Sonic IRL 4
Got to be Virtual
By: Cutegirlmayra (I…I just had too xD I felt we've been focusing on American Amy for a little to long, and her relationship with Sonic. So steering off America for a moment… I want to give Japan Sonamy a moment to bond like I did for my first one-shot. Please enjoy! :D)
As the frantic struggle to cure Amy's error continues on the American shores half way around the world, Japan is working hard on the set-back, planning to continue life as if nothing had happened….
But Japanese Amy… couldn't forget.
Not that easily.
Tails and Knuckles saw Sonic flash through the hall, racing through every path the building had to offer before bolting out a window, and going into the town.
"He must be bored… what with all the in-activity due to one of the Amy's having a malfunction."
"Knuckles!" Tails turned to Knuckles, hitting him with a rolled up game magazine he was reading. "How insensitive can you be?! You know-!" he was about to scold him, waving the maganzine up in his face before Amy walked by the door, sulking…
She sighed, coming in, getting some water from a water cooler, and slowly drinking it, before walking off and throwing the little cup away.
"….You know Amy's been down ever sense American Amy took the fall for the other girls… and with her glitching and all, she's just really concerned and worried sick!" Tails whispered, seeing Amy was going far enough away to be out of earshot, hopefully.
"Yeah… but they can make a new one." Knuckles shrugged. "I mean… that's life! The price anyway… and even without half of her memories I'm sure-"
Tails punched Knuckles, making Knuckles head completely move his body to the right, before he shook his head and looked at Tails, shocked.
He placed a hand on his cheek. "W-what was that for!?"
"Don't be a fool, Knuckles!" Tails straightened himself up, glaring up at his friend. "She loved her American counterpart! They were like sisters! She was never as close to her other copies as she was with American Amy!" He defended her, seeing as Knuckles was treating her like nothing more than data bits. "I swear, you're almost as bad as the programmers sometimes…. Just because we can be re-made, edited, and pretty much everything that a living thing never has to go through, doesn't mean we don't know hurt or change! We feel too, thanks to this… this miracle." He looked down at his hands, remembering when everyone first figured out how to use the magic of people's hopes, dreams, and belief in the characters to actually jump out of virtual reality and be out in the real world like this. "We'll never be real… but we'll always have hearts." He finally concluded.
"O..Okay…" Knuckles looked away, ashamed at his behavior.
"Heh heh, I know you didn't mean any harm, Knuckles." Tails laughed and tried to comfort Knuckles. "It's just that you should watch what you say, especially around Amy… In fact…" he looked out the window Sonic just jumped through, and saw all the blurry blue lines of where Sonic was streaking around down. "I bet that's why he's trying to get out and away from here… after that fiasco with the Amys… he might feel a bit bad that Amy had to endure all of American Amy's influence, and then grow so close to her, only to find out her dear friend was dying…"
Knuckles looked down, and folded his arms. "Yeah… we both were in a completely different area of Sega of America… we had no idea what was happening till recently…"
"I talked to my other selves yesterday, and they said their Amys aren't taking it very well either… it seems every Amy is in a state of depression or mourning." Tails sighed, closing the window. "I just hope Sonic can forgive her in time so that he can help comfort her… I don't think it's fair what they tried to do, but the fact that is was mostly American Amy and her errors that caused it shouldn't effect how the Sonics treat their Amys now.. it wasn't entirely their fault. Haha, you know how loud and charismatic Americans can be, I'm sure she was very convincing." Tails joked slightly, before walking over to get a drink himself. "I just want everything to be as it was, calm and quietly content. I think we were all happy about that anyway…"
"Yeah… Do you think we should step in for Sonic for a bit? Till he at least talks to Amy and helps her out again." Knuckles looked up to Tails, waiting for his say on the matter.
Tails took a drink, and then leaned on the water cooler. "Hmm… I wish we could… but what could we say?" he looked to Knuckles, who shrugged and shook his head.
"….should we tell her…?" Tails asked, looking to Knuckles.
"…About… about when she had a glitch?" Knuckles turned to Tails.
Tails nodded. "She lost only a portion of her memory, and we caught the glitch in time to where we didn't lose the original Amy Rose, which would have been disastrous."
"Granted, we did try a little harder."
"Haha, good point… but…" Tails looked away again, looking greatly troubled for his friend. "I just pity her so much… she forgot that time in her life and doesn't even realize she once had an error too… I can only hope that America can somehow pull through and get the right technicians to find the error and keep her-"
"Alive?" Shadow walked into the hall, having heard a bit of the drama.
"Shadow…" Tails stopped leaning on the cooler, and looked at his friend, a bit puzzled. "You… you came out of the game world..?"
"I had heard that Sonic had to kiss Amy to get out of a particularly foul move on her part, I was going to inquire about how that must of gone." Shadow cruelly smiled, folding his arms and closing his eyes, looking downward. So, obviously, Shadow was going to make fun of him and poke Sonic on his bad side a bit. "You do realize were all virtual, correct?" Shadow looked up at Tails, slightly more serious now.
