angelbaby1998 asked:

I saw that you probably aren't doing fanfiction right now because of shutdown, but, if you are, I kind of have an idea, it's sort of sad and based off of Shrek Forever After, but with a bit of Black Knight. After having an argument with Tails, he finds himself accidentally saying that he doesn't need him and that he was better off without before them, after that, Sonic ends up in a world where his own friends don't recognize him and he has to gain back their friendship.

cutegirlmayra answered:

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Even if it's not Black Knight AU, I thought the picture worked lol And yes, during shutdown, I don't take anymore prompts BUT we're out of shutdown now so here we go!

Oh, Shrek. You'll live forever.

Prompt:

It wasn't long before Tails flew over, dodging the smoke from the destroyed robots all piled like debris from the previous battle.

Sonic had launched quite a fearsome and fierce spindash that did a massive ping-pong effect throughout all of Eggman's lone army.

They were sure the army was headed towards the city, and Sonic bolted ahead of his team to take of things while they worried and fretted over the defenses and other 'boring' lectures of planning that Sonic didn't want to stick around for.

He dusted himself off as Tails landed by his side, his eyes showing the concern and annoyance in them.

"Soooniicc! You said we'd work together!" Tails protested, but Sonic just rolled his eyes, seeing the young fox boy bundled his fists together by his face and show his obvious disapproval of Sonic's more… fast method… of stopping Eggman.

"What is everyone so upset about? I beat the army, and barely dropped a sweat!" he mimed gliding his finger down his arm and then flicking the imaginary 'sweat' into Tails's face who flinched at and wrinkled his nose at the gesture.

"That's not the point… you always rush off without us. We're a team!" he hopped a little forward, trying to grab Sonic's attention at the truth to his words, but Sonic just waved it off and kicked a sparking robot's hand, who was reaching from the pile up towards the sky, twitching before Sonic knocked it out and it ripped from the pile and started sparking off in rolling dark humor…

Sonic smirked as Tails looked horrified at the image and then shook his head, "You're too stubborn…"

Sonic's head whipped up, looking strangely offended at that as he turned to Tails and stomped towards him, making the poor boy walk backwards and shocked to see his friend so aggressive all of a sudden.

"Stubborn? Stubborn!? I used to take down hundreds upon thousands of robots long before you all tagged along! And what now, huh!? You're all the stubborn ones! I could have cleared through these zones to Eggman's base, took down his stock of mechanical tyranny, ripped up his notebook schemes, and been back before you guys called out 'Break!'." he flung his arms about, and the strange behavior made Tails cower back slightly, on the verge of tears. However, Sonic was so lost in his frustration at feeling held back by his friends, that he kept going without even realizing the damage he was causing to his friendship… "Without you guys, I'd be saving countless lives, planets, and the sort without having to worry about saying, 'What's the plan, Tails'!?"

When he finally came to and looked to Tails, his wildly flinging hands slowly came down and so did the flame of his aggravation.

"Tails…" His eyes softened, seeing how frightened and hurt Tails appeared.

He had withdraw down and against the pile of scrap metal, his bottom lip quivering, and one hand held up over his face.

He rubbed the rolled up part of his glove over his now wetted nose as he held in his tears, getting up from leaning against the pile and bringing his tails up to his hands as though to hold them like a child would his security blanket. "We don't mean to slow you down, Sonic… we just want to help… and we want to be apart of your adventures too." He sniffled and took off, holding his hands over his eyes as to not let Sonic see how much his words affected him.

Sonic immediately regretted what he said, holding out his hand to him, "Wait… buddy…" his hand slowly came down and he turned around angry again, kicking more robots and spin-slashing into some on the ground, "Augh! What's wrong with me!? I would never say that!" he slammed his foot against a particularly hard object, and jumped back in the pain. "Yee-ouch! Ow, ow, ow!" he held his foot in a comical, pogo-stick way before looking down at the strange, darkly colored orb object he had hit…

His eyes narrowed on it in curiosity, and then looked around. Tails was already flying back and crying to the others, no doubt being comforted after telling them all Sonic had said.

His face dropped again, as though not wanting to deal with that and feeling guilty over his outburst.

He was always a hothead, but tried to hide that as best he could from his friends. He was going crazy just sitting around talking all the time, and his jittery, antsy feet made him quick to the fuse…

Luckily, his love for his friends was more powerful than that… most of the time.

He sighed and dug through the rubble, deciding it best to go this journey alone, and pick up the strange, orbish ball.

