Instincts

Ch.22

By: Cutegirlmayra (I'm kinda looking forward to the new arc. Yes, that's right. One more thing… So, stay tuned, I'm hoping you forgive me for making this so long, but trust me, the ending is pretty-.. Well, I'll let you find out ;) But this is about to get kinda weird… before it gets really cool. So please, don't be turned away, just wait for the cool, okay?)

Amy's vision was blurry, but she heard beeping and could see different blotches of white light. She heard a gruffy voice state, "More anesthesia. She's starting to come too, I need more time!" Amy saw figures but nothing much really, she had a mask over her mouth, and she could see lights overhead, but she felt nothing…

What was…

Going on…?

-Morning-

Amy awoke feeling sluggish, as she tried to move but something kept her down.

"Oh! Please don't move! That would be very unwise!" Orbot opened the automatic metal sliding door and placed a tray down.

"..O..Or-?"

"Don't speak. You're still coming too. Cubot! Cubot, where is her beverage?" he turned behind him as Cubot raced in, slammed against the door that immediately slid close at lightning speeds as Orbot shook his head, putting his hands to his...uh… well where his hips would be. "He always does that…" Orbot looked back to Amy, as she was still trying to 'come out of it' and figure out what the heck was happening.

The door slid back open, "Why does it always do that to me?" Cubot looked so sad… Holding his tray of water and other drinks and sodas for her.

"It must not like you." Orbot took the water, looking it over, and hovered over to Amy, flying up to meet her. "Here you go, drink up! We'll be dropping you back at your home the second we see you're not going to die." He stated, as Amy's eyes flickered right open.

"DIE!?" she tried to sit up.

"No-no-no-no!" The two waved their hands around to try and stop her but she felt a giant pain in her lower abdomen. "W-what…" she laid back down, slowly, as Cubot and Orbot tried to help.

"Please don't panic, please don't panic." Orbot was repeating as the two both got her down again.

She lifted her green drape from the collar and looked down as Orbot and Cubot looked away, nervously…

"…Why is there.. em… a giant…." She could barely let the words out, as she was tearing up.

"…The Doctor took out some of your eggs. There! I said it! I couldn't keep it in." Orbot jumped off the bed and covered his face with one hand, looking completely guilt stricken. "I told him this was insane, but he said you had like 300,000 of them and he was only taking, eh, some. But you're completely fine! Trust me! I oversaw everything and you can still have kids, and still live your life, and please DON'T KILL ME!" Orbot put his hands together at first, before pacing and then trying to reach out to her before cowering for his life and put his hands up to try and stop any coming attack.

Amy just stared at Orbot, not really processing what he meant. "I.. I don't lay eggs."

Cubot's mouth dropped.

Orbot looked at her dumbfounded and face-palmed.

"Wait… that's right!" Cubot stated, and looked to Orbot, looking panicky. "We have to tell the Doctor! She's a mammal!" Orbot punched Cubot and hovered up to Amy's bedside.

"CLEARLY, you have not been told about your own biological makeup." Orbot took a deep breath, and gestured a hand out to her. "Allow me, a humble robot, to explain your anatomy and how children, scientifically, are created."

-After a few hours-

Dents could be seen being banged on the metal containment ceil as the door slid open.

Cubot and Orbot frantically raced out of there, hands in front or in the running motion, as Hammers flew left and right out of the door.

They dived for the secondary door that slid open and closed, gasping out of exhaustion at how fast their tiny engines had to blaze and were slightly smokey as they fanned each other to try and cool off.

"Well, that didn't go so well over for her, now did it?" Orbot stated, getting up. "I mean, I didn't think it would but-"

"…She's sad cause Eggman stole her possible babies?" Cubot looked heartbroken. "I thought he was gonna make an army of babies?"

"That's the thing. Eggman plans on using a growth serum for the-" Orbot and Cubot hovered down the hallway, opening a coded lock that lead them into a huge room. Containers upon containers were in a lined row, as Eggman was levels above it, frantically flying across the control panel.

"NO, NO, NO!" he flung his hands up to his head, panic streaking across his face with rage as he pulled his mustache down, whining as he banged his head against the keys, crying little sniffles. "Noo…o-oh-oh-oh… why me? After all my careful study and ingenious DNA replication…"

"Hmm? What's wrong Doctor?" Cubot looked up, as Orbot folded his arms in frustrated annoyance at his own creator.

"Don't tell me you messed something up, after all you did for preparations and not to have that poor girl-"

"Is she alright?"

