Anonymous asked:
Modern Sonamy in a life and death this may be the end scenario where Sonic is finally forced to confront his feelings for Amy that he knows have been there for years. He plans to spend their final moments telling her his love but they are saved at the last minute. Afterwards he tries to go back to the usual but realizes he doesn't want to have any regrets and not have Amy know the truth. So he tries to figure out how to to tell her but the message isn't coming across until he gives her a kiss!
cutegirlmayra answered:
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Prompt:
The gravel scooted and crumbled away from her hand as Sonic and Amy slammed against the side of the rocky wall, trying to dodge the intense heat of the magma from within Egg-Canyon-Mountain where they were attempting to sneak in and take the Chaos Emeralds back from powering a large and terrible machine.
The Machine right now didn't matter though, because just before they were to remove them, Tails radioed that the machine was self-destructing, and it was all a trap.
Eggman had fled knowing the Chaos Emeralds would just pulse away from each other and become shooting stars in the daylight sky, and he'd have to find them all over again once the reactor malfunctioned sufficiently enough to flood the canyons with magma.
"Sonic, it's only rising!" Amy was momentarily kidnapped when trying to reach the machine's first Chaos Emerald slot, where Eggman used her to force Sonic to battle him and his new incredible robot, but it was all to buy time for his fatal trap.
Laughing as he exited, he dropped Amy and made a snide comment about 'Dying with the one you love' being a last mercy he'll give… to Amy that is.
Even while dangling in the clutches of Eggman's hovering robot's metal talons, Amy couldn't have judged well enough the machine's overheating and powering up processes. It was truly unexpected, but completely within Eggman's bounds…
Squished between the rocky layer of steep, vertical terra and a sweating Sonic, Amy was sandwiched between the thought of how they were gonna survive this.
"It's not as fast as you, though!" She looked back over to him, seeing his eyes were fixated on the molten rock slowly rising to them on the thin strip of raised pathway they had against the side of the canyon, finally having made it out of the caverns…
This didn't look good… Sonic was hot and panting to keep his body temperature regulated. With some degree of knowledge in health and medicine from treating his wounds and injuries all these years, she could tell he was too hot to run at full speed like usual without the proper coolness to not overheat himself. Not just that… but she was added weight… he'd never be able to scale the mountain's straight drop at top-speeds if he had to carry her too…
She was nowhere near fat but still… this wasn't looking too good for her.
Without missing a beat, she finally closed her eyes and pushed her nose to the wall, breathing in a dusty and dirt-filled breath of self-sacrifice and spoke aloud an unforgivable sentence. "If I hadn't insisted on coming with you… to spend more time with you… in hopes that you would fall more in love with me if I was just as into adventure as you were… then you'd be able to run up this wall and get to the top safely."
He turned his sights back to her, a frown apparent as she was speaking negatively, and he hated that. "Since when were you doubting?" he was always trying to play it cool, and as she took a sorrowful peek back to him, she couldn't help but gently smile in her grief at seeing his cheery and confident smile.
"We'll get out of this." he assured her, "I need you to hang on, though. No more talk about what should and shouldn't have happened. Can you get up on my back from here?" He looked back at the rising lava, apparently having a plan now.
She nodded, deciding it best not to bring up the inevitable, since her Sonic could do miracles!
… At least, this time, she couldn't let him fall to his untimely death because of her persistence…
She spun and he caught her to help her keep balance on the strip and then she tied her arms tightly around his neck as he began to slowly climb.
However, looking down at the speedily approaching magma filling the veins of the large expanse of rock with blood-colored fury and heat, and then looking up to see not a speck of the other side or even the sky as it was just a long, never-ending stretch to half the sky… she felt her heart sinking again.
He really could go faster without her, and looking down again, she saw the strip they were moments ago being pushed up against was now being reached and submerged in the melting rock…
Liquid fire… Was this the story of when Sonic had to face Metal that first time? She remembered him telling the story of reaching for Metal him's hand before he whacked it aside, refusing to be saved by the one and true hero: Sonic.
