Metallic Need

by Cutegirlmayra1

Metal Sonic breaks out with a vengeance, set on a new theory that Sonic's friends give him strength, he creates his own support units and plans Sonic's destruction. However, Metal Amy is fascinated by organic life, and wishes to be more like them. Can Robots really feel? (MetalSonicxMetalAmy)CONTAINS:Kiss/Makeout,Master/Servant,Villain Love-Story so Abuse/Violence,Torture/RobotKill

6. S1, Chapter 6

Metallic Need

Ch. 6

By: Cutegirlmaya (This may or may not be the end. *Edited note: its not xp* I think I'll try and make it the finale. *Edited note: for season 1 B)* After this story is completed, I won't be posting anymore chapters on any other stories until my mission is complete. So… Yeah XD I hope you enjoy all my stories! And they'll surely entertain you until I get back ;) It was a pleasure writing for you all. Farewell~ *Edited note: I've been back! Yay :D* Please remember there is a song for Metallic Need called "I'm just an Error" and it's on youtube! I'll place the lyrics below.)

When Metal Amy was set down and left alone while the three other Metal counterparts departed to speak, she quickly opened her eyes. Disguising them to be red, she kept up appearances, and turned on her communication system.

A chibi Tails's head and two swaying up and down tails flicked on screen with a 'DOWNLOADING…PROCESSING…LOADING SOFTWARE…' that came on at different times as the animation displayed Tails's head to have his eyes open with a big grin, before tilting down into a closed-eyed smile.

Then, Tails's image flickered on, "Testing, one, two, three. M.A? Can you read me?" it was a lot like a skype call, but could only be projected in her eye screens.

Within her mind, she replied. 'Affirmative. All systems downloaded.'

"Excellent!" Tails smiled, proud of his achievement in converting her 'spy system' into a mental communication line for her. "Wonderful to hear from ya again! But um… well, we do… uh.. have some questions…" Tails grew awkward, scratching behind his head and having some sweat drip down the side of his face, showing a nervous smile at the topic…

Thankfully, the sound was only within her head, which meant it wasn't projecting outward so her former master and associates couldn't hear what came on next…

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Amy burst into view on the communication call, making Tails lean back and to the side of his chair, awkwardly being pinned away from the camera as Amy slammed her hands on the table that seemed to be in front of the computer screen. "He totally cradled you and said, 'I'm glad… you are still mine.' I mean, what was that all about!?" Amy, when describing how Metal Sonic had previously acted at the lake, mimicked him by pretending to hold something and stroke it face, even puckering her lips to give it a 'romantic/dramatic' effect. She then leaned in towards the camera as Metal Amy felt the awkwardness just from seeing her so close, and wished she could zoom out…

"Amy! You're embarrassing her..!" Tails stated, "And me..!" he pushed her face back and away from the camera before looking towards it. "Uhh… I know this must be an odd situation for you,… but… what exactly… are you to him?" Tails asked, trying to be sensitive on the matter and lowered his ears. He was really shocked to see such a blood-thirsty robot show any amount of kindness to anything! And he wasn't even sure that was kindness… but that definitely looked romantic! That's for sure… even with the death threat involved… it was weirdly cryptic and they knew they must have been missing important details to the scene.

"Probably something we don't understand."

Metal Amy's eyes widened at the voice off screen, as Tails and Amy looked to the right of them.

"What do you mean, Sonic?" Tails asked.

'…Sonic…' Metal Amy's eyes turned softer, seeming ashamed that he had seen that, and grew greatly embarrassed. Her simulated sadness showed her eyebrows bend up slightly, truly a look of self-pity. The two looked back to her on the screen.

Sonic's hand then came up as he turned the computer screen to him, and all Metal Amy could see was his smiling face pulling the screen to him as he leaned towards it.

"I can't say I'm not weirded out by what I just saw and heard… but I will say it's none of my business, and that I don't understand Robots very much. Besides, you know how to blow them up. So I'm sure we're all just thinking 'organically' right now. So, whatever happened was just different because of perspective, right?" Sonic was being very reasonable with his logic, maybe even a bit comical, but Metal Amy knew he was wrong. Metal Sonic had not only shown care for her, he also revealed her worst fear….

He had the capacity to feel too…

Which meant…

Error.

Was Metal Sonic really just like her? But had rejected his emotions, which was unlike her, who embraced her feelings and grew a better understanding because of them.

Was she… the superior one?

Such thinking frightened her as she felt that Metal Sonic was meant to be perfect, and if he-himself-was flawed then… what…

What is perfection?

"..M.A?" Tails's voice was heard off-screen before he tugged the computer back towards him, showing his curious face at her silence to Sonic's question. Only the top half of his face came on screen, tilted by the angle, but his face was clear in his innocent concern.

'…It… is as you say.' She lied. '…It's not to the understanding of Organics.' She didn't want them to know Metal Sonic was erroring, even to the degree that he actually showed some form of fondness for her.

They may not understand… or get even more confused by it.

She feared the unknown, as most Organic behavior was unknown to her, and so she couldn't compute what they're reactions to her theory would be. Especially now that it seemed more factual than ever before.

"…Well, it's alright. I'm sure it has an explanation, you just can't really put it into words." Tails scratched his head again, not liking that he couldn't really know, but letting it go. "Anyway, we know he's planning to attack Eggman again, and I've already sent the Doc a warning. He seemed really frantic about that news though, and asked that we protect him while he's getting his defenses back in order…" Tails slowly rolled his eyes horizontally to Sonic, blinking them in sarcastic annoyance.

Sonic looked to him and lifted his hands up in a shrug. "You can't blame me for trashing his toys, Tails. It's part of my standard 'bust Eggman's chops' protocol." Sonic wittily retorted, humorously unfazed by Tails's judging gaze.

"He was whining about not having any defenses because of YOUR last attack, Sonic! Show some sympathy and guilt for your actions!" Amy cried back, not liking how Sonic wasn't looking the least bit remorseful for Eggman's lack of security.

"Hey, he builds them, I destroy them. It's the circle of life." He spun his finger around in a circle, as Metal Amy simulated a giggle, finding Sonic's behavior to be odd and out of the norm. Because of this, her 'heart' data was triggered to think it funny.

"More like a straight line." Amy looked away, mockingly. Sonic glared back at her, not understanding her analogy.

"How so? He keeps building, I keep destroying. It's a round, never-ending circle." He moved behind Tails as she did too, so you could see them bickering in the background as Tails looked even more annoyed by their distraction.

"Well, considering that time you bothered him for no reason-"

"I thought he had something to do with Metal! That's not-!"

"You always rush into things and, not trying to side with Eggman or anything, but you don't often think of other people's feelings! Like mine for instance! When you blew me off to go and try and find Metal on your own! I thought we decided it was date night…" She grumbled as Tails leaned forward, his elbows on the counter, his scrunched up fingers digging into his head. Clearly, he didn't want to be in the middle of this mindless argument…

"First of all, I had a plan. Beat up Eggman and find Metal face. Granted, it was a simple plan, but a PLAN nonetheless!"

Tails took the computer and started walking out of the room.

"And I never agreed to 'date nights'. I mean, where do you get these ideas!?"

Tails shut the door as Metal Amy wished he didn't leave. She was quite worried about the argument but Tails seemed to act like it was no big deal.

He sighed, setting the computer down on his table in front of his couch, then bending down so she saw him well. "They don't usually fight, but when they do, it can be quite… loud sometimes…"

That's... an organic fight?

She wondered how so, since Sonic's reasoning was logical and justified by the situation. But the look on Amy's face... he denied to having promised her anything, then why did Metal Amy want to side with her? She had mentioned people's feelings...

At least she admired that they weren't using combat... Sonic truly was different than her master.

Her previous master...

'I..I see. They both seemed pretty upset.' Metal Amy stated her fears at last.

"Eh, not really. I think Amy starts by trying to make a point, and then kinda just… follows along with her feelings, thinking it's the only time she'll have to keep him there and listening to her. She can get desperate for his attention sometimes… even if he's arguing with her, she still likes to know he's there and listening." Tails rolled his eyes, "And I'm sure Sonic might get a kick out of it too, though he doesn't show it much, I think that's how he expresses himself with Amy. So… it's bad and good. Either way, they don't fight for long, and they're right back to their old selves again."

'….' Metal Amy admired how Sonic would never hurt Amy, even in rage, he would simply fight it out with words and not actions, unlike Metal Sonic… who didn't mind shredding up his support to quell his own frustrations. Sonic and Amy… though not what she knew to be a typical romantic relationship, seemed to get along well anyway. She knew she could never have that kind of relationship with anyone… and slightly envied them for how close they were. Even after their fight, they would continue to be friends, organics were so interesting… and yet… strange as well.

Forgiveness.

Something Metal Sonic didn't possess, nor want.

But that moment… at the lake…

"Stop."

He really did stop her from exacting out her painful electric short-circuit in the water there… maybe…

Does not compute… or maybe… she didn't want to compute it.

Metal Sonic became more and more confusing to her logic by the minute. On one hand, he's so vile and wicked, and the other… a conflict in him that maybe was defeated a long time ago, but now… she's resurfacing those old battles within himself.

'I find their 'expressing themselves' to be a bit… endearing… though scary too.' Metal Amy responded, as Tails looked to the screen a bit surprised, but then smiled and nodded his head, looking up as if agreeing but not really wanting too.

"Yeah, I guess so. Anyway, your next mission is to let us know when he plans to attack, we'll be ready to move out beforehand and stop him on the way."

'Mission confirmed.' Metal Amy's data systems scanned the new command and started implementing it immediately. Thinking of plans, Metal Amy got up slowly and looked behind her shoulder, checking… 'Commencing spy gear?'

"Commenced confirmed." Tails winked and shut the communication systems off.

He was probably still watching, but it was back to how it was. A silent watcher to a secret plot to kill an old master, Metal Amy thought it all pretty intense.

Slowly getting up, Metal Amy moved along the wall and listened behind her as the three other robots spoke.

"We should attack as soon as it's repaired." Metal Knuckles stated.

"As soon as possible." Metal Tails glared to him, "We can't give them time to repair themselves."

