Anonymous asked:
Oh queen of prompts yes you're back! Okay here's my request: It's Maria's anniversary and at first Shadow wants to spend it alone but Amy not wanting Shadow to suffer offers emotional support. She also brings Shadow and Eggman together to honor Maria since she was both their family. Basically, sweet Amy and Shadow friendship and Shadow can't help but see a lot of Maria in Amy.
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Prompt:
It was another cold winter…
I couldn't help but feel the sting on my eyes as I waded through the white, sticky snow I had always thought would be like powder from the sky… guess there's a lot of things I don't know about earth yet.
It's been exactly one year since Arc… I never knew much about Maria… I guess I barely understood her heart too, but that all changed when I learned from my time spent with G.U.N that she died around this time… an exact date wasn't significant enough for something so covered up I suppose…
I felt my body instinctively tighten, age-old anger rising as I formed fists that quaked at my side.
I shut my eyes, hoping the wind could drown out my raging thoughts… it was never over for me. Maria lived on, and her spirit kept crying out for to me to do something. I thought I knew what that was… but she's haunted me ever since.
Mostly in thoughts like these. I don't dream much. Maybe darkness is that empty peace I long for..? What do I long for… is there anything… that can help me piece together these broken fragments of who I am and what I'm supposed to be?
I only opened my eyes to realize I was getting cold, which only agitated me further as I looked to see the snow had piled up, and the wind was getting as restless as my spirit…
I dusted off some flakes that started to melt on my fur, making small frost so I kicked through the snow and carried on…
I didn't really have a destination… so it was no surprise when I entered what looked like a place that was lined with spaced out homes… I had trekked up a hill, that's all. Did I wander too close to people..?
"Shhaddoooww!"
The voice startled me, but not enough to get defensive.
I knew that voice, but it… it had been a while.
The only link I had to Maria's memory was drawn out by a small girl, a pink hedgehog who hadn't even know what I was about to do on the Space Colony Arc and somehow managed to remind me of my true calling, my purpose… or at least, the promise that would forever solidify that.
"Amy?" I turned to the sound as she looked different, covered in… um, fluffy winter attire, I would assume.
She smiled, her face completely consumed in the cottony bulges around her hoodie and on the rim of her skirt, matching some cotton dots that were probably for no other function than appearance.
She waved and made her way over to me… quite a powerful swing of her legs and arms to so gracefully bulldoze through the snow…
Alright, it didn't look that intense… she made it seem easy, anyway.
Some light sways and she was already next to me, but I didn't want to seem impressed. Who knows, with someone as chatty as Amy, I could be here all winter. And I…
Didn't want… to be here… all winter.
"What are you doing out here, Silly!?" Her voice spiked to an octave I only assumed meant cheer and a spunkiness for life. She did hang around that blue hedgehog a lot… I'm sure it added to her view on life.
I folded my arms, "I could ask you the same thing." Silly? Me? "I'm also not wearing such a ridiculous getup." I turned my head away from her, hoping that would be enough signal to discourage her for interacting with me further.
But much like Rouge… this sort of stand-offish behavior only enticed her to further continue on in her 'befriending' strategies.
"H-huh?" She blinked and leaned in towards me, then away to look herself over. She puffed up the side of her cheek, oddly, and looked upset. "Hmph! Well, at least I don't have icicles forming all over my quills! And look at your chest, Shadow! The tips are gonna break off and you won't have any hair anymore." she pointed around me and I couldn't help but look down and examine my state.
She… unfortunately… was correct.
"I suppose your right." I unfolded my arms and took a better look at my quills and condition. "I suppose I am cold, but what concern is that for you?" I stood my ground, though I could feel the ice from my submerged feet and legs gripping to form around me…
"You don't fear anything, do you?" Amy's eyes bent back… why? "Come with me, okay? I'll get you something hot and tasty to warm you up!" She took my hands without much else to say, dragging me along the snowbanks before I noticed one of the houses around here must be hers.
Just my luck…
"Here you go! Wipe your feet before you catch a cold." Her words made no sense, but I did as I was instructed… although it puzzled me.
She opened the door and wiped her feet again, so I did the same and followed her.