"W-well… Yes, but-"
"This life you see now, with the other humans who control and maintenance our lives… they are alive. They are living. We are nothing more than toys to them. Entertainment when their little lives seem dull." He began to walk on. "It's disgusting. That's why I don't like affiliating with them. I truly feel like a created being meant for nothing more than to-"
"Be loved? What's wrong with that?" Knuckles raised an eyebrow, looking to Shadow as he stopped, and looked over his shoulder at Knuckles. "I kinda like having a bunch of adoring fans, praising me in art works and stories." He smiled, raising his head up in pride. "What's wrong with being a little good, and entertaining, fun?" he opened his arms, gesturing with a bounce in them a kind of shrug to Shadow.
"Hmph, you wouldn't understand… your back story doesn't involve something very similar to this situation we live in during our time in this world." He looked forward again, and seemed to be getting annoyed with this conversation. "Where is Sonic?"
"He went out." Tails looked away, not liking his view of their existence, and took another sip from his cup.
Knuckles used his thumb to point to the window, giving Shadow a half annoyed look as well. "Just left."
"…Hmph… thank you for your time." He seemed to almost hate saying that last line, but didn't care nonetheless, as he skated at super sonic speeds around the corner, before Tails looked out to see only a moment later him heading towards the city.
"What's that guy's problem anyway?" Knuckles gruffed out, placing his hands on his hips.
"He was just programmed to be a bit of a sourpuss…"
"A bit?" Knuckles raised an eyebrow to Tails, questioning his sentence, before laughing out about it.
Toyko Japan
Sonic had one leg up on the side of a roof top, as he looked down at everyone passing along, the busy streets, the brilliant lights that just blinded him slightly as the sun started to set, and it would be dark soon.
Shadow zipped up the building, and landed firmly to the ground quite a ways behind him, and then put one hand to his right hip. "I was searching for you." he stated.
Sonic turned around, be shot out of his thought bubble for a moment and turned to Shadow, leaning up from having his hands crossed on his raised knee. "Shadow? Heh, wasn't expecting you to be looking for me." He brought his foot down and walked slightly up to him, closing the distance a bit. "I thought you didn't like this realm?"
"I don't." Shadow glared and walked to the side of him, looking out over the city himself as well.
Sonic chuckled once, motioning his head down and closing his eyes, before opening them to a roll of disbelief at his attitude having not improved since last time they talked, and turned around as well. "Gee, you must of missed me pretty badly than." He grinned teasingly, before shaking his head at his gloomy demeanor. "What can I do for you, my friend?"
"…I was here to speak with you concerning Amy Rose's little folly with you in America. But now… I believe I should convince you to return to her side." He stated, arms folded as the wind rushed by the two of them, and Sonic stared at him for a moment, shocked by his reply.
He leaned on a nearby railing, and wiggled his nose with a huff, looking away and keeping no eye contact with Shadow at all. "So you came to make fun of me, before deciding to focus at the issue at hand?" Sonic then took a glance at Shadow, smiling to himself for his next comment. "Oh, Shadow. You might want to be careful. it almost sounds like you have a heart." He then laughed at his own joke.
Shadow groaned silently and rolled his eyes, scowling at Sonic's words.
"Haha, come on, that was funny." Sonic nudged him.
"If you were desperate enough in that situation to kiss her, than why not be desperate enough now to comfort her?" He looked to Sonic. "You clearly are feeling something for her in this situation, you just don't know how to help. Is that it?"
"….Geez, why so serious?" Sonic looked down, and kicked at the ground, obviously not wanting to talk serious about anything right now. He then glared up at Shadow, "And for your information, I might have… fibbed a little about that moment…" Sonic stated, looking embarrassed.
"..? You didn't kiss her when she locked you in the room?" Shadow tilted his head.
"Ehh… we might have… accidentally… both leaned in… at the same time…" Sonic looked away, blushing only slightly, but feeling awkward about admitting it.
Shadow blinked his eyes.
"She was trying to sneak one on me while I was trying to sneak one on her to get the keys and get out, and-! And, well-! It wasn't a legit kiss, but we both put effort into it unintentionally!" He admitted, looking away. "I just couldn't tell my others that… they wouldn't have taken me serious."
Shadow looked away, and then to the side, as if slightly uncomfortable and not really knowing how to take the information he just received. "Ehem, well…" he cleared his throat. "I believe I understand why she was trying to marry you after that.."
"Yyyeeahh." Sonic ruffled his spines on his head.
"Hmph." Shadow smiled. "I didn't think a 'kiss on the cheek' would get that kind of response, but it makes sense now."
"….Don't tell a living soul or I'll kill you." Sonic teased.
"That should be easy… most of my friends aren't living." He smiled back to Sonic, as Sonic looked to him and than pouted with a slight glare.
"I am too, real."
"You're virtual, as is all your friends."
"I have friends who are humans! And outside the game as well!"
"The employees only treat you as what you are, a game star, an idol. Nothing more."
"Gee, you're a pocket full of sunshine, aren't ya? Can't you just be happy your not just a pile of code stuffed into a base format?"
"I accept my reality, I am what I am." He looked to Sonic. "Do you?"
"Nope."