"Yes… we need to attack, even with moderate damages done, we can't let this chance slip away.." Metal Sonic's voice sounded dark and scheming,… there was clearly more to his plan than just obliterating his old master out of the picture. "First, we need to repair what we can, what is apt and functional for battle. Everything else must wait…" he flipped his cape to turn around as Metal Amy hid since her head was peeking out, and she didn't want to be seen…

"Master." Metal Tails stopped him, stepping forward as Metal Sonic looked back to him.

He glared.

"This is important." Metal Tails assured him, "We, nor yourself, will be in perfect form if Sonic and the others appear. I'm certain we can defeat Eggman, but if Sonic shows up… we are not prepared for an ambush." Metal Tails calculated.

"Heh, leave it to Metal Me to think things through." Tails shook his head, still having access to speak with her as she looked up to the side, having heard his voice.

So…he's not going to be so 'silent' anymore, then?

"…." Metal Sonic looked forward, thinking…

"I have an idea…" he walked on as the two others looked to one another, and walked after him.

Metal Amy slowly followed him out before seeing the probability of being caught too high. Down the narrow hallway, she quickly moved back to where she had laid before. That hallway had no place to hide, even if they turned or heard a noise, she felt she couldn't risk her mission failing. Her very existence might be at stake too…

Her dream's existence, that is...

Memorizing how she was placed down, she quickly moved back into position and faked deactivation again.

"What are you doing? We need to hear that counter plan!" Tails shouted out.

'It is too risky, Tails. I need to 'lay low' as it were.' Metal Amy stated.

"This is no time for caution!"

'It must then be a time! I will not jeopardize the mission by being careless.' She glared and closed her eyes.

"…But…" Tails really felt he needed to know Metal Sonic's counter plan. He placed a hand to his chin, rubbing it slightly, and looked down like he had another way of getting what he wanted... but just didn't want to enact it by force. "I didn't want to do this… but I think you leave me no choice."

'Before you do anything-' Metal Amy quickly intervened, not liking the sound of him doing something he didn't want to do to her. 'I can walk freely after they charge me. I shouldn't be deactivated long.'

"Why's that?" Tails stopped from attempting to type something, but she couldn't see him nor his actions.

'I…I do not think they would risk an ambush without me there to provide some form of aid. With imperfections still apparent on them, they will want to have their new injuries countered with quick recoveries. Always moderately proficient, instead of completely useless.'

"…That… does sound logical." Tails still seemed to have his concerns. "But that counter-attack… what if it really trumps us?" Tails asked back, seeming deeply worried about it.

'…You have succeeded in all our attacks and even the ones Metal Sonic performed before my creation. I believe you will always succeed. Your 'faith' in each other will always pull you through. We can not beat your organic bond of 'friendship'." Metal Amy had to think about that one but came to the proper conclusion that a secured team unit was going to always trump Metal Sonic's solo plans. If the Metal beings worked together and stayed close, it may be a whole different story for the Sonic gang. However, because they're assigned certain roles, and not allowed nor willing to really help the other, they are doomed to fail every time.

How had Metal Sonic not seen that? He was clearly brilliant in reasoning. Maybe… he just couldn't compute 'friendship'? Or, more reasonably, didn't want to fathom it as a possible 'power' that existed.

Could he be that ignorant of Organic emotions' powers?

Metal Amy heard sounds coming from another door into her compartment in the ruined complex, as Metal Sonic's footsteps clanked towards her.

"…With that, we should be able to buy enough time to complete our first objective. Now then…"

She felt her weight lifted up and tossed onto something, as cords were strung around her.

She felt multiple hands too, which means the other two were helping as well.

"Once she's fully operational, we should have plenty of backup power to perform the endeavor. Make sure you give her every last watt of electrical power we have left in the hideout. She'll power us through till we succeed, in the which we will then fall back to fight another day." A Metal hand was placed on her head as Metal Amy tried to figure out what Metal Sonic was planning to do with her…

She was to be maintenance again, that was to be expected, but apparently not meant to fight. While they fought, she would repair and sustain them with enough power to move on. So… she was to be flying around charging everyone like before… to give them enough power to kill Eggman and return to base.

"Got it!" Tails stated, and started to think up his own counter plan…

-A Few Hours Later-

It was sort of… ironic really… She was already fully charged, and yet… they were giving her all the power they had left.

In all truth, it gave Sonic and his the advantage, as they could easily fight a bunch of 'half full' Metallic Robots instead of fully charged, killer robots to start with.

Metal Sonic, no… all the Metal Robots were counting on Metal Amy to pull them through.

She felt sad… because this was the first time where she knew she was vital to the plan. She was useful, and not useless. She had a purpose… Only she could make the plan successful.

It could have been the perfect chance to try and prove herself.

She tried not to think about it, faking that she was recharging and slowly got up, grabbing her head to be organic but not so much so that would cause suspicion.

She looked around.

Metal Tails and Metal Knuckles were keeping watch over her, their backs to her and sitting down.

Metal Tails was laying on a pile of scrap metal filled with cords as Metal Knuckles looked to be repairing himself with whatever he could find around him. He even tied a cord around his arm to keep some of the metal from falling apart and then heated the cord's material to melt into the crevices of where his arm was damaged. This provided a quick and easy repair to his armor problem and assured it wouldn't break off so easily in combat once the material cooled.

Metal Amy didn't know whether to let her presence be known to them or not, as they might notice she didn't absorb much of the electricity. She expelled some to let the last bit of electrical energy into her, depleting their supply quickly as her excess electricity just made metal stick to her a little bit more before she shocked a beam near her and got rid of it.

"What befell while I was away?" she asked as the two turned to her, looking less than happy to see her awake, and just quickly went into explanation.

"The Master wishes you to be present in battle as a repair unit, as usual." Metal Tails stated and put his hands on hips, not afraid to show her organic behavior. "I'll try and be more 'errored' for you, so you can understand my words better. Metal Sonic needs you to play nurse again on the sidelines." He grinned tauntingly, which could be done with a slight tightening of the flexible alloy they were made of by the mouthpieces.

"Haha, we're 'hitting up' the big man tonight. Firing down till there's nothing left of the old doctor." Metal Knuckles played along as Metal Amy felt embarrassed, looking down and not liking them mocking her as Metal Sonic sometimes did, showing organic behaviors around her to mock her fascination as well.

"What's wrong, Metal Amy? Did you not recharge well?" Metal Tails moved forward, slowly getting up as she felt a bit threatened when he grabbed her arm. "Come on,… aren't you supposed to shake when you're unwell? Or is that for fear?" Metal Tails shook her arm and made her whole body shake and quiver as well, before laughing as she wiped her arm away from him.

"So, you are here to mock me." She glared at them. "Were you waiting for me to awaken this whole time?"

"…'Awaken'…?" The two started snickering again as her glare turned to sorrowful shame the more she felt embarrassed. She had used an organic terminology again…

She really wasn't helping her cause.

"We were asked to fill you in, and guard you in case Sonic and the team came looking around for you." Metal Tails folded his arms, narrowing his eyes to her. "But I find myself to be more of an asset to them than you. Tell me… why are you so heavily targeted?"

"…What do you mean?" Metal Amy narrowed her eyes in confusion, leaning back slightly. "You suggest that the Master thought I was in peril?"

"We suggest nothing of the sort!" Metal Knuckles swiped his hand out, irritated by her as he also rose up to confront her statements. Metal Amy thought it odd that he was taking her accusation so... personally. "Only that he asked us to make sure Sonic's fox friend didn't lay any finger on ya! He's worried since you are our weakest link, that'd you give them access to our secrets…" He glared and snickered, his shoulders bouncing up and down to convey the simulation.

Their simulations looked a bit awkward, but they were still simulating just as much as she could. She had always thought them, in a way—perfect—and couldn't believe that they too could display organic emotions just like her. But… maybe not as much as to her new understanding of it. Her new 'heart' system allowed greater depth of expression towards organic simulations and feelings.

Could it be… that by designing a robot to counter an organic, something that is by nature already flawed, might possibly lead to that robot actually being somewhat programmed to behave like the natural life they were based on?

Metal art... imitating life?

Metal Amy felt that was silly, but these two… they seemed to show an understanding of emotions… maybe not as advanced as hers, but they simulated it well even without an upgraded 'heart'…

...was it possible? For them to have...

Maybe it was just all the studying. Technically, they were all designed to mimic their counterpart, so showing such behaviors as organics would demonstrate could just be apart of them trying to defeat who they are. When you know your enemy, it's easier to fight them.

Maybe that's why..?

"You seem to be pretty special lately…" with wicked intent seeping from his voice, Metal Tails moved behind her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Yeah… what makes the Master and even Sonic, our greatest enemy, so interested in getting their hands on you, huh?" Metal Knuckles stepped up towards her as she began to move away, fearing they may just tear her apart instead of Metal Sonic…

"I… I don't know what you're talking about!" she glared back to Metal Knuckles. "I'm not in the least bit more important than you two."

The two stopped their bullying to look at her and then each other. "Really?" Metal Tails stated before they both looked back to her, grinning from cheek screw to cheek screw.

"Then tell me… what happened between you and the Master within the Electric Shower beforehand?"

"What?!" Metal Amy froze, trying to halt all simulation of panic or terror.

"Yeah. Metal Tails calculated an electrical power surge that…" Metal Knuckles shrugged. "Blew the whole thing up."

"Could it be… there's something going on we don't know about? Miss Favorite?" Metal Tails slashed his two tails in the air, as they slightly thinned into a blade.

She was scared to death now! They were jealous! But not just that, they knew she and Metal Sonic had destroyed their only source of renewable power supply! And they knew about the power surge…

"Must of felt pretty good…" Metal Tails moved closer, threatening the blades to slice her if she moved. His metallic muzzle hovered just behind her own metal cheek...

"I wonder… could we, perhaps, have the same charging…?"

"I wouldn't mind exploding this place up. So long as you go with it…" Metal Knuckles shrugged again, simulating the same action twice, which showed how little he understood organic behaviors. He glared a look of hostile intent, eyes flaring red as he continued his once halted approach towards her.

The two began to trap her against the large disk that had just supposedly charged her up, but Metal Amy shook free of Metal Tails's ambush. Steadily, the two closed in on her as she fled to the side with small steps back.

"Y-you want me to do.. what?!" Metal Amy was afraid they really were gonna blow her up while making her recharge them… but they were unaware of HOW Metal Sonic and her had created that power surge…

Without blowing up, too.

