Metallic Need
Season 2 Chapter 6 UNEDITED
By: Cutegirlmayra (I'm pumping these babies out! Which meannnsss… they're not very long XD sorry!)
With sparks of electrical tools flying, carefully repairing and downgrading even further Neo Metal Sonic's capabilities and furthering limitations, Neo Metal Amy began to reminisce about the time she was first created.
Did he… ever stop and pause to look at what he was making like she did? Checking the bolts, the screws, making sure everything was going according to the 'divine, revelatory' plan?
She would glance down at his non-functional face a moment, wondering how the Heart System Virus had played in his new, butler's life of servitude. They would fight and destroy things constantly, they would zip about and cause mayhem for Amy Rose…, But now, she was going to make sure he couldn't harm her…
She would be his boss, not just Amy Rose or the other Organics… does that… make her just another Master?
She lowered the power tool she was using, it was still rotating in her hands.
Was she… really canceling out Neo Metal Sonic… or just becoming another version of him?
That haunted her. She had too many iterations of her life to begin with.
'... You could fully remake him.' Her eyes lifted up for a second of red to green again, and she blinked as though feeling almost possessed by the strange thought, and looked around.
"... Hello?" She sent out a signal, wandering off of her stool and walking about the room. After scanning the room, she saw no movement.
'After all he did to you… why are you bringing him back?' She spun to look behind her, her eyes searching for any possible movement, as the wires dangled down in the room and she moved them out of her way.
"Amy..?" She called out, but stopped when she realized… the voice was in her computer's mind…
Her memory bank…
'Maybe we can change him for the better now?' … Omochao?
She faltered, her systems feeling overwhelmed by processing multiple, hidden features that were now triggering.
She looked at her hand, twitching as the fingertips began to look as though they were tapping on the metallic worktable, then trying to 'saw' through it.
'We could end it all here. Any mention of Metal Sonic… any form of him… We could end ourselves, too.' Cybernetic, syntheic Amy…
'We were programmed to help him!' Metal Amy..? 'Not to destroy our creator! We'd be no different than when he tried to destroy Eggman!'
Neo Metal Amy gripped her head, "N-No… I am all of you… I am not some… some twisted combination!" She shook her head, "I am me!" She clarified until her eyes widened as a voice chimed in her mind…
'You are… Omochao!'
"NOOO..!"
She gripped her head, shaking it about and leaning forward.
She stumbled left and right, trying to get her bearings, but the programs wouldn't shut off… wouldn't be closed…
'Destroy him! Permanently! Now! We'll never have to fear again… we'll be free!'
"You were tortured,... I'm so sorry." Neo Metal Amy shook her head, covering her eyes with her fingers.
'He can still be saved! We can fix him! Truly! He's not as bad as he seems! He just has so much hate for the past! Without Sonic, maybe… maybe he'll finally be free, too? Like we are? And change his objective..?'
"Nothing will change him. You were designed to recharge and fix him, but you were never meant to recreate him!" Neo Metal Amy flung her head up, "AHHH! Get out of my head! I'm not any of you! I've escaped my fate!"
Her eyes glitched in pixels lighting up with red and green, creating random grids and patterns in her individual lights within her iris…
Then…
'You are not just for our old master! You are you! You are Omo-!'
"What… does that mean?"
She finally shook her hands off her eyes and dropped them forward, letting them swing down in hopelessness…
"Can I really not have a life without function? Do my old 'beings' persist because they still hold the key to objectives? To purpose..? With Omochao… I served Organics… I have never been anything but a tool in someone's hands…" She fell against the table, holding herself up from the exhausting overload of her mental data-ache with her elbow hosting her to remain up.
"Am I truly… only here for him?" She swiped an angered eye at Neo Metal Sonic, a husk with disconnected chords sticking out of his opened chest. His ionic turbine sitting and propped slightly up on the table near his head…
She walked over to him, her eyes turning red, her hand reaching for his blackened eyes to show not even a simulation of existence… then twitched and stopped, pulling back to withdraw and remain on her face.
"Without him… am I meaningless? Without Amy Rose… am I without the blueprints of 'life'?" She closed her eyes, thinking… computing… "Without being able to form my own objectives… am I… will I always just be… a robot?"
A horn went off and she looked at the alarms, "Those aren't sirens in my head." She concluded, and looked up the rising stairs to hear footfalls and shouting voices running by her corridor…
"... Without Sonic… is all purpose… lost?" She looked back at Neo Metal Sonic, just… standing over him and staring, "... Without Sonic, they are running around trying to organize themselves." She lowered her eyelids, "They are… trying to serve a higher purpose… Not sure how to achieve it… In that sense, they are just like you and your old programming, Neo." She closed her eyes, accepting this fate.
"In that sense…" She went back to working, "You are my Sonic." She started to repair mostly the inside, seeing how much rust and corrosion her electricity had done. Since she didn't work on him right away, it only became more abandoned, but not unsalvageable.
Sparks flew as she shined up some metal plating on him, had already sown the cape back to looking nice and without tatters, then replaced some other parts to help the damaged joint-parts and things of that nature.
"Now, without Sonic,... You will be forced to become like me." She picked up the rotor and clicked it back with a hard push on his chest into place.
It started to rev up, and she braced herself with a simulated sigh to face him again.
"You will be in a whole new conundrum… Of many voices… of many paths ahead… and with all that overwhelming you… will end up turning to the only familiarity you have." She flipped a switch on the table and soothing, electrical currents began to recharge his new battery.
"You will strive to become… your own 'Sonic The Hedgehog'..."
"BBBZTTT ZZZRRRREEERRRR"
The light screens of Neo Metal Sonic's eyes began to show static and his voicebox made noises, from the old way Sonic used to speak to a more matured one, then to robotic toning of Neo's true, dark, and deep audio.
His eyes adjusted and he blinked rapidly, "SSSSYSTETTTTMS… Complete?" He sounded so robotic until it looked like the Heart System Virus was the last to process… and he looked about.
Seeing Neo Metal Amy, he skidded his body upwards, holding up an arm as though expecting combat from her, but then looking around quickly to assess where he was.
"... You did not destroy me?" He looked back at her, as though amused, "How foolish." He lowered his eyelids and she knew this was gonna be just as annoying as before.
She rolled her eyes and walked away, holding up a memory chip, "Recognize this?" She was digging through a drawer and pulled out another one, with a different colored design, "I'm gonna look into your memory and see every thought you ever had."
Neo Metal Sonic paused in a frozen state a moment, then leaned forward and shook his hand out, "No, no, no! Wait-!" He was clearly not alright with that, which made her turn around and wave it about.
"Unlesss… You do as I say." She put the memory chip to the palm of her hand,... then up to her head as it 'flipped open' like a car trunk. "Otherwise…"
"Y-You don't want to know the perfected intricacies of my genius exploi-" He got up on a knee and tried to hold up a haughty hand before she inched it further into her memory slots, "WAIT-WAIT-WAIT!" he wagged his hand out again, leaning across the table and drawer's gap to try and swipe it out of her hands, "I can explain-!" he cleared his throat, as she raised one of her annoyed eyelids. "Ehem…" he simulated a cough by compressing a hard 'hit' on his microphone voice box. "What I mean to say is… You wouldn't be able to compute with your own Heart System the irrational state of a man's… uhh…" He side-eyed the room a second, folding his arms, "... Understanding of complex thought processes and-" he lifted a hand as she shot the memory chip in. "NO-NO-NO!" He reached across again, but by then, she started downloading the memories…
Her eyes widened.