Eggman stopped the second he heard his robots coming through the door, looking over his shoulder in a cold but clearly concerned manner.

"…She's fine. But greatly upset you stole half her future offspring." Orbot stated, not at all pleased with Dr. Eggman, even if he thought Amy being in good health was a good thing, he still was technically a kidnapper.

"Hmph. If she really was going to wait around for Sonic, she might as well thank me for saving her the trouble of never having children at all." He looked back at his screens, lifting his hand up to gesture crudely before letting his head hit the desk again. "Ohh…"

"I hope this behavior is due to you regretting your heinous act against nature, but just in case it's not, what are you whining about?" Orbot floated up to his master, showing where he stood on this matter, and traced his hand against one of the railings to see how filthy it was and flicked the dust away from it, rolling his eyes. He then narrowed them at the doctor and put his hands back to his sides, or where his hips would be, and hovered on his desk.

"…They died…" he stated, and then whined out another pathetic whine.

"What!?" Orbot and Cubot both broke their positions to freak out.

"You mean like,-" Cubot pretended to slit his own throat, even if he didn't have one, he let his head fall to the side.

"How is that possible? You're feeding them through the fluids and other materials we installed in their incubators." Orbot moved closer, holding out his hands as he felt that if he had a soul, he just doomed it.

Eggman sat up, putting two fingers up to the bridge of his nose and rubbing it. "It's no good. This is what happens when you try and play God." He stated, and turned on some screens. "Their barely even formed before they just… die." He showed the process over time on the screen, as Orbot and Cubot both held hands, as if worried parents themselves.

"Isn't there something we can do?" Cubot asked, looking like a worried mother.

"These are lives you're trying to bring into the world, Doctor! I told you it was a mistake! How many are left?"

"…The only one that I didn't care about." Eggman stated.

The room grew silent.

"One." Orbot stated.

"….Yes." Eggman's voice was low, grim with displeasure. He looked down, eyes closed, and hands to his sides, breathing slowly.

"…One… out of all those eggs you pulled from Amy…" Orbot flew up to his face, pointing down at the thousands of incubator tubes, filled with liquids to try and keep the things inside them alive.

"….The very egg I couldn't care less about. The last I genetically modified." Eggman put a screen up, showing an X-ray of the little thing that grew quickly into an embryo.

"You…YOU-!" Orbot held his hands out in front of him, shaking them and slowly pulling them down into fist, going against his programming to hurt Dr. Eggman and started lashing out to try and punch him, "YOU SAID NOTHING COULD FAIL!"

"Easy, there, buddy! Easy!" Cubot held him back, as he was programmed too.

"Ohhh! That poor girl! You put her through surgery to get those eggs out of her and for what!? ONE CHILD?! What kind of army can come from a single, genetically altered, hedgehog!" Orbot yelled, as Eggman looked away at first, ashamed, before something clicked.

"Hold on…" he started typing things into his computer, as Gerald Robotnik's data from Project Shadow came up. "It's the same thing."

"What's the same thing?!" Orbot pushed Cubot off of him, and dusted himself off, as Cubot placed his hands together, looking sympathetic.

"…They started out with 1,000 copies of Shadow… but all seemed to fail… except for one." He pulled out the image of the embryo, which had grown considerably from the time Eggman last looked at it. "…The only living one he had was one he randomly let the DNA work itself out. Putting what he wanted and then letting the DNA do whatever it felt like doing at that point. The DNA I put into that egg… I just put it together, thinking it could be my 'mixed' son. After all, I just got through making precise children,… why not have a surprise?" Eggman turned to the monitor as it started to make a thumping sound.

"…D..Doctor? W-…what is that?" Orbot looked around, as the sound vibrated through the speakers.

Eggman slowly laughed in surprise, before grinning widely clicking the monitor, then clicking the vital signs, and his laughter increased and increased. He flung his head back along with his arms.

"THAT, MY BOLTED CAN OF METAL ALLOY, WOULD BE A HEARTBEAT!"

Cubot and Orbot looked to each other, as the image showed now a figure of a child, a baby… and the flashing red light beating… with each pulse of the 'thump' sound on the speakers.

Amy was sitting up, having some of her stitches come out a little bit as blood leaked slightly, she gripped her covers and was crying, before hearing a thumping noise, and looking around.