"That makes much, but I didn't think you'd accept your reality so lightly… What do you believe you are then?"
"….Another kind of living."
"And what living would that be?"
"The living within people's hearts." Sonic rose himself up, standing straight, and taking a serious tone for once. "I live through people who love and need me. I live through my fans. Their smiles, their cheers, their laughs… any thing they give me to live off of, I accept gladly."
"…You sound so humble." Shadow looked away from Sonic, but seemed to respect this form of Sonic, the one who took things a little more seriously.
"Heh, a hero has to have a big heart! And know he's not the only one who he fights for…" Sonic went back to his regular silly self.
"…Sonic… we don't live. But we can somehow feel… whether it's in our programming or not… we still feel…" Shadow looked away. "Amy is feeling something I once felt once, when I had lost Maria…" he stepped away from the side, and walked back to the center of the buildings rooftop again.
Sonic turned to watch him, seeming curious about his words. "Is that why you cared so much as to come out here? And talk to me?"
"Hmph, you barely visit the game world outside of a new world you've explored only a few dozen times." Shadow held a slight gloomy but meaningful tone to his voice, and his actions. "Sonic…" He turned to look over his shoulder, but didn't actually look over it to Sonic, he just stared… forlorned towards the ground. "..Don't let her be alone… not now, not when all she wants is someone to tell her it'll be alright… I didn't have anyone. Bitterness grows from within your own lonely thoughts and deep sorrows… wallowing in self pity."
"….Shadow." Sonic took on another serious tone again, straightening himself, but his tone sounded more desperate, more… unsure of himself. "How? How do I tell her it's going to be okay? After all that's happened… after…"
"After she, herself, once glitched?" Shadow looked back at Sonic. "Isn't that what they call it up here?"
"….Yes." Sonic looked down, breathing out the word as if it pierced his very soul to admit it. "My American self can't keep his head on straight… he keeps trying to find a way to save her… just like…"
"Just like you did?"
Sonic remained silent.
"You know… They weren't going to allow themselves to lose her. She's the original, is that it? And to lose the original is-"
"I know, death. Death for the character, because there is no backup, and death on all copies if they were to glitch, there'd be nothing to copy to create a new one…" Sonic took a shaky breath in, trying to calm himself.
"…She was very young… wasn't she?"
Sonic chuckled slightly, and sniffed, pulling himself together and placing a hand on his head. "She was so new…" He smiled. "We were barely even started with her… and I didn't want to lose her… not forever.."
"… they cured her though." Shadow folded his arms. "Maybe it's time to tell her, what really happened… back when she was Rosy, before Sonic Adventure."
"…you weren't even there." Sonic looked annoyingly towards Shadow, "How do you know if I should tell her or not? It was the first time in my life I experienced someone glitching… and now… this is the second time I've seen it, but this one is worse… we caught Amy's glitch before it got so bad that she started shifting into bits and phasing, … American Amy did it right before our very eyes…" Sonic looked away. "How can I promise Amy it's gonna be alright with her other? That she might not have to help create a new one through a backup system? We've both never seen someone die and disappear, Shadow! No one in Sega has ever glitched that badly! Why is it always an Amy? Why-!" he started growing upset, when Shadow cut him off in an instant.
"Why don't you tell her… the truth."
Sonic looked to him, seeming full of feelings he couldn't express really well, and… perhaps some water may have formed within his eyes, proof of this would be the gleam in them, and the light of the city reflecting off of them. "Truth? What truth?"
"…that you're just as scared as she is…" Shadow held his look, it was one of sympathy, or maybe even empathy, as he watched Sonic almost break down in front of him. "Go to her, Sonic. You both can heal one another, and perhaps, your heart won't be so troubled any longer…" Shadow turned and in a faint split second, his being turned into radiant light blue and lime green coding, that computerized and faded as it flew upward, but just barely reaching the sky.
Sonic let his eyes scan the fading code left to right, realizing Shadow must of finally retreated back to the virtual world. Sonic turned his head, not sure what to say, and dashed down the building.
Sega of Japan
The following day..~
"Oh Sonic!" Amy leapt into Sonic's arms.
"H-hey! Not now, Amy! Ugh…" he struggled in her arms, as the film man called out, 'cut!' and the scene was over.
Within the virtual world, Sonic looked up to see the screen where the animators were working with them to create the next adventure.
"Okay, how did you like that animation? Did the movement feel smooth to you? Not awkward or anything?"
"Nah, it was alright." Sonic nodded up to the screen with the man in it.
"Okay, and you, Miss Rose?"
Sonic looked to Amy, as she looked down at a virtual flower, gently standing, and rocking in the wind.
"..Miss Rose?"
"…Amy…"
Sonic gently touched her arm, which made her jolt back and out of her thoughts. "O-oh, I'm fine, yes, no suggestions here… hehe." She had an awkward sweat drop on the side of her face, as she held her hands up to her face and shook them towards the man in the screen.
"Great! We have a few more scenes with you guys, as you may have already seen the script. So just sit tight and I'll run the program for you guys to go through!" the man shut the screen off, as the two could now chill and wait.