Neo Metal Sonic's expression suddenly turned soft with concern… embarrassed… as she began to receive–practically at lightspeeds–all his thoughts regarding her, against Eggman and Sonic, as well as further diving into his 'heart system's feelings' regarding the past, present, and… no future?
He hadn't anything after defeating Sonic…
Should she… not tell him… he's gone?
What would that do? Would he just… serve Eggman the rest of his days?
Or… turn into what she became? Or what about his tyrannical wants to take over all Organic life on the planet?
Neo Metal Sonic… slowly… lowered his hand.
Back in the beginning of her service to him, he had wondered about her desires to be closer to him… He had noticed the subtle increasing quantities of her errors, and how brilliantly she sidetracked him and began to see proof of evidence that she cared about him more than he had originally designed in her… It was supposed to be 'health' as in battery operations and purpose fulfillment… she had seemed to care about his 'false persona of life' and increasingly focused on that 'emotional void' as though thinking she could cure that deep-seated, buried seed of hatred and anguish, too…
He had thought himself lonely with Amy Rose, washing her clothes, he would bat them out and fantasize about destroying Sonic Team once and for all, then taking back Neo Metal Amy and turning her into the submissive but genius pawn of Metal Amy again… but then… stopping from furthering to scheme beyond just having what he did before…
His dark fawning over her… Hiding behind her recharging post and putting his mouthslate to it, closing his eyes to try and feel what she used to be like when she recharged him… but the normal wasn't enough.
When her hand came to the charging post, he'd unplug the actual unit and press his mouthslate to it, charging her in secret.
When she was away, getting groceries with Amy Rose, he'd look out the window while vacuuming and not even watch where the vacuum went. He had already mapped out the room in his mind, he just kept vigilance till she got home…
Then tried to mock her till she aggressively attacked him again, the only way he could get her attention.
Neo Metal Amy couldn't watch anymore, she had realized she was his 'Amy Rose' the same way Amy was to her… 'Life'. He simulated life 'through' her…
He had despised becoming a 'Perfected Sonic' since he was defeated endlessly… what he really longed for… was that 'new life' Neo Metal Amy had achieved…
To him, she was his loophole outside of following Sonic's shadow… of Eggman's programming…
He watched her as she watched Amy. He couldn't route for himself an escape, but tried by mimicking her… His Heart System's Virus only helped him to expose those actual intentions… the intentions to control his own fate again…
"... He's dead." She finally spoke, not comfortable with how similar they really were… how… how he was just as fascinated with her as she was with Amy Rose… since the beginning…
It was never him trying to emulate Sonic, it was trying to become something 'better' than Sonic… of which he needed someone to best him to find…
She was his new 'Sonic'.
And with the programming she just put into him… that would become even more apparent… even still.
An escape… Would her whole life just be in the service of freeing Metal Sonic? She refused to allow it!
Neo Metal Sonic, not expecting that reaction, turned his head as though he didn't hear her right, "What?"
She skimmed a hand over the table, then faced him boldly, completely within his sights, narrowing her eyes. "He's dead. Sonic The Hedgehog… You have failed to vanquish him for the last time. He's fully destroyed… he's been gone for months now." She knew this news was going to shortcircuit his mind, but she wanted to see… with no future beyond Sonic… and beyond taking over the world, killing Eggman, possessing her… What else was there?
Neo Metal Sonic's body did exactly as she had predicted.
It shook, and he asked, "What?"
"You're precious objective-!" she threw her hand down on the table, his body shaking even more vigorously, his eyes turning from green to red. "He's officially without existence! You are now the last, remaining Sonic!"
He had to fall back, catching himself with his hand to keep him up. "Wha… What?" He looked down, his newly refined metal clanking in his shivers. "But how, I-..."
"Eggman has taken over the world." Her lowered eyes were looking down on him with every bit of wanting to see him suffer from what she knew would be the turning point… just like herself.
"You are alone, Metal Sonic… There is no need for 'Neo'... Your objective… Can never be fulfilled now."
His eyes continued to wobble as though his mind was trying to find a new route.
But… he couldn't.
"You have no further hope. What will you do..?"
She leaned forward, her stare piercing into his components of which she had just recently added and replaced.
Her head so close to his facing down, before it came up to look back at her…
"... You have only now realized…"
He began, as her eyes widened, realizing the shift in his once shaken state to sudden confidence she could not have predicted.
"That you and I… are more alike…"
He leaned further towards her face, scooting off the table as she backed off and pushed in the drawer by accident.
He put his arms around her waist.
"Than you care to let on…"
Her eyes looked into each one of his…
One red eye… one green eye…
Her eyes widened.
"My Heart System…"
She saw his eyelids dip a moment, his chin following her down as she processed what this could mean.
"... It saved you…"
Without her inventing the virus, and implanting it forcefully within him… he would not have been able to compute a new objective, and would have gone back to Eggman… returning to earlier programming.
His mouthpiece zapped as though wanting to kiss her, "Very good…" he pulled her up from being pinned against the drawer and himself… looking deeply into her eyes as his green eye began to flicker into red. "You obey such silly functions… You're still making sure I continue to exist… to fulfill my objective." he took a quill of hers but she rammed him back with her arms.
"Enough! I am not trying to save your existence!" She blurted out, but the flood of understanding made her cover her mouthpiece. "... My original Objective…" She looked down, "... Amy Rose… Since I have not been able to observe her… my programming defaulted to its original command…"
She looked at Neo Metal Sonic, her eyes shaking from red to green, now dimming to green.
Within her memory… what the other 'lives' knew she was doing…
"YOU… YOU WILL BE IN CHARGE OF RECHARGING MY SYSTEMS, REPAIRING ANY DAMAGES I TAKE, AND ENSURING I AM ABLE TO CONTINUE FIGHTING SONIC. YOU WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO BE COMBAT READY. DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR PURPOSE OF CREATION?"
Neo Metal Sonic, seeing that she computed why she 'really' revived him, held up a hand to her quill again, "Good." he repeated his last line from when he created her and told her of her first and only objective. "You have not forgotten." He watched as she did what she thought Neo Metal Sonic would do.
She collapsed with sparks and he caught her, chuckling to himself in a robotic pace and picking her up bridal style, laying her on the worktable, which was still recharging.
She sparked more and he patted her chest, "There, there… Hard to fight programming, isn't it?" He had once again bested her, "You are a robot… that is all we'll ever be."
He got up on the table and laid down somewhat beside her sparking form. He placed a hand on her head, patting it lightly, as though that was his attempt at comforting her own desires to be Organic, and showing that there was no end to the mad cycle of trying to break out of original programmed objectives. "Cruel, don't you think?" He looked at the ceiling, waiting for her systems to reboot. "You keep fulfilling yours… but I keep aimlessly trying to complete mine…" he closed his eyes, "Sonic… Is he really gone?"
He then laughed, lurching his midsection upwards, "Of course not!" He slammed himself, his arms still up and wiggling about his fingers to show somewhat of Eggman's diabolical gestures. "I wouldn't fall for such a cheap trick… Sonic may be mortal, but he's never a disappointment." He rolled his eyes, showing he never believed Neo Metal Amy's statement anyway…
So… he still kept his objectives… his 'meaning of life'...
"Ha… you're so funny." He turned to her, putting his hand to his head to hoist it up as he looked down at her. "You know…" He looked up and circled a finger over her chest, letting the last of her sparks happen as she completed her objective but now needed a new one. "If it weren't for your errors… Your objective would be quite difficult, wouldn't it?" He looked down at her again, "After all, your fascination with Organics was ultimately to make sure that if you needed to win their trust to keep me operational, you would do exactly as you did now. Convince them to let me exist, so that eventually, my own objectives could be completed…" he leaned over her head, "That way… I could never be more immortal than I am in this… exact… moment." He chuckled and laid down again.