-Hours later-

"Sorry about the wait, deary, but thanks for your consideration." Eggman's voice spoke out on an intercom with the round robots helping her down to her bed, as she glared at the hovering box with Eggman's face in it. "I assure you, if you so wish too, you can still have your own young. Besides, all my projects…uh… were unsuccessful." His mustache drooped in disappointment.

"You… you mean… none of the babies..?" She was about to cry again.

"Oh, no, no! Not babies. They were barely a baby by the time the egg died. Don't worry."

"Eggman… Eggman, monster!" She threw her hammer at the robot, as it dodged successfully.

"Now, now. Don't throw yourself into a tissy fit. It didn't work, right? So no harm done."

"No harm done!?" she grew enraged, trying to move her foot down to the ground but feeling the ache of pain from her stomach…

The Robots got her back into bed. "Why now?"

"Why? Well, for one. This was precisely a few hours after you're major heat explosion. The very day your body literally is completely prepped for getting ready to spawn a new furry rat into this world. And trust me, without knowing that none of this would have worked. I needed your body to be where it was right after that in order to get the eggs out. Now I know this may complicate our relationship and all but.." Eggman put his fingers together, turning away from the screen, before looking back at it with a huge smile. "I hope we can still be fri-"

Amy slammed the biggest hammer she could into the screen.

The two other robots dashed away, as Amy couldn't even speak anymore. She laid down and heard the robots scamper off as she cried again, the only thing on her mind… was how many children she must of just lost today…

This was by far, the sickest thing Eggman had ever done, but it was also something scary to think about.

He was going to have an army of her children taking over the world for him!? The very thought shook her entire being with agony and fright.

But they all had perished before even really being born… so maybe… they were spared.

She sighed, as she felt her stomach and the new stitches on them.

With a shaky breath, she told herself that she could still have children someday, and that Eggman wouldn't DARE try this again, considering it did fail…

She didn't know how she was going to sleep, though. And she just wished someone would hold her… she cuddled up into bed and was just exhausted enough to drift into a dreamless sleep.

-Afternoon-

Tails raced over to Amy's house, happy to still see her in bed where he last put her. He sighed in relief. "Thank goodness." He let out, and moved to wake her up, "Amy? Amy, wake up! Are you still merged or..?" he flew over to try and see her face, before seeing how puffy and red her eyes were.

A lump filled in his throat. "N-no, no, no…" he worried. "But Sonic said nothing happened!" he freaked out, and quickly took half the covers off.

"…Wait… why are you in green?" he saw the weird medical green drape over her and thought that weird, and then slowly lifted her up to get her out of bed. "Amy..?"

"AHH!" she gripped her stomach, waking up and blinking her eyes. "W-what are you doing?!"

"Amy?" he put her back down, shaken up by her cry of pain.

"T-Tails? Oh Tails.. Tails you're not going to believe this!" she hugged him, wanting to be held so much right now.

"Oh no…" Tails thought it was something entirely different. "Please don't tell me…"

"I was abducted by Eggman!" she cried out.

Tails's ears perked up a moment in completely shock, thinking it was something else. "WHAT!?"

"He… Oh, Tails…"

She explained everything, as the Camera was outside her window, as you could see Tails stagger back, look down, shake his head and grip it.

"That's impossible!" he cried out, as we were now back inside the room.

"But it happened, Tails…" she tried not to cry, but felt some water still creeping up on her in her eyes.

"But.. he'd need… ugh, there's so much he'd need!" Tails cried out. "…You can't have just an Egg!"

"Orbot explained that he had DNA from other hedgehogs." Amy stated, and touched her stomach.

"…Of course." Tails turned his back to Amy, thinking… "He had XY… most likely anyway… if he had the DNA he could replicate… but he'd need a mother…" Tails turned to Amy. "…But taking your eggs? How many did he take?" Tails asked, "What am I even saying! This is sick! This is- this is below anything he's ever done before." Tails couldn't really wrap his mind around it, before Amy spoke up again.

"It's… it's okay. I can still have children and-"

"OKAY!? This is OKAY to you!? Amy! What he did could be considered a crime against humanity!" he cried out, turning back to her. "Aren't you mad? Upset? Anything!?"

"Of course I am!" Amy slammed her hands down, unable to not cry at this point. "But Tails, none of the eggs survived his process!"

Tails stopped a moment, and stepped back a bit, before gripping his head with his hand and moving to the window, opening it up for some air. "…He said that?" he stated, and looked back to Amy.

"…Yeah. So there not gonna be killing machines." Amy turned and laid down again, slowly, as to not loosen another stitch again.

