#sonic tricking metal sonic! he's so cool and smart

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Dunno don't care this is a Fleetway reference/j

(I read it and was like "please tell me this part was written by Kitching" xjxjgmxj. Also he calls Tails "Old Buddy" in the next panel)

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57. Sonic the Hedgehog #39

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Rage Against the Machine

Writer: Mike Gallagher Pencils: Pat Spaziante Colors: Barry Grossman

Surprisingly for being written by Michael, this issue is pretty intense! Sonic is pissed, because he wants to try the same stunt Sally pulled back in StH#29, apparently forgetting how badly that plan failed last time. The other Freedom Fighters unanimously overrule him, and Sonic irritably stalks out. Antoine is suspicious that he may go and try the stunt on his own regardless of orders, but Sally reminds him of Sonic's loyalty to the group. Anyway, Sonic proceeds to head to the weight room and immediately get knocked out by a familiar face!

That's right, Nack the Weasel, who has been apparently lounging around in the Knothole Jailhouse ever since his first appearance in the Sonic Triple Trouble special, has finally made his reappearance! He's decided to finish his old job of hauling a captured Sonic back to Robotnik - better late than never, as he puts it - and is promptly paid back by Robotnik's neverending generosity. Which is to say, he's thrown out of the building with his payment: being allowed to keep his life. Classy, Robotnik! You're just ensuring that no independent parties will ever want to work for you again.

Anyway, this is the part where Sonic wakes up and starts giving some sassback to his arch-enemy, right? This is where Robotnik sits and monologues long enough for a rescue to commence, or for Sonic to pull some trick out of his ass and escape? Robotnik isn't… he isn't just throwing him in the roboticizer without a grand speech, is he? He's actually being smart for once?

Sonic wakes up in time to scream.

It's actually pretty intense. Sonic essentially got whacked on the head in Knothole, and when he woke up he was already halfway through the (presumably painful, judging from his facial expressions) roboticization process. Ouch, man.

Anyway, by now I guess they've remembered that the robotic version of Sonic depicted before is actually supposed to be called Metal Sonic, so now we're seeing the actual Mecha Sonic here in the flesh - or, uh, in the mechanical parts? Robotnik is quite the fan of psychological warfare, and since Mecha Sonic already knows where Knothole is located, he heads out to destroy it on his new master's command. The Freedom Fighters start scrambling to defend themselves as Mecha Sonic begins firing lasers at them, and are quite angry since, by all appearances, Sonic disobeyed direct orders, as none of them know that he was captured and roboticized against his will.

Sonic isn't the spearhead of the resistance for nothing, and turns out to be extremely resilient and hard to even properly battle, let alone defeat. It appears that Sally had a plan in place for exactly this scenario, as she starts calling out code phrases, first creating holographic duplicates to confuse Mecha Sonic, and then calling in Bunnie to fight him, as she's the toughest of the bunch left.

While Bunnie and Mecha Sonic do battle, Sally calls into the Knothole control center, giving Tails coded orders to execute. Tails is quite happy to be of real assistance, but of course, Sally can't let him off without making sure his confidence is dashed!

Like, seriously Sally? In the middle of an emergency, you're gonna give him childish hygiene instructions? That was 100% just a way for her to assert her dominance while he was feeling good about himself. Not cool, Sal Gal.

As a side note, Bunnie makes some… really weird remarks during this issue. Stuff that references the American Civil War, and essentially paints a really uncomfortable picture of her and her "Uncle Beauregard" as supporters of the Confederate side. Like, I really don't know why they decided to include these little "jokes," other than that she has a southern accent. Not only is this series so far removed from the Civil War as to be laughable to make references to it, but like, did Michael forget that the Confederate side was fighting over their right to keep slaves, and Bunnie and the rest of the Freedom Fighters are explicitly fighting against a form of slavery? It's just… really, really uncomfortable and weird.

