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another-sonic-blog · 5 years ago

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Before disaster strikes

Situated between Sonic IDW Issue #6 & #7

This one-shot ff mostly focuses in Shadow and Amy’s relationship but not in a romantic way. (If you want to see it as romantic, then go ahead and do so) Just the two trying to communicate with each other and how they react with each other’s circumstances.This is basically “If Amy and Shadow interact in the Sonic IDW comics, how would it be?” “Can they be friends?” “And if so, how will this relationship start?” “Can they have a heartfelt moment? This is an experiment based of those questions. I apologize for the mistakes, I didn’t have time to revise.

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The wind danced freely through the summer's grass as it tangled and disentangled the flowers within it. The sun was beginning to set and the tweeting of the birds made the scene almost too perfect. Looking over the horizons, a black and red hedgehog wondered where to go next.

He had said his goodbyes to Rouge at Windmill Village and that was the end of it. After Sonic somehow convinced him that Dr. Eggman was harmless he didn't have anything else to do.

"You tried to destroy me in the past too, remember? You even tried to obliterate an entire planet. So-what? You want me to take you out with Eggman? After all, if he can't be forgiven, can you?"

Sonic words still resonated in him. He tried not to let those kinds of things bother him, after all, he had redeemed himself and had come to terms with his past a long time ago.

... Did he?

Shadow began to run, he had nowhere in mind he wanted to go. He enjoyed the wind running through his quills, and thanks to his enhanced abilities, he could smell distinct flowers.

It was a beautiful planet and all he wanted was to protect it and all the Mobians on it.

But could he?

How could he save anyone if he let himself be convinced by Sonic so easily?

He growled to himself. Maybe he could go back and wait till Sonic was gone so he could fully interrogate Eggman or take him to a place where he could be watched until he made sure he can be trusted.

But if Sonic was right? Maybe he was seeing too much of Eggman in himself. Shadow wished he had the same luck as him. He would have preferred to forget everything and be good than been evil like he was.

Now that he looks back at it, it scares him the measures that he was willing to go to find the truth about himself.

He was dangerous then and maybe unconsciously, he was dangerous now.

He was ready to destroy Eggman even if he had changed, without giving him a chance.

Maybe Sonic was right ... he can't be forgiven.

By night time, Shadow had reached a small town which he didn't know the name to. He was going to keep on running but the destroyed gigantic crab-bot outside the town caught his attention. He decided to investigate a little, after all, it wasn't like he had any plans. He entered the town, colorful small houses and many of them. Some of them were destroyed and others were already up for re-building. He reached what it seemed to be the town hall, he was surprised to see the great number of destroyed bots. Sonic or someone else from the Resistance most had taken care of it. Too bad he wasn't there, it seemed like fun.

Shadow turned around, ready to run back the way he came from but as he did a scream resonated in his ears.

"It's another robot!"

Shadow noticed a townfolk was pointing at him, he wanted to go against his words but today's incidents were still in his head.

After all, if he can't be forgiven, can you?"

He broke out of his trance but it was too late. The town's militia had come out of the biggest building around. It caught the dark hedgehog off guard. And within seconds, he was surrounded and pointing wispons at him.

Couldn't they recognize him? Didn't they know he helped save the world as well?

Or maybe they did remember him ... and how he tried to destroy the world.

"Chaos-"

"YOU ALL PUT YOUR WISPONS DOWN!"

Shadow heard a female voice scream at the militia, he somehow felt familiar with it.

"It's Shadow the Hedgehog, so you all better leave him alone."

Mobians from the militia moved away as Amy Rose walked past them, walking towards the dark one.

"Everyone, go back to the town-hall, I got it from here."

Shadow rolled his eyes. He was annoyed at the fact that no one in the militia tried to apologize to him for the mistake. Did he radiate that much evil that he scared everyone instantly?

Shadow and Amy watched the militia walk back to the town-hall. When everyone was in, Amy directed her attention to the red striped hedgehog.

"I didn't expect you to see you here Shadow," Amy said. "I thought you-"

"What happened at this place?"

Amy left out a chuckle. She was a bit annoyed that Shadow cut her off like that but once again that was how Shadow acted normally.

"Bots came to attack the town, Sonic and I took them out." Amy added, "There was a lot of them but it was fun-"

Once again, Shadow interrupted the pink one as he turned around, wanting to leave the town.

Amy pouted angrily. Would he ever change? She was annoyed that Shadow couldn't even give her a few minutes of his precious time to talk. Even for old times sake. Well, not like they shared many memories. Their most intimate moment must be at the ARK and probably Shadow didn't remember that.

"Please Shadow I beg you ... give them a chance!"

Amy shook her head at the memory. For a few moments, she was embarrassed at the thoughts of her old self. She was ... something else.

"Seems like you are in a hurry," Amy had an idea, just to give him a little bit of payback for his rudeness. "I was going to tell you about how the recent bots attacks have been more organized ... someone is behind this and it's not Eggman."

Shadow stopped walking and he turned around to face the pink hedgehog. He had been traveling as well and had noticed that the bots attacks were different from before. He knew it couldn't be Eggman because he just saw him ... but what if it was him? What if he was secretly planning the bots attack. But that wouldn't be ‘Eggman-ish’. After all, he wasn't one to keep on the low.

"Tell me more," Shadow walked back to Amy. She seemed to be too sure about her statement. As if she knew the answers to his questions.

Amy smiled devilishly at Shadow. He looked impatient and that made her happiest the most. "Well, it's late already and I am hungry ... What if you stay for dinner and we can talk afterward?"

Shadow rolled his eyes again. This girl was getting to his nerves. Why couldn't she just give him the details? It would be much easier that way and he could leave and investigate the matter right away.

Shadow sighed, "I don't have time-"

"You never do."

He let out a loud growl, he thought Amy would be intimidated but on the contrary, she had a smile on her face. She found him funny. Amy was making fun of him.

"The guts of this girl,"

Shadow spoke again, "Just tell me. If you don't I am still going to find out."

"I doubt it," Amy said. "The only ones who know about it is Tails, Sonic and I and I doubt they will tell you anything on the matter."

Shadow hated to admit it but the pink one was right. He didn't have the best relationship with Tails and the recent fight with Sonic didn't leave them in the right terms.

Shadow looked around the town. He had his arms around his chest but he lowered his defense. He didn't want to say it, he was waiting for Amy to figure out his body language. But maybe that was too much to ask of her-

"Come on, let's go eat before the food gets cold."

Amy didn't have a good relationship with Shadow. Well, maybe she didn't have a relationship with him at all. However, she still tried to be nice to him whenever she could. In her mind, Shadow was still part of the Resistance and their team. He, just like everyone in the table, deserved to be treated with kindness.

But she had to admit she was having a hard time.

Inside the town-hall, the militia had already prepared themselves to eat dinner at the tables. Five long tables were placed across the room. In the middle, some catgirl and a sheep boy were distributing some type of soup. Amy and Shadow got a bowl of it and sat down in one of the tables.

Amy was in front of him, and as she took a sip of her soup she noticed that Shadow wasn't eating. She didn't know if it was because he was the Ultimate Life Form, that he didn't need to eat. Or simply because he wasn't hungry.

It was a lively atmosphere and the soup was really good, mostly because she helped to make it.

"Why can't he just enjoy it-"

The realization hit Amy like a truck. No one dared to sit next to them. They kept a distance of five seats away from the two. They looked at the two as if they were sick or infected with an incurable virus.

This wasn't a normal scene for the pink one. Amy was very used to be surrounded by Mobians. They would approach her and tried to be friends with her. However, today wasn't like that. She knew it wasn't her ... it was Shadow.

"Is this what everyday life is to him? Living alone and having to feel the judgemental stares of others on you?"

Amy drank a bit of water and tried to make some conversation as she smiled at him.

"Aren't you hungry-"

"No."

Well, that was that.

Shadow looked at Amy. He noticed how the smile on her face vanished the moment the word 'no' came out of his mouth. A sense of guilt overtook him. He still didn't know why Amy made him do all of this. They barely knew each other, maybe they had spoken a few words before. Probably when the BlackArms attacked but besides that, they didn't have any connection whatsoever.

And even so, he still felt guilty somehow.

"I don't need to eat. I never feel hungry ... " Shadow crossed his arms as he looked away. In the corner of his eyes, he could tell that the pink one had a surprising look but her face held a smile afterward.

"That doesn't mean you can't enjoy eating. You know eating is one of the few pleasures of life," Amy said. "You run like crazy as well ... so you can eat and no gain weight. So ... enjoy."

Shadow looked down at his plate as if he was thinking about it. Amy decided to give him one more push.

Amy smiled again, "Also, I helped to make it! It's good, I promise."

Shadow looked at Amy and seeing that she was expecting him to try it, he reluctantly picked up his spoon. He looked at the soup in his spoon and he placed it on his mouth.

Salt, pepper and hot peppers. Different condiments touched his taste buds and he wasn't expecting how warm it made him feel on his stomach. Shadow never feels hungry. But for the first time, he was for craving more of this soup.

He put his spoon up and down his mouth in a rapid manner trying to eat as fast as he could. Feeling like he wasn't getting satisfied by the way he was eating, he puts his spoon down. He tilted his head up and placed an edge of the bowl on his lips. He began drinking his soup straight up from the bowl.

Amy looked at him in wonder trying not to judge him.

"When was the last time he ate?"

Even with Shadow's lack of table manners, Amy was happy that someone was so eager to eat her food. It has been a long time since she had cooked because she was busy with the Resistance but it was comforting to see that her skills were still there.

Without Shadow noticing. Amy had stopped eating and gave him her complete attention. She placed her elbow on the table and placed her chin on her hand smiled at him as he ate.

"What does he think he is doing?"

"What a hero he turned out to be."

"He eats like a little kid ... that's humiliating."

Amy heard the Mobians whisper between themselves as they gave Shadow a nasty look. If Amy could hear them, then Shadow all the better.

Hearing their remarks, Shadow had put his bowl down. He didn't want to show it, but he was ashamed of his actions although he didn't know exactly what he did wrong.

But he always felt like he was doing something wrong anyways.

A part of Amy broke as she saw Shadow. He was such a strong character and seeing him doubt himself wasn't something that Amy enjoyed.

Amy loudly puts her spoon on the table, smack it against the wooden table as she got everyone's eyes on her now. She began to do exactly what Shadow was doing. Eating straight from her bowl as she added some noises just to let her thoughts be known to the others.

She finished quickly and she burped loudly as she placed her bowl down.

"Well, that hit the spot, didn't it Shads?" Amy didn't know where did she get the courage to nickname him like that all of a sudden, but given the circumstances, she didn't care.

Shadow was surprised once again at this girl. He didn't doubt her skills or anything for that matter. But he had always had that feminine perception of her. That whatever she had to do, had to be cute and feminine.

But Amy Rose was more than that.

She stood up from her seat as she looked at Shadow.

"Let's go to the rooftop and talk, shall we?"

Shadow wanted to get the information out of her and leave. However, he couldn't find the right moment as she began to vomit.

"This is what I get for eating so fast- Blargh" Amy was on the edge of the rooftop. On the other side, Shadow looked from afar.

Shadow rolled his eyes, he just couldn't understand the female. "If you already knew that you would get like this, then why do it?"

"Blargh- I did it -Blargh- for you!" Amy said as she finally felt better after letting everything out.

Shadow stance softens. At first, he had thought that Amy was coping with his eating mannerisms just to be funny. However, it seemed like just like he did, she heard the comments the other Mobians said about him.

"Those Mobians were speaking badly about you, I couldn't just stand there and do nothing," Amy said as she stood up the edge. "They are hypocrites. Believe me, if it was anyone else, they wouldn't have said anything. But because it's you-"

Amy stopped herself. She didn't want to get there but maybe she should have. After all, she was sure that Shadow knew about what others thought of him by now.

"I know I don't have the best reputation," Shadow said as if he was reading Amy's mind. "And I don't care."

Amy knew that was a lie but Shadow had too much pride to ever admit that. A few minutes passed without them saying a word. Amy watched the full moon in front of them, bigger than usual and even more beautiful. If instead of Shadow, Sonic was here, this scene could be way too perfect. Straight out of a romantic movie.

"Well, this is awkward."

"Provide information." Shadow broke the silence. It took him a few minutes to realize where he was again. Amy's gesture had taken him by surprise. Even when she knew that she was going to throw up, she still decided to go through that pain for him. He decided, that he might as well try to be a bit nicer towards the pink one.

"Oh yeah about that ..." Amy looked around nervously. "I don't have much information. Tails was the one who came up with the theory that someone besides Eggman was controlling the bots in a more organized matter. Eggman likes to show off ... If it was him coordinating the bots, then we would have known by now. So we believe its someone else-"

"It's definitely not Eggman," Shadow interrupted her. He was a bit annoyed that everything he went through was for nothing. "We found Eggman in Windmill Village today."

