avecaida-deactivated20210227 asked:

The world is ending (not exactly but things are bad). Before everything goes down, Amy wants Sonic to take here somewhere nice. He does. When sonic puts her down, she's crying. She asks if she's ever said that she loves him. He had always loved her but it hit him that this might be the last time she'll be with him. They embrace as they slowly fall asleep.

cutegirlmayra answered:

Imma go ahead and combined this with another idea I had? Still what you want, but the 'ending of the world' has passed but they were fighting before (A bit in the future? So they're older) and if they don't make up soon,… it may be the last time they'll see each other! D: Oh no! lol

PROMPTS ARE ON SHUTDOWN, I literally looked through all my prompts to find a prompt that would match the idea I wanted to write, and yours hit the bill, my friend!

(This is not my work, please support the Artist! mangaanonymous)

Prompt:

it's a pretty bad situation…

Not only is Sonic undermining the danger, he's keeping it to himself, not wanting to worry his friends.

This was all happening during a few years after their famous adventures as kids, now being a little older, and the threats a little more… harder… to bear.

Showing his own worry for his friend's well-beings, Sonic refuses to confide in anyone besides Tails the true dangers that are headed their way, but Amy notices this clear avoidance and while Sonic is cheering on Knuckles and Tails in their part of the plan, she confronts him.

"Sonic… It may be easier for all of us if we just knew what we were up against…" She gestures to Tails and Knuckles, then turns pleadingly to Sonic, her fists close by herself as she shakes them in earnest to get Sonic's attention. "I know you just want to protect our faith in you… and we all believe in you! We really do! But… It's starting to seem like you're keeping things from us… What really is out there, Sonic?" She opens her hand out to him, passing the metaphorical 'talking stick' as it were, but Sonic just looks down at her hand…

His face is full of deep thought, before his eyebrows arch in return to her want of understanding, "Don't you trust me?" He asked, which seemed somewhat hard for him to state in that way… "I've never let you guys down before. If we all band together, I'm sure it won't matter what we're up against!" he gestured to Tails and Knuckles, then to Amy.

Amy's face scrunched up a moment, hurt by his clear rejection of her plea.

"…Uhh… I just think it's best… for morale's sake… that we just take it on as we always have." Sonic backed up a moment, noticing her expression, but formed his own fist and held it strongly up, as though to encourage her. His eyes searched her for the usual agreeance she had always shown in her youth… but… not this time.

His expression turned a bit saddened, a bit… confused.

Why wasn't she just trusting his word, like usual?

Amy lowered her head, "So… you won't tell any of us what's out there?"

Her hands dropped to her sides as Sonic looked to Tails, who shook his hands out like he wanted to stay out of this.

"…I told Tails… But-" he looked down when Amy's head shot up with anger clear across her face, making him flinch back and turn his back to her.

"You told Tails!?"

Knuckles looked to Tails, who shrugged, innocently showing his nerves at Sonic throwing the 'baton' to him in the conversation.

Sonic squinted his eyes shut, forming a tight line on his face before turning back around to Amy and gesturing his arms out again, "What!? What, Amy!? I can't tell my best friend that things are gonna be alright? Shadow and Silver already have their teams lined up and prepared," He angled his eyes and then pointed behind him as he spoke about the others readying their positions for the on-coming dangers. "I don't understand… why are you questioning me?" he shook his head in minor movements, leaning towards her in hopes she'd explain herself.

She just huffed, defeatedly, and turned to Tails, walking towards him. "Fine. If you won't tell us, then I'll just ask Tails myself."

"Keep him out of it!" Sonic reached to her and she stopped before his arm could intercede. He walked to the side of her, seeing that she's halted, and not pulling her back but just keeping his arm out to stop any further movement. "Amy, what's wrong with taking my word for it that we're all gonna make it out of here? You said you had faith in me, right? Would I really let anything happen to you? To them?" He gestured a bit aggressively to Tails and Knuckles, but that was only because he was trying to make a point.

"But then why aren't you saying anything?" Amy's voice turned desperate, turning her attention from Tails back to him, "If this is a losing cause… you wouldn't say it is, would you?" she worriedly confessed her fears as Sonic's quills jumped on end… slowly descending as he stepped back, clearly hurt from her abrupt words.

"S-…Sonic… I just… I want to know…" Amy, seeing how much that seemed to stab his heart, tried to step forward and reach for him, but he turned away from her and held a very 'closed-off' look to his face. His eyes were a bit intense to the ground, his mouth a masked frown as though he was returning to a neutrality.