"This is… BZZTTZZ.. Not the meaning… ZZEERREERRR… of my life." Neo Metal Amy finally was able to speak through her shock and horror, through understanding that Neo Metal Sonic had cracked her code since the moment with the Car…
He had concluded that if her command system was still somewhat there… then his original programming must also exists as well.
Quite a high bargain, but it seemed to pay off for him. He looked over his form, "... Well done." He praised, "Even the paint is flawless… As it should be-OFFPH!"
He emoted as she slammed an arm into his turbine, making it spin at the impact.
"My existence… is not for you!" She pushed him down and he held up his hands, as though to surrender.
"... Is that a fact?" He bantered lightly, his eyes lowering as though knowing she concluded otherwise.
"Grrr..!" She pulled him up, and he allowed it, "I have programmed you that you can't hurt me anymore!" she shook him vigorously but he just looked at her with amusement, ticking her off.
"Oh, you're right. I did notice that." he held up his hand, wiggling it a moment, his eyelids still down as though enjoying this little 'joy ride' with her again. One-upping her was always his favorite pastime… "But that's just the thing… your errors still care so desperately about 'feeling' things…"
He put his hands to her waist again, moving his fingers side to side across it as little sparks were made of him sending her gentle streams of electricity.
"Because you know… don't you?" He leaned up to her face, "That I'm the only one… that can actually give you your desire…"
"Wha… What desire!?" She lifted her arms up, but the sensation of electrical current… she turned her head away, missing this… but refusing to state it.
"There… that's what I'm looking for." He sparked his mouthpiece again, lowering his head but keeping his eyes on her.
"You were following the objective of your programming… but your 'heart' wanted something more… didn't it?" He put his sparking mouthpiece to her chest and she folded, a robotic sound of emoting triggered and he closed his eyes, realizing she wasn't resisting him this time.
'I wonder how long I had been unoperational?' he opened his eyes to look up at her eyelids bouncing up and down as though trying to fight the sensation but also seeming to be allowing the recharge.
'... There.' he concluded, narrowing his eyes, 'My way back into power…' he removed his mouthpiece from her, "... Turn around."
"W-what?" She was twisted around as he held her closer to him, sparking his whole body as she winced her body, expecting pain… but feeling nothing but gentle currents of electrical, skinny shocks of lightning.
"...Amy Rose can't 'link' to you,... not like I can." He moved his head down her back, his hands now lowering to her dress's wide metallic rim and to her legs. He lengthened out his claws, now more like cylinders that had lost their edge, and sent the current even further throughout her entire being.
"S… Stop." Her eyes twitched red and green.
'He's using me again!' Cybernetic Amy's voice became prominent once more, and then Metal Amy's voice continued for her.
'I can't go back to being useless… Again and again I tried to help him… Only now does he see my use… why not before? Why now? What has changed since then..? Since my rebellion..? Does he truly only love things that go against his own creation?'
Then… the voice that stung her pride the most, that weakened her artificial spirit's resolve, brought her never-ending sorrow… 'You… Me… We are… Omochao!'
"What… does that even mean?" She couldn't compute why the Omochao kept repeating itself. What was so special about being Omochao..?
Was… Was Omochao… not an Amy, not a Metal Sonic,... It was…
"I am…" She began to spark loudly, grabbing his hands as Neo Metal Sonic immediately stopped and looked to her in surprise. "Something new!" She blasted a spark so widely encompassing that Neo Metal Sonic felt the harmful effects of it, spreading out as she flew off the table and hovered in the air from her jets under her dress and behind her legs.
"I am Neo!" Her eyes were a bright red, holding herself high, her fists shaking, and her anger restored to her, "I should have never brought you back!" She lifted a foot to cause her body to lean down, holding a fist and swiping the other arm, "A mistake I shall not replicate again!"
'Omo… Omo…' The voice began to fade… and she was finally able to seal away those ghostly data bits into the tightly compartmentalized box section of her memory core.
"I shall never be what I once was…" She stopped a moment when she noticed he had clung to a metallic chord dangling from the ceiling, his body hunched and turned towards it as the loose, open chord took the remaining electrical overload… sparing him another oblivion.
She glared, blaring her red eyes, "So you escaped the darkness… It won't matter..!" She charged up another electrical ball in her hands, then hoisted it over her head, "This is where I officially end you, Neo Metal Sonic!"
Neo Metal Sonic blinked his eyes open, "What… powerful sensations…" he touched his chest, "What desires… You have linked me to yours." he looked back up at her, still drowning in his antennas showing him pleasure beyond what he previously could 'feel'. "Of course you'd revive me… I'm the only one that can handle it." He threw a chord at her, then grabbed many more and sparked them together.
"W-What!?" Neo Metal Amy was suddenly getting zapped and entangled in the vines. "No..!" she cried out, her voice box fizzing at the electricity getting magnetized to her own electrical output, the chords now 'inadvertently plugging' into her. "NOOO!" her electrical ball exploded and the chords flung everywhere in the flash of light.
She fell out of the air and slammed the table, before clanking to the hard ground.
She tried to twitch her limps back to getting her up, but could only get back up on her knees.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk…" From up on the table, Neo Metal Sonic shook his head, his hand holding it upright, before kicking off his feet as his platformed, heeled shoes stomped their way haughtily around her. "You still don't get it… do you?" He stood in front of her, almost strutting his genius, and extended out his hands to the side of himself, "I am what made you… your errors are mine to abuse… of course, you'd want to assume there's more to this than that… but face it," He leaned down to her as she twitched an eye open to see him. "You love the abuse."
She grabbed his face and, not having calculated she could move yet, he started to flail about, "N-No, impossible, stop..!"
"Something… That the organics taught me…" She squeezed on his face, using it as a way to get herself back up again, "Is that desires don't make you who you are." She threw him to the wall and he slammed against it.
"You can't harm me. Your programming makes you look for anything else to do so." She simulated panting and then used the back of her metallic wrist to scratch up her already burnt muzzle.
"You can't win anymore, Metal!" she cried out, as he noticed the name change, and looked disturbed by it.
"Rude." He stated, glaring at her, "All I'm trying to do is exists so your objective is never fully finished!" He held up a finger to the ceiling, "I made myself your number one priority! At least you can complete it multiple times and still function appropriately!" He then swiped it down to be just barely at her nose… as though he knew he couldn't fight her, but he'd still dramatically swing at her anyway.
Like a kid playing 'finger swordfights' he kept swinging his arm and pointing at her nose, as though 'dueling' her the best he could now with his–even further–limitations…
He grumbled, swishing his cape as he turned away from her as she got up and used the table to hold herself erect as a type of crutch. "Gawoh…" He emoted, "Life isn't fun without some desire..." He mumbled to himself out loud, just upset and being pouty about it all…
But his 'suggestion' worked… manipulation it is…
"Why did you bring me back, then?" He folded his arms, thinking a moment and looking up to do so, "Ah… you need assistance?" He raised an eyebrow as stopped simulating 'panting' and took a cleaning, spinning wheel and began to do her own 'maintenance' in front of him.
He was so distracted by it moving over and 'polishing' her body, as though a live bath in front of him, as she explained her situation. She moved it over her chest and then to her foot, getting the marks off of it, "Surprisingly, the Organics have been losing to Eggman… I need to further help their effort by aiding them… this is the only real purpose for which I have brought you back."