Amy walked towards Shadow, confused.

"What?"

"Well, Sonic was already with him when I arrived with Rouge ... Eggman lost his memories and he now dedicates to building bots for good apparently." Shadow looked at the moon and not at Amy.

Amy had to admit that she was a bit angry that she was finding the news through Shadow and not Sonic. Couldn't he take some time off his day to communicate with her? She was only one call away anyways.

Amy dismissed her thought. At the moment Shadow was the one that worried her the most. His eyes showed something she couldn't quite describe.

“Oh, wait. I know what it is.”

"Alright, what did Sonic do?" Amy asked.

"What?" This time Shadow looked at Amy. She was next to him and maybe too close for his comfort.

"You have that face ... I always put that face when I am worried about Sonic." Amy said. "And something tells me you are not telling me the full story."

Shadow had to give credit where credit is due. Amy was very perceptive. He normally wouldn't say anything. In al honesty, if it was anyone else, he would have been gone in an instant. He wasn't very communicative but it seems like he was different with the pink one.

"I was there to get rid of Eggman but Sonic convinced me of giving him another chance," Shadow said as he looked at the moon again. "And I am just not fully convinced that he is good ... and if anything bad happens then there will be no one to blame but me."

Amy kept looking at Shadow as her eyes soften at the black hedgehog.

"He would blame himself instead of blaming Sonic for convincing him? That's very Shadow like."

"Shadow, why are you so invested in saving the world?" Amy asked.

The question caught Shadow off guard and he looked at the pink waiting for her to elaborate more on her question.

"I mean, I've seen how everyone treats you," Amy said. "I just saw it today ... a small moment of your life and you just deserve so much better. After today, I don't understand why you would want to save this world."

"Not everyone is bad," without a heart-beat Shadow answered. "Some people fight over the most trivial things. Some people may be selfish but they are basically good if they try their best and never give up on their wishes. They always have a reason to be happy and that's why I should help them out."

"Oh Chaos no, he remembers that? No, no, no-"

Amy gulped saliva and she looked everywhere but at Shadow's directions. She didn't want to show her embarrassment and at the moment, she didn't if Shadow was teasing her or he just simply remembered her words.

"What a nice ideology ..." Amy said as her voice trembled a little. "Where did you get it from?"

"Maria probably told me that, I think," Shadow made a pause. Maria's name came naturally to him but he was surprised that he was talking about her to Amy nonetheless. "But to be honest, I don't quite remember. It's a very blurry memory ... at the ARK and a voice."

Amy sighed in relief. She had to admit that it was a nice gesture of Shadow to remember her words at the ARK. After all, she did mean every word she said and she let her heart out when she begged him to save the planet. She has decided to keep that secret within her forever.

Even more now.

Knowing Shadow, he takes everything to heart.

And as far as he knows or remembers, Shadow helped save the word out of the goodness of his heart. If Shadow were to know that he helped save the world because Amy asked him to then he would have more complications. Would he think that he is no good? Shadow never gave himself enough credit for what he was done ...

"But maybe you are right."

Amy faced the black hedgehog again. A few moments of silence had passed between them and she still couldn't believe she was having a conversation with Shadow after so many years. Now, it was Shadow who started the conversation and she was grateful to him that he had started it this time.

"I don't know why I focus on saving the world when I am not even sure if I am good for it." Shadow said, "I always thought that the cause justifies the means ... but how can I save everyone when along the way I keep making the wrong decisions?"

Shadow didn't know if it was just the rush of the moment or the nice atmosphere around them that he felt relaxed. Maybe it was the fact that after this, they wouldn't be seeing each other after a long time. Until the world was at risk again. That comforted Shadow in a sense. Unlike Rouge, who he saw almost daily, he would see Amy in a couple of months or years even.

Right now, Amy was playing the role of a therapist which she didn't mind. She knew that people felt comfortable talking about themselves when the person they are talking to was a stranger. Or they had a low possibility of seeing each other.

Whatever the reason it was, she was glad it was Shadow.

"Something tells me you are not telling me the whole story," Amy got closer to Shadow. For her, it was a way to bring him comfort and although he appreciated the gesture, he still wasn't used to it. "Did something else happened at Windmill Village?"

Once again, he couldn't figure out what it was. Yes, he hesitated. He was about to walk away and never come back but that strange thing is that he didn't want to. There was literally nothing attaching him to this moment. Amy had admitted to knowing almost nothing about this organized bots attacks, he should be gone by now. Looking for a nice tree to sleep on or try to at least.

But he felt very calmed and relaxed around the pink one. It can't hurt to let his guard down just for a few more minutes. Maybe it was something unconscious like his body and mind told him it was alright to be like this with her.

"I was fighting Sonic over whether Eggman was good an not and ..." Shadow looked to the side, not wanting to look at Amy for the moment. "He said that if Eggman can't be forgiven... then I can't be forgiven either."

A few seconds passed without the two saying anything. Shadow waited for Amy to say something, he expected something else. However, he should have known better. This was Amy Rose he was talking about. She would defend Sonic and his ideology's to the end of the world-

"Wow, what a jerk."

Shadow snapped his head at Amy's direction. Her words surprised the red striped one.

"Don't get me wrong," Amy said. "I trust Sonic and his decisions and I know that if anything bad happens he has our backs ... but that still doesn't give him the right to bring up your past mistakes!"

Amy looked over to the view in front of her, the town was beautiful at night. Fairy lights surrounded the entire town, Mobians lively walked and talk with their friends.

She saw that she had Shadow's full attention and decided to continue. "Eggman became good because he lost his memory but you? You made the conscious decision to redeem your self and you did! You worked hard and you are willing to do anything to save the world even when people aren't' the nicest to you. You are nothing like Eggman and will never be, Shadow you-"

Amy stopped herself. She realized she had been talking none stop about Shadow. Yes, she admired the black and red hedgehog. Her inner fangirl side may have gotten the best of her. She kept looking at the town, hoping that Shadow will take the hint and change the conversation.

"I may be nothing like Eggman but I still look like one of his robots." Shadow said. "Even this town's militia thought I was one today."

Amy sighed relief to be able to change the topic. "Don't blame them too much, your dark fur camouflages with the night and then you have the most vibrant red eyes I've seen! But to be honest, that's how I knew it was you. Your eyes are like rubies, very beauti-

"For Chaos Amy, stop talking! He is going to think you like him or something and it's definitely not like that!"

"Like I was saying!" Amy tried to compose herself, still, she didn't dare to look at Shadow. "You are not like Eggman and sometimes Sonic doesn't measure his words. If he ever offends you, just come to me and I'll show him a piece of my hammer."

"I can defend myself." Shadow said, "But ... thank you, Rose."

Shadow didn't expect this night to turn out like this. He thought he would have been gone in an instant but he was glad he decided to stay a bit longer. He wasn't to get complimented and in all honesty, he didn't know how to properly react to it either.

So, a simple thanks should be sufficient and proper.

"Rose? Should I refer to you as Shads now?" Amy let out a small giggle and it was Shadow time to be embarrassed.

"This is what I get for being nice ... never again."

They were looking at each other now and Shadow's uncomfortableness went away. They were so close that their shoulder's almost touched.

"Just call me Amy," Amy interrupted his thoughts. "Rose is too formal, and well I don't want us to be strangers."

"I'll keep calling you 'Rose'," Shadow responded.

"Alright ... Shads," Amy teased him and to her surprise, Shadow didn't protest against the nickname. After all, he did had a soft side. It's a bit sad however, she knew that it will probably be a long time before she gets to call Shadow that again.

"So ... what's your plan now? Anywhere specific you want to go?" Amy asked.

"Not really," Shadow said. " Eggman is no longer a threat and it seems like you and your team have everything under control."

"Well, if you don't have a place, the Resistance will always have the doors open for you." Amy looked at Shadow and their eyes met. They were comfortable with each other now and all past tension was gone. "We could use someone like you ... for cleaning the building I mean."

"What?"

"Come on Shads, you are fast! You will finish cleaning in the blink of an eye!! Amy added, "Or are you not as Ultimate as you say?"

"The guts of this hedgehog to insult me ... It's impressive."

Shadow looked over the moon once again, and then back to Amy. "Although I appreciate the thought ... I have to deny, I'll be on my way."

"Very well then, I can't stop you but just know I'll always be here in case you need anything-"

"Chaos Amy Rose! Stop talking like that! You sound like a crazy romantic, you have gone past that phase!"

Thankfully for Amy, Shadow was very unaware of what meant to be a crazy romantic or anything of that matter. Shadow was never one to pay attention to those things nor he had the time. Not like he cared as well.

"I meant everyone is here for you! We will always be here for you, Shadow." Amy smiled at him.

"Shads," Shadow said.

"What?" Amy asked.

"You are Rose and I am Shads."

If Amy could, she would hug Shadow but she knew that would be over the boundaries. Amy felt her body get warm at Shadow's soft side. He might have a cold personality but he had feelings like everyone else. Her heart was content at Shadow's hidden cuteness and she had a new personal mission.

Protect Shadow the Hedgehog at all costs.

"Well, it seems like I won't see you in a while then," Amy said. "Until the next destruction of the world at least."

"We will see about that." Shadow said, "I may go to the Resistance once in a while."

Shadow wanted to say something along the lines of 'I will visit you.' However, words like that will never come out of his mouth and for his own sake, he wasn't going to say them.

"For investigation purposes only of course." He added.

They looked at each other and Amy smiled at him. Surprisingly enough, Shadow smiled back at her and to be honest, that's all Amy wanted from tonight. For Shadow to have a good time and for her to learn something new about him.

Amy had always thought of Shadow as someone she could rely on. Now she was happy that Shadow thought the same about her.

Maybe, they could be friends later on. But for now, she was content at the moments they had.

"Of course, for investigation only."

There were many things Shadow wasn't ready to admit nor he ever was going to. But if there was one thing he was sure about was that Amy wasn't that bad at all. He could see himself talking to her more often and if she wanted, he could drop by the Resistance and help her out with the missions. It didn't seem like a bad direction to take after today.

But right now, that didn't matter. For once, he didn't care about his past nor the future. He was free to enjoy the present with Amy.

And that was all he could ever ask for.

A/N: I was re-reading Sonic IDW Issue #6 and it lowkey bothered me when Sonic brought up Shadow's past to convenience him to give Eggman another chance. I just couldn't stop thinking about it and I couldn't bring myself to write anything but that. That's why I decided to write this, to have a nice conclusion of my own. As well that I like to explore the relationship between characters. Yes, I ship ShadAmy but not of their interactions have to be romantic. Remember that intimacy can be many things and it can be with anyone.

Anyways, I am writing the last chapter of 'Stages' and that will be done and up online most likely tomorrow. I just sometimes need breaks from stories to get the ideas going. After 'Stages' is done, I'll start with the requests.

#shadow the hedgehog #shadowxamy #shadow and amy #Shadamy #Amy Rose #amyrose #sonic au #sonic fanfiction #sonic fanfic #anothersonicblog

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elegiacmarquise · 6 years ago

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More love for the pink damsel

This is a rant, the first and the only, that I wrote a while ago and which I posted previously on DeviantArt and reposted on the Mario Amino, few days after the release of Super Mario Odyssey, after a new wave of hatred towards Princess Peach...

Considering that, nevertheless, the princess' relationship with most fans has always been ambiguous, what may have seemed to be tolerable, now is no longer acceptable speaking from the prospective of Peach's admirer, and hoping to be a spokesman for who, like me, genuinely appreciates her.

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But before starting with the proper rant, why do I post this writing, even if they passed almost two years when I did write it? A YouTube video made by the quite famous personality of RelaxAlax which I Iink below.

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Quite shallow, huh?

But this will NOT be an hate speech towards Alax, the rest of his videos are actually enjoyable and sometimes funny, but despite what he says in the video is nothing more and nothing less than what most Peach's haters actually say, I'm fearing that even due to this video, people are convinced to hate the pink princess without even knowing the truth behind her character.

But I must've taken you a lot of time, let's begin this speech, which was inspired by an older one (now deleted) posted by a friend of mine on Deviantart.

Let’s get started from the most recurring insults about the personality

"Peach is weak!!!"

While it’s true that for most of the games the Princess is kidnapped by Bowser or any enemy, it’s also the case that several times she has proved to be not so helpless, and even trying to escape to her kidnapper more than once indicates that Peach is not just staying there to patiently wait her hero; indeed, she was the only one along with Rosalina and Toadette who was been able to defend herself.

