, then.  “Hit me with your best flirt!”     “Doesn’t work like that!” he exclaimed.  “M-mood…!”     “Well, what would set the mood?  Wait…!”

    The raccoon jolted.  Coloris had jolted, too, seemingly inspired.  All he could do was lay there and wait for her to make the next move… whatever it might be.

    “You’re scared, huh…?” she asked.  That… was not what he was expecting her to do.     “S… scared?” he repeated.     “Uh-huh!”  She gave a nod, then smiled.  “You’re scared you’ll make Big Sis sad!”     He almost let himself say “What,” again…  He couldn’t believe what she was saying.     “Well, Mr. David…”     She leaned in, pressing her forehead to his and staring right into his eyes.     “What Ruberry doesn’t know…”     She trailed off, again… but, it really didn’t seem necessary for her to finish that thought.  And, as David lay there, front-to-front with a girl who, previously, acted like such a kid… he started to notice… she was really doing her best to encourage him.

    Coloris’ had closed her eyes half-way and was giving him a soft… enticing sort of smile…  Even the way she reached up and brushed the locks of two-color hair away from her face seemed kind of… attractive, rather than just cute.  Clearly, the girl had some idea of what she was doing…  However, she didn’t seem to have a clue as to what she was doing… to him.

    “Flirt with me, Mr. David…” she said in soft coo that felt full of mixed signals.  Even if she hadn’t added the “Mr.” to his name, he would have been just as wary of actually going through with her suggestion… mostly because he had no freaking clue about where to start.     Wait…  “No clue where to start?”  He… he wasn’t seriously considering…  But, as he lay there, his eyes scanning her… he noticed, for the first time, just how sweet her smile was… what beautiful eyes she had…  He noticed the delicate curvature of her feminine face and how her eyelashes fluttered whenever she blinked…  He noticed was cute little ears she had…  And…     “Oh, Gaia…”     He realized something.

    “Not such a ‘kid’ after all… huh, Mr. David?”     Coloris gave a playful sort of giggle.  She’d… definitely… noticed the way he was looking at her.  And… she approved…     “Uh…”  He swallowed hard.  His heart was thumping and his face was, quite-obviously, red with embarrassment.  She had him at a complete-and-total disadvantage…     “You’re blushing…” she whispered.  “You wanna kiss me, don’cha…?”     He blinked, again, his blush brightening.  He also made the strangest squeaky noise…     “Gosh…  Guess that means…”  Her smile… turned into a grin.  “I win!”     He continued to blink as she brought a hand up and covered her mouth, giggling more.     “Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha–?  What do you mean… ‘you win?’”     “Oh… nothing…” she said, looking off-and-away with a smile.  “Now, where were we?”     “No.”  He suddenly felt… angry, for some reason.  “Explain?”     “It’s nothing!” she giggled as she gave him a hug.  “Really!”     Okay, given how quickly she’d started denying it, he knew something was up.     “Lying…”     “I told you,” she said as her smile turned nervy, “it’s nothing!”     The scowl he gave her told he wasn’t buying it, though… and, that made her frown.

    “I… I really didn’t mean anything, by it…”  She squirmed a little.  “I just meant–”     “What did you mean?” he pressed, causing her to wince.     “I… I…”     Her eyes clenched and she whimpered.     “Ru…  Ru…”     “‘Ru-ru?’”     Then, all-of-a-sudden…     “Ruberry made me do it…!!”     He jerked back, eyes opening wide and fur bristling.  Coloris had hidden her face, clearly upset by her own words.  However, that statement only led to further questions…

    “Wh… what do you mean, ‘Ruberry made me–”     “I-I didn’t wanna!” she exclaimed from behind her hands.  “I told her it was mean!  B-but, she told me it’d be funny!  And-and-and, she said if I could get you all nervous… I… I…!”     When she moved her hands, David noticed… she was tearing up.     “Sai?”  He blinked, scooting inward… only to have her scoot back.  “Sai, what’s wrong?”     “Sh… she dared me to flirt with you and if I got you all nervous, she’d buy me a big ice cream cake thing with rainbow candies and sprinkles, and… and… and…!”     Coloris whined, closing her eyes tight and shaking her head.  She was getting shaky…  Suddenly, she pushed forward, burying her face against David’s chest and hugging him close!

    “Oh, Mr. David, I’m so sorry…!!  I’m… so… sorry…!!  P-please, don’t be maaad…!!”     Not knowing what to do, he just reached down and patted her back.     “What… are you apologizing for?” he asked, genuinely confused.  When she looked up at him, tears dripping down and making her cheeks spark, he cautiously added, “I seri–”     “Didn’t I…” she sniffed, “didn’t I hurt your feelings…?”     “What?  N-no…” he answered with a confused blink.  “Is… is that what you think?”     She gave a sharp nod.     “W-well… was confusing… but…”     “You’re not mad?”     There was a hopeful look on the girl’s face…     “No way,” he truthfully told her.  “Like you too much, to be mad.  But, what–”     “I like you, too…!  I-I mean… I lied, earlier… wh-when I said…”  She bit her lower lip before confessing, “Mr. David… I… like you-like you…  Th-that’s why I did the dare!  I wanted to see if… if…  Oh, Mr. David…!  I’m so happy…!!”     “W… wuh… what…” –––––

    “What… happened, while I was asleep…?”     “I got a boyfriend!”

    The look on Ruby’s face was… certainly something else, that morning.  She had a horrendous scowl and a deeply-furrowed brow as she stood there, staring in confusion as her “little sis” happily clung to David’s arm.  The raccoon wanted to say something… try and explain away Coloris’ comment… but, one look at her bright, beautiful, overjoyed face… stopped him cold.  How could he say “No,” to that precious face?  And, so… it became kind of… semi-official.

    Life with Coloris was kind of a trip, for David.  She was always a handful… running around everywhere, asking everyone she could meet questions… poking this, prodding that, examining literally everything…  Whenever she became too much for him to handle, he often differed to Ruby… but, for whatever reason, Ruby just shrugged and told him things like, “She’s your girlfriend,” or… “You’re the one who’s dating her…” even though it wasn’t entirely true…

    The morning Coloris had declared him “hers,” he couldn’t have been more boggled and at-a-loss.  Even with all the attention she gave him, he just couldn’t wrap his head around the idea…  Eventually, though… he started to remember that, as hyper as she could be… she was also a full-grown woman… one who, as she occasionally reminded him, wanted attention… from her boyfriend.  Yeah… it was weird, seeing her as anything but the playful “little sister” of his friend… at first.  As time went on, though… he started to see her as more of an energetic and fun-loving woman.  It didn’t hurt that she was so cute, of course…  He kinda liked saying that he had the cutest, most-precious girlfriend on the planet… just like she loved telling people that she had the “best, handsomest, most-loving boyfriend.”  And, so… “semi-official…” became “official.”

    Once he’d embraced the idea, they shared a sickeningly-sweet dynamic that, for whatever reason, seemed to really work!  They were pretty shameless about flirting, for a while… but, as the excitement of a new relationship calmed, they managed to dial things down relatively quickly and, before long, they were right back to acting casual… with an occasional, flirty comment or action, of course.  It worked… and, hey!  It was even kinda cute!  To… most people, anyway…

    Ruby, being filled with wanderlust, often tried to leave the lovebirds behind… only to be followed by her “little sister” and her boyfriend.  Coloris was like a homing missile, when it came to finding her “big sis!"  She even though it was a fun game, after a while!  Unfortunately, nothing could have been farther from the truth, for Ruby…     With David always being around… and, with him dating Coloris… she didn’t feel needed, anymore.  As such, her usual perky personality took a serious hit and, after some time… she became a little detached.  Both Coloris and David noticed… but, neither one of them could seem to do anything about it.  As Ruby had a tendency to lash out, unexpectedly, their other friends had also noticed.  That made David wonder…  what if what Coloris told him, that one morning, was true…?  What if… Ruby had eyes for him?  He didn’t like thinking about it… but, her negativity was starting to get them down.  Something needed to be done… something drastic.

    One night, Ruby left their traveling party, as she often did.  When she woke up the next morning, though?  She was… by herself.  No one had followed her… or even tried to.  She’d managed to run everyone off.  She was… alone.  And… that’s when she broke down and cried…

    … … …     Nah, I’m just kidding.  What really happened that morning was, shortly after the announcement, Ruby walked over and slapped David on the back of the head before pulling her “little sister” away, telling her not to date “that smelly loser.”  Oddly enough… neither one of them seemed too upset by it.  David hadn’t been too committed and even Coloris decided she’d jumped the gun, a bit.  All three of them stayed really good friends, after… though, some people did claim to see a glowy pair of silhouettes wandering off in the direction of the suburban park, at night, sometimes…  But, who takes rumors like that seriously, anyway?  Right?

#gift #fan fiction #Sonic the Hedgehog #Random Encounters #fan characters #Ruby Moon the Rabbit #Coloris the Alien #Maximillion David #slice of life #romance #drama

[another-sonic-blog]

First Impressions Pt.2

First Impressions

Pt.2

ShadamyBoom!

Just like promised, Shadow and Amy meet more constantly. And by constantly, I mean four to five days a week. Amy will talk about the constant battles with Eggman and Shadow would always listen carefully even if he knew the ending for each story. With “Team Sonic” always kicking Eggman’s butt.Shadow will always keep Amy updated about his costant search for the Chaos Emeralds and Lyric’s possible uprising. Before leaving to search for an Emerald, he made sure to tell Amy which made her respond with a “I’ll wait for you.”

Times has passed since Amy last saw Shadow and she has began to worry. She was honestly enjoying her time with the black hedgehog and didn’t want him to stop coming to see her. Amy didn’t even know where he was living, so she couldn’t go investigate in case Shadow was in trouble and needed help. The only thing she could do was to trust him and pretend like nothing was hapening in front of her friends, which were currectly eating all together at Meh Burger

“It’s already been a week”-Amy thought out-loud. Looking down at her burger, she began to think about the possibilities that might have happen to Shadow, but once again, she knew he could take care of himself.

“A week for what Ames?- Sonic asked curious about what the pink hedgehog could be thinking.

“You have been kinda out Amy”- Tails asked as welll as he took a bite out of his burger.

“Uh? No, its nothing!- Amy said and took a sip of her soda rapidly.

“Come on Amy! What is it? Did you forget to water your plants for a week? Did you forget to wash your clothes for a week? Because that has happen to me and-”- Sticks began but was interrupted by Knuckles.

“No guys, Amy is just worried that her boyfriend hasn’t come to visit her for a week!”- That was said and while Amy was choking on her on soda, everyone went to stare at her with a surprise look.

“What? eh? Boyfriend, Amy you have a boyfriend?, its not like I care or anything but-”-Sonic began to blabber at super sonic speed.

“What? No, I don’t have a boyfriend, I-”

“ Don’t be shy Amy! I have heard you guys talking couple of times!”- Knuckles said.

“What? How?”-Amy asked almost yelling.