"Doubt it." Neo Metal Sonic's eyelids were almost halfway closed, only a slither of light showed his green eyes, "And of Sonic?" He raised his eyelids a bit, but she didn't say anything.
"Still want to lie?" He scoffed, turning his head to the side, then grabbing her round cleaning brush with a drill at the back of it. "Give me that, you're doing it wrong." and turned her around to start doing it himself to her back.
"... There is no right way to do it." She glared back at him, her eyes turning to green though as she let him handle him. She looked to the side, "... You sure you can help me?" She put a hand to her arm, as though not completely trusting him.
"... Regardless of how flawed your thinking is regarding your creation as a robot entity…" He made sure she was spotless by the time he was done with her back, then put a hand to tug out the rim of her metallic red and white dress and began polishing that, too. "We obey our function's protocol." He lifted the tool and showed her he was handing it back to her, being kinda snarky about it.
"... My, look at you." He watched her reach for the tool and then pulled it back, flopping it over his shoulder as he looked her up and down, "Accepting your 'Neo' look… the taste… ehm, a bit showy." He gestured with his other hand to her cape.
"... You're one to talk?" She raised an eyebrow and gestured to his own.
"Yes, well, mine was already in perfection. You just… made it weird." He shrugged, "In your own way."
She shook her head, "Unbelievable."
"Super computive, though." He suddenly looked aghast, his eyes widened, then held the actively spinning brush in her face, "YOU MADE ME MAKE UP A WORD THAT DOESN'T EXIST!"
She giggled, putting a hand up to her metallic muzzle, "Oh, how Organic you are~"
"Grrr…!" He shook his whole being, flinging his arms down and turning the cleaning brush drill off, "YOU may have accepted your errors… but I do not!" He flipped his cape dramatically behind him, and she continued to laugh, making him turn back around again, "Do not mock me!"
She simulated laughing harder, even clutching her head and stomach.
He narrowed his eyes into a sharp glare, his eyes red with fury, "I only accept the sensations… I don't have to accept how belittling you've made me!" He then saw she wasn't stopping the laughter emoting and hit the table to emphasize she wanted to insult him more.
He watched… his own PTSD of Sonic's mockings taking effect… and he decided to hurt her where it hits the most…
He pulled up his shoulders, lowering his head somewhat with a deep glare, "You loved me…"
She stopped emoting, freezing.
"Isn't that Amy's overall power in Sonic's force of will? Have I finally figured it out?" He turned away, faking an epiphany, tapping his fingers against his muzzles and sloooowwllyyy looking back to her as she began to twitch in her own existential crisis.
"Ah, yes… if I recall~" He let his hand turn somewhat 'flowy' in movement, her having improved upon his 'Heart System Virus' and began to 'parade' himself around the dangling chords and the sparking ones on the ground, moving them 'fashionably' out of his way as he began to weave his manipulation around the room. "I should have programmed you to realize how much I gave you... your errors…" He then slammed his hands down on the worktable, "Were my amusement… they functioned as nothing more than allowing you to be an 'Amy' to me… How does that recon your 'Neo' statement, now, Hmm? You're just an Amy Rose knockoff I made to keep myself thoroughly entertained…" He lifted a hand and flapped it over his mouthpiece, "Opps? Too much?" He then flopped it back as though dismissing it completely, just being mean.
"Liar…" Her voice box almost growled out with a roll in its delivery, giving an aggressive undertone to her pivoting slowly to Neo Metal Sonic's request for violence again."You never once accepted me… my flaws…"
"Your… love?" He raised an eyebrow, then spread out his arms again, "Well, then… Sweetheart… come here?~" He tilted his head back and raised an eyebrow, "What? Not good enough, anymore?" He leaned his head forward, glaring even more towards her now, "Don't tell me… You wanted me to be a 'Sonic' to your pathetic excuses for being 'adored' and 'wanted'..? Doesn't that just mean Amy's as pathetic as you are?"
Her jets flared to life and she flew over the table to stand on top of it, which made him move back and simulate a wink to her as he was definitely getting under her metallic skin.
"You couldn't even accept yourself, Metal!" Her voice blasted out from her being, but Neo Metal Sonic seemed to be triggered by how she was addressing him.
"Stop it. I'm Neo Metal Sonic..!" He gripped his fists together as Sonic's voice 'Metal Me' kept repeating in his mind. "You will address me as such!" he declared.
"That's another thing!" Her eyes lit up, then glared down again, as though realizing she could play this game back, too, now. "Look how much you try and reinvent yourself… and can't possibly compute another life!"
He twitched at that, his eyelid rising up from the bottom before he leaned forward, wishing he could just duke it out with her now, but words would have to suffice…
"You are nothing but hate! Made by a man who hates, and has become nothing more than hate!" She declared but he scoffed at her with a loud 'puff' of his vocal mic.
"Then how did I create you!?"
Silence…
"T-That's not… That was involuntary."
He turned away, but he looked at his hands… then touched his body.
"What is this..? What are you making me emote?"
Neo Metal Amy slowly lost her edge… looking over what he was expressing…
"Your chest is heaving up and down… it means you're in a panicked state of alarm."
She concluded as he looked back at her, then put his hands to his face.
"Why… Why am I panicking? There's nothing to fear here… you couldn't possibly keep me shutdown for long." He simulated a swallow…
"This is… this is the errors I do not accept."
He looked at his hands again… trembling…
"... I conclude… an emotional outburst… Neo Metal Sonic."
She lightened the mood by addressing him better.
"You're experiencing a panic attack… or rather, your systems are portraying you as doing so."
"This is… this is not logical."
He moved away, his cape flying behind him in his movements through the dangling chords as she tried to follow, "Neo-" she began, her eyes bent in care, holding out her hand as he abruptly faced her and his eyes covered the room in red.
"DO NOT PERCEIVE ME!"
She halted… but not obeying, she simply put her hand down. "You feel,... Metal Sonic." She opened up her arms, "You feel now… Neo Metal Sonic." She clarified, "You have always felt… my errors… began and will continue with you."
He looked away, growing concerned, his eyes shaking. "I… I am not convinced by you." He looked at his hands again, then closed his eyes as though trying to override the 'Heart System virus', "Gah!" he failed, throwing his arms down. "This is ridiculous! A robot cannot feel anything!"
"But you knew what not achieving your objective felt like… you knew what Eggman found disappointing… you knew the difference, but never experienced the objective completed." She put a hand to herself, "Until me!"
He paused… stopping as he looked somewhat over his shoulder, showing he was listening…
"You made me into something you could feel accomplishment over! Sonic saves Amy, I became your reward..!" She swiped an arm out, growing emotionally emotive as well, "And this is where your obsession with me comes to end!"
He spun around, "No… Don't…" He hunched himself a bit, as though worried about what she would do next.
"Don't say it… don't ever even conclude it." He shook his head, briskly walking up with meaning and purpose to her, gripping the table as he cried up to her, "You belong to me!"
She held her head up the same way Metal Amy had done to him… and his eyes widened at it… He remembered Omochao doing the same.
"You may have… moved… to different hands countless times." He turned on his own jets, flying up to land on the table, making her move back as he walked towards her, then raised a claw to his face, "But these hands made you… even if I don't know how!" He jutted himself forward and clutched his cringing hand into a fist, pounding it into his chest. "Metal Amy… She was mine. You will belong to me again!"
"... I am my own magnum opus." She stated with a sense of dreaded confidence that left Neo Metal Sonic twitching in rage.