Some proofs? Super Princess Peach, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario 3D Land/ World, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Super Smash Bros series...

"So why is she always kidnapped?!"

Nintendo logic. Just joking, I think that the reason is due to the fact that Peach, like anyone else, is an human being, with her fears and anxieties, and so what can she do if suddenly there is a monster bigger at least the triple of her accompanied by an huge army? Not everyone is badass, and she obviously is not always, but is it a good reason to hate her? I don’t think so.

Also remember that even two stronger characters like Mario and Luigi often struggle during the battles with Bowser, how could a delicate princess?

So, in a more general view, how much it’s wrong to blame the victims and not the kidnappers? Why does everyone hate Peach for this and not BOWSER?

And there are Daisy, Pauline and Zelda, who were kidnapped as well, but still worshipped as goddesses...

"Peach is stupid!!1!"

If the Princess was actually that stupid,she wouldn't be on a throne ruling a whole kingdom peacefully nor even to try a time machine or even called to try to find a cure to a plague that affected the Mushroom Kingdom. She may not have an IQ of 300 like Dr Eggman,but that doesn't mean she's stupid.

Characters who are REALLY "stupid" on purpose, like Wario and Waluigi, loved because they are. Now, people, don't tell me you aren't uncoherent.

"Peach has no personality!1!"

So, a sweet and kind personality shouldn’t be a good character trait? Great, so we wasted years and years of characterization in a video game character.

Even a little development is always putted in while creating a characte and, as we are seeing, Miyamoto and Nintendo are generally developing the character of the princess, in the best, demonstrating that even the princess is not a fossilized archetype in Mario's existence for thirty years. She’s so sweet and kind, but also has values, friends and a dignity that defends strenuously.

Guys, Peach is human, so she has flaws, and that's right, but saying that she doesn’t have personality is an insult to both her and Nintendo in general.

Let's compare for a moment Peach and Rei Ayanami from Evangelion, and see who is not supposed to have personality. (although Rei also has a very strong, still not obvious, characterization that develops in the course of the series)

"Peach is a Mary Sue!!!1!"

A Mary Sue would theoretically is a character with too unnatural characteristics for their universe or species, overly powerful and often accompanied by a tragic backstory; in short, it's misleading in their context. By applying this description to Peach, how should she be a Mary Sue?

As explained in the previous paragraphs, the Princess, still mostly human, has a magical power that is always inferior to those of other characters, such as Rosalina; and comparing it with the Star Guardian, shouldn’t be her chararcter be more similar in the description of a Sue? Consistency, this unknown concept...

I see you already with the forks in your hands, but let me clarify one thing, even a character like Rosalina is not a Mary Sue, she still has her flaws, and we love her as she is, but if Peach is one, Rosalina fits the definition WAY more.

Let’s talk about the character design

"Peach always wears pink!!1!"

Come on, guys, hating a character for a color is a such superficial thing that, would do kindergarten children the most.

Pink is a color like all the others, in the spectrum of colors, so anyone can wear it, even males.

(Trivia: up to a few decades ago, pink was more of a masculine color, given to boys since it’s a lighter version of red, a color considered manly)

Peach is looking good with pink and no one in Mario games seems to complain too much about that, and so, so why do we fans do?

"Peach is girly!!!!1!”

And so? A female character to be worthy of this name must be a tomboy or a badass with a gun on her hands? You have great prospects in mind, my dear ones, just like that.

Seriously, why does a character who likes to cure herself, should be banned from today's media?

However, almost all the girls in the Mario games are femminine, even Daisy, despite being described as a tomboy, so it doesn’t seem a good excuse for hating a character.

"Peach is blonde!!!1!"

Guys that stereotype that everyone who is blonde must be stupid it's not only extremely outdated, but there are a lot of people who consider it quite offensive. Open your minds! Go, go! The isn't any relations about the quantity of melaninine on the hair and the actual intelligence.

Even Rosalina and most of the Zeldas encountered in the games are blondes, but nobody seems to care.

"Peach has an annoying voice!!1!"

All the characters in the Mario games have their voices emphasized, guys, and Peach isn’t an exception.

There are characters with even more exaggerated voices, trust me, like Daisy, Toad or Rosalina's new dubbing, but for certain reasons, only Peach should be demonized for that by fans.

"Peach is a prostitute!!1!"

This is one of the most recurring insults that are ever placed against our hated Princess, and that's what I'm wondering where most haters have been losing their credibility.

Did Peach ever wear provocative clothes? NO. (unless you have a fetishism towards biker suits and similar outfits)

Has she ever tried to seduce anyone she saw? NEVER (what you see on Rule34 and other lewd sites is not canon, I'm sorry)

Let's be clear: Peach is just the opposite of the stereotype of the prostitute, as being a sweet, gentle, and that kind of girl who rarely makes sloppy thoughts; And yet Mario is not the kind of game that is suitable to show sensual girls often.

Another point: how do people define as that Peach and not Pauline or Valentina from Super Mario RPG, who are wearing much revealing clothes (and not even worthy to be called with those sick names)? Mystery of the Faith.

PS. Giving a prostitute to someone is not fashionable anymore :3

Now, let’s analyse that kind of insults that relate with Peach’s relationships with other characters

"Peach isn’t grateful to Mario!!!!1!"

Ever since Peach has never been grateful to Mario? WHEN? She kisses him, and fills him with cakes. What should the Princess do more with him? having sex is not a good answer, and it doesn't even marrying him.

Mario is still a sweet and family friendly series, if you want NSFW art, go to rule34 or look good at deviantart, but don’t expect explicit scenes in similar games.

"Peach is a tyrant who abuses Toads!!!1!"

But since that is so, seriously, did I miss some details? And no, The Game Theorists, aren’t worth as a source of inspiration since theirs is only a mere SPECULATION (also badly made imho).

To me Peach has always seemed like the OPPOSITE of a tyrant! She’s a good sovereign who’s caring for her subjects, and most of the Toads are happy with her guide and willing whenever she needs help.

I guess you are thinking of the Toad used from the princess during Super Smash Bros: If we analyse well what our beloved mushroom does during the frames in which we can see him, we can notice that doesn’t acts as a shield for the princess, but is determined more than ever to attack with his spores, so for me this isn’t a point to demonise Peach at all.

Then do you think that in Smash bros Rosalina does something way more serious?! She fights with a Luma, one of her CHILDREN all the time. But since she is our beloved star waifu, Peach is not worth to be compared lmao.

Again this time implore the sacred goddess of the consistency for forgiving their vain words...

"Peach betrays Daisy!!!1!"

Peach and Daisy have proven themselves to be best friends since the first time they appeared together, and even now their idyllic relationship hasn’t stopped being shown in the games and even in that LINE stickers that came out a while ago!

How Peach Should betray Daisy? For Rosalina, for Pauline? I think all the girls in the world of Mario are friendly to each other, so I don’t see any reasons in a betray, since at worst they are in a friendly rivalry.

"Peach is much less sexy than Rosalina / Pauline!!!1!"

If I can understand why Pauline can be considered sensual, how should Rosalina be? She’s wearing just a turquoise dress, which does not reveals much, and which can only be sexualized in the most indecent fanarts drawn by FANS indeed, but we all know the new religion that places the guardian of the Lumas to a brand new god.

However, all of Mario girls have been designed to be beautiful, not sex objects, not even Pauline, and none of them will agree to be your beautiful waifus condescending to all your fantasies, deal with it!

"Peach is not tomboy like Daisy is!!!1!"

And this is what connects to the previous point where the Princess was insulted to be girly. Assuming that even Daisy, in her own way, is girly (if she was totally a tomboy, she wouldn’t certainly wear those long dresses with ease, nor she would have her notorious passion for flowers), it’s not nice to have a bit of variety in the characters personalities? Go on, Peach is a gentle and sweet girl, Daisy is exuberant and sporty, Rosalina, calm and majestic, Wendy spoiled yet powerful, Toadette cheerful and curious, and finally Pauline concrete and passionate. Everyone compensates their gaps with the others, and this balance between the girls is fine, so please do not compare all the girls, Peach first, to Daisy.

"Peach appears too much in the games, so she's overrated!!!1!"

Guys, our princess is one of the protagonists of Mario's videogames, along with the plumber, his brother, Bowser and Toad, so it's natural that she often appears in the games. After all, Peach (after Pauline, who belonged for long time to another series) is the first of the princesses to appear, so it's logical that Nintendo would value that in this way.

And another little thing: the word overrated does NOT mean popular in its own universe, it means overly popular among its FANS.

And Peach has relatively few fans compared to the other main characters.

And, as the final cherry on the cake, let’s talk about Odyssey, who can have reassume prevous points, but what is equally needed, because of the following reasons

"PEACH IS A BITCH WHO HASN’T ACCEPTED MARIO'S PROPOSAL, STUPID AND UNGRATEFUL!!!1! THAT’S OBVIOUS THAT MARIO CHOOSES PAULINE!!!1!"

And here we come to the juice of the speech, and at this point I would like to ask: but have you seen the final cutscene of the game, or are you just knocking on your keyboards to don’t make feel the keys alone and misunderstood?

Let’s assume that after a long, tiring journey along the WHOLE world, with a monster bigger at least the triple of you who is doing everything to organize a NOT-wanted marriage with you; and immediately soon after being rescued, at the end of an extravagant battle, you have not one, but TWO contenders for your hand, what are you doing? The doll who gives all of herself to her hero just because she saved you? But in which period are we, in the nineteenth century?

Guys, let's talk seriously, would you immediately answer to a such serious question, which can change the rest of your life, on the moon under such conditions? I really don’t think so.

So Peach did, showing her intelligence, and why not, joking over it. It wasn’t the place nor the time for Mario and Bowser to move such proposals, and I honestly think that Peach done right to refuse both of them, I believe, momentarily.

And so centuries of feminist struggles went cancelled because of a video game character...

"PEACH HAS LEFT MARIO AND BOWSER ON THE MOON!!1!"

Yeah, okay, Odyssey's final was what it was, but you can’t hate a character because she's not a puppet in Mario or Bowser's hand. Tell me, you first complained that Peach had no character and now that she has explicated it, in good, you hate her the same? Consistency, this unknown concept...

However, for this detail, have you noticed that Peach eventually called Mario on the Odyssey, even though it had already started to fly? Mario had all the time he needed to get on board with the Princess and her friends. Even if Mario couldn't make it to the Odyssey (which is also unlikely under a cautious analysis of the cutscene), I even highly doubt that not only Bowser but all the other wedding's guests (including PAULINE) were diying there, surely there was at least ONE other vehicle which could bring back them home.

Also think about Peach's dialogues in the post-game: she completely forgave Mario's misbehaving and she's still happy to see him to the point to give him all the moons she gets! So she’s not that ungrateful...

And that's what I needed to say. Guys, please stop hating Peach, she didn’t do anything, and certainly she doesn’t deserve your insults.

In these times, the princess is among the main characters the most hated, even much more than Daisy or Zelda, who have their great slice of fans, who would do anything for them and even considering them "better" in Smash Bros.

I'm sorry to have written this rant but I'm sure this time is really needed...

Fandoms, Mario included, can be beautiful places where you can meet fantastic people but at the same time you can witness this free hate episodes even from famous personalities...

Thank you for reading, and see you soon.

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P.S. Below I show you the main places where the princess is hated for the above reasons.

Gamefaqs, TheTopTens.com, Marioboards, DeviantArt and Youtube

P.P.S. Please, do not go to the video I've mentioned only to insult the youtuber: despite that entry is far from being well-crafted, he made enjoyable content as well. He deserves respect as well and if you really want to discuss in the comment section about the subject, please be polite

P.P.P.S. If you hate Peach and you feel to comment here, please write maturely, well-structured comments. If we can have a mature dialogue, it's best for both of us.

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mobius-prime · 5 years ago

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173. Sonic the Hedgehog #105

You Say You Want a Revelation?

Writer: Karl Bollers Pencils: Ron Lim Colors: Josh and Aimee Ray

We're finally back to the main series plot! Sonic is disheartened to see Nate's things being moved out of his house, knowing that by leaving Nate behind in Robotropolis they consigned him to the fate of roboticization. However, he's not content to leave him in there without at least trying to rescue him, and so leads Tails and Uncle Chuck to the castle in the hopes of talking to Elias, unaware of his disappearance. In Robotropolis, Hope goes to her step-father along with her grandmother to voice her concerns about the Robians she saw escaping the city, stating her beliefs that her uncle created them. Colin initially refuses to believe her, but Eggman steps out of the next room with Snively, grinning evilly as he informs them that she's totally right. Back in the castle in Knothole, King Max is experiencing true regret for perhaps the first time since we've seen him come back from the Zone of Silence.

