#the flicky thing is a joke

[knuckleslove]

Innocence

Sonic knows he’s stumbled upon an invisible moment. A part of the guardian he doesn’t often see. He is content to watch from afar, and let that innocence be.

I’m a bit late the party, but this my thought on innocence.

(My unpopular opinion about this scene is that we (Knuckles fans) have been engaging in a lot of Flicky erasure since the Frontiers prologue short came out. Flickies been up there chillin with Knux since ‘94.)

Okay but jokes aside, I’ve had this scene bouncing around my brain for a long time. Wrote something about it here.

@year-of-the-echidna

ALSO!

I drew this in 2 nights. I’ve really been working on the art skills the last few months, but every other piece I’ve finished is for chapters of Fractured Frequency that I haven’t published yet, so those are just piling up unseen… I’m kinda proud of this one, and so excited I can actually share it right away. ^_^

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Another World Ogiri November 2023 [What are Knuckles and Sonic doing...? ]

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“You must have been gooey at first!”

Two characters appear every month in surprising outfits and situations! Let's enjoy Ogiri together with illustrations that will make your imagination run wild!

This time, the defender with the proof of victory, Knuckles, the fighting king, takes on the sonic clown, the challenger Sonic! The outcome of the dream match where power and speed collide is...! ?

What kind of lines or narration would you use?

You can style it based on the atmosphere and world view of the two of you in the game, or you can create a bold arrangement! In the example, it seems that Sonic is having trouble with being too free... Even if it's a gleeful joke from such a point of view, it's OK!

Please enjoy it and tweet with the tag "#Isekai Ogiri" on Twitter (X) ♪

We will introduce the good ones in a reply from Sonic's official Twitter (X) account.

We are looking forward to your fun Ogiri posts!

Act11: “An unforgettable rival”

"This belt is just for me! That's right!"

"'Knuckles! Knuckles! Oooooooo!"

Raising his championship belt and roaring towards the audience is Knuckles the Echiduna, the red echidna fighting king. With a large crowd filling the arena, the champion's performance will heat up the venue.

“Ladies & Gentlemen! The long-awaited title match is finally here!”

The robot referee ``Omochao'' also flew around the ring, further enlivening the venue.

"Knuckles, the undefeated absolute defender, will the title be replaced today!? The featured challenger enters! The clown at the speed of sound...Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"Hey! Looks like you're doing well, knucklehead!"

The challenger, a blue hedgehog, appeared illuminated by a spotlight and landed dashingly on top of the corner post.

Sonic, dressed in a colorful clown suit and performing spectacular acrobatics on the spot, greeted Knuckles and the audience with an exaggerated pose and a fearless smile. The audience seats were also excited.

Knuckles says he's a nasty bastard and hits both Kobushi and glares at the challenger...

"Did I meet you somewhere? I don't care, but I don't think you'll be easy on me."

Sonic and Tails trace the source of the energy and arrive at this venue, but they find Knuckles, the "King of Fighters," there.

He also seems to have a Chaos Emerald that has mutated into a "Champion Belt"... but even with that power, there is no sign that he will regain his memories after seeing Sonic and the others.

"Why? There's also a reaction from the Chaos Emeralds."

"He's always been a gullible guy, and the effects of strange things may be strong... Well, just look at him! If you give that stone head a shot, he'll remember it."

...So, Sonic challenged Knuckles to a fight as a "challenger".

"Knuckles! Knuckles!"

The ringside was filled with rumblings as people cheered for Knuckles. Sonic glanced at the crowd waiting anxiously for the gong to start the match, and with light steps that could be seen as a provocation, he closed the distance to Knuckles...

"Whoa, challenger Sonic! What on earth are you planning on doing!?"

He slowly opened his fist and grinned, and countless balls appeared between his fingers. As if by magic, he threw one ball high into the air, and it flew over the corner post of the ring at high speed, demonstrating a spectacular ball juggling act.

The audience held their breath as they watched this unexpectedly high-level performance. Eventually, the balls piled up one after another in front of Knuckles' nose, and...

＜＜Pon! >>

When all the balls popped, Flicky, a blue bird, was perched there, looking around. Knuckles jumps in surprise and Flicky flies away.

“Did you like the little greeting from the newcomer?”

"Y-you bastard...!"

After giving a mischievous wink, Sonic grins again.

Laughter leaked out from the audience seats. Afterwards, a rain of applause showers down on the ring, praising the spectacular performance.

"'Wow, that's amazing!'" "You totally pissed Knuckles off!" "Sonic! Sonic!"

"...Tenmeee!"

Sonic speaks to Knuckles, who is shaking his fists and showing his anger, from atop the ring post.

``I don't dislike the away atmosphere, but I just don't like it when I'm losing to you in the audience.''

Before I knew it, the cheers that had been dominated by the champions had turned into a 50-50 split in just a few seconds. Knuckles is bread! He slaps his cheeks with both hands, burning his fighting spirit towards Sonic.

“We get along well, I was just thinking you wouldn’t like me either!”

"Knuckles! Knuckles!" "Sonic! Sonic!"

"Let's both be in high spirits in the ring and in the audience! Now, let's start the match!"

<<Khan! >>

A gong sounded throughout the venue, signaling the start of the match.

The two stare at each other in the center of the ring. Knuckles keeps his eyes on Sonic as he moves around quickly.

Knuckles judges the timing and hits an accurate and fiery straight, but Sonic narrowly evades him. As for Sonic, he keeps increasing his speed in an attempt to break Knuckles' stance, which he doesn't like...

"Blue Tornado!"

It spins around Knuckles at high speed with a blue afterimage. He creates a powerful tornado and launches Knuckles high into the sky, then launches a zigzag run-up and spin attack!

＜＜Gashi! >>

Everyone expected a clean hit due to the intense sound of the impact, but...

"Shame for you"

Knuckles, who blocked Sonic's attack by sandwiching his fists between his fists, showed his teeth and grinned, then slammed Sonic to the ground with great force.

"Volcanic, dunk!"

<< Zugoon! >>

The explosion and shock that erupts as the bullet hits the ground. Sonic was launched into the air by the recoil, but there was no visible damage, probably because the impact was dispersed by the high-speed spin, and he quickly regained his balance.

“Oraoraoraaaaaah!”

"Hey! I guess I won!"

Knuckles is in hot pursuit and Sonic is dodging him... Red and blue trajectories passing each other in the air engage in a fierce battle.

"S-Great battle Chao!"

"'Wow, that's amazing!'"

Omochao, along with the audience, cries out in surprise as the live commentary can't keep up with the high-level, high-speed battle. Everyone can't help but cry out in the face of this battle.

"Well, you're still as stupid as ever... But it has to be like this!"

A powerful, fearless and worthy adversary. Before Sonic knew it, he found himself in an unusually excited mood during this serious battle with Knuckles, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"You're an angry bastard, but you'll do it! I've been waiting for someone like you!"

And so was Knuckles. My body moved on its own in the face of a sharp onslaught and speed that I should have never experienced before. For some reason, my heart was warmed by a mysterious and nostalgic uplifting spirit.

"(It's still not like this... Give me the best blow to defeat him!)"

That moment when our mutual excitement reached its climax...!

“It’s time to go to the finale!”

"It's top notch!"

In response to the furious kick unleashed from a top-speed sonic spin, the punch of the fist was like an explosion from an active volcano. Their best blows collide with each other.

<<<< Dogaan! ＞＞＞＞

A clean hit to each other's faces...! The two people collapsed at the same time, and the cheers were louder than ever.

"""Ooooo!"" ""Knuckles! Knuckles!"" "Sonic! Sonic!"

"Ryo, both of you are down! Chao counts! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."

"Two...."

In the noisy audience, Tails can't help but clench his fists, as if praying, waiting for the two to return.

"I... Tee!!"

"Oh my god! They got up almost at the same time... Ciao~!?"

Wake up at the same time. But Knuckles was the first to speak.

Knuckles ran up to Sonic, not noticing that he had blown up his toychao in the process, and said this while holding his kicked head.

"What are you doing, Sonic! What are you looking like?"

"...Huh? Tails, it happened like you said, right?"

Knuckles was looking at Sonic with a proud face while stroking his cheek where he was punched, but he suddenly remembered something and let out a scream.

"Yes, listen to me! While I was destroying Eggman's factory, I found a strange monster underground!"

Knuckles is pointing under the ring, as if time has stopped and started moving.

"This guy's in the way... Oh!"

A flash of spirit!

<< Zugone! >>

When he swings his fist at his feet, the ring is blown away along with the floor with the impact. After the swirling debris and dust settled, what I saw below was...

It was a large gaping hole that was still collapsing from the inside in a chain reaction into a huge underground space.

The two of them stare at the hole in amazement, ignoring the noisy audience seats. Breaking the silence, Tails's energy detector makes a loud noise.

＜＜Pipipi! Pipipi! >>

At the same time, a heavy tremor erupts from the depths of the earth...! The area around the hole began to collapse, and the venue became noisy.

"It looks like the energy flow is heading deeper into this hole...! We have to hurry!"

"Ah! ...But wait a minute."

Knuckles snatched the microphone from Omochao, who had stumbled back, and called out to the confused audience:

"Hey, you guys! I'm sorry, but I've gotten into a bit of a wild situation! I'm sure you have a lot to say, but please leave this place to me and evacuate!"

After giving a shout, he shoves the microphone at Omochao and forces him to take charge of the evacuation.

“I-I don’t know what it is, but everyone just runs away~!”

"'Knuckles is saying hello! Run!'" "'Ooooooooooo!'" "'Knuckles! Knuckles! ......'"

"Wow... everyone's gone."

Knuckles smiled at Tails, who was overcome with admiration and was stunned, and then turned to face the dark, deep hole he was heading towards and silently looked down at it.

"...It turned into a forfeited match."

Before he knew it, Sonic was standing behind Knuckles, pretending to be disappointed, and laughing.

"Hey! No matter how you look at it, I won, but you can try it again."

“That’s my line!”

With that said, Sonic jumps into the hole first, followed by Tails. Knuckles chased after it and jumped into the hole, smiling wryly and saying,

"We really get along well, don't we?"

"Cognitive frictional energy"

What the three people saw after passing through the hole was an unusual landscape that they had never imagined. A huge, cylindrical, dark underground cavity about 100 meters in diameter and depth...

At its bottom is a huge white parabolic antenna that looks straight up and is exactly the diameter of this cavity, and in the center of it stands a large conical glass tower like a rocket, emitting dazzling light. I was doing it.

"this is......!?"

Sonic grabbed hold of Tails as he flew, and Knuckles used his specialty to glide, observing the strange sight as they slowly and carefully descended.

＜＜Pipipi! Pipipi! >>

As you descend, the unknown energies that are gathering from various otherworldly areas gradually increase in strength. By the time Sonic and his friends descended halfway down the shaft, it had become a visible torrent of countless purple lights.

"Wow, that's amazing...it's similar to the power of the Phantom Ruby though..."

Tails couldn't figure out what this energy was. However, in the midst of this flow, the moment Tails saw visions of different worlds in various places flickering up and down, emitting intense sparks, a great realization came to him.

"I see! I understand!"

Tails was so surprised that Sonic almost threw him off, and the truth he told him was shocking.