"What do we have here?" it was about an inch smaller than Sonic's head, but still rather large in his grasp. He moved it around, looking at it's curves and seeing that it had rings of different colors around it's glistening shades of black, purple, green, and pink. "A new Eggman toy? Ohhh~ Shiny!" he tried to cheer himself up, but looked back over his shoulder to see Amy and Knuckles, not looking happy, waddling through the debris of Eggman robots.

He pouted, "Uh oh… IIIIIII~ Really don't want to deal with this." he looked around for an escape route, and found one as he ducked his head and hid among the tin carcasses of Eggman's army.

Burrowing as was his specialty of being a hedgehog, he heard Amy and Knuckles calling out in their search for him, and stuck his head out from a gap of two overlapping robots.

He peeked back and smiled, then brought out the orb before a sparking robot's upper-half snapped some of its wires loose and it's arm draped over him.

"Ah! Bad touch, bad touch!" he pushed through the gap as best he could and tried to kick the arm off of him… but what he didn't see… was that the sparks smacked against the orb… and made it glow.

"Soooniicc!" Knuckles's and Amy's voices rang over his desperate attempts to get the sparking dead robot off of his stuck leg, and panicked when he saw Amy look over and point towards him. "There he is!"

"Wha? Grr..! Sooonic!" Knuckles's immediate glare, followed by him hunching down and stomping over to his location made him freak out even more.

"Eee..!" His mouth stretched back to reveal he was getting caught, but finally put the orb over his head and cried out, "Being me would be so much easier if I wasn't stuck with you!" he was talking about the robot, but the orb burst like a bomb into a swirl of techno-colors.

Sonic felt himself falling slowly through the gleaming black as his hands whipped out to try and 'swim' or pull himself upward.

"W-what's..? What's going on!?"

It replayed some of Sonic's words around him, showing him through another set of eyes… blurry with tears.

"Tails…" his expression changed, his hands stopped fighting the pull downwards… almost like Alice falling through the rabbit hole.

"I don't need you telling me what to do!" Sonic's voice shouted through the muffled orb.

"I… I didn't mean it like that, Amy…" He felt himself sinking a little faster, hearing his words from days passed.

"Stop saying I care so much! I only care if I'm having fun doing it!" another image of him looking snarky and confident.

"Man… Do I really sound that annoyingly arrogant?" Sonic's head kept swishing back and forth at all the images and the words began to echo in a cacophony of incoherent statements as Sonic tried to plug his ears and his feet kicked the air. "No… Nooo… Nooo!" he cried out as he fell faster and faster into the dark.

"Hey, hey mister, are you alright?"

Sonic blinked his eyes, mumbling as though coming too from a nightmare.

Tails was looking over him, watching him stir.

"Uhhh…" He leaned up, having a hand on his face, "Sorry about earlier, buddy… I really let you have it, huh?" after thinking he was electrocuted and possibly passed out, he shook his head and started getting up, apologizing. "You know I couldn't do half the amazing things I do without a little bit of your own style thrown in there, right?" he gave him a thumbs up, but weakly so, still coming too and hunched over from the trauma. "H-hey? Where's Eggman's robots?"

"Huh?" Tails leaned back up, "Buddy? Look, mister… You're Sonic The Hedgehog. You don't have any 'buddies'." he put his hands to his hips, "Anyway, you beat down Eggman again, so I guess this means your out of here and on to the next thing. I won't bother you too much, just wanted to make sure you were okay, but it looks like you were napping." He turned behind him, waving to a crowd that had formed around the city. "Heeey! He's okay!" Tails waved to them, calling out.

They all looked relieved and cheered, before dispersing rather quickly back into the city.

"H-huh?" Sonic looked confused, but Tails just turned around and nodded to him.

"Okay, I know how you roll, so I'll take off now and simply say, Take care!" he took off without another word, waving slightly to him as though he was a stranger…

"W-wait, Tails! I said I was sorry, don't pull this on me! Come on, bud!" Sonic reached out to him, racing after him as Tails looked weirded out by him following him.

He looked under him and made a face, "Umm…"

"We can sort this out! We've gotten through way worse than a little outburst." Sonic shrugged, but Tails still seemed weary of him.

"L-look, you may have hit your head pretty hard against those robots, but I don't know you. No one really does, but we all know you're Sonic! Legendary and lone hero! You sure do clean up those baddies real fast though, see you at a distance!" he waved him off again and took off even faster.

Seeing how desperately Tails wanted to get away from him, Sonic slowed down and looked extremely broken, as though not able to quite function under this odd predicument.