"I'm heading off to check on the others. Be ready and prepare well… Tails, Knuckles… Take care of Amy." He took off, back towards Amy again, blocking out her emotional responses.

She made a few quickened steps after him before stopping… lingering one foot to the side and then the other… watching his blue blur disappear over the horizon…

Tails sighed, "He barely said much to me, too… But I know he's only doing it to keep us from being afraid." He stated aloud, then turned to Knuckles, "They're both kinda stubborn, though… huh?"

"Heh, hedgehogs." Knuckles shook his head, folding his arms, "That's the first time I ever saw Amy lose a fight to entreat Sonic… he's usually so… appeasing to her." Knuckles's mouth turned to one side, as though not sure how to take this. "Is this… their first real fight?"

Tails nervously laughed under his breath, "I-I… I don't know." He admitted, "But it is pretty rare for those two to not really get along… I mean, normally, their conversations end in Sonic being awkwardly embarrassed and Amy giggling at it. This… this is definitely new." He looked to see Amy slowly lowering her shoulders, her head coming down, and her hands coming up to embrace herself in a self-soothing gesture.

The two men stared…

"Who's in the wrong,… then?" Knuckles wondered, asking for Tails's opinion.

Tails shook his head, "Neither/or. They're both a bit at fault, but for different reasons… I think Sonic should have just had faith in us… instead of asking for more faith in himself and in our past victories… and Amy… I think Amy should have let it go like she usually does… she's so submissive but forceful when she wants something… I'm surprised she pushed this topic for so long after seeing Sonic… so rattled up like that." Tails explained his thoughts, as Knuckles patted his back, taking in a deep breath of air to then let it out.

"Sonic's naturally a hot-head, and we should only focus on things we can control… We can control this outcome to some extent… It would be easier if Sonic wasn't so tight-lipped about it, holding onto a strong face for us all… It's not exactly needed, is it?" Knuckles clearly was siding with the side of getting more information. "Aren't you curious why it takes so many of us to even make a shot at this thing?"

Tails looked down,… clearly, in silent agreement.

"I… I have to trust Sonic's instinct on this one…" He stated… a bit as though he was trying to stay out of an argument. He looked meekly up to Knuckles, "Don't you… Don't you think that's best, too? We know enough to have a crack at it… but not enough to lose hope." he held up a hand and then lightly formed it into a fist, trying to demonstrate his resolve, but Knuckles just shook his head and started to wander over to Amy.

"Gah… Amy…" He patted her back, as Tails sighed and flew over to, also placing his two hands on her other shoulder in the air, showing they were there for her.

"He's…" she took a few quick breaths in, quivering in her words, as though hyperventilating a bit in her withheld tears. "He's n-ne-nev-never been so-so-so upset with m-me before…" She struggled to get that sentence out… it was clear she was worried. "W-wha-what have I-I-I done." she softly put her hands to her face, "I-I can't… l-let him s-see-see me c-cry."

The two men looked to one another, then Tails came down as Knuckles embraced Amy from the side, and Tails the same.

"It's unfair. We agree with you." Knuckles stated, even though he knew Tails was more on Sonic's side. "But the fact remains… Sonic is being stubborn about telling us the whole of the situation. In a few minutes, we're about to confront it for the first time, with our own eyes…" He moved out of the embrace to look down to her, "We'll be okay." He comforted her, and rubbed the top of her head as Tails also tried to cheer her–and himself–up by jumping enthusiastically.

"Whatever it is, it hasn't faced us, yet!" he piped up, kicking up his legs, "Let's teach it that it never should have crossed our paths! Or our planet's!"

Knuckles returned his efforts for a smile with one of his own, then looked to Amy who peeked over her bent fingers and nodded, still looking quite in grief over the confrontation she had had with Sonic.

At the end of the fight, they were victorious, even if the chances were slim… Sonic was right. They defeated it, no matter the odds.

Still… if the odds were told, hearts could have been spared.

Amy watched as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles celebrated their victory up on a hill… she held a fist close to her heart… hearing it pound inside her ears and feeling its rapid thumps of fear at seeing Sonic again after… after he must have felt betrayed from her lack of faith in his decisions…

She didn't want to say she was wrong, she didn't believe she was. She never lost her trust nor faith in Sonic… but she wanted to know, she was more than just curious, she felt that knowing may help quiet the fears instead of the unknown making them worse.

