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Prompt:
Due to a Chaos Rift that shook the very fabric of space and time, the Master Emerald being severed in two and trying to attempt to mend it back into one again was Sonic.
Since he was the only one that had connected so many times to the power of Chaos, channeling it into his very core, it was almost like he was a being of pure, controlled chaos energy.
However, this was not the case.
As Knuckles performed the act of combining the Master Emerald's power to link it to Sonic, which was whole at the time, it ended up reversing the effects…
Instead, once Sonic was perfectly linked to the Master Emerald, the Master Emerald didn't combine it's energy to match Sonic, but Sonic's soul ended up matching the Master Emerald…
Two Sonic's were created, one with a darker hue and the other with a much lighter hue than the original Sonic.
They both seemed off from Sonic, one possessing more of an anger and the other a quiet justice that sporadically meant being protective over his friends.
This meant that Darker Sonic, the one with anger, also was more emotionally unstable and his actions didn't seem to make much sense other than lashing out.
Lighter Sonic, the one with a serious look always to his face, valued heroism almost to the point of excessivism. Although not as emotional as his dark brother/other half, he was almost stoic but deeply loyal and passionate to his idea of 'right' and extremely merciless in destroying what he considered 'wrong'.
Unable to stand each other, the two would often fight unless separated. It was almost as though the two conflicting sides of Sonic's personality and very being were constantly at odds with each other, resulting in Knuckles never being able to get them to work together to conjoin back into Sonic–and consequently–bring the Master Emerald back into a whole state of being as well.
Chaos, the God of Destruction, tried to fight the two Sonic's into joining together again, shoving them up against the other and using his power to force a fuse, but Amy was the only one to hear Darker Sonic state that Lighter Sonic would never accept him, and therefore, never merge successfully back into what they once were.
She felt she had found a clue… but as they defeated Chaos in his weakened, torn state, they vanished…
As everyone tried to find the Lighter Sonic, Amy… went for the Darker.
She knew he was staying in an abandoned mansion somewhere in the woods, one he would talk about back when he was dealing with being a werehog… she had heard his ghost stories and about a camera flashing to help him fight, then his frustration and tearing through the home… but she wondered if that's where his other self had run off too…
She wasn't wrong…
Creaking open the door, after passing the gates, it was clear the 'ghosts' that used to live here were too afraid to re-enter the home. Unable to fully communicate to her, they played charades to retell the events that had occurred. In his emotional coldness, Darker Sonic must have gone into a fury and kicked the three out of the mansion, wanting to be alone…
Amy put a finger up to her mouth, worried about him… the Lighter Sonic seemed to be the hero-side of Sonic… but he also seemed crueler.
She didn't want to believe that this Darker Sonic was apart of Sonic's true self either… he seemed too unstable and emotional… but she'd rather try and reason with that than stoic stubbornness…
She wondered if the Chaos Rift had split and twisted Sonic's personality traits… their was no way Sonic could be so torn between these parts of himself all the time… wouldn't someone break under all that stress? Did he really, truly struggle with two sides of himself..?
Did he discipline himself to act one way, but truly desire another? Or have the tendency for it?
She shook her head from her thoughts as she passed the gate and had already walked through the door, peeking in to see what she could find.
It was once a lovely home… she could tell by the woodwork, the remains of the furniture… it could have been a very luxurious estate…
"…Sonic?" She called out quietly, seeing something turn it's head in the dark.
Leaning rather relaxed but frighteningly still on a banister upon the large staircase that split into three,… was his shadowed self.
Sonic was too free-spirited to have internal conflicts this bad… right?
Was chaos energy promoting such division? Was the Chaos Rift more than just some attack Shadow used back then… did it actually continue to chip and crack away at the Master Emerald every time it was used to create… this?
Shadow was already fine with never using such an ability again, but everyone was convinced this Sonic was like the evil tendencies of man within Sonic,… but Amy couldn't help and see some suffering in him…
Lighter Sonic had dismissed her in a cold way… and she knew that couldn't be… exactly… her Sonic either…
Could she see… Sonic in this light?
She froze at the foot of the three-splitting stairway… her hand up by her chest as she scanned his form delicately… careful to try and read his body language and figure out what was going on.
"…Sonic?" she called again, but he didn't respond, only huffed and quickly sped to the far right stairway, raising a hand to the rails.
"Amy Rose… I should have known you wouldn't know better." He mocked under his breath… But he turned his face away from her, suggesting that maybe he thought she was in danger of himself… it almost seemed like the mock was a double-edged sword cutting into his own pride.
