Instincts

Ch. 21

By: Cutegirlmayra (I have a feeling a lot of people were confused by my last chapter XD Instinct Sonic is under the impression that Amy's Other –the real Amy- is currently whose in control of the body right now. Since she's merged, Instinct Amy is now just the regular reflex/behavior of Amy's body, she's not a 'personified' being anymore. But she does help the Real Amy know this and that or do something she needs to get done. They're perfectly blended into one being. So now, Amy has complete control over herself when she shifts into instinct form, cause they're one in the same with thought and desire now. Instinct Sonic conceives that as Instinct Amy being gone and away from him. And since he hates 'Others' he refused to mate with her. Does that make sense? Lol, he's not really in the right thinking, okay? But at least Amy is safe, and the Real Sonic knew his Instinct self wasn't a threat anymore. But Instinct Sonic is kinda mourning his loses, please tell me you get it now XD No, Amy's not dead. And with Eggman, GOODNESS NO. Some people have said some crazy things, but Eggman has a plan but it's not what you're thinking, TRUST ME. Ew, no. sorry, I felt I needed to help some people with that. This is long, wow, okay, back to the story!)

Tails had agreed to leave Silver and Shadow behind to hurry and book it over to Amy's house, terrified by what he might find.

He saw the door was unlocked and swung it open, "AMY! SONIC!?" he looked around, turning on a light before hearing a growl.

Sonic was laying down in the nest, curled around Amy who was fast asleep, as he seemed to just be wary of Tails's presence now.

"Oh no… Oh no, no, no.." Tails walked over slowly, not even caring that Sonic was spiking his spines up, warning him about coming closer…

He dropped to his knees, about to just lose it at failing them again when he noticed Amy looked fine, and her clothes were still on, and Sonic wasn't acting dominant over protecting his, what Tails thought, should be 'mate'.

"…Wait… You're not.." Tails noticed Sonic was actually being rather docile. Not that the growling wasn't scary enough, but he wasn't getting up from laying down, nor was he charging at Tails, as if ready to kill him.

It was all warning signs, and Tails realized something was slightly off.

Taking out his MilesElectric, he spoke into it, and had the grunts come out to try and communicate, for the first time, with Instinct Sonic.

"Is she okay?"

Sonic huffed within his throat, moving his head back and down in surprise, staring at the device.

Tails tried again.

"Is Amy safe?"

Sonic shook his head, unable to process what he was hearing due to shock for a moment as he stood up a little, just on his front arms, and moved slightly back, but still protecting Amy.

Tails sighed, "He wouldn't speak to me even if he wanted too…" the machine still translated his words into grunts.

..Well, you are right about that.

Tails looked with wide-eyes at the screen below him, showing him the translation of Sonic's words.

He let out a shocked laugh, "This is amazing…"

..If you say so. I find it rather annoying… but at least I can understand you. I'll make an exception to you just this once. But do not attempt to harm Amy.

Instinct Sonic willingly spoke, still broken from believing his love was gone, and had really nothing more to lose besides his pride.

"I..I wouldn't dream of it… actually..! While I can talk to you… I want to say… how sorry I am.. For everything I put you through, I truly, sincerely, am sorry! I didn't realize what you were and I panicked to try and save my friend… please forgive me." Tails was finally able to apologize for his cruel experiments on Instinct Sonic, when he had no idea what he was. He lowered his head, feeling the sorrow build up as Instinct Sonic listened to the recited translation of his words.

…You mean to tell me… you had no idea I was apart of my Other?

"I never knew…" Tails admitted, feeling tears begin to form at finally communicating with Instinct Sonic. "I really am so sorry… you had every right to hate me."

…I hate all Others.

Sonic looked away, before looking down and back at Amy.

I used to hate them because of you… but I have other reasons too now..

He delicately lifted a hand, acting like a paw, and gently let it graze her face, before putting it back down by his side.