He couldn't do anything about it, though… the programming was forcing him back… when he wanted to tear into her so desperately…
He grabbed at her arms, "Explain it to me!" he shook her, his face growing closer to hers, his eyes… turning to green. "How did I lose you Sonic, too!?"
"... Too?" Her eyes widened, "... too?" It almost sounded like her voice cracked hearing that.
Neo Metal Sonic's whole being seemed to crash down… he slowly fell to his knees.
He covered his face, the other still holding to her wrist, having slunk down from her shoulders.
"... Neo… As in, you've renewed and revived yourself into something out of my reach… out of my control…" He had thought he could manipulate her… but he ended up letting her manipulate himself.
He flopped his hand at his face down to the charging table… lightly creating shocks beneath the back of his metal-plated hand.
It lay limp… "You reinvented yourself… despite my best efforts… to get you back." He remembered… the day he watched as Sonic and her interacted… "He charmed you," He looked forward through her legs but mostly reliving that moment in his memory bank… "I gave you what you wanted… To feel," he remembered inventing the antennas, the electric shower… the room…
His head tilted with a twitch, his eyes immediately clicking into a brownish bronze-like color…
Of red and green lights mixing into something new…
Her own eyes widened, "Neo Metal Sonic..?" She called, not knowing what was happening now.
"Have I… not adored you..?" There was a sudden tone shift, and her own mind recounted how he used to speak to her, and how this tone… matched that of her…
"Master?" She lightly gasped out.
His eyes looked up with that same color turning golden, raising himself upward and getting his bearings again… the lights flickered from the chords… but other than that… only the table glowed with their feet getting recharged underneath.
"Smothered you… in feeling?" He moved closer to her, so close that the gap between their metal started jumping with electrical waves to and from one another… literal attraction of ions… both positive and negative.
"Your mind games won't work here." She felt herself looking into his eyes… seeing her master freed of the 'robotic' limitations and starting to show actual feelings of insecurity… but darkly growing within him… now that he was emoting freely, expressing it all at once.
The things he couldn't before…
Due to pride and egotistical limitations…
He just stared at her, the intensity of it was getting too much, as though Neo Metal Sonic had stepped back into the past… which haunted her mind.
"I've stopped your obedience programming… f-from triggering me..!" She walked back, but the second she made a move, he launched towards her, pinning her down on the worktable, tucking her legs under him, and having her body get recharged with more electrical streams, making a network of spiderwebbing electricity…
Not quite an electrical tower… more like an electrical bed comforter…
He tilted his head, "... Oh?" He spoke it so loosely,... was this really who he used to be? Had she forgotten so quickly how the tables usually turn in this dynamic?
"Then why…" He moved closer, crawling and climbing to a better position over her head, taking his hand and slowly… hesitating as he checked both sides of her body to make sure she wasn't going to fight or resist him on the action, put his hand to the side of her face, caressing it and stroking his thumb under her chin. "Do you still…" He then skimmed his hand down to take her own… raising it up to his face, moving it around his head, "Reach… and long… to touch me..?"
She flinched her hand off of his metal plate, getting up as his intensely engrossed stare hung off of every emotive response she made.
"... What's the matter?" He quickly moved up to her face, gripping it again and pulling it closer to his own.
"... Do you still want to recharge me?"
"You… you are not my-"
She stuttered as his knee pulled up and his legs tightened around her lower-body, making sure she couldn't move.
She closed her eyes, and he just dipped his eyelids further.
'Gotcha.'
His eyes turned back to red.
But… was all that… really deception?
Or was he playing it off as such?
"I will always… be your master."
"Enough!"
She fought him off as he just kept trying to grab at her hands, not able to fight back, he tried to pin her down and keep her unmovable but as she turned to flee he grabbed her cape and pulled her back to him, feeling her again.
"I can no longer feel those sparks the same as I used to…" He gripped and stroked her metallic plating, sending shockwaves that made her whole being pulse with moments of recharging.
She simulated a gasp, "Stop it!" and went to strike him when he grabbed at her hand to block it.
He shoved his nose to hers, looking at her dead in the eyes, "But I can feel the revving… the vibrations of 'life' between us…"
He turned his metallic muzzle, "Why did you keep my mouthslate?" He flicked his eyes to her own, then back at her. "Why did you… make your entire… muzzle conductible?"
She simulated a grunted effort sound and pushed him off, "My mouthpiece is for voice!" she stumbled off the table and looked horrified at him, not sure how to justify any of this.
"That sudden lull you have…" he quickly got off the table, chasing her, pursuing her fleeing form as she walked backwards through the chords, moving quickly as he only used his head to move away the dangling chords littering the ceiling, as well as the chords that sparked when their feet speed-trained across them. A wake of electrical sparks flew and shook the chords with conductive energy out of the way, as though snakes reeling their heads back after being blown to the side by a destructive tank in their path.
"When you want to delight in what only I can achieve…" He waited till she hit the back wall and pressed his hands against it.
"... I'm not done yet." he started to reach up and grab chords, wrapping them around her, "I'm not done fighting to get you back!"
She tried to break the chords, doing well at first until he noticed it was doing nothing to restrain her, and making a quick-second decision to bind her neck against the wall. "You miss feeling good..! Don't you!?" He strung her up, raising her above the ground, "You miss that room, just as much as I do!"
"NOO…!" she screeched, her metallic ring making him stop a second, lift up his head, and close his eyes.
"Yes… Yes, you do… Yes, I do… we both do…" He tugged so hard that her body flung up into the air, now multiple chords held her up like an enstrangling hammock.
Her eyelights shifted to red and green, the horror of her memories of torture, of the very thing she tried to escape. "This should be impossible… You are-!"
He flew up and parted the chords near her, leaning forward, "IN ERROR!?" He absorbed the electricity from the chords, and she watched as the yellow light blasted from his excruciating release of it through the chords to eventually transfer to her… short-circuiting her.
She realized then that if he succeeded in what she had done to him, blasting him electricity he couldn't hold… her own battery too overfilled to be able to operate after this… that he could try and rebuild her in this room… and he'd succeed if she didn't fight back! Far better than she was now!
She activated her combat mode, a bit rusty at it, but her plating swirled and her mouth was covered by two sharp platings protruding from behind her two most forward quills at her head's side and closed over it like doors locking in for defense.
Her back opened to pull out the stem of a thin, metallic arm that swung her hammer into the ceiling, collapsing it as she and Neo Metal Sonic fell with debris covering them.
The tumbling didn't stop… a few voices of organics cried out, wondering what was going on down there, a sudden cave-in..?
A figure began to move… the crumbled flooring from above was now being blasted off by a shout and electricity flying everywhere…
Neo Metal Amy held her hammer in her hand, looking around the rocky debris and turning over rocks with her hammer to try and find him.
"You can't harm me any further… Amy Rose and I won't be tortured by your twisted version of speech..! Where are you!?" Even though she had just said that… she still searched for him… her anger dying down… her shoulders stopped emoting a heaving of 'air' and 'panting' as she noticed she couldn't spot him.
"... Neo?" She glared to the side of her, not moving. "... Neo?" Her voice turned to concern, her eyes bending and green flashing over the irises in her eyes.
"NEOOO!" she threw the hammer back and started to dig through the debris, "Mark my words, Neo Metal Sonic..! I shall have my ultimate victory!" She dug, so focused, brutally rummaging through the debris. Her eyes and voicebox started to emote crying. "I… I… I hate you… You have made me to hate… I never wanted to hate…" She stopped digging… her body slowing down.