There was only ever going to be one Sonic The Hedgehog… but there could be others that would love him just as much… though her grip tightened at admitting it, and ducking her head down, unable to produce tears in the steam of the ripples of heat rising up the cavern.
If they didn't die of one slip-up or not moving fast enough, they would surely succumb to heat-exhaustion or heat-stroke.
Sonic felt the slight tug on his chin as though her grip around his neck had tightened in a desperate attempt to hold on, and although already straining to climb with someone else and his body feeling like a sauna plus a volcano at his feet, he really didn't want to believe Amy was giving up on him.
"Amy..!" he called, having an instinct of what she was thinking, "Don't do it!"
Amy's head jerked up, "S…Sonic…" She was amazed he had caught on so quickly to her thoughts… her emotions… "B-but,… I-!" she wanted to convince him to let her do it, to let her allow him to run up the rocky wall and save himself.
"We're getting out of this together or not at all!" he finally blurted out, taking Amy aback as he twitched to reach another hand out for another piece of rock that could be firm enough to give him a sturdy hand-grip. "Erk… ugh… ha… ha… Do me a favor, Amy… ha… umph!" he reached back and threw her up, shocking her as she cried out his name. "And quit acting like we're dead already!"
She hit against a leveled path that slightly crumbled under her weight, making her kick her legs to scoot quickly back against the wall as Sonic was then able to Spin-Dash to a higher level, reaching down a hand for her. "Hurry!" he called, as she looked back to gasp at the lava not taking any 'rest-stops' so to speak. "There might be a cave that tunnels up from here!"
That was a sensationally good idea, except for one problem… if they went back into a tunnel and it went downwards…. then the magma would pinch them in on both sides… and their wouldn't even be left unmelted fossil remains of them…
But right now, up was good.
She spun around and got up, reaching for his hand and having him struggle to hoist her up as she got her foot on the wall just before the magma rose and splashed against where she was just sitting. "Ah!"
"Amy!"
"I-I'm fine." she squinted an eye as she was grateful the splash didn't burn her. Her feet were fine, she hadn't been exposed to it.
He pulled her up and the two just breathed heavily in the others arms a moment.
"You… can out run it… Sonic." Amy spoke again, only hearing a grunt of annoyance from Sonic as she did so.
"Quit… fooling around… Amy." his hold on her had loosened so much… she knew he was growing tired. First having snuck in and destroyed some robot scouts on the way down, then Eggman's battle, and then rushing out before the magma overwhelmed them… Then climbing up such a perilous wall with her on his back… "Do you… see any tunnels..?"
She didn't even look, she just pulled his forehead to her own, holding it there with her own, sweat-soaked white gloves on either side of his cheeks… saying her farewells in secret. "I know I've never voiced it before… but… I…"
Sonic blinked his eyes, before grabbing her arms, their gloves sticking to their skins and making a light blue, see-through effect through the shiny oils on both their exposed skin. Their furs were wetted and they'd be too slippery to attempt to climb again.
This was it.
Sonic lightly moved her to the wall, showing in his face his unbelief at her distrust all of a sudden that he could save them both, but beyond the hurt expression… there was a look she hadn't fully seen before.
He pinned her slightly as he willingly put his forehead to hers and shut his eyes, trying to keep his breathing normal. "I know." he stated, then with a shaky voice… "And you've always known too."
She was frozen in that heat-soaked moment… Sonic finally dropping his own tall walls for a brief moment as they could hear the slushing of the magma rising to where they were.
They both looked back, Amy over his shoulder and Sonic to look at the impending doom before them.
"You had to know." He chuckled out loosely, exhausted now emotionally too, "I gotta at least leave you with some comforting closure."
"Of that?" Amy thought that the sweetest thing, but also grossly inappropriate for the timing. "Why did you wait till now to tell me?"