Others are always cruel to their Instincts… I used to think that when we began one and merged, that we would be perfectly blended with their souls… but now… I can't see that. I only see her face, with another soul. My Mate is gone… and her Other is all that remains.

Tails tilted his head, trying to put together what he meant. "..Wait,… you think Instinct Amy is…?" His eyes widened, "Amy…Amy merged!?"

Leave.

Sonic didn't even care to look at him.

What good is an apology when the scars and results of what you did has already lead to more problems? I don't see you as a threat. I have learned the truth from the beginning. How despised we are. How we are to just… disappear into the body and be controlled by our Others… There is no hope of understanding. There is only control. There has always just been the want to control. Hate is control. Love is understanding.

"W-wait.. I never controlled you."

But you helped them.

Sonic's head flung towards Tails's direction, his hostility returning to him, his anger building…

Go… Now.

"S-..Sonic, I-… I want to help!"

Others can't help.

"I'm not an Other! I'm not even a hedgehog!"

Tails was getting up, and slowly moving away as Sonic began to slowly crawl toward him, out of the nest, and growling a dark hum…

I know what you are, you foolish fox. And I know the harm you can commit, even when you think are you doing right. Stay away from my Mate's other. And stay far from my pack!

He hunched down and spiked his quills to show his rage, as Tails knew he needed to get out of there, and that there was no reasoning with an animal.

My patience runs thin, now. If I am to be hated, then hated I will make sure to be…

"Sonic… it doesn't have to be this way! And Amy… you didn't mate with her, right? Then why are you still calling her that! Deep down, you must still believe! You must still hold onto that idea of what it means to merge with your other! There is complete unity, understanding, uh.. everything! Instinct Amy… the Amy you know! I'm sure she's still with Amy, just-"

Just what… CONTROLLED?!

"N-…no I…"

Get. Out.

Tails was up against the wall, clinging to it for dear life. "S-Sonic…" he felt so bad for Sonic's instinct. He had NO IDEA how human these creatures could really be, since he himself, had never actually spoken with them. He had thought them animals too, he never even knew there language could be translated, nor that they could think this deeply about things.

OUT!

The threatening bark and speedy spin dash made Tails yell in fright. He ducked and flew quickly up to the ceiling, watching Sonic truly look like an animal now, exactly what his Instinct was now becoming, because that's how they always viewed him.

"Sonic! Let me explain! Ahh!" Tails dived down as Instinct Sonic jumped to the couch, and then sprang for the fan above before spinning down and bouncing to break his fall.

Tails still was unsure if Sonic and Amy had become a mated pair or not, but he felt they hadn't, the signs weren't there, and with Sonic's instinct feeling his Amy is gone, he must not want to mate anymore… but how could he resist his own self? His own desires? Maybe there was something more to instincts than Tails had read about… something more profound.

He raced to the door and flew out, huffing and puffing as he landed on the roof. The insight he had just gotten was too much to take in at the moment. His heart was beating a million times a minute, and then he saw Silver and Shadow coming along the road, having rested as long as they felt they should before rushing over.

"Is she..?" Silver stopped himself, but looked terrified as he raised his head to Tails on the roof.

Shadow looked to be in a panic within his own mind too, gasping for air as he was still greatly injured.

"..I.. I don't think so.. but Sonic says she's merged." He concluded, as the two looked down, sighing in relief.

"I know. I think I might have had something to do with it…" Silver admitted, looking guiltily to the side, as Shadow's eyes widened and turned to him.

In a fluid movement of hostility, Shadow grabbed Silver and moved in front of him, roughly shaking him in front of him. "What did you do!? What did you do to her!?"

"I-I.. I was being influenced! I couldn't recognize my shifting!"

"You-!"

"Both of you stop it! Just get Sonic out of there! Right now, we need Amy to be alone!" Tails flew down to them, and separated the two. "We can discuss and figure out everything AFTER Amy is safe."

The two stopped as they looked to Tails, and Shadow yanked his arms away from Silver, still pushing him in the process, as the two walked to the door.