Sorry, Alicia, but I have to wholeheartedly disagree. A lot of this is Max's fault - he refused to listen to either his son or daughter, and picked someone who was clearly not cut out to be a leader to put in charge of everything, over his daughter who was trained her whole life to lead a kingdom. In Robotropolis, Eggman airs an announcement over every screen in his city that he's "discovered" that everyone is infected with toxic waste poisoning, and must come to him for treatment immediately lest they succumb and die. Colin is outraged, pointing out that Eggman should be infected as well then, only for Eggman to reveal his true colors - literally - as a robot.

Uncle Chuck and Sonic both explain their plan to use the sword to King Max, who seems somewhat apathetic, upset not only at the loss of his son, but the loss of Nate as well. He's uncertain, as he only knows of two people who can even use the sword's abilities: himself, and –

Max reluctantly agrees to Sally's plan, ordering her to take Sonic with her as an escort. Sonic is pleased, but finally notices Sally's somewhat lackluster responses to everything he says, asking her if he did something to upset her. Before she can respond, Mina suddenly rushes up, hugs Sally while thanking her profusely for saving her mother, and then races off again, leaving her speechless. Meanwhile in Robotropolis, Hope runs for her life through the streets, trying to hide in a back alleyway with Eggman's voice following her the whole way. He finds her through a hidden screen in the alley, and tries to manipulate her into surrendering by saying he'll spare her grandmother. Agnes, of course, yells for her not to listen, and as Hope watches…

Hope is surrounded by shadow-bots, but Sonic suddenly appears, smashing them up and ushering her over to Sally for protection. Eggman is furious to see her being rescued, until he hears Sonic's voice behind him, Sonic of course having run at light speed all the way into his headquarters. Eggman tries to grab hold of him to roboticize him, but Sonic smashes the floor underneath him, sending them both plummeting into the room below. There, Sonic is horrified to find a familiar, frozen face staring back at him.

Eggman gloats that the sword doesn't seem to affect roboticized Overlanders, and then, with the rest of the city's Overlander population gathered within the room, offers them a demonstration. He calls Snively forward, informing him that he, too, is poisoned from the toxic waste, and while Snively is upset, having thought that as his lackey he would have been protected, Eggman offers him a deal - take his hand. You see, apparently Overlanders only become frozen after roboticization if they're unwillingly turned, but if they take the offer of their own free will, they retain their ability to move and act… and with a grin, Snively takes his uncle's hand.

And that is the awful true scope of Eggman's plan. He let everyone live within his city for two months, ensuring that they'd become sick, and then offered them supposedly the one thing that could save them, making sure that they'd have to take his offer willingly and become his slaves. Of course, we just watched this backfire, but Eggman knows that by rejecting his offer and going with Sally and Sonic, all the Overlanders are likely to get even sicker and stretch the already strained resources of Knothole. However, we know that Sally is smarter than that, and there's already a hidden city of Overlanders - or sorry, humans - out there that might have some room…

Before we move on to the conclusion of Myth Taken Identity, we have another character file to peruse - this time, for Snively! Unlike the previous couple, this one actually contains some new information about his life - but first, the technical info. Calculating his real-world height gives us the absurdly-short height of 97 cm, or 3'2". For reference, someone is considered to have dwarfism if they're anywhere below 147 cm or 4'10" tall, so Snively definitely qualifies. (Nate Morgan probably would too, but we're never actually given any information on his measurements, so there's no way to say for certain.) Snively also weighs 38.4 kg or 84.5 lbs, and his birthday is on May 14. Interestingly, his birth year indicates that he's actually only thirty years old! He definitely looks a lot older due to male-pattern baldness, but if you think about it it makes sense - after all, he's Robotnik's nephew, and the original Robotnik was likely in his late forties or early fifties at the time of his death.

What really makes this entry noteworthy, however, is his life history. He was born Colin Kintobor, Jr., which is an ordinary enough name, and his mother died giving birth to him. He was treated terribly by his father Colin Sr., who is actually the one who gave him his nickname. You'd think it would have been Robotnik who stuck him with such a humiliating nickname, but no, his own father called him Snively because of his lack of social skills. He compensated all throughout his childhood by immersing himself in the world of technology, and found a way to take advantage of every friend he made. He was kicked out of the house as a teenager, and with nowhere to go, turned to his uncle Julian, whom he helped seize power over the Kingdom of Knothole. However, he soon found himself being mistreated by his uncle as well, and as we know, eventually grew so resentful that he rigged the Ultimate Annihilator to target only Robotnik so he could be free of him once and for all.

While one could argue that these are the actions of a sociopath, or a narcissist, I'm gonna go ahead and say that Snively would have had a very different personality had he actually grown up with a family who loved him and looked after him. All this poor kid ever knew was bullying and emotional abuse. He's been taught, by life and by the actions of those around him, that the only way to look after himself is to be selfish, and to latch onto those more powerful than him for security. I touched on once before that Snively seemed to be basically in an abusive relationship with Robotnik, and didn't know how to go on after he thought he was dead, but this page confirms that things are only sadder than we originally realized. It was this page, plus some other events further into the comic, that made me realize that I actually liked Snively as a character, and wanted to see him break free of Eggman's control and come into his own. Unfortunately, having just allowed himself to be roboticized, that's not likely to be happening any time soon…

Myth Taken Identity (Part III)

Writer: Mike Gallagher Pencils: Nelson Ribeiro Colors: Frank Gagliardo

Guru Emu, upon discovering the dam from last issue, has found himself with rekindled hope that he can find and save his friends who have been kidnapped by the bunyip. He descends into the dam, discovering that it was originally constructed by Crocbot, who of course used it to power his various weapons and detention camps. It turns out that this dam is behind the strangely dry riverbeds and the disgusting lake, as it's been disrupting the local ecosystem, even more so now that it's abandoned and not being maintained. But what of Walt, Barby, and Bill? Well, as it turns out, they're also inside the dam, protected by an airtight compartment with a window through which they can see the bunyip gazing in at them. Barby, apparently, speaks many languages, including whatever ancient language the bunyip speaks, and convinced it that they're no threat. She gets it to explain its plight, as well as why it's been attacking everybody.

I mean, that hardly seems like a good excuse for just attacking random people on the street who clearly aren't Crocbot, but the Downunda Freedom Fighters want to help anyway. While Barby informs the bunyip that Crocbot was defeated some time ago, Guru races down the hallway toward them, having overheard everything. He has discovered a room full of explosives elsewhere in the complex, and so…

The bunyip is grateful, and leaves to spend its happy days in the clean water, and though the D.F.F. briefly consider inviting it to join their team, they ultimately decide that they'd rather stay as a four-person group from now on, knowing that no one can replace Stu.

And now we have one last character file to look at for the issue, this time for Dimitri! Dimitri is actually the tallest individual so far, at a height of 133 cm or 4'4". That's a full foot taller than Sonic! He weighs 39.9 kg or 87.7 lbs, and his birthday is on September 28. He's 378 years old, finally giving us a clearer idea of exactly how long the Brotherhood has existed, considering earlier issues were very unclear and inconsistent on the matter. Like Sally and Julie-Su, however, his character file doesn't give us any new information, merely recapping the previous events of the comic as well as history we've already been shown. Still, in a way, having such inconsequential information as his height, weight, and birthday really kind of serves to humanize him in a way - or, er, "Mobianize"? Eh, whatever, you know what I mean.

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theroadtoindigo-go · 6 years ago

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Undesirable Truth, Part 5

I woke with a gasp and sat straight up, cold sweat beaded on my brow and my eyes wide. I looked around the room in a frenzy. I was in Sonic’s home. The rain had stopped, moonlight was softly pouring in from the window and I could hear the ocean waves crashing in the distance. That dream… It wasn’t just a dream. It was a memory. That was the night I was kidnapped.

That was the night that I lost all my memories and who I was to a monster. As I started to remember it more clearly, my eyes filled with tears. I had wanted to be rescued so much and no help came for me. I remembered how much I screamed for help, as loud as my lungs would let me. Yet no one answered. My heart broke on that terrible night and now it was breaking again. I had counted on Sonic to rescue me and he hadn’t. Now I was a lost soul, so far away from everything I knew, crying in the middle of the night. Alone. Why? Why wasn’t I saved? Was I somehow not worthy of it? Did I do something wrong that warranted my struggle to be ignored? Was this somehow my fault? Did no one care at all? Was I just some nobody that no one noticed was gone all this time? No one cared if I was lost forever?

With the sound of each crashing wave, another sob escaped. It felt like the whole world was against me. All those years I was abandoned to servitude. And I would have easily still been there if I hadn’t acted for myself. How much longer would I have been there if Sonic was never captured? My whole life? The very thought made my stomach churn. As I drew up my knees and buried my face in them, I tried to keep my cries as quiet as possible. I knew that this was something I had to keep to myself, everything that led me here was my unanswered cry for help. The logical part of me knew that it wasn’t Sonic’s fault for not knowing, but my heart was broken all the same.

The morning after, I woke up very late. Sonic had already gone on his way to buy groceries since the fridge was apparently empty aside from the foods that only Tails liked. It was just as well; I didn’t feel like I could face Sonic after last night.

“Good morning!” Tails greeted.

He was as cheerful as ever but I just wasn’t feeling up to matching his liveliness. He tried to ask me what was wrong but I gave him a vague answer. I needed some time away from people to get a grip on myself. I told Tails I was going to go explore the beach and started walking out there. I didn’t really want to be on the beach, but where would I go? Since I was alone, I could go anywhere, but at the same time the wide-open spaces that the world presented were seemingly void if not dangerous. Even though I escaped Eggman’s clutches, it didn’t feel like my life was any less hollow. Nor did I feel free. This life felt the same except instead of being trapped by taking orders, I was now trapped by fear. How could I make something of my life if it was so infringed? My mind went back to what I was crying over last night.

I was never saved. The very thought brought tears back into my eyes. Why wasn’t I worth saving? Why did I have to suffer under the old man’s boot for so long in order to finally escape out of my own means? Was I really so unremarkable that my plight wasn’t even noticed? These questions spiraled in my mind like flakes of ashes in a bowl of water. Every time a question circled back it was answered with the same response. It was because I wasn’t good enough to be saved. I wasn’t loved enough, I wasn’t smart enough, wasn’t strong enough, wasn’t fast enough, wasn’t valuable enough. I wasn’t enough! And no one cared about me!

As I stood in the sand, facing the wind, trying not to cry, I heard Amy call for me. I hurriedly dried my eyes and cleared my throat to hide that my demons got the better of me as she approached. I didn’t do a good job.

“Are you alright?” She asked. She knew I had been crying.

I looked away and sniffled.

“Are you going to tell me what’s wrong?”

It almost sounded like she was scolding me, how old did she think I was? …Actually, how old was I? I knew it was around my twenties or so but that’s all I was told. I really wished I had read that file from the lab, perhaps my age was written in there.

“Well, if you’re not going to tell me I can’t help you.” She sighed, “That’s too bad too, I was hoping we could spend some time together…”

“What kind of time?” I asked.

“I wanted to go shopping for a party dress but it’s no fun by myself.”

“Shopping again? We did that two days ago already.”

“But you have to get ready for the party too~!”

“Don’t go wasting your money on me… I won’t be going to any parties anyway.”

Amy shook her head; she was adamant about this.

“I know something’s bothering you, so why don’t you tell me?”

I hesitated to say anything but I answered,

“It’s personal, I really don’t wanna get into it.”

She pouted a little.

“Well, at least come along. Even if you don’t want anything, we can have some fun together.”

I knew she was going to try asking me about my problem later but her offer was tempting. I agreed to go.

Now that I knew what to expect, going to the shops were less overwhelming and much more fun. It was nice seeing the shops this time around, there wasn’t the debilitating pressure to just pick something, so I was free to enjoy the things I saw without the commitment of buying or trying anything on. I got to feel new fabrics without having to be interested in wearing them. The world wasn’t so void and scary after all.

Amy pulled me along to a shop that primarily sold party dresses, it made every effort to make its appearance sophisticated and trendy. There were a lot of muted colors with pops of bright colors in a few corners, I suppose in an effort to make each primary color stand out more. I was more than happy to wait while Amy shopped around in here but, the moment she turned her head to look at me I realized that we were not here for her.

“Oh no!” I protested, “You’ve already done so much for me! I can’t take advantage of you again like this!”

“But you have to like something in here, right? The town is having a spring festival and there’s a dance that you’ll need to dress up for!”

“But I don’t-!”

“We’d all really like you to be there. You’ll love it, trust me!”

They all wanted me to be part of this? I was… wanted. How could I refuse?

Oddly enough, looking at all the dresses did put my mind at ease a bit. It at least gave my mind something else to focus on other than the events of last night.