“ I sometimes pass by your house because I do weight lifting near there, and I have heard you talk to someone regurlarly, I didn’t really make out who he was, but since it’s your bussiness, I didn’t pay to much importance.”-Knuckles explained, while calmly eating his burger.

“Wow, Knuckles, I never saw you as the one to take people’s privacy into consideration.”- Tail said surprised.

“There’s a whole history you don’t know about me bruh”

“Anyways Amy, who is this guy?, is he rich? does he own a technological corporation in which they have world domination as their main goal?!”

“He is not my boyfriend!”- Amy yelled, blushing really hard.

“Then who the heck is he?”- Sonic asked, a bit angry at the fact and forgetting about his chilli dog. Knuckles out of nowhere took out some pop-corn, already feeling where this was going, in which Tails and Sticks decided to join him and just sit back, relax and enjoy the upcoming drama.

“He, uh, he is…My student!”-Amy said quickly already sweating and not really thinking about the consequences.

“You have to stay quiet… if not I’ll kick you out”- Dave came out of nowhere and and just like he came with his “I don’t care attitude” he left. 

“Your student? Student of what?”-Sonic kept throwing her questions, not really caring about Dave’s warning.

“ah..Indoors design?… yeah that, hehe!”-Amy said with a nervous laugh. 

“Oh look at the time, I have to go now, bye~.” - And with that, Amy left in a rush.

“Wait, AMY!!!”-Sonic yelled.

“Ok this is it.”- Dave said to himself, a he push down the emergency bottom in which was under his counter, making everyone been ejected  from their seats and went flying over to an unknown place.

Amy came to her house, while trying to catch her breath she went to her fridge to get a sip of water. 

“Well, that was close”-Amy thought. And as she pull her head out of the fridge and close the door, she found no other than Shadow The Hedgehog behind the door looking at her.

“Shadow!”- Amy was surprised by his sudden apperance.

“It seems like I have come in a bad time.”- Shadow said and Amy was perplexed.

“It doesn’t smell like cookies.”- Shadow decided to look to the other side while saying this.

“Oh, Shadow!”-Amy was so happy to hear him and she hugged him, forgetting about her previous situation. She was just happy to know that Shadow made it back safely.

After a few seconds, she remember who she was hugging and she guessed it was time to go into the next level with her friendship with Shadow. Hugging a friend wasn’t wrong after all. She looked up to see his reaction, and he just had a surprised look on face. 

“hehe…heheheh”- Amy giggle as she separated from Shadow and turn around to get the ingredients to make cookies.

“What are you laughing about Rose?”- Shadow asked as he eyes followed Amy.

“Nothing, just your expression.. I have to say it was kinda cute”

“Tsk”

“Well, I won’t do it if you don’t want me too”- Amy said smiling, if Shadow didn’t want to be hugged, then she had nothing else to do but to respect his decision.

“…”

Amy felt Shadow’s gaze towards her, at every movement she did while preparing her things to make the cookies. That’s when she thought…

“hey, Shadow. Do you want to learn how to bake this?”

“Why would I do that?, I have you to make them for me. And besides, If I learn how to make them on my own, I wouldn’t have an excuse to come see you.”

“Well, I won’t be here forever, you know? and…I actually, well.. thought that you liked to come here not only because of my cookies, but because you, like me?”

Amy noticed Shadow’s change, his eyes opened a bit more and he seem to confuse the word “like.”

“In a non- romantic, comrade type of way!”- Amy quickly turned around to cut the cookie dough and kept Shadow from looking at her blush.

“Very well then, let’s began…”- Shadow came closer to Amy, ready to get his first lesson.

“But Amy…”- Amy turned her head to Shadow as she hear him call her name.

“Please, don’t remind me again that in a future you won’t be here.”

The lesson went smoothly after that. Amy felt bad for remembering Shadow about his immortality. So she try to make her lesson more fun for the both of them to enjoy. Shadow seemed to have had a good time as he learn to make cookies and in between recipes he took more bites of the different kind of doughs, which made him be in a better mood.

“Well, all done!”- Amy said happily and with pride, the tray was full of different kind of cookies.

“Rose… they are all burnt”

“Yeah, but you made it yourself, its a beginning! You should be proud!”- Amy sightly punch him in the shoulder in which Shadow pretend to be hurt and touched his shoulder as in to gain a bit of pity from Amy so she could let him eat part of her cookies.

They sat down in the sofa and with milk began to eat the cookies.

“They taste great Shadow! The burn part makes it have a different flavor.”- Shadow knew Amy was lying as he had tried his own cookies, but smirked at the nice thing the pink hedgehog said. They continued eating and watching a reality show in the TV until Shadow interrupted.

“Hey Rose, look at what I found”- Shadow said pulling out a green Chaos Emerald.

“Oh, you did find it after all!”

“Yeah, I had to fight some robots, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle”

“Are you going to look for the other ones?”

“Yes, but since I already have one, it means that I must leave for sometime”

“What do you mean?”- Amy asked putting down her cookie and milk.

“With the previous battle I had, I am sure that Lyric is back… some of the robots I fought were under their command. Some of those robots were Eggman’s  prototypes… they know I have the Chaos Emerald, If I stay here I’ll put everyone in danger.”- Shadow said, looking straight at Amy’s eyes.

“But-but where would you be?”- Amy was really worry, she didn’t like the idea of having to wait for Shadow to come back, wondering if he was safe or not.

“To be honest, I don’t know, I’ll hide and plan my next move as I go. I need to get all the Chaos Emeralds, that way I can stop whatever plan Lyric has.”

“Then, I’ll go with you!”

“It’s dangerous, Rose”

“I can take care of myself”

“I know that but…”

“And besides, I don’t want to put anyone in danger either”

“What?”

Amy went to her room, and looked through her things. Meanwhile, Shadow wonder what in Chaos was Amy meaning by “ I don’t want to hurt anyone either”. When Amy came back, Shadow understood her words.

“A Chaos Emerald?!”- Shadow said surprised as Amy showed him a red Chaos Emerald.

“Where did you find it?”

“I believe this was the emerald you were trying to look for in the forest a few weeks ago, when you were injured.”

“So that’s why you were in the forest that night? You can also sense Chaos energy?”

“Only when I am really close to them. In reality, I was trying to find some berries for a cooking recipe when I sensed the energy, I looked futher into the forest and I found it. And I also found you not too far away from it.”- Amy said as she took a sit in the sofa close to Shadow.

“Amy, you can still give it to me and I’ll-”- Shadow began but she interrupted him.

“No, I found it. And I am resposible for it now. Please Shadow, let me go with you.”

Shadow thought for a moment, and he couldn’t just take the emerald from Amy and leave. Amy wouldn’t forgive him and he knew that.

“Fine”- Shadow finally agreed, not really sure about his decision.

“Yes! When are we leaving?”- Amy said, glad that Shadow accepted her request.

“Tomorrow morning”

“Well then, you should stay here the night”

“I accept”

“Great, I’ll make us some snacks for the trip”- Amy said as she stood up and went to the kitchen.

“oh and Amy…”- Shadow began and Amy turned around, there weren’t many times that Shadow called her by her name, she knew it has serious business when he did.

“Yes?”

“I like your cookies, but I also like you”

“M-me?”

“In a totally non-romantic, comrade type of way”

A/N: if there’s enough support I’ll continue, I must say that real romance begans after this chapter~~~

#shadamy #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sonic boom #amy rose #sticks the badger #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #fanfic #shadowxamy #shadow and amy #fanfiction #sega

[auroraknux]

(Don’t have a title for this yet)

So, this is a little story I wrote about how Sonic and Tails first met Knuckles (in my Sonic Boom fanon universe).

Before we begin though, there’s a few details I’d like to mention:

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are all kids at this time.

Knuckles isn’t tall or beefy yet; he’s really short and scrawny.

I imagine Knuckles’ language to either be Japanese, or some kind of pseudo-Japanese language (with a mix of real and fake words).

I also imagine him to have an adorably squeaky voice; something like this.

Anyway, I’ll stop talking now. Hope you enjoy the story!

They could never figure out what exactly caused it to happen. All Sonic and Tails knew was that, one minute they were flying in the Tornado, the next the plane had unexpectedly crashed on an island in the sky. Thankfully, the two were unharmed, but the plane was too damaged to fly at the moment.

“Good thing I brought my tools,” said Tails. “This might take a while, though.”

“Good thing we packed lunch, then,” Sonic replied. “So…where are we anyway?”

“Hmmm…” Tails held up one of his devices, gazing at the screen. “According to this, we’re on Angel Island. No one’s lived here for hundreds of years, so I doubt anyone will mind if we stay here for a bit.”

“In that case, I’m gonna go look around.” And with that, Sonic ran off.

It was quite a beautiful island. The palm trees, the flowers, the waterfalls–everything. Every color was the most vibrant he’d ever seen.

However, Sonic’s sight-seeing was cut short when he heard something: the rustling of leaves. He paused, staring at the bush the sound had come from.

Probably just an animal, he thought.

But then, he heard another sound: a whimper.

He pressed a button on his communicator. “Uh, Tails? You sure this place is abandoned?” he asked.

“Yeah, why?” Tails asked.

“No reason…”

Curiously, Sonic walked over to the bush, kneeling down in front of it.

“Uh…hello?”

A startled squeak came from inside, the leaves rustling once more.

“Hey, it’s okay,” Sonic reassured, “I won’t hurt you.”

The only response he received was another whimper.

He thought for a moment, then an idea popped into his head. “Wait right there.”

He sped off, grabbed his packed lunch, and came back.

“You hungry?” He started digging through the bag’s contents, holding out each item he found. “Uh, let’s see…I’ve got a sandwich…chips…pudding…grapes…”

As soon as he pulled out the grapes, the leaves rustled again. Then, ever so slowly, a head cautiously poked out.

“That’s it…” Sonic encouraged.

There was more hesitation, before a young echidna crawled out of the bush. He sat up, hugging his knees and gazing at Sonic nervously.

“Here you go,” Sonic handed the echidna the grapes.

Gosh, he looks like he hasn’t eaten in days, Sonic thought as he watched the echidna eat. Is anyone taking care of him?

It didn’t take long for the echidna to finish scarfing down his food. He mumbled something in a language Sonic didn’t understand, but the meaning was clear.

“Hey, no problem,” Sonic replied.

Then a thought occured to him. He turned on his communicator again.

“Hey Tails? Can you check and make absolutely sure there’s no one else living here? I found this kid, and I’m wondering where his family is.”

“Wait, what?” Tails immediately stopped what he was doing. “That’s odd, there shouldn’t be anyone here. Well, have you tried asking him?”

“I don’t think he speaks the same language as us,” Sonic explained.

“Okay, see if you can bring him over here. We’ll see if we can figure out where his parents are.”

“Alright, Tails.”

Sonic turned back to the echidna, pointing at himself. “Sonic.”

“Son…Son-ic?” the echidna repeated back.

Sonic nodded, smiling.

With a shaky hand, the echidna pointed at himself. “Nakkuru.”

“Na–na-ka-ru?” Sonic had a difficult time pronouncing it, causing him to blush in embarrassment.