"…Amy…" Tails was disbelieving that none of Eggman's experiments pulled through, but then again, science could only clone, not really create. He went over and hugged Amy, holding her back up as she cried. "Look, I promise, we'll get Eggman back for this! I swear!"

"..How..? You… Tails!" Amy suddenly grew terrified, turning to him and looking him dead in the eye, holding her hands to the side of his arms, and pulling away. "You can't tell Sonic or the others about this! You just can't!"

"But.. but they have to know!" Tails stated, "I mean… Amy, they care about you!"

"You can't! Promise me, you won't say a word!" she begged, and looked down before closing her eyes. "…They would… they would want vengeance for this… for me."

"Uhh.. isn't that a good thing?" Tails asked, lowering his head to try and see her own.

"Are you crazy?! With all this instinct stuff going on… Look, Eggman's plan was sick, but it failed. He gave me the decency of not being barren but… Well,-" she shook her head as Tails stopped her.

"Amy… you've been through a lot. And you're far too kind,… even for your own good. But you can't forgive and forget this… Even if Eggman failed, he still did a horrible wrong to you!"

"What… what could we do?" Amy asked rhetorically, as Tails shook his head.

"That's not fair."

"Well? What would you're call be?"

Tails looked Amy in the eye and began to feel tears coming up on his own face.

"I…I don't know."

"Exactly. Please. Don't Sonic, Shadow, or Silver about this. They won't know what to do either… and trust me, they'll make up something if they had too." Amy was undoubtedly right, but Tails couldn't help but feel like some kind of justice had to be had here…

"But… what about you?" he asked, crying now. "What about what he did to you?"

"The children weren't alive yet, Tails… according to Orbot, they weren't even something called an embryo."

"You mean… they weren't even alive yet? Like… no heart beat?"

(Author's note: To make this more clear, they're not even a child yet before they become stale and just… not anything. As in, no babies were harmed during the writing of this fanfic. They weren't even ALIVE yet. Not even a life yet. They just started growing, but the DNA wasn't good, and the growth enhancers weren't helping either, so they became nothing, not even a hedgehog due to bad genetics and mistakes that Eggman couldn't figure out. That's what this is saying. Just so no one thinks something else.)

Amy nodded slowly.

"…I just… I can't believe this happened… it's like, whenever I leave you… something horrible happens, and I'm helpless to do anything about it." Amy wiped some tears from his eyes and put her heads against his.

"Let's just… pretend this never happened… I want to try and forget, since there really is nothing we can do that can make this go away. Please don't tell them… please?"

"I..I promise…" Tails lowered his head, and placed it against Amy's shoulder, "I just.. I don't want to do anymore wrong by you, or the instincts… anyone."

"It's not your fault, Tails…" she stroked the back of his head, trying to calm and comfort him, since that's what she wanted, but had no one around to comfort her… "It's not your fault."

-Tails's home-

Tails carried Amy to his place, setting her down on his bed and asking if she needed anything. She shook her head.

"What about my smell? Isn't this more dangerous?"

Tails shook his head. "Trust me… they're far out of reach from you." he stated, tucking her in.

"Wait… where are they? What happened to them?" she asked, but was growing weary.

"…I um… I'm trying to find a way to have them merge quicker. To have them talk to one another and try and understand the other…" he stated, and turned the lights out.

"What… what does that mean?"

"…Goodnight, Amy. I'll let them know you're… you're not feeling well." He slowly closed the door, but kept it open just enough to still let light in, and have a visual on her. "I promise, I'll never let you out of my sight again." He stated, and wondered how he could have missed Eggman with his MilesElectric. Not trusting his own technology, he took a simple camera, and placed it in the room, and then hooked it up to his watch. It was charged constantly, so the battery never ran out, and he could check his watch to see her every few minutes.

He became a bit paranoid about her now, as he walked down to his garage, and opened the door.

Growls, hisses, banging of containers and barks arose all around as he made sure to quickly, in a panic, close the door so Amy couldn't be woken up and hear.

He sighed, sweat rolling down his brow.

How could he tell her..?

After all that was happening, how could he tell her what they were doing?

He walked passed the clear and giant dome of where the three were, instinct forms, and being monitored and having data streamed through a few computers near him. Tails sighed, having moved the X-Tornado outside to even make room for this giant test tube.

"Well-" he turned to them, folding his arms. "Amy needs some rest."

The Instincts were in an uproar, hitting the clear dome and barking, in a frenzy, as Tails sighed.