Standing side by side, they hesitated, waiting…

They took a deep breath of fresh air in, making sure they would hold their breaths long enough to not be influenced, and raced in.

Fighting began and Tails flinched at all the noises and powerful punches and kicks he was hearing, before finally the two had knocked out Instinct Sonic, who was already pretty banged up from before, and hauled him outside.

"We need to put him somewhere where he'll be contained." Silver narrowed his eyes, convinced this was what had to be done and looked to Tails.

"All of us… need to be contained." Shadow grimly spoke out, as Silver looked to him, scared and surprised by his words, before looking down and nodding in agreement. "Tails,… We've tried to protect her, but it's no use. And I know if my Instinct comes out again, he'll hunt her down and kill Sonic." Shadow spoke honestly, even if it hurt him to do so. After a pause, he continued. "We need somewhere that will keep us locked up till we figure out a way to merge. Amy is safe now. She can control her instincts. We are now the threat."

"…Control…" Tails looked down, remembering Sonic's words, and looking to him, seeing his unconscious head hang down… "…Control is hate…" he stated, as Shadow and Silver looked to each other, as Silver spoke up to Tails.

"Amy said something like that before… how Other's can't love… and how we control them out of hate.."

"When did she say that?" Shadow looked to Silver, confused. "I remember Instinct Amy to be a lot more innocent then that.."

"Instincts evolve, they change depending on what they learn from their surroundings and true selves." Tails explained and gripped his head, turning away from them and walking a ways away. "…I just… I'm so torn. All this time, we've thought instincts were just something we need to wait out, to stop, to prevent… maybe if we actually explained to them what we were thinking and feeling… tried to understand their point of view… maybe none of this would of happened." He turned back around and flopped his hands to his sides, looking like he had been misguided more than the others. "I was meant to help you guys, and in the end, I just made you biased of them." he looked down, ashamed. "What have I done..?"

"It's not your fault, Tails." Silver wished he could walk over and put a hand on Tails's shoulder, but knew he couldn't let Sonic go for an instant, just in case… "Let's just figure out what to do next, and try and protect Amy…"

"Her smell..?" Tails asked.

"It's still there, but not as strong. It usually fades after she goes into heat." Shadow stated, "But comes back at full force…" he muttered, remembering last time he had to help Amy, this was more like the fourth time Amy's gone into heat, her second and third time he was, sadly, there for…

"Alright, I think I have an idea…" Tails took his MilesElectric and programmed some things into it, "Take Sonic back to my garage. I have an idea. For all of you." he stated, and threw his device up.

The device sprang an antenna of sorts and then two panels that served as a helicopter, that flew up to Amy's roof top.

"I'll keep surveillance of Amy. You guys hurry, I'll be there soon." He started tapping things on his watch, as the MilesElectric seemed to transform and sprout small robotic spider legs, latching onto the roof and morphing a bit. The helicopter panels turned into a satellite as it rotated around, scanning the parameter. Tails closed the door, locking out the smell from the outside, and stepped away a moment.

"..I can't do this." He ran back to the door, opening it and going inside.

He couldn't leave Amy alone again, he already knew the horrible things that could happen when he did. He picked her up, as she was completely exhausted, and carried her to her bed, putting her in and moving the covers over her as he even took some pillows from downstairs up with him for her head.

After he was sure she was alright, he checked his watch again, and flew out, closing the door.

"Please… just this one night, don't let anything bad happen.." he slightly begged a loud, looking around the house before knowing he had work to do back at the garage. He had to go back… those three may kill themselves if they shift again!

He flew off with worry stricken in his eyes for Amy's safety, but also… worried about those three…

-Moments before Morning-

A little robotic bug, holding a leaf over itself jumped up to climb the roof, making it's way to the MilesElectric surveillance system and hopped a few times to it.

It was trying to be stealthy, as the device couldn't pick it up due to what it's outer layer was made of.