As he looked at Nakkuru’s hand, he noticed two sharp spikes about where his knuckles should be.

Knuckles… That gave him an idea.

He gestured towards himself again. “Sonic.” Then he pointed towards the echidna. “Knuckles.”

“Kn-Knuc-kles?” The echidna seemed to like it.

Sonic jumped up to his feet, holding out his hand. Knuckles hesitated a moment, then grabbed Sonic’s hand, slowly standing up–and then wincing in pain.

“Your leg…” Sonic frowned, now noticing how swollen it looked. “Uh, here…”

Gently, he lifted Knuckles into his arms. “Hang on!”

He sped off, Knuckles letting out a squeak of surprise as he instinctively clung to Sonic.

Sonic brought Knuckles to where Tails was, carefully setting him down on the ground, before kneeling down next to him.

“Oh wow, an echidna!” Tails exclaimed. “I thought they were all extinct.”

“Apparently not,” Sonic replied.

“So, any idea what his name is?” Tails asked.

“His name is Knuckles.”

“Hi, Knuckles,” Tails greeted with a smile. “I’m Tails,” he added, pointing to himself.

“T-Tails?” Knuckles repeated.

Tails nodded. “Alright, hold on…” 

He grabbed one of his devices, pressing a few buttons on it. A few moments passed, then the device beeped. “Scan completed,” a robotic voice said. “Three lifeforms found.”

“It’s just us…” Tails confirmed.

“So he’s all alone…” Sonic’s ears drooped. He stood up, starting to walk over to Tails.

However, as he did, Knuckles began to panic.

“Whoa, hey, calm down…” Sonic patted Knuckles’ head gently. “We’re not gonna leave you, okay?”

Despite the language barrier, Knuckles seemed to get the message. He wiped the tears from his eyes, then cutely smiled up at Sonic.

“…okay, that’s it. He’s coming with us.”

“But how?” Tails asked. “There’s only two seats in the plane!”

“I’ll hang onto the wing,” Sonic replied. “I’ll be fine. Let’s just get this kid to the village. His leg’s all messed up, so he needs medical attention as soon as possible.”

“Alright, let me finish the repairs, and then we can all go home.”

–

Thankfully, it didn’t take long for the plane to be fixed. Once everyone was ready, Tails took off, leaving the mysterious floating island behind.

Knuckles was awestruck by the view. Sonic smiled at this, amused. He couldn’t quite place it, but as he watched the echidna, there was a strange feeling in his heart–a nice kind of strange.

And so, this was where Sonic and Knuckles’ story began.

#sonic boom #fanfiction #(a bit of sonknux if you tilt your head and squint) #feel free to suggest a title btw #otp: dorky duo

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What’s Your Hero Like?

"Have we met?"

His voice was a mesmerising drawl accompanied with eyes that flashed with intrigue. Sonic lay sprawled on the sofa, a cold compress pressed up against his left cheek. It took all of Amy's self control to not roll her eyes at how ridiculous he looked.

"More times than I can recall," she said sweetly, leaning against the doorway between the hallway and the living room. "Amy Rose at your service." She waved lightly as she pushed herself away from the frame and into the room. Tails followed in after her.

The kitsune skirted between both hedgehogs and rushed into the kitchen. He called out to her as he filled his bag with snacks. "Thanks for watching him Amy." His voice was muffled. "They only called the meeting a few hours ago, otherwise I would have been more prepared." His voice cleared as he emerged, snapping the clasp shut on his bag and flinging it over his shoulder.

"That's alright Tails. I'm happy to help," she said, giving him a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

Tails blue eyes shone with gratitude. "You're a life saver Amy," he said before turning his attention to the blue hedgehog. "Amy's going to keep an eye on you until the anaesthetic wears off Sonic. I'll be gone till tomorrow so don't wait up."

Sonic nodded slowly, letting the cold compress drop to his side. He gave him a smile but Amy wasn't convinced he really understood any of what was happening at that moment. She pulled Tails into a quick hug. "Have fun," she said. "And don't worry, I'll make sure you come back to a perfectly normal Sonic and tray full of cookies." She turned to see Sonic's gaze drifting over her lazily and ignored the way her heart rate spiked.

Tails thanked her one last time as he bustled out of the house, the door shutting after him with a sharp click. An odd silence settled around the house, broken only by the roaring of the X Tornado firing up.

It would take Tails at least a few hours to reach the summit meeting and it made sense for him to stay overnight. On any other day that wouldn't have even been an issue. Today however just so happened to be the day that Sonic had scheduled his wisdom teeth removal surgery.

She shrugged off her coat and hung it up, pulling a book out of her bag before hanging that up too. She returned to the living room to see Sonic laying on his side, head hovering over the edge precariously. He tilted to the side as he watched her, eyes squinted in worry.

"You disappeared," he mumbled simply.

Amy's nerves were on edge. She was in unfamiliar territory. Sure, she'd been prepared to meet a 'different' version of him, but the reality was nothing like she'd expected. If she was honest, the whole situation was quite disorientating.

"I'm back now," she replied with a reassuring smile.

"You went..." He paused, eyes squinting into a frown as he struggled to find the right words in his drowsy state. He lifted his hands and made a 'poof' motion with his fingers. "And now you're back." His face suddenly turned serious. "Are you magic?" he said quietly, eyes wide in awe.

Her smile widened. Of course he'd come up with some outlandish reason to explain her momentary absence. She seated herself on the sofa opposite, unable to resist the desire to play along.

She leaned forward slowly, his gaze clutching at her in anticipation. "Shh, it's a secret," she whispered softly. She held back a giggle as his face exploded with understanding. She leaned back into the sofa, shaking her head at how simple it had been to convince Sonic she had magic.

She flicked open the book in her lap as Sonic's attention was grabbed by something on the ceiling. She'd barely read a page when she noticed him sit up on the sofa opposite. She glanced over her book and was surprised to see him studying her carefully.

His head tilted in thought and he blinked slowly. "You're a girl," he said, words slightly slurred from the drug running through his system. Or maybe it was from the slight swelling of his cheeks.

"Oh really? I hadn't noticed," she responded with a hint of sarcasm. "Do you need a new ice pack?" she asked with a frown. Sonic had let his drop to the sofa and she was suddenly worried he was in pain.

"I noticed," he said blankly.

She was completely blindsided by the response. She opened her mouth to reply but wasn't sure what to say. "I-i-icepack..." she stuttered, wondering if he could see just how much of a hopeless fool she was.

Trying to keep from looking at him was easier said than done. Especially when she could feel his gaze burning into her like a flame. He didn't know what he was saying right now she reminded herself. Even if he did, he definitely didn't mean it the way she wanted him to.

She risked a peek over the top of her book. The rolling hills of his eyes swept over her and towards the kitchen and he shook his head. "No ice," he said simply. He lay down and closed his eyes, the surgery clearly taking its toll.

The room drifted into a comfortable silence and Amy returned her attention to her current read. As she drank in the words, the story played out in her head and she could almost forget that Sonic was opposite her. Or she might have been able to if he hadn't kept shooting his hand up and poking the air above him every minute or so.

He'd noticed. She loosed a breath, slow and careful. What did he mean? Was he simply observing or was it something more. It was the first, it had to be. Why would he mean anything else by it, she told herself. This was Sonic after all and he had always been blissfully oblivious when it came to her feelings.

Sonic's hand shot up into the air again, curling around empty air before he snatched it back. Amy did her best to ignore it but the next time he did it, he turned his attention to her.

"I like you," he said slowly. Voice small and honest.

Amy couldn't help the smile that bloomed on her face, the edges of it tugging on her heart strings. How was it that Sonic could be so incredibly sweet when he wasn't quite himself.

He turned away from her again, examining something she couldn't see. The soft mumblings of his voice floated over to her but try as she might, even with her hedgehog hearing, she was unable to make it out.

She sighed softly. "You're not going to remember any of this are you?"

His green eyes locked onto hers. "I will remember." He paused, eyes glazing over. " I remember everything... in here." He tapped his temple clumsily, barely avoiding poking himself in the eye.

"Yeah, everything."

She didn't mention that he barely even knew who she was right then. She would have taken offence had it not been for the fact that he barely even remembered himself either.

Sonic studied her carefully, his eyes roving over her, trying to place her whilst simultaneously dusting off the cobwebs in his mind. He started excitedly. "You're my friend," he said triumphantly, as if only just realising the fact.

"I am," she said, ignoring the twinge of hurt that the phrase wrought. "And you're Mobius' greatest hero," she added. Try as she might, with his wide eyes full of fascination and his voice a calm lull, there was no way she could deny that this version of Sonic was endearing.

"I am the greatest," he said proudly, a light pout forming on his lips.

"You're modest too," she replied, not missing a beat.

Sonic looked at her intensely. "Am I your hero?"

Her brows dipped in surprise. She was getting used to his strange responses, but she hadn't expected this to be one of them. Sonic seemed to take that as his answer and his eyes flashed with disappointment before he looked away.

Amy slid to the floor and shuffled over to him. She dropped the book to the ground beside her as she turned to face Sonic. She'd felt his eye on her the whole time but seeing the endless green forests up close made her forget her words and regret moving.

She swallowed hard and struggled to hold his gaze. "You've never really..." She paused. Never really what? There were so many ways she could finish that sentence, but was she prepared to deal with the outcome.

She turned away him so quickly that her speed rivalled that of his own. "Never mind," she bumbled, quickly retrieving her book. She was doing anything other than reading it, but she hoped the pretence would keep him from asking her anything else.

Her back was still pressed up against the sofa and she was painfully aware of any movements he made. He didn't say anything for a long time and she wondered if the clutches of sleep had gotten too hard to fight off. She risked a peek behind her and found him staring at the book in her lap. His eyes flicked up as she turned.

"What's that about?"

"Oh, this?" she asked, lifting up the book.

He nodded.

"It's uh, about a young boy. He's a dreamer and a librarian but he's also the hero of the story. I uh, I don't know how it ends yet but I'm sure it'll something fantastic."

"Who's hero is he?" he asked innocently.

"The people's I guess."

"Oh." He was quiet for a moment and she turned to face him. He was staring at the book again, a look of childish concentration in his eyes. "What is your hero like?"

His words were so unknowingly casual and off hand that Amy was sure that she hadn't heard him properly, especially after he was so disappointed before. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Your hero," he said plainly. "What is he like?"

She shrugged. "Tall, dark and handsome, I guess."

He attempted to raise his eyebrows, but the sluggishness of his movements just made it look as if he was really surprised by her response. "You're lying," he said. "I mean, what's he really like."

What was she supposed to say. 'My hero is blue and runs like the wind. Oh look at that, so do you. What an incredibly convenient coincidence.' She cringed just thinking about it. No. She was going to have to find another way around this if she wanted to avoid lying outright.

"Fine," she said, relenting. "My hero is caring," she started, voice soft. "He's selfless and brave, with just a little sprinkling of impatience." She paused, wondering if maybe it was best to stop there.