Was that selfish of her? No. She wouldn't say such a thing.

Still… the battle was won and over with… but…

She backed up, her breathing growing uncomfortable as her hands reached for her cheeks… they were flushed and discolored, and she… she opted to run away.

She wouldn't let Sonic see her tears… she couldn't!

Strangely enough, with her head down and charging through the trees, her vision blurred by the raining moisture in her eyes, she thought she saw Sonic sped up in front of her, arms folded, and halted as his head turned to her.

She covered her face and breathed through her mouth, shocked he would follow her. "S-So-Sonic? Why are you h-he-here?"

"…What's with all the blabbering?" the voice was deep and husky.

"Sh-Shadow?" She parted her hands as she squinted through her tears. Indeed, through the distorted vision of her blobby tears, was Shadow.

He looked her face over, then his eyelids lowered as though he was holding back some empathy for her. "Why aren't you celebrating with the others?" he plainly spoke out.

"… I… I don't know… if I belong there right now… or not." She rubbed her arm, turning away from him, trying to stop her hiccuping-like breathing that rapidly ascended like a ladder from her throat in spurts.

"…You're clearly upset."

"Y-y-yes." she wiped her tears, looking to him and then ducking her head again.

"…I suppose most people would ask why." He unparted his arms, walking up to her, "But… Sonic mentioned something… I think it has to do with what ever transpired between you two." He stopped in front of her as she looked up to him, hearing his story…

Sonic paced by Shadow, as Shadow–unwillingly–listened to his small rant.

"We're ready. We're gonna win over this thing, I just know it! Why can't they all see that..? Knuckles didn't complain, Tails understood, and Amy… She…" He suddenly paused to form a shaking fist to the side of him, which finally caught Shadow's bored attention, his eyes widened at the sudden release of unwanted, leaking emotion from Sonic and was suddenly… very intrigued.

He shook out his hand in a sweeping motion and then jerked it out, "It doesn't matter. She'll see when we win. We're all gonna do this together, Shadow! So you can't act half-fazed now!" he walked by Shadow abruptly, swiftly… as Shadow looked down from the corner of his eye… not wanting Sonic to realize what he had seen…

"I don't believe I've ever seen Sonic so visibly shaken up before… he only showed such signs of being emotional and disturbed when mentioning you." Shadow looked back to Amy, "And now, seeing how you're reacting to it…" He carefully observed Amy's hands as she had put them together, they were shaking fiercely in front of her too. "…Something tells me you both lack faith in making peace with the other." He turned his attentions back to her eyes, searching as they were, trying to find meaning to Shadow's story she couldn't quite place.

"…Has this happened before?" He suddenly asked.

"No." Amy's voice was somewhat mousey, her nerves taking over.

"…Haven't you both had disputes in the past?" Shadow seemed incredulous at her facts.

"I always just… let him do what he pleased. I don't want to be the one to always-…" she stopped, shaking her head. "N-no, that's not true. I do believe Sonic would want me to make amends… Thank you, Shadow."

"…I owe you a debt." Shadow took things seriously, walking up to her side to show some minimal action of support in her favor. "If it weren't for you… there wouldn't be a planet left to save." He admitted, smirking a moment to look forward again, chuckling lightly in a low tone. "I highly doubt that our victory would be complete unless you two made up." He looked back to Amy, "In service to you, and your words… I have to ask you something… personal." He gestured a hand to her, stepping back as she looked curiously up to him, wondering what it could possibly be.

Personal?

"You said to me… once, a very long time ago… that the people upon this planet's dreams were worth saving… what about your own? You're sacrificed so much on his behalf… so it appears to be." He was guessing, but he wasn't far off. He lowered the hand and looked behind her, just making sure they were alone… he wouldn't want to conjure the wrath of Sonic… especially if he teased him that he was butting too heavily into his 'love affairs'.

Shadow hating Sonic's teasing more than anyone… but irritability aside, this once 'little girl' still reminded him of another fond child… and he refused to go about his life not having repaid a debt. "I'm perplexed… why are you, through your actions, proving that some dreams are placed higher than others?"

His words cracked at her core, but she remained strong in her stance… just weak in her face.

"Shadow…" Her eyebrows arched back, her mouth pulling back into a frown.

