These are not songfics. Let me just get that fact out of the way right now. They're short stories inspired by songs. I discovered Scribbler doing something similar with the Kingdom Hearts Videogame series, and decided I'd like to give it a shot.
This one is set in an alternate ending of my Chaos Mythologies fanfiction (you can find it in my account). To all those who are already reading that, rest assured this will not happen in the actual fic, so this isn't a spoiler. Just a "what if?"
7. Sacrifice, t.A.T.u
'...Here I am.'
He's talking to... Well. To no one, really. There's nobody there. Just silence and endless corridors, thick with Chaos Energy. Where there used to be forestland and depth and life now there is only wreckage and destruction. The Neorex have taken away everything left the planet a torn up shell, and he's not sure exactly how he's still here.
Sonic had had something to do with that, he'd bet. He remembers the feeling of arms around his waist, a smile hiding the fear in familiar green eyes. He knows that Sonic wouldn't let him die. It takes him a moment to work out why.
'I. I know this is what I have to do, but...'
'But you're scared?' He feels the voice rather than hears it. It's deep, familiar and tinged with a frown and a smile at the same time.
'Yeah... Pretty much.'
The world begins to collapse around him. Like the entire chaos-ridden forest is made of nothing more than paper, being washed away. But he knows he can still reverse that if he only does this fast enough.
'We were all afraid in the end.'
'Yes. But... I'm not Sonic. Or Cosmo. Or Tails... I'm not you. I wasn't ever supposed to be a hero.' He lifts his left hand –the one holding the final Chaos Emerald. The only thing that can stop the Neorex and the only thing he'd been able to keep from being destroyed by rising Chaos. One won't be enough, he knows. But coupled with his own life force... his own energy... well... then, maybe...
The voice smiles in the back of his mind, already knowing what he will do. 'And that's precisely why you qualify. Go.'
And he does. With a smile, a raised hand and two singular uttered words that can reverse and undo everything.
Everything except for his own destruction. After all, he chose that himself.
'Chaos Control.'
"I will sacrifice
I will sacrifice
All I have in life
To clear my conscience."