"That's it?" He curled up so he could see her more clearly. His gaze was warm and inviting and she realised that he was not going to give up until he got a full answer. To heck with it, she thought. It wasn't like he'd remember any of what she said so what did it hurt.

"My hero is kind. The sort of person who puts others needs before their own. The type who will kiss my forehead just because he wants to, who will lift me up when I'm too tired to do it myself. He's just and courageous, making the impossible possible day after day. He makes mistakes, but that's okay because he has a good heart and does everything in his power to make things right."

She took a slow breath. Once she'd gotten started, she hadn't know when to stop. Sonic hadn't seemed to mind, listening intently throughout her whole speech. Now that she was done, the room seemed strangely quiet.

Sonic had turned his attention to his fingers, moving them up and down as if calculating something. His lips moved methodically, as if keeping track of a list as he worked out some unknown calculation.

He shook his head and took a deep breath. His eyes met hers again, as unreadable as a blank slate. "I'm tired," he announced, before rolling over so that he faced the back of the sofa.

Amy took the cue to leave him alone and stood without a word, picking up her book as she did so. She dropped it onto the sofa she had occupied earlier and paused to look back at him. She couldn't be sure what he'd been doing with his fingers but she was sure that he didn't like whatever conclusion he had come to.

She grabbed the blanket draped over the back of the sofa and shook it out, returning to gently drape it over the sleeping hedgehog. Well, if you could call laying down with your eyes scrunched up tightly sleeping.

She bit her lip to hold back a giggle at his attempt to fall asleep as she made her way to the kitchen. Sonic could fall asleep anywhere, so she didn't doubt that even this method would work for him eventually. He'd wake in a few hours, and by then the effects of the anaesthesia would have worn off. Alongside his memories of the past few hours.

She knew he'd forget. It was inevitable. Part of her wanted him to remember, but an bigger part of her reminded her that most of what he'd said had been senseless muttering anyway. And most of what she'd said would be better off forgotten.

She resigned herself to the fact that for now, she had a promise of cookies to follow through on. "Sweet dreams," she sighed, glancing back at him. "You'll be my hero when you wake," she added in a secret whisper.

"Thank you for looking after me Ames," Sonic said brightly. He'd awoken as his normal self and Amy had never been happier to see him as his usual, if maybe a little cocky, self.

"Don't mention it," she smiled, shrugging on her coat and bag.

"I hope I didn't do anything too stupid," he said, scratching at the back of his head awkwardly. She'd been right about him forgetting everything she noted.

"Of course you didn't." Amy paused for effect. "I mean, you did say some pretty strange things, but nothing more stupid than normal," she teased.

"I hope you're telling the truth because I can't remember a thing," he said, sheepishly. "I remember that weird doctor staring at me and then there's this big blank space. The next thing I remember is waking up here to the smell of cookies." He smiled uneasily, unconvinced of his own innocence.

"You didn't do anything stupid," she assured him. "I promise," she added when he flashed a look of scepticism. She shifted past him into the hallway and made her way to the front door. Sonic's face transformed into a frown as she passed him.

"Wait," he said, darting after her.

"What is it?" she asked, worry creeping into her tone.

"You have a little something..." He lifted a hand to her cheek, brushing his thumb gently across her cheek. "Sugar maybe?" he said, examining the white powder on his finger. He touched the tip of his tongue to it. "Flour," he deduced, face screwed up in distaste.

A breathy laugh escaped her lips as she thanked him.

"You're welcome," he said, smiling. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow," he repeated, leaning forward and pressing a soft kiss on her brow.

Her breath caught in her throat.

Amy could pinpoint the exact moment he realised what he'd done. He looked momentarily lost, as if he had acted without thinking and didn't know why. She didn't wait to find out if he knew the significance behind his actions.

The pink hedgehog brushed past him. Her heart pounded like a drum in her chest, pulsing out the rhythm of some strange new beat. She paused only when she reached the end of the garden pathway, turning to catch a last glimpse of the unwitting man she had given her heart away to.

Sonic stood in the doorway with a crooked grin. He still looked stunned. No, that wasn't quite the right word. He looked dumbstruck.

Amy had turned on the lights a little while before Sonic had awoken. Now, backlit with the golden aura, he looked like one of the heroes from all those stories she'd read.

Like her hero.

Sonic lifted a hand in a slow wave and Amy returned the gesture with a secretive smile. As she turned away, she couldn't resist touching a hand to where his lips had connected with her forehead. His kiss had brought a calming warmth to her and her heart fluttered at the memory. She bit her lip and sighed into the brisk evening air.

Maybe he hadn't forgotten everything after all.

Thank you so much for reading lovelies. I can't believe this is my first update in over a year for this (and the first of 2017!) I got really inspired for Flipswitch last year so most of my time went towards completing that.

Apologies if there's anything incorrect regarding the after effects of tooth removals in this, I did the best I could considering all I had to go on were boring health articles and those incredibly hilarious videos on youtube (which were absolutely the inspiration behind this oneshot).

Thanks again for reading and let me know what your thoughts are if you can. Aside from that, I hope you're all having a great 2017 so far and I'll see you next time. Chao for now :)

#sonamy #sonamy fanfiction #fanfiction #iheartsonamy #fragments of truth #oneshot

[sonic-meme-corner]

Good friend - Amy - You'll always have us

Lately you’ve been volunteering at hospitals to help out the refugees from Eggmans most recent attack which has left you somewhat sleep deprived and as a result you’ve been having dreams of either sonic and the others dying leaving you all alone again. Due to these dreams keeping you awake at night and being on your mind all day you’ve slowly become more withdrawn and kept to yourself when you were with the others, and when they would ask what was wrong you would say that you haven’t gotten enough sleep (which was half of what was bothering you) and tell them that you should be better soon. Everyone bought the story all except Amy who knew something was up because one time after you went to a pond you go to a lot in your town she followed you there and hid nearby to see if anything else was bothering you and she saw you break down and heard you say to yourself I need to protect everyone I-I don’t want to be alone again *sniff*. After seeing this Amy decided to take matters into her own hands and wait at your house and pretend she needed someone to talk to after another failed attempt with chasing Sonic again. Once you arrived at your house you see Amy looking down nearby you go to Amy and ask her what’s wrong and she says “same thing as usual with Sonic.” You feel sorry for Amy and ask her if she wants to go talk and hang out with you at your house to cheer her up Amy happily accepts and you both head to your home and Amy asks you if you think she will ever find someone who she’ll fall in love with if Sonic finds someone. You do your best to smile and at to Amy"I’m sure you’ll find someone to fall in love with if Sonic finds someone.“ Amy has a happy and hopeful look and her eyes and says "AWW thanks your such a great friend Y/n.” you smile and say thanks to Amy and Amy asks “I’m guessing you haven’t been getting enough sleep because of all the time you’ve put into helping out the refugees that have come to this town huh?” You look surprised at Amy because she knew this and you haven’t told anyone about that yet and say “yeah but how did you know about that?” Amy responds with “Well I’ve been worried about you so I wanted to see why you’ve been so tired and when I came to town I saw you leaving the hospital helping the refugees from Eggmans most recent attack.” You look at Amy with a determined look in your eyes and say “those people need our help they just lost their homes and now their in a hospital wondering what will happened to them I can’t live with myself knowing I didn’t try to help them!” Amy looks at you with a happy smile and gives a little chuckle and says “of course you couldn’t your like an angel when it comes to helping others you’ve put more effort into helping other than most of us in all honesty and before you even joined us.” Amy continues with a worried look on her face “but if you don’t take care of yourself you won’t be able to help others you know that it’s good to see your doing a better job with getting sleep but I can tell something else is bothering you Y/n.” You look at Amy with a surprised look on your face and asked “how did you…” Amy said “a few days ago I had a feeling something was wrong when Cream told me you seemed down so I decided to follow you to the pond you like to go to nearby and I saw you crying to yourself saying your going to do your best to protect us so your not alone again, after I saw you crying to yourself like that I just wanted to…” Amy stops mid sentence and gives you a hug and your left stunned by Amy’s actions that your barely able to hold your tears back and return the hug and say “Thank you Amy for your concern I really appreciate it.” After the hug Amy asks “why are you so worried about being alone and what do you mean by again didn’t you have any friend or family before you met us?” You slowly nod your head saying no and say “most of my life I had to fend for myself I lost my family when I was around 9 years old.” Amy looks at you with a sorrowful look in her eyes with tears slowly forming in her eyes. And she asks “So what made you so worried about being alone again?” You look at Amy with tired eyes and say “Lately I’ve been woken up at night because of these dreams I’ve been having.” Saying this makes tears form in your eyes. Amy asks what the dreams are about, and you slowly say “the dreams were about y-you guys d-dying.” You start to tear up and after saying that you remember seeing Amy dying in your dream slowly fading in and out of consciousness from blood loss. Amy sees the tears forming in your eyes and does her best to comfort you. She hugs you and says “hey, hey it’s ok we aren’t going Anywhere anytime soon ok?” You hug her back and say “thank you Amy *sniff* thank you.” Amy says “Hey how about we make a promise to each other hmm?” You look at Amy surprised and say “ok sure what is it?” Amy puts both of her hands on your shoulders and looks straight into your eyes and says “I promise to you that I won’t die on you ok?” Amy gives you a heart warming smile after saying this and continues with “but you have to promise to do a better job taking care of yourself also ok?” You start to cry and say to Amy with a shaky voice and say “O-Ok I promise Amy I promise.” You quickly hug Amy and start to cry which Amy returns the hug and starts to cry as well and says. “You don’t have to worry about being alone again Y/n You’ll always have us I promise.” After you two calm down you get a call from Sonic and Tails asking if you could meet up with them and have Amy tag along with you, you tell Amy about the call and Amy gives you a little smirk and says “ok sure lets go.” You look at Amy confused because of her little smirk. Later you meet up with Sonic and Tails and your left surprised to see the chaotix ,Cream, Blaze,and Silver here as well, when they see you they all run to you and everyone gives you a hug your left confused by why everyone is giving you a hug you ask why and everyone says “Amy” you look at Amy and she pulls a little mic out of her headband and she says “ I told the others that about what happened at the pond and told them that I would find out why and we could try to cheer you up, so everyone else could get a party set up while I find out why you were down.” Amy says with a big smile afterwards. You give Amy a smile and Sonic says “hey Y/n remember the promise Amy made to you earlier?” You nod yes and Sonic says “Well we all decided that…” Sonic looks at everyone and they all says “We promise that we won’t leave you alone.” You look at everyone in shock and tears start streaming down your face and Sonic says “it’s thanks to Amy that we knew about you being so down and getting this party ready.” You look at Amy and she gives you a hug and soon after everyone else joins in on the hug. After the party you give everyone a hug telling them thank you and when it’s time to say good bye to Amy you give her a big hug and Amy returns the hug with a laugh and says “Aw I’m glad you really enjoyed the party Y/n I’m really glad that I was able to cheer you up.” You say “Thank you so much Amy for cheering me up thank you for being a good friend Amy… from the bottom of my heart, Thank you.”