“Hey Amy… How did you and Sonic meet?”

“Hm? Oh, it was a long time ago, he saved me from Metal Sonic when we were just kids. I guess you could say it was love at first sight.” She said with a wistful smile.

Oh, I thought, she was one of the lucky ones.

“…How did he know to save you?”

She blinked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well… you didn’t know each other. So how did he know you were in trouble?”

“Actually, we sort of knew each other… I used to follow him around before then. It was a silly crush thing.” She seemed uncomfortable admitting this so I thought it was best to drop the subject.

I picked up an outfit that I thought would work out for the time being, it was a tight gray dress with a black ribbon around the waist. If I was going to be the kind of person that blends into a crowd I might as well commit to it.

After trying it on and convincing Amy that it was actually a viable option despite the color, we started on our way home. My mood had greatly improved but there was still the lingering doubt.

“I’m glad we found something for you. But one of these days you’re going to have to pick something with color!” Amy teased as we were walking back, but she was still concerned. “Are you finally going to tell me what’s been bothering you?”

“I… It’s nothing.”

“You wouldn’t be this upset for nothing. I haven’t known you for too long but I can tell it’s been on your mind all day.”

“…I just need some time to think about it.”

“All day wasn’t enough for you?”

“I just-! last night… It was just a nightmare, that’s all.”

“Nightmares aren’t nothing. If it’s been bothering you this much then maybe you’ll feel better if you just talked about it?”

“Well, it…”

I couldn’t finish.

“It’s alright, you don’t have to tell me… Maybe when you’re ready we can talk about it, okay?”

“No, you’re right, I think I do need to talk about it. But it’s just hard!” My voice wavered at the end.

“Hey…” She placed her hand on my shoulder and looked me in the eyes, “It’s okay. I know you’ve been through a lot, so I can help you. Okay?”

I ended up telling her about my nightmare and how it was about my kidnapping. The whole thing that started this mess. I told her about being taken from my home in the middle of the night, and being held prisoner but I skipped over that part about my hope for rescue and the experimentation I endured. She knew immediately what I needed to do.

“You need to tell Sonic about this.”

“Why?”

“He was the one that saved you, right? He- “

“Wrong.”

“What?”

“He didn’t save me, I saved myself…”

“Hmmmm, I’m sensing some bitterness here. You sure you’ve told me everything?”

I reserved my right to remain silent.

When we reached the house, Sonic and Tails were there waiting for me. I wasn’t sure how to greet Sonic.

“Hey! Long time, no see!” He said with a bright smile.

I smiled back, but my emotional distress blunted my greeting.

“What’s the matter?” He asked.

Amy was quick to let him know I wasn’t feeling like myself lately (as if I knew what being myself felt like).

“Oh,” Sonic replied, “well I think I know a quick way to cheer you up! How about another adventure?”

I shook my head.

“Hm, that serious, huh?” He asked.

Amy took Sonic aside and they had a small whispering match. No doubt it was about my nightmare. Afterwards, Sonic sheepishly walked back over and asked,

“Do you have a minute? Maybe we should talk.”

We sat together outside on the porch in silence, neither one of us wanted to start. As my mind started thinking for a place to begin, it dug up the old memories of my kidnapping and my heartbreak. He finally broke the silence.

“Amy told me you had a nightmare last night… It was about your kidnapping?”

A wave of grief washed over my heart. I wanted to hide it was much as I could but there wasn’t much I could hide at this point. I knew holding it in was only going to make me hurt more. I told him everything I remembered about my kidnapping. My voice held strong against the tears until I reached the part about the experiment and I couldn’t continue. Before I could stop it, another bout of sorrow surged up from my heart and pushed its way up to the surface. As my face twisted in grief and I hung my head. Sonic put his hand on my shoulder and I turned away to hide my face with my free arm as my held back tears flowed out. I couldn’t stop. All my fears were coming back, I would be alone again just like I was in that lab. Just like I was on that night. I held my face in my hands.

“I know you were counting on me to save you… And I’m sorry I couldn’t.” He admitted. “But you became your own hero, and you saved me in the process. It didn’t matter if you couldn’t remember who you were because your freedom was with you the whole time. You were always free. You just needed to remember that.”

“But no one came for me! No one cared!”

“Sometimes we have to make the first move before someone can help us. I’m sure someone cared about you back then, just like we care about you! Even when you’re all alone, you still have everyone who ever cared for you in your heart. You carry them with you.”

“But what if we had never met? I’d still be there! I would have never learned the truth!”

“I don’t think so. When I met you, I knew you were someone who had her own way of doing things. You were able to find out the truth without my help, all I did was speed things along. That’s all.”

I was able to finally start drying my tears, he was making a lot of sense. He reached back into the quills on his back and handed me the file I had taken from the lab.

“Here. You almost left this behind but I picked it up before we left so you could have it. I’m not sure if you’ve read any of it yet. But I think it might help.”

“Thanks, Sonic… I’m sorry I was so worked up.”

“No worries, I know this is hard for you.”

I opened the file and started to read. Much of what was written were things I had remembered in the nightmare and the life I was living while in the base. There was nothing about my name written anywhere but the latest entry that was dated a week ago listed how old I was. Twenty-five.

“Looks like I turned Twenty-five last week.” I stated.

“Congratulations! We should celebrate!”

We did in fact celebrate. The whole time Amy had me out shopping, Sonic and Tails were planning a party for me. Something about a naming ceremony. Tails was eager to explain.

“Our culture has a ceremony where kids get to pick their names for the rest of their lives. We usually have it around 15 but you’re a special case. It’s kinda like a birthday but a lot better!”

“Tails had his last year!” Sonic beamed proudly.

“Why hold this ceremony for me?” I asked.

“It didn’t seem fair that Eggman stuck you with ‘Cat’ as a name so we thought you might appreciate the chance to change that.” Sonic replied.

I couldn’t stop the grateful smile spreading across my face, “Okay! How does it work?”

Tails explained further.

“Well, first we start by throwing off our old given name by lighting a candle with our old name carved into it and letting the whole thing burn away. While the candle burns, we announce our new name to our friends and family and they are supposed to discuss it.”

“Discuss it?”

“Yeah, they’re supposed to talk to each other to see if the name fits the person. For me it was easy cuz I was already using my adult name anyway. I can thank Sonic for that.” Tails looked to Sonic with a smile.

“What can I say,” Sonic replied, “I’m good at handing out names.”

“Not for me!” I retorted. “Thanks to you Knuckles won’t call me anything but Tiny!”

Sonic chuckled and shrugged, “Hey, if the name fits…”

“Don’t!” I warned then looked to Tails with urgency, “Can I leave him out of my ceremony?”

Unfortunately, I was not able to leave Sonic out of the ceremony since he helped plan it. I didn’t expect so many people to be here for the party but Sonic had invited all of his friends to come and help me pick my new name. As we were all gathered in his small living room, they had me light the candle with my old name carved into it and start and naming process. To be honest, I had never really thought of an alternative name for myself.

“How about Tempest?” I suggested, with all the anguish and upset feelings I had had storming inside me that day. I thought the name was appropriate.

Everyone in the room collectively grumbled.

“I know three Tempests already, Hon. You need something more unique.” Rouge replied.

“Oh?”

“Yeah, Tempest is a pretty common name.” Amy explained.

“Every new kid on the block wants to call themself Tempest.” Vector added.

“Hm…” I thought a little more.

“I still like ‘Tiny’!” Sonic teased.

“I second that!” Knuckles snickered.

“Don’t! Don’t you start!” I snapped.

The room reverberated with a chuckle. The candle was still burning on. Tails warned me before the ceremony that a new name was supposed to be chosen before the candle reached its end. I was starting to get nervous.

“Let’s try something that fits your personality.” Amy suggested.

I gulped, no one here really knew me and the last thing I wanted was an examination of my personality. In fact, I was already hot under the collar from being the center of attention for so long. I wanted this over with quickly.

“In that case,” Knuckles piped up, “we should call her Loud Mouth.”

“That’s more a name for you!” I sniped back.

There were snickers floating around the room as Knuckles grimaced and looked away red faced.

“I kinda like where Knuckles is going there. You are pretty sassy.” Sonic commented.

I gave him a questioning look. Did I need to challenge him too?

“She does seem to have a fire-cracker spirit.” Espio commented.

“Okay, does Fire-cracker sound like a good name?” Tails asked.

I shook my head.

“No, something smaller than that.” Sonic said with a smirk.

I sent him a glare.

“Spit-fire?” Charmy suggested.

“I don’t want spit in my name!” I replied, “That’s gross!”

“Hm, Cherry bomb…?” someone muttered under their breath.

“Yeah! Cherry Bomb!” Amy exclaimed. “It’s cute and it sounds sassy!”

Everyone seemed to like the name, including myself.

The room was humming with everyone talking, as I thought about the possibility of being called Cherry Bomb for the rest of my life, I wasn’t so sure about it yet.

“Hold on!” Knuckles protested, “I don’t think that name fits her at all!”

“And why is that??” I retorted.

“Because!” Knuckles crossed his arms and grumped, “You have to actually do something to earn a name like that. I got my name from my fighting skills. Sonic got his name from his speed. Where is yours coming from?”

I was at a loss for words and it hurt. Sonic stood up in my defense.

“Actually, she’s done a lot to earn that name.” He said, “When we were still in that base as prisoners, she always had me beat when it came to snarky one-liners. And let’s not forget how often she’s clapped back at you.”

Knuckles glared Sonic down.

“Should I tell everyone about the door incident?”

Amy snickered. She remembered.

Knuckles grumbled and sat back down; he would relent for now it seemed. Sonic looked back toward me.

“Congratulations, Cherry Bomb!”

The candle on my old life burned itself out as the party went on. I got to spend more time with Sonic’s friends and knew with more certainty who I was.

The next day, I woke up with the weight of all my previous troubles gone. The sun wasn’t shinning, it was actually really overcast, but that didn’t stop my good mood. I hopped out of bed to go out into the world and make a difference for myself, I went outside to catch a sweet ocean breeze until I heard Tails scream.

“Look out!”

Before I could react, Metal Sonic zoomed in and caught me around the waist. It was enough to force the air out of my lungs. Sonic was quick to pursue as Metal carried me away, back toward what I could only assume was Eggman’s base.

“N-no! NO! Don’t! Don’t let him take me!” I cried in a panic.

I worked so hard to get myself free physically and mentally, to regress now would be the end. I reached out for Sonic who was right behind and closing in. He could almost reach me until Metal threw me forward and turned to deliver a blow to Sonic’s gut using all the momentum that his opponent had built up behind him to do the damage. Sonic was down. I was petrified, I knew running was useless, all I could do was watch in terror was Metal made his way toward me to snatch me up again.

I had nearly resigned to return to my old life until Knuckles swooped in from nowhere and punched the side of Metal’s face. He knocked him down to the ground a few feet back just in time for Sonic to recover. In a matter of seconds, they were both beating Metal to bits. Knuckles’ fist connected with Metal Sonic’s core and that was the end of it. I was safe.

Knuckles dusted off his hands and gave me a snide look.

“Well, that takes care of that. I guess you’re not so much a Cherry Bomb after all.”

“Will you shut up?! How would you like it if something like that came after you?”

He scoffed and flexed his arms, “I could handle it.”

“Oh, sure. You and your last three brain cells.”

“Hey! I saved your life! You should be grateful!”

We glared daggers at each other.

“You honeymooners ready to go back inside or what? I’ve got an icepack with my name on it and I’m not gonna keep it waiting.” Sonic held his injured stomach with discomfort.

Knuckles grumbled something to himself and started on his way back to the house. I was about to follow but I took one last look back.

As Metal Sonic lay in pieces on the ground, I couldn’t help but feel guilty. Metal was my first friend after losing my memory. But after Sonic arrived, he was pushed to the sidelines because he couldn’t quite compete as far as actual social interaction went. Even so, it was because of Metal that I grew familiar with Sonic, they both shared a lot of mannerisms and that helped me feel more at ease around Sonic because I understood him before I even knew him. And even though Metal was a machine sent here to kill me or at the very least take me back to Eggman, I couldn’t help but feel a fondness as one would in finding an old childhood toy. Metal deserved a second chance just like I did. Maybe he needed someone to remind him that he was already free like I did?

“Guys…”

They turned and looked my way.

“What if I fixed him?”

“Are you crazy??” Knuckles exclaimed, “We just saved you from that thing and now you want to fix it?”

“Hear me out! I think I can make him good or at least be on our side!”

“No way, Tiny! You’re playing with fire!” He picked me up and started to carry me under his arm like I was a sack of potatoes. No matter how much I squirmed and shouted he wouldn’t let go as he started walking back to the house.