"Validate you. I never said anything." He smirked, even now, trying to keep things light.
She wanted to kiss him, but felt that that would be an even greater sentence, and she'd be framed as the worst timing for romantic advances in history.
Even worse than his…
Sonic smiled to her before something glittery flicked light into his eye and caused him to squint it a few times repeatedly. Turning to find out what the strange source was, the two's mouths opened at the entrance of a metal bunker impeded into the wall… not seen without the glow of the rising magma.
"An elevator!" The two exclaimed, seeing a mining device next to it. Sonic quickly scooped her up and pushed her in, "Going up!" he pressed the button but she didn't want to part with him, the Elevator could be slow or worse, the mechanism below could be melted away by now.
"Sonic!" she cried out, agreeing–somewhat–with Eggman that she'd rather die in the arms of her beloved than alone in a small elevator meant for hauling metals up to the top of the canyon. And who knew where this actual thing landed! Maybe it wasn't the top?
Sonic gave her a thumbs up and signature wink as she could see the lava splashing against the sides of where he was, "Noo!" as the chute shut tight and started cranking her upwards. She flung her back to the opposite side of where the tin had shut and felt the heat and the moment consuming her. 'Sonic… do you mean that..? Do you really… love me?'
Sonic was tearing up the ground in his wake as dust spiraled behind him and he almost flew up at supersonic speeds through the canyon. All the while, he narrowed his eyes to the straight path the elevator was meant to take, making sure it reached the top. 'Faster… Faster… Faster…!' his eyes widened as his teeth clenched, seeing the lava building up and never stopping, not even for a moment, in consuming the rock beneath it and yet, his eyes trained to fixate on the metal pole that meant the chain was still hauling Amy up. "Endure it just a little longer,… Amy…" his eyebrow furrowed before bowing as he tripped by not watching where his feet were going. "W-woah!" he noticed he had reached the top and was falling now, having pressed his foot to air which had started the tumble. He gripped frantically to the edge of the large landscape and was able to get enough wind in his heels and strength left in his fingers to stop his falling… he had made it… he'll be okay.
But that wasn't enough.
He heard the metal bending and cranking, as though slowing the rising, treasured container of it's load from coming up. The metal was beginning to tilt and loosened itself from it's bolted railing and started to dip like a bending fish hook towards the flaming sea…
"No!" Sonic leaped up and raced to the pole, "Amy!" He reached out and bent to grab the wall and the bending metal, using himself like a stretched chord to keep the metal from bending further, suspended between rock and the pole as he could feel the jolting of the chains continuing to crank up, but slower than before.
'I have to straighten the poll out… or Amy will never make it!' he was running out of juice and energy… but strength rose in him as he thought of her… He couldn't let her down… he couldn't let himself live knowing she was still in harm's way…
He was mellowly delighted that she was accompanying him on this adventure. Though he never showed it, he enjoyed her hammering swings and ricocheting off robots to stop dramatically in front of her and strike a pose, knowing she loved it when he showed off. He couldn't naturally give slight looks and charming flares to the dudes, it would be weird, but he enjoyed the moments he could when Amy was around.
True, sometimes, he felt he couldn't fully be himself around Amy or she'd overly fawn after him… but even then… he could see and feel how much he meant to her.
He never felt the need to be more for her, even though he knew he probably should act a bit more gentlemanly here and there, which he did, but never overdid it to avoid getting exploited by Amy's constant yearning for more attention from him.
He was never upset when she insisted to tag along with him for a journey or perilous undertaking. He just always knew he needed to keep an ear and eye out to make sure she was safe at all times… other than that? It was just fun to have her around, constantly praising him. Though… he didn't like her 'pampering' behavior when she'd rub his hand too much if he punched a tough-made robot… he still didn't mind the doting every now and then.
Clenching his abs, he finally scrunched his body enough to bend the pole somewhat back into a straighter line, causing the chain to move quickly with each thought he had for Amy and how he was determined to saving her life.