Submission by @sagawolf710

#submission #sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #cute

[sonicchaos-fanfic]

| Sonic Chaos | Chapter One : Eggman Blows Up His Own Ship

( A/N:  This is REVISED FROM THE ORIGINAL!!! Thank you all for being patient while I revised parts of the story! I love you all!! Also, thank you @lightningstar1389 for illustrating this chapter! )

                                                ~Chapter One~

It was a warm summer evening where Sonic The Hedgehog and his best friend, Tails, decided to rest for the day. Lounging lazily in their beach chairs, they watched the sun set peacefully in the distance. The powerful duo had recently been on back to back adventures for the last few months; saving an entire race of aliens, fixing space and time, and almost accidentally draining the entire planet of its life force can be quite exhausting.

Sonic took a moment to focus on the silence around him. He closed his eyes and took a deep, slow breath. He wanted to hear nothing but the calm noise of the waves crashing onto shore and the distant call of seagulls on the horizon. The sound of the beach had always calmed him down, despite his irrational fear of the ocean.

“This is nice.” he said calmly.

“Yeah, it really is. I wish we could do this more often.”

Sonic looked over at his best friend and nodded his head in agreement.

Tails grinned and looked up. He took in all of the soft pinks, oranges, and reds that tinted the sky above him. The few stars that were appearing from behind the clouds twinkled like tiny diamonds. He thought for a moment, for the pink reminded him of somebody. He looked out towards the ocean with a curious look on his face.

“I wonder what Amy’s up to.” he said.

Sonic raised an eyebrow and sat up. “Amy?”

“Yeah. We haven’t seen her in a few weeks.” said Tails, shrugging his shoulders. Sonic stared at Tails for a moment, then sighed. He scratched his head in thought. Although he didn’t say it aloud, he himself also wondered about the whereabouts of his friend. Since he and Tails left the Lost Hex, Amy has been slightly distant and quite sick. Perhaps it may just be side effects of having the life drained out of her, but Sonic was still concerned.

Sonic lied down for a few more minutes to soak up the moment, then stood up to stretch his legs. Tails noticed this, and tilted his head to the side, watching him curiously. 

“What are you doing?” Tails asked.

“Ehh, I think I’m gonna head out for a run before it gets dark,“ Sonic replied, bouncing on his toes. Tails smirked.

"What for?”

“Just ‘cos. ”

Tails chuckled to himself.

“Tell Amy I said hi.” 

  Sonic turned to him, he half-jokingly rolled his eyes and shook his head before running off. Tails watched with a cheeky smile on his face as his best friend disappeared over the horizon. Once he was out of sights, the fox lied back down for a well-deserved nap.

On the other side of town, in a small, cozy apartment, Amy Rose had just finished pulling a tray of freshly cooked chocolate chip cookies out of the oven. She quickly pulled away after setting them on the counter, shaking her hands to cool them off after touching the hot cookie tray. She leaned forward and took in their sweet scent. They were perfect.

“Mmm!” she said, taking a cookie and pulling it apart.

“Cream! The cookies are ready!” she yelled, taking a bite of one-half of her treat. It wasn’t long before she heard tiny footsteps quickly approaching her. Cream came skipping into the kitchen, joined by her Chao, Cheese. Amy smiled and passed the cookies to them. 

 “Thank you, Amy! They smell delicious!” said Cream, staring hungrily at the cookies on the counter.After telling the two little ones to wait for the cookies to cool, Amy heard a knock on her door.

She wiped her hands to rid of any crumbs stuck to her gloves and scurried over to open the door. She was greeted with Sonic standing awkwardly in the door frame. He was swaying back and forth, and staring at his feet. “Sonic?! Oh my gosh! What are you doing here?" Amy exclaimed, thrusting herself on him. Sonic awkwardly smiled and lightly patted her back.

"Well, I-uh…just wanted to stop by and-” Sonic paused and sniffed the air. His nostrils were filled with the most delicious smell of sugary goodness.

“Are those cookies?” he asked curiously. Amy pulled away from him and nodded her head.

“Mhm! Do you want some?” she asked cutely. Before she could get an answer out of him, Sonic was already standing by the kitchen counter, loading cookies into his hands. Amy giggled and walked towards him. She was always amused by his huge appetite. Leaning on the other side of the counter, she gave him a curious look.

Sonic tossed a cookie into his mouth and almost immediately spit it out. He chewed really quickly and fanned his mouth in pain.

“Ahh!” he cried.

“Watch out, they’re hot!” Amy said.

“So, why did you come? Did you miss my hugs?” she bounced her brows in a playful manner. Sonic rolled his eyes and shoved another cookie in his mouth.

“Not exactly, Tails and I just wanted to check up on ya. You’ve been looking a little sick since the whole Lost Hex incident.”

“Oh? I’m fine, now. Thank you! I did get a little sick, but I got my strength back.”

“You sure? Nothing wrong?”

“Nope! Fit as a fiddle!”

Sonic nodded his head and marched towards the front door.

“Ah, well my time here is done, then. See ya!” Amy felt a sting in her heart. He’s leaving already? After two weeks of not seeing her at all? No, not on her watch. Amy quickly dashed over and blocked his path. She frowned, giving him a puppy-dog look.

“Awww, can’t you stay a little longer? I haven’t seen you in a long time! I missed you.” she said, batting her eyes. Sonic raised a brow and looked away. He hated when she gave him that look, it was too powerful, even for someone as strong-willed as him.

“Uh…not really, I kinda left Tails on his own, so…I should probably get back to him,” he replied, reaching for the door. Amy pushed him back a little, trying to stall and have a few more seconds with him.

“Wait! How about we go on a date tomorrow?” she asked suddenly.

“..A date?” Sonic looked uneasy as he stuffed another cookie in his mouth.

“Yeah! We could go on a picnic or something. I just wanna spend time with you, is all.”

“Amy, I dunno, I just wanted to take a break from-”

“I’ll cook.”

Sonic’s eyes immediately locked onto hers. He shut his mouth and chewed. Amy grinned, knowing that he was finally considering her offer. She decided to go in for the kill while he was still vulnerable.

“I’ll make chili dogs, too.” she smirked.

Sonic pressed his lips into a thin line and gave her a ‘you got me’ kind of look, and to pass up such an offer would be unthinkable for a chili dog lover like himself. But, is a date with Amy really worth it? Sonic looked at the ground and considered the question. 

It wasn’t long until Sonic ultimately agreed to the date, but he swears that he’s only going for the food and to hang out, and definitely not for romantic purposes. But, Amy did not care, she was just happy that she can spend some time with him again. As soon as Sonic shut the door, Amy swooned and celebrated to herself. Her cheeks went hot, as they usually do after she has an encounter with her crush.

~~~

The next morning, Amy made sure Sonic wouldn’t forget their date that day; he’s prone to doing so. She sent him a message as soon as she woke up, and reminded Tails to tell him about it. Amy skipped towards her dressing table and started to primp herself up for their upcoming picnic. After all, she had to make a good impression just in case Sonic may want to go on another date sometime!

Humming to herself, she opened a drawer and pulled out a bottle of perfume. “Sonic and Amy, sitting in a tree, mmhmhmhmhmh!” she giggled, spraying a cloud of scented mist into the air and gliding through it. After she finished getting ready, she packed her picnic basket with her essentials. She knew a day with Sonic was just asking for trouble, so she packed a few extra items as a precaution. “Alright, I have the food, a blanket, some mint spray for…just in case!!” she blushed madly, imagining the happiness she would feel if Sonic finally decided to give her a big ol’ smooch.

“Eeep! Okay, Amy..focus! So…first aid kit, check, um…well, I guess the fire extinguisher isn’t that necessary..” she concluded. While gathering some last minute things, she heard a knock on her front door. She glanced at the clock on her wall. “It’s three already?! Oh gosh, it’s him!” she gasped, hastily grabbing her picnic basket and rushing to the front door.

Before her hand reached the knob, she paused to compose herself, and then excitedly swung the front door open. Sonic stood on her doorstep, casually looking around. “Er…hey! Told ya I wouldn’t forget!” he said with a smile. Amy beamed at the sight of Sonic’s face. There was just something about it that brought her so much joy. Maybe it was the charming, yet cocky expression he always had, or the spark of excitement he showed in his eyes. Either way, she couldn’t get enough of it.

“Erm, you ready?” he said. Amy skipped past him and beckoned him over to the sidewalk.

“Yep!”

~~~

“We can go dine at a nice fancy restaurant and after that, we can dance the night away in a secluded gazebo all on our own! OOOH AND THEN-”

“And then you can keep on dreaming cause we’re only going out to have lunch..” Sonic remarked, shaking his head. Amy puffed her cheeks out and rolled her eyes. “Oh, you’re no fun..”

Sonic and Amy soon strolled over to their destination, the local park. As they walked through the entrance, Amy let go of Sonic’s hand and locked arms with him. She had a look on her face that was prideful. Sonic, on the other hand, looked a little uncomfortable. She was so weird sometimes.

The weather was bright and sunny, and it seemed like everyone in the whole city was there. Many families laughed and played while the sun was still shining. The grass was a vibrant green and it swayed gently in the wind. The park rather large as well, large enough for everybody to have their own personal spot.

Sonic and Amy settled under a large oak tree in the middle of a field, secluded from most people. Amy set down her picnic basket and pulled out a cute baby blue blanket. She set it on the ground and flattened out any wrinkles before inviting Sonic to sit down. From her picnic basket, Amy pulled out two entire meals, drinks, candy, and even a small dessert. Sonic was a bit taken aback by the amount of food she had. He felt sick just by looking at it.

“Uh…well, you definitely prepared for today, huh?” he said.

Amy’s face went florid as she looked down at all of the items she brought. “Well…I just, ya know, wanted to be prepared! Want a chili dog?” she said, offering Sonic a steaming tupperware. Sonic stared at the juicy chili dog with a quivering lip. Slowly, he took the tupperware and popped the lid open. He was greeted with the most amazing scent of chili and beans.

“Oohhhh yeah, now we’re talking!” he smirked, ready to swallow the thing whole. Amy giggled, if there was one way to win Sonic’s heart, it was through his stomach! She scooted a little closer to him and lovingly batted her eyes to get his attention. Sonic eyed her closely, pulling the chili dog towards him. “Yes?”

Amy shrugged her shoulders. “Nothing, I’m just really glad you took me out today,” she said. Sonic took a huge bite of his food and playfully shrugged his shoulders. “Welcome!” he said.

“Sonic, don’t speak with your mouth full..”

“Sowry. Hehe…” he gulped,

“Anyway, it’s no problem, Amy. This is kinda nice,” he admitted.

As Sonic munched away at the pile of snacks, Amy took the time to take in her surroundings. She looked around, smiling as a group of children ran past her while playing a game of tag. She took a deep breath of the fresh air and closed her eyes. That day was such a beautiful day, and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. It was perfect, and she was at peace.