Her home was rather warm… I don't mind wasting a few moments re-heating myself.
"Hmph." I closed my eyes to shut out the homey atmosphere. It didn't suit me, and it certainly didn't invite me to stay.
"Here, you can rest on the couch." She patted some cushions on the back of the seat and then gestured for me to rest with yet another welcoming smile.
A year ago, I was this girl's enemy… how quickly minds can change when one saves their insignificant planet on a whim.
I sat down, lifting a leg over the other and leaning my head on my hand. I didn't want to be served, but I couldn't possibly contradict her. She wouldn't…
She wouldn't listen anyway.
"So, what brings you trotting down this way?" She really wanted to start conversation that profusely?
I looked away, frowning to try and give the body language adequately that I didn't want to speak.
I did, however, see her face peek from what appeared to be the kitchen, some steam rising as I was sure she was making that 'hot drink' she mentioned before.
"Not much of a talker, are you?" she seemed to tease me, but what for? I'm not her friend, barely an acquaintance, and still wondering if sparing this pathetic was worth it.
…Perhaps I was lying to myself. I felt very strongly about saving this planet… adamantly even.
I looked down, my usual soberness seemed to only encourage her to poke and prong at my condition… best to get it over with.
I itched a spot on my head, tilting it ever so slightly as I tried to look uninterested in responding to her, "I simply didn't know where I was going… I wanted a better look at the moon tonight." I closed my eyes and waited for her to silently surrender to the peaceful stillness I had created in hopes she would back down… but her insist pestering didn't seem to be a trait learned or acquired… but rather practiced into nature.
"The moon?" She seemed to muse over the answer… "Eggman had built an observatory pretty heavily well-guarded recently for today too… Tails even said it didn't look like any missiles or launchers either… just… a simple telescope to observe the moon." She seemed a bit on edge, did she suspect me to be in cahoots with the Doctor again?
"I assure you, it probably has nothing to do with it." I stood up a bit straighter, putting my hand down to rest on the arm of the couch. Why… did I want to so immediately comfort her of that?
It's fact that I did conspire with the Doctor, although double-crossed him… she had every right to suspect me.
So then… I supposed I didn't want to be suspected of ill-intent.
But… It seemed to mean a lot to me, for some reason, that she knew I wasn't on his side.
I relaxed into the couch with so many thoughts running through my mind again… but instead of Maria, it was to clear my own conscience and name.
"Are you and your friends investigating it heavily?" I was surprised by how much I suddenly engaged in this conversation now.
Surely, Eggman wouldn't be interested in-
"Maybe it's the same reason… What did you want to view the moon for?" Amy walked in then, her hoodie down to reveal her hedgehog quills, light pink and slightly moist from her adventure outside.
Her mitten hands gripped a tray of warm drinks, coated with something I wasn't familiar with, and as she sat down beside me, I was surprised by how comfortable she seemed to be around me.
This was unnecessary. She didn't need to be so… friendly. She should, in all respects, have her guard up too.
But… her easiness in creating peace came like an atmospheric pressure to me, instantly calming me of being guarded as well…
"Here." she offered the drink, smiling…
Why does she smile like that… to her enemy?
My eyes couldn't help but watch her, examining her every movement before also blinking into a relaxed state and taking the beverage.
"Here on earth, when we're offered something in a spirit of hospitality, we say 'Thank you!' like so!" Amy instructed me, but it came off rather pushy…
I felt nervous again, but she held up a mitten engulfed finger and pestered yet again before I could even drink her creation. "Like… so." She appeared to want me to humor her.
"…Thanks." I took a sip.
The warmth of the oddly bitter yet favorable sweet swept through my body and I instantly felt myself getting warmer with each swimming delight of it's smooth and thick texture going down my cold throat.
"It's…" My eyes were probably shining as the saying goes… but I grew embarrassed and looked away from her.
"Hmmm?" Amy's eyes… did they grow in size? She was leaning too heavily up by me…
"It's good." I didn't know why it was so easy to surrender to her pesterings… It just… was.
I figured then that I probably had a soft spot for innocent girls who didn't know any better than to love all those they come into contact with… but it still didn't comfort me.
