Anonymous asked:
Prompt Amy is thinking about her friend Gamma. She really misses him and wishes he was around. All her friends try to make her feel better and their antics are enough to cheer her up.
cutegirlmayra answered:
Preview Video for prompt: watch?v=TbtulMhVdq8 and watch?v=kEOn7Y6wE5c for reference of English lines, watch?v=lFjgepflorc for reference of Japanese lines combined with English dub. It was wonderful to go back, I had no idea how much depth was within Gamma's story, and I'm so glad I got to go back to my roots of character research and discover so much of a profound 'secret' almost about him! 3 I combined both the game, animes, and their separate translations to try and piece together a complete story for him. Enjoy~ As I did while writing his beautiful 'hero's sacrifice' story out! What a happy ending he truly had! Though, bittersweet still :)b
Prompts are Shut Down, I don't know when I'll ever open them again, it was just way too much. Sorry, Fam :(
Prompt:
'Excavation duty, again?'
'Not only was Knuckles all about saving the relics of his people, which, I totally understand that! It's just…'
Amy cautiously picked up what looked like a disgustingly soggy robotic eye-socket that was in the depths of the jungle, and sticking her tongue out while shaking her head, also shook her hand to dispose of its remnants into a black garbage bag. 'Why did I have to be assigned garbage duty..? What am I? The cleaning lady?'
She sighed and continued in her labors, growing weary as the sun beat down with no gentle cloud to shelter her at all.
She continued to use her hammer to jab through the debris of vines and mossy flora, hitting and moving it away without trying to cause too much of a disturbance. She had one foot through the figurative 'wall' of entangling vines that made her swing her Piko Piko Hammer around aimlessly, letting out small disgruntled sounds of effort and discomfort before falling chin-fist to the fertile green ground.
She looked so annoyed, gruffing out a puff of frustrated air in a growl as she looked up and saw a choir of frogs croaking in amusement at her fumble.
Grumbling with a look of exasperation on her face, she slowly got one gloved hand under her vibrant red and white-striped hula-hooped dress and continued onward.
Stumbling once more over something, this time metallic in nature, and ringing out a painfully high-pitched tone–She caught herself from falling and stared into the void of vast, endless jungle.
A typical girlie-girl may be done by now… but Amy Rose wasn't one to easily give up.
'After all our many adventures… I'm not gonna let this slow me down.' She kicked whatever was behind her, hearing the tone again, as the frogs on the swerving tree branches above hunched down in precaution at its strange 'cry'.
Their big ol' eyes blinked in intervals, and one dared to croak his nerves.
She got up, dusting herself off again, then gave up on tidying herself up when she knew she'd be stumbling about–picking up Eggman scraps from his abandoned robots anyway along the way–and turned to gasp at what she discovered.
It… looked like the haul of a large ship! Just one section of it, torn so fully it appeared to be peeled like a banana!
"What on..? Oh!" She put a hand up by her mouth as she looked to see Eggman's insignia… "The Eggcarrier!? Is this where it's been rotting the whole time!?" She took trepid steps around the flattened metal she had tripped over, before seeing the large gaping 'cave-mouth' of its haul… darkened but covered with vines to shield the light.
Squinting, she moved the vines out of the way and cried out in alarm as she stepped back while many monkeys and other Flickys of differing species all hopped, leaped, or flew out of the space. "Ahhh!" Her eyes went small as she covered her head and ducked.
After the chaotic common finally quieted down, she peeked up and looked around. "Phew…" She put her hands to her chest, smiling somewhat. 'Looks like it's been deserted for ages… I don't think any robots are still actively patrolling it.' She concluded, and headed on into its hollow basin…
She called it that, because she could hear running water, and stepping further within, she looked down to see splashing water from her footfalls. "... Did it crash to create an unnatural waterfall?" She looked to the side, remembering seeing a large water pocket traveling down in a couple of diverging streams from the cliffs and mountains up ahead…
'When it crashed here, it must have disrupted the local ecosystem… then seemingly became apart of the landscape over time.' She concluded, seeing how there were birds nests and grass sprouting through the crevices below her… maybe even natural ways to clean the water by the looks of how clear and reflective the water appeared to be.