The awkward silence was killing Sonic, as he looked away and dug his feet into the newly designed stage ground…
"Amy… uh… looking forward to going through the whole game soon? No more rehearsals?" He looked to Amy, who was now bent down and peering down at the flower.
"….Amy?"
"It's glitching…"
Poked the flower, and it glitched into two, before fading back into one. "If you step or touch it, it glitches into two, and then when you move your hand away, it's back to one…"
Sonic's heart almost broke, but he looked away, not knowing what to say, and scratched his head. "W-we'll… ehem, we'll let them know about that. Before the beta testers get here." He stated, and folded his arms, looking back up at the clear virtual sky above him. This was his world, a new adventure awaited for him to explore and have fun in. Usually he would be ecstatic to go through the rehearsals to get things right for the first few tests of pre-game. But today…
He glanced back at Amy, seeing her heartbroken expression, as she poked the flower again. She then got up, and tried to step on it, gently of course, moving slowly. The flower split between her foot, and her frown and droopy eyelids seemed to lower even further. "It's like… it doesn't want to be stepped on… or trodden over… or something."
Sonic had never seen Amy so sad before, and worried that her smile may have faded forever…
"Amy…" Sonic reached for her for a moment, seeming to equal her sadness with his sympathy, before the screen flickered on again.
"Okay! Here's the next part! Let me change the stage first…"
Sonic looked to Amy, and then withdrew his hand, looking away from her.
The Next Few Days~
"There has to be a way to make her happy again!" Sonic paced in Tails's house, still staying in the virtual world, for now… at least…
"I don't think she could be happy again, not without American Amy being alright." Tails admitted.
"There has to be some way…" he placed his finger to his mouth, pacing more rapidly now. "I CAN'T STAND HER THIS DISTROUGHT! It's not like her! It's not in her programming!" he pointed a finger to Tails, who looked a bit frightened by his direct pointing at him.
"W-well… she is naturally happy." He admitted, as Sonic walked back into his pacing routine. "But she is also programmed to be emotional, loving, and kind. I think it's safe to say she's not acting any different from her normal self, Sonic…" Tails's head followed Sonic's movements, trying to hold a conversation with him while he moved back and forth, left and right, all across the room. "She can feel sad, it's just not likely. And besides all that, I don't think you've ever really seen her sad before…"
"Have any of us?" Sonic thought, continuing to pace.
"Yep, when she, herself, was glitching. She feared the worst; it was almost heart breaking to see how terrified she was. One second alive, and the next dying… but she forgot all about that. But maybe… her heart… or the core of her being, … never forgot that fear and anguish." Tails thought, as Sonic slowed his pacing down.
He finally stopped, his eyes covered in shadows, as Tails looked to him, wishing there was someway he could help his two friends. "I just… I don't know, she's only happy when she's with you anyway… maybe.. you could, I don't know… be there for her? I bet she would appreciate that Sonic."
"…Be there for her…" Sonic rose his head up.
"Yeah! I'm sure you two can work things out and maybe even visit American A-"
"She's only really happy when she's with me… cause she loves me." His head rose up, with an open grin as he breathed out excited gusts of air.
"…Sonic?"
"I got it!" He dashed to Tails. "I'll use my Original's powers to create another copy of myself! One that I'll program to love Amy Rose." He poked his friend, looking cheery as if he just figured out how to rob a bank successfully.
"…Beg your pardon?" Tails didn't seem to like his idea one bit, and looked wide-eyed at him. "You're gonna do WHAT?"
"I'll delete him later." Swiped his hand at his friend, playfully as he thought on. "Yeah…yeah… I'll make him devoted to her every whim. How could she NOT be happy? He'll buy her flowers, and make sure everyone knows it's not the real me, cause we wouldn't want that whole 'fiasco' like last time to occur." He was moving himself all over, first talking to Tails, then scratching his head to further develop his idea, and then started kicking his feet and moving his hands and just being giddy.
"Uh… Sooonic?" Tails tried to get him to calm down and listen to him, but Sonic was already up and off the couch.
"This'll be great, Tails! Not only will I feel better about Amy's status, but she'll have the man of her dreams!" he took his fur and puffed it out, even though it was to obviously too small to puff out or even hold a strand for very long, but it was the gesture of popping the collar out that he was going for.
"Sonic! You can't just create a fake love to make Amy happy! That's not gonna make her happy AT ALL!" Tails whined out, seeing as Sonic wasn't getting the huge error he, himself, was missing. "Amy doesn't want a fake! She wants you!"
"And she'll get a me! A true me! A 'real' me." He zipped over to his friend, putting an arm around him and trying to convince him of his idea, but did the bunny ears over the 'real me' part. "Ohhh! I'm tellin' ya, Tails! If this works, she'll be happier than Big finding Froggy!"
"Sonic! Stop! What if she finds out!?"
"She won't find out!"
"How do you know?!" Sonic was already racing out the door, as Tails jumped off his couch and ran to the door, shouting out to him.
"I just know Tails!" Sonic shouted back to him, before dashing into the forest.
"Computer!" Sonic skid to a halt, and waited patiently.