"…It's not right… to place one dream above the other." flicked his hand out, walking by her. "Explain it to him… You shouldn't be the only one left in tears… at the end of every adventure…" He looked over his shoulder as he departed, "Or are hiding your tears really that worthwhile?"

His words may have been direct, but underlining them, was a real concern for her future…

She nodded in agreement, clapping her hands to her cheeks to try and snap her out of her dark spell.

"R-right! I got to make up with him! State myself… and my dreams… clearly." She nodded in resolve, about to come back to the hill and rush past Shadow when-

"Amy!" A portal opened and Silver floated out of it, looking to be in great alarm, "Have you spoken to Sonic yet? Are you two alright again?" The urgency in his voice made her falter, stepping back, her arm coming up to block his floating body from advancing any further as she leaned up to see him.

"W-wha-what?" She was confused by his sudden appearance. "Silver..? What's wrong? Isn't the future safe?" She asked then, as Silver lowered his flying form down and looked a bit unsure on how to answer that.

"Y-yes… but… not all futures." he looked… concerned. His eyes avoided her own, questioning ones. "I… Don't know how much I should say…"

"Say it." Amy's sorrowful crack in her voice made him look to her at once, unable to avoid the sadness from the situation anymore. "What happens to me and Sonic if I don't go back?"

"… I don't… know all the details, b-but…" He clearly didn't know why this was happening, but Amy wasn't going to fill in the details just yet. It might cause him to stop talking… and at least… he was talking.

He put his fingers' tips up by each other… nervously explaining… "If whatever happened to you two doesn't get resolved… then the future you two had coming will be… disrupted." He looked away, "It doesn't affect the whole of the future… you're right. But you've always been so kind to me… I feel almost like… I owe it to you… to try and bring back what was to come… because…" He lowered down to his feet, sighing as his fur on his chest seemed to rise and fall with his heavy breath. He turned his sights away from her, but narrowed his eyes in all seriousness, "I have to tell you… at least what I can. You two won't speak to each other again for many years to come… and… when you finally do… you've already missed… so much bliss you two could have had." He closed his eyes, harshly, as though finding that truly a tragedy.

"I came back because I care about individual futures just as much as the overall futures of people's lives… you helped me see that truth, Amy." he gestured out his hands towards her, facing her again as she seemed visibly processing that future… "You two seemed… hurt… by the past. I came here to try and help you two make amends."

She looked angrily up to him, "Amends? As in… I have to make the amends?!" she gestured to herself and then threw her arms down, "How does that make this right!?" she blurted out, turning away, "He can't just come to me? I have to go to him!?" She gestured behind her, then flattened her hand to her chest as her emotions were literally starting to suffocate her. "How… How selfish can he be!?" she ran off, as Shadow darted in and watched her go, skidding to a halt.

"Amy!" he called, then angrily stomped up to Silver, "What did you say to her!?"

"I-I-I was only trying to get her to make peace with Sonic!" he shook his arms out as Shadow gripped his fur and pulled him up.

"You have some nerve… She was about to do that very thing!" he grumbled out, then dropped Silver down as he started to walk towards Sonic. "Now it's up to be to use the forceful approach… If Amy won't come to Sonic… I'll have to ruffle him up into doing so…"

Silver rubbed his head, flying up after Shadow, "I didn't… realize that she'd be so upset… with it." He wondered then, "Was it me?"

"Why are you trying to help her? And clearly, you've only made her more emotionally avoidant." Shadow gestured a hand back to Silver. "We can't reason with her now… it's up to Sonic whether I can help preserve Amy's dream or not…"

"Amy's… dream?" Silver seemed confused, "Why are you helping her, Shadow?" He asked, before looking ahead to Sonic waving off Tails and Knuckles and dashing off. "I just… wanted their old future to come back." He admitted quietly, guilt now swarming in waves upon his face.

"Because a very long time ago… she fought for yours, and his, and everyone's dreams… but fails to secure her own." Shadow then clicked the toe of his foot to the ground as a flare from his spinning rollers on his feet whirled and he skated off, "It's high time Sonic paid for the dreams he's failed to save, as well… We may have won the battle, but-"

Silver flew up next to him, keeping the pace, "But hearts are sometimes more important then just saving lives." he looked to Shadow who nodded with a light 'hmph' and smile before it faded into a serious tone again.

The two looked forward and shot on after Sonic.