'The cycle of life… Eggman's destruction… to nature's remedies…' She looked in awe, seeing how the whole of the ship was transformed by nature taking over, ruling in its rightful place among the gorgeous jungle peaks and flat lands.
'Swampy… muddy… but at least it's my home.' She gave a small smile to the side of her, 'I'm proud of you… Mother Nature.'
She continued to compliment its small takeover of Eggman's ugly mug with vines hanging like tapestry before her foot naturally hit something on the ground below her.
"Hmm?" A black rock?
She narrowed her eyes… "Hmmmmmmmm…." She flexed out her black garbage bag's opening. "Em-hmm..!" She figured she knew what this was. Scrap to heap away and clear from the area. Tails was looking for any information he could gather for his research into how Dr. Eggman's scientific genius has evolved over the years, plus with the restoration aspects, it was also Tails's humble way of contributing to predicting Eggman's next technological threats.
'Smart, but can anyone really study Eggman's erratic behavior and perceive into the mind of the insane?' She casually quipped, smirking at her own insult humor towards him, but as she brushed the dirt and grim away…
She gasped again,... She had seen this robot before.
'What was he called..? Beta..?' Her eyes flashed with recognition.
She dropped the garbage bag and hurried to the other 'large boulder rock' beside it.
Tearing through the rubble of pebble, the drapes of leafs, and ripping off and through the strangling roots of nearby shrubbery… she found him.
"Oh, Gamma…" Her eyes welled up, she was so new to learning robots could feel back then… or at least, understand and compute emotions… Their AI beginning to advance beyond Metal Sonic or even Orbot and Cubot… predating those two, of course, but still…
She had her hands drop the thriving green vines from her hands, falling to her knees.
In the roar of the waterfall, the chaotic cries of the living jungle life, and that shallow wind that moved through the hollow mouth of this wrecked, mobile spaceship…
She grieved once again.
Her nose sniffled, and she used her hand and arm to try and clear it from the swelling of emotions…
She reached down and began to try and drag the empty vessel that once held a truly noble, brave, and heroic heart… but it got snagged on something.
'Hmm? What could that be?' She thought it another vine, gently lowering the fallen soldier and moving away further obstruction of leaves and dirt to see… his hand was still holding his brother's.
"Ohhh…" She covered her mouth, "I can't leave you all… can I?" She looked to Gamma, "They're as much a part of you as Lily Bird's family was apart of each other…" She gently looked at the rusted metal… seeing absolutely no life.
Puffing up her cheeks, looking in her defiant and signature look, she mimed rolling up her nonexistent sleeves and heaved and ho'd!
She found all four of them, as well as some other useful bits she put in the garbage bag, and made her way back to Tails's workshop.
Understandably, she was exhausted, and Tails was equally shocked.
She explained herself, huffing and puffing in her efforts to preserve their legacy, she asked if Tails could look at a memory chip she had found in Gamma.
"It's pretty badly burned… do you think it's… melted all his memories away?" She put her hands together, as though to pray there was still something remaining of him… a memento even, of his brave deeds.
"Hmm…" Tails didn't have a connection to Gamma like she did, but one couldn't possibly fathom her dismay when he put his thumbs against the opening of the gaps, and cracked it open like a disc.
"AHHH!" She shrieked, "Tails, why!?"
"Calm down, calm down..! Look! Hehe~" He leaned back, worried she would retaliate, but sweatdropped sweetly at her care for the old robot. He smiled sheepishly, hoping she would let him explain.
Inside, he turned the opened case to reveal a circuit board, shining and golden… it had remained untouched… unsoiled by the long years of wasting away in the jungle… perfectly preserved within it's metallic, rusted case.