Sonic caught a glimpse of her pleasant expression out of the corner of his eye. He faintly smiled at her, happy to see the rare instance of her being her true self and not the over-the-top lovesick Amy he’s used to seeing. He always wished he could see that side of her more often, and even he could admit to himself that he’d be much more open to being closer to her if she calmed down.

He dug inside the picnic basket and pulled out another chili dog.

“You hungry?” he asked.

Amy turned to him and smirked.

“No thank you, I’m waiting for our romantic dinner, later!” she said. Sonic gave Amy a slightly annoyed look in response. He sighed and put it away. A few minutes passed by with some light chit-chatting between the two, and eventually, they ran out of things to talk about. Sonic had the idea to go for a quick jog around the park, but Amy was not exactly up for exercise.

Sonic shrugged his shoulders and stood up to stretch. He looked towards the large field before them, noticing some pink and blue flower patches beginning to bloom. He smiled, and suddenly dashed away, startling Amy. She brushed her tangled quills out of her face and stared in confusion as Sonic ran towards the middle of the field, taking the flowers in his hands and gathering them into a cute little bouquet. She scratched her head, laughing as she noticed children trying to race him on his way back to her.

Then, out of nowhere, a giant shadow was cast over the entire park. Sonic, Amy, and several other spectators watched as a huge ship loomed over the area. On its side was a large painting of Dr. Eggman’s signature logo, his own face. Sonic quickly shooed the children away so they could find a safe place to hide. There was a sudden ringing of feedback that was heard throughout the entire park, which was very painful to listen to.

“This is your beloved Doctor Eggman, speaking! I am on a city-wide search for Sonic The Hedgehog!! If you hear this message and happen to know where he is, please turn him in IMMEDIATELY! Or else...” said the speakers. Some of the spectators gasped in horror. Sonic immediately tensed up, and he gave the ship a nasty look.

Amy quickly ran to Sonic’s side.

“What’s going on?” she asked.

“No idea,” said Sonic, smirking a little. A door on the ship suddenly emitted mechanical hiss as it popped open, then revealed Dr. Eggman on his Egg Mobile.

“Ah, there you are! You’re just the guy I wanted to see!” Eggman rubbed his hands together in excitement. “Ooh, and your girlfriend decided to tag along, too? How wonderful! I still haven’t gotten your apology for tinkering with my jet-pack back on the Lost Hex. I’ll tell ya, it was quite the way down, ya know!” he crossed his arms, furrowing his brows in annoyance.

“Aww, do you need a band-aid for your whittle boo-boo?” “ Sonic said.

"To be honest, I was liking not having you around to pester me.”

“Then what do you need me for, Eggman? I’d be glad to test out one of your toys.”

A devilish smile crept onto Eggman’s face.

“Why don’t I show you? It’s on my ship, so just come on inside and you’ll find out!” he asked, gesturing towards his ship.

Sonic and Amy stared at each other for a moment, then exploded in laughter.

“Do you honestly think I’m THAT stupid?” Sonic laughed. Eggman chuckled in response, seemingly unfazed by Sonic’s taunting.

“Yes, I do, actually. And I’ll prove it to you!”

“Oh yeah?”

Eggman raised an arm and slammed his fist down on a large button. Suddenly, a large figure was dropped from the bottom of the ship and landed with a thud.  Sonic tilted his head to the side in confusion. It was a robot, but unlike any other robot Eggman has ever made. It looked like a panther made entirely of metal, with glowing red eyes and long, sharp claws. It slowly circled Sonic and Amy, yowling. 

Amy clung onto Sonic, hoping to stay as far away from the monster as possible. Sonic chuckled with excitement.

“I see you’re experimenting with something new!” he laughed, stretching his arms and legs. He bounced a little, acting as if the situation was all just a little game.

“Alright, let’s do this!” Sonic said, cracking his knuckles and getting into a fighting stance. But, before he could react, the panther suddenly leaped high into the air, and landed behind Amy, dragging its claws into the dirt. She let out a scream as the panther pounced on her, trapping her underneath its paws of death. The robot growled menacingly, which sent an unsettling tremor down Amy’s spine.

“Amy!” Sonic yelled. He went to attack but was tripped by a whip of the panther’s tail. Eggman let out a hearty cackle.

“Haha! You fool! I would like you to meet Saber, my latest most innovative invention yet! She packs quite the punch, doesn’t she?” Eggman spoke in a way that seemed more like he was congratulating himself instead of asking Sonic a simple question. Sonic clenched his fists in frustration and shot a dangerous look at Eggman.

“Let her go!” he yelled.

“Oh, I will. But, only if you do exactly what I tell you to.” Eggman returned Sonic’s glare.

“I don’t do what anybody tells me to do.” said Sonic.

“Oh? Are those…screams of terror I hear? Sonic, I think it may be important for you to know that if I give Saber the command, she’ll go on an unstoppable rampage, destroying everything and capturing everyone in its path. Starting with your girlfriend, of course. ”

Sonic’s eyes widened. He looked back at Amy, who was just an unlucky move away from having a really bad accident with one of Saber’s claws. He grunted, not liking the idea of following Eggman’s order. But, he knew that taking the risk wouldn’t be worth hurting all those people. Sonic stared at the ground for a moment, groaned, and turned around.

“Fine, I’ll go. But, you have to let Amy go first, and put that thing away!” he warned. Eggman quickly obliged, ordering the robot to set Amy down. Sonic ran over to her and helped her stand up. “Are you okay?” he asked. Amy caught her breath and nodded.

“Yes, I’m fine, but I’m going with you.”

Sonic opened his mouth to object, but Amy insisted.

“Don’t even think about convincing me otherwise,” she said firmly. Sonic shrugged his shoulders in response; once Amy made up her mind, there was no changing it. Eggman tapped his fingers impatiently as Amy gathered all of the things from the oak tree. As the two made their way into the aircraft, Sonic took Amy’s hand and squeezed it. “Stay close, I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

Sonic, Amy, and Eggman each stepped into the flying ship. Sonic and Amy stayed within each other’s eyesight, while Eggman wandered about looking around for something. Sonic placed his hands on his hips and tapped his foot impatiently on the floor. Amy grimaced as she caught a glimpse of all of the weird gadgets Eggman had lying around his lab.

“So, what do you want this time?” Sonic asked, watching carefully as Orbot and Cubot suddenly appeared through a doorway with a huge tray carrying a sandwich. Eggman took the sandwich from the tray and chomped down on it.

“Well, I have a proposal for you, Sonic! You see, I need you to do a job for me. I created this new invention–a portal to other worlds, and I needed an organic life form as a test subject.” he said with a wicked smile. Orbot and Cubot left for a moment and came back lugging a giant scary looking machine with them. At the top, a ring shaped light shone down against the floor.

Sonic took a step back. “Whoa, no way! I’m not gonna be your little lab rat!” he said. Eggman shook his head and chuckled. “Maybe not a lab rat, but a rat none-the-less.”

Sonic grumbled under his breath.

“Well, this rat is about ready to shove its foot up your-”

“Why do you need Sonic in particular?” Amy said suddenly. Eggman was silent for a moment, smirking.

“You know, you’re right, Amy. You’ll make a fine subject as well. Orbot! Cubot! Seize her!” he said. Sonic stepped in front of Amy and through his hand in front of her.

“Don’t even think about it. Now, why don’t you give me your usual speech about taking over the world so I can kick your butt and leave?”

Eggman raised a brow and rolled his eyes. Sonic was always a stubborn, immature, parasitic excuse for an organism; he will never learn, will he? Eggman was silent for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders and reached for his pocket. He pulled out a laser gun and fired towards the center of Amy’s chest without hesitation.

“WHOA!” Sonic immediately tackled Amy towards the ground, saving her from the fatal shot. The force of his shove caused them to slide across the floor a bit. Amy’s heart rate skyrocketed and she squeezed her eyes shut. Sonic shot up like a bullet and charged.

“YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER!” he yelled. Sonic swung as hard as he could at Eggman’s nose, but his fist bounced off an invisible force-field that encased the pudgy man. Sonic stared at Eggman with a startled expression.

Eggman grinned from ear to ear, taking a bite of his sandwich.

“Looks like you found another one of my new experiments.”

Orbot and Cubot lunged from behind and grabbed a hold of Sonic’s legs. “Huh?” Sonic’s head whipped around, and he was dragged across the floor alongside Amy and was thrown onto a circular platform. He saw Orbot smash a button on a remote control, trapping him and Amy in a glass tube. Eggman exploded in laughter as he watched the two bang on the glass.

“HOHOHOHOHOHOHO! GOTCHA! Eggman one, Sonic zero.” he said. Sonic snarled. He punched and kicked as hard as he could against the glass, but to no avail. He looked up, there was a ring light with seven bulbs inside. Six of them made a circle, and the last one was in the center.

Amy clung onto Sonic as the machine began to make a loud whizzing sound. The ring light began to shine brighter and brighter. Amy’s heart began to race and her body was shaking. “S-Sonic? What’s happening?” she exclaimed. Sonic squeezed Amy’s hand for a moment to reassure her, then let go to shield his eyes from the blinding light as it grew stronger.

Eggman continued his laughter until he realized the entire ship was shaking. He stooped down and tried to grab onto something, but couldn’t see anything through the white light. “What?! THIS ISN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! ORBOT TURN IT OFF!! NOWW!” he cried. Orbot flailed around trying to look for the remote, but he could not find it.

The ship began to shake vigorously, tossing Eggman around like a rag doll and causing all of his gadgets, doodads, and his precious sandwich to crash to the ground. Sonic and Amy clung to each other as tightly as they could and watched in shock as the glass case surrounding them began to dissolve into tiny particles.

Amy screamed as the tiles on the floor cracked beneath her feet. Sonic pulled Amy against him and stepped away from the growing hole in the floor, but was trapped by the remaining glass. “Just hold on as tight as you can, Amy! Try not to let go of me!”

Citizens from the park below stared in shock as Eggman’s airship seemed to have a mysterious white aura forming around it. It shook and rumbled and whizzed. Pieces of it started breaking off and dissolving into the air like it was disappearing somewhere else. The noise it was emitting was growing louder and louder. Then, in an instant, the entire ship was engulfed by a bright light and was gone.

Then, Sonic was falling.

CHAPTER TWO

#sonic chaos #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanfiction #amy rose #eggman #sonamy #sonic boom #sticks the badger #the-amazing-p3a

[cutegirlmayra]

Hey, since you mentioned wanting to write a story where Modern and Boom Sonic switch with each other because they like the other's Amy more, why not I send this as a prompt so you get to finally write it? :))

I remember saying this but… Is my ability able to fully capture the hilarity and adorableness that is Sonic switching his gf for the same gf but differently designed?

It’s like that one meme…

Also- PROMPTS ARE STILL ON SHUTDOWN! That has not changed so please, don’t send me anymore until I reopen them again or please pay one dollar to have yours worked on at once! I’m just trying to get through them all I still have a ton left. T-T I want to reopen them for you hungry shippers out there but I need to complete the ones I already have to do that!

Thank you for supporting me and patiently awaiting your prompts to be written. I’m doing my very best!