Sonic and his friends' "stars" have been forcibly overwritten with their own perception of countless otherworldly images held by various people using the Phantom Ruby weapon. The gap in perception between the star's original reality and this otherworldly reality was putting a strain on the star, causing it to generate a huge amount of energy.

"So...I guess we should call it 'cognitive frictional energy'...Eggman's purpose was to steal this from all over the world!"

Just as Tails finished his explanation, the three of them landed on the plate of the giant parabolic antenna at the bottom of the cavity and looked up in silence.

"Cognitive frictional energy" coming from all over the world is received by this antenna, gently reflected, and collected at the tip of the central glass tower. The energy converged there could be seen to fall intermittently and be stored in the bulge at the base of the tower.

"He's still a top-notch guy when it comes to doing stupid things."

"Yeah. He's the one who walks around with his clothes on."

Sonic and Knuckles are stunned, but can't hide their bitter smiles on the one hand and their irritation on the other.

"Look at the base of the tower! There's so much energy gathering that it's distorting the space around it... It's enough power to destroy this planet four times!"

Tails tells Sonic and the others with a serious expression.

“What should I do?”

"Well, that energy hasn't been activated yet, so if you release it from the fixed field, the star will self-repair and the events will flow backwards..."

"...Tell me so I can understand, Tails!"

“Anyway, I guess it’s okay if we just destroy it.”

"Well, actually, Knuckles is right... Let's destroy that thing, release the energy, and restore the world to normal!"

“Oh, leave it to me!”

Knuckles rolls up his sleeves and heads towards the tower in high spirits. Sonic saw it off with a bitter smile for a while, but...

“Well, this guy has to be like this.”

I looked at his back and nodded with a smile, and followed him in good spirits.

...... Eventually, the three of them arrive at the base of the tower, where countless otherworldly visions flicker around them, and they sigh once again at its majesty.

The light leaking out of the tank-like shape and the image of another world are like the screams of something. The three of them took up their position with Knuckles in the middle, and finally made up their minds.

"It's made of a very strong crystal, but I think Knuckles' power can break it."

"It's nice to have stupid power. You don't have to think about anything."

"At least thank that idiot for today. Let's go!"

Just when Knuckles raised his clenched fist high and was about to swing it down forcefully!

<<Bashuuu>>

The tank glowed exceptionally brightly, emitting a blinding white flash.

"Wow!"

In the next moment, a purple pillar of light several tens of meters in diameter pierced from the tank to the tip of the tower, and from the tip far into the sky.

"W-what is this...!"

In the meantime, only a few seconds. After that, a silent tower and silence reigned over the area. And a loud, familiar voice echoes from the sky...

"Ho, ho, ho! You came all the way to this place, you damn hedgehogs! You had a good sight, but it seems you were a little too late."

"Eggman!?"

Sonic and his friends look at the sky.

``It's true that this situation is the result of my genius plan. This is 'give and take.' In return for delivering a fun parallel world to everyone, I gain enormous amounts of energy and use this most powerful weapon. That doesn't mean it's completed."

"The strongest weapon!? Something that uses that much energy...?"

Perhaps satisfied with Tails's voice, Eggman gets excited and raises his voice.

"If you can stop me, try to stop me. I'll use Kisama and the others as testing grounds for this most powerful weapon and turn them into trash!"

＜＜Gogogogo...! >>

"Wow!"

As the ground rumbles, countless plant branches and roots spring up from under their feet at an abnormal speed, and before they know it, Sonic and his friends are pushed to the ground, along with the parabolic antenna that has turned into a giant flower.

“!?”

"No way...! Are you creating a different world locally?"

“It’s a mess!”

When they returned to the ground, they found a scene that looked like a hybrid of a chemical plant that had been converted into an energy facility and a sinister plant, and...and then...the ground trembled behind the three of them. When they turned around, they saw a purple-golden giant towering over them.

"This is Eggman's ultimate weapon...!?"

The curtain of a terrible battle was about to be cut off.

[essycogany]

Sweet Prime!Sonic Moments

My favorite scene in Sonic Prime should be a great start.

Episode: 5 “Barking Up The Wrong Tree.”

First thing I want to establish!

Episode 4 “Unwelcome To The Jungle,” and 5 made me laugh the most. Random I know, but I believe they have some of the best jokes and character interactions.

From Gnarly Knuckles acting like Sticks from Sonic Boom. To Hangry Big having one of the most normal line deliveries done for him.

“A shard? We don’t know...”

Then the episodes gave Sonic moments of annoyance and frustration with the scavengers and Thorn’s shenanigans. We could use more of Sonic being done with everything. It’s so entertaining.

(It also reminds me of Boom!Sonic so that’s an extra point.)

I wouldn’t say this show is perfect. Far from it actually. But I do appreciate what new sides to Sonic the show brings to the table.

Without further ado, let’s get into the overanalyzed ramble pile.

Quick recap

After Sonic’s argument with Thorn about finding a better way to express herself to her use to be friends and to figure out how to take better care of the jungle, Sonic responds with this:

Then he runs off to get Thorn to follow him. Which means Sonic already had an idea to get Thorn to come to her senses.

Side note. Even if Prime!Sonic isn’t the brightest, I wouldn’t say he’s dumb.

(Mostly)

In combat he’s able to trick/fool people or enemies plenty of times. Even in this scene Sonic tricks Thorn into lunching her hammer to allow sunlight into the unhealthy jungle.

Then we end up here. The scene that made me love this version of the character more then I already did:

Yes, the ear twitch at the end was added on purpose.

I find it hilarious this dude could have went on with his plan without really saying anything to the tree. Obviously this scene would’ve been boring without any dialogue, but to me it gives the impression Sonic has a soft spot for nature.

Environmentalism has always been the key point for the majority of this franchise. I also like in most media Sonic’s been a flower loving guy. It seems to be a consistent thing that Sonic has an appreciation for plants. Talking about how pretty they are. Having knowledge about them and so on.

Back to the scene. Sonic talks to The Great Green. Not a surprise since he talks to Flickies in this show too.

I don’t know why, but I just love the fact Sonic took time to reassure the tree he’s got things under-control. Even giving it a little pat to show affection.

Sonic even hugs a palm tree later on in the show which I find hilarious and cute.

In terms of characterization, I believe this scene is a brilliant way of showing how this character is in general. Sonic having sympathy for the tree while it’s branches goes down. Sonic’s worry for Thorn and how much she’s lost it by being overprotective and practically destroying the main thing she tried to protect. Proving how much he does his best to find some kind of connection to what is basically a stranger. Despite how similar Thorn and Amy are. Then the blue blur tells The Great Green he has a plan in mind.

Sonic: “I know just trust me.”

You’re NOT the Lorax, Sonic. Jokes aside, I like how Sonic clarifies to the tree he’s going to be careful.

Sonic later on:

This shows a bit of growth compared to the first episode. At least Sonic’s not being reckless this time and knows what he’s doing.

The music in this scene is nice too. I don’t think enough people talk about how great the music is in this show. I’ll say it’s another highlight for me.

I also love the angle of the weak tree looking down at Sonic’s cherry optimistic self. The leaves falling here and latter on in this episode are VERY nice touches.

Don’t get me started on the voice acting here. Deven Mack is my favorite Sonic VA. Not because he sounds better then the others, but he takes what makes ALL of them great and combines them into one. Deven has so much range it’s not even funny. Also if someone told me Sonic was voiced by an actual teen here, I would’ve believed them. Hot take! Prime!Sonic sounds younger then Movie!Sonic if I’m being honest.

Also, even though I’m not an animator, I believe the character models in Prime has some of the BEST facial expressions for the Modern Sonic cast has EVER had in 3D. I think they have the widest range of emotions. I’m fine with anyone who disagrees though.

In conclusion. This scene solidifies something about Prime!Sonic I believe most who love him would agree with. He’s by far the sweetest version of Sonic The Hedgehog. At least from what I’ve seen so far. Not to say other versions don’t have their moments too. It’s only due to this and other moments I may talk about in the future that makes Prime!Sonic my favorite. Hope you enjoy my little character geek out.

Stay Creative! 💜

[ebachan]

Sonic Prime - Shadow's Variants

Hi,

I've seen a few YT videos about how Prime deconstructs characters, and how they are divided into three bodies/personalities. And it made me thinking if it's a reason why Shadow isn't part of these worlds too.

It's obvious he has to help Sonic fix this mess, but what if it "was too hard" to divide Shadow into three personalities? Given his popularity, it's kinda easy to see this being partly a reason. I wonder if they had any early plans for this to happen. Would be cool to know.

And so I brainstormed a bit and got to these three Shadow's variants.

Please vote after you read about them ;-) And please reblog if you vote.

New Yoke Shadow - Black Wind

He would be a ruthless bounty hunter/hired gun working for whoever offered more money. He wouldn't care if he backstabbed his employer if the target offered something more interesting. His combat skills would include various firearms (handguns and sniper guns are his favorite), but he would be able to go toe to toe with his targets in hand-to-hand combat too.

And for some reason, he would have a personal favorite gun named Maria. Either to be an Easter Egg or to remember the only person who ever showed him love during his childhood. He would now be 35-40 years old so that love would be long buried after all the pain and brutal world around him.

Aside from it, his ace would be his mechanical legs, allowing him to move fast. And this speed would earn him his name "Black Wind" since he would turn into a black blur before assassinating his targets. And of course, he would get hired to get rid of or capture Sonic.

And while Shadow is fast, Sonic would be much faster. That and combining it with Sonic's no-kill policy would create a big emotional scar. First, remembering Maria's kindness and second, the feeling of shame he allowed his pray to win and to pity him.

After that Shadow would go after Sonic, trying to regain his pride and reputation as a flawless hunter. However, he would fail time and time again, witnessing Sonic putting himself in danger to help others. All of this would result in Shadow regaining a bit of the kindness he had as a child. And to his shock, he would find himself pushing Sonic out of harm's way.

This world would emphasize his cold-heart and ruthless nature. In the games and comics, we could see he was willing to take one's life for the greater good. But here, he cares only for himself.

Boscage Maze Shadow - Black Beast

Here, Shadow is reduced to a feral beast from hushed stories. Unlike others, he doesn't talk and acts based on instinct. His form would remind you of a bit rougher werehog, but with a long tail and more claws.

Shadow wouldn't be malicious, but territorial and aggressive. His meeting with Sonic would be only about hunting to eat. And while others would vary of him, calling him the worst monster of the forest, Sonic wouldn't let them hurt him.

And while Shadow wouldn't be considered intelligent, he is smart enough to understand Sonic isn't an enemy. It would spark curiosity and open his heart a bit. I imagine him being Thorn's Flicky-level smart. This Shadow would fight by Sonic's side, but would treat others like an annoyance he doesn't want to deal with but do so for Sonic.

This Shadow would bring out Shadow's powers and his fear of going feral/savage if not controlled. He would be missing the Inhibitors to regulate his Chaos energy. The only way to keep living would be to hunt a huge number of animals (the excessive energy would be slowly eating him from the inside, and enough nutrition was the only thing to keep it from speeding too much). We can also say this form would bring out his Black Arms DNA if that is canon in Prime.