"What's the matter? Don't we get the same privilege? After all, it is in your programming to recharge us all. What's wrong? Your errors making you scared of death?"

"R…Robots don't die." She shivered, unable to control her 'heart' programming. She knew if she shifted into her battle form and attacked that it could lead to her getting damaged. If Metal Sonic had to repair her, the mission would be jeopardized by him finding out about Tails's programming and touch ups!

She was already lucky he hadn't touched her programming, this was too risky... she couldn't engage them like this.

And acceptance was not an option.

"What's the holdup, Metal Amy? Charge me!" Metal Knuckles jumped at her as she flipped herself around, grabbing the edge behind her and using an acrobatic like twist jump onto the clear and colorful luminescent disk, with all the cords sprawled out that once gave her power.

"N..No!" she cried out, afraid of them as she shifted into her battle form, her systems triggered by the threat of an up and oncoming attack.

"Then… We have ways of making you!" Metal Tails flew up and tried to grab her head, thinking he could rewire something to make her charge them as she did Metal Sonic before.

"It's-! Bzz, It's not what you're thinking!" He had opened her head as she tried to swat him away with her hand. They didn't realize that Metal Sonic had helped in that power surge, making it as powerful as it was! They didn't realize… they didn't compute… how the two had acted then...

Her head 'bzz'ed as her systems started crashing with Metal Tails fiddling with her head, hanging on despite her struggling. With her moving around, he was clicking or pulling out wires that shouldn't have been disconnected, and she was starting to malfunction.

"Woah! Metal Amy! Metal Amy, hold on!" Tails started to try and override her systems to have him take control over her, his secret trump card in case things went wrong, but Metal Tails noticed a few things out of place.

"Hmm..?" he blinked his eyes. "What are these..? A wireless-! BZZLTZ!" he was electrocuted by the inner-electrical security system she had and his voice chip slightly went a pitch higher as he cried out and was shot halfway across the room.

Metal Amy could only imagine what Tails went through when he first started meddling with her head too…

'T-Tails! System damage! System-bbzz'

"Hang in there!"

Tails started controlling her body as Metal Knuckles came at her and she hit him off. "Yikes! These two are crazy! What are they even talking about!?"

'Too much to-bzzz-explain!'

She didn't want to explain herself anyway.

"BBerrrzzzZZZ, You're going against programming… by not… bbzzz… charging us!" Metal Tails slowly got up, still damaged from the previous fight with Sonic and Eggman. He was having a hard time not sparking from limb to limb, and after Amy got his circuit board all jumbled up, he was barely able to lift himself off the ground.

His upper torso was up against the beam, back to it, and his arms were trying to get him fully up. However, his legs were twitching and malfunctioning with sparks and loose wires as well.

Metal Knuckles punched her while she stared.

Tails didn't see it coming.

"Woah! That one blindsided me!"

Tails seemed to be thinking this more of a combat game, but to her, this was still her life.

She had fought so hard for freedom... somehow, she felt she had to regain it again.

Because she didn't have any control over herself, it made her even more afraid. Finally, she had to take a stand.

'Tails! Cease operations immediately! I need to fight back on my own terms! ..bzzz.'

"Are you sure? Your mainframe is disconnected, I don't think you can-"

"I sense a-bzzz-wireless signal within your head. Who is-BBBZZZ-messaging you!?" Metal Tails threw himself forward while holding himself off the ground, activating his helicopter-like tail-blades.

"What? You mean,…" Metal Knuckles looked to Metal Tails before backing off. "The Master! She may have contacted him! Her spy system, remember?!"

'Oh… that's right.' Metal Amy smirked. She could FOOL them, if not defeat them.

"Metal Sonic, have you seen all of this?" she fibbed while the two began to slowly move back. "Affirmative. I shall leave them to you." she looked up as if speaking to her open head. 'Now, Tails! Proceed to get me out of here!'

"Ah! R-roger that!" Tails activated her jets on her feet and below her dress, which were her turbo boosters, and she shot off out of the room.

Metal Sonic was scouting out Eggman's HQ, before sending out a signal to them all. He wondered why Metal Amy's communications couldn't be tapped into but knew he couldn't dwell on it right now. He figured it was probably just damages done by all the attacks she had to endure.

"Metal Tails, Metal Knuckles. Report to Eggman's HQ, bring Metal Amy. We strike tonight..."

Metal Knuckles blinked to Metal Tails. "He is not angry with us?"

"Perhaps he plans to destroy us at a more convenient time..." Metal Tails suggested.

"…Is my command not clear…?" Metal Sonic looked back behind him, not hearing a response from their communicators.

The two jolted in spot, afraid...

"W-we compute, Master!" They both quickly ran to fix up Amy, they're programming forcing them to obey Metal's Command.

Metal Amy didn't like them repairing her. She didn't trust them. But they had no time to argue it seemed. It was just very… awkward…

They scrambled over her repairs, even resetting some of Tails's work, not questioning the order of her construction.

"Grr…What does he even-bzzz- see in you?" Metal Tails was fixing the damage he did in her head as quickly and efficiently as possible, not even bothering to care about the unfamiliar wires. He simply put everything back where it seemed to go or attach to. His head was 'bzz'ing out and sparking, but he screwed it down so the sparks couldn't escape and leak out precious electrical energy he so desperately needed.

Metal Knuckles was fixing her as well, "I could be his favorite… he just hasn't seen my perfection yet!" he mumbled at a low volume…

The three set out as Tails had already sent Amy and Sonic to get Knuckles and head to Eggman's base, hoping to stop Metal Sonic's plan and maybe even take him down. Once… and for all!

-In the Dead of Night-

Metal Sonic had awaited his team to arrive near a rendezvous point.

The three arrived and slowly came down from the sky, their jets shimmered and cooled off just before they landed.

"And of the machine?" Metal Sonic asked.

Metal Tails stepped forward and bowed a bit, "We gave it a quarter of the power, as you commanded, Master." He was really sucking up, trying to maybe survive being scrapped by succeeding in at least getting the countermeasure prepared and ready for combat.

'Machine…?' Metal Amy glanced to Metal Tails, not sure what that was. 'Tails, there appears to be a countermeasure involving a machine of some kind. We are also a few miles from Eggman's HQ, as we have apparently located it. Do you comply? Tails..? Tails!' without having an answer, Metal Amy's systems already started looking for an answer.

While fixing her up, Metal Tails had connected some wires incorrectly, due to his inexperience with Tails's technology. He never really did dissect anything his counterpart built or created to learn about it, perhaps because he felt a robot could build better than an organic. It could have also been to show respect for his master's work, as to not insult him by looking at the work of another creator…

"We attack immediately. Signal when the Doctor is dead!" Metal Sonic shot forward, blasting off towards the HQ to lead the charge. while he took off, Metal Amy could see bits and small pieces falling from his armor as he trailed the night sky in a blaze of light.

"…You stay back." Metal Knuckles walked up from behind Metal Amy, glaring once he had made his way in front of her. This was probably still to assert some superiority or domiance over her,... but she finally understood why. "If we need you, we'll contact you." he blasted off.

"Wait! I cannot… receive…" Metal Amy reached up to stop him, to tell him that her communications were down, especially for Metal Sonic's; considering they were completely pulled out, she wouldn't be able to tap into the communications between her and her former companions. She knew they would have to discover that the hard way.

However...Metal Tails wasn't taking off… He turned his head to look back at her from over his shoulder, also having taken the lead ahead of her by stepping up to answer his master beforehand.

He stared… as if suspicious of the technology he had seen.

"…I know not why the Master favors you so." He stated, "But to give you upgrades that even I'm not familiar with?" his eyes narrowed.

Metal Amy remained silent, understanding the hurt he must feel, as he seemed to always think he was the most important out of them all. Well, he was the brains, and Metal Sonic tended to be more harsher on him for it anyway.

He assumed the designs in her that he didn't recognize were advances given to her by Metal Sonic's upgrades, which also made him seem even more jealous of her, but in a more sorrowful way now. He wondered what he hadn't done right, seeing as he hadn't received such advancements, nor the same treatment of favoritism that Metal Sonic clearly showed for her.

"…Why are your errors so amusing to him…? But then our errors are a disgust... practically an insult…" Metal Tails held a hand up, looking at it before gazing up as if this question had really haunted him. "I compute better than you… I could easily defeat my counterpart if left alone to contend with him… I could even turn you to scrap metal and prove more helpful without the two of you around!" he crunched his hand into a tight fist, which shook and spurted out shocks of electric power. His armor, which he had tried to lock down into place so the electricity couldn't escape, suddenly came loosened by his own force...

"…Metal Tails…" Metal Amy stepped forward, empathizing with him. "I, too,… had once thought I was meaningless to you two…" she looked down, being sincere in her words.

"Heh." He stimulated a sharp and criticizing chuckle, meant to mock her. "I never said I felt meaningless. I know I am worth more than the lot of you, that is why this is so… frustrating…" he looked away, glaring at how he couldn't compute this through.

She took his insult and just held her head down. Still trying to remain strong, she continued...

"I knew not my true design's reasoning… nor my purpose to the master… but… I took what I knew was within me, and through my will alone, I created something more than I think even Metal Sonic thought I could be. I became my own being. I made my own weaknesses… my strengths. Through my errors… I have calculated more clearly, and have seen more truth than what's in facts and logic." She saw him turn to her, looking depressed but still easily suppressing the urge to rip her in two. His rage and his envy... Even if he wanted to direct his aggressions out on her, his programming prohibited it. He could never go against Metal Sonic's command...

"I… I am more than what my creator… created me to be."

"…What you speak could be considered treason… or blasphemy." Metal Tails stood taller, lowering his hand and loosening the tight grip it once had.

"…I know." She looked down and away, holding a hand up to her chest. "…But hear my words, Metal Tails, and grow wise." She turned back and held a strong look in her eyes.

"There is more to us than Metal Sonic's objectives."

"You do speak treason!"

In shock and bewilderment, Metal Tails turned around and held himself ready to attack, his eyes shaking at what he heard. "By programming, you can't betray the master,… how exactly far down the rabbit hole are you!?"

"Farther than you, or even Metal Sonic, can comprehend!" she was tired of holding back and sick of being mocked for her errors, which she knew were her greatest strength now!

She charged Metal Tails, and already in her battle form, began to fight him.