"No damage. I can boot this right up to my computer and you can access the memory files!" He cheerfully comforted her, as her eyes shook with twinkling delight at the prospect of seeing his story through his own eyes.
"Oh, Tails… Don't scare me like that." She smiled warmly, walking into his garage with her hand over her heart, trying to slow it from its panic, and sat in the swivel chair.
"I've got all your useful pieces to look through from your excavation site. So you can sit back and relax for now. I promise, I won't scrap Gamma's brothers."
She nodded, "Thank you, Tails… I know this sounds kinda selfish…" She worriedly raised her shoulders, a bit bashful.
"Not at all!" Tails readily replied to comfort any of her fears. "He must have meant something to you. I vaguely remember you stopping Sonic from destroying him… So… Yeah! He'll be all yours, okay?" Tails held up a finger to his mouth, then waved her off after traveling briefly down memory lane.
Now it was her turn… to take a longer, scenic route through it…
She clicked to open the file through the mouse, and selected the first folder.
From what she had gathered, Gamma saw how hard his teammates had tried complete their tasks, only proving that every effort was 'useless' if it wasn't done 'correctly'.
Having no concept of fear, he continued on, before seeing what became of those who were considered 'useless' to Dr. Eggman…
Why did he have to go through that wrong door? And why was it so hard to hear this Pink Hedgehog's words?
Once he took what Eggman wanted of the Flicky, her and the Bird would be… disposed of.
Was there truly programming outside of direct orders from 'Master'?
Amy watched as he continued to question his existence, on if things really needed to be done for 'survival' or simply because 'useless things' had a right to exist too?
Upon deleting his programming, and rounding up his tossed friends, he never had any concept of what fueled him onwards other than the right to live… freely.
All things as they should be… all those Frogs were beautiful and cool, like his friends had mentioned… Friends… Sonic stopped his programming, which was to destroy robots, and listened to the pleading of the Pink Hedgehog… his friend.
Gamma then realized, during the last fight with his 'brother' in arms, that even he couldn't survive… if what he now believed was true, then all creatures needed a 'guardian', like Chaos, to protect their existence no matter how 'useless' they appeared to be.
Because all things had a purpose, simply to live without 'Master's.
Beta had been transformed into what Eggman saw as 'more likely to be useful', which Gamma found disturbing. It was equally as brutal as fashioning him into another 'being', and he was uncertain if he could save his 'friend' any longer.
When he beheld that tiny Bird pleading with its eyes, something fluttered within him… he figured an awakening to humanity, but it was so much more than that.
He could feel that same fluttering within his metallic core for Beta, which wasn't fully felt with the other E-Series… He had… some connection to this machine. To this… friend.
He had to fight him, but he didn't want to destroy him.
All his attempts for Beta to change his programming, like he had, were in vain.
When Amy stepped in, during when he felt this first direct connection with the Birdie she titled: "Lily", she had stated that the creature wanted the best for him.
'Best'..?
Was this that feeling? He wanted the 'best' for Beta? What would that be?
If he destroyed Beta, would that be the 'Best' he was looking for?
If he kept Beta operational, but still defeated him, Eggman would likely tear him apart again, or discard him like the others…
That, he knew, was not the 'Best' he wanted for him.
When he battled other Eggman robots, he noticed that Flickies would emerge and pop or fly out of them… He had computed that the Flicky inside him, must have some connection to both "Lily" and Beta.
He computed, during that awful fight, that he–as well–must be destroyed.
Thus, can all their 'Friend's truly survive.
Amy watched as his resolve was absolute, and he was prepared to sacrifice his own robotic existence to save the "Lily Friends".
Amy began to have tears well-up, seeing how hard he fought Beta, and how determined he was to protect and save his friends…
A true heroic act of bravery, a 'friend' indeed…
She wiped her eyes, believing she would have done the same if the truth had been presented to her in that fashion.
She had no idea… how much she had influenced him, to rebel against his programming like that… to see and reflect on the true meaning of 'life'.