Anyway, Mecha Sonic's powers, enhanced with the help of a remote power booster on Robotnik's end, prove to be too much for Bunnie, and she finally goes down.

Luckily, turns out one of Sally's coded instructions to Tails was to call in none other than Knuckles, who glides in and starts battling Mecha Sonic midair. While he's able to hold his own for a little while, soon he succumbs to Mecha Sonic's powerful abilities as well, crashing down next to Bunnie.

With no other options, Sally announces that they'll be commencing "Operation Last Resort…" which we will see in action next issue! Dun dun dun!

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Can you do a story where Amy gets mad at Sonic and tries smash him with her hammer and Sonic tries to calm her down, something around that scenario? I don't know why but I enjoy Sonamy stories like that lol

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I was going through some things, so sorry if this is late! But because of the time I was able to take some time to think about it, I got a really cute and cool idea! I hope you enjoy it, my friend! :)

Prompt:

After receiving a distress call from Amy, Sonic hurried over to her location before spotting Shadow and getting sidetracked by the suspicious behavior of the G.U.N.

Finding a scammed hedgehog and corrupted Military system, the two reluctantly teamed up and put an end to the robotic imposter leading the G.U.N and tricking Shadow!

However…

Amy rolled to dodge the large, circular robot as it’s center cube opened to reveal scanners.

Detecting her movements, it was able to lock-and-load, to speak. It would target her and withdraw it’s connected metallic shards and form into a tight ball, resembling Sonic’s ‘spin-dash’ as it charged her like a rolling boulder.

Tails had analyzed Amy footage of the robot, trying to desperately find an opening, and after hitting the cube-eye that now disabled it’s locator; he could confirm that only Sonic’s quills could shred through it’s exterior to successfully destroy it.

Amy was a hard-hitter, but in no way could scrap through and destroy it’s core. With it’s hard-hide, Amy had no choice but to dodge it’s now random and blind movements.

It broke down trees in it’s wake, trying to listen now to detect movement before reeling itself up and charging in a random location. Amy had to lay low, worried now that Sonic hadn’t shown up.

She turned on her communicator, taking a risk. “…Tails?”

The robot turned to her.

“Eeep!” she got out of the bush she was hiding in and started racing to another location, but the Robot got smart…

Knowing she was only going to make sound while moving, it charged it’s roll up and jumped itself to a rock, using it to spring it in the air and come at her as if to squash her for good.

She looked behind her shoulder, fear tainting her eyes as she couldn’t possibly knock away a robot carrying so many tons of metal!

All seemed to go dark for a moment, the robot’s large, circular frame blocking out the sun.

Then another noise from the side, as a blue streak darted into the robot, taking only seconds to shred through the impenetrable hide of the robot and have it shake in air.

It excited out like a projectile from the robot as it uncurled and smashed into the ground, Amy being pushed out of it’s way and grabbed before thrown to the ground for safety.

She face-planted, her legs still slightly up in the air from the impact, before falling and spitting out dirt.

She turned around, huffing and puffing as she saw Sonic continue to shred through the hide with sparks of light flying off the sides. A saw to the now downed robot, before spinning out of his ball and folding his arms, watching the explosion.

“My favorite part!” He smirked, “Ahh…” he turned his head away and placed both hands to his hips, “Makes such a nice wind…” he seemed very confident, as if nothing was wrong…

“…You…”

Sonic’s ear twitched, and he happily turned around to her. “Hey, Am-” he twitched back his hand when he saw dirt all over her face, and her head down…

Her hands scrunched up the bottom of her red dress… her mouth formed a dangerous scowl, before she flung her head up to him.

“WHERE WERE YOU!?!?”

He flinched back, before trying to keep his ‘pleasant’ smile from looking terrified at her angry expression.