"I'm here… to talk." She narrowed her eyes, tilting her head and trying to see him in the light. There wasn't much of it… but some open windows on the bottom floor made her seeable, so… if she could get him to come down…
"Talking only ever ends with someone being proved right." Darker Sonic gestured out his arm, haphazardly. He took two powerful steps down the stairway, eyeing her as he moved to the center and let go of the rail. His shoulder pointed to her intimidatingly, as though a warning… "And I'm not here to be proven anything."
The harsh growl to his voice made her realize he was still compromised, and she closed her eyes to inch away. "I know you're not bad, Sonic… So I know you wouldn't hurt me." She tried to be brave, taking her shaking hand by her chest and gripping it strongly with her other one, but it made her look more afraid…
"If you are Sonic… then I know there's no evil in you. Not even a little bit."
She jumped back when he sped all the way down to her, standing directly to her face with a strong presence of critique.
"Of course you would say that… while everyone else follows like lapdogs after my other half… you would come to the unwanted side." He smiled as he moved closer, but she immediately paced herself back and adverted her eyes.
He stopped then, standing tall. "…Are you afraid?"
She shook her head, "I could never be afraid of you…"
A smile crooked to the side of his muzzle, but disappeared quickly. He moved forward again, "Then why not try to convince me… that I should fuse with my other half… and not the other way around." he reached out to her, and she looked at his hand to see what he'd do.
He smirked and suddenly gripped behind her neck, pulling her back as the door smashed through and Lighter Sonic walked bristly into the room, dusting himself off in a pompous way from the dust and debris.
"Give her back." He stated without much tone or even emotion. "Kidnapping never was something I admired." he joked, but it completely lacked Sonic's charm.
Having Sonic's charm, Darker Sonic lowered his eyes and held Amy out in front of him, "So like you to jump to conclusions… As though you actually care about her." Darker Sonic then threw Amy over his shoulder, pointing accusingly to his Lighter Self. "Let's end this! I won't be repressed anymore!"
"…You're so impish." Lighter Sonic shook his head, "Rash, a real bore. Let her go and I'll prove I'm the only Sonic that need remain."
"Now you sound like Metal." scoffed Darker Sonic, letting Amy roll off his shoulder and arm to land to the floor.
She wasn't hurt, just spun up a bit as she landed on her hands and knees.
When that happened though, Lighter Sonic's expression finally changed and he twitched to hold a hand out to her, "Can't you let her down a little easier!?" he demanded, "She's a girl, after all!"
"She's taken worse tumbles." Darker Sonic stood in front of Amy, as though showing he wouldn't let Lighter Sonic play the hero this time. "All you see me as is a villain to control… A urge to suppress… You're embarrassed by how you are!" he hunched himself down, "Well, I'm not gonna take the backseat this time… I'm you, smart-one! And you can't get rid of me that easily!" he took off and rammed a fist into his blocking arm.
"You're endangering my friends… you think that's acceptable!?" Lighter Sonic threw a kick out that Darker Sonic flipped over and landed with a bit of style.
"I didn't do anything…" Darker Sonic grumbled as Lighter Sonic disregarded him and headed over to Amy, looking at him from over his shoulders as he was still rearing to fight. "Don't ignore me!" he shouted out, which was like a loud boom that caused Amy to plug her ears.
She had never heard Sonic's voice with such ferocity before…
Lighter Sonic bent to a knee and took her arms, helping her up. "You should get out of here." he checked to make sure she was fine, and then like before, completely turned away from her.
It was strange… though he seemed caring, he didn't really express it well. The Darker Sonic…
She remembered him reaching out to her, then pulling her to him to get away from the door blasting open…
They both cared… but in different ways, expressed that they didn't want to hurt her…
Then they clashed into each other, Chaos energy slashed through the air as they collided each time, cutting some wood in the mansion and making the ghosts cower and the girl shriek at her home being so torn up.
Amy emphasized but she didn't know what she could do… She knew that Darker Sonic had taken the two pieces of the split Master Emerald with him… so she started up the stairs, bracing against each deadly beam of light that exploded from the two's fighting.
She had already learned there was no way to reason with them to stop fighting… from the previous times they had clashed, it was just no use no matter what anyone did.
How did Lighter Sonic know to come here..? Was there still a sliver of connection between the two..?
That would mean…
As she tried to climb the stairs, Darker Sonic saw her and immediately rushed to stomp a foot down by her reaching hand.
She gasped, withdrawing her once reaching hand as the blasts got so forceful that they shoved her to the ground.
"Where are you going?" He seemed so angry… but there was hurt in his eyes. "You'll find nothing up here!"