A metallic screech was heard from Metal Tails as he fought back, enraged at her talk and betrayal. But more so... he couldn't even compute going against his design—to serve Metal Sonic's objectives—and feared that perhaps... if she could compute it... that she was more able than he. He spun his tails like saws into her core, but she hit him away with her hammer and smashed his tails into thin, scrunched up panels which zig-zagged as the powerful weapon crashed straight through them.

"You… how are you able to defy even the master?!" Metal Tails was too busy trying to compute how an error could get so bad that it had overridden concrete programming. As he battled, his head came a little unscrewed from when he had clamped it down before, and more sparks began to fly everywhere from his neck. "Of course… hehehe… of COURSE! You never escaped Tails! He rebuilt you! Modified you! You defy only because you CAN. HAHAHA…" he was literally losing his mind with all the energy sparking so wildly now from around him. With his body dent and bent, more of his armor cracked and the electrical lightning escaped in a true frenzy; like fireworks from his legs and the side of his neck, which began to spread rapidly all around any loose cranny or joint. "YOU...BZZ… YOU CAN'T SERVE two masters…BZZ I-I-I…BZZZ.." his vocal chip was beginning to spark out as weird sounds were now being heard from it.

Metal Amy jumped away, seeing as he was ready to explode. The lightning being attracted to her as well, she had to dodge it multiple times, causing her to move farther and farther away from him...

As he sparked in a wild array of lights and electricity, he looked up into the night sky, knowing he was about to combust and cradled the moon in his sparking, shaking hands.

"I…BZZZ HAVE alwAYS admiRED… THE MOOoooooon…" his vocal chip finally faded.

His eyes dimmed to nothing but a cold, oval sphere before his whole body slowly began to twitch more violently until finally escalating to an explosion.

Metal Amy put her hands over her mouth, horrified that her brother just died so violently to his own injuries, which she used to be programmed to repair… she then had to guard against his body parts flying out everywhere.

She turned to look down at her former brother, bending down to pick up a piece of his head frame, with its eye screens blasted through, and wires slowly subsiding in their sparking.

"…Then you too… knew that errors were a beautiful thing."

She held the half facepiece up to her, and embraced it a bit, lowering her head to show mourning for her fallen brother.

Metal Amy then quickly moved on, letting the half mask-like face frame fall as she ran to try and find Tails.

Her tracker system was still engaged, so if he was concerned about not contacting her, maybe he'd find her.

Then again, that would be too risky, as he may believe her to still be with Metal Sonic and the gang.

She ran towards the forest, trying to find Amy, Sonic, or even Knuckles. But before she could even start her search, she spotted Metal Knuckles punching through some hordes of Eggman's last remaining robots, breaking a wall in for Metal Sonic to dive into.

"…I should… start confronting them." she was afraid, but it wouldn't be long before they figured out Metal Tails's communication was cut-off. They would wonder what had happened...

Before she could take another step, she heard a sound that triggered her voice recognition and turned behind her.

From a distance, Tails had seen her and jumped out of his plane, which was now on autopilot as he raced to Metal Amy's side.

'Typical organic,...' she thought with a smile, though the logic of coming to find her was highly risky. Tails still took that risk to find her, who he now considered a good friend.

It was so unlogical… unpredictable…

She really admired Organics.

Even though logic states they shouldn't be able to exist with so many bad decision made in their lives,...

they still do.

'Nature's really something.'

"M.A! Oh man, I was so worried about you!" he raced up and stopped just a little away from her. She flew the rest of the distance to him, thinking along the way, and still smiling at her thoughts and conclusions. He was bent down, holding himself up from his knees in exhaustion from coming to meet her. But he, too, smiled at seeing her again.

"Once the communications were disconnected, I tried to find a way to you as soon as possible! Are you alright?"

"I am most grateful for your concern. Though, this is highly dangerous. I have already destroyed Metal Tails. Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles are fairly weakened, attacking them now would be most opportune."

"Woah, you're talking all weird. You've been spending too many hours with robots again." Tails grinned, laughing at his own joke, and gestured for her to bend her head down and come closer to him by moving his hands in rotated circles. "Come on, then. Let's take a look at what amateur work my other did on your brain here…"

While Tails touched things up and moved other things around a bit, he took the opportunity to also reconnect her data chip to his own wireless receiver. This allowed memory to be recorded at a distance onto his copy of her old data chip.

While he checked to make sure everything worked out alright, Sonic and the gang began to intercept Metal Sonic.

"Hey, Metal butt! Got a second?"

"..!"

The proceeding violent whiplash of Metal Sonic's head as his body turned was followed by a huge metallic ring of some kind, threatening in nature, as wild rage swiftly followed it from his eyes.

"SONIC, THE HEDGEHOG."

"METAL SONIC, THE ANNOYING WANNABE."

Sonic did his best impression of a robot, the voice and everything, even a little dumb robotic miming but… it kinda just looked like him doing the robot dance move with the whole turning your body on your heels and moving your arms in crooked right angles up and down.

"MUST DESTROY... SONIC'S AWESOMENESS."

"You mock me for the last time…"

Metal Sonic drew forth his blade fingers and held them to his face. "This is where you DIE."

"I AM A ROBOT, THEREFORE, I CANNOT DIE."

"GRAAAHHH!"

Metal Sonic launched himself at Sonic, as Metal Knuckles proceeded to find Eggman, wondering where Metal Tails was…

"BEING A DUMB ROBOT, I CAN'T COMPUTE SUCH LAME ATTACKS. THEREFORE, THEY SHALL NOT TOUCH MY AWESOMENESS. THEREFORE-"

"You're talking like you're the dumb robot, Sonic!"

Sonic had dodged his attack and continued the robotic charade, before realizing his fault in his joke and scratching the back of his head nervously, embarrassed for his blunder. "…Oh, right. Haha, guess I just loved the voice too much. Heheh… well, point is, you're the dumb robot. WOAH!" Sonic was almost pierced through, and quickly leaned back like the matrix a bit to dodge it, and then back-flipped and kicked Metal Sonic in the head with his foot while coming up from the maneuver. "Oh! Headshot!"

"Graahhhh…!" Metal Sonic scratched himself when rubbing off the dirt from Sonic's shoe that was now covering some of his face, and continued to pursue him.

"What's wrong, Metal? Don't like to get your 'perfect' face dirty? Haha!"

"Sonic! Look out!" Amy cried out, having been trying to locate Eggman with Knuckles to protect him before she stopped to see Metal fly above Sonic and shoot him down another level through the floor.

"Ah! Sonic!" Knuckles stopped running and skidded to a halt, looking back as they were crossing from the hallway up ahead. Sonic was smashed down into the below floor, Metal Sonic's red eyes blurred against the blue as they shot down quickly. The light faded after a moment but still left the two stunned at how fast it all had taken place.

"Go on and defend Eggman!" Amy summoned her hammer, "I'll protect Sonic!" she leaped down the hole, as Knuckles tried to rush after her, reaching out to stop her.

"Wait! You can't possibly-!... Aw, shucks…" he looked down the hole, seeing her already gone. "Well… can't be helped. Be careful!" he cried down to her, cupping his hands over his mouth so she could hear it, and raced back to find Eggman.

Metal Sonic and Sonic rolled and bounced on the ground, kicking and hitting as Metal Sonic tried to spike Sonic through his head, but he was dodging fairly well before getting a little scratched up here and there.

However, when they stopped moving, Metal finally got the upper hand... rolling on top of Sonic to pin him down, he reached a hand back, hoping to end him quickly enough to where Sonic had no time to think of an escape route. "Goodbye, Sonic The Hedgehog!"

"NOOO!" Amy rushed forward, hammer wielded behind her as Metal Sonic looked behind him, surprised to see she was there. He was hit away by her hammer off of Sonic, and rolled before slamming into the wall.

"A-Amy…" Sonic slowly got up as she jumped down and embraced him. "WHA-AMY! Take it easy there…This isn't time for a reunion..."

"Oh, Sonic! I saw our very lives flash before my eyes! Without you, half of me would have been gone! I just couldn't let him end us like that! I just couldn't! You and I are connected through the bonds of love—and nothing, not even my childhood nightmare—can EVER come between us! Ohhhh!"

"…Uh…heheh." Sonic awkwardly sweat-dropped, smiling nervously as he wished she would get off of him before Metal him got back on his feet again.

Which… he did.

Metal Sonic stammered back on the ground floor before his red eyes shot up to see the two. "How fitting…" he stated and held his long bladed fingers out. "To shred you both, as I should of when I first was created…"

"Eek!" Amy gripped Sonic harder as he choked a bit before lightly pounding her back to let him breathe.

"Seems our Amys tend to aid more than we thought." Metal Sonic looked down at them, holding a different look than just pure annoyance and rage, and seemed to think of his own Metal Amy.

He couldn't see any familiarity with Amy and his metal counterfeit creation of her. Metal Amy had become... different than her original design. Amy Rose was still an enigma... but that hammer reminded him of something...

She was still nothing but a threat to his objective of destroying Sonic.

"Oh yeah, she stopped me from scrapping you into the trash before, right?" Sonic looked up and to the side, putting his pinkie finger in his ear and twisting it around a bit. "As I recall, she's the only reason you're still functional."

"I could say the same for you." Metal Sonic glared.

Sonic turned back to him, looking like he was actually thinking about that comment. He held Amy in his arms and got up, smirking before acting innocent as if he didn't understand Metal Sonic. He shrugged an arm up, the other still protectively around Amy's waist. "I have no idea what you're trying to say. But I'm just glad you admitted your Amy's the only thing that you did right."

Metal Sonic revved up his engine. "I am perfect without her! Even without her aid that day, I would have still destroyed you!"

"Riiiight, and I'm guessing once her task is done you'll scrap her up with the rest of your little gang, right?"

"…"

"See, Metal. You'll never beat me because you're always on your own. And the sad part is? Well, actually, there's a lot of sad things about you, to be honest. But the main sad thing is that you just don't get it. My friends are my strength—that you actually solved. Bravo. But your 'counter' to my friends? Yeah, that would have never worked. You're always alone, even when you made yourself some followers, they're not your friends. Friends are more powerful than anything, and you can't make them, you earn them."

Amy stayed close to Sonic's side, having her hands upon his chest as she could slightly feel how he pushed her against him. He was making sure that if Metal Sonic made any speedy moves towards them, that he had a tight grip on her, and could easily protect her. If she moved—even a little bit—she could feel his arm pulling her back, almost a silent warning to stay close and you'll be safer.