"W-wait-wait, hold on a Sonic-second." Sonic turned around after they had clearly caught up to him and explained things a bit to have him hold up his hands and now face them. "You two clearly don't know how things work between me and Amy." He seemed so confident… but Shadow could see through him right away.

"You're feigning your fears by acting cocky about it. Go on, tell us why you think Silver's future for you two won't have dire consequences for you and your friends, Sonic." he bit down on the last word, annoyed as he gestured back to Tails and Knuckles who had already left and then looked harshly back to Sonic,… as though ready to fight.

"Listen, it goes a little like this…" He looked around, then curved his speedy-self to bend down and pick up a flower before presenting it to them, "Observe. I present a flower, I give her the ol'Sonic charm," He winked with an infamous smirk as Silver tilted his head, confused, and looked to Shadow for answers who just remained frozen in rising fury at his nonchalant attitude. "and she's running back into my arms. Happens every time." Sonic flicked the flower to the side of his face and then turned to casually sniff it.

"Then why did Amy say this was the first time you two have ever left things unspoken?"

Sonic held in a snort of shock but it ended up coming out of his nose and as his eyes widened at seeing the flower burst into petals and now… look just pathetically sad in his hands.

He threw his arms down and gave a teethy-frown and grown to Shadow. He stomped his foot for added, 'extra' effect. "You spoke to Amy already!? What gives any of you the right to intervene in my affairs?"

"Somehow… I knew you were going to say that." Shadow rolled his eyes, as Silver stepped forward.

"We know she means a lot to you, Sonic. We also know you're scared to confront her because you felt she didn't see you the way she used to anymore."

At being so exposed, Sonic's eyes kept darting to the side of his vision as though unable to keep steady eye-contact, nervous at their clear resolve to help him. "W-why do you suddenly care about me and my well-being so much? Or rather…" He raised an eyebrow, suddenly growing in confidence as he walked up to them, "My friends… for that matter." he pointed to them as Shadow and Silver looked visibly offended and startled by his accusation.

"It's not like that." Silver narrowed his eyebrows, "She wants to be with you, we're just worried about your future, Sonic!" Silver stood up for himself, making Shadow look over to him, impressed for a soft moment that he wouldn't try and excuse his actions towards him.

"Heh, the future is never set in stone." Sonic shrugged out, smiling as he tilted his head back, remaining as best he could to appear composed. "Amy's usually… pretty… decent at speaking her mind. I don't doubt she'll be looking for me to make up with her soon." He turned around and started to walk back, "Besides, I don't worry, I just-…" He looked up towards the sky… his voice suddenly shifting… "Run."

The breeze took his spirit far from this conversation… placing it at a crying friend's side…

"I've had enough of this." Shadow swung his arm and pushed Silver enough back to get out of his way, making him wobble a bit back but reach out as though to stop Shadow. "You're a coward… You're so afraid of getting hurt by her again… that you refuse to admit how sorry you really are to her."

Sonic frowned and looked over his shoulder, starting to get upset… visibly growing more frustrated at Shadow's persistence.

"Enough, Shadow." He spoke out, full of authority that Shadow wasn't used to hearing, which did make him pause but smirk as he noticed he had struck a nerve.

"Is that right? When is it enough, Hedgehog? You're afraid of self-sabotaging a relationship you failed to even build. If it weren't for Amy's continual sacrifices to be with you… would you even be able to keep her?"

"Amy's not someone's to keep!" Sonic seemed to explode, stepping forward with a swing of his arm, his knees bent, he was preparing to lash out…

Exactly what Shadow wanted… as he matched his stance… ready to duke it out.

Silver looked worriedly between the two, but stayed out of it. He hadn't realized… how much Shadow knew about the two.

Was he just… super observant?

Or had he been watching for years… Sonic's relationship with his friends?

"Amy chooses to stand by my side… I've never done anything to stop her." Sonic stood tall, showing a more profoundly mature side, shaking his head. "This doesn't concern you… either of you." He eyed Silver a moment, then turned back to Shadow, losing all of his cool-guy-swagger to reveal his actual, deeply upset but stubborn persona underneath it all. "Amy can do as she sees fit… I never encourage otherwise!" he swung out another arm, threw and fed-up with this extremely personal–to him–discussion. "And that's enough on that."

"Is it?" Shadow probed, as though having a spear to spoke at Sonic's raging emotions swirling in his heart. He stepped forward, unafraid, "You've never done anything in general besides, possibly, saving her life… if she's no one's to keep, then why so defensive about us?" He gestured to himself, then Silver. "For someone who holds his friend's trust in him so highly, why are you so stirred over the fact that one wouldn't follow you blindly like she used to?"