A computer android box arose from the ground, a few things on it, but it was mostly silver with a green light that moved back and forth across a thin rectangle at the top of it. "State your character identity please." The computerized woman's voice spoke out.
"Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic winked to the rounded rectangular box.
"Sonic the Hedgehog confirmed voice analysis. What is your objective?"
"Take me out, Scottlyn!" He nicknamed the robot woman's voice as a Star Trek joke.
"Right away, Sonic." The machine wizzed as the whole world virtualized into data strands and blocks, all spiraling around Sonic as he now stood on a grid, and Scottlyn did as well. "Enjoy your stay in the real world."
"Thanks!" Sonic was then turned into data that slowly started from his head to his feet, as he was shot up and through the hard drive of the computer, than shoved through a few more compartments before materializing form the computer screen of an office room and into the real world.
The man at the desk didn't even flinch, or even seem to see Sonic for that matter, but the man adjacent to his lost it as he hollered in Japanese and fell back, seeming to almost have a heart attack. The others rushed to his aid, as the man whose computer Sonic just materialized out of looked at him on the ground, unsure of what he was doing.
"Anata wa sore o mita?" (Translation: Did you see that?)
"Mono o miru?" (Translation: See what?)
The man on the ground got up, gesturing to Sonic, who looked at him and tried desperately not to smile.
"Kare wa chōdo anata no konpyūta gamen no soto ni tobidashi! Anata wa sore o miteinai!" (Translation: He just popped out of your computer screen! You didn't see that?!)
The man at the desk looked to the man in puzzlement. "Ehh..?"
Sonic grinned, rolling his eyes humorously up to the ceiling, then putting his hands behind his back and walking with a skip in his step slightly off and away. Obviously, the man at the desk didn't have enough faith in Sonic to see him, but the other man did.
As the man on the ground scoffed at the other man in disbelief, the others helped the man up and asked him what happened, as he clearly explained that Sonic just flew out of the computer as data-bits before materializing from the other man's computer screen. The others nodded, accepting his words, and explained that Sonic doesn't really care which computer he pops out of, as long as he's there in one piece.
The other man, being older and slightly fatter, looked the others as if they were crazy, and just shook his head, putting on his reading glasses and getting back to his work.
Sonic then got right into step 1 of his plan, and snuck around to find a concealed location. Seeing a janitor just unlock a door to grab some cleaning equipment, and head right out without locking it. Sonic dashed in the door, peeked his head out and placed both hands on the door, before snickering and slowly closing the door, his ears bent to look like the devil's horns.
"Now then." He cracked his fingers out. "Time to make me Amy's dreamboat!" he wiggled his fingers and flung some data out into the open, and then swished his hands all around in it. "Let's see… doesn't need that, won't be needing that… she'd probably appreciate if I kept that… alright!" once he was done mending the code to his will, he grabbed the huddled bunch of it, and slammed it down to the ground. It began to glow and morph, as he slowly began to move up, letting the code settle for a second as it started to grow, and started to grid out into a similar frame as his own. "Well… you have a nice frame." Sonic teased, patting the gridded Sonic base on his shoulder, as it looked at itself, and gestured to Sonic. "Oh, don't worry. I'll give you the program you need to understand everything in just… one… second.." he flicked his hand out, and the Sonic now had base coating. "And.. some flare!" He added the next coat of layers, and then started to quickly refine and finish the Sonic up to look exactly like him.
"Dashing!" The created Sonic stated.
Sonic gasped, "Your first word!" he teased, placing his hands up to his chin and folding them together, looking admiringly like a father at his son. He then laughed, "Alright, here's the mission. You are to please and comfort Amy Rose, who loves you dearly, and keep her happy and smiling for me, alright?" Sonic smiled, shooting the program right at the Sonic's heart. "Peww!" he made a sound effect for the added data.
"W-woah! Hold on." The created Sonic shook his hands out to Sonic, to get him to stop a moment. "What about intel? I gotta know the girl I'm wooing, right?" he folded his arms, raising an eyebrow to his creator.
"Oh, stupid me, right you are, me!" he took out from his own being a file, that materialized as he dug around in it. "Let's see… memories." He copied the data and shot it straight at the Sonic, whose being absorbed the file as it turned back into data-bitted code. "Current knowledge of personality, abilities, and strengths." Shot that too. "What else will you need… uh…" he looked at a file that read 'status/relationship' but placed it back down. "Already rewrote that in him…" he mumbled.
"What?"
"Ah! Here!" he shot another one in him. "How I act around her, that should do you good. But remember, you have to be kinder than me." He dodged the other Sonic's question and continued. "Now then, good luck solder! I expect a smile on Amy's face till this whole… American deal is over and done with… understand?"
"Yes sir!" the other Sonic saluted, looking confident and ready to perform.
"Good! All eyes on you! Get ready to start your adventure." Sonic opened the door. "And remember, let others know you aren't really me, and that you were just created by me to aid Amy, and don't let Amy see you doing it, alright?"
"But-but… why couldn't you have just done it yourself?" The other Sonic wondered.
Sonic froze as he kept the door open for a second, then smacked his lips together and shook his head. "Don't question me, solder. I'm a very busy man." He then moved away from behind the door, and kicked the other Sonic in the butt to move him out. "Come on! I gave you the program to walk didn't I?"