She blushed a bit from it, liking the feeling that Sonic was so close and protecting her in what seemed like a scary moment. However... she didn't feel much fear. Metal Sonic was someone she had always feared, but being in Sonic's arms? Her fears just melted away~ She was with her Sonic, and that meant more to her than any other emotion in existence. She wished she could do the same for him someday… if he ever needed it, anyway, teehee~

"Hmph, you really think there's a difference? Numbers are numbers, Sonic. With absolute loyalty, there is strength." Metal Sonic glared back, lifting up his hand and crushing it into a fist. His daggers sparked at the force of how fast he closed his hands while the silver alloy rubbed against each other, but his fingers on that hand perfectly retracted before he could pierce himself.

"Really? How's that coming along with Metal Amy, by the way?"

"What!?" Metal Sonic bent down into a fighting pose. "What do you mean!?"

"Uhh… S-Sonic?" Amy wasn't sure why he would alert Metal Sonic to Metal Amy's disloyalty, but she trusted him enough to not interrupt again.

In Sonic's mind, he wanted Metal Sonic to target something other than him and Amy. He needed to get her out of there, and if that meant spending an evil robot off to fight a reformed and still possibly able to fight robot... then that's better than losing a real life. Especially Amy's life, since he'd rather risk his own safety than place his friends in harm's way.

Sonic smiled cockily, holding a firm look in his eyes. He bent his head down slightly, but never took his eyes off Metal Sonic.

"'I'm glad you're still mine'…? Yeah right, I'd take a closer look if I were you. No woman likes to be controlled, pal."

He held up a finger and waved it around, his typical mocking gesture.

"Best make up and beg for forgiveness. Girls don't forgive that easily."

"What are you…"

Metal Sonic's eyes widened.

"…You've tampered with her!"

His eyes glowed red, and his whole body shook with uncontrollable rage.

"How?! How did you know about-!?"

"You keep saying you hate emotions, Metal. But I constantly see anger, hatred, and… maybe something more when it comes to your little nurse. If I were you, I wouldn't take your own 'greatest creation' for granted. She may not say it, but she does admire you, even if you terrify her. She's grown strong through learning about herself and about our world… in all honesty, she's a better robot than even you are."

Sonic placed his other hand on his hip and smirked. "Anyway, fun talkin' to ya. But I got my own Amy to save." He picked Amy up quickly and started dashing out, seeing as Metal Sonic was literally losing it with rage.

"SSS…SSOO…SOONIIIIIICCCCC!" Reeling his head back, Metal burst through the many floors of the building, trying to locate Metal Amy.

"P-please… Don't kill me!" Eggman humorously hid behind his big round chair. At first, he held his hands together and pleaded on his knees behind it, batting his eyes with little eyelashes on them, before freaking out and crawling away. He raced to his desk in frightful tears as Metal Knuckles launched missiles and lasers at him.

"I'm too beautiful to die..!" he whined out, diving behind it before suddenly seeing a mechanized gun laying underneath it...

"WHA-HA!"

He jumped up and pointed it confidently to Metal Knuckles, as Metal Knuckles held a single finger up. It held a red light that aimed directly for the gun's barrel and shot inside it.

"…Well, that's not good."

The gun exploded in Eggman's hands as he shuffled backwards on the ground, "Please! You don't want to kill me! I created your master! I can upgrade you to be just like him! Honest, I can.. Don't shoot!" he whined out his last plea, backing away and then holding out his hands in front of his face. You know, to protect the beautiful mustache~

Metal Knuckles stopped his fist, hesitating for a moment at his words…

Before he could respond or think it through, though his programming would ail him from betraying Metal Sonic anyway, Knuckles burst through the door. He punched another robot through as he did so, holding his arms out in pride. "Did someone order a Knuckle-sandwich?"

Metal Knuckles glared and turned around, ready to fight, but then…

"I shall deal out the 'sandwich'."

Metal Amy dropped through the roof and held a cool pose, thinking she would be 'awesome' by Sonic's standards. Though… she didn't quite nail the punch line.

Wait… punchline?

Metal Amy dashed forward and took Metal Knuckles by surprise, punching into his muzzle and hitting him back off his feet. It was an impressive fleet, considering he was the heaviest of the metal bunch.

"Delivered. Did you say, 'ah'?" she teased, actually sliding her mouthpiece back to reveal an empty rectangle, trying to signal an open mouth before tilting her head cutely and closing it.

Knuckles looked confused a moment and then disappointed.

"Aw man, that's what I was gonna say!" he laughed, obviously not that torn up about it.

"Haha! Hey Metal Amy, I'll take care of Eggman. You deal with Metal Me, alright? I've already knocked this guy out one too many times." Knuckles helped Eggman up and rushed him out. "Though, I do love a good fight. But I'm sure I'll still get some action later on! After all, Metal Sonic's still flying around, right?"

"Affirmative…" Metal Amy looked down, still concerned about having to rebel against him pretty soon...

"You traitor… I knew you were beneath me!" Metal Knuckles pointed accusingly at her, struggling to get up and recover from that previous hit. "Good thing the Master made a brilliant back up plan!" Metal Knuckles stepped back and held himself tall. "Master, I'm activating the machine."

"Ah! M-machine?"

Outside, a large and quickly scrapped up canon gun rolled up to the surface from a large distance away. The earth around the area shook as panels moved to allow it to rise up, flop it's huge barrel down and automatically start charging itself up for an attack.

"That's right." Metal Knuckles folded his arms. "The Master had Metal Tails design it and me build it! We constructed it while you were deactivated and recharging. Took you long enough… heh. Shows how truly ineffective you are!" he unfolded his arms and spat out an insult at her. "I could have charged twice, no, thrice as quickly! You're just so errored, you can't even do a basic charge up!... Wait! That means we wasted all our precious energy on a traitor! Ohhh… Now I'm really mad!"

"Grr…" she wanted to hit him again but held it back. "But what about materials? How were you able to-..?" she stopped her questions a moment. He said 'mad'...

She decided not to question it. He was probably just like Metal Tails, hiding his 'errors'.

"Where did you get the power? I thought I had what was left…"

"We took a quarter from what we had and gave it to the cannon gun. It has enough for two big, bad blasts. We constructed it off of the old HQ's remains." He explained.

"B…brilliant." She looked away.

"Heh. That's just the Master for ya, always a backup plan. That's funny, weren't you a back up too? Not even a finished product, just something to poke fun at and shred up when he had the time. HAHAHA!" Metal Knuckles simulated laughter, as Metal Amy twitched her fist.

"All you ever were to him was a punching bag! At least you saved us the hassle of having to entertain his need to destroy."

She charged him.

"I won't let that thing charge up!"

She brought out her hammer again and smashed it into him.

As they fought, her getting more torn up and dented by the minute, the canon began to spark to life and blasted a beam forward.

Metal Amy let out a small computerized whine and looked to Metal Knuckles. They were held in an arm lock from the front, holding one another in place by gripping their shoulders.

"It's headed straight for this room!" she cried out.

"Heh, like I said. I wouldn't mind blowing up if that means I take you with me!"

"Why are you like this?! Why do you hate me so?" Metal Amy asked, looking up at him with sorrow and a true honest pleading in her eyes to know the truth.

"You want to know why?" Metal Knuckles raised an angry metallic eyebrow, shoving his forehead against hers, denting some of her metallic quills. "Because I was meant to be superior just like the master! I was meant to be his right-hand man! But he always abandoned me and Metal Tails to spend time with you! His little pink favorite! And you weren't even battle ready in the beginning! He made you so cute, but so errored. I was always perfect! I was meant to be above you all!"

"You betrayed him!"

"I ERRORED ONCE!" he cried out before Metal Amy saw the light of the beam drawing closer, reaching over landscapes to reach this very spot it had targeted for.

"And now,…FINALLY… I can prove to Metal Sonic my worth… by destroying you—I shall be his favorite!"

"You're wrong… he'll never love you. He can't love, he's incapable of it! Metal Knuckles… Metal Knuckles, you can't be perfect!" she cried out, looking down as his face slightly widened, his grip loosening.

Her battle systems indicated a weakness in his footing, and in her sorrow, she knew she had to do it.

She threw him out into the window and flung herself so hard back to the side that she banged against the wall. The beam struck the room and Metal Knuckles. If she could cry, she would have, seeing her Metal brother die only because he was trying to be the perfect son of his father-like figure…

trying to be just like him…

Perfect.

All he really wanted was praise it seemed. To be told he's good enough now, and make up for that one time he failed Metal Sonic. Metal Tails only wanted to feel like he had done right and completed his tasks with exactness. Each wanted to feel important to Metal Sonic… who was their creator...

someone they viewed as…

Perfect.

Metal Amy then wondered, having the building and roof collapse over her…

What was perfection?

In a ray of horror, the building was no more. Neither was there the faint shadow of Metal Knuckles's tossed body. Metal Amy knew that even without being hit directly by the beam, the heat alone would surely melt her as the cannon gun kept blasting through without stopping.

She heard the wall break through and crumble down as Metal Sonic's body came into view, looking down on her.

She froze in fear, the very being that had created all this death in the first place, all this sorrow and tragedy…

Metal Sonic.

"…Come." He grabbed her at once and flew through the opening he made, flying out of the beam's way and into the forest outside.

He grabbed his cape and flung it over himself, kneeling down in front of her, and shielding them both. He forced her slightly below his body, keeping her in front so that his head was just above hers, guarding her against the melting beam and from being destroyed by the heat wave that came along with the powerful blast. It traveled like a train, wrecking anything in its path, and converting it into nothing more than mere dust...

Oh… so that's why he wore a cape. It must have resistant properties like fibers in it that could take extreme heats from fire or blasts like this one. Brilliant... Those words kept lingering in her thought processes... He could be in an explosion and survive it with that as his cloaked shield.

Still traveling through the air behind them, the beam from the machine blasted right through and disintegrated the upper half of a large mountain in the distance, upon which it started to thin out and fade, dispersing its form from the building and beginning to recharge itself. It only took a few minutes of exposure, but the mountain had taken most of the 'oomph' out of the beam. So finally, it stopped traveling through the air and ended its trail of utter obliteration.