Sonic remained silent, but it was obvious Shadow had crawled his spiked hooks underneath his skin…

"If you really are so confident she'll concede and come running back to you again… then why are you so afraid to face her now?"

He then dipped his head forward, "Why are you running… from your own faith in your friends?"

Sonic bolted forward to swing a fist but Shadow jumped back, anticipating it.

Silver worriedly watched as they sped through the air, exchanging blow after blow.

'W-why is Shadow egging him on like this?' Silver wondered, ducking in and out from being in the middle of the speedy, black and blue bullets coming at him. 'It doesn't make sense… why enrage him further instead of calmly getting him to see Amy?' he backed away, 'Maybe it was wrong to try and interfere with their fates… If this is how it should go… then…' he couldn't help but think about the old future they had, side by side, remaining in that close friendship instead of Sonic being off doing daring-dos and Amy never bothering to chase him again…

When they did reconnect, it was based on duel-loneliness… they had pined for each other and couldn't resist the urge to reunite again…

Wait… that's it!

"S-Sonic!" Silver quickly jumped back in and floated above the spinning blurs that kept rocking into each other. 'Shadow's not just blindly fighting him! He's helping Sonic face his pent-up sorrow over what happened! He's wearing his stubbornness down to step aside and compromise for Amy!' He threw up his hands, "I'm going to bring Amy to the hill at sunset! You better be there!" he flew off, determined to succeed.

'I have faith in you, now,… Shadow.' he hurried to find her, seeing she was curled up with her knees tucked in by a cliffside.

He slowly approached, breaking from his speedy search for her and coming down to step towards her.

He could barely even speak when she spoke first.

"He's really not coming… is he?" Her voice was broken… her heart torn in two. She ducked her head between her two raised knees she was hugging. "I never thought… that after all these years… he wouldn't even try to-… he always tried to-… Silver." she turned towards him as he sat down and although his hands were up at first… he lightly lowered them to gently rub her back.

"When he was gone for so long before… He always made it a point… to pick a flower and bring it to me… He was always so nervous that I was mad at him, and always… every time… so glad when I was overjoyed to see him again… I would rush into his arms… and he'd just let me stay there… for however long I liked… Even when he tried to pull me away to show the flower, I would just dart back into his arms again…"

Silver looked up to the sky, seeing the sun beginning to set. 'Come on, Shadow… Let him be waiting for us.' he told himself, nervous if this would even reset their futures back or not…

"When you told me… that we never spoke again in the future… I could hardly believe you… in fact, I didn't believe you." She rubbed her nose across her glove. "Because… Because no matter how long we're apart… Sonic or I would always find each other again… Always…"

Silver's heart was tenderly chipping at each crack of her voice and every heartfelt word she uttered.

It was painful… hearing how much she had faith in Sonic… and seeing how Sonic tried to mask his own aching in front of him and Shadow…

"He… He's bad a communicating… isn't he?" Silver looked down to her, as she nodded her head with a smile on her face, sniffling.

"He opens his heart… but the words don't come out. Only… small actions… but that… that prove his love for us. His friends, I mean… and the world, even." She looked away as Silver got up, trying to offer his hands to her.

"Amy… I know this seems like I'm trying to get you to go to him… but I'm not." He sternly stated, "Instead, I'm asking you to–for once–let him meet you halfway…"

She looked so touched by that, her eyes shining in the setting sun…

The two waited on the hill, as Silver got nervous about every second ticking by, before Shadow walked up to the hill and looked behind him, Sonic following suit with his eyes to the ground… then looking up to Amy.

Amy turned around and shot herself up to her feet instantly, her natural instinct was to run to him but she stopped her kicking leg from advancing any further.

Her fist thrust itself to her heart, as though to hold herself back, as she looked to Silver for reassurance.

He nodded, smiling, so relieved…

And together… the two walked to the center… meeting halfway… and sat down as Shadow and Silver departed… not being seen for several years as Silver returned to the future, and Shadow… to himself.

The two awkwardly sat in front of each other… before Sonic finally looked up at the sunset, "…It's beautiful,… don't'cha think?" He gazed with an honest sense of wanting to make things right towards it.

That subtle gesture Amy had talked about…

His knee was raised up with an arm draped over it, and the other arm holding himself up.