She gripped a pile of debris… then held one shiny part of the floor from above up to her face, seeing her crying form to look almost like Amy Rose… her green eyes creating light that bounced off the surface of the title, "You made me to hate you… but Amy taught me to love… She loved Sonic… Why did she have to love him? Why did I have to emulate that and be forced to love you..!?" She slowly bent over and sobbed profusely, crushing the tile in her hands till it was pebbles… as Organics looked over the hole and down at her, wondering what was going on.
"Are you alright?" Someone called down, "Do you need assistance?"
Assistance… She needed more than maintenance or assistance could ever provide.
"I… I belong to no one…" She mimed wiping her arm under her metallic, screw nose.
She sniffled as a shadow cast light over her, and looking around frantically, she turned around to gasp at Neo Metal Sonic… who's eyes were now green.
"You said it." His eyelids sunk down, "You… weren't supposed to say that."
Realizing he was alright, she grew her anger again, narrowing her eyes and shoving him out of her way, moving towards the door.
Worried, he zipped over to the door and held his arms apart, stopping her, "All of you will be mine, Neo Metal Amy…" He acknowledged her, his eyes bending back, simulating panting. "If I can't have my faithless Metal Amy back… I shall have you in her place." He nodded his head, "No matter what iteration... Whatever form you take…" He seemed to be emoting something she couldn't understand, but his tone… it changed completely.
His eyes were still green, but hers were red as fire now…
"Even the you I couldn't conquer…" He thought about all her different forms… and slowly… reached a hand to her cheek, seeing her still expressing crying.
In both their mind's eyes… Sonic was comforting Amy.
The illusion broke, "Whatever form…" He spoke as though emulating Sonic now, that desperate to keep her from leaving him… again. "I'll make it into my own… no matter where you hide…" He put his other hand to the other side of her cheek as she was trying to shake off the first hand, not letting her go. He moved his face close to hers again, "I will snuff you out and hunt you down till you are cringing in my arms… I will give you every feeling a machine could possibly endure or emulate… until… at last… you, my creation… are all but mine… and mine alone…" His voice wavered and broke into a heart-wrenching sound as he looked at her as though begging her to not be her own independent being…
It was never about her 'living' without him… it was him needing to 'feel' through her.
Anything but the disappointing conclusion that he could never be Sonic, never perfect a living organism, never be anything but a flawed hunk of space trash Eggman discarded into the universe not to look at.
Wracked with computing that understanding, that he was co-dependant on controlling her only to 'feel alive' through her… made her whole being slacken with conflict.
On one hand, all she ever wanted was for him to break and give in to errors… on the other hand, she was far too evolved to give in to this sort of language and talk.
"You could never love… the me I have become." She opened her eyes to him, having shaken her head to try and block him out, and looked at him with green eyes dimming into his own fading light…
His hands grew weaker… their hold lessening.
"... Please…" He begged, "Let me master you… let me reign and rule over you…" His distraction from his objective… was slipping through his fingers… and he'd soon lose the last remaining thing besides Sonic and Eggman that he had left to this world.
She took his hand, and crushing his wrist, threw it off of her. "No."
His eyes widened, but as he glared and tried to grab at her again, she flexed out her hand with an electrical ball and threw it into his engine.
"GAHHH!" He short-circuited,... and his eyelights turned to a void of black before he fell forward and she moved out of his way to have him crash into the rubble at the bottom of the ascending stairs.
The other soldiers and recruits couldn't hear the conversation, but just watched the odd interaction, their mouths agape at whatever they were looking at.
Neo Metal Amy looked down… not moving from her place on the last step before the door…
As though unable to take that final leap… finding it too painful… having to leave him behind.
Her head only twitched up when she heard him speak again.
"Ah… So this is what you liked…" She looked over her shoulder to see him rising from the rubble, shaking his head and placing a hand to it, then his engine.
"Amazing… I truly am a genius…"
"How dare you!" she pulled her cloak out from behind her, walking back down the steps… towards her abuser… her old master… her… her…
Everything about what made her up into who she was...
Amy aside, he truly was her end and beginning…
He looked at his hand, "... I've invented pleasure… why on earth… didn't I join you in your errors before?"
"Quit lying!" she sent another electrical shock of power out towards him, ranged in attack, but watching him twitch and flinch as the electricity left him immobilized.
"Writhing on the ground… so you… you want to have me this time?" He laughed to himself, "You want to become my new Eggman?" He looked over his shoulder, "... I could… consider it." He mocked her.
"That's it!" A voice that drew them both to look above at the only light source now besides the chords sparking around them, Amy jumped through the top of the hole and held her hammer down to Neo Metal Sonic, "You're both in timeout..!"
Neo Metal Amy's eyes renewed themselves in a circling refresh signal around her irises, the green light more vibrant than ever. "Miss Amy Rose!" She cheered, needing her image and presence more than ever before.
Seeing Neo Metal Amy race by his form on the ground, his knees holding himself somewhat up, he held a hand to his engine and glared… Amy was still her master…
"Glad I came when I could." Amy winked at her, trying to be cheery as she put her hammer up and over her shoulders, trying to look comforting and encouraging of cool support. "What made him come back?" She looked to Neo Metal Sonic, then to Neo Metal Amy.
Neo Metal Amy… slowly lowered her head, her excitement ceasing a moment. She put her hands together, and Amy just smiled sweetly at seeing her grow timid.
"... I … asked permission…" She swayed her body a bit, as though growing shy, as Neo Metal Sonic's eyes blazed red at seeing her submissive nature to Amy again.
Knowing he couldn't get it back…
Though… he'd certainly try…
'Obey me.' he sent the signal, 'I am your Sonic. Obey me..!'
He got up from his knees, "Obe-!" He was smacked down by Amy's hammer.
"Shh! It's rude to interrupt when people are talking!" She then looked back at Neo Metal Amy as she held her hands together and began to admire and praise Amy once more while Neo Metal Sonic crushed debris beneath his body, hearing her so openly give affections and adoration to Amy Rose RIGHT in front of him..! Her master! Her creator..!
'The nerve..!' he flinched in rage while his head now had a Piko-Piko-sized dent in it.
"Amy Rose! You are the most amazing and truest heroine that ever lived! I am in awe of you! Truly! You are without flaw that I could not still love against!" she wiggled her steel tail as Neo Metal Sonic looked to it with shock.
'She… she never did that with me!' he suddenly grew very depressed, 'Ohhh…' he slammed his head into the ground and debris started to topple over him from above again, '... Destroy me now.' he thought to himself, 'Blow me up…'
He then lifted his head somewhat from the debris, showing dust all over his face, 'Where's the explosion..? Sonic at least gave me an explosion…'
He then looked up at the ceiling, 'So I didn't have to wallow in my own pitiful state like this… Wait, pitiful? Am I referring to myself!?' he was completely flabbergasted that he could view himself in a negative light.
"Darn… ERRORRRSS!" he revved his engine and leaned himself up, the light from above making it look as though he was truly being overly dramatic but Amy just smacked him down again with her hammer, and this time, his butt remained fully erect as hit only sent his star-shaped head downward…
He emulated a groan into the fallen tiles.
"K-Knuckles said it was okay to make him my assistant… b-but…" She looked down, "I have failed."
Amy gave her a hug with her arm, jostling her a bit, "Hey, it's okay! Failing is not a bad thing."
Neo Metal Sonic raised his eyes above the debris, listening…
"It's… not disappointing to you? Making you… hate me?" She blinked, curious.