The other Sonic fell down.
"Oh… I must have forgotten that small little detail…heheh…" Sonic stuck his head outside, and had an awkward sweat drop on the side of his face.
As Amy rounded the corner, the other Sonic dashed out, holding flowers in his hands as he presented them to her. "For you, Sweet Rose." He bowed politely.
"….Eh?" Amy looked at flowers, and then back to Sonic, before slowly taking them and giving her nose a whiff of the smells the flowers let out. "Oh Sonic… this is… I mean, wow. Hehehe." She moved a quill back and out of her face, looking away slightly and blushing. "What's this for?"
"This is for the most beautiful girl I know." The other Sonic winked to her. "And it's safe to say that if I ask her for a night on the town, she may just grace me with a yes?" he took her free hand and kissed it lightly.
"…!" Amy's face blew up like a red tomato. "S-S-Sonic-ku?"
Sonic watched from around the corner at the two's interaction, then leaned his head back to where he wasn't spying on them and 'yes'd! While doing the appropriate gesture for such a moment as well; Lifting his fist up, and thrusting his arm back as he lifted a leg up.
The Following Days~
Cue Song: To be Real by Cheryl Lynn
The other Sonic and Amy are hanging out more together, seeming to date. They head out of Sega's walls, and into the city. The other Sonic places a flower in her hair, as she giggles and cutely looks away, as if being shy.
~What you think ah!
What you feel now
What you know ah!
To be real!~
They walk down the streets of Tokyo with shopping bags as everything is kind of slow motion, Amy skipping up ahead, and looking back to him, smiling and laughing as he has a bit of a skip in his step.
They try on clothes in a montage, and then Amy drags the other Sonic over to a huge photo booth that lets them customize their photos. The other Sonic keeps looking at Amy, falling more and more in love with her as his programming only stated to please and make her happy, but it seemed love fit somewhere in that category, or maybe, maybe it was unintentionally suggested.
~What you think ah!
(I think I love you baby)
What you feel now
(I think I need you baby)
What you know ah!
Oooh ah
To be real!~
When they head back after wearing the most trendiest clothes and shades that Japan can offer, the other Sonic opens the door for her back into Sega, making her blush as she happily walks back in.
"I'm telling ya, what's to stop us from downloading ourselves into a human body?" Vector asks his team as they sit inside an office room with a see-through screen that stretches from corner to corner.
"Well, if there was some sort of device that humans put on there heads that could make computer's influence thoughts, than I don't see why not." Charmy chimed in, flying slightly upward in his chair to lean over the table and speak his mind.
"You both do realize you're unintentionally planning a robot takeover strategy, right?" Espio states, before the gang look out to see the other Sonic and Amy walk by, looking happy, before the other Sonic pulls her back, and lightly kisses her.
The Chaotix team's mouths hit the floor, as Charmy slowly floats upward from his seat.
The other Sonic remembers his programming, and turns Amy's towards the screen, so his back is now facing them, and holds up a sign that reads:
I'M NOT THE REAL SONIC.
I WAS CREATED TO MAKE AMY HAPPY.
He then turned the sign over.
BYE NOW.
He put his arm around Amy and walked her away.
The Chaotix team was frozen, still, except for Charmy, who was spinning over on his belly like a dead goldfish in the air, and bumpy gently like a balloon on the ceiling, his face still frozen in pure shock.
"I WANT TO CREATE A COPY THAT'S SOUL PURPOSE IS TO MAKEOUT WITH GIRLS!" Vector screams, slamming his hands on the table as the others snap out of their shock.
~It's got to be real
To be real!
It's got to be real
To be real!
Aaah yeah~
While they're walking around, hand in hand together, the real Sonic sees them coming by, and quickly jumps into a Sega employee's cabinet. As they pass by, he peeks out, having a paper sit delicately on his head. He looks up and tries to first blow it off, but it doesn't go very far off his head, so he finally shakes it lose. "Heh heh~ Looks like my plan is working perfectly!" Sonic snickers, as one of the men he was speaking to earlier turns to him, looking shocked but upset.
~ah real real real
To be real
Real real…~
Song slowly fades out
"Uhh… Sonic-kun.." he starts, his voice deep and raspy. "What… was that?" he gestures with a handful of papers to where Amy and the other Sonic had just passed by.
"That! My friend, is how you stop a woman from moping around all the time." He dusted himself off, and sat back in the cabinet, having no real desire to get out yet, as he kicked his feet out and let them cross over the other as his hands went behind his head. "It's simple really,… use my Original powers to create another unofficial copy of myself to please and entertain Amy into forgetting her troubles and cares! Why, look at her, she was glowing!...she was glowing right?" he took on a serious tone at the end there, as the Japanese man looked stunned.
"Simple?" He stated, as he placed one hand to his chair, and leaned forward on it, and the other hand was cocked up and on his back, where the papers were sticking out from his hand holding them too. He took a deep breath and let it out.
"What's wrong?" Sonic asked, sitting upward in the file cabinet with all the papers now crinkled or ruined completely from their organized places.
