Anonymous asked:
This prompt can be Au if you want it to be .^v^ The Gang gets told a disturbing truth about Sonic and seem very shaken up about it. Friendships and relationships are tested. The Gang argue what to do next without knowing that Sonic is there listening to it all! Sonamy may be included ;) Thanks 3
cutegirlmayra answered:
Prompt:
After a boy claiming to be Sonic's brother requires Sonic to return to see his ailing mother, Sonic goes silent and seems to be avoiding the world.
Not understanding his actions, Amy tries to persuade the team to keep the boy busy, though the boy is determined to bring Sonic to his mother, and then, to battle him for justice, but they don't understand why.
"..Sonic?" Amy pushes a tree branch out of her way to look passed it and see Sonic sitting and letting out a heavy breath.
She slowly approaches him, as in the distance, she looks back to see the boy contending in shouts with Tails and Knuckles, and poor Tails struggling to keep Knuckles back from punching the young boy.
Amy puts her hands together, sliding one over the other in her nervousness.
She knows Sonic's not one to talk about… emotional things… but this looks very important, and if his mother is dying…
She walks up to him, and waits to see if he'll object.
After more silence, she finally slips a hand to tuck her dress under and sit down, making sure to be ladylike as she looks to him, seeing a very distant expression on his face.
"…Sonic," she lightly reaches a hand to his arm. "What's wrong?"
He remains silent, as his eyes roll as if without life to her hand, and then up to her face.
The dark sky breathes a gentle wind that stirs the sky, before Sonic finally looks up to the darkness, and begins to speak….
"Many years ago..."
Sonic is shown as a young boy, the other boy in his mother's arms looks very similar to the boy shouting at Sonic's friends in rage.
"My father left us. I suppose the reasons were to continue in his nomad lifestyle, and at first, we were taught to never be like our father…"
Sonic is sitting at a bedside, as his mother's finger wags wildly in the air, before the hand slowly returns to her face and she cries.
Sonic lifts a hand up and touches her arm, his own way of comfort.
"However… it wasn't the whole truth…"
"Don't you dare go outside!" "But-!" "You leave me and I'll die!" "M-Mom!"
His mother grips him at the doorway, clinging onto him for dear life it seemed.
"My mother was always concerned that we would grow up and leave her like our father did. As I got older… I started to realize that my father's departure wasn't the only reason she never wanted us to leave…. I started to realize that she probably imprisoned him just like she was doing to us. We were never permitted to explore, or go past the flowerbed, or even to use our abilities. Especially mine… because I could disappear in a blink of an eye."
Amy's expression was horror stricken, hearing these words… hearing the way they were delivered…
How cruel!
"I decided one day I had enough of her sheltering. I told my brother I wouldn't stay another minute in that small cabin home, and would go out and make a life for myself…"
"M-mom was right! You're turning into father!"
"Haven't you figured it out yet? Dad left because Mom was too clingy! She doesn't even let us go to town! and she locks the door when she leaves! She's sick, bro! And it's about time this birdie left the nest!" he turns his back on his brother, speaking with all conviction over his shoulder.
"You'll… you'll break her heart again.. just like father." The little brother began to tear up, as Sonic turned his face quickly away, as if not going to allow anything to stop him.
"If that's the case…" he closed his eyes….
Before opening them in complete resolve, "Then so be it."
"Sonic!"
"SOOONNICC!" His mother fell within the muddy puddles of their outdoor, foresty lawn as his blue streak tore through the landscape as quickly as he could go.
"I had never felt such exhilarating freedom. For the first time, my legs could fully stretch. The world was greater, wider, more beautiful than any window could have shown me. I never regretted building that plane to leave that island for good. Nor did I ever look back…"
Sonic lifted his head to the wind, before ducking it back down.
"I can't go back, Amy. Under any circumstances." He rose up, as Amy felt her heart breaking under these circumstances.
"Sonic… you can't just-!" She leaned up to try and reach him, but he gave her such a cold look that her hands froze in mid-action.
"I will never return."
"… She'll keep you there… won't she?" Amy lowered her arms, finally seeing what made him so cruel in this situation, so silent to his brother, but realizing how this can't be so.
"You have to go back." she narrowed her eyes, "To at least explain to her-"
"There is no explanation. She wouldn't understand. She's lost the ability too. Trust me, Amy. People don't change overnight." Sonic shook his head, and turned away from her, folding his arms.
"D…Don't you love your mother?!"
Sonic's quills spiked up, showing how much rage he was controlling at that comment, before swiping the air as he turned back, his arms to his sides.
"Nothing you say or do will make me go back."
"Sonic! What are you afraid of?!" Amy got up, gesturing her arms out. "You left once! You can do it again! She can't guilt trip you to stay, but a simple goodbye wouldn't-!"
That's when she realized…
In his eyes…
Were the anger of sorrow.
"You… leaving was the hardest thing you've ever done.. because you did love her… didn't you?" She stepped back, unable to fully express how much she was suddenly understanding.
His stare held new meaning. It wasn't cruel. It was reality.