She had saved his… after all. If she had self-sacrificed herself… he would have… never… ever… forgiven himself such a lost.
Amy was almost about to collapse at the heated panel beneath her butt and feet, fearing the lava had caught up with her, until there was a jolt and she stopped fully. "S…Son…ic…" The chute opened and a sound like a swift wind brushed through her small compartment and gave her somewhat relief,… but not as much as cool hands that gripped her firmly at her sides and pulled her out.
When she came too, Tails and Knuckles were standing over her and Cream was attending her.
She remembered a similar scene with Cream… when she had almost drowned in the water when Eggman attacked back in Chris's world… what… where was Sonic?
"I.." she could barely get a word out, and Cream kept dabbing the cool cloth on her head and adjusting the cooling pads under her back, on her sides, and over her stomach.
"Don't worry, Miss Amy." Cream spoke out, cheerily but with a worried and loving look in her eyes, but showing signs that Amy was going to be alright. Her little heart pattered quickly as she stopped a moment and reached back as though forgetting something, putting a flower by her side. "Mr. Sonic said to give you this when you woke up! He said you deserved to see some life after all the dull rock you were exposed too."
And the pitch black of the heated tin chute… he must have felt awful about that being the only other way to get them out of there alive.
She had no idea about the pole that threatened to snap and dip her into slowly into a melted death… but as she got better, Tails told her Sonic had gone after Eggman, and she gathered that Sonic hadn't told any of them the extent at what they had gone through.
'He's keeping up appearances… he doesn't want to trouble or worry them more than he already has.' she concluded, thinking that noble and brave… somewhat.
She wanted to tell them, so badly, about everything… but silently accepted Sonic's assumed wishes.
She also didn't want to worry anyone… but… Oh, she wanted to tell at least one soul about the encounter!
Sonic had… he had really… ohhh! Her heart was overjoyed!
But… when she came to see him…
As per-usual, he was up atop a windy place, looking over the nature he spent his whole life preserving and protecting… admiring it's beauty and natural power.
With a kind and neutral smile on his face, he suddenly turned to see Amy walking happily up to greet him.
Seeing his gaze, she paused a moment and halted, putting her hands together and in front of her, trying to look feminine and delicate.
"Hello, Sonic." she greeted, blushing as her eyes closed and she giggled to herself lightly.
"Amy," he nodded to her, a true picture of boy coolness!
She squee'd, "When are you gonna act like how you really feel at seeing my cute face?" she cupped her cheeks and turned away as if 'trying' to be modest about it… but then blinked her eyes when Sonic responded in a way she wasn't expecting.
"Huh? I am acting the way I always do, Amy." He folded his arms, looking more… puzzled… than she thought he should have.
"But- ah…. uhh…Ohhh!" she did her signature whine and shook her once -delicate- hands in a fury of frustration down at her sides. "That's not how you feel at all!" She contested, but he didn't seem to want to fight as his smile slightly fell.
Her eyes came back to his neutral ones and looked somewhat pleading to return to a place they once were… or at least… had just gotten to. "Why are you being like this..? After everything we went through on that ridge…"
He just quietly stared at her, before lowering his head and closing his eyes, shaking it softly back and forth. "I think you were misguided, Amy. The heat had gotten to us and we… said things we didn't actually mean to express." he then looked up at the sky, as if trying to dismissive the topic further. "Of course I care about you, Amy,… But I can't say it's to the extent that you're hoping for. To where I suddenly run into your arms, or something mushy like that… heheh." he had a bead of awkwardness like a sweat drop slide down the side of his face as his mouth squirmed it's lines to show how uncomfortable with this he all was.
Amy felt her heart chip away just like the pebbles of the rocky wall… as though she was trying to climb the wall he had pasted up again after only just placing it down back then…
"You're… You're not being fair…" she wanted to call him cruel, but she knew that was a lie. She wouldn't lie… whether to herself or to him.