Later that afternoon, I snuck back to where we had left Metal and I picked up all the pieces I could find and brought it into Tails’ workshop. He was more open to discuss the idea of fixing Metal and turning him into a good boy.

“Are you sure this is something that can actually be done?” Tails asked as he inspected some of the pieces that I had brought back.

“I think so. When I taught him how to play hide and seek, I wasn’t actually teaching but programing it into him. If we’re patient enough, I think the two of us can rewrite some of his coding.”

“Isn’t that kinda like brainwashing though…?”

I stared at Tails and blinked.

“…Tails… Sweetie… Sass-bucket… He’s a machine. He don’t got no brain to wash!”

Tails pouted at me a bit then pondered the possibilities, “I guess we could try it…”

A week later, after we had been working on our project in secret, Sonic entered the workshop by himself without any forewarning and was dumbfounded to find both Tails and I working late into the night trying to place Metal Sonic’s head on a mannequin that we had found discarded. We all paused in stunned silence for a few moments while Sonic blinked a few times. Perhaps in an effort to make sure his eyes were working properly.

“Guys…” He questioned, “Why is there an oddly familiar scarecrow in our workshop?”

Tails was slowly losing his nerve. But I was determined.

“We’re making Metal Sonic a good guy.” I replied.

“Okay…” Sonic subtly nodded and scratched his chin. “And uh… why? Are you doing this?”

“Cuz… we can?”

“Fair enough…” He turned around and walked right back out of the workshop.

Tails and I looked at each other for a second to make sure that really did happen. Afterwards we went right back to working away, we almost got Metal’s head to stick on when Sonic zoomed right back in.

“Wait a minute!”

This startled Tails and he lost his grip on Metal’s head causing it to fall with a loud CLANK.

“Just what do you guys think you’re doing??”

I saw Metal’s eyes flicker on for a second.

“SH!”

“Don’t shush-!”

“SSSSSHSHSHHSHSH!! He’s awake!” I whispered.

Metal blinked, only one of his eyes rolling around, blindly looking around the room. He pinged out P0-L0 as he continued to look. We were all dead silent. I looked over at the pieces of his body left scattered on the worktable. They didn’t move.

“P0-L0” He chimed again until his eyes flickered out and we could all breathe in peace.

“This is exactly what I was afraid of!” Sonic commented. “You sure this is really a good idea?”

“It should be fine!” I reassured, “Tails and I looked into all his parts and found that his optics don’t work so he couldn’t really see us.”

“That’s not what I’m talking about! You’re trying to piece together a killing machine!” He pulled me aside and murmured, “I know you’re kind of attached to him, but Metal’s dangerous.”

“I know that… But we’re only going one piece at a time. We’ll try to get his head right first. Then it’ll work! He deserves a second chance too.”

Sonic looked at Metal and sighed.

“Alright, just don’t go overboard and let him loose. Okay?”

I agreed and Sonic went to bed after grumbling something about how he was too tired for this.

Tails and I worked long hours into the night, reprogramming Metal and getting small pieces to work and respond. By the time we finally went to sleep it was in the early hours of the morning. I sent Tails to bed half an hour before I turned in. After I shut off the light to the workshop, Metal Sonic’s eyes flickered on again. I waited. Metal chimed P0-L0 and waited. Against my better judgement I called out ‘Marco’ then Metal started to play an audio recording.

“I don’t care what it takes for you to bring her back. Even if you have to kill her! Get me my test subject at any cost! I need that data to complete my research, got it?”

Then Metal shut off again. Spooky bastard.

The afternoon after, I hadn’t even gotten a chance to wake up and Knuckles was already in my face shouting.

“I thought I told you not to play with fire!” He scolded.

I grunted and turned over to go back to sleep. He pulled me back over.

“Oh no you don’t! You don’t get to snuggle up all cozy while I’m talking to you!”

I slapped my hand into his face and pushed him away.

“Just let her rest, Knucklehead.” Sonic said from the kitchen. “It’ll give us a chance to throw Metal in the dumpster.”

“Don’t you dare!” I said and started to sit up.

“So now Sleeping-Tiny decides to wake up, huh?” Knuckles snorted then walked over to the kitchen to snack.

I stretched out my arms and slowly started to ease out of bed. It took me a while to get ready for the day considering Knuckles was hounding me every chance he got. But once I was fully awake, I set him straight.

“Listen, tough guy! This is a project Tails and I have been working on for a whole week! If you screw this up, I’ll give you something to really be fussing about!”

“Ha! I’d like to see you try!”

He started on his way toward the workshop but Tails blocked the door.

“Out of the way, Tails!”

“No way! I worked hard on this too! I’m not gonna let it go to waste!”

Knuckles sighed heavily and glared back at me. Checkmate.

“Fine!” He yielded, “But from now on, you don’t work on this thing unless I’m watching over you guys.”

Tails and I groaned.

Regardless of Knuckles’ presence, Tails and I continued to work. Busying ourselves with reprogramming Metal a bit more. We finally had his software set up that if a certain lyric was hummed or sung, he would automatically shut off. Tails and I recorded our voices several times in order to make sure it would always work. We even brought Sonic in to do that same thing. I didn’t know he had such a good singing voice.

Knuckles only found the whole process silly and refused to record anything. We left him alone as I continued to work on reprogramming Metal and Tails worked on fixing Metal’s busted parts with whatever we had lying around.

“We need to do something about his optics.” Tails mentioned as he was affixing the broken metal end of a screwdriver to Metal’s left hand as a replacement fingertip.

“Hm… Maybe we could use an old video camera?” I suggested as I was reading through some lines of code trying to pinpoint where I could make the necessary changes.

“Too expensive. I don’t think we have one of those anyway.” Tails replied.

“Why fix his eyes at all?” Knuckles questioned, “He’ll be safer without them.”

I sent Knuckles a glare.

“We’re giving him a second chance not neutering him!” I remarked.

“Whatever…” Knuckles scoffed, “Just don’t come crying to me if he wakes up and tears you to pieces.”

“If I recall correctly, you came crying to us!”

Knuckles scoffed again.

“Cherry,” Tails said, “what if we settled on a motion detector for Metal’s eyes? It’s not the best but it could work as a good replacement for the time being.”

“Yeah, that should work. It’s probably better than giving him full vision before his reprogrammed.”

“Do you really need to be doing that?” Knuckles asked, “Just erase everything and start over or something.”

“I can’t do that! Eggman has a fail-safe in all his machines that if their programming is deleted the basic stuff is reinstalled and takes over.”

“So basically,” Tails queried, “it goes back to factory settings?”

“Pretty much.”

“But I’ve been watching you go through line after line and it’s driving me nuts!” Knuckles complained.

“Then watch something else!”

Knuckles grunted and slumped onto the nearest seat to pout. As we continued to work, he fell asleep at one of the worktables. I tried to ignore him but his snoring was just so loud! Even Tails needed to take a break and went outside to spend time with Sonic on the beach. I was in the process of reattaching Metal Sonic’s arm to his torso when Knuckles nearly rattled the windows. I walked over to him and shook his shoulder to wake him up. No luck. After pulling my hand back to go back to work I saw that I had mistakenly left a handprint of oil on him. Then I got a mischievous idea. While he continued to sleep, I drew a mustache, bushy brows and a goatee on his face. I snickered at my art for a moment then went back to work.

He slept like that for a while, I had finished with Metal’s arm and started getting the motion sensor attached as temporary eyes when Sonic walked in.

“WHO’S READY TO PARTYYYYYYYYYY!”

I jumped in my seat, Knuckles jolted awake and Metal’s eyes flickered on.

“Give us a warning before you charge in here like that! Jeeeez!” I exclaimed.

Sonic shrugged.

“Sorry, I didn’t think it would be so quiet in here.” He saw Knuckles’ face and snickered but didn’t say a word about the beautiful artwork I had left on it. “Anyway, Tails and I are setting up a bonfire on the beach. You wanna join us?”

“Sure, let me just reach a stopping point and we’ll join you.”

Knuckles eyed me with suspicion, somewhat cluing into Sonic’s snicker but not completely catching on. A few minutes later, Tails walked in to tell us we needed to hurry if we wanted any roasted marshmallows. At seeing Knuckles’ face he also started to snicker. He left the room before Knuckles could ask just what was so funny. I continued to work in silence, pretending that I didn’t notice until Knuckles walked over and picked me up by the nape of the neck.

This was a very odd sensation, everything I was holding in my hands fell out and I couldn’t move my arms or legs. All I could do was hang there as he lifted me up.

“I don’t know why, but everyone around here seems to think something’s funny and I have a sneaking suspicion you’ve got something to do with it!” He said as he glared into my eyes.

I averted mine.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about!” I replied.

“Is that so?”

“Y-yup!”

“What are you hiding from me?!”

“Nothing! I think you’re just imagining things. It’s probably nothing!”

“We’ll see about that!”

He rushed out of the workshop and toward Sonic and Tails who were relaxing around the bonfire. He thrust me out toward them and exclaimed.

“WHAT DID SHE DO?”

Sonic and Tails did their best to hold in their snickers but as soon as Knuckles asked, they were howling with laughter. I knew for sure my goose was cooked. I just hoped he didn’t get any ideas about throwing me into the fire.

“I KNEW IT!” He shouted. “WHAT DID YOU DO?”

“Go look in a mirror!” Sonic replied between his laughter and gasps for air.

Knuckles promptly dropped me and ran inside to go see what Sonic meant. I started running down the beach to keep him from picking me up again. As I was running, I heard Knuckles shout from the house.

“YOU’RE DEAD-MEAT, TINY!”

I looked back and saw he was chasing after me, fists at the ready. I ran faster and screamed.

“JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!” He bellowed.

He chased me down the beach for what seemed like forever. I was going to run out of track soon, I needed to find a place to hide! I ran into a collection of trees by the beach, they got thicker the further I ran in. Perfect! If I was careful, he’d lose sight of me and I could double back to the house and get back to work. Maybe even find a better hiding place if it came down to it.

Before I could get too far into the brush he reached out and snagged me again. This time by the arm.

“Draw on my face, will ya? I’ll show you!”

“You deserved it!” I shouted as I tried prying his hand off. “Next time don’t snore!”

He dragged me back to the beach and toward the ocean, he actually seemed like he was having fun. This was a bad sign! He was gonna do something but what?

“That’s big talk from a little fire-cracker!” He teased.

I pulled my arm back and started running again but he grabbed me by the nape of my neck again. Now that I was aware, I tensed up my arms and legs and started squirming so I could move them this time.

“No fair! Let me go!” I shouted and tried to kick him.

He dodged my kick and chuckled.

“Nice try, Tiny! But I won this time!”

I crossed my arms and pouted.

Knuckles seemed to think this was funny.

“Aaaw, is de wittle Chewwy Bomb upset?” He mocked and started to poke my cheek. “Is she sad cuz big stwong Knuckles outsmarted her?”

“If this is what you call outsmarting, I’d hate to see what you call a genius move.” I remarked. “And will you quit jabbing my face? You’re gonna leave a bruise or something!”

Knuckles only laughed.

“Oh, am I being too rough on your poor sensitive cheekies?” He started boring his finger into my cheek with more force.

I had had enough! As he continued to poke my cheek, I turned my head and bit his finger.

“OW!”

As soon as he dropped me, I bolted for the house leaving him behind to bemoan his injured hand and shout threats at me. I ran past Sonic and Tails and into the workshop. Knuckles was soon behind me but couldn’t find me in the shop anywhere. I stayed as quiet as I could as he searched the workshop for me.

“You can’t hide forever!” He shouted.

I continued to hide where I was, my muscles where aching at all the effort but I was confident he would give up before too long. He looked around one last time, sighed then left the room. I waited until I could hear him washing off his face in the bathroom and finally climbed down from the rafters above the door. He gave up looking for me after that and I could continue to work on re-coding Metal Sonic in silence.

I continued to work late into the night again as my friends told stories and sang songs around the fire. Knuckles had left the door open to the workshop so I could hear all of it from where I was working. I just finished re-coding Metal and rebooted him to get the code working. I set up the laptop I was borrowing to display what Metal Sonic was seeing, it looked like his original optics are were pretty damaged but still working and with the assistance of the motion sensor he at least could see something if it was moving. His eyes flickered on and looked at me. I could see the pixelated, blurry and incomplete image myself in the screen of the laptop. He didn’t seem to recognize me as he chimed ‘P0-L0’ a couple of times. I smiled and leaned in closer so he could get a better look at my face.

“Good Morning, Metal! It’s me! My name is Cherry Bomb!”

. . .