"What's… going on?" he looked at his hand, "Tails wouldn't play around like this… he loves spending time with me." He flexed out his hand, the one that had blown up with the supposed 'explosion' but saw no sign of blast… not even ash on his pristine white glove.

"…Amy." He looked around and saw her heading back with the crowd, "Amy!" he dashed towards her, "What's going on with Tails? Is he really that mad at me?"

"H-huh?" She looked taken-aback that he was there, and immediately started flipping out in silence, fangirling and putting her hands up to her face as though she had just ran into a celebrity. She pulled out her phone and posed, "Could you sign this?" the photo came out of the phone and she clicked a button for a pen to also drop like a plug from inside it.

"W-what?" He sweatdropped, pulling away from her slowly and looking her in the eyes, searching for an answer. "Amy… it's me… Come on, not you too!" he flopped his arms out towards her, "Amy! Stop it! This is going too far!"

She withdrew her phone-pen and photo. "O-oh, right, sorry! I know you like to be the lone, mysterious Sonic The Hedgehog who doesn't need any help! I'll go now! But… I love you!" she waved and ran by him, hurrying away as other girls stopped her and offered money for the photo but she guarded it by summoning her hammer, making–or rather–forcing her way through the crowd that came at her.

"It's mine! All mine! Get your own!"

Others started taking photos of Sonic as a response.

The flashes overwhelmed him, making his mind spin as he turned around to try and find more familiar faces… but they were all strangers… every… one of… them…

"No." he gripped his head, "No, no… Knuckles… Knuckles!" he sped so fast through the people that some girls had to hold their dresses or long skirts down from his wind blast.

Upon reaching Angel Island, Sonic panted and gripped his chest, "Knuckles, it's awful!" he held up the Chaos Emerald he had before the blast… teleporting once safely away from the city…

"HEEEY!" Knuckles woke up from his nap, then seeing the emerald, rubbed his eyes in disbelief and angrily looked to his pedestal. Sure enough, one Chaos Emerald was missing…

In absolute hostile rage, he lowered his head, gritting his teeth.

He slowly turned his flaming eyes towards Sonic, getting up and twitching his fists into pounding against the ground, as though a racer, like a bull, readying to charge off into the fray…

"Everyone's acting like I'm some kind of lone ranger, it's creeping me ou-FFPH!" he was slammed into by Knuckles's head ramming into his stomach.

Getting taken off-guard, Sonic rolled back and jammed his back into a tree, spiking it with his two angled spikes at the force. He was briefly knocked out, but coming back, he rose his head and shook it, blinking his eyes and then struggling to get out from the tree. It was clear he looked like a turtle stuck on his shell, trying to get up and kick his feet out to do so, but his back quills were too deeply embedded in the tree.

'Geez,' he worriedly thought to himself, 'Knuckles, even at his worst, wouldn't hit that hard knowing it was me.' He looked back as Knuckles slammed another fist into the side of the tree, barely missing Sonic as he held the Chaos Emerald in up in his other hand.

"Now you listen here, blue punk." He spat out as his head got dangerously close to Sonic's, "I already have to deal with that no-good bat girl and that deranged, psychotic Eggface! I don't need another so-called 'hero' thinking he can just walk up to MY ISLAND and take what he sees fit!" he cracked his two-spikes on his glove out from the tree's now tilted bark. "Hmph, now get off my island! I don't like your kind around here… Always parading your victories, running off after the praise and never caring about anyone else but yourself! Your kind make me sick!"

He walked briskly back to his shrine, but freaked out when the Master Emerald was gone, "AH! MY EMERALD!" he dropped the Chaos Emerald and gripped his head, then panicked and picked it back up, turning to Sonic. "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY PRECIOUS EMERALD?"

Throughout the day, Sonic had to regain their trust, and even convince Eggman that he knew Sonic…

Eggman knew him as his life-long, hated adversary but…

"I hardly actually know you. You hate water? Does that… like… count?" He shrugged from his eggmobile. "Wait, wait! Are you..? Are you saying you at last wish to join forces and be friends!?" He pulled out a party blower and horn, releasing fireworks but Sonic shook his head.

"I…" He looked to Tails, Knuckles, and Amy… who he had kinda dragged along this wild ride…

They looked at him like he was strange and this was all odd, and it hurt his heart to see it.

He fell to his knees, "I… I don't know how I got any of you as friends… and I know I don't say it enough but… I'm so grateful I have you." He hit the ground.