His experience with the spirit of Tikal led him to wanting to free the defenseless animals, and fight for those weaker than he.
Amy had called him a 'Bully', and he designated that title to Eggman, which she again cried over and had to collect herself to watch more files.
The memories of the Flicky within him stirred… Things his supercomputer couldn't compute.
He had tried to survive… to work towards a good goal… But he found something greater in sacrifice, allowing another imprisoned life to continue on.
She only looked up when she heard the scratchy vocal recording of her voice,... she was so young back then.
"Stop it!" the tape played with greyish, frizzing lines upon the computer, showing the memories were somewhat decaying from time… "You both are..!"
'I KNOW, PINK HEDGEHOG.' Gamma had said in his mind, 'WE ARE… FRIENDS.'
"You've done so much for Lily and me… You were able to save them, thank you!"
He willingly held his 'brother's hand… as the world came down, and their bodies exploded to open up a way for the Flickies to return to their 'Family', a concept he knew nothing of.
Except… by the memories… of his now freed Bird.
Amy shook to her core, realizing that after the explosion, even after the Flickies had left, he still was functioning enough to hear her last remarks…
She covered her mouth.
"We'll be friends from now on! Oh, Mr. Robot… I'll never forget you."
How long..? How long had he been 'functioning' to hear her..?
Waiting in that jungle of rubbish… just… waiting for someone to find him? His friends?
"Now you and your brother can live together again!" Her voice on the machine recording was too much… She got up, putting her hands on the console of the computer's keys, and realizing she had accidentally 'abandoned' the robot, not realizing he was still desperately hanging on to what little power he had left… what little 'life' he still retained…
The sad but poetic tale sent her into a spiral, before a chirp came at the top of the garage.
She looked up, her eyes widening.
A single pink bird..?
It seemed to almost smile in empathy towards her… how long had it been perched there..?
Later, Tails had tried to comfort her, but she begged and pleaded for him to try and give the robots a second chance. "Maybe… they could be assistants?"
"Robots? Working for me?" Tails kinda chuckled at that thought, "What am I? The 'Good' Doctor?"
As Amy leaves for her own home, Tails sees the same Pink Bird fly over to land on Gamma's remains, smiling to him as well, flapping his wings as though showing some familiarity to it.
Tails's eyes squint, but he puts a hand up to his chin and smiles, deciding on something…
Later, Sonic surprised Amy by saying they were going somewhere. Thinking it a date, she got dressed up only to be rushed to Tails's place, which made her a bit disappointed before seeing him open the garage, going–"Ta-dah!"
Overjoyed, Amy scrambled out of Sonic's arms, and raced up to the E-Series Robots.
Flickies were gathered all around them, as though they were their new guardians, as Gamma held his gun to in his arm, pointed to the side and away from her, and looked down.
"GREETINGS, TINY PINK HEDGEHOG… AMY ROSE." He… He knew her name, now…
The Pink Flicky chirped in a beautiful cascade of notes, flying up in a spiral with fluttering wings as though to say, 'Surprise!' as well.
Amy leaped up to Gamma, as Sonic rubbed under his nose…
Thanks to Amy, he knew not all robots were meant to be seen just by their surface levels… Though, it didn't mean he'd stop smashing them to get to their 'Flicky Hearts' inside..!
But… Seeing how she embraced Gamma's resurrection, and how she shook each of his friends hands… He smiled.
He put his hands on his hips, as a Lily Bird landed on his shoulder, chirping and fluttering her wings before nudging his face with her beak, as though nuzzling him.
He winked towards her, "It's nice… to not have to say goodbye, isn't it?"
He looked out at the happy picture again, seeing Lily Bird fly back to the Pink bird and their friend to make a trio of Flickies, flying to cover Amy with greetings as well.
"... A hero deserves… a just dues ending." He relaxed on one leg, letting his other arm dangle down… Giving Gamma his happy 'hero's ending…