No Place Shadow - Black Blade

There is a bit of a joke about how Captain Shadow (Sonic Dash) would be perfect for No Place. And as fun as it sounds, I think Shadow would be an Admiral working for a government to catch pirates. He would have a couple of ships in his arsenal, each having dozens of men. But he would mainly use Maria's Wish (both the fastest and strongest of his ships).

His goal would be to catch every last pirate and make sure no new ones would arrive, fearing him. His biggest target and thorn in his quills would be daring Dread. The only pirate who escaped him in the past and who gave him a scar over his eye. Shadow in return made Dread one tooth lighter XD

The nickname Black Blade would come from Shadow's love of using a sword made of black steel. Also, his ships would be "decorated" in black and red colors and would have black steel blades in place of a figurehead and down the beak. His style would be ramming the pirate's ships and making holes in them.

Shadow would meet Sonic on Dread's ship, considering him one of the crew. But Shadow's speed would be greatly reduced, so Sonic would have no problem fighting him. But this Shadow is also crafty, using items and environment to his advantage (like using a rope to limit Sonic's movements), but without dirty tricks.

I can imagine this Shadow changing his opinion about Sonic (at least) during a fight in the middle of a storm. Shadow's ship would be equipped with giant crossbows, allowing him to hook ships at a greater distance. Shadow's specialty would be running across the rope while his crew would try to get Maria's Wish closer.

So, while his speed would drop down compared to the original Shadow, his reaction time, sense of balance, and nimbleness would make up for it. Dark clouds would cover them and a big thunderstorm would make everything worse.

Shadow would fall over the ledge into the water during the fight on Dread's ship. He would struggle but still composed to keep calm. That's when Sonic would run to him, saving him from being hit by a falling barrel, and getting him back to Maria's Wish.

Shadow's crew would be quick to surround Sonic, capturing him. Meanwhile, Dread's ship would get further away (either due to the weather or by Dread's command), leaving Sonic on Shadow's ship. And while Shadow wants to pursue Dread, his ship is damaged and he values his crew enough to not throw their lives in vain. So he orders them to retreat, cutting the ropes before their ships slam into each other.

Sonic would later alter Shadow's view of pirates and showed him no rule or law is worth keeping it if means hurting your friends.

This version would strengthen Shadow's sense of justice and doing everything for the greater good. That would make Shadow ignore his personal feelings and desires. And in his fights, he would follow a strict honor code, allowing pirates to live if they give up, but killing them if they resist.

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If you got here, thank you so much. This post was fun to create. Please, vote in the poll above, I'm curious what you think and if you do, please, reblog so I may get more accurate results :-)

Thank you so much <3

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An Error has Occurred

Ok... I MIGHT have an obsession with Lee!Eggman... but hey, I think at least some of you will understand once you read who the Ler is. So don't pretend you haven't thought about this as well. Enjoy! (Also, it's modern Eggman, not Boom)

Lee: Eggman

Ler: Robot

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Yet another defeat by the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog.

He's tried ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING he could think of! What was he doing wrong!? How is Sonic overcoming every robot in his arsenal!?

Eggman went back to his lair, yelling at Orbot and Cubot to get him some of his comfort foods, and sat in his room.

When they brought the snacks, he jerked them away violently and scarfed it down faster than Sonic's top running speed.

After he finished, they cleaned him up really well.

However, Orbot was on top of Cubot, who is extremely clumsy, and slipped when Cubot jumped in the air, causing Orbot to slide a hand down Eggman's neck.

When this happened, Eggman yelped, resisting the urge to laugh.

However, the two robots thought they had injured him, and asked if he was alright.

He shrugged them off and said, "You two didn't hurt me, you just simply touched my neck, it's very sensitive."

"Oh, ok Boss!"

"Ah, I see... so you're ticklish there-"

"Don't go getting any ideas, Orbot, you'd have better luck teaching Cubot algebra."

"Wasn't planning against you... just wondering why you haven't done it to Sonic, yet."

"Wh- I'm a supervillain! Not a CHILD!!!"

"Yes, I know sir... it's just a suggestion."

"... Dismissed!"

After they both left, he remembered the time he tortured Sonic when he defeated him. He doesn't want to admit it, but the thought of tickle torturing Sonic would be very satisfying. But for now, he will rest...

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-two weeks later-

It's ready! A new torturing device for when he finally beats Sonic again!

'This time he won't be able to escape,' Eggman thought.

"ORBOT! CUBOT! COME HERE!"

Both the robots drop what they're doing and immediately comes to Eggman's aid.

"What is it, Boss," asked Cubot.

"Yes, what is it," Orbot added.

"Behold! My new torture device for Sonic!"

Eggman removed the sheet from the robot and yelled, "The Tickler Egg!"

Both robots looked unimpressed.

"Oh come on, Doctor," Orbot said, "the tickle thing I said a while back was a joke."

"Oh, but I'm not joking, Orbot! I'm going to capture him again and make him laugh until he tells me every weakness he and all his other friends have! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Welp, he's lost it."

"Yes, he has."

Both robots leave the doctor, while he's still laughing, and went back to what they were doing earlier.

After finally noticing they left, he decided to test the robot on a few flickys.

When the tests were successful, he decided to try and tweak it a little bit, so that way, if the robot detects any movement, it will keep tickling. (He planned on making Sonic pass out)

However, he had forgotten to build voice activated commands for the robot, which is where the robot starts to slowly malfunction.

When Eggman tried to leave, the robot blocked the only door leading out of the room.

"Stand down, bucket of bolts!"

Then, without warning, the robot grabbed Eggman and pinned him against the wall.

"OOF," Eggman grunted, "H-Hey! Put me down this instant!"

The robot ignored him, for obvious reasons, and decided to lightly scratch his neck.

"H-HEY! S-STOP! Noooohoho!"

Eggman hoped to God Orbot and Cubot weren't anywhere near him, cuz he'd be more embarrassed than when he had admitted to Sonic that he was funny.

"St-stupid... grk! Rob-bot!!! HMPH!!"

Eggman bit down into his cheek when the robot also started tickling his sides.

'GOD DAMNIT! WHY'D I GIVE IT 20 ARMS!?' he thought.

A couple giggles started to escape him here and there, but he knew he was about to crack.

"Hehehehe... stohop it! R-RighHET NOHOW!"

The robot detects that Eggman was holding in his laugh, another feature he regrets adding, and decided to take his boots off. (I know it's a suit, but I don't want weird people imagining things while he's in his underwear, k?)

Eggman gasped and said, "N-No, please, not there! Please I-!"

And that's when the damn broke.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Eggman tossed, turned, flailed, ANYTHING to try and escape! But that only opened up his under arms, which tickle more than his feet.

"STAHAHAHAHAP!!! PLEHEHEHAHAHAHAHASE!!! IHI BEHEHEHEHEHEG OHOHOHOHOF YOHOHOU!!! ORHOHOHOHORBOHOHOT CUHUHUHUBOHOHOHOT!!! HEHEHEHEHELP MEHEHEHEHE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

I wouldn't be able to tell you how long he was waiting for someone to come to his rescue, but he ended up crying of laughter and started to laugh silently. His stomach ached from all the laughing and he couldn't cry for help anymore as the tickling prevented any air to go into his lungs.

Just as he was about to pass out, Orbot and Cubot came into the room and pressed the off button on the robots back.

Eggman, when released, had curled himself into a ball and took very deep and heavy breaths, thankful for the air returning to his lungs.

"Heheh... hohohoho... hah!" He was still a bit tingly, though.

" Y-You two... speak of... this to... NO ONE... under... stood...!?"

"Y-Yes sir," they say in unison.

"Good, now draw a bath for me... and make it quick!"

"On it Boss!"

"Affirmative!"

He decided to scrap the tickle bot and stick to the painful type of torturing from now on... but that won't stop Orbot from trying something of his own... maybe not, since he doesn't want to get scraped.

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Why is this so bad to me! 😭

I don't think I'll make Orbot tickle Eggman, since he can punch metal so hard that it breaks.😰

[toffee-hammer]

Some Rusty Rose thoughts:

I’ve seen a lot of people predicting that Rusty’s story will end in a moment of selflessness when she releases the flicky that serves as her power source and dies which is a totally valid assumption but I’ve been having some other ideas lately.

Sonic noted when he first arrived in New Yoke City that it was weird that none of the robots seemed to have flickies inside, right? We later find out that’s because these robots are powered by the Paradox Prism so the flickies are unnecessary. With this in mind, why would the Chaos Council give arguably their most capable servant an outdated power source? Why wouldn’t they power Rusty with the Paradox Prism too? It doesn’t really make any sense that she’s apparently the only mechanical being in the setting powered by a flicky rather than the prism.

Perhaps that’s because Rusty isn’t being powered by Birdy after all.

What if Rusty is the one keeping Birdy alive instead of the other way around? It grants a whole other bit of context to her popping her chest panel open when Sonic calls her heartless to show the flicky where her organic heart used to be. “Birdy would disagree” she says. It’s easy to assume she’s just being evil and making a joke about Birdy’s predicament but it could be that it was her way of saying basically “I’m not heartless because I’m the only thing keeping this creature alive”. She may not be able to feel anything anymore but an incorrect statement is an incorrect statement. She’s even confidant enough that Birdy would agree that she says so.

Obviously we have very few clues about what happened to Rusty at this point but one of the things she has said about it is that “survival required adaptation”. This implies her enhancements were at least partially her own choice. Whether she did it because she was injured and death was the alternative or because she just wanted to be stronger we don’t know but it would make sense that some sort of deal was made between her and the Chaos Council. Perhaps part of that deal was that she would do what they asked if they saved Birdy’s life and the council did that by converting Rusty into a walking life support unit and putting Birdy in her chest.

All complete and total speculation but it’s nice to think up ways Rusty could reach the end of the story without having to make any heroic sacrifices. We haven’t actually seen Rusty with her mind freed yet. She was controlled by the council before briefly being controlled by Nine and then the council regained control again. If she ever manages to break free entirely it’ll be interesting to hear what she has to say about the whole Birdy situation.

[elionwriter]

SONIC PRIME EP.1

So, I just finished watching the preview of ep 1 on Roblox and I guess I just wanted to give a few considerations. SPOILER WARNING!

The looks and vibes of it are terrific! The dark '90s American Sonic dystopian city is a joy to look at. Also, the galore of in-game references and how they were placed is brilliant! From Tails' lab access code being '1992' to the lab experiment 'chemical plant' details I think they were all brilliantly placed. This is the first series which actually feels like an insight of the games' world dynamics with the collection of rings and flickies and all that. The voice actors are all doing an incredible job, except, I feel Knuckles' which sounds very stiff.

The characterization of all the characters both in the prime Universe and the alternative dimensions is awesome except for Eggman that after how he was brilliantly portrayed in Frontiers and the IDW comics feels way too much a two dimensional, Sunday morning cartoon villain.

The story? Eh, not much to go about but I guess still enjoyable. Dialogues? Kinda basic. Jokes? Most are cringe but a few do land. Do I feel this would have worked better in 2-D? Obviously. Does this surpass Sonic X ep.1? Fuck no! Sonic X may have had a lot of faults but it's still goated.