Prompt:

It wasn’t long after the two Sonics realized something…

This new world was fantastic! Boom!Sonic didn’t want to leave and Modern!Sonic wanted more time in the alternate dimensional world.

At first, it was simply for the ‘new adventure’ that they both felt but one day, Boom!Sonic lost his bandana during a chase, securing the ‘strange magical emerald’ and having landed on his back after falling through several levels of branches on a tree.

“Offph! That’s… gonna hurt in the morning.” He sounded as though he had accepted that fate, but smiled at the green emerald in his hands. “Guess this means I can go home, and Other Sonic can come home.” He slowly got up, but felt a huge pain soar up his back and linger on his shoulder blades.

“Ahhh… yep! Yep, that one hurt.” he groaned as he tried to fight through the pain and stand up.

Hunched a bit to push off with his hands, he suddenly heard a cry and looked around. “What was that? Sounded like…”

“….ooniiiccc!”

“Amy?”

“…..iiicc!”

It was growing fainter, and that’s when Modern!Sonic contacted him on the invention Tails gave him. “BBBzzzttt…! -Nic! Sonic! Hey, finally got ahold of ya! Who knew dimensional signals were so bad, right?”

“Y-yeah, hold that thought.” Boom!Sonic slowly got up, flicking his ear a moment before focusing entirely on finding who was calling his name.

It sounded like Amy, but he hadn’t seen this world’s Amy before…

“What’s up?” Modern!Sonic inquired as Boom!Sonic fought through his back pain and sped up.

Finally reaching the sound, he peeked around a tree where…

The sunlight beamed on a beautiful girl in a red dress, looking worriedly as she held a hand daintily to her chest. Though he couldn’t see her face fully, he noticed her backless dress and platform boots.

“Hey, don’t ignore me!” Modern!Sonic had waited a bit for a response, but after tapping his foot for so long, he grew impatient. “What’s the hold-up?”

“That’s-!” Boom!Sonic stuck his whole face out when he noticed her turn her face.

It was Amy! But she was more girly in this world. Her dress flared out into a quaint little hoop and she was calling out his name.

“Sooooooonnniiicc!” She cupped her hands over her mouth and let the sound travel, shaking some trees in the amount of wind that blasted out.

His quills were ruffled and he closed his eyes. “Yep, that’s Amy.” he mused, “Still able to project.”

“Amy!?” Modern!Sonic looked visibly flustered, as though reflexing to hide. “W-why are you with Amy..?”

This world’s Amy tilted her head, looking absentmindedly to the sky and lifting a hand to her ear, trying to listen for a response. “Ohhhh, who am I kidding.” she pouted, slouching a bit. “He never responds back… I’ll have to find him myself!” She cheered instantly up, mesmerizing Boom!Sonic for a moment at how inexplicably cheery this Amy seemed to be.

Maybe she wasn’t a hot, emotional mess this time around?

“I heard her calling me… rude to not show up, right?” Boom!Sonic smiled a bit goofily off to the side of his face, but Modern!Sonic saw the shift and frowned, lowering his eyes.

“Hey, focus on the stakes here. Amy will be fine once I’m back.” He said that… but took a second to look back at this other dimension’s Amy.

She was speaking with the team, and smiling and acting rather mature and chill.

He tilted his head a second, smiling casually as he noticed her laughter and then excited expression. She wasn’t focused squarely on him at all. She was in her own little world and living her life without a care in the world.

When she looked to him and caught his eye, the two straightened up a second, and then Boom!Amy nervously fidgetted and looked away, stroking her two curled quills against her cheeks.

It was cute, so he crinkled his nose a bit and beamed, closing his eyes and thinking it a rather subtle thing to avoid further attention.

She wasn’t so easy to figure out anymore, and the complexity of her shyness along with taking a second look at him–hoping he wouldn’t notice– made him dote on the difference even more.

Now, granted, both Sonics’ had no intention towards these different Amys. It was all just a ‘curious observation’ for the most part. But Boom!Sonic had to get the emerald back to Tails and Knuckles… might as well make sure this world’s Amy is safe and sound too, right?

And Modern!Sonic, he still had to fight off this dimension’s Eggman from causing havoc to the villagers. Fighting alongside this dimension’s Amy and getting to see a different side of Amy wouldn’t damper any plans, now would it?

So, Modern!Sonic took up a bandana. Boom!Sonic never looked for his own bandana.

Boom!Sonic tried his best to swagger over to this Amy, quickly informing Modern!Sonic that it was dangerous for Amy to be out in the woods on her nose like this, and with Modern!Sonic so distracted by the new fashion-statement, he agreed.

Modern!Sonic did fail to mention his ruse to Boom!Sonic, but Boom!Sonic didn’t bother to hide the fact that his bandana was missing…

Modern!Sonic had simply swiped one of his from his room and never corrected anyone when they said ‘Did you guys switch already?’.

Thus, Boom!Sonic met Modern!Amy, and Modern!Sonic got to view Boom!Amy’s many sides a little longer.

“Oh, Sonic! You really came!” In absolute joy, Modern!Amy pounced into Boom!Sonic’s arms.

Now, because he wasn’t expecting this, it did knock the wind out of him and her crushing hold did cause his back pain to spike up again.

“Woah!” Boom!Sonic stiffened, causing Modern!Amy to let go, “Oh, gosh! Are you alright? You look…” she gasped, “Sonic!” Clutching his arms, she looked him over and then sweetly met his eyes. “You’re so filthy and full of leaves! Did you fall? Did Eggman do this to you?”

‘Wow, she’s so caring! I mean, Amy always was, but this one looks like she’s about to cry!’ He nervously chuckled, “Haha… Oh, well, you know. Saving the world and all.” he shrugged, and she thought him acting a little silly.

“Hehe, you certainly are acting your age.” She found it odd how inviting his eyes were, as though he wasn't bothered by her doting attitude today. “For someone who looks like they’d been battling in a dirt pile, you’re still as carefree as always!” she put her hands together, openly praising and admiring him. “Haa~ A working man is always handsome, but the true daredevil’s are the charmers!”

His eyes turned to dots.

She was openly flirting with him!?

He nervously chuckled again, scratching the back of his head. ‘H-how do I respond to that!?’

She giggled, but when he didn’t make an exhausted combat, batted her eyes and stared at him in confusion. “What? No retort today?” she moved closer towards his face at an angle, but he just leaned back, embarrassed at her kind affections.

“…You certainly are in a different mood today.” she placed a finger on her mouth, but then hummed a cheery giggle again. “I like you this way!” she took his hands, pulling him more towards her.

“Yee-eh!” He was surprised by how direct she took his hands and how close she brought him to her… Now he was sweating, wondering if this could all be too much…

“Hmm? A Chaos Emerald?” She curiously felt something in his hand and looked down.

Her hands moving over his gave him a weird sensation. He blushed and looked away, “J-just the normal chores! Haha…ha…”

“Hmm?” She didn’t think Sonic would use that word. “Chores? Since when do you think about domestic living?”

He sweated even more now. ‘Did I blow my cover?!’

“And you’re so tall!” Amy stepped back to see how far she actually had to look.

“Str-stretched my back today! Haha!” He improvised stretching, which was something Sonic might do, but this seemed in a more joking manner.

Amy watched a moment and then smiled with a nod, “That’s more like you!” she then hugged his arm, causing him to lose balance momentarily. “I’ve missed you so much! It’s no fun when you’re gone…” she cooed, rubbing her cheek into his shoulder.

He looked directly forward as he felt her light touch turn to a more sincere cuddle against his arm…

“Gah!~ You keep me waiting for so long, Sonic… Would it be so bad to invite me on more adventures once in a while?” she continued to fake a whine and lean more against him. “Hehe! Have you lost weight? You seem skinner too..” she lightly traced a finger down his arm, moving away a bit, “But I bet that’s from all the working out you’ve done! But you were always my big strong hero, Sonic~ No need to show off now! You’ve already won me over with your handsome smile, silly! Teehee!”

Now Boom!Sonic felt a strange high, hearing so many compliments, not a hint of sarcasm either.

He puffed up his chest. He absorbed every bit of her fawning fangirlness. He took to the stage with a confident air that no one could now strip from his being.

“Well, I can’t let my daring doos overwhelm my dashing looks~” he struck a pose and gave her his best ‘heroic smolder’ that he could manage.

It worked a little too well..,

She blinked a few moments as though stunned he was playing back, but immediately became energized and continued what she felt was ‘working’ and wouldn’t let up.

Although, this Sonic was desperate for Words of Affirmation, and didn’t mind playing up the ‘hero card’ to win some much deserved recongition.

He took her back with him and continued to play charming~

Modern!Sonic had a different approach. Rather than play a role, he was himself, and immediately caught Boom!Amy off-guard by how gentlemenly he could be.

“Watch yourself!” he slid in during an Eggman attack on the village and knocked a robot from hitting her away, coming up behind her and giving her a pleasant wink and smile. “I’ve got your back!”

She blushed, giggling a little crazily as she sunk her head down and tried to hide behind her bouncing shoulders.

“What’s gotten into you today, Amy? You’re completely distracted!” Tails complained, but Amy continued to see hearts as she watched this ‘new and improved’ Sonic take over the battlefield and spark some fun and joy into her life again.

“It’s like… he’s never worried about anything before… so chill and sporty…” she placed a hand on her cheek and sighed into it, her hammer resting on her shoulder and neck.

“She’s out of it.” Tails concluded, unamused at her reaction.

He kept being polite and kind to her on the battlefield, posing without effort and stating heroic lines unrehearsed.

Later, he offered to take Amy home if that’s where she was heading, but she told him she would run beside him instead.

“H-huh?” Modern!Sonic was honestly surprised to hear that. “But… I’m fast.” he pointed to himself, innocently stunned. “I’m speed.” Amy giggled and continued in her answer.

“That way, we can chat about that other world you visited. It seems to have… well, changed you a lot. I’m just curious how it went, is all~” she kicked her foot out a bit and started running, “Besides, since when have I not been able to keep up?”

That sass and spunk was like revving an engine. Sonic gave a crooked smile, raising an eyebrow and charging ahead.

“If you say so!”

“Woah!” Amy was coughing up the dust from his speedy race by her, but she smiled and thought he might be toying with her. “Okay, hotshot. It’s time to knock your ego down a size… again!”

She tried to continue conversation but Modern!Sonic just wanted to test her limits, enjoying seeing her grace as she acrobatically jumped from tree to tre and raced alongside him.

It was almost like a dance, trying to ‘up-stage’ the other. Modern!Sonic liked the sudden rivalry and even praised her at the end, making her once again questioningly look to him.

“Yeah, okay.” she goofily spat out, wiping some loose leaves and dirt off her tight dress.

“What? You don’t believe me?” Sonic folded his arms, tilting his head and squinting his eyes a bit. ‘She really isn’t used to compliments here… is she?’

“Oh, like you really think I did a good job out there.” she thought he was playing her up to some slapstick joke. “Like I really impressed you or something. Har-dee-har-har.”