Lighter Sonic then tackled into him, rolling and crashing them through the already rotting wood railing as they and the splintered remains of that side of the stairway gave out.
"Sonic!" Amy cried out, seeing the stairway collapsing and rushed to jump to the edge as half of it came down.
She pulled herself up and breathed hard, looking down to see them throw off the rubble and continue pounding into each other in an alarmingly hostile rate.
She then wondered… could it be Sonic?
"You almost hurt her!" Lighter Sonic argued, getting a punch in before Darker Sonic returned the same.
"You know full well I wouldn't do that!" He then shoved against him, and they were evenly matched as their arms gripped the other's shoulders and tried to push them back.
They gritted their teeth, one looking overly justified and the other with unbridled rage.
"Sonic… your emotions… your ideals… they clash too often, don't they?" She whispered to herself, realizing that Sonic was a good man, but one that was like the rest of humanity… constantly dueling the two sides to yin and yang. One with passionate cause and the other with selfish needs.
She quickly continued her climb, though she desperately wanted to fall down with them and unlock them from their deadly feuding, she knew she couldn't match the chaos power they both wielded at the moment.
Darting from room to room, she threw the doors open, not bothering to close them as the Sonics naturally followed in their brawling, trying to reach her.
"No!" Darker Sonic reached out to her but was blocked off and hit back by Lighter Sonic.
"Amy, get out of here!" Lighter Sonic gestured a hand out that slashed across from his chest, "It isn't safe!"
Darker Sonic actually took the initiative and bolted pass Lighter Sonic, attempting to grab her and take her out of the mansion and warzone himself, but Lighter Sonic quickly intercepted.
They brawled down the hallway in vicious rolls and slams against the sides of the wall as they continued to pursue Amy, both with a similar goal but different ways to go about it.
'There's Sonic…' Amy felt her eyes get watery in her fright at the mansion not able to handle the two fighting Sonics powers, but another part of her was determined to put them back together again.
She finally found it, at the end of the hallway, she burst open two large doors that revealed the Master Emerald on a balcony… upon closer look… she marveled that there was still a small piece that was conjoined, not severed yet.
She nodded, realizing this meant that they were, both, Sonic.
She turned around and spread her arms out, seeing the Sonics tackle into the balcony room and used her hammer to separate them from their wrestling, childish squabble and threw each of the other to opposite sides.
"That's enough!"
The two panted but got up from the ground.
"This doesn't concern you…" Lighter Sonic went for a gentler approach, but there was still somewhat a condensing hint in his actions. "Just leave this to me."
"Stop!" Amy shoved her hammer towards him, making him pause in his pursuit to her. "I'll get to you in a minute."
He was stunned to hear that, his eyes actually emoting the look of being talked back too.
She glared at him, "I've had enough of your self-righteousness for one day." she then looked to Darker Sonic, who was holding his arm and spat out to the side of himself.
"My thoughts exactly..!"
"And you…" Amy stepped in-between the two, making sure she could only see one side of Sonic at a time. "I never thought I'd say this to Sonic… but you need to calm down." held out her hand without the hammer in it, gently trying to appease him looking tenderly towards him. "You're hurting… you don't want to fail, but you hate not being the hero… even though at times, you're just a boy, and you want to do things your way, not the heroic way that everyone idealizes you to be."
He looked up as though confused how she knew that.
"You were happy… weren't you? When I was the one to turn my attention to you instead of to him, right?"
He remained silent, as though ashamed as he calmed his breathing, and looked away.
His eyes were scanning the floor wildly… as though worried she could see right through him.
There was a gentleness to the Darker Sonic she hadn't seen before… but after putting the two on different sides of her eyes… she could start seeing traits line up.
"You're neither good nor bad, either of you!" She looked back to Lighter Sonic. "You are duty bound, that's why you hate the selfish freedom the other desires to the point of not listening to reason, but enacting your own idealistic views only makes you suffer too." She saw him pause and as though swallowing his pride, lower his head and stare intensely at her.
"You can't pretend you know me…" He seemed to be letting the words bounce off of him, or trying too.
While Darker Sonic was taking it to heart.
Realizing she couldn't get through to Lighter Sonic so quickly, she turned back to the vulnerable side, "You both admitted you didn't want to hurt me, right? Is that the only thing you two have in common?"
She saw the piece that was still intact, way at the bottom of the emerald's pointed center… she knew the real Sonic was still poking out somewhere… and she had to find it.
Otherwise… she didn't want to imagine what would become of him.