What I couldn't help but notice was that Dystopic Tails or I should say 'Nine' is AMAZING! Love his design, his characterization and his secret lair! Rouge is soooooo sexy and efficient in every single scene she's in! Absolutely nailed! Amy is absolutely adorable and so much more scary/sad than I had anticipated as 'Rusty Rose'.

As a Sonamy fan I couldn't avoid noticing Sonic's remark to her defining himself as 'her boy'. I would think it's just slang, buuuuut.....

Shadow was barely touched upon in the episode so I can't really say much about him except that I think he'll play a big role in the overarching story.

Anyway, the Roblox thing was hideous! What f*****Ng way to commercialise this series is that?! Definitely will be giving this another go when it actually drops on Netflix!

[badnikbreaker]

headcanons / thoughts about rusty rose, how i’ll be writing her, and et cetera below the cut ——

obviously this all comes with the caveat that as we get more episodes, this might all change.  but we don’t know when that’ll happen and i don’t wanna wait to play in this space, so i am simply going to party now and adjust later!

for the sake of ease, i’ll mostly be defaulting to a hypothetical ‘rusty has either been hacked back to allying with the resistance or has broken free of the council on their own’ verse for most interactions; otherwise i’m confined to combat threads.  happy to do other stuff!  just assume that if we haven’t plotted specifics, rusty’s probably gonna be Nicer rusty

rusty doesn’t remember a great deal of her backstory — this is partially to get me out of the risk of writing a thread where amy confesses her history only to have future episodes stomp on my dreams.  that being said, while she doesn’t remember it consciously, i DO have a backstory in mind of her that i’ll be treating as canon until we get something else, just for my own reference.

i’ve seen some people suggest that rusty’s line about her upgrade being ‘necessary’ suggest that she opted into them willing, which isn’t how i took that line nor do i think it makes a ton of sense for who amy is, especially THIS amy; prime!amy, even more than their game counterpart, seems to have a lot of love for the natural world — you can see this in thorn, but even in the mainverse ames says that the forest is the most beautiful place in the world.  it just seems out of character for her to opt in to eggman’s particular flavor of fucked up industrialization, let alone in a way that puts innocent, helpless creatures like flickies through such pain.  i’m totally open to being wrong, but in the interim the backstory i’ll be alluding to is different.

i love that tails’ backstory is basically ‘canon, but what if sonic wasn’t there?’ and want to keep that, generally, for ames.  obviously metal sonic wouldn’t exist, but i want to keep the generalities — specifically, i’m going to be pulling a lot of her sa1 arc and combining that with a general ‘amy’s kidnapped and not rescued’ thing.  when the council started destroying green hill, amy did everything they could to protect the wildlife, especially the animals.  she grew very close to the flickies in particular, and while fighting off badniks to defend them, she was captured and brought to the council.  because they were obviously very strong, the council opted to rebuild rather than execute them — and started calling them rusty rose as a cruel joke at their expense.  she, blessedly, remembers little of this — both the backstory and the process of becoming rusty rose, aside from the fact that it was Not Pleasant.

it’s fascinating the the only moment of mercy we really see from rusty is when they see black rose.  i do think the fact that seeing a version of herself that HADN’T had all her limbs ripped off and organs removed causes her to glitch out, at least briefly, is cool as hell and feeds into some other rusty thoughts i have.  wouldn’t it hurt, don’t you think?  to suffer, and learn that there’s a version of reality where you don’t?  wouldn’t it break something?

it’s genuinely fucked up that rusty can be hacked?  like, there is so little to them left that’s organic, that’s THEM.  she’s not amy or a person at all, she’s just a weapon that the council wields.  this sweet, kind, friendly, loving person who wants to save everyone got turned into a completely identity-less weapon of mass destruction :(  i’m miserable about her soft smile watching knuckles and rouge escape and how it drops immediately back to emotionlessness as the council takes back control.

also if she pulls a gamma i will blow this whole place up <3

[fuckinsloshed]

saying “i love you for the first time”

bakusquad pt 1 sero and kaminari

warnings: drug use

sero

rain hammered against the window outside, thunder echoed through the sky and you and sero were way too stoned to know. sprawled out on the floor with your heads next to each other laughing at essentially nothing. sero sat up and reached for his pipe and packed it with an intense stare. “fuck,” he said looking blankly at the pipe.

“what’s up?” you asked, groggily sitting up.

“i need the thing,” your boyfriend muttered, still staring at the pipe.

“wtf is ‘the thing’?”

“the flicky thing,”

“the lighter?”

“YES,” sero pointed at you dramatically. you fumbled around pull your lighter out of your pocket and handing it over. he lit it, took a long hit and blew the smoke out at you with a goofy grin. he passed the pipe over to you, letting you take couple long rips before putting it down. you crawled over to sero and cupped his face in your hands, pulling his head to yours.

“did you know that i love you?” you giggled quietly.

“did you know that i loved you more?” he smiled and cupped your face back.

“nooo i love you more dummy,” you drawled crawling on top of sero and pulling him in for a warm kiss.

kaminari

finally it was the end of the day, you were so worn out from countless annoying costumers and stupid questions. you threw your bag and keys on the ground and flopped on your bed with a satisfied sigh. suddenly your phone started to ring and buzz, it was your boyfriend kaminari. “hey babe what’s up?” you chirped.

“i know you’ve had a long week and you’re probably tired but do you wanna grab drinks with me and the boys?” his tone was playful as always.

“i’m down but i’m not gonna calm katsuki down when he gets mad at an inanimate object,” you chuckled.

“why do you think we’re bringing kiri dingus?” kaminari joked back elicited a giggle from you. “so i’ll pick you up at 8?” he asked.

“yep!” you smiled.

“ok bye babe i’ll see you then!” his voice was tinged with excitement.

“bye i love you!” you said without thinking and hung up the phone. oh shit, what you just said had dawned on you awkwardly. you and kaminari had been dating for 8 months now but you were still nervous, was it too early? your worry drifted to the back of your head as you got ready and at 5 of your phone buzzed confirming your boyfriend had arrived. you scampered down the stairs and outside to see kaminari waiting in his car. you hopped in and greeted him with a quick peck.

“hey earlier on the phone before i hung up did you say i love you?” he spoke delicately as if every word was planned out.

“uh yea i did.” you looked down, blush creeped up your face. “i’m sorry if i made you uncomfortable,” you quickly added

kaminari cocked his head, “what no i just wanted to know if you like meant it, because in that case i love you too.”

your face went full red “you do?”

“of course i do dingus,” he chuckled.

you smiled and pulled him close, “i love you too denki.”

[cutegirlmayra]

Oh yaaaay prompts are open! Awesome. Okay here's a prompt: Modern sonamy, Mighty has come back after being gone for so long but not just for a friendly reunion. He's actually there to win Amy's love because now he thinks he has a chance. How Sonic responds is up to you but if you can make it fluffy with a sweet ending that'd be great. Thank you so much! Love your writing.

Yes! they are back! Hehe~ And you’re lucky number NOW!

MightyxAmy is actually something I’ve thought of o-o; here’s why-

Prompt:

“I’m soooo glad you’ve decided to stick around and not go off the face of the planet for forever and never tell me anything ever again until I finally found you this time, Mighty!!!” Excited but also throwing a bit of shade in his fast-talking joy, Ray flew up and down in a pleasant glide as Mighty lowered his head in a bit of embarrassment.

“It... was really that bad for you, huh?” He did feel a bit guilty, but it was his way to just disappear into nature and... figuratively, become one living in it.

Ray just happily swooshed down and landed in a beautiful pose as he didn’t just stick the landing, he STRUCK it.

“Very nice.” Mighty had a bead of awkward sweat drop slightly from the side of his face, though subtle and hidden as Ray turned around and bowed, then laughed at his own whimsy.

“It’s been so long! I was worried I may never see you or Sonic again. Though, lately, Sonic’s easier to spot than ever before now! I mean, just look for his friends and he’ll be around there somewhere!” Ray joked, but he wasn’t quite off the mark.

In the past, Sonic was elusive, he was much more social than now than ever before!

“You have a point there...” Speaking of his friends...

Mighty had a weakness, something he didn’t want to admit but looking over at Sonic’s friends...

It had been years since he’d seen Sonic. Last time, he was stopping Eggman and his robotic menace, Metal Sonic, who were bent on stealing the Chaos Emeralds and even the Master Emerald from under Knuckles’s diligent nose.

At least, that’s how Mighty perceived Knuckles, with a level of respect for him being a type of ‘forest guardian’ in his mind.

“Will Eggman ever get over his mania for power and greed?” He tsk’d, before seeing the pink image of delicate grace but extraordinary power bounce into his sights and head over to her friends, lovingly holding up flowers as little flickies of all different species were helping her carry some fruit and flowers over to them as well.

“They wanted to say thank you! Isn’t this so sweet?” she chimed, and her voice caught him as he melted at the sight of a girl...

Yes, there was a weakness... but it was specific...

“What’s wrong?” Ray walked over to him, seeing his distracted expression and a hint of sorrow in it as well. “You look like you’re wracked over something...”

Mighty flinched, he was so used to being alone with his thoughts, he hadn’t really practiced talking about his thoughts outloud.

Though... the temptation to tell someone was too great to bare...

“Don’t say, ‘it’s nothing’ cause it clearly is-OFPH!” Ray’s mouth was quickly quieted as Mighty smushed his two, massive and gloved hands over his head and mouth, looking around.

As Ray struggled, he moved him back and let him go, making sure Ray’s remarks were far out of earshot.

“Pah, pah! Your gloves smell like old, rotten berries! Pah!”

“I’m on a diet.” Mighty looked a bit ashamed, but he wanted to talk about it... just... not really talk about it. “I can’t go over there, Ray.” He folded his arms, looking away with a small shade of similar pink to that other Hedgehog’s color... resting upon his cheeks. “I... I haven’t really been around-...” He bit his tongue, not wanting to confess it.

“What? Others?” Ray tilted his head cutely, “You know, it’s not like we’re all master socializers here.” He laughed, “I haven’t really seen Sonic and his other friends either! It’s been years!”

Sonic was actually organizing a gathering, he wanted to announce something like a new game where everyone could compete and have fun in.

Mighty and Ray were reached out to after a lot of effort, but Mighty just sighed. “It’s not just that... those my dissociating from people and living in nature has a lot to do with it...” Mighty knew he was guilty of that, but that was just his way. Nature was his calling, and he couldn’t survive in a modern world.

Even microwaves... just thinking of a robot cooking your food for you was a little ‘wrong’ in Mighty’s mind and heart.

“I’m not good around... strong women...” He ducked his head so far down that you could have sworn he was falling under Narcolepsy.

Ray blinked his eyes, innocently.

Then a knowing and an almost hidden, sly demeanor crossed his face as he put his hands behind his back and smiled, “Just strong women?” He teased, but his tone made it sound so sweetly innocent and sincere.

Mighty blushed and turned away, but as he did so, he saw Rouge pierce her spinning kick and break a boulder.

He turned away, shaking his head before seeing Blaze also training, bursting fire out from around her and melting the pieces of the rock Rouge had sent flying.

All the while, Ray watched Mighty and the actions he was seeing, smiling...

“It’s bad.” Mighty covered his eyes, “I can’t help it. I guess I’ve always seen women as kind of... small?” He didn’t know how to describe it. “So when I see that they’re strength could even rival my own...”