"I'm not going back."
That was the last he said before taking off.
Amy walked back to her friends, unsure of how to relate all that Sonic had told her to them.
The brother clearly would never forgive, but she could tell that he was inexperienced in the world, and probably was even more sheltered by his mother than ever before after Sonic's departure…
He called him all sorts of names, but Amy just tuned him out, and walked over to Tails and Knuckles.
Pulling forth every bit of courage in her being, she stated, "He's not going."
Tails and Knuckles seemed amazed, hearing of the condition of Sonic's mother, they began to accuse him of the same things the brother had spoken of.
"No!" Amy shook her head, tearing up. "He's not like that! Honest! He's… he had to pave his own path… even if it broke his heart to do so… he had too, can't you see that?!"
But they couldn't, because everytime she tried to explain, a lump would form in her throat and keep the words tightly within.
Finally, Amy was convinced to bring Sonic to his brother…
In complete betrayal she relayed the message to him, and begged with every ounce of her being, pleading with him to just say goodbye to her.
With that trust he had with her severed, he boarded the plane…
Amy was the only one Sonic permitted to come into the rundown cabin home with him, along with the brother.
Just as Sonic had spoken… she awoke from the bed and gripped him in her weakened state.
"I knew you would come back…" her tears filled her eyes as Amy clenched her heart.
This woman… Amy couldn't find it in her to hate her at all.
It was just a misfortune circumstance.
Sonic held her, I wouldn't say lightly or tightly, but just held her in return.
"Now you'll stay. You'll stay to take care of me, won't you my boy?" she stroked his quills, smiling as she spoke.
Sonic closed his eyes, remaining silent.
"You won't leave me again. You won't abandon me. You'll stay. I know you'll stay now. You have to stay now." She then suddenly seemed to notice Amy, and gave her a less than welcoming look.
"Who's this?"
"….My friend." the first thing Sonic spoke, as he got up.
Immediately, his mother gripped his arm, it was almost reflex.
He paused, before allowing her to do so and turning to Amy. "Her name's Amy Rose." Sonic put a hand to his hip, trying to act casual about it.
"She's not your wife, is she?" The words were almost hissed, as she glared to her son. "She'll take you away. I know she will."
That was when Amy could see it.
The hostile illness Sonic had spoken of.
It was suddenly all clear now…
How subtle it was at first… until now fully in the light.
Amy stepped back, and leaned her head down.
"I told you." Sonic gently bent down, putting a hand to her weakened grip, appealing to her nature. "She's just a friend."
"…Friends." she looked up at Amy. "I didn't know you had friends."
Such anger, such hatred…
She didn't even know her!
But she just assumed anyone would take Sonic from it… so it seemed.
Suddenly, Amy gripped her arms, and walked back. "Excuse me." she looked down at the ground and raced out.
Sonic watched her, slowly rising again.
"Oh my chaos! I'm just like her!" she reached up and gripped her head, swinging it wildly around. "Oh, Sonic! Sonic, I'm so sorry!" she started to cry, realizing that her actions mirrored much of Sonic's mother…
No wonder he treated her the way he did… with such gentleness as he did his mother, but always keeping his distance…
"He must think I'll become like her… That I'll hold him to a forever prison that he can't escape from! Without breaking another person he cares about's heart all over again!" She fell to her knees, breaking down as Sonic walked to the front door.
"No!" The mother reached to hold her grip. "Stay! It's dangerous out there!"
Sonic watched Amy in her meltdown, and gritted his teeth together.
"No." He turned to his mother, for the first time, the same cold stare he had given Amy.
Her eyes widened.
"Never again." he swiped his hand away from her.
His final goodbye.
He didn't want to have to do this again.
He didn't want to have to open old wounds again.
But Amy meant more than his past.
She was his future.
"Amy. Get up." Sonic quickly dived down for her, as the brother began to chase them.
"You can't leave us again! I won't allow it!"
Sonic grabbed Amy and helped her to her feet, "Go! Get in the plane!" he called to her, almost in a slight order as he took on his brother, fighting him.
"What happened?!" Tails called down, seeing Amy climb up, confused.
"He said goodbye! That's what!" Amy responded, wiping her tears as she entered.
Sonic sped up and got into the plane… but collapsed.
"Sonic!" Amy got up from her seat and ran to his, as the plane took off, and his brother lay defeated on the ground, reaching up for the plane, before becoming unconscious.
Amy felt Sonic's shoulders bounce, and worried he was hurt, before turning him to see…
He was crying…
His eyes were shut so tight, she could have sworn they'd stay that way forever.
His body flinched with each sob, and she just slowly wrapped her arms around him, as if instinct, and held him close.
It wasn't just his mother's heart he broke that day… it was his own.
Sonic never had the 'family' feeling most normal households get.
To him, it was all a barrier to life's true splendors, and Amy was determined to show him that friends could be family, and that she…
She was never going to be like his mother.
(I'm glad I got a chance to go with this idea :) Thank you for the ask! Hope you enjoy!)