"It's not all reputation, is it?" Amy looked to Lighter Sonic, seeing Darker Sonic close his eyes to shut this all out, as though too shy to admit and ashamed to admit his jealousy over the praise and admiration his other self, a mask he put on to be adored, always seemed to receive. "And you, carefree and usually always up for an adventure… you've been angry too long."
She was trying to comfort both, but the hurt between both sides was so immense… he had been playing both sides all his life… how could she mend something so incredibly torn and damaged?
"But if I know anything about Sonic… it's that his natural self is a hero."
The two turned back to her, their heads moving as though that hit something deep within them.
She closed her eyes, trusting they wouldn't punch each other out for at least a few seconds while she spoke. "The Sonic I admire… is like the wind. He can be cold at times, but also warm and inviting… he races through the fields and enjoys every second of his life. There's never a dull moment, and as long as you can keep up, he'll carry you along for the ride… He's kind, but he's also a force to be reckoned with." she gestured her hammer and hand out to each of them, then looked at her own hands. "One hand grips a powerful speed and anger…" she grasped her hammer, "The other one… can't stand to hesitate and leave someone in need. It can't help but want to save and lift others up."
The two seemed to be stilled a moment… and behind Amy… the torn Master Emerald began to respond to Sonic's soul… it began to fuse slowly it's torn self into a glowing, invisible torch that was repairing itself.
Amy turned around to see it, and both Sonic's instinctively raced to either one of her sides, holding a hand out as though defending her from the sudden heat and lighted sparks from the Master Emerald.
Looking at them, she smiled.
Looking at each other, a slow roll of their eyes, they parted immediately. Walking away, Lighter Sonic put one hand to his hip as though trying to remain cool, while the other folded his arms and tsk'ed to the side of himself, not wanting to play nice.
Amy sighed, seeing that they still were a bit different… but very much the same.
"Will you at least try and find a happy medium?" She moved towards them and took their hands.
Darker Sonic let her gently sink her hand into his folded arms and coax out, very gently, his hand…
Lighter Sonic pulled away, sharply, but seeing Amy's hammer disappear from being pointed at him… and now her hand pleading for his approval… he looked away and lightly placed his hand to her own…
Lighter Sonic looked nervous and tried to distance himself from the emotional tension… but also the overwhelming love that Amy was showing to both conflicting sides as Darker Sonic used his other hand to flick his own nose, sniffling as though trying to not look dorkish either.
Amy giggled at their familiar responses, "I think I see you for who you truly are now, Sonic." she liked this, not having him hide his emotions, but being unable to stop his two sides from revealing themselves. "There's a saying." She gripped both their hands in a loving embrace, jolting them down a bit in her newfound cheeriness at them not fighting anymore, but actually listening. "That there's two wolves inside the heart… and the one you feed, will be the winner and devour your heart." She put their hands together, "However… Some asked, why not starve the two wolves? And another few asked, why not feed both equally, keeping an equilibrium between the two…"
The two Sonic's saw their hands glowing… much like the light from the Master Emerald, slowly healing.
They finally looked at the other one of them… and Amy saw a neutral expression in each of their eyes…
She smiled and looked to each of them before back down to their hands, placing her hands below and above them, making sure they stayed together.
"But you know what the chief said? Feed your heart… and it will be too large for the wolves to devour."
The Sonics looked back to her.
"I heard a different tale." The Darker Sonic stated, "One is good and the other is bad."
"Yes, I've heard that too." Amy nodded, "But in this case." She raised her head, "I think the wolves are just our conflicting personalities. One side of me, for example, loves to stay at home and get some chores done. Strange, for you and maybe most, right?" She giggled, watching the mending of the Master Emerald slowly increase in speed, and noticed at the corner of her eyes the two Sonic's delicately intrigued and hanging off every word she uttered, as though this was the missing meaning they had always longed for in their chaotic inner-life. It gave her courage to continue, hoping that her words would feed Sonic's soul, and let it form as one again. "But I enjoy cleaning, tending my garden, or even going out to shop for little things I may need in the week." She then clasped her hands more firmly, but with added love over the two's hands, as they looked down to action.
One acted a bit surprised, but the other grew flustered and adverted his eyes at her newly adjusted strength for keeping them together.
"However, sometimes I don't have the energy for staying indoors all day or going through sales racks… sometimes, I really want my life to be less boring, more exciting, and so I race along after you and the others, wanting to do my part to be… even a small change… in helping the world be a better, safer place to live in."
The Sonics… together… smiled.
In a strange noise, their voices seemed to overlap each other when they chuckled at her words, and she knew by the look of the Master Emerald that if she just kept their hands together for a bit longer… the Master Emerald would fuse his heart together again.