Eggman looked a little confused too, shifting his eyes, "Umm… What?"

He didn't understand the jibber-jabber so he just took a canon to fire at him from below his Eggmobile.

Sonic didn't even bother to dodge… but as the black canon fired… the black, purple, green, and pink lights within it made it look strangely familiar…

Amy summoned her hammer and hit the canon up into the air, "You leave Sonic alone!" she stated, as he looked up to her, already to weak in his emotions to do anything else.

"Grr… he may be a bratt, but he's a lonely bratt, regardless!" Knuckles punched his fists together, standing up beside Amy and getting ready for a brawl. "So butt out of his business! Nah, do me one better, butt out of everyone's business! Especially my own!" he must have been referring to the world and his own Master Emerald crisis…

"And I-!" Tails stood forward, but looking to Sonic, it almost seemed like he didn't know what to say.

Sonic looked away, not expecting this Tails to say anything.

"…I think he needs us." Tails nodded with a soft, sad smile, then turned back to Eggman with all the force a young child would have in wanting to defeat evil and tyranny. "You're a bully! I'll show you what Sonic inspires! In all of us!"

The three were about to fight, but the 'canon-ball' came flying down and bonked Sonic on the head.

When he came too, he was surrounded by Tails, Knuckles, and Amy… all were leaning over him, trying to wake him up.

"Sonic! Sonic, wake up!"

"H-huh?" He opened his eyes, not sure what was going on again, but saw the heap of robots and then looked to see his friends, grabbing their shoulders.

"You know me!?"

They all seemed worried, "Well, of course we know you!" Amy laughed, "Silly! We were worried when we saw the blast! Tails said you two had a fight…"

"Well, he fought." Tails looked away, a little sheepishly.

"Nevermind that, tell me, you punk!" Knuckles gripped Sonic up and held him up to his face, "What gives you the right to shout in people's faces, huh!? Show a little more respect for those who actually care about your safety and success, alriiighhttt!?" Sonic wasn't even phased by Knuckles's scolding, he was too wrapped up in the joy of figuring out these guys were his actual friends.

"I LOVE YOU GUYS!" Sonic threw his hands up and Knuckles set him down gently, creeped out by his bold and… strangely out-of-character declaration.

"Uhhh…." Knuckles moved away from him, letting him slightly go but keeping his fists on him for good measure. "That blast hit your head too hard or somethin'?"

"Oh my!" Amy quickly jumped up and put her hand to his forehead, "Sonic! That nasty blast really did knock you out pretty badly, didn't it?"

"Amy!" He gripped her and Knuckles into a hug, "You're all the best!" he laughed, and they all looked a little odd being under his arms like this…

"Tails..!" He looked to Tails, then quieted down and approached him in a calm manner. Tails was still acting shy…

"I'm so sorry, Tails." His eyelids dropped and he came very humbly over to him. "You were my first real friend, and I didn't understand how much your friendship changed my life… you put up with me a lot, heh… and for that, I'll forever be grateful to you, buddy. Honestly… I know I don't speak my heart very much but…" He raised a hand slowly to him, before letting it flop on the little fox's head, who giggled at the ruffling it gave his fur. "You're the bestest friend a guy could ever ask for… I wouldn't be the hero I am today without you."

Tails held his hand on his head and looked cutely up to him.

He jumped into him and they hugged, as Amy and Knuckles also looked thrilled that the two made-up, and Amy placed her hands together and by the side of her cheek, leaning towards it.

"Aww, brotherly love!" She cheered, admiringly, but Knuckles just rolled his eyes as if justifying this weird behavior of Sonic's wasn't the right way to act about it.

"Alright, so he hit his head and now he's soft… is that really a good thing?"

"W-we should probably get your head looked at, Sonic." Tails pulled away slightly as Sonic went to rub his head in embarrassment, but flinched from the pain and the others immediately flocked him to check out further injuries.

"Don't move! And I know that sounds like a death sentence, but just remain still!" Knuckles argued.

"I've got bandages!" Amy quickly began to wrap his head as Tails helped him to sit and pulled out some water.

"Here, you must feel really awful after that short-fuse… Maybe even lightheaded too, just relax for a second, okay? We'll have you better in no time!"

Amazed by the kindness he never really saw beforehand, he rubbed his wetted nose and glossy eyes against his glove as Tails once did, and allowed his friends to take care of him…

His… true friends.

He would never wish to part from them again.

And from here on out, he never seemed to have an issue holding in his temper either!