“Well, you are really strong!” Ray’s bubbly personality had him hop up a little closer to Mighty, “And it makes sense, since you aren’t really around women very much in the forest. Unless... You’re secretly into nymphs...”

Cheekily, Ray covered his bashful face and snickered up at Mighty, who held back bonking him on the head and turned away.

“Quit it! Those don’t exist!”

“Ohh... but you wish.”

“I do not!” Mighty swung around, clearly growing upset but more so embarrassed at his flaw. “I just... I don’t know what to do. It gets really bad around-” He stopped when Amy Rose stepped up to the girls, giving them a thumbs up with her hammer swung around her shoulders like a baseball bat.

She readied her swing as Cream rose up and hit a ball towards her. She must have been preparing for one of Sonic’s prepared Friend Games, and practically exploded the ball on impact.

“Aw man!” Amy cutely tapped her head, “Not another one...” she slumped a little and let her hammer fall serenely to her side, as though just as depressed as she was. “Hey, Sonic!” she called, waving her hands to get his attention, then placing it on her cheek. “You’ll need to get stronger balls to throw! These couldn’t even withstand Cheese’s punches!”

Cheese, flying beside Cream, buffed up his chest and sucked in some air. Looking fierce.

“Oh? You got it, Amy!” Sonic shrugged back to Tails, “That new compacted ball was tightly strung together, now what, Tails?”

“Not another one...” Tails seemed to have failed once again in inventing the equipment necessary to actually have the Friend Games work out for everyone’s differing power levels.

Mighty scooted back slightly, growing shy.

Ray saw his hands move a little together and then looked beamingly up towards Mighty, “Ah! You like the strongest of the strong, huh?”

Mighty shook his head, “She’s Sonic’s girl, isn’t she?” He turned away, not liking referring to someone as someone else’s... it sounded like slavery to him. “I mean, she’s with someone... and that’s wrong.” he shook his head, “So... I’m not.”

“But you way are though.” Ray bounced his eyebrows and then held up a finger, “Ah, ah, ah! No butts! I’m teaching you how to talk to a girl, and move passed your fears!” He flew up towards Cream in the air, rubbing the back of his head humbly as he introduced himself.

However, as they perched on a limp from a nearby tree, Charmy began to twitch in angry and flew over, challenging Ray to a contest.

“...Um, okay.” Mighty took the wrong idea from that interaction and slowly began to approach Amy. “H-hello, I’m Mighty... I’m, uh... What am I again? Oh, an armadillo... do you like Armadillos? N-n-not like a food, but like as an individual.” he stopped himself and slapped a hand up to the front of his face. “This is stupid! I’m going home!” he was about to turn around when Amy crashed through a set of boulders, training her strength for Tails’s experiment on crafting a new ball to play with, but looked strangely torn at how he was going to do such a fleat.

As he panicked, Amy turned to look at Mighty, who didn’t realize he had walked right in front of the next boulder.

“Oh, hello!” she swung her hammer away from him and cutely curtsied, “I’m Amy! Amy Rose!”

He mumbled something incoherent and she tilted her head, moving closer up to his face. “I-I’m sorry, could you repeat that?” She got so close that he almost felt his whole body shutting down in the close proximity.

“I-I-I like your hammer.” he stepped back, his whole face stuck on horror with the red of his emotions. His body trembled and he held himself a minute, not sure if that was the right thing to say or if that creeped her out.

“Oh, wow! Thank you so much!”

His eyes widened a little and he relaxed, turning around again to see her face light up at his compliment.

“You know, not a lot of people say that. I like you too!” she waved and moved back to Tails.

“...She...” A huge misunderstanding was forming. “Likes me?”

Ray flew back, “Well, I think that bee guy is chasing the wrong flower, but she’s a pretty cute flower, to say the least.” Ray seemed to be letting it go, not meaning anything by talking with Cream, but also seemed to have won the challenge as Cream was trying to comfort a crying Charmy. “Nothing too charming about that and jealousy.” Being a bit wiser than his looks, Ray seemed to have a good grasp on people.

“Mighty?”

When he saw his friend completely frozen in a moment of hope, he didn’t know how to read this one, but knew he missed something important.

He looked behind him for some clues, and seeing Amy speaking with Tails, he positively flew up in a burst of joy. “Yipee! You spoke with her! Conquered your social awkwardness! How was it? How do you feel?” he turned left... then right... trying to get a read on Mighty’s expression.

Mighty gripped his heart, “...I think... I’m gonna talk to her again.” He looked more motivated than ever, and crushed his fist together, looking stoked. “I think I might have a shot!”

“A...Wait, what?” Ray’s unique ability to connect with others suddenly lost it’s touch... he was totally confused as Mighty rushed back behind him and politely tapped her shoulder, making her turn in another wave of surprise.

“Oh, hello again.” her personality sparkled through his lonely sunrise...

“I’d like to like you too!” he boldly stated, and she didn’t know how to interpret that, other than giggle into her hand and continue her competitive streak.

“Alright! They say that bonds grow on the battlefield! Let’s fight our best out there! I’m glad to have made a friend of Sonic’s!” she put her bundled hands up in a very girlish behavior, one he wasn’t used too, but thought she was accepting him.

“R-right!” he almost wanted to mimic her in hopes of pleasing her in the conversation, but resisted it as it felt awkward to even think about doing.

She waved again and her and Tails took off.

He puffed some determined air out of his nostrils, “Ray! What’s the first game!?” he charged over to him, ready to train and have more interactions with her.

However, while trying his best to impressive, stick with, and battle alongside Amy, he couldn’t help but notice her fondness for Sonic...

‘What am I doing wrong?’ he wondered, and tried to mimic what the other dudes were doing for the ladies.

He lifted a boulder and threw it at a staged robot for a game that required you to bulldoze your way through an obstacle course, and reached out for Amy.

She wasn’t in need of it though, and just shook it, smiling politely.

When he saw Silver do it for Blaze... she took it and got helped up from the powerful blast in the last challenge race...

He used his strength to grip a bridge into place, but saw Sonic scoop Amy up and sped through the now stabilized bridge he was holding up...

Losing some faith, he dropped the bridge once they were safely across... and lost the challenge.

Later, Ray come up to him. “Hmm, you sure you heard her right?” After getting the whole story from him. “You know... maybe... she was complimented you back from your compliment to her.” he tried to explain, “Like, when you crush a boulder with one fist and I say, ‘nice job!’ and you go, ‘You too!’.” he acted out the scenario, but Mighty looked like the crushed boulder he was pretending to punch.

“...Oh.” he lowered his head, seeing his friend really saddened by this.

Suddenly, as Ray went to maybe reach for Mighty but pulled it back to hold his own arm instead in defeat, Sonic sped through the two and turned back, calling out. “Hey, you two! We’ve got a problem! Amy’s missing!”

Mighty rose up from his pity and nodded instinctively.

The two took off with Sonic and found that Amy had been lost in one of Eggman’s sabotages, and Mighty just so happened to be the first one to dig her out of the landslide.

Helping her up, she held onto him and he felt what Sonic must feel when he carries her, and continued to try and get her to safety.

Using his nature skills, he found her natural ointments for her scrapes and scratches, food that she was safe for her to eat, and even how to follow the water tracks back to civilization... or something like that, Amy didn’t really follow everything but was deeply impressed by him.

She did compliment him a lot though... so maybe?

“Miss Rose...” He began, but she quickly cut him off.

“Amy! No need for any of that, I’m not an old lady, silly!” she teased, fanning her hand out to shush him on trying to be so formal. “We’re friends now! No need for that.”

“O-oh... How’d you get so strong?”

“I wanted to be beside Sonic... always.” her stance changed as she dreamily looked off into the distance, trekking through the other side of the mountain since Amy was trapped on a now covered trail that Eggman had rigged. They had to move around the mountain to be safe, but were triggering traps along the way.

He felt his shoulders rest down at her mention of Sonic, and the way her entire being seemed to fall and rest in a gentle way at mentioning him.

“Uh-huh.” He looked away, “You like him... don’t you?”

“Emm... is it obvious?” She cutely teased, covering her face and swaying her body back and forth, “For the most part, I like everyone, but especially my Sonic!” she swooned, placing her hands cutely on the side of her cheek.

“Well, it’s good to know.”

Mighty and Amy looked amazed to see Sonic coming up behind them, holding some wires in his hands as he seemed to have cleared the upcoming trek before finding them.

He winked to them, “Miss me?”

“Sonic!” she excitedly dashed towards him, her arms outstretched wide as she embraced him and tried to peck his whole face with kisses, but he just kept pulling away, leaning his head back.

“Easy, Amy! Easy! You’ll spook out Mighty!” Sonic smiled but in a embarrassed and awkward way, knowing Mighty wasn’t used to Amy’s typical behavior.

But as Mighty watched them, he felt a kind of peace wash over him.

‘Ah, so that’s how a woman shows she likes a man.’ he smiled kindly to the two, then sighed and put his hands to his hips, accepting his defeat. ‘I guess I’ll have to find a girl willing to like me that much too...’

“Mighty?”

Turning back, he realized he had spaced out in his own thoughts again, excluding the world around him as he had to be social again, and waved his hands out to them as he tried to explain himself. “Ah! N-nothing! W-we should get Amy back safely though!”

“Aw, I’m a lot stronger than that, right!?” She summoned her hammer, moving away from Sonic and then presenting Mighty with a fist to hit.

She smiled bold and brave... and he admired that in her.

He realized his feelings were from a lack of experience, and that this was the most ‘liking’ Amy would ever let him receive, and was just glad he got to learn more about her.

“Yeah, you are strong.” he returned the fist bump, and let it linger there a moment as his eyes widened a second. “You... You didn’t get pushed back.”

Amy’s eyelid twitched as she was forcing her eyes closed, her feet were in a stance to withstand the light... but heavily powerful force that came from his fist touching hers.

“Uh-huh.” She spoke through the pain, but was immediately impressed by her able to withstand his power, and felt his heart race at her strength again.

“I gotta go!” he took off, letting Sonic take care of the rest as he secretly delighted in the fact that there existed a woman out there who wouldn’t get flung back by his fist-pump...

(Mighty is a tree-hippie in my mind lolol And I hope you’re okay with me stressing Mighty more than Sonamy in this prompt... I couldn’t help myself XD but Sonamy is still there!)

[shakespeareanwannabe]

Engineering the Future

Hi everyone! So this is my second Supernatural fic, the first one I cross-posted here on Tumblr, though I have written a couple of other things on this wonderful series. So here’s the thing: this is a bit of a project that I’ve been working on to keep myself writing even when I feel like I have nothing to say.

So here’s the deal: I’m going to write one one-shot per episode. Multiple friends say that I’m driving myself to drink, but so far it’s been fairly smooth sailing. If you guys have any ideas about certain episodes, I’d be happy to hear them, but know that I’ve got a list of prompts for three quarters of the episodes, so I may not write your prompt. But I’d love to hear your ideas. Just, no Wincest or Destiel because I honestly don’t ship either of them (no hate please, it’s just the way I feel. And no, I don’t hate anyone who does ship them). Just brotherly love here!

This chapter is tagged to episode 1x01, Pilot. Hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural. This is a work of fiction based on characters from The CW’s Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke.