He kept staring at that sunset… his hand… that was once holding himself up,… slowly relocating to her side.

She smiled, letting out some held-in air that brought so much tension through her body.

"It is." she softly stated, placing her own hand next to his… "It really, truly is."

She looked up to him, but noticed he was blocking his emotions again, just staring at the sunset as she, too, then looked over to it.

The sun setted as she waited for him to say something… he had started, which was the hardest part, to make conversation…

After forever of silence, and the sun coming down, his head dropped to and Amy embraced him, hearing a sorrowful sound escape him as she held his head.

"I won't let you see me cry," she stated, as Sonic's hand came up to loop around her back up to her shoulder, gripping her in a strength she knew meant he was scared to lose her.

Silver's words had affected him. Shadow's fight had made him realize how much he really did care about that future coming to pass and him just… letting it happen.

This was the ultimate fight.

This was the end of his world…

If he couldn't even speak up… to make amends with his friends.

He lifted his head, sniffing back the held-in remorse of the emotionally strenuous moment on himself, as he finally spoke out.

"Future's left unseen." he stated, and Amy nodded, sitting back down beside him and letting him go.

"Y-yeah." she rubbed her eyes but Sonic's hand that loosened around her swung back around to lightly use his pointer finger to hold her chin in place, and lightly rubbed his thumb across the soft dip of her lowereyes.

"…I never meant to hurt you." His voice was faint, but she knew it was because this was hard for him to do.

"Neither did I." Amy responded, her eyes closed as she continued to let out small sobs.

"… I want… you to continue believing in me." His voice was trailing off, as though he was losing some strength in remaining this openly emotional.

"I know." she once again answered simply for him, wanting so desperately to hear him speak more. "I'm still mad at you." she took his hand and placed her mouth in it, holding it there as she kept her eyes closed… not sure if he wanted her to see his face or not, and definitely certain he might be freaked out a bit at her action, not wanting to see anything that would upset her on his countenance.

"I'm mad, too… but not at you. Not like that." he admitted, returning somewhat to his usual tone of voice. "I just didn't want you thinking… I could fail you."

"…You can't do that… did you really think you could?" She smiled and he could feel her lips turn up… even underneath his glove.

"…Did I… disappoint you?" she asked, burying trembling eyelids into his hand now… terrified of what he may say.

"… I failed you, Amy." He moved his hand and placed it on her head as she released it and lowered her own to her lap.

"I thought that by keeping the odds away from you… you wouldn't worry about us. About anyone succeeding… but we ended up hurting each other instead." he removed his hand and went back to the now darkened space where the sun once was over the horizon. The wind blew against his quills… and softly, he sighed out… ready to say his last bit of peace.

"… I can't keep you beside me… that's always been your choice… Amy." He looked away, as though afraid to see her expression this time. "But… It's my choice… whether to ask you… to."

Amy's heart practically leaped up in joy.

"Amy… I…" Sonic's ears dipped down as he turned his head slowly back to her, his eyes showing more vulnerability than she had ever seen from him in his life, almost mimicking that of when he thought Dark Gaia might end the world along with his new friend, Chip, before she suddenly giggled into her hands and spread them out to tackle him to the ground, embracing him with a hearty laugh.

"Of course I'll stay by your side, Sonic!" she cheered, her tears now flowing in joy. "I've waited so long… so long for you to say that, Sonic… WHAHAHA!" she burst into uncontrollable tears as Sonic awkwardly squirmed under her, but soon just smiled and gave up, holding her as he closed his eyes… enjoying the moment.

"Never fight with me again, Sonic The Hedgehog!"

"…I make no promises…"

"W-what was that?" She peeked open an eye, wondering why he would say something so heartbreaking after all they've been trying to do.

He just kept his kind smile, and then looked up to her with as much quiet joy in the arch of his eyes as he could allow through.

"Because… I want to learn how to communicate with you… and I… don't want to keep anything from you… not ever again."

Silver sat in the futuristic hill with his hands up to hold his head right, admiring the view of two older, elder hedgehogs… a faded pink and a faint blue… holding one another in their arms… watching the sunset…

together.

(Not exactly according to prompt… but I hope it's still in the spirit of what you were looking for :) I feel this is just much more canon-themed though, XD Even though that ending WAS COMPLETELY FANFICTION I still wanted to try for a future/older Modern Sonamy vibe XD)