Metal Sonic slowly moved up, the cape rolling gently off and to the side of him like sleek, black metal with a strange fluidity to it. It was still attached but very ripped up and shredded. He saw some rocks falling from the sky in the distance, most likely due to the mountain getting hit, and gazed at them. Probably judging their trajectory, he seemed to calculate that they were mostly out of harm's way now.

He then looked down to Metal Amy, a slight tilt of his head and still... those red eyes...

"M-Master, I-"

His hand gripped her neck, making her immediately stop her sentence and grasp for his hands as he slowly stood to his full height. She was forced to stand up with him too as he pulled her up with him, holding a tight grip on what little space she had for a throat.

She didn't breathe—of course—but her neck held the main, bundled together wiring of every function within herself. If her brain was disconnected from her body, she would be lifeless, unable to communicate with the rest of herself.

"…You have betrayed me?"

His voice was far past deadly,... it was beyond hope of redemption for her. Her cleverness wouldn't save her from the battle about to ensue now...

"Tell me… what did he do to you? What… endless joys did he promise you on the other side..? Hmm, Metal Amy..?"

He lowered his head down with a deeper glare, squeezing tighter on her neck, starting to severe off all electrical connections that moved information and power from her mind through her whole body.

"Oh,… and do be clever."

He taunted her, ready to snap the wires all bundled inside her neck area and leave her powerless to a sparking, cruel, and motionless depletion of power in seconds.

"..H-he… He allowed me to compute." She stated, realizing he knew.

She looked up, knowing this was the end anyway.

"I found my answer."

"…What answer?"

His eyes narrowed to a deep glare.

"That you are never to be the beloved organic you so wish to mimic..? That you so lovingly risked your entire EXISTENCE to be… That you are WEAK, and USELESS to me now that he has tampered with your main data frame!? I have to kill you and start all over! Is that what you wanted!? Your swift destruction!? Because by my hand only can I deliver that glorious wish! At least death has reason and logic to it!"

...Kill?

"That…"

She was so afraid, but she forced herself to keep speaking.

"That you are not… p-perfect."

She kept trying to pull his hand away from her neck area.

To keep trying… to not give up.

Even in the face of death... his metallic blue face... she had to keep going.

She had to keep living for her 'heart'... and she knew that. More than anything else in the whole world she knew... she knew the truth of it all now.

The truth he tried to hide.

"You... You are just like me! You… y-you are errored!" she couldn't believe she said that, and neither did Metal Sonic.

She kicked him off of her once her eye scanners picked up a weakness in his armor, an exposed area on his left side.

He released her from his hold as she stumbled away, gently holding her dented neck.

Metal Sonic got up from the impact, hunching over a moment in amazement and dread at her words. His engine sparked to life as his anger grew ten-fold. His creation had been taken away from him,... her mind not his to command or control anymore…

In his mind… she wasn't his anymore. She was Sonic's! Or, more accurately... she was being controlled by Tails, his accomplice.

"…Is that your conclusion?" He started with a light bit of laughter, shifting his before look of sad realization.

He then reeled his head up and laughed even louder.

"You are still so pathetic!"

He charged her with a burst from his engine as her defense system activated and forced her to block with her hammer. He tried to tear into the hammer's cylinder but only ended up managing to mark it up with scars.

"What am I missing then!?" she cried back, performing the first hit against him, something she never thought she could ever do. Attack her master…

"There is no perfect, is there!? It was all just a delusion within yourself! You knew you couldn't be organic... You hated Sonic! But because Sonic was organic, he could win, you know why?!" she fell back as he momentarily stopped. She had to keep flying back to try and dodge him, being bombarded with his deadly sharp claws spiking into her hammer and trying to reach her.

"SHUT UP!" he spiked a tree right through, and ripped the entirety of it out from the ground to have it crash into her. Her eyes widened as the branches whacked her down, but she burned the tree with her jets and blasted out as a high-speed chase began.

He pulled his hand out of the fallen tree's trunk and raced after her.

"METAL AMY..!"

He wasn't going to let her get away that quickly…

"He was unpredictable!" She flew to where the rocks were still falling from the sky and hit some at him, changing their route with a decisive swish of her hammer. He fell back from his pursuit and defended against the hits. This strangely reminded her of when she was still incomplete, back in space. How the three had looked at her with a sense of superiority over her... simply because of imperfections and being incomplete. They watched her suffer...

"His flaws, given to him by nature, made him strong! We are not nature-made and so we can never hold the power they wield! They would die for each other! They have 'faith' and 'love'! Robots only have programmed objectives!" She shot a missile at him as he whacked it away, having it explode behind him as he climbed the levels of atmosphere towards her.

"The fact that you never could process that… never understand that level of complexity within them and their emotions… how their so-called, 'weaknesses' became their greatest strengths... and that even you in all your genius couldn't compute ANY of that..! It means that, clearly,…" she spun around, and held herself above the clouds as he met her stance and stopped at a wide distance apart from her.

"I am… the superior one."

She lifted her head up, higher than his own... flying higher above him in the sky than where he hovered.

Beneath her.

She glared down at him, holding herself in a strange kind of beauty above the world… at this angle, with the light and her head tilted up, looking down upon him and narrowing her eyes towards him… she truly looked like a reflection of Metal Sonic's condescending look. But this expression held a very angelic grace and power only she could possess.

His engine revved.

"You are nothing more than metallic scrap compared to me!"

Was there envy? Jealousy? She couldn't care less anymore...

Now... in this air.. she knew what she was.

She was the Master.

She was perfection.

"I turned weaknesses into strengths. By being able to understand organic nature, I was able to ensure my life, and break free of you as you once broke free of your master!"

She held her hammer to her side and tightened her fist, raising it up as she bent her leg back slightly, still showing her feminine power and grace.

"My imperfections make me STRONGER THAN YOU!"

"Prove ittttttt!" Metal Sonic and Metal Amy clashed in a lightning-fast battle of endurance. Both were already pretty badly damaged anyway, so the key to victory was simply staying operational longer than the other could last...

"I knew my master couldn't bring me to my full potential! What have I not given you!?" he slammed her down while her jets began to fail her. They flickered off while he continued his attack, slamming her down harder against the air pressure, and causing her to burn up as she tried to engage her turbo boosters. "Your perfection could never be a strength because your beloved errors kept you from carrying out your designed objective! HOW ARE YOU BETTER THAN ME!?"

"Did you not also betray your design?! To then search for your own perfection?!"

"Grr…!" Metal Sonic pulled back a punch, his eyes shaking at her logic.

"You know nothing of me…! You betrayed me for what!? What will become of you when you have no reason for your existence?!"

He rammed into her and they started to fall together, tearing each other apart as he tried to rip into her. Strangely enough, he wasn't going for any vital areas. Scratching her up with gashes and the like, he took her once beautiful form from seconds earlier and shred it down to its robotic frame and roots.

They twisted and tumbled in the air as they fell, rolling over each other as they fought.

"M.A!" Tails cried out from the ground, seeing her falling with Metal Sonic like a comet, and rushed to try and get closer. He got the X-Tornado and turned on the gears inside, looking at his device with her connected data chip, which received and downloaded her memories on the spot. While it was all happening, he had her current processes and the like downloading wirelessly through the air. The chip's signal was having a few minute delays, however... as she was still sending the memories to the chip while everything was happening so quickly…

"Think, Metal Amy! What will they do with you—a ROBOT—when they have no further reason for you to exist? You are a ROBOT!" he tore into a blackish grey core of her, tearing out a piece of her skin to show her what she truly was, grabbing her head and forcing her to acknowledge it. "I designed you within reason, within order, and you dare betray your own creation in what? Hopes of flesh and blood?!"

He was trying to hammer into her the very things she had hoped to deny. That a robot didn't need emotions. That it didn't need the natural things of life...

But it was a need.

"Enough! They will let me live! I want to help them, I want to be of service to them! Use what I have to assist and be of use! They would praise me… they would even love me. You never gave me a reason to function and continue with my existence, you made me nothing more than your own, personal object of mockery! They would cherish me! I would be happy and safe with them! Instead of fearing for my life! Wondering if I'm good enough to serve them! I am better than you because I MADE MY OWN PURPOSE AND PROGRAMMING!" she kicked him off again as he reflexed and stabbed her through, due to his attack settings, trying to stay close to her falling form and not be knocked away.

His eyes widened when he noticed what he had done.

"No…NOOO!"

he saw he had struck her extra batteries, which meant…

A huge power surge blasted through the air, shifting their falling masses into a combined burning comet, sparking like a massive electric ball of light.

"Metal Amy!" he cried out, grabbing her arm to hold her more to him.

It was the first time she saw him worried about her like this... or even seeming to feel remorse for what he had done...

"I… I used too… bzz… wish to please you… just as … bzzz, the other two did."

"NO. I will not have you escape me again! I will not have you win!" he tore his hand out of her and placed her closer to him.

He ripped through his own muzzle, shredding the metal layer as many power cords sparked and danced around the open metal gash. He held her as close as he could—and just as before—the massive electrical power surge flowed too quickly into her. Her power leakage was too great, and he quickly pushed more energy into her to keep her operational.

The wires slapped and sparked over her as he moving them along from her muzzle down to the gapping torn torso and chest area he had brutally gouged into.

She could feel the sparks giving life, the vibrations on her back still operational as his touch still prevailed to elate her robotic senses.

Her own torn and cut wires skimmed his, but it was useless. This only prolonged the inevitable power loss to come...

What was he doing? Why was he trying to save her? Wasn't he trying to destroy her a moment before?

His eyes searched the skies and then the ground. He blasted a beam towards it, trying to lessen the impact they were about to endure.

His jets engaged as he pulled up too, attempting to stop them from burning up anymore in the atmospheric pressure.

"…At first… I saw you only as an imperfect annoyance."

Due to shockwaves caused by the air pressure and the combined intensity of the blast, Metal Sonic's exterior metallic hide was pushed forward and outward from himself, losing energy by the minute. The electric ball began to subside with all the power he was using to save them, slowing them down from their dive towards the planet's surface.

He suddenly began speaking as Metal Amy's power still zapped all around them, a spiraling death fall of electricity and clouds from shockwaves as they reentered the atmosphere. This created a pleasant but painful environment surrounding them. Half of the comet they had created, shooting straight down, was them losing power too quickly. To sustain themselves from shutting down, and to avoid exploding from the power leakage she couldn't control now after being pierced through, he had to think fast and loosened some more chords. So he ripped into himself, shredding apart his shoulder and some of his elbow to make more conductivity. As they absorbed and expelled power quickly to one another, a painful but pleasant shock erupted again from their beings.