"I'm guessing you haven't solved your differences with your Others yet?" he took his hands and traced them down to move his skin down a bit with it, looking exhausted as he knew he couldn't tell the truth about Amy, and he couldn't tell Amy the truth about confining them in that huge dome in his garage until they settled their differences and joined forces to merge.

Obviously, he was using a very harsh method to get them to talk. And anytime they fought with the other, glass walls came down to separate them.

The glass walls were already down in three sections, as Instinct Sonic sped around the place, bouncing off walls as he tried to escape, before falling to the ground and gripping his head.

Seems like his conversation with Sonic wasn't going to well….

Instinct Shadow was hitting the walls, banging his head on the dome and doing anything to fight back. He shook his head a few times, and gritted his teeth, walking upright, as it seemed him and Shadow weren't getting along either…

Instinct Silver was pacing his dome, having been forced out like the other two, but wasn't so much angry like the other two, but afraid. He was still so new, and he seemed to listen to Silver, as he opened his mind to him like the other two were trying to do, and make a bond with him.

Instinct Silver huffed once, but Tails didn't know why, as he sat down, stopping his pacing, and seemed to try and lift the dome up with his powers.

Tails flipped out, and quickly pressed a button.

The three were shocked by an electrical current, and Instinct Sonic immediately submitted, having known this pain beforehand, as Instinct Shadow grew hostile and began hurting himself to try and get out of the dome, as Instinct Silver stopped trying to use his powers, and cowered into a corner, where Shadow tried to bang the wall to him as he moved to the other corner, where Sonic growled a warning and he ran to the edge, before seeing Tails…

His ears bent down, recognizing the one who shocked him and put him there in the first place, and slowly moved to the center of the dome, and curled up, terrified and alone…

Tails felt a sting in his heart but looked away, leaning on his desk with his hands out in front of him before taking the microphone. "Now listen… I don't like this as much as you three do… but you have to get along! And you have to merge! For Amy's sake… just…" as the translator spoke out he threw the microphone away and covered his face, breaking down and crying at his own weakness and helplessness.

Amy had been hurt, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Sonic, his best friend, was fighting to try and make amends to a creature they had created to be a monster, one who would never trust them it seemed, and blamed them for everything that happened to him. In losing both his love and his own free will to live his life. He became an Aggressive Alpha, but really, his true nature was a Kind Alpha.

Shadow, meant to be Amy's protector, was now feeling powerless against a beast that wasn't even natural. It was genetically different from other hedgehogs, as it already had most of Shadow's information and only seemed to be going backwards, getting harder and harder to control by the second. It was so fixated on having power, that it didn't care about anything else. It made Tails wonder if that was what Gerald Robotnik wanted in the first case, the ultimate weapon to have the abilities of instinct like other hedgehogs to be even more powerful, and maybe that was why Shadow's instinct was so bent on being 'the ultimate' of it's kind. He was, indeed, a fierce, and Aggressive Alpha.

Silver, who came here to prevent a terrible future,… had he created it? Unknowingly? Amy didn't bear any children… so maybe he did change it, but was this for the better? His Instinct didn't hate or feel anger, it just felt fear. So much so that it didn't listen to Silver out of being so terribly afraid of him, and didn't trust him, only believing in his own Instinct kind, but mostly just Amy's instinct. Since Silver's instincts were evolved above regular hedgehogs, he also had things that were off with his Instinct. It was weaker to summon up or come out, and it took awhile before his behavior came through as a Submissive Alpha.

Tails wiped his eyes and looked at the monitors translation of what the three were making such a ruckus about.

The screens said different things… but they all had one word in common.

Where is Amy!?

Give me, Amy!

Amy,..I want Amy...

The whole board filled with her name, as Tails stepped back, and lowered his head in shame and failure.

"It's ready…"

"Oh! Oh! I wanna hold it! I wanna hold it!"

"Ugh! Cubot! Give me your hands, their filthy! You can't touch a baby with filthy hands."

"He's… perfect!"

Two hands spun around and lifted a figure into the camera's sight, as an infant hedgehog let two chuckles out before crying out, it's body glowing with blue light in a odd pattern, as white fur could be seen, quills that were crooked at three different places on his spines, and red stripes all over his body. His eyes slowly opened as he cooed and kicked one of his legs out, when the arms lowered him down and Orbot and Cubot excitedly held the baby with their hands too, as the camera zoomed in.

Dark emerald green…

Diamond shaped eyes.