But this…
This hurt so much.
"What's wrong with liking me?" she finally had the coolness of the earth to allow tears to peek out from her eyelids, but never fully emerge. Her body quivered in the cold, but she ignored it, too angry and hurt to care. "You can't just press restart every time you show me how you feel, Sonic The Hedgehog!"
Her outburst caused a sharp bolt of lightning to split Sonic's core in two. His heart ripped as though torn about how to follow something that dramatic and genuine up… He'd had hoped for the social norm again… but that seemed a bit too late.
He flinched back and then relaxed, scratching behind his head, "I guess you're right, Amy… I'm not being very fair to your feelings… but you can't blame me for being hesitant about my choices…"
She was sniffling, and he realized she probably didn't have it in her to say more right now. Sighing, he walked down to her and smiled tenderly, kindly opening his arms to invite her to hug him.
"Let's just say… I don't really have a way with words."
"They're enough for me…" she hiccupped through her tears now pouring out. "You've always been enough for me. Every part of you, every inch and every word ever spoken and act ever done has been enough… when will you get that? When will you learn that whatever you choose to do for me… for my sake… knowing how hard it is for you to express that freely and openly like you did in that moment… it's always been enough to shake me." she fell to her legs, bawling now as Sonic awkwardly stood there and blinked, realizing she was going to break down.
"H-hang on, just a second, Amy!" he was shaking his hands out to get her to stop crying and calm down, but her tears and wailing didn't cease, she was already emotionally compromised and it made him feel like a bigger jerk than ever before.
"Alright, enough already… I get it, Amy…" His face quite literally seemed to deflate on itself as he lost the energy and will to keep up the persona. "You heard what you heard, and I never said I wanted to take it back… just that I can't always do that from now on. I didn't want to lose you… that part is, and will always be, true."
Amy took her hands away from her eyes to see the resounding truth that was on his face. "I… I don't want-" she hiccupped, a cute and gross reminder that she had been holding all this in for some time now since Sonic's first departure. "to lose you… hck, either…" she sniffed.
Chuckling at her appalling sense of self-preservation or even an idea of self-image in this moment, Sonic kindly wiped her eyes with his finger and looked to her as though slowly backing the wall up and away from her, but not fully putting it down yet. "I can't promise I won't lead you into dangerous times, Amy… but I can say that I will never leave you behind in those moments. Not ever."
She pouted, "You shoved me in a dark chute."
"T-To save your life!" he gestured out to her, his arms out either side of her and extended as though to plead his case, "You were right, Amy, I couldn't have carried us both up, it was the only way!"
She continued to give him a hard look of judgement.
"You gotta believe me, honest! You knew it was the only way!"
"…It was still scary…"
"You survived!" his words almost smacked the idea as though fanning it away, but he never dared to say 'quit complaining' as he could tell she was just riling him up.
She smiled, unable to help it. She enjoyed seeing emotion out of him, even expressed in ways like this. She batted his chest, secretly snuggling into it, "You're the worst, Sonic The Hedgehog! You make me cry and smile at the same time! No one does that…" she muttered the last part out, and it was almost cute… almost.
Sonic rolled his eyes, "Come on, give me a break, Amy…" It almost sounded like he was complaining, but it was to keep up with her playful antics. "Forgive me this one time?"
"I forgive you every time." Amy mumbled into the side of his chest.
"…Forgive me for being a dunce?"
"I forgive you for that all the time too." she continued to play, making sure her mouth's movements and the vibration of her words could be felt in into his chest too.
There was silence…
"Forgive me for… this?" his hands suddenly caught her up and her lips were silenced for a time that for her–seemed to last eternity.
When his kiss parted he was gone with the wind, as though unable to stick around for the aftermath.
She was frozen in disbelief before shouting out in a type of 'hoorah!' for her success, but also…
Sonic did know the perfect timing for a romantic advance… he just didn't always have the words or courage to say it~3