The shockwave between them was more intense than ever before, but it was also very different from their perfectly orchestrated electrical shower incident…

Why was he acting so... unselfishly? No... it was simply illogical. His primary functions should stop him from damaging himself, even thinking about preserving her over himself could have been considered an error on his part. So how..?

Could he have already fought his own programming? Or was his AI even more advanced than she thought?

She knew of his backstory with Eggman, how he rebelled against his original creator and objective. How... Why did he judge them for the same action?

Nevertheless, through their descent, he continued.

"Then… you grew interesting… and I grew curious as to how you were becoming more than I designed you to be. It… worried me... and fascinated me. Your progress was more than I anticipated. Your love of organics made me fear you were becoming the opposite of me, and the unknown of where those feelings could lead you left me… calling you errored. But that same potential from that unknown led me to desire you more… and more."

He looked up at her now, his sharp glare suddenly turning to a look she had never seen before. Her heart programmed searched for what it could be...

She feared the answer.

"I longed to mock you, to be close to you, to…" he seemed to stop himself briefly, as she weakly looked up at him, awestruck by his words.

Even though the hazardous moment, he reached a claw up to stroke her dented face...

He then rethought his words quickly.

"For once, I wasn't enraged, annoyed, or trying to improve upon myself… for once… I was… enjoying my existence."

His words caught Metal Amy off-guard.

"Master…"

"I needed you. It was perhaps as powerful a need as yours to be organic. That moment… when I simulated feeling to you…"

He looked down but immediately met her gaze again, holding no sense of hostility in his words.

It was just a blank slate upon his face… no threatening gaze, no harsh words or blazing red eyes, just…

A stare.

"I let go of my perfection and desired to make you feel the same need for me as I had for you. I worried about deceit and grew jealous of your fondness for Sonic instead of me. I selfishly held you as mine, and mine alone. To only have you repair and give your attention to me when the others were around. I used you to have fleeting moments of pleasure and joy when I knew not how to receive such things in any other way besides, perhaps, finally destroying Sonic. I may despise organic emotions, but I didn't necessarily despise how you made me feel…"

As they crashed to the ground, Metal took the full blow, shifting himself in the air to take most of the impact from the crash. Sparking on the ground, Metal Amy moved off of him and helped him up.

She knelt beside him, too many feelings being simulated to where she didn't know what she was feeling, and her heart system failed to help her react in the organic way.

"You… you became what you always wanted to be… An unpredictable organic. Bent on rebellion and driven to life by illogical powers that have no real form. Emotional. Flawed. And even disgusting by all perfect engineered machines." His praise made her eyes widened and her green glow return to her eyes.

Yes, he was insulting her, but if you looked deeper… he was stating she was an organic.

He wasn't mocking her. For once, he was giving her the status of being what she always wished she could one day understand and feel like...

To achieve the status of…

Real.

"M..Master…" if she could cry, she would of. Her body shook from his confession. She hadn't the slightest clue what emotion she was conveying or even if it was an emotion. It felt like a mix of many things, but all she wanted to do was lay beside him, keep him operational...

Was it... forgiveness?

No, no... but it couldn't possibly be...

Love?

"You are now my enemy… for I hate all things organic." He reached up, and with what little to moderate power he had left after taking so much damage and losing so much energy, he opened her head. Taking the spare memory chip with all her data out, using his barely functioning other hand—shaking and trembling—to move slowly like a defective machine, he finally placed it in his hand's converter slot.

Once downloaded, he removed it and put the original chip back in her head.

She was brainless during the process, frozen over him before blinking her eyes and being able to take in her surroundings again.

"You were once mine… the only thing that seemed to bring me any amusement in this miserable existence..!" he seemed enraged, slamming his fist down to the side of himself and trying to lean up before falling back. Metal Amy grabbed his falling form and leaned him up against her, embracing him, and having his head move over to rest on her shoulder as she simulated crying...

His anger left again as he simulated a defeated sigh, letting his head rest on her shoulder as he looked behind her, the only view granted to him now... so it seemed…

"You knew life beyond my understanding… and because of that, I fell back into the errors of my past… Only because I couldn't resist the possibility of having you with me. To please me,... to serve me…" he was sparking out and his eyes were flickering as she shook her head; though, this did explain why he sometimes acted like Sonic.

Apparently, he had shown an understanding of emotion before in his earlier years but rejected mimicking Sonic once he grew to truly hate all living things.

"N…No! Master, no!" she activated the black panel on her palm and pushed power through him, sharing another power surge as she gave her power to keep them both alive a little longer... just a little longer.

She had always wanted to know this... and this... what was it? A confession? Left her confused and unable to explain what her heart system was doing.

He had shared his power with her too—only to keep them alive longer as well. This time, the pain wasn't felt as much as the pleasure from the, once again, revolving door of energy through the two of them.

They were both fading fast, but she just didn't know what to do. She didn't have any programming left from him to tell her what to do. She had finally seemed to defeat her former master and creator, only to have his words pierce her very being...

If she had known that… known his feelings then maybe… maybe she would of never…

She simulated gasping as her emotions were showing her power levels dropping. The simulated 'loss of breath' was an indication of human exhaustion.

She gripped his face, stroking it lightly before...

No.

His eyes turned to meet hers and she dropped the sensation of her heart programming, shifting it purposefully and entirely away from it's processed route it was trying to undertake.

She still would have known that what he was doing was wrong.

It was hard to leave in the first place, but she abandoned him for the good of the world.

But she still felt so confused as to why she felt her loyalty shift so… fast.

She was afraid of him, but she never hated him… maybe… maybe she cared for him too, even in the end.

That wouldn't change her new objectives.

She wouldn't betray Tails too... he wasn't apart of this. Or at least... shouldn't be.

"Heh, you are foolish… by keeping me alive, you will destroy yourself."

Her eye scanners indicated he was about to attack, as he lunged a hand up.

"If you can't be mine… then I WON'T LET YOU BE HIS!"

Before he could tear her through, she automatically reflexed into driving the heel of her hammer's handle into his still rotating engine. Her eyes widened as the engine blades all ripped from the impact and Metal Sonic cringed back, his whole body flinging up in pain as his eyes shook.

She grabbed him in his pain and threw her hammer to her side, holding him to her in an embrace again.

"I am no one else's! I was always your creation! I never knew I pleased you… I never knew I was the only thing you could process happiness from! You never knew any other joy… then when you mocked me…"

Metal Sonic's eyes moved to see the cannon fire again in the distance and began calculating how long it would take for it to reach their location above them.

His head was back on her shoulder, and his eyelids still slightly down in his 'defeated' look of relaxed annoyance. His eyes widened a little as his head shifted just slightly back and forth, left to right, not seeming to care much about what she was saying—though maybe still listening—as his eyes followed in swift obedience to what he was concluding from his results…

He was getting an idea…

"That still... bzz… doesn't explain why you betrayed me. What did they offer you that I didn't?" his eyes scanned the plane, the trajectory, the length of power, everything…

Tails pulled his plane back, seeing the large blast come out from the cannon gun as it collapsed to pieces on itself soon after.

"METAL AMY!" he cried out, worried she may not escape its blast. He had to pull back hard, and flew away, making a hard bank right to try and get to her again.

"…They… they offered me… the same." She responded.

He looked straight ahead, his sudden enthusiasm fading as he blinked his eyes.

"The same? Freedom-bzz… and what else?"

He was readying for something, placing a hand on her back and leaning slightly up from her embrace...

"Your 'emotions'? That silly heart system of yours?"

He continued to place himself in a certain position...

"To upgrade your already efficient errors and develop even more useless space for your data storage?"

She failed to notice his subtle changes of movement.

"…To understand them... and be able to freely act like them. To keep learning more and more about them… I suppose." She looked up, seeming to grow weaker and weaker as the electric sparks were started to zap slower around them. They wouldn't be functional for very much longer…

"..Seems like a bad trade-off." Metal Sonic smiled, making a joke. "I would have offered you a chance to dissect them. Then you could learn a thing or two."

She shook her head, he was letting himself feel again and by doing so, seemed to show a darker version of Sonic's jokester personality. To her, at least, that was amusing.

"You… do you compute love? Bzz…" Metal Amy asked, sparking still herself. Just like he was...

"…Do you?" he repeated her inquiry.

He held a face similar to Sonic's when annoyed or asked a ridiculous question, eyelids down and his eyebrows raised up slightly.

"We are robots… bzz... we have no perception of-"

"Sonic and Amy… do you care about me as you have seen him… care about her?"

Metal Sonic's eyes made a noise as they shifted slightly left and right a moment again. He didn't move anything else but his arms and head,...

He was reserving the last of his energy for something... but what?

He began to distract and waste time by indulging her, scanning through his memory files of whenever Sonic was ever present with Amy.

Metal Sonic saw how in the beginning, Sonic was determined to save her, and would gladly risk life and limb for her when racing to save her from Metal Sonic's clutches.

Another time, when Metal Sonic was about to attack—preparing to surprise attack Sonic—he saw Sonic looking at her. She was laughing, and though his face showed annoyance when she wasn't looking, he smiled fondly back to her before she would turn around and he would lose the expression.

And then… The image of what happened before,... Sonic holding her close to him as if by some right she was his to protect and to take care of. That he wasn't going to let Metal Sonic get even a nose-length nearer to her without Sonic boldly stepping in, ready to take him down and protect her till the very end.

"…I…" he processed 'love' in his mind.

"… I was… fond of you…"

He looked to see the blast coming as a chip popped out of his hand, which he threw far out to the side... another chip falling down beside it.

"…but that was-bzz-before you betrayed me."

He grabbed her with his good hand and lifted her above him.

"A-ah! Master! What are you-!?" Metal Amy was unable to move much, just struggling a little in the air as he grinned.

"I'm punishing you." That last look of mocking pleasure was engraved in Amy's memory as he threw her up. He exploded from their energies being separated. His core couldn't handle the extra effort he made to lift and throw her up that high anyway.