"This… this helps nothing." The man admits, his English being good, but his accent being definite. (Author's note: Sonic can speak various languages, -note to 'pick your language' on most video games- this man happens to speak English, but that doesn't mean Sonic is speaking to him in English. It could just mean that the man is hiding this conversation from anyone who may be overhearing it nearby. But Sonic and the rest of them are definitely speaking Japanese, to make it easier on me, I just type in English. Except for that one funny part with the two men at the computers, that was just funny to Google Translate that. xD)
"How does this help nothing!?" Sonic seems insulted by the man's words. "She was happy, right?"
"Yes, because she assumes that is you!" The man points to Sonic, gesturing with an open hand toward him. "What do you plan on doing when she realizes it's not you?!"
"Well… it's only till American Amy is fixed up." Sonic looks away, shoving the possibility off as if it couldn't happen. "Don't worry, it's all taken care of!"
"Don't worry? Don't worry!? All taken care of?!" The man looks upset, as he looks to Sonic as if he can't believe him. He finally turns away from him, walking slightly away, before placing the papers down and moving his hand through his hair. "This is unacceptable! I am in charge of making sure this all goes to plan. If you hurt Amy now… after all this mess has already come and should of hopefully passed then… then-!"
"What? You think I'm causing more drama?" The blue hedgehog got up and pointed to him, as if a teenager was being accused by his mother.
"You have started the drama!" the man waved another hand to him, sweating now in fear.
"Oh, come on, Goya-san! I-"
"Get out! Get out and beg for forgiveness before you make her grief even worse!" The man seemed to be shooing Sonic out, gesturing with his hand as he picked up the pile of papers and waved them to get Sonic a clear visual message. The man looked like he was really feeling for Amy right now. "I know you are to young, and maybe not like us and don't have the same experience of death as we humans do, but you should know better!" Sonic didn't understand why the man was being so emotional about Amy, before he looked down to see an old picture of a man in a military uniform, standing next to a younger looking him.
Sonic understood, and couldn't even speak out his regret at what the man must have been feeling. He probably knew what Amy was going through… feeling like she's about to lose a friend, and must of felt Sonic's 'solution' was cruel.
Sonic huffed, not liking having to admit he made a mistake, and got down, feeling grouchy, but mostly at himself. As he did hop down from the cabinet, you could see that some papers got spiked by his quills, and were now all over him.
The man rolled his head to the side, seeing the scene, and looked away, still stricken with grief, "Sonic… Sonic-kun, your… ayah…" he walked over to Sonic and pulled out the papers. "Be who you know you must be for her, Sonic. She may just lose someone dear to her, possibly forever. Even with the backup, it will have no memories prior to when it was installed, so all the bonding over the years that Emi-chan has gone through with American's Amy will be vain."
"Emi…" Sonic thought about it for a second. "Heh, all this time, I was calling her Amy."
"We all are." The man replied. "It's a sign of respect, that her and her friend were one and the same. We don't want her to forget her, nor forget herself."
Sonic looked at the man, and questioningly narrowed his eyebrows. "Wait… was that an installment? I don't remember thinking of doing that…"
"Hai. The officials up top wanted to make sure everyone would peacefully mourn her. It's not likely she may live, not with how far the errors have taken her already."
Sonic suddenly realized how grave the situation really was… he thought he could just distract Amy from her pain, and now he realized that her pain was common. Anyone would mourn their friend in a hospital, worry about them, and even be off their game in the daily workings of their life in thought of them. Sonic shouldn't have tried to make her happy… when her pain was showing how much she loved her other self, and how much of a friend she really was to her.
"Pain comes, and then goes. The memory of such pain, brings memory of the ones we loved that have moved on." The man explained. "You wanted to make her happy, which is not a bad thing. But, to have her try and forget her friend's suffering, that… that was where you were misguided, and everything went wrong." The man spoke again.
"Goya-san… I…" Sonic didn't really know how to fix this, as he looked up at the man, who had finished taking the paper out of his quills. "I don't know how to help her." He admitted, looking down and his eyes tearing up again at feeling useless. "I thought I could create a me that could be there for her. That could give her the strength to move on and forget her worries. I.. when she was… when she glitched, I swore I would protect her for the rest of her days… but there was no one really there to comfort me. And in the end, she was saved and nothing really awful happened besides her memory of the event and a few other things were lost. That wasn't so bad, but now…" he gripped his head.
"You must listen to your most powerful weapon, Sonic-kun. The weapon that never lies, and never speaks."
"What do you mean?" Sonic looked up to the man, as he placed his hand on his chest, where Sonic's heart beated in programmed rhythms.
"Your heart, Sonic-kun. It is a hero's most valuable, and prized possession besides his sword." The man got up, and pounded his chest like a military man, standing straight as he did so. "One must fire at a man's heart, for that is the only weakness a man should have, and it is also his greatest strength! To defeat your enemy, you must aim for their weakness and their strength! The heart!" he proudly recited this, as if he had lived by it all his life.
Sonic admired the man, and nodded his head, placing his hands on his hips. "I understand. Thank you." he then gave the man a thumbs up, smiled, and dashed out of the office.