Thank you for reading - you can find previous chapters here:

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cutegirlmayra · 7 years ago

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I’m trying hard to find time to do these, it’s tough, but hopefully, Thanksgiving break will give me time to write! :D I’m working on my fanfictions currently since my readers are saying it’s been a long time since I’ve written. Please, stay tuned!

Here are just a FEW of the same concepts I've already done for this. Because so many requested, I’ll do a new one. But here are some others from the same category! (x) (x) (x)

And now, for your feature presentation!

Combined plot of all listed above: Jap Sonic Team meet Boom!counterparts. Jap Sonic meets Boom!Amy and Jap Amy meets Boom!Sonic while he kinda likes her affections. :)

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After a nasty wormhole sends our team blasting through a parallel dimension, it’s up to Sonic Team to find their missing members and collect the Orb of Dimension back from wherever it has fallen too.

Boom!Eggman is scuba-diving for ore and rare materials, before looking up and seeing something like a comet up above him. “Oh-ho! Look at this ore! it’s bound to be useful in my latest and greatest- uh... Cubot, what have I said about the manning the spotlight!?” He abruptly turns around, having his eyes almost blinded by the orb firing down into the water, knocking straight into his face.

Orbot and Cubot rush him to the Medic, where Doc slaps bandages over his eyes and states that he’s lucky to still see.

Being blindfolded, Eggman’s convinced he’s ruined for at least a week until he can start wearing shades, but the orb fascinated him as he can now ‘superhuman’ feel the power from it. But Orbot’s convinced he’s just letting this ‘blind for a week’ thing, get to his head a little too much...

The first to fall and meet someone is Japanese Amy, who lands and gets tangled up before the Gogobas act like she’s ruined their natural sunroof. In guilt, she agrees to help them out and ends up working and creating a spa-treatment center in the middle of the jungle for them.

Sick of how they treat her, she blows up in their face and destroys everything she created, before stopping off and not letting them get the better of her.

She ends up returning to remake what she destroyed and then takes off, but by then, she sees something blue speed by in the jungle.

Excite bubbles within her and she leaps after it. “SOOONICC!!! Aw, he must be looking for me! He’s so sweet~”

“W-wait. Oh, that’s fine. Pursue your own interests as we lie here with only one coating of essential oils. It’s fine. Not like we’re sitting ducks for monsters who like good smelling things... it's perfectly understandable.” Then they’re attacked by large birds and scatter screaming from the spa-treatment center she set up.

“Sonic!”

Boom!Sonic hears something sort-of familiar, and halts in his racing to find Boom!Tails- since he technically just knocked out another Tails and tied him up in his buddy’s storage closet.

“Amy?” Sonic turns around, skidding to a halt.

The second he does, he notices her running towards him in a different outfit, a cute red dress with white lining, and arms stretched out to him.

Unfamiliar with the protocol, he stands there and lets her tackle him down.

Luckily, he balances himself out before he falls. “W-wo-woah! What’s this for!?”

“Oh, Sonic! I was so worried about you! I accidentally got lost and found these awful people that made me feel bad about ruining their ‘priceless’ tree, though it looked pretty ordinary to me, and then I was a spa-slave, and then I saw your shining blue and followed my heart’s pull, and AH~ Sonic~ I’m so happy to be with you again!” She shook and rubbed her head against his chest and squeezed before feeling something off...

She blinked her eyes open from the adrenaline and moved back, not letting him go, but noticed the strange bandana around his neck. “...Did you get...” she looked all the way up to his nervous and confused expression. “Taller?”

“A-Amy, woah-!”

She hugged him again, “Emm! You’re thinner too~ hehe! That wormhole really sucked a lot out of ya, huh?”

“I-I-I’m not saying this isn’t nice or anything-AH! Maybe under the right circumstances, it could be- EEE! Even nice or.. something, but-AHHEE! Can you let me go now?” He tried to move her away, but the more he struggled, the more awkward it got. She finally saw him drape down and give up, slouching his head to her shoulder as she giggled and stepped away.

“You’re not really my Sonic, are you?” she grinned, much more calmly now. “I figured the wormhole Eggman sent us through would take us somewhere strange and different... but I never thought I would meet a cosplayer here!” she beamed.

“W-wormhole? You said wormhole, just like that Tails-imposter from- WAI-WAI-WAIT. WAIT. Hold up. COSPLAYER?!” Sonic was thinking to himself as Japanese Amy put a finger up to her mouth to circle him and figure it out, but Sonic shook his hands out to stop her examining.

“I am Sonic!” he defended, pointing to himself.

She giggled again, “Oh, of course, you are. Teehee~” she swayed her body a bit, “The brave, the bold, the magnificent and charming~ the handsome and discreet~ The lone ranger...” she walked around him again, clearly up to something but he soaked in the praise and held his head up.

“Hey, you’re no Amy, but I like the way you talk!” he praised.

“Hehe! If you like it, maybe Sonic does too!” she kicked up a leg behind her, being cute as Sonic smiled.

“You’re not like my Amy at all... All she does is yell and boss me around..” he pouted, folded his arms.

“Emm... maybe you just don’t see how much she does praise and care you... cause you only focus on all the negative things like that.” Japanese Amy felt a stirring in her heart again, peering down through some foliage and nodding. “I say my Sonic’s this way. Call it my girlish intuition! A girl in love can always find her true love~ This way!”

“W-wha-huh?” Sonic was shocked by her directness, “H-hey, wait a second! You make it sound like I’m not seeing something! Wait! It’s dangerous that way! Come back! What do you mean ‘your’ Sonic???” Sonic took off after her, before looking behind his shoulder, “W-well.. I should take her back with the other imposter b-but...” he looked ahead, as she cutely turned back and waved to him with a huge smile, before taking off again.

“I.. Don’t want her to get hurt,... right? I guess so? H-hey! Do you like mehburgers?!”

“Huh? I can’t hear you! Oh well, I’m coming my darling Sonic! We’ll be together soon enough! I won’t let anything stand in my way!”

Sonic gulped, “A-anything?” he moved under some bushes and then over a log, watching her fling herself over it with her hammer. “Well, she’s got Amy’s grace, I’ll give her that much...” he followed behind her, just like that!

A while away, Boom!Amy was trying to hit this Sonic wanna-be who kept talking about strange things.

“Hold still!” she swung her hammer but he narrowly dodged it.

He whistled, “Nice shot!” he smirked and gave her a thumbs up and a charming wink, laid out on a branch, messing with her.

She growled before hoisting her hammer over her shoulders again. “What kind of cheap, robot are you!?” she was getting exhausted, “But I won’t lie.. Eggman’s certainly got the smirk down pat..” she huffed out.

Sonic placed a hand to his hip, “You’re pretty bent on calling me a fake, aren’t you?”

“Heh. I know Sonic. You’re most certainly not him!” she got her hammer out again, ready to try once more before he jumped down, and moved right up to her.

This startled her, and she blinked while moving back, “H-huh?”

“You know...” he stood confidently, but there was a gentleness in his eyes as he approached, but Amy swung her hammer over herself.

“Watch it! Stay w-where you are!”

He continued his kind smile now, “I know Amy too.” he lighlty put a hand to her hammer, making her pause and look up to him with her heart racing.

“And I know she will always do what she feels is right.”

Smitten, she dropped her hammer to her side. “For a robot... you sure have his eyes...”

He smiled and tilted his head, “For a look-a-like Amy... you sure do swing like her.” he kid, and they lightly laughed together.

Coming back to Tails’s workshop, Japanese Sonic was surprised to see Knuckles and Boom!Knuckles duking it out on the floor, rolling around as they kept insulting each other. He shook his head left and then right, surprised by the other Knuckles. “That’s a huge Knuckles.. what’d you feed him?” He then shook his head in embarrassment for his friend and put a hand to his face. “So embarrassing...” he lightly let out.

“I’m not not Knuckles!” “But I AM Knuckles!” “Oh yeah!?” “YES!!! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!” “If you're Knuckles.. then you must be the only one! Who am I then!? Augh! This minds my hurt! I’m taking you down, hurt minder!!!!”

Boom!Amy also looked ashamed at their behavior, before looking up to Sonic, “I’m not gonna lie, but...”

“He’s not the brightest, is he?” Sonic flat out said it, making her twitch at his bluntness.

“H-he’s... he’s our lovable Knuckles.” she lightly chuckled, “And hey! For the record! Only we can say stuff about our Knuckles, deal?” she stood up for him by poking Japanese Sonic in the chest, but he smiled at her courtesy to her friends and nodded.

“Yep, you’re Amy alright!”

She blushed, but freaked out by it and clamped her hands to her face. “Ah! What’s wrong with me?! haha, fever! that must be it! Nothing to see here! EMMMMM.” She grumbled all the way to the sink, washing her face to try and conceal what she was feeling.

“huh?” Sonic shrugged, “What’s wrong?”

When Japanese Amy and Boom!Sonic showed up, she peeked her head in the door, “Excuse us... AH!” she opened her mouth wide into a huge grin and charged for her Sonic. “DARLINNNG~”

“Ah!” Sonic got spooked and raced away, before trying to dodge her by the long table, making sure to be strategic as she tried to round it, he would move away in the opposite direction.

“Ohh... Why are you being like that? I missed you!” she pushed her fists down before folding them, groaning at his distance as he smiled sheepishly. “Aren’t you glad I’m alright?”

“Sure am! I’m happy from right over here!”

“OHHH! Sonic!”

Boom!Sonic then whammed over the door, halfway down the doorframe and looking utterly exhausted.

He crawled into the room and collapsed. “Finally... how do you.. ugh... put up with her energy?”

He had black under his eyes, twigs, and leaves in his hair, looking real torn up.

“Hehe~ At least he’s a gentleman.” Japanese Amy threw out her hip to her Sonic, and raced to the ground for Boom!Sonic. “Ohh.. Are you alright?” she hugged him as he jolted and lifted a leg up.

“ACK!”

Japanese Sonic didn’t know how to react at first, before pouting and folding his arms. “Hmph.” he didn’t comment more than that, before hearing shifting in the closet.

He cautiously opened it and out fell a restrained Japanese Tails, all tied up and gagged.

“Woah! Tails!” Sonic quickly untied him and he let out a huge breath, coughing.

“Thanks, Sonic..” he then glared up at Boom!Sonic. “He locked me in there!”

Japanese Amy dropped Sonic cold, “You what!?” she got up, insulted. “How dare you treat your friends that way! Hmph!” she walked back to her Sonic, who nervously stood his ground and let her take hold of his arm.

He seemed to smile and turn his head from her, but his eyes watched her as she stuck her tongue out at the other Sonic and bent some of her lower-eyelid down to mock him.

Boom!Sonic reared his head up, growling and slightly jealous that he had lost her affections for a moment. “I thought he was Eggman’s creation or even Steve!”

“Steve?”

“A guy we know.”

“AMY!” Boom!Sonic dashed over to her, as Japanese Sonic’s eyes shifted between their conversation.

“You believe me, right?” he gestured his hands out, as Boom!Tails walked in with a newspaper, closing the door with his foot and losing engrossed in it. Not even seeing what was going on. He walked right through the squabbling Knuckles and sat down at his work-bench.

The other Tails grew curious and followed after him, not caring about Boom!Sonic’s treatment of him anymore and looked over his shoulder.

“Of course, I thought he was a robot too.”

Sonic sighed, “See.. I knew you would under-”

“But that doesn’t mean I’d lock him in a closet, Sonic.” she shifted her weight, putting her hands to her hips, and giving him the lowered eyes of sheer judgment.

“WHAT?!”

“Oh, now I get it.” Japanese Sonic smirked, watching the two with knowing eyes.

“Huh? Get what?” Japanese Amy released his arm, and moved up next to him, curious about what he was talking about.

Sonic nervously looked her way, as if not wanting to tell her, “Oh.. uh.. you know.. just something.” he rubbed his nose lightly.

“Ehh? Tell me, tell me!” she persisted, hopping on her two feet as he smiled down to her and held up a finger, winking to quiet her down.

“Ah, but it wouldn’t be a secret then, you see?” he charmed her, and she whined a little. “Hehe, alright. I’ll tell you a little.” he leaned to whisper into her ear, covering his mouth with his hand and being silly. “They’re closer than it looks. Right?”

Amy blinked, before narrowing her eyes at the two arguing.

“You’re never on my side!” “You locked Tails’s other-dimensional guy in a closet. How can I side with you on that?” “You're just supposed too! It’s the idea! Not the moral!” “But the moral of’ whose idea to stand by’ should be right!”

As they bickered, Japanese Amy’s eyes widened with understanding and sparkled slightly at seeing some heart fly around them in her sight, along with anime bubbles.