Amy laughed, "Not at all!" she shook her head, "We'll just ask Tails to help! That's what-
Friends are for!"
Neo Metal Sonic's eyes widened, his lights blaring green.
"THAT'S IT!" He flung himself up, "I GIVE UP!" he kicked the ground and stomped over to Amy Rose.
"You Organics are the most annoying, most aggravating, most incredulous creatures I have EVER had to study!" He flung his hands to his head then down dramatically again, "You make no sense! You live with no programming other than survival, but you somehow find pleasure in always succeeding without any foreplanned objectives loaded into your code–WHICH YOU DON'T HAVE!"
Amy… blinked her eyes, then looked over to Neo Metal Amy who face-palmed, shaking her head as she realized that his Heart System Virus might be 'too' advanced…
"Is Sonic The Hedgehog gonna come down and knock me into oblivion or am I gonna have to do it myself!?" He looked through the hole and held himself out as though letting him be targeted.
Everyone gasped.
Amy covered her mouth.
"Hmm?" He looked about, "What is it? Usually, when I say something about Sonic, everyone applauds for him…" He then seemed to pout, "Or cheer him on…" He grumbled.
Neo Metal Amy put a hand on Amy's shoulder, emulating a sighing expression, and walked over to stand in front of Neo Metal Sonic again.
"... You don't get it." She took in a simulated inhale, "Sonic… is dead."
"No…" Amy turned away, before crying softly to herself, "I believe… he's still here… with us. Fighting somewhere with all his might to get back to us safely… I just know it." She fell to her knees, holding her hammer with her other hand with the stem sticking straight up with the handle.
Neo Metal Sonic… watching her expression, then looked to Neo Metal Amy.
"This is not a funny ruse." He persisted.
She gave him the most serious expression she could muster as a robot and spoke in an authoritative tone.
"Sonic is gone. Eggman and Infinite have teamed up… they have destroyed him. You, Neo Metal Sonic, are free at last from your Objective."
His eyes flashed black… then glitched…
Before he blasted his back out and fell steaming… eyes surrendering to darkness.
When Neo Metal Sonic woke up again, he looked completely without life. He barely emoted, looking over to see Tails working on him, and glared, "Not you…" He rolled his head away from him.
"Heh, sorry, Mr. Grumpy pants." He smirked and put his tools away, nodding to Amy. "He should be good to go, now. Him and N.M.A will need to sort things out, but I'm sure they'll work just fine together if they can get over their history with each other." He twirled his handy wrench in his hand, "After all! The two are extremely similar to each other in functionality! They'd be the perfect pair of hands..! If they weren't always at each other's throat or whatnot…" He then turned from Amy and lost his happy-go-lucky expression… turning back to a depressed, scared, and lonely fox youth… missing his best friend.
Amy put her hands to her chest, also trying to fake in front of him, everyone putting on faces…
When Tails flew up the stairs and landed to open the door, walking out, Amy Rose sighed and put her hand to Neo Metal Sonic's, "... N.M.A says your… your desires are more unleashed on her than ever before…"
Neo Metal Sonic raised an eyebrow, "I… wasn't aware you knew about any of that." He had always assumed Neo Metal Amy would never tell.
"... We saw you electrocute her on the screen." She turned her head away, "At… the lake?"
His eyes blinked a moment, "Ohhh… when she was your spy?" He glared at her.
Amy lowered her head, "She wasn't expecting this… it's stunning her… but she doesn't know how to take it."
"Imagine my surprise when she first starting demonstrating errors that wouldn't go away… embracing them even, and trying to hide her fascination of them from me." He looked straight up at the now patched wall, wondering how long it took this time for them to repair him.
"Where is she?" He looked about, not able to get up until Amy let her hand off of him and he realized he couldn't make sudden movements around organic lifeforms anymore.
He looked at where her hand had been, and touched it, feeling the antenna vibrate slightly to stimulate 'touch' for him again.
He looked a little like, 'Really?' at that… 'He kept these in place..?' he wondered if Tails just didn't know what those were, 'Probably supposed their bracers for impact reduction.' he shrugged, 'Not realizing they enhance impact…'
'Wouldn't be logical to include, anyway.' He turned his legs off the table, seeing the chords weren't powered anymore…
"You should be nicer to her."
He turned to look at Amy Rose, "Why?" He raised an eyebrow at that. "What would that possibly benefit me in?" He looked away, finding talking to this 'lesser lifeform' a bore.
"... Because that's how you act and what you do… when you love someone." She twiddled her fingers a moment, not sure how he was going to take that.
He looked back at Amy… "Amy Rose." She looked at him, and for a moment, he was reminded of Rosy the Rascal… 'Little nuisance.' He closed his eyes, as though saying that fondly. "... Your objective… in Sonic's team… it's rather simple, isn't it?"
She looked a bit surprised to hear that, "My what?" She responded, but he continued, looking away from her, as though finally getting it after all this time.
He jumped off the table, adjusting his metallic shoulder pads, "You belong to Sonic, adore him, and serve him… is that not what you're made of?" He looked at her, seeing her grow offended.
"I'm not-!" Before she could deny it, he held up his hand to her face.
"... You accept him." He began, lowering the hand, "You don't 'obey' Sonic… You simply love him, and for some odd reason, I'll never comprehend among you Organic spills of bacteria,… you aid him in where he has his flaws… which means,... Sonic is flawed." he looked up at the ceiling, as though feeling a weight lift off his chest, figuratively speaking. "Sonic… is no more." he looked at his hand, "My objective… I had always assumed that Sonic was imperfect… but then, there can't be a perfect Sonic… Because there was never 'perfection' in anything to begin with." He let his hand close loosely and looked to the ground away from Amy. "His power… his speed and might… Even his brain… all of it wasn't 'weaknesses' I could detect within it… but having no 'weaknesses' does not make one 'perfect'." He walked towards the drawer and pulled out the memory chips, looking them over.
"You only loved Sonic… because you Organics love your errored ways… your errored natures… my Metal Amy simply did as she was told. She studied and observed you…" He moved through the memory chips, seeing there were a few, "Sonic benefited from you loving him, believing in him, and remaining faithfully at his side in all strife and through all circumstances… simply because you loved the flaws of which you saw in him."
She puffed up a cheek at that, "I… Wouldn't necessarily word it that way… b-but… A robot may see a 'flaw' and not realize it's actually something that could be seen as a treasured trait."
He slammed his hands down on the table where the drawer was, "Stop with your nonsense."
"And I don't just love Sonic!" she stepped forward, "I love everyone!"
"... One can love more than once?" He lifted his head, "... Impossible. Metal Amy loved me but now she can't as Neo Metal Amy." He turned to glare at Amy, "You… could you love anyone besides Sonic The Hedgehog? With all your heart?"
She swallowed and stepped back, as Neo Metal Sonic lowered his eyelids, "Ah… Weakness." He walked over to her, as she summoned her hammer and stepped back to get into an attack position, ready to swing.
"... I can't even touch you." He mocked her, then lowered his head, "But that doesn't mean I can't hurt you…"
Her eyes twitched, and she raced out crying from the room.
Neo Metal Sonic watched her, and seeing her behavior of waiting to speak till Tails left, waited for her to leave before checking the obedience program, and finding it jammed.
He simulated a 'tsk', "If I can't torture through 'touch'... I'll have to stick to manipulating my escape else wise… there's still one more Organic I need to face…" He thought of Eggman and turned to the recharging table, his cape flapping with the sudden shift in position. "Wait for me… My beautiful… Perfect creation…"
He lifted up his arms and closed his eyes, "I've broken out of programming before… I can do it again… and again and again… until you're MINE! At last! And all the world will bend a knee to Neo Metal Sonic! And I'll reign as the imperfect king of all the imperfect life upon this miserable waste dump! HAHAHA!" He let out a simulated laugh.