He leaned his head back, “F..Fighting?” he then shook himself out of his nerves, “Why do I need to explain myself? I got your distress call, and Tails told me about the robot’s weakness! You know that!” he gestured a hand out to her, slightly defending himself before placing a hand to his hip…

She looked down, closing her eyes and turning her head away, her anger only growing…

His eyes widened at her shift from anger to pain, and then shook his head out, trying to convince himself he wasn’t in the wrong here.

He sighed and dropped his arms, “Look, you’re okay aren’t you? You always tend to be…” suddenly seeming to get the idea she wasn’t, he moved in closer, leaning towards her.

“Amy… you are alright… aren’t you?” a new stance was taken, and he slowly bent down to examine her more closely.

Unable to see her up close, she shot back to her feet and swung a hammer at him.

“Yikes!” he leaned as far back as his spine could allow him, and waved his arms out around to balance himself; one foot dangling above the ground before finding it’s place there again.

“Amy! Calm down, I-!”

“You…! GRRR..aHHH!!!” she swung it some more and he ran, ducking and dodging.

“Amy! Let me explain!”

“You gave that up a moment ago!”

She threw her hammer out, summoning a new one instantly the second the last one missed.

He didn’t notice her hunching over…

The limp in her leg…

He barely noticed she hadn’t moved so quickly to run after him…

As he darted away in a serpentine motion, he suddenly dove into a bush, and peeked up.

His expression completely changed when he saw her collapse to her knees.

The friendly game they usually played suddenly ceased in his eyes as they narrowed and a new figure arose from that bush.

Taking on a new persona, Sonic suddenly seemed very serious, standing over Amy and looking to her arms.

They were shaking… twitching every now and then from stress and over-exhaustion.

Her mouth had some spit drip here and there that she wiped away, but her panting was dangerously convulsing her throat and stomach.

She shook her head to try and regain herself from dizziness, and Sonic’s fists clenched.

“You…” she barely got out.

“…Wasn’t here sooner.” he crouched down beside her. “I’m sorry.”

His apology hit her hard as her eyes widened at the sudden acceptance of his fault, and looked up.

“…I should have prioritized better. I thought you’d manage until I made it there.” His tone was dead-set on being honest and sincere- serious - without a shred of a hidden joke or punny phrase tied in there at all… 

“I saw Shadow in a strange predicament and found some deceit in G.U.N’s management… I thought you’d understand…”

He looked straight into her eyes, pausing her long enough to allow her body to breathe a bit more normally now that she wasn’t shouting so much.

He pressed a hand to the ground to hold himself up, but lean closer towards her face, allowing her to examine his own eyes and make her conclusions about his words.

“If I had known you were struggling so much… even a fraction of what I’m seeing now… I wouldn’t have goofed off so much.”

She saw no fault in his eyes… he was just being a hero. Being himself. And he hadn’t realized…

She forgave in a small surrender, looking away from his eyes and down at the ground.

“…You were right to trust I could handle it… under normal situations.. but.. it was designed to take my heavy blows…” she saw her body tremble violently for a moment before stabilizing itself…

In panic, she gripped her shaking arm and looked away, ashamed at her appearance to him…

She worked so hard to become strong in his eyes… and the second he had finally trusted her to be alright, she proved all her efforts wrong.

She squinted her eyes.

“I… I wish I could have proven you right.” she ducked her head further behind her, not wanting him to see any tears that may threaten her face.

She heard footsteps, but knew he couldn’t just be up and leaving.

He came back, and she wondered what made him walk away in the first place.

Suddenly, he was back to one knee and stringing something through her hair, under her headband; something stiff and pointy…

“H-hey..” she lifted her hands up to try and feel what it was, but his words stopped her.

“You know, Amy… you’re very strong.” he continued to startle her with more things being stuck through her hair that she couldn’t identify.

But her hands hesitated and her heart paused.

She had always wanted to hear him praise her efforts.

Her eyes pulled up to reveal small tears threatening, before he continued, her lower lip also strained to remain calm.