"Those two wolves… don't devour me." Amy stated, "Neither one is bad, it's just the one I choose to pamper that day." She nodded to her words. "Sometimes I don't want to do either of them, and that's not bad either! It doesn't mean I'm lazy, but lazy days aren't a bad thing too."
She watched as she removed her hands… and both Sonics kept their hands on or under the other… letting them remain together.
"You two aren't wolves," She put her hands up to her mouth as she giggled more prominently now, "You're just stubborn hedgehogs that don't know what to do with yourselves! One of you wants to be aloof and peaceful, while the other wants to fight bad guys and save the world with his friends. Neither is bad, and both of you… are the sides of Sonic's heart."
She placed her hands to her chest and closed her eyes as the two Sonics happily stepped in unison towards each other, and with the last light of the Master Emerald fusing itself together, Amy kept her eyes closed with the giant beam of light till it faded.
"…Amy..?"
Amy slowly opened her eyes, and looked up to see her beloved's face again.
"Thank you." He stated, earnestly, putting a hand to his hip and looking tenderly towards her. "I never knew I needed that… pep-talk… thing." he admitted, but goofily moved his hand in a funny way.
She giggled again, and he chuckled to her laughter.
"Let's let the others know it's all good now." He nodded in the direction that made most sense, but then also tilted his head as though changing gears. "I thought no one would accept the silent, selfish desires of my heart like that, Amy… but you've shown me that I'm not bad for wanting certain things… I just want them… at different times." his gentle smile was the one she loved to see, his new humility and self-awareness made him open but complete again, and she was overwhelmed with her feelings once again.
"Ahh!" She squealed in delight, covering her face and twisting her body away from him, lifting her leg up slightly and letting the tip of her boot keep her somewhat balanced.
"H-huh?" He looked curiously confused at her behavior, and leaned towards her, turning his body left and right to try and see why she was acting this way. "What's the matter? Amy?"
"You're so handsome!" she cheered, then parted her hands to flirtatiously lean her nose up by his, but still watching him pull back and not daring to touch hers with his. He made a face but she found it funny, seeing him wincing his mouth back like that, "Especially when you're thanking me~" she teased, and he looked away, groaning at her antics and then rubbing his nose slightly with a wink towards her.
"You would still be you, even split in two, wouldn't you, Amy?"
"Oh, one part would definitely be all over you, that's for sure." Amy leaned back and put her hands behind her back as Sonic suddenly looked a bit frightful.
"O-oh?" He was definitely turning sheepish, starting to walk passed her as the Master Emerald and him were still linked, so it up and lifted itself into the air and floated after him. "You don't have to tell me the rest of it." He kept his head down and eyes closed as Amy trotted off after him.
"Well, actually, without my self-restraint, I'd have probably carried you tied to the chapel by now."
He groaned again as she skipped after him.
"Hmm… Maybe I should split myself. But would that mean you're only married to a part of me… or..?" as she thought teasingly out loud, he finally turned around and gave her a scolding look, shaking his head as though she was taking the joke too far as Amy then laughed at him.
He seemed to give up and throw his arms up, shrugging, "Remind me to make sure that never happens to you then…"
"If I'm ever linked to the Master Emerald… and Shadow breaks his promise–which I know he wouldn't!–but if he did… would you… do what I did for you and help put me–and the Master Emerald, of course–back together again..?" she asked, cutely, as he stopped to think a second.
"Ah! Really! You have to think about it!?"
"No… not that." Sonic mused as he suddenly grinned back to her, "Just thinking… is there even a part of you that wouldn't be all over me?"
Amy blushed and held her tongue after that, as Sonic laughed and laughed while making it out of the mansion, apologizing in a deep, forward bow to the ghosts, and then taking Amy's hand to help her keep up his fast pace as they made it back to Knuckles to cut off the link.
Amy wanted to ride the Master Emerald, so he helped her up on top of it, and although it did float a little closer to the ground, she was able to hang on as Sonic took off at lightning speeds…
Later, when Amy was dusting off some of her home, the doorbell sounded off.
Leaning on her home's sign, Sonic jokingly pretended he was looking at his nails.
"Which part of your heart are you feeding today, Amy?" He acted as though uncaring, but Amy was already growing in excitement at seeing him there, at her home, unexpectedly. "The part that likes to clean all day… or the side that likes a little excitement every now and then." He put his hands behind his head, smiled cheekily to the ground with his eyes closed, before turning his head to her with a proud look on his face as he opened one eye to a subtle 'winky' expression~