To completely plagiarize someone else, “Being his real brother I could feel I lived in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.” Who said that? Why was his relationship with his brother so important? Doesn’t matter. This isn’t about him. This is about them, and the moments we don’t get to see.

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Dean had imagined this day since that balmy July evening when a rickety tin door had slammed shut and seemingly separated his family forever.

Depending on his mood, there were several different scenarios that would play out. When he was at the bottom of his third bottle, he would imagine showing up at his front door, having him open the door, stare at him, then shut it again without a word. The second bottle was kinder, allowing them to pass on the streets, perhaps nodding at each other before the one went on with his normal life, leaving the other to thank a God that he didn’t believe in that he had at least seen him one last time. The first bottle didn’t give him enough hope to even attempt to dream up a reunion with his little brother.

The fourth bottle was Dean’s favourite. He would get an excited phone call and drive all the way to Stanford just so that Sam could tell him he was getting married face to face. They would settle into a table at some hoity-toity bar or into a booth at some frou-frou café and would talk as though no time had passed. The natural lighting would fade to black and neither of them would move. Topics of conversation would wax and wane until they found themselves in the same companionable silence that graced the majority of their childhood together.

Sam would eventually sigh sadly and mutter something about having to be in court early the next morning, to which Dean would make a crude joke that would have Sam blushing behind the ears as he laughed. Dean would walk him to his car and deal with the chick-flicky hug bestowed upon him by a drunk and/or over-caffeinated Little Brother. As they pull apart, Sam would get all shy and red again as he stammered through saying that he hoped Dean would be his Best Man (because screw this Brady kid that introduced the happy couple). Dean would laugh, hug his brother, completely deny the tears in his eyes, and say “Who else could fill those shoes, bitch?”

Dean would hang around in California for a couple of months and relish in being stationary for the first time since he was four. He would meet Jessica, automatically start calling her Jessie, and plan a small bachelor party for Sammy and his college pals before taking his kid brother on a kick ass, blow out ‘Brochelor’ party in Vegas to make up for every birthday, Christmas, and any other calendar holiday that they had missed out on. On the day of the wedding he would straighten out his brother’s tie, all the while denying that he had asked the guy at the store how to do so. He would give the kid the picture of Mom that he carried around in his wallet with the explanation that she needed to be there with him on this day. He would stand up next to his little brother during the ceremony, give the most awesome speech ever written during the reception, and dance with his new sister-in-law when the time came.

While he and the other, less important guests waved the happy couple off (he had even given them the Impala to borrow for their honeymoon road trip up the Pacific Coast Highway) he would get a phone call from Dad, saying that he had finally pinned down the son of a bitch who had killed Mom, and that he needed his son there with him. Dean would hotwire a car and go. He’d stand side-by-side with his father as they ganked the sucker, turn, and shake his father’s hand before walking away from the life.

He’d stand hat in hand on Sam’s doorstep when they returned from their honeymoon, praying that his baby brother still had room for his older, less intelligent but far more handsome brother in his new married life. Sam would laugh and pull him into a hug, ensuring him that of course he would always need his big brother. After all, he and Jessie apparently hadn’t come home from their month-long vacation on their own, and this kid was gonna need a really cool uncle to bitch at when his/her parents were giving them a hard time. Any nephew of his was gonna be educated in the ways of the Impala, rock music, and the Dean Winchester Scale of Burger Perfection. Any niece of his would also be educated in these things, but he would need to be there more for Sam when the boys came snooping around, because what was more intimidating than two guys over 6-feet tall who had marksmen’s abilities?

Dean would maybe become a cop, or a mechanic, or maybe even a firefighter, but one thing he would do for sure is protect his family. He’d gank any evil bastard that came within a thousand miles of that two story, white picket fenced house on Normal Boulevard.

Maybe he’d settle down, maybe not. All that was important to him was that his Sammy was happy.

That was all that would ever matter to him.

So, when it came down to it, Dean would have traded everything he had for it to have not happened like this. Never like this.

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Sam had imagined this day since that first night alone at Stanford.

At first, he’d dreamed that Dean would show up, kick his roommate out, and curl up in the twin bed approximately six feet away from him. Dean would go to the registrar and apply to the school and get in, obviously, because his big brother was a genius. He’d probably take engineering, because Dean could do things with machinery that Sam could never have dreamed about. They’d watch each other’s backs on and off campus, and when one of the dorm rooms ended up being haunted, they’d take care of it, as though they had never been off the job. Dean would go on to open his own body shop, while working side projects like helping to rebuild homes for people who lost them in fires or natural (and supernatural) disasters. Sam would become a kick ass lawyer and help the law protect people. He’d help Dean on the weekends at the shop or with the houses, because they were brothers and why wouldn’t he? They’d still go out and watch the stars when they could, and they’d make sure to go to the first game of every season for the Jayhawks. They’d make a weekend of it. Just Sam, Dean, and the Impala. Of course, Jess would be fine with it. She’d love Dean as much as he did, because what wasn’t there to love? Eventually, he and Jess would get married and Dean would be his Best Man (even though Brady would throw a fit about it, but Dean was right, he was better off without douchebags like Brady in his life), then go on to be the best uncle to the kids they would have. Dean would meet a nice girl and they’d settle down too, and soon it would be Winchester Weekends, filled with barbeques and Little League games and dance recitals and tinkering with the Impala while drinking a cold one together and hiding from their wives and kids.

A few months in, the dream changed. One of the kids in Sam’s classes had a brother in the military, who surprised her by showing up during lecture wearing his fatigues and announcing that he had been honorably discharged and was staying home for good. She’d broken down into tears and hugged him until the professor had just wiped his eyes and dismissed the class, claiming that he didn’t want to bring the room down by talking about the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.

Sam started imagining that something similar would happen to him. Dean and Dad would kill the thing that had killed Mom, then Dean would stroll right into his Economics class wearing his torn jeans, steel toed boots, band shirt and leather jacket (the uniform of one of the longest living hunters out there, and the youngest to boot), acting as though he owned the joint. Sam would launch himself into his brother’s arms, not even minding that that cute girl Jessica sat only a few rows behind him, and bury his face in his brother’s shoulder to hide his tears. Dean would clasp him around the back of his neck and whisper that he and Dad had gotten the damned thing, and that he was quitting the life. Dad would keep hunting with Uncle Bobby, Pastor Jim, and Caleb as back up when needed, but he was out.

Dean would help him hook up with Jessica, because he had seen the way they looked at each other, and Dean couldn’t stand the lovesick puppy dog eyes anymore, then the rest of the daydream would stay the same. Engineering, lawyering, cars, court cases, house building, Jayhawks, star gazing, the Impala, wives, kids, all culminating in the two of them sitting side by side at some Old Folks Home, the lines between what they knew and what the world knew blurred by old age and one too many hard knocks to the head courtesy of any one of monsters of the week that they used to hunt. They’d sit on the front porch, drinking whatever alcohol they could get their hands on, loudly debating the proper way to kill a wendigo (Sam would say iron because he knows his big brother’s mind is fading and he needs him to stick around a while longer because Jess was already gone and he wasn’t quite ready to go and he doesn’t want to be left alone, not again).

No matter which scenario he dreamt up (defending Dean in court, forcing him into retirement when a werewolf gets the better of him and his left leg is basically useless so Sam brings him home with him, or even something as simple as Sam just picking up the phone and asking him to visit (because it’s DEAN, and there’s nothing he won’t do for his little brother, and Sam knows it), there was one common thread that remained the same, and that was that the time they had spent apart held no consequences. They would just fall back into being brothers, knowing that if they were back to back or side by side they would be fine.

That’s why, when Dean bursts through the bedroom door and drags him out of the burning brownstone, Sam couldn’t bring himself to fight at full strength. Dean was there. As much as Sam wished it had been any other scenario he had dreamt up (and not the nightmare that had been plaguing him for weeks), he knew that his big brother was there. And since when had there been any problem that Dean couldn’t solve? He could’ve been an engineer, after all.

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[thelaithlyworm]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I saw Endgame, and I’m still thinking over how satisfying I found it.

Not just the quiet way they eased into the story, after the sound and fury of Infinity Wars. But all the conversations and character moments... That old joke about paying showrunners ten dollars if they just let characters talk for five minutes, just does not apply here. And, you know, plenty of sound and fury, and some cheesy jokes wherein they all (including Captain America) check out Captain America’s ass and so forth and so on. But the showrunners knew the strength of the characters they had, and they let us see the characters.

(*spoilers*)

But also - the sense of things coming around. Not just Tony Stark meeting his dad, and getting to talk about fatherhood and the regrets a man might have. But Stark playing that flicky table game with Nebula when they were trapped reminded me so much of Stark playing Backgammon with Yinsen, when they were trapped - it’s just that they’d switched roles and now he’s the one mentoring the little savage. (And how Nebula wrapped the jacket around him when she found him collapsed, oh my heart, oh the HC and the friendship I absolutely did not see coming.)

And it’s Steve Rogers who was a scrappy kid picking fights in Brooklyn back-alleys and breaking laws because he could not abide staying home in a support role while there was a war on - and after the timeskip he’s running a support group. (You got that from Sam Wilson, didn’t you? You found out that there’s more to fighting evil than just punching it, didn’t you? Sam taught you a thing.) And after all the Thanos shit, after he got Bucky back, he went back in time and stayed in the past, where keeping the timeline relatively intact necessitates living quietly. After five years post-snap, plus all the heroing duty before that, he gets to stop fighting. And - it’s Peggy’s story that he’s going to be helping tell now. He’s going to be her helpmeet as she climbs her way up Shield’s ranks, and I find something very cool about that. 

Clint and Natasha broke my heart, in a good way. Because somewhere in the prehistory of the series, Nat was a bloody killer and Clint “made a different call”. He told her that she might not believe it, but she deserved life and happiness, and he made that happen. And here we are at the test for the Soul Stone. After trying to rules-lawyer their way through (and by the scene, it looks like they were arguing with the Skull for hours, bless you my Spy Twins), what it came down to for Clint was that he didn’t think he deserved life and happiness. Not the butcher he’d become. And Natasha told him different. In a complicated, dragged-out, fighty, heart-rending way. (I’ll add that my favourite part of Ultron was the relationship Nat had with Clint’s family. V. much one of them. I loved that - it’s not always about blood or who’s fucking whom that makes a family, and Widow and Hawkeye proved that.)

And Oh My God - how much of the movie was built on Nebula and Gamorra wanting to be sisters, to looking out for each other, just, yeah.

Thank you so much for not making this all about the generic romances.

And I’ll stop now, because I’m babbling. But there was just so much I liked about that movie. The Russo’s did a good job.

[cgsketchbook]

Chris G's Top 10 STCOMGs

There are many moments in STC's online history with thrilling plot twists, shocks and surprises, and below are just some of my top picks! Beware the SPOILERS beyond - obviously! 

Enter: Shadow (The syndicate - #229) now I'm a rather old school hume, so Shadow doesn't hold quite the same reverence for me as a character compared to some, but even I had to admit that his introduction to the comic was handled really well and felt like an organic progression of the comic's trajectory - it got me very excited for his future appearances - which is certainly not bad going for a literal Sonic clone right?  