Having sneaked by detection, it moved to the control panel, it's robotic bug eyes zoomed in on the controls, and started jumping over them, typing in precise commands.

"And… done!" A huge gloved hand clicked some buttons, looking at a screen that showed the bug's vision.

His glasses gleamed, as he looked down with a smirk to his two robotic goons. "You're turn~" he chimed evilly, as the two robotics gave him a salute, and started for the window…

Amy lay fast asleep on her bed, as the window was unlocked through sneaky means, and then opened.

The two robots made some techno sounds as they communicated, and hauled a stretcher in through the window. They were round and about the size of basket ball. But they were built for lifting and carrying.

There stem like hands with pinchers on the sides of them, gripped her covers and pulled them off of her.

One had a green light scan her, and a click sound happened once completed.

It seemed Amy was 'ripe' for the taking….

The robots waited for a command by Eggman, who must of given the code to start, as they gently rolled Amy, and right before she fell off the bed, the two jumped over her and down onto the stretcher, and bended their hands over themselves in a square like formation.

Amy was caught on her back and butt, as the robots wobbled by the sudden weight, but were able to keep her up make her comfortable at the same time. Her head hang for a moment though, as she made a slight whine in her sleep, and the two robots froze a moment.

Looking to each other by twisting half their round bodies like an owl, they're fear of failing the mission showed by their legs slightly locking and then shaking in terror.

They rocked Amy back and forth, before lowering her to the stretcher, as she continued to stay fast asleep.

Eggman's third robot, a flying rectangular container flew up to the window, similarly like a helicopter as Orbot opened the door, and jumped up on top of it. "Hurry!" he whispered to the two, looking around in fright. "You know that bug only disabled that scanner for a set time, right?" he looked nervous, like they were going to be caught any minute. "Come on! In we go, in we go!"

He rushed them forward as the robots got on either side of the ends of the stretcher, and picked it up, running to maneuver the stretcher up, and then slide it into the rectangular transport box.

Amy slid right in, as she was then locked down by Cubot inside who had arched silver metal pieces to go over her, each of different length, that would keep her down. Making sure her arms and legs and pretty much anything he could find that could move was locked down by powerful magnetic surges below, he then was about to head out when the surges turned on by Orbot above.

He, himself, then was locked to the floor, as Orbot face-palmed and turned the magnetic force off, "Get out of there and hurry up!" He whispered a shout.

"Offph! Uh, uh, goodnight, Miss!" Cubot got up, hopping out of the container, making lots of noise, as Amy was about to squirm in her sleep before Orbot grabbed Cubot's arm and hoisted him out, as the container's entrance shut, and the magnetic field turned on once again, locking her into place.

"Yes, sweet dreams…" Orbot shook his head, grabbing the halfed square helicopter wheel shaped thing and tried to pull up.

The machine did so, as the camera rolled to show Eggman's giant Egg-Airship above, massive and shining just enough of a spot light so that Orbot would know where the hatch was.

Eggman, in military disguise comoflouge, ripped his helmet with leafs off and grinned as the Rectangular container was successfully delivered to his ship.

"At last! I have the last piece of my plan in my grasps! Soon, I'll have an army at my finger tips! And a entire world to conquer with the power of Instincts! WHAHAHAHA!" He laughed, before seeing a rope fall precisely where he stood. "Hehheheh, hohoho." He keep laughing, kneeling over a little as he did so, before putting his foot into the loop and being pulled up.

He had his laptop device in his arm that held the rope, but the other was out as he twirled his body around with the rope, so proud and pleased with himself as he moved so quickly upward, that he was able to glare down at Amy's horizontal cage as he held tight to the rope and threw his arm down with a fist in success.

"Yes! Hehe… Sleep tight, Amy Rose… for this time tomorrow, you may just find you'll be the Mother of Destruction!"

What on earth is Eggman planning? Is Amy going to be alright? And what is this… army? What is Tails's idea for the three hedgehogs? And will they be contained? But how then, will they save Amy? Stay tuned! For more, Instincts!