She squee’d and threw her arms up to her face in tight fists, nodding profusely to Sonic. “Ohh! I see it! I see it! They’re so cute together!”

“Right?” Sonic smiled down, folding his arms before seeing the two lean over and holler at them.

“WHOSE CUTE TOGETHER!?”

They both chickened, Sonic remaining silent and Japanse Amy swaying her head adorably, “Nothing~” she chimed, giggling at them.

“What are you laughing at.” Amy narrowed her eyes at her before sighing, lifting her head back in defeat. “I can’t understand if she even gets there’s another her in front of her or not.”

“Huh? Oh, I knew! You’re pretty cute, just like me! Hehe! That’s why I knew you had to be my other dimensional self! You look so young too!” The flattery didn’t just work on Boom!Sonic, but Boom!Amy dropped her act and threw her hands up to her face, lifting a leg up.

“Ah~ You noticed my hard work! <3″

They were instant friends, holding hands and talking about things they enjoyed.

“Neh, neh~ What kind of eyeliner do you use?” (*Neh = hey, hey.) “What’s your favorite gardening plant?” “What do you like to bake the most?” “Have you two gotten engaged yet?” “Eh...”

Boom!Amy froze white in a twinkling of an eye...

Then Boom!Tails flipped out, “WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING IN MY WORKSHOP!? AND WHO ARE YOU GUYS!?”

They all gave mixed expressions.

After some time, Tails revealed that the newspaper talked about a meteor of somekind, no bigger than an Orb. The team agreed to stop Boom!Eggman was absorbing its powers to open thousands of dimensions all over the island.

Defeating and closing the portals, Sticks joined the fray and ended up capturing everyone, telling the ‘aliens’ to reveal themselves and give her back her real friends. Claiming something about Organ-farming, they finally convinced her of the truth, and she let them all go, handing back the orb to Japanese Sonic.

“Thank you! Little lady.” he winked, but she ‘pfft’d in his face.

“Don’t ‘thanks, lady’ me, bub. I know what you’re really after! Our organs! This isn’t that kind of island, you got that!?”

The Sonic team departed back to their dimension, as Japanese Amy wished Boom!Amy in good luck, and cautioned Boom!Sonic not to wait too long or-

Japanese Sonic pulled her further into the portal before she could say another word...

Boom!Sonic turned nervously to Boom!Amy, who just looked confused.

#sonamy #sonamy prompt #sonic prompt #sonicxamy #japanese sonic #modern sonic #boom!sonic #sonic boom #game sonic #cutegirlmayra #sonic #sega of japan

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154. Sonic Super Special #14

Law of the Land

Writer: Evan Skolnick and Jim Spivey Pencils: Suzanne Paddock and Harvo! Colors: Josh and Aimee Ray

This is more of a silly story, which, while the timeline isn't specified, I estimate to take place sometime before Eggman's return at the beginning of the era. This is due to the fact that it begins with Sonic and Sally strolling peacefully through the forest while discussing how nothing has been going on lately, a statement which is hugely at odds with what has been going on lately. Suddenly, a zone portal opens up in front of them, and two echidnas in riot gear burst through, slap Sally knocking her out, and grab Sonic while telling him he's under arrest for "extreme mental anguish and permanent emotional scarring," which if you ask me just sounds like an average day on Tumblr. They drag him through the portal into the city of Litigopolis, and take him to the castle, where the J.U.D.G.E. - the Judgmental Unrelenting Digitized Governmental Enforcer, which of course looks exactly like original Robotnik - is to sentence him for his apparent crimes. He's greeted by Johnny Snively, the prosecutor, but luckily for him his lawyer is Sally McAcorn, there to act as his defense. It takes them ten hours in court, but McAcorn eventually manages to get him out on bail, and explains how the law became so strict in the city.

Eventually, the amount of lawsuits and crimes became so high that the king hired Robotnik Enterprises to build the J.U.D.G.E., a supercomputer which was supposed to help manage the city's legal system. It of course quickly took over, sentenced the king to life in prison for "ruler malpractice," created a bunch of new, unreasonably strict laws to keep the populace fearful and complacent, and hired a bunch of echidnas as his security force. McAcorn tells Sonic that no one has tried to shut off the J.U.D.G.E. because of their fear of said security force, which is of course Sonic's cue to race away hoping to pull off just such a scheme. However, as expected, the moment he enters the J.U.D.G.E.'s HQ…

He runs for his life, deciding to abandon his attempt for now and racing back to safety at McAcorn's residence. She's irritated at his rash decision, thinking he's only made the case for his innocence worse, even though they now have video proof from amateur videographers on the streets that the original crime he was arrested for wasn't even committed by him.

Of course it would have been Evil Sonic, zone-hopper extraordinaire. McAcorn cautions Sonic against committing any more crimes, thinking it best to lay low as committing even one more crime might cause the J.U.D.G.E. to have a massive meltdown. And thus, Sonic gets his second crazy idea of the day.

The plan works, and the J.U.D.G.E. blows up, sending Snively flying out of the building. When Lieutenant Knuckles of the police force tries to show up to arrest Sonic once more, McAcorn simply whacks him with her suitcase. Sonic worries about how he'll get home, since the technology used to create the zone portals was destroyed in the explosion, but you know who always ends up showing up when zone-hopping takes place - Zonic, of course! He cheekily sends Sonic back off to his home zone before he can get a grateful kiss from McAcorn, which is probably a good thing even though Sonic's mad about it, because… well, c'mon buddy, that may be a Sally, but that's not your Sally!

Best of Times Worst of Times

Writer: Ken Penders Pencils: Steven Butler Colors: Josh and Aimee Ray

So Knuckles' whole story has kind of been put on hold lately, due both to the cancellation of his own series, and the Sonic Adventure adaption that had been taking up all the screentime until recently. But Penders has finally found a solution to this: from now on, until the end of the fourth era (with only a few exceptions here and there between issues), Knuckles and his race get the backup story all to themselves. Karl handles most of the main stories of each issue, which all deal with Sonic and Knothole and, you know, the main thing most people are probably coming to the comic to see, while Penders gets to handle everything past each halfway mark. I would say this is mostly a good thing, as there's quite a few loose ends that need to be wrapped up from KtE, and y'all already know I quite liked that series. However, now that all of Knuckles and the other echidnas' ventures have been reduced to backup stories within the main comic, the quality of said stories begins to suffer drastically. This story is of the same quality of the original KtE, probably because it gets to be a normal story length thanks to the double length of Super Specials, but it also marks the beginning point of a pretty infamous arc within the comic, simply dubbed the Green Knuckles Saga by many fans. Wondering what the hell the Green Knuckles Saga might be? Well, we only have a few issues left before we find out - so for now, let's press on!

This story hilariously opens with an honest-to-god *record scratch* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation" moment. A confused Knuckles finds himself running for his life from a massive, expanding orange blast of energy, which chases him all the way to the edge of his island. Having no other choice, he leaps for his life over the edge, into the ocean far below.

Well, that's probably not good. But how, indeed, did Knuckles *record scratch* get into this situation? It all began at his mother's wedding that morning. She and Wynmacher have finally gotten married, and while Knuckles is still a little torn about how to feel, ultimately he's happy for his mom, recognizing that Wynmacher really is a genuinely good guy.

Romance is in the air on this day, and Vector, predictably, has a bit of a sour attitude about it, flippantly dismissing the mood while Julie-Su happily hangs onto Knuckles' arm. They find Constable Remington in the crowd with his pretty companion Komi-Ko, but they don't get long to chat before he gets a call from the precinct, calling him back to deal with a brewing situation. While he leaves, telling Knuckles he'll call if he needs backup, we head over to Haven, where we find a very, very unexpected guest visiting.

Man, just when you thought Kenders had introduced enough grandfathers, we get one more! This guy is the father of Hawking, who if you'll remember is still lying in the medbay on life support in a coma. If you're wondering why we haven't heard of him before, it's because he apparently transcended his physical form a while ago so he could spend the rest of his "life" in quiet meditation in another zone, you know, as one does. However, just a little while ago he felt a disturbance in the Force, and realizing that Dimitri was amassing his forces for yet another attempt to take over the island and echidna civilization as a whole, Mathias just plopped himself back into the physical realm somehow so he could lead his many, many descendants into battle against the Dark Legion. I really just can't get over how this guy, never once mentioned or even hinted at before, has suddenly appeared out of goddamn nowhere to introduce the next plot hook. While this is going on, Knuckles, Julie-Su, and the rest of the Chaotix (still minus Charmy - he's really been missing for a long time now, hasn't he?) all saddle up on some streaking pashas and gallop out of the city to let off some steam. Really, now that the whole Chaos situation has been resolved, life seems positively idyllic on the Floating Island, doesn't it? After dropping Komi-Ko back off at her apartment, Remington hails a cab which just so happens to contain our old friend Harry, who is not at all happy to see him.

He tells Remington that apparently, General von Stryker has decided to organize a massive protest - meaning, since we're talking about the dingoes here, more like a riot - as apparently, conditions for the dingoes in the city still haven't improved, even despite Remington taking a personal interest. Remington is worried that with the High Council due to make a decision on the matter soon, things will quickly spiral out of control if the protest goes forward, and Harry apparently agrees, as he doesn't even demand payment for the cab ride, just telling Remington to forget he ever saw him there as Remington meets up with his men nearby. Meanwhile, we learn that Knuckles apparently didn't take everyone along on the pasha ride purely for leisure - he's in fact led them straight to the Grand Conservatory, the very place he first met Archimedes and fought Enerjak.

Well well, nice to see Julie-Su actually acknowledge the meeting she had with her adoptive father a while ago! Though it's certainly suspicious that he apparently just "disappeared" shortly thereafter… Now get ready for some rapid skipping around between characters! Knuckles isn't the only one who's come to the Grand Conservatory - Mathias has led the entire Brotherhood there, as it's apparently where the Dark Legion has holed up for now. Spectre rushes especially aggressively into the battle, with the others noting that this seems personal for him, and the entire Brotherhood teams up to begin the assault on the Legion's new makeshift base, causing them to begin an evacuation. Far away from here, Wynmacher and Lara-Le land in their personal aircraft on a landing pad at the "Albion Chalet," which despite its name is just a luxury destination on the Floating Island itself, for their honeymoon. At the same time, von Stryker leads his soldiers into their riot, firing their guns wildly into the air with the safeties off, shouting about how the echidnas aren't treating them nicely enough. Gee, I wonder why, General? Remington and his men arrive at the scene, and Remington orders everyone to hold fire, still hoping that he can convince the general to see reason. On Knuckles' side of the Conservatory, Legion members begin pouring into the room, and before Knuckles can react a group of soldiers grab Julie-Su and drag her off into one of their flying saucer vehicles, which flies away leaving the others unable to help her as they're attacked by more soldiers. And finally, back at Haven…

Man, I genuinely feel bad for Hawking - he was literally kept on life support this entire time, with obviously no hope of recovery, and he had to wait until everyone was out of the place to even be allowed to properly die. Remember, it's been nearly a year by now of him just lying on this table, with Locke even expending his own energies to keep Hawking alive at one point when he started to flatline. Julie-Su is taken to a large battleship flying just off the edge of the Floating Island, where Lien-Da gloats about capturing her and mockingly reminds her of how she's her half-sister, clearly still not over their father having remarried in the past. Geez, what a petty bitch, right?

Oh man, we finally get to see Simon again, as well as seeing Floren-Ca for the first time! Back on the bridge, Dimitri defends having had Julie-Su abducted to Moritori Rex, who has by now gotten rid of his visor to reveal perfectly normal-looking organic eyes (something which seems a little at odds with his previous backstory), saying that Julie-Su is still a part of his family whether Moritori likes it or not. Huh, didn't take you for the sentimental type, Dimitri. He then orders Moritori to fire the Quantum Beam, and it bursts out of the ship's cannons in an explosion of light, consuming every part of the Floating Island, interrupting every scene, happy and unhappy, over the entire island.

Goddamn. Honestly, this kind of reminds me of the scene from Sonic '06 where Solaris begins consuming all of time and space. Dimitri expresses regret that he had to pull the trigger with Knuckles still on the island, but ultimately recognizes that Knuckles only ever stood to get in their way, and claims that they can finally reclaim what is rightfully theirs. The ship flies off toward the island, which has begin to fade from existence as if into another dimension. No one is aware of Knuckles' survival, a lone figure floating unconscious on debris left in the waters far below…

#nala reads archie sonic preboot #archie sonic #archie sonic preboot #sonic the hedgehog #sonic super special 14 #writer: evan skolnick #writer: jim spivey #writer: ken penders #pencils: suzanne paddock #pencils: harvey mercadoocasio #pencils: steven butler #colors: joshua d ray #colors: aimee r ray

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