That could mean she gets into an awful lot of trouble for instantly befriending dangerous fellows…
I took another few gulps of the delicious drink, as Amy began to explain it's contents, calling it 'Hot Cocoa' or something like that.
Then she asked again about the moon…
"It's… rather personal, why I wish to view it tonight." I placed the almost empty cup down by my shivering legs… though I tried to restrain their constant twitching, not wanting her to worry… o-or ask for me to warm up any further.
I angled my head down and looked away from her again, knowing her prying nature wouldn't cease, though.
"Oh… I see." She… let it be?
"…It's to do with someone I knew on the Arc." Why was I raising my head, trying to engage her again?
Did that subtle gesture of respect completely undo me?
"Oh!" Her head came straight up, and she turned to me with a truly curious and caring look to her expression. "Do you mean… Maria?"
The name triggered me, and for a moment, all I could see was red.
"S-Shadow!? Are you okay!?" She held my shoulders, and the warmth of her touch was so much greater than that of the hot treat I had almost fully consumed.
"I'm… fine." I lied, twitching as I gritted my teeth.
The glass in my hands then broke, and the remaining liquid began to drip over me.
"Ah! Shadow, you're hurt!" I was relieved that was all she got out of the action…
It was swift, and my fingers were still crushing into the spikes of the glass… It was hard to control, hard to pull… back…
My eyes pulsed in each squint as I tried to gain control over myself, and she rushed back in, grabbing my hand.
I was amazed my hands unteased so easily to her touch, and went limp as she addressed them and wrapped them in binding.
"…I…"
"It's alright, I'm sure it was a traumatic experience for you." she was dutifully focusing on my hands… but it was obvious now that she knew what had happened.
"…"
I remained silently pinned to my realm of thoughts…
Later, I shoved the door open and prepared to make a swift exit when she followed after me and pulled on my arm.
"Wait! The moon and Maria… You're clearly not okay going on your own!" she insisted, but by this time, I just wanted to leave.
I didn't want her seeing me… a broken experiment… like this…
I gritted my teeth, "It's not something I have a choice in." I tried to explain, "I'm an abomination. I tried to destroy your home… let me leave alone. I'm not supposed to be anyone's friend." I'm… dangerous.
"Well, that simply doesn't do in my book!"
I felt the world stop around me as she walked passed me and flipped her hoodie back over her head.
"The best place to view the moon right now… in all the earth…" Her clothes swayed largely in the wind… a cold wind… but there was only warmth in this girl.
An eternal warmth I was never meant to know…
She spun her head around and I saw the most determined set of emerald eyes… seeking my company.
"Is Eggman's observatory!"
We fought through the hordes of security, and although we attempted to not trip any alarms, Amy… was more concerned about getting to Eggman's central takeoff site before the launch.
The elevator mimicked a launch of a space shuttle heading out of earth's atmosphere, and as we were pushed down to the ground, I looked to see that even she was deterred by the gravitational pressure.
She took longer to recover, but I helped her walk into the center room where Eggman hovered in the zero-gravity space, sitting on a large, comfortable chair and sipping some space food…
He looked over at us, as though underwhelmed by our appearance, and then looked back at the moon.
"Care to be depressed?" He said, as though all his boisterous energy was drained by the propelling launch system we all just endured.
With Amy able to float in the space of the control room, I gently let her go and she was able to get her bearings.
"What are you doing here, Amy?" I finally asked her, "Only I wanted to see the moon…"
"You… You aren't meant to be alone." Amy's words caught me by surprise. She was still weary from the pressure change, and that massive takeoff force, but she flew herself over to Eggman, who seemed to tolerate her momentarily.
He raised an eyebrow as she took his arm, which his hands were now together and on his lap before lifting him out of the chair, much to his shock as he squirmed in the air a moment.
"O-O-Oui!" he was pulled down to my side, as the giant window screen parted like two eyelids… revealing the oval screen that put us directly next to the half-destroyed moon…
Amy then placed his hand with mine… "You both have learned of a tragic fate… she was your family, too, right Eggman?" She looked up at him, and although he barked and threw his fist in the air a moment,… even he seemed to succumb to her nosy nature.
His hand lowered… and he relaxed his once squirming hand on mine.