“…Amy.” Modern!Sonic purposefully adjusted his tone. This made her immediately straighten up and feel the sincerity and seriousness of his voice.

She was startled by it, but acknowledged his address to her by slightly double-taking over her shoulder.

Her eyes wavered nervously but he waited till they finally held at his own, kind expression.

“…You did great out there.” he repeated, this one less excited and more relaxed. “We should race again sometime. It was fun.”

Her face slowly brightened red, and she slapped her hands to her two cheeks in flushed embarrassment. “WHO ARE YOU!?” she exclaimed, causing Modern!Sonic to grip his gut and laugh and laugh and laugh…

When the two Sonic’s finally switched, Boom!Amy knew it wasn’t Boom!Sonic who had charmed her up the whole day, but Modern!Amy was strikingly confused why her tactics that seemed to have worked the day before were now getting her nowhere.

“What happened to you?”

“I met you.” he grinned, winking to her and rubbing a hand over her head. “There’s a lot I don’t know about you, Ames.”

“…Ames?” Modern!Amy wrinkled her brow.

Modern!Sonic just laughed at an inside joke and carried on as Modern!Amy frustratedly followed after him. He still let her hold his arm, but he wasn’t showing-off all handsomely like he did before…

Boom!Amy initiated more races out of Boom!Sonic, who found it hard to break his newly developed ego-ride and learn how to be humble in front of his team again… but Boom!Amy was sure to help him with that…

#sonamy #boom!sonamy #sonamy!boom #sonamy boom #sonamy prompt #sonic #amy rose #sonic boom #cutegirlmayra

[theaiexperiment]

Man I have been working on this picture FOREVER. Thank goodness I’m finally done now. Anyway I bet some of you people that have role played with me see me either role playing or having Sardonyx mention my other Sonic oc, Gertrue Stripes on here right? Well like I’ve mentioned in a few rp’s in Sardonyx’s dimension Gertrue Stripes raised a large amount of the Freedom Fighters, when their parents were either robotisized or killed and even taught them how to defend themselves. Her husband Azubuike helped raised and train them at first too, but one day he just disappeared. So below the read more is a little one-shot concerning their beginnings to this decision, enjoy!

         It was a dark day in this vast forest belonging to the Acorn Kingdom, as clouds covered what would have been radiant sunshine with some veil of forlorn, grey cotton. What made matters worse was the situation ensuing between an egg-shaped, human scientist and two female mobians in a small village. These two individuals were tasked with taking care of some children whose parents were off to fight in the Great War, or had perished during it. As they shared their last moments of freedom scowling the so-called scientist, a quiet individual looked onto them from afar.

         Eyes of a deep, brown coloring witnessed events unfold around them a fair distance ahead in both silent horror, hatred and admiration towards those who had been captured. Surrounded by the safe haven that was an oak’s dense foliage their owner (a white, female lynx with black spots on the edges of her ears and muzzle) remained undetected by Robotnik’s bulky, metal soldiers... for now at least.

         A deep respect practically flooded the ivory and sable mobian’s core, towards those innocent caretakers refusing to reveal the children‘s whereabouts. They really were valiant allies and good friends indeed. The feline just wished that she could repay their brave actions, one day. Seeing the greedy, human scientist however caused a wildfire of loathing to arise within. She could not BELIEVE the Acorn Kingdom used to trust this man with their very lives, at one point! She vowed to never make a mistake like that again, as his betrayal and elimination of her dear comrades was completely unforgivable.

         As the lynx, Gertrue watched those people become emotionless, mechanical servants of that dreaded doctor frustrated tears rolled down her cheeks. In all truth she wanted nothing more than to fight through those robots and save her friends, but logic and reasoning kept the feline at bay, because other matters needed solving at this time. Descending downwards from her precarious position in an oak tree with nimble, quiet movements, it didn’t take long for the white mobian to land upon grassy terrain. After running across some disguised, forest path for a few minutes she then stopped in front of some dense underbrush. Making her way through the bushes and long grass, she then was greeted by a blaster pointed directly at physique. However once its owner laid golden hues upon her, that weapon was immediately stowed away as a relieved breath absconded from his lips.

         “Oh thank goodness you’re back. I was beginning to worry.” the blaster’s owner (a male tiger) expressed in airy drones.

         Gertrue’s lips displayed a quick smile, as she often adored it when her husband Azubuike expressed his sweet, genuine compassion, for it showed that he cared. She dismissed his previous actions, because BOTH of them needed to keep their guards up during these trying hours. Placing hands upon her hips she then portrayed a confident smirk.

         “Now now my dear Azu, hasn’t our time together taught you that it takes a lot more than some robots to destroy me?” Gertrue said with an air of brief confidence, causing the tiger to momentarily grin before her expression shifted into a considerate frown. “But never mind that, are the children safe?” As if right on cue, a little boy’s voice penetrated their surroundings.

         “Aunt-auntie, what’s going on?”

         Shifting their gazes the adult felines starred at a group of children with calm frowns on their facial features. The group of young ones consisted of a blue hedgehog, another tiger (who was in fact their own nephew), a chipmunk princess, a rabbit girl and a baby fox. These small individuals were all children of people who Gertrue and Azubuike had become good friends with during their time in the Great War. Their protection meant the world to the older cats, as they not only were key components for a better future but also the only piece of their friends they had left. Walking up to the striped cub he held the youngest one in his arms, the lynx gently placed a hand upon his shoulder.

         “It’s Robotnik again, Felix. He’s finally found us so were going to look for another place to... hide now, okay?” Gertrue explained in the gentlest of tones (though it took all of her self-restraint not to hiss at that dreaded word, ‘hide’). She didn’t think concealing the truth to her little nephew about their circumstances was a good idea, for he would probably find out on his own eventually.

         As the lynx explained their predicament to Felix, Azubuike looked at them with a sincere expression of protectiveness, whilst hidden admiration flickered inside his core. Gertrue had always managed to be the most logical yet compassionate person in trying times, and it was one of the many things he loved about her. He just wished she didn’t have to use that ability of hers so often. Throughout these recent years it seemed like no matter how hard both of them tried, they kept facing one ordeal after another. Even as they both retired from the war early to keep an eye on their orphaned nephew, conflict eventually broke into their ‘protective barrier’. Granted the older, striped mobian sometimes wished that they could’ve kept fighting back instead, but he couldn’t leave his deceased sister’s only child unattended. Still despite all these austere, haphazardly events ensuing all around them, Azubuike was going to protect what remained of his family... even if he had to sacrifice his life for their sake.

         As these thoughts were strolling through Azubuike’s mind Felix gazed upon his aunt in uncertainty, whilst little hands held an infant fox with a surprisingly professional grace. One thing about the young tiger was that he often wanted to help people in any way he could. This included assisting the caretakers with their work, every now and then, as a result he eventually learned how to carry an infant properly. The baby he carried was named Miles Prower, though because of a minor... mutation most people called him ‘Tails’. As he slept peacefully in a blanket’s warmth, the striped cub looked at his aunt with concern whilst biting lower lip. Just then a small, feminine voice squeaked forth.

         “Miss... Miss Stripes, are Lilly and Rose... dead?” a little chipmunk girl named Sally asked, with trembling form and tears brimming the edges of her eyes. Since she had no memory of her mother and had little chances of ever seeing her father again Sally often looked upon Azubuike, Gertrue and the two caretakers as parental-figures, so loosing those individuals practically tore the young girl’s heart asunder.

         Seeing the chipmunk on the verge of tears, Gertrue got up once more so that she could focus attention upon her. Caressing her cheek in a motherly fashion, brown eyes gazed into weeping, sky blue orbs with sympathy alighting inside them.

         “They are not dead sweetie, they’re just... not going to be the people you and I know for a while.” she explained, before getting up with a renewed fire burning inside dark-brown pools. “This isn’t the end though... I promise that once we find a new base I will teach each and every one of you how to stand your ground. As far as we know we’re about all that’s left of Nigel’s Kingdom. All of you are going to be inspirations to the world I just know it, and know that I’m going to help you achieve your destinies any way I can.“

         At this speech Azubuike couldn’t help but frown in concern. Placing his hand upon Gertrue’s shoulder, he then motioned her off to the side for a bit. Once they were a few feet away, he folded his arms over each other and spoke in hushed drones.

         “Are you sure you want to do this, Gertrue? Raising these children is one thing, but now you’re offering to train them for battle. I thought you didn’t wan-”

         “I’m sick of running away, Azubuike!” the lynx proclaimed through an outburst of fierce drones. Seeing her husband’s worried expression, she then released a weary sigh and spoke in a softer voice. “I’m sorry, dear. It’s just that... I’ve been on the run for such a large portion of my life, and I’m sick of it. I don’t want to live in fear at all now. I want to set an example for these children, so that they can see that some things are worth fighting for.”

         Rather than become angry with his own wife, the older tiger nodded in understanding. Unlike most people, Azubuike knew the FULL story behind Gertrue’s past. The lynx had a very... difficult life. She entered from one conflict into another loosing both her parents and siblings in the Dragon Kingdom, then going off to another country right as it was in the middle of some great war. He could only comprehend how conflicted she must have felt, during those times. He just wanted to make sure that she was fully committed to this change, and seeing those embers spark alive into inside her brown irises proved was more than enough proof of the white feline’s determination. Now grinning from ear to ear at the sight of his wife’s seriousness, he then couldn’t stop himself from bringing her into a bear hug.

         “Thank goodness. I was starting to miss the days when you had that fire in your eyes, as we stopped the enemy.” he said spinning around in happiness, as he did Gertrue couldn’t help but laugh.

         “Hah! I should have figured you couldn’t go a few years, without getting into a scrap or two.” she teased, whilst he placed her down. Once he did however a thought skimmed across the lynx’s mind, causing her to frown again. “Problem is... I have no clue as to where we should go now.“

         At this confession the older, male feline placed his thumb and forefinger on lip’s edges, before countenance smiled from a long-forgotten memory.

         “Do you remember when we found that abandoned base, not too far from here?” he asked.

         Once his inquiry absconded into air’s currents Gertrue’s eyes widened in realization. “Of course! How could I have forgotten that?” she said, before turning towards the group of children with renewed hope radiating from facial features.

         “Alright kids, we may have been knocked down but we’re not out. I know things are difficult now, but we’re not going to give in.” the lynx proclaimed in authoritative drones, as all young eyes gazed upon her with newfound faith and admiration. “If it’s a fight Robotnik wants, than it’s a fight he’s going to get. Once we get to our new home I will personally teach the fighting skills I’ve learned throughout the years. However I’m not teaching you how to fight in order for you to just get revenge on someone. No, I’m going to show you how to fight... for your freedom.”

#FREE TO RE-BLOG #BUNNY DOODLES (Mun art) #Gertrue Stripes #Felix Stripes #Azubuike Stripes #PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT ME NOW (Sonic) #Freedom Fighters tag// #Sonic oc #((here have a somewhat decent one shot and art :D)) #((I'll probably edit a bit more of this later when I have the time >v>;))