Destruction of the Special Zone! (Fate of the Special Zone - #233) it's difficult to be surprised when you're working behind the scenes, but I remember that at the time this one really felt like the first proper gusty move by the writing team - a real statement of "this is our toybox now, and we're not going to treat these things like unbreakable ornaments!" - it's a powerful statement of intent and has been a lasting source of stories in STCO ever since, not least for the Chaotix themselves! 

Death (and Knuckles) (Vichama is Coming Home special) Oh my gosh, they only went and blummin' KILLED Knuckles! Vichama had been a slow burning plot thread throughout the early period of the online series, and when it finally came to a crescendo, at long last we got to learn a little bit more about Knuckles and his role as a guardian. As if that wasn’t enough, his subsequent resurrection provided yet another tantalizing clue to one of the comic's most enduring mysteries!  

Grimer's revenge (Goodbye Mobius - 248) The whodunit revealed at last! When Robotnik's loyal lackey revealed himself to be masterminding Sonic's very public downfall, it really was dramatic stuff - and served as a fantastic cliffhanger going towards the big 250 milestone! 

The Fury of Tekno (Twighlight - #249) When Tekno confronted false god Sett, who had been manipulating events to strand herself and Shorty in Solstice, we definitely were in for a shock! The idea of a Freedom Fighter pushed beyond their limits was something many thought unthinkable... But, stranded with none of her technology and no way home, Tekno found out the hard way that even heroes can only be pushed so far... 

Johnny's legacy (In Memory - #261) My knee-Jerk reaction on hearing the pitch for this story whilst in early development was "Oh no... TOO SOON!" But I needn't have worried, because this was in fact coming from THE Nigel Kitching... and boy does he know how to deliver a sucker punch right to the FEELS... 

The Return of Shortfuse (The War Machine #268) After the traumatic events of his return to Mobius, the team purposefully benched Shortfuse while we let the dust settle, and hopefully everyone had put him to the back of their minds when I wrote his comeback story, teaming up with Tails and putting another new spin on his armour design! I hope it was a surprise to work out the clues to the leader's identity and then have the reveal at the end of part one, I certainly had fun crafting this moment! 

Amy Adrift! (End of the Miracle Planet #270) Not content with destroying the Special Zone, driving a death carrier though Flickies' Island and letting Super Sonic wreck half of Emerald Hill, the Miracle Planet was the next casualty of the comic - and it took Amy, the GUN soldiers and some of the evacuated kids of the Miracle planet they were protecting with it! With the chain connecting the Miracle planet to the planet broken, Amy and the others’ whereabouts would be something of a mystery for a few issues in the buildup to #275...

Guess who's Back… (The Battle of Emerald Hill #271) Where to start? The cameos in the war room at Supreme command headquarters and on the front lines? The distinctly egg shaped missing piece the heroes discover at Robotnik's base? The mad doctor's new mobile operations… or the last minute timing of a certain blue hedgehog just when Tails and Mobius needed him the most…? A whole story filled to the brim with twists and turns! 

Attack of the…Cowbot? (Fallen #272) Now, be honest… you really didn't see it coming did you? I thought Michael was joking when he first suggested it for the script and I can't say I was convinced about it at first - but, the more we talked around it the more I realised that actually it was just what the story needed to break the tension of Tekno and Shorty's reunion - and the perfect way to unite them, facing against a common crazy threat together! Plus, y'know, cowbot's pretty awesome!

Well that’s some of my favourites but what have been your top twists from Sonic the Comic Online? 

[supersonic-siblings]

Part 1:

Sonic took a deep inhale of the humid air, propping his arms up behind his head as he walked and grimacing at the thick muck he was doing his best to submerge his sneakers in. The air wasn’t entirely fresh, and it made his nose wrinkle, but it was better than how it used to make his eyes water. This particular area of the swamp had once been badly polluted, especially during the war, but the Resistance had put real heart and soul into a cleanup effort that resulted in an almost pollution free environment once again.

“Almost” being the key word. He and Emra stopped by every few months to check on things and measure the pollution levels to make sure the cleanup efforts were still working. Noble as it was, it still grossed him out, especially with how quiet the area had become since the pollution started in the first place…

 “You almost done?” Sonic called over to Emra from the shore, while she waded through waist deep swamp in her coveralls. It was murky, but the quality of the water was improving enough to where she could tread in it without having to worry about tripping on anything, sinking suddenly into deeper waters, or any swamp creatures coming too close.

 “Yes,” she called back to him as she dropped a small sample of algae into a vile she was holding. “Just a couple more foliage samples and I’ll be set. Find anything on your end?”

 “Well, I found mud… and some more mud… and lots more mud,” was Sonic’s reply as he looked around his feet. Emra chuckled.

 “Okay, well then, find anything unusual?” Emra asked. “Remember we’re here to make sure the pollution is clearing up.”

 “Yeah, I know.” Sonic said, walking along the bank and jumping to a patch of earth in the water. “You think it is getting better?”

 “I think so?” Emra tucked the vile into a pouch on her side as she looked at Sonic. “All my tests have showed progress so far… but…”

 “But…?”

 “It’s odd. With the environment improving, wildlife should be returning to the area, but we haven’t seen even a minnow.” Emra said as she moved into more shallow water. “Somehow, we’re missing something.”

 Sonic hummed in thought as he jumped to the root of a large tree, which stuck out of the water. The roots were thick enough to stand on, and sturdy enough that he clearly didn’t have to worry about them snapping beneath his weight, and he could move around the whole expanse of the tree thanks to them. He had to admit, Emra had a huge point; the swamp was eerily silent, no frogs, birds, bugs even, and it gave him an uneasy feeling.

 With a yelp, Sonic went down as his foot slipped on something slick and wet. He caught himself on another root, pulling himself up just inches from the water and scowling at the offending patch of moss… only to find that it wasn’t a patch of moss at all.

 “Uh… sis? I found something unusual…” he called, peering around the tree to look at her. Emra set her pouch down on the bank and made her way over to him, climbing up onto the tree roots and moving around to where he sat.

 It was large, bulbous in shape, and dark green in color with black, oily patches. A moist streak stretched from it where Sonic had slipped, giving that one patch of it a stretched, yet almost torn look to it, and it gave off a very slight, almost rotten fish-like odor. It clung between the roots to the trunk of the tree, almost like a blob of putty that had been dropped onto it carelessly.

 “Okay, first of all, ew.” Emra said, reaching into the pocket of her coveralls and pulling out a pair of rubber gloves, which she put on. “Second of all, good find.”

 “I dunno if I agree with that sentiment.” Sonic said, grimacing as she poked at it. “What do you think it is? Some kind of weird tree sap?”

 “I have no idea… I’ve never seen anything like this!” Emra said as she examined the residue on her glove. “Despite how it looks, it’s almost solid! And it doesn’t have the right viscosity for sap…” she paused and reached for another vile in her coveralls. “Let me grab a sample…”

 She was startled when Sonic suddenly snatched her up and yanked her backwards, ignoring his dislike of water or the thought of getting his sneakers soggy to pull her at least a few steps back before saying, somewhat fearfully;

 “It just moved!”

 Emra looked from him and back at the blob, watching it carefully for several seconds, about to question if he was seeing things before seeing it almost twitch for herself. Was this thing… alive? Despite obvious risks, she stepped back towards it, Sonic right behind her, remaining on high alert.

 “Em, be careful!” he warned, keeping a hand on her arm just in case. She nodded to him as she reached out carefully and touched the blob again as it twitched, feeling it’s movement with her palm through her rubber gloves.

 The twitching didn’t seem like a result of her touching it, nor did it seem like a response to her contact, it seemed… almost frantic, but at the same time seemed delayed, like something else was moving… from… inside it…

 “Sonic, there’s something in here!” Emra said, her hand closing around the surface of the blob and pulling at it, tearing it to give off more of a pungent, fishy smell than before.

 “If it’s an alien, I’m out!” Sonic warned, leaning over her shoulder to watch as she tore the blob open. He was joking of course, he’d never abandon her if there was danger, however he didn’t like not knowing what to expect from this thing…

Emra gasped, hands almost flying up to cover her mouth if not for the residue covering them, and eyes widening in shock at what lay weakly wriggling and gasping in the thick slime as she peeled back enough of it to see, and Sonic too found his jaw falling open in shock at the sight of the poor creature.

 “A Flickie?!” he asked as Emra scooped it up into her gloved hands carefully. “How in the heck—?!”

 “I-I dunno… But we’re gonna find out, let’s get back to my lab!”

To Be Continued...

[the-new-fandom-order]

Something Sweet {Part IV}

Author: Zoe

(A/N: Kind of forced myself to get this chapter out, but I hope you like it nonetheless!)

Head Chef! Obi-Wan x Pastry Chef! Reader

Plot Summary: When Qui-Gon hires a new pastry chef for his dessert menu, Obi-Wan feels a slight sense of competition. Who do you think you are, just waltzing into his kitchen? He's been running it for years, it doesn't need to change. But, as time progresses, he realizes the sour beginning the two of you had is starting to turn into something sweet.

Obi-Wan sat in his office, the room illuminated by the yellowish glow of the lamp, streaming out past the glass walls and into the now dim kitchen. He looked down into the aging menu held by his hands, scarred and calloused from years of working in this kitchen.

His kitchen.

Sure, that sounded possessive and a bit crazy, but he felt a little entitled to it. He was there when the restaurant was being built. Back when only he and Qui-Gon were the only professional chefs in that kitchen. He had made a home there.

But… here you are, your stubborn nature and change beginning to start as soon as you stepped foot into the restaurant. He played it off as being prideful, but he knew the truth in his core.

He was afraid. Afraid of what he had built to start crumbling around him all because some new hotshot pastry chef began to call her own shots instead of following his.

The chef leaned back in his chair, running his fingers from his forehead, through his hair damp from the stress of another dinner rush, back to his neck, tense from the pressure of it all. One month you've been working already and he can feel the anger and the stress and the competition getting to him.

"Test this for me?" You gave Anakin and Ahsoka a chocolate scone fresh out of the oven in your kitchen.

"I think it's good!" Ahsoka smiled, taking another bite into the pastry.

"You think everything's good, you're a sommelier. Wine's the only time you criticize anything." Anakin noted, resting his elbows on the countertop.

"I'm only here because she needs to balance out all of the things Chef Kenobi says with drunk positivity." She held up her wine glass, swirling it in her hand and sipping it.

Anakin shrugged, nodding to agree with her. "Makes sense. But for proper criticism, all I've got is to add more chocolate to balance the ratio from pastry to filling."

"Thank you!" You put your hands on your hips. "If Chef Kenobi were trying it, he would get all nitpicky about it and try to undermine me."

"Because the guy is super territorial." Ahsoka interjected, holding out her glass for another drink as you poured it for her. "Took me years to get him used to me, and I don't even work in the kitchen."

Anakin stood up, grabbing a jacket and taking the tupperware of scones you had him take home for his family. "Give him some time. Who knows? Maybe by some god-given miracle, you'll actually work things out."

Ahsoka waved him goodbye, drinking her wine as the door closed behind him.

"...There's no way I'm gonna be able to drive home tonight." She joked, the both of you laughing as you went to your room.

"I've got some spare clothes."