“… And I’m not just talking about your hammer’s strength either.” he smiled, and pulled away. “I’m talking about what’s inside. You’re sheer determination to never quit. That’s why you were able to keep fighting. Believing I would come…. it’s because you refused to quit. On both the battle… and on me.”

He gestured his head to her own, and she rose her hands to touch whatever he had put in her hair.

Her eyes widened.

“What’s inside… comes out as outward beauty.” he admired the decorative work he had done, putting a hand to his knee to push off from and stand up straight, then that very hand to his chin.

“Heh.” he smirked at the flower crown, before Amy removed her hands and revealed her watery, glossy eyes to him.

“Sonic…” she tenderly spoke out.

He winked to her sweetly, and then offered his hand.

“Let’s get you home, Amy… you deserve a hero’s rest.”

She smiled and jumped into his arms, sobbing as the flowers let some petals fall through the wind she created with her thrust towards him.

They softly, slowly… fell to their feet as Sonic awkwardly chuckled and let her embrace him with tears.

(This… was precious ;A; )

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“Where Have All The Sonics Gone?” review

                                             Spoiler warning! A bit.

We have a quick, but decent episode today, with a couple of surprises!

Returning characters! Morpho’s back, and he and Eggman craft up a scheme to put Sonic in another dimension! Mombot is also back, she lives in a house now, but she’s changed a bit in personality. Normally she would be against Eggman in destroying his foe, but allows both of them to carry out their plan. Did Eggman reprogram her or something?

A few minutes of those shapeshifting scenes were just literal fun teases I swear. We had Metal Sonic and then Shado-

HOLY SHIZ IT’S VECTOR WHAT THE FU-

With some changes too! No headphones, he’s got a jacket and... is that a compass tattoo on his arm? Here’s hoping we get to see him with a proper personality and what he does in this universe! Bill Freiberger did mention that some episodes were airing out of order, so Vector should be back! (Also no way they would use that model for just one cameo appearance...)

So anyway, this episode spends it’s time with Sonic exploring in another dimension and I must admit: the writers did an...alright job when it came to showing that. Back in Season one, we saw the same characters’ Mirror Dimension in which some of their personalities were switched, and minor character design changes (Green Eggman!)

But here, this dimension has gone through some shiz: The sky and mountains are pink, the lava is green, Meh Burger is actually good, Knuckles is a workout instructor (?) and Lord Eggman is the ruler of the village. There’s some personality changes and minor character design as well... We learn that there’s a rebellion group in this village, some of the minor villagers in the show are a part of it, like some of the Gogobas!

It was fitting to see Sticks as the leader of this rebellion, showing a serious side to her, with a bit of her conspiracy attitude showing up as well. (She also looks cool with an eyepatch tho!)

There’s a couple of funny moments and references too! It was amusing to see Steve screw up the role of Sonic, to the point of Eggman DIRECTING him on how to act like Sonic. Smart of Amy to see through that trick though, even recalling the time she was glued to the ground by him! Steve saying the catchphrases of Pokemon and Bugs Bunny was pretty funny. 

                    Before I say goodbye to you, one more last fist bump...

There was a neat moment when the gang face Lord Eggman, Tails in this dimension is shown to be his assistant. Even though he’s with the enemy, Sonic does not harm him and even saves him from Lord Eggman’s missiles. Again, the friendship between the two is strong, even though this Tails is from a different dimension.

I found this episode to be interesting, mainly due to how we see more of the dimension Sonic goes in, and with some amusing bits and references, like the Needlemouse callout from Knuckles.

...Is it me, or does the setting of the alternate dimension partially remind me of Sonic Forces’ setting? Both have Eggman take over most of the area, there’s forces of good and evil in both: We got the Sonics and his friends and the avatar on one side, Eggman and the Villains (and Infinite) on the other for Forces...

But in Boom there’s a rebellion but no new villain, just an alternate dimension version of Eggman- I’m looking too much into this.