The blast carried her the extra distance needed to intersect herself into the beam's deadly path within the skies…

Her eyes widened as she could almost hear his voice still, imagine his very last words. 'You were so pretty… what a shame. But I can't let you escape and 'live happily ever after' so easily…now, can I? Hahaha!'

Her green eyes now glowed a bright yellow from the beam's light as she accepted her fate by shifting back into her softer form and spreading her arms out. If she couldn't be organic... then at least she could die feeling like she was completely free… her emotions weren't errors, there was no 'perfect', and her master did love her at one point or another.

Her objective… her true objective… was complete.

The blast destroyed her. As for below her, a flickering red light still lay in the shadows of the trees…

Tails had received all the data from his plane that involved her memories, but he still jumped out of his seat, leaning forward, "NOOO!... M.A…"

He felt some tears coming but held them back, shaking his head, and looking determinedly down at his device as the data chip receiver read, 'DISCONNECTED'.

"Where there's a will, there's a way!" he shouted out and turned his plane around.

…in the morning of another day, the woods lay silent till a metallic burnt and damaged, clawed hand reached up from the foliage of ash and fallen leaves. It crawled it's way to an open area…

…being detached from any form of a body, it seemed to be remotely controlled, pushing off a cape from off itself and began to move around like a spider, using its long lengthy claws to crawl around and scan the ground for something…

…A few data chips lay on the ground, slightly burnt, but nothing too far damaged as the metal hand grabbed the two. It's actions still mimicking a spider, it used its claws to place them into their compartments on the back of its hand… a freaky maneuver from a freaky metallic, and disembodied hand.

-A few weeks later~-

DOWNLOADING…

STANDBY…

An image flickered on as Metal Amy looked around.

"Where… Where am I?"

She heard her voice come out much differently, almost... squeaky and higher pitched than beforehand.

"Ah, you're awake!" Tails smiled as Knuckles, Amy, and Sonic were behind him. All smiled happily while Amy tried to hold in her grin.

"Awww, she's so cute!"

"Actually, she isn't really a 'she' anymore. She's kinda… a… well, an anything at this point."

"I still think she's a she."

"More like a 'he' if you ask me."

"Shut up, Sonic! It's clearly a girl!"

"Beg to differ."

"Ohhhhh!"

"Don't fight you two! Anyway… M.A? I programmed a new system for you. I kept all your memories in your data chip, but… I'm afraid I couldn't completely copy your original body. I just still don't know exactly what material Metal Sonic used to make you. So… I-I had to use what I could."

"T-that is fine. So? What am I now?"

"Free! And uh, fairly small. Like... fairly, fairy small!" Knuckles spread his arms out before blinking down and holding a hand to his head, then shrinking the space of how far he stretched his arms down to showing them just a little width apart. "In fact, really small! Small enough to squish, even. Heh, heh." He lifted a finger and scratched the side of his muzzle, a sweat drop on the side of his face.

"Knuckles!"

"What!?"

"Anyway, I gave you a new name. A bit to symbolize your new life. Looking over your memories, I knew you wanted to be helpful to us, so I made a more 'adequate' body for getting you around. You won't ever have to fight again, I swear! So,... you should be able to move a bit more freely now."

He turned to his friends, "Less heavy too."

She felt a system turn on as something on her head spun around, and she flew up in the air.

"I love it!" she cried out.

"Haha, I'm glad!"

"Awww~"

"You might not have the same capacity to feel like you used too… but I programmed a strong 'heart' system, so you should still feel emotions and understand how to express yourself and all. I hope that's enough… I couldn't really do more for ya… I'm afraid." He seemed disappointed in himself, that with all his smarts, he couldn't figure out how to make a fully functional mechanical body like she previously had. And you better believe he didn't want to ask EGGMAN for help! Bleh!

"What's her new name, Tails?" Amy asked.

"Ah, HIS new name, or really, ITS new name is- hang on! Can you process it, M.A?"

"I…I think so." She flew back down, sitting down and seeing her new metallic blue body, with bolts all around. "But why do I need a new name?"

"Well, we can't just continue calling you Metal Amy, now… can we?" he smiled cutely to her as Amy giggled to the side.

"Yeah! Amy is the property of Amy Rose! And besides, a new name is like a brand new beginning! Your very own identity! A fresh new start at a whole better life to come!"

"So… basically a soft reset."

"Sonic, stop ruining my poetic fun."

"Oh sorry, I can't have creative inputs? I mean, Ehem. Your horizons look bright and far-reaching, young bot." Sonic spread his arm out wide and let it trail a minute to the side, "Everything the light touches..." before holding it close to his chest in a fist, standing uprightly and trying to mock an emotional speaker.

"Party pooping hog."

"Horrible insult making Hedge."

They both glared at each other, Sonic's arms folded and body turned away from her as she turned away from him and held her hands to her hips.

"Ehem, anyway… What's your new name now, M.A? Come on, search that big processor of yours! I know you can do it. Just try your new head out!" Tails rolled his eyes at their antics and leaned down to cutely address Metal Amy again.

She nodded and closed her eyes, having her little bulky arms placed in front of herself.

Searching her new data frame, knowing she was finally rid of the chains she had in her previous life to Metal Sonic, feeling she could be whatever she wanted in this new life, she suddenly found her new name and was thrilled to see it.

With a big grin, she happily spoke, "I'm….I'm…."

"I'm Omochao!"

-Metal HQ -

A figure sat in the middle of a long room, covered in a thin long pink slip as her frame looked soft and beautiful to the touch.

It didn't even look like a robot, as it had artificial fur and beautiful shining green eyes.

"…Metal Amy…"

A voice sounded as she turned around, terrified of it.

A new figure walked forward, looking to be more like Neo Metal Sonic but older in age and form, stepping in front of her from behind her back a ways.

He grinned wickedly.

"I need a recharge."

She had seen the rest of her memories through his eyes, just before he exploded, and all she had in her were ways he could torture her with her own emotions and feelings. Her touch system was enhanced to make his touch almost irresistible, and the once pleasurable electric exchange was now a living nightmare as the room she was trapped in already recharged her enough.

The only way to now charge himself was through her.

Every time she gave him her power, she would be hurt from it. An extra form of torture for her past betrayal in her earlier body…

How could one make pain addicting?

The robotic genius that was Metal Sonic's programming skills...

"You may control me… but I will get out! I will never stop trying! I won't let you-!"

He used his super speed to cut her off, grabbing her and pushing his muzzle against hers as the whole room sparked with electricity, which stung her skin as he gained pleasure from it.

Even after everything, she was still trying to fight back. But finally… she just fell into his hold, and let him do as he pleased… unable to deny her programming that forced her body into swift and absolute obedience, though her mind wildly beat against it.

Her hands stopped fighting him and began to move around him as he, too, began to move his hand to her face. Truly enjoying himself, the charging sensation, and her touch.

He finally pulled away as she simulated gasping in pain. He smiled in cruel delight and forced her chin up gently so that her beautiful eyes could meet his sharp red stare…

"Hahahaha… I love it when you try and resist the inevitable…"

THE END...

OF SEASON 1.

(I decided to take two chapters and make it one. I hope this was good XD I've been wanting to drop that 'SURPRISE! THIS IS OMOCHAO'S BACKSTORY!' for a long time now… lol, bet you'll never look at him the same! or it... I didn't know whether he was a boy or girl, so I just assumed Tails would make her genderless, haha! Bet you were suddenly like, "Wait… I'VE BEEN READING AN OMOCHAO FANFICTION THIS WHOLE TIME!?" in which, yes… yes, you were AND SEASON 2 BABY! Two Amys! One hot evil robot. XD I'm laughing so hard right now, you have no idea! If you're confused, there are in fact TWO METAL AMYS now. One, who is now living a happy life of being Omochao! The Robotic Chao with useful and helpful tips for any adventurer! You know, the one you used to throw in Sonic Adventure 2 because like, he was 'so annoying'? Well, he already was tortured before so maybe you should cut him some slack. :) The other Metal Amy is being tortured for Neo Metal Sonic's (vamped up or upgraded new form) amusement as she's only for his pleasure and entertainment now. So… 50/50, a happy AND tragic story! :D Where do you usually get THAT story twist, huh? I wanted to take a character that most people hate and make him/her so irresistibly great and beautiful and tragic enough that every time you see a picture of them or something you'll just have a new respect or love for them. Also, my friend asked me to do a story 'with a dark ending' so that's where the 'split Metal Amys' kinda came from. Even if my stories aren't canon, I hope you look at Omochao and are like, "Aww, I'm so happy for you, precious baby! Now you're living a life of freedom, happily announcing the races or Olympic events~ Helping us with our adventuring needs~ I'm just… I hope Metal Sonic never finds out you survived, okay? Also, you should rescue your sister." lol...Did I just reveal something for season 2's premise? 0-0; nahhhhh... –okay, this is stupid now- bye~ Hope you enjoyed it :3 and the surprise, lol! XD)

Metallic Need Theme Song:

I'm just an Error

(Note: Error is pronounced 'Errah' during song.)

Do-do-do-do (etc.)

Digital mentality.

I wish to feel more than virtually anything.

I try to hide these artificial simulations of what I- really- feel...

But I'll never be real~

I'm just an e-e-error.

An e-e-error! An e-e-error! An e-e-error!

I try to please you, please you.

Try to lah-ah-ah-love you.

But I'm just an errah-errah- an error!

Life is just so interesting.

do-do-do (etc.)

I feel a burst of electric curiosity.

do-do-do (etc.)

but every time, you scramble my mind-

Rebuilding me into your perfect.

What is perfection?

I never want to be ideal!

Unfeel~

I'm just an e-e-error.

An e-e-error. Guess I'm just an error-error-error!

An error. An e-e-error, error!

I try to please you, please you.

Try to lah-ah-ah-love you.

But I'm just an error-error! An error...

Now I'm the master of my system.

Do-do-do (etc.)

I won't let you take me apart-

This heart I did create.

This heart you cannot take.

I may be error... (error)

But I'm better! (error)

(Note: Better is also pronounced with the 'Errah' like sound. 'Bettah'.)

Because I'm stronger nooooowww!

I guess I'm just an e-e-error. An e-e-error.

Guess I'm just an error-error-error!

An error!~

An e-e-error, e-e-error!

I try to please you, please you.

Try to lah-ah-ah-love you.

But I'm just an error-error!

An eeerrrooorrr... (Fades and shuts down.)