"Oh! We can finally do the wine night we've been planning!" She excitedly shot up, grabbing the bottle and glasses and walking across the floor to the couch.

"That you've been planning." You emphasized, tossing her your extra clothes. "Come on, I need to get my mind off of things, throw on something extra chick-flicky."

"I don't understand why you have such animosity for her, Obi-Wan. Is it her pastries? We've been getting some good local press because of those, if that helps matters."

"It's not that, Qui-Gon, I understand she's been an asset to this kitchen. It's… personal." Obi-Wan crossed his arms as Qui-Gon paced around the chef's office.

"I see." He sighed, looking out the glass walls to the empty kitchen. "I know the change was sudden. She's fairly headstrong, but very intuitive."

"Yet she ignores the authority I hold." Obi-Wan clenched his jaw slightly. "I run this kitchen because I know how it works, she can't just throw a wrench in it."

"Maybe it's not a wrench. Maybe she's finding ways to run it more efficiently." Qui-Gon chuckled to himself. "You were a bit like that when we first opened."

Obi-Wan shook his head with a smile, standing up and getting ready to leave. "I'm not going to get into this. Goodnight, Qui-Gon."

"Goodnight chef."

One in the morning.

That's when Padme decided to call you to ask you to babysit the twins for a weekend while she and Anakin left for their anniversary weekend. Of course, being tipsy and mindlessly watching 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' with Ahsoka, you agreed.

You loved the twins, that you didn't deny. But it looks like you've got to childproof the apartment a bit, what with the knives and wine around your apartment.

Normal for a chef.

"So, you willing to do it? I know it's late but Obi-Wan doesn't really babysit anymore. What with his whole kitchen gig."

"Yeah, yeah, sure. I'd love to." You yawned, as Padme excitedly thanked you. You nodded, hanging up as Ahsoka handed you yet another glass of wine.

"Cheers."

"Cheers. Let's hope Kenobi doesn't stay a jerk for too long." You chuckled, sipping and going back to the movie.

[game84cube]

My Opinions on the Sonic Movie Trailer

Okay, I guess I better say something about this movie before I lose my credibility in the Sonic community. I saw the trailer at school and everyone was talking about how weird it was on campus. I loved it at first sight, since I thought Sonic was gonna look WAY worse. Anyway, let's go over the pros and cons.

Pros:

- The speed. They knew what they were doing with Sonic and his speed effects. I mean it makes sense, what with the people from Fast and Furious.

- That Spin Dash! Sonic's iconic move was displayed amazingly in that trailer and his strength was on full display. Also when he just plopped into his little hideout in the forest and he was that fuzzball, it looked great!

- Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik. I get what they're doing. This is an origin story. Robotnik is gonna deteriorate into the classic crazy villain we all know him as. That ending shot proved it. But yeah. He was clearly not fat enough, but he isn't quite...egged out yet. Sort of a Kintobor thing before Robotnik/Eggman. My dad has issues with it, but I think it's fine. Plus he's got good material as well. Sassy and smart. That's how I like my Eggs.

- The acting. Marsala is giving it his all, and he sure has experience in this. I imagine he's gonna be a good focal point of the movie since title characters in these movies are NEVER the focus but are there to say that it is indeed a titled character's movie. I think Tim will be fine. A little snarky to play off of Sonic as well. Honestly I loved that bit with the "That's not your child in that bag?" This was also a good reminder that Sonic is a teenager. Good move. I forget who's playing Ann, but she seems fine. No comment yet. And then we have the Hedgehog himself. Ben Schwartz, I tip my blue spiky hat to you! You know just how to make Sonic sound like...well... SONIC! That cockiness is perfect. The voice is natural, and I want MORE! I'm sure they got some good lines for him (and some bad ones but that's inevitable sadly)

- The animation in general. Say what you will about the design, but in motion, everything looks awesome! It flows, it doesn't look cheap, and the mech designs look incredible. The effects are well integrated and seem like they're unintrusive on reality. I like it. And really, Sonic looks good in some shots, especially doing what he does best. I'm so happy they got Sonic looking cool when on the move. If they failed at that, the whole thing would be a complete failure.

-The Easter Eggs and nods! Listen to the voice of the Commander of the military again. Now imagine that voice saying something like... "Sonic Adventure 2, Hero Side Story: Farewell Sonic, Forever." Tell me that isnt the same guy! That's an amazing Easter Egg. Also I hear one of the guys in the meeting voiced Grounder in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Also cool! The pike of shoes in Sonic's hideout was a neat touch. He was looking for some good new shoes. Something tells me those Nikes ain't gonna last through the movie since they ain't frictionless. I also noticed something really cute they pulled off. When Sonic did that Fitbit joke? Looking at his wrist condescendingly? Sound familiar? Almost idle? Sonic 2 idle animation perhaps? All that's missing is him tapping his t- WAIT! Yep, that's another thing I think when I think Sonic. The classic impatient toe tap. They got his attitude DOWN and I love it! And! They remember something I'm so happy about! HE'S 90'S AS FUCK!!! Sonic listened to Gangsta's Paradise on a cassette tape! That song is from the 90's! They got it! Sonic is not a modern boi. He is so lost in the last decades and that's why I love him. That old fashioned nature? That's what makes him more timeless to me.

- Check that hair. They got his hair right. Good. That's it. Sonic is also very defined by the classic shape of his hair.

- The Ring. Okay, hear me out. Yes, we're more familiar with Rings being used as a shield to prevent Sonic from dying from a hit. Um, did y'all forget the Giant Ring at the end of the level in Sonic 1? Or the Flicky's Ring in 3D Blast/Flickies Island? It's just a portable version of that. I like the spin on it, okay? I'm sure it also protects Sonic like in the SatAM cartoon. Im just glad Rings are in the movie at all.

Cons:

- Elephant in the room, Sonic's overall design philosophy. I feel like there were two butting heads at the studio trying to decide how realistic to make Sonic look. They apparently compromised at "Make him anthropomorphic and give him human facial features including human teeth." Yeah, the teeth and eyes are my issue, and some coloring issues as well (I get that hedgehogs usually have white bellies, but Sonic has always had a tan belly, since he doesnt walk on all fours. Plus he needs to be a darker shade of blue.) The features all too human just kind of take away from what was meant to be more real. If they gave him sharper canine teeth, that would be an improvement, because that would be more animalistic. Also, I like how some people design Movie Sonic with a white tuft of fur between his eyes to make that classic illusion that his eyes are connected like the old days. (Actually looking back, I think Sonic's eyes were connected on accident before but they stuck with the design. Sort of an artist's idea of eye design in the old days. If he was to be created today, his eyes might be separated) I also need something to really come out of Sonic with his face. EXPRESSIONS AND PERSONALITY! You know, that thing Sonic was known for aside from his speed? That face is not very expressive and it leaves the emotions behind the delivery of the lines feeling flat. Perhaps a more defined brow for that redo, thanks. Otherwise, I have no complaints. The lack of gloves is odd, but again, this is most likely an origin story, so he doesnt have the gloves YET. I am glad that he has proper paws with the pads on his palms instead of creepy human hands. Also claws that he probably cuts/files/chews off himself so they're more like fingernails. Solid enough I guess. And the furriness of it all as well as the dropping quills? Eh, it makes sense. Plus it almost makes the rest of his body seem cuddly. I'm just not down with the rest of it.

-The music choice. Okay, I never heard Gangsta's Paradise in my life. From what I hear it makes no sense to have it have anything to do with Sonic. Now, maybe it was the only cassette he could find, since that boombox looks secondhand and so is the tape, obviously. However, if I were to choose a song for the trailer? I have one option. All I Want by Offspring! Think about it. The dates line up. It's a fast paced rock song. It's rebellious and against the system, like Sonic is in the movie apparently (yeah I didnt get that whole "delinquent" bullshit from the trailer, did you? He just seems like Sonic to me in terms of his actions,) and it was used in a SEGA game! It's from Crazy Taxi! Come on, that's PERFECT!

- the Flash lightning. Seriously? Is that the only thing Hollywood can think of when it comes to showing someone is fast? Come on, get your heads out of your asses. It's so easy. Modern Sonic has been more compared to the element of WIND! Tornadoes, Mach Cones, Sonic Wind, all that stuff. Sonic never really messed with electricity, so bleh.

- This isn't a pro or a con, but I really wanna know this. Will we see the Tornado? Don't forget that the Tornado is Sonic's plane. He just has Tails fly it when he wants to ride the wings. I feel like they could have had Sonic use the Tornado in a cool air battle scene but get shot down (because the Tornado kinda sucks since it always gets shot down, but it's iconic to me) since Sonic isn't exactly "a hell of a pilot" and THEN finds the Warp Ring inside. I dunno, thought it'd be cool. Look, Tim just met a 3 foot, blue, talking hedgehog that runs really fast and eats chili dogs. (please remember the chili dogs) Hedgehogs on planes wouldn't be that farfetched that day, would it?

- Some writing just felt off, but some can be explained. Let's start with everyone's FAVORITE scene...to wreck. The infamous "Uhhh...meow?" Here's my take. Yes, stupid, but what if he had no idea what to do? What if Sonic was just in his head going "What sounds do hedgehogs make? What sounds do hedgehogs make? Quick, say something, stupid!" And when he said it, probably something in his head was screaming "Dont say something stupid, stupid!" Also, I just didn't laugh at the "Smells like body spray and an old ham sandwich" line. I was like, Sonic, shut up. The joke was sold. Don't ruin it.

- Why is it the law where every live action movie with a CGI talking animal (that they didn't know about before you bring up Detective Pikachu, Christopher Robin, or even Peter Rabbit) must have the main character and the CGI character scream at each other? Sonic wouldn't freak out (unless he was more afraid of the gun and was kind of unsure how to react. Also great job dodging the tranq dart, oh Fastest Thing Alive)more than likely he'd be trying to talk his way out of this or just run away with a face like 😐😳 "I'm SO busted!" Just saying there was a better way to do that aside from the cliche.

- Robotnik, why did you try to taste the quill? You dont know where he's been. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Cool and Lickable. Lol. Pretty sure typos shouldn't be legitimized.

- Quicksilver? Not in my series he ain't. Oh... wait. Yeah. The whole stopping time thing. Eh, it's been done. Cool all the same, but again, done before. I appreciate Sonic's spin on it though, playing around like a teenager would. I dig it.

-Save your planet? Like...as in you're just an alien? I dunno, plus how do you know you have to save the planet? I'm chalking THAT up to "this is a trailer and probably wont appear in the final movie the same way."

- Did they REALLY have to make him say "Gotta go fast"? Again, probably just for the trailer, but really?

In conclusion, I have no hope for the movie. Can't be disappointed if you dont expect anything. Sort of my take on his design at first. I thought he was gonna look like COMPLETE garbage, but some shots look great, like when he was explaining that he had to save the planet? The lighting and such looked good for his face when the camera was on him. And again, the movie looks much better in motion. Yeah, I still have issues, but that's because I love Sonic. I love the characters and I want the best for the series. I care about the games that have been with me since my near infancy. They have fan service but it feels like you gotta be a crazy fan like myself to get the references, so it's lackluster because of it.

Sonic deserves a great movie! I just hope they impress me with something HUGE!