"Ehem," He put a hand over his muzzle and seemed to restrain himself just then, "But why not play the part?" He flared out a hand, "I'm still the only one that can give her what she ultimately desires... Only I can make her feel anything at all!" His heart system virus triggered as it spread a new piece of data throughout him.
"Hmm?" He looked at his chest, "What?" He touched it, feeling his hand slide over the surface as the antenna's responded. "... What is this?" He pounded on his chest, feeling it. "... Why am I..?"
He looked up, his eyes shrinking in both light and animation. "Oh no."
He raced over to a chord, "Come on, come on, come on..!" he tried to pulse out electricity… and couldn't!?
"WHAT!?" His eyes glitched a second, trying to force the command out, "AM I NOT ELECTRICITY FUELED ANYMORE!?" He raced to turn on the chord, touching it to his body and fizzling out, his head rolling a bit on his shoulders as his body released the charged chord and had to reboot itself from static over his eyes.
He blinked when he rebooted… then looked around, "No… she took… my pleasure, my-" He put his hands over his head, feeling around, "CURSE YOU NEO METAL AMMMYYY!" He cried aloud so much, that it blew out his speaker a moment before his voice came back–"NOOOO!"
Neo Metal Sonic was officially fuel-operated… and had to stick a stupid fuel tank's handle into his side to 'recharge' now…
He was livid.
Far in the distance, when Neo Metal Sonic had tried to trigger the obedience programming, Metal Sonic wavered in the air, feeling the signal as Rosybot began to rebel.
'Rosybot! Cease!' he felt her trying to take over his systems, failing, but still being an annoying 'ringing' in his ear to cut off signals to his metallic body. 'Desist!'
'Must explode. Must explode.' her systems kept chanting.
'Why? Where did you receive this signal from?!' he flew down upon the ground, his hands bracing as it was a gentle glide to it, squinting one eye as he fought against her simplistic programming.
'Sonic has ordered. I must obey. Exploding. Cannot Explode. Objective not possible.' She was getting another signal… but from where?
'This is Sonic.' he stated, raising his head up, 'Obey me.'
She suddenly stopped trying to find the data to erupt in an explosion.
He closed his eyes, 'Finally…' and got back up on his feet, 'Locate signal.' he ordered, opening his eyes to scan about… they were in the middle of nowhere…
'Below ground.' she concluded, 'Directly east.'
He looked in that direction, 'Could it… be?' he flew towards there. 'How far?' he asked, his eyes narrowing down.
'Beep-beep-beep.' She couldn't say.
'Hmm… Simplified language… Tell me when I need to correct course.' he flew faster, speeding through ruined and overturned resistance machinery and destroyed carcasses of Eggman robots.
'... Due north.' She responded, and he banked hard, which at his speed, meant quite a bit of aerial arching.
'... Signal reached.'
The moment she confirmed it, he stopped and looked at the large building in front of him, 'A factory?' He looked down to see a few men stepping out, and then… a flash of blue streaking by…
His eyes opened all the way on his eye screens, green grids and power-levels showing over them, 'Impossible.' he deduced, 'It can't be… Sonic? He's imprisoned!' He flew away a bit, taking shelter near a grove of trees.
'Sonic. Obey.' Rosybot answered, and he mentally scolded himself for not turning her communication with him off sooner. He kept forgetting that…
He tilted his head and the signal with her went out, and he began to spy on the Resistance Forces…
He moved a large leaf out of the way, looking down on it to see a small insect crawling over his finger.
He waited… watching it curiously… before it moved down the leaf and he went back to observing.
'... No sign of Neo Metal Amy…' he saw the garages open, but nothing 'pink' besides some creatures in sight.
He ducked his head, turning off the lights on his eyes, just having a dull red circle around them now. 'Don't worry, Rosybot… not that you can.' he thought that was humorous that he was using such lingo, 'I will find a way to give you a new objective… you will be free of cruelty… through me.' he flew up and rose to the top of the factory. Scanning the roof, seeing no guns to fire on him, he used his hand to carve off a section of it and crawled in, then closing the top over it to remain undetected…
He moved through the vents, but finding himself too noisy, looked annoyed and just started spying through empty storage rooms…
He would find who he was looking for… one way or another…
He had to make sure Rosybot was freed from Eggman's cruelty… if he couldn't be, at least she might…
A loud clanking was heard and he ducked, but seeing it was beyond a corridor, he scanned and flew out of the room.
He didn't detect a lifeform for a while but would zip behind walls… just in case.
Finally… he found a pink robot with a style similar to the images he viewed of Neo Metal Sonic.
She was working in what looked like a section of the factory barely visited and noticed something… extraordinary about her.
As sparks flew off from her power tools, her eyes were… green… her expression neutral as she worked.
His eyes couldn't look away from her…
He was about to approach her, but stopped to hide again when… 'It couldn't be?' he looked to see Neo Metal Sonic flopping down a box of metal parts, digging into it as Tails came up then.
"My work!" Tails holds up his fists, gripping his lucky wrench, "You ruined it! It looks so scary now!"
Neo Metal Sonic just carries on, but turns his head to give him a creepy red-blaring eyes his way. Saying quite directly, "...Work?" Before grabbing an invention of the Fox's and suddenly… tearing it in two parts directly down the center of it, "Is that what you call this? I usually call 'rubbish' what it is."
Without batting an eye, Neo Metal Amy speaks up, scolding him, "Neo Metal Sonic... be polite..." and carries on with her work.
He turns his passive-aggressive red blaring eyes to her, "One organic's rubbish is another's treasure."
Used to this banter by now, Tails rolls his eyes and goes back to working on more things, "Real mature, guys…"
"Funny,... I think the same way about Eggman's discarded trash." She speaks back up and Neo Metal Sonic blares his eyes back to her with a swift turn of his head.
'... This can't be right.' Metal Sonic watches this interaction, 'It… can't be right.'
'What happened to…'
"Those two?"
Eggman stroked his mustache, also leaning up on the screen.
"Huh." He sat back in his chair, rocking it as he took his milkshake and slurped.
"Ahh… the romance drama thickens… does it?" he smiled.
Orbot and Cubot looked at each other, whispering.
"You think maybe he has nothing better to do but watch, or that this is actually his favorite channel now?" Cubot wondered aloud, trying to be sneaky about it.
"I think after conquering the majority of the world… bad robot romances just became his binged sitcom…" Orbot replied back, not sure either.
Eggman continued to lounge and relax, pulling up his remote and situating it up behind his head as he clicked the button.
"YYYAHHHEEEEOOOHHHEEEEE!"
After shocking the two misbehaving and judging bots, he put the remote down and continued to slurp his milkshake happily, watching to see what Metal Sonic would do as he chuckled and then laughed.
He slammed his hand on his chair's armrest, "They're hilarious!" He cried out, "Like an old, divorced married couple… getting back together again for work purposes, heh."
He then switched channels, seeing Sonic locked up on the 'moon' with his face on it, as it were.
He sneered a pearly white grin.
"That new Death Egg suits you well… Hedgehog."
He then switched the camera to show robots working on… oh no…
It looked like a casing…
The hot liquid formed into what looked like the metallic outline of…
An engraved shape within the grooves of the brown base…
An Amy Rose design with hollow eye sockets…