His mustache lowered slightly, and he sighed, "Well done. Guess you knew it wasn't all such a 'evil plan' after all." He congratulated her, but that looked like an avoidance tactic.
"You were related to her, Doctor?" All this time…
"Robotnik… is my true name." Eggman's words threw me back, as my whole being felt enraged by such a shocking revelation.
"It's what!?"
"I told you this." Eggman looked annoyed at me, "But Gerald was my grandfather. It only makes sense that I-too-feel some pain at the recent discovery of an family member dying so young… however, she was going to die eventually anyway… due to her… ehem, condition." He peered over at Amy, perhaps hinting to be sensitive since she was a young child…
The disease itself was rather a controversy back in those days… so I've heard, so I also remained silent on it's details.
Not that I would explain it to Amy anyway…
"I knew you were somewhat familiar with the doctor's work… and I knew to trick you, I pretended to be under your command." I admitted.
"I'm well aware…" His mustache flinched upwards twice, showing some 'frustration at being fooled.
"But I never suspected you actually cared for a relative you were unaware of." I narrowed my eyes, not really believing him.
"Hohoho!" Eggman laughed, which means I was relatively right. "Although I do find it a sad tale… I'm not so shaken by the deceits and foul conspiracies that humans are capable of." His words resonated in me, but then Amy spoke up.
"No!" she slapped our hands with her own, clamping them together. "Humans are not all monsters! People aren't all evil!" She countered, but Eggman just looked fed-up with the excuses.
"To repeat an already established question… and you're here… why? Exactly?" he pestered her right back, but she continued, turning to me and giving him a resenting stink-eye look.
"Maria wasn't bad, right? She was someone that meant a lot to you. There are so many good people in the world. Yes, some aren't always as kind, but those that are deserve a chance to change the world! You agreed with me and Maria before, didn't you?" her plea caught me in another loop of strained memories, causing me to clutch my head and dissociate from the reality around me.
"M…Maria…" I closed my twitching eyes… and felt again, that warm touch around me.
"Aw, truly a modern humanitarian." Eggman joked, witnessing Amy hug me. "But the reality is, Shadow is-"
"More feeling than you'll ever have!" She glared up at him, stopping him from saying anything that could contradict my resolve further.
This did seem to make Eggman pull back and raise an eyebrow again, surprise by her sudden shift in behavior.
Instead of a warm presence… she turned to defending me, why..?
I looked up to see her pointing accusingly to him.
"Shadow deserves more than a right to live on earth and experience what people are truly like than you! You've always sought to seize power and dominion over the world! At least Shadow has the guts to experience the world as it is before completely turning it's back on it!"
Eggman just laughed, but it was softer and slower than before… "Perhaps you're right. I never liked to the world to begin with, but he still has a lot of hating to do… Very well, suppose I should just enact my true plan after all!"
He spun his body in the air and then flew over to this panel, slamming his hand on a button, "Grieving's over, Eggman Empire, here I come!"
Me and Amy were able to successfully stop another, smaller, invasion scheme before returning to earth.
I did witness the moon… but more importantly-
I saw why the earth could produce such individuals as Maria and Amy…
There was something mysterious about the planet… how such awful, wicked secrets could exist on it… and yet, there are also those who comfort others, refuse to leave their side in their moments of need, and stand by principles that the earth seems to inherently breed within it's creations…
I may not be a child of the earth… but the moon will always reflect that pure light of indifference… perhaps the earth was meant to be a place where people like Maria and Amy could thrive in… but was corrupted by such things like the scorching sun and the cold moon… by the emptiness of space and the brutish nature of the bulling stars…
Whatever the case, I've come to the conclusion that I must shade their delicate natures from such obstructions. If the earth truly is naturally good, then I shall scuff up the grim that would try to ail it.
If the earth is good, then it will prove itself to me, herewith.
If I can meet more like Sonic and his friends… find whatever power they've unlocked through their connection with the earth and it's inhabitants… than it's worth saving to me!
Maria's wish… I shall never regret saving this world!
I have found my peace, the thing I longed for most… a purpose to protect the good, and destroy anything that dares to cause it to mourn!
(Absolute, unrelenting crying lol)