"Amy! Amy!" Sonic continued to do what his program told him too, and called Emi by her American pronunciation.
As he came across the main floor of the faculty assemblies, he saw his other self and Amy walking to another section of the building, just making there way around, and talking.
His other gently stopped her from her walk, pulled her close, and then went as close as possible to her face, smiling. She giggled, liking the intimacy as Sonic chickened out, and raced to the side of the corner, to listen in on the conversation.
"Sonic… I don't quite understand though.. why are you like this now? Aren't you still mad at what me and the other Amys tried to do?" she looked up at him, uncertain of his intent.
"Amy.. I may not have liked what you did." He slightly looked to her as if the scold her, turning his head to the side before placing it back near her face again, and letting the tip of his nose just slightly brush against her cheek. "But I can never stay mad at you for too long… I just couldn't."
Sonic, hiding behind the corner, gripped the corner with all his might. "I may have made him to good…" He growled silently out, seeming to fume with jealousy and embarrassment at his actions.
"I… I really am sorry.. but.. but I worry about American Amy everyday… I just.. I want to visit her again! It can't spread so.." she looked down, her emotions getting to her again as this Sonic lifted her chin up to him again, and smiled.
"Hey, hey… enough of about that. You know you can't leave here like you did with that flashdrive, and besides,…" he put his arms around her, making the real Sonic clench his teeth down and narrow his eyes down to where the middle part of them was touching his muzzle. "I would miss you. To be honest, I miss your smile right now. Can I see it?" he poked her muzzle, mostly her nose, as she giggled. "Ah, there is it." He smiled.
"But… Eh-heh. Sonic I'm so happy you want to comfort me right now… that means a lot… even if your acting a bit… strange, I'm okay with that! But… I can't just forget about America…" seeing the pain on Amy's face, Sonic dashed out from his hiding spot, and punched his other self.
Amy gasped, as the other went down.
"I NEVER SAID YOU COULD TOUCH HER LIKE THAT!" Sonic stated, fuming mad at his actions, as he looked to Amy, suddenly losing his anger and straightening himself up, but not being able to look Amy in the eye. "A-Amy I… I'm…"
"…This… this wasn't.." she looked to the other Sonic, and then it all hit her, as she covered her mouth with her hands and looked to Sonic, gasping. "You couldn't…" she started crying.
"Amy… Amy let me explain!" Sonic began, as she stepped away from his advance towards her.
"You… you tricked me… was this… revenge?"
"No, no! I would never! I created him to comfort you, but I didn't realize you mourning your other was what a real and true friend was supposed to do!"
"You… You didn't think my suffering was… was right?" she looked offended, dropping her hands and glaring at him in disbelief.
"I… I just wanted… I wanted you to be happy again…" he looked away, knowing this was wrong as his other got up, shaking himself off.
"You didn't have to hit me, I was just doing as you told me too."
"…Shut up." Sonic swiped his hand, and the copy of him turned into data bits that quickly faded away.
Amy watched as she looked to Sonic, and swiped her hand too, changing her outfit from data bits to her normal attire in a blink of an eye. "I trusted you." she looked up at him, crying now, and softly. "I thought you really were trying to comfort me… how could you?"
"Amy… Amy, I'm sorry!" He grabbed her arm, trying to get her to look at him as she just couldn't and looked away. "Amy, listen to me, when you were first created… before Sonic adventure we had to-"
"Amy! That Sonic's a fake! Don't kiss him-! Ohh…" A woman had run in, looking quite young as she saw the two and looked at them both, "Sorry… is this the fake one or the real one?"
"Real." Sonic looked upset by her interruption, as Amy sniffled and took her arm away from Sonic.
"I'm going back to America." She stated, wiping her tears away.
Sonic looked back at her, "What?"
"Please don't bother following me to apologize or anything. I won't be back till Amy is alright… or… or…" she sniffed again, not being able to say it, as she dashed toward the woman. "Oh, Shigeko!"
"A-Amy… what about the game!?" possibly the worst thing he could of said at that moment, as Amy stopped right before reaching the woman.
She turned around, glaring at him till it shook his very core. "What about the game?" she stated. "Not everything is a game, Sonic. Not everything… not me."
Amy ran forward and jumped into the girl's arms, as the girl stumbled a moment with holding her, and finally just picked her up like a mother would a child, and patted her on the back.
"Oh-oh-OH!? Ah… there there… there there.." she looked to Sonic, as if confused, and then back to Amy. "Shi~tsu, Shi~tsu…" She shushed Amy as she bounced up and down, just treating her like her little sister or something, realizing that Sonic must have been trying to beg for forgiveness, and understanding that Amy must have been hurt by his trickery.
As Sonic turned to leave, Shigeko suddenly shouted out to him, feeling the impulse too. "If you really loved her… Unō,… You should try and just be beside her!" she shouted out, not really sure what she was saying. "That's all we really need… is someone to lean onto… even if you don't know what to do, you shouldn't… you shouldn't just place your responsibility on others! Baka!" she then ran off, realizing she just insulted the mascot of her company that literally pays her bills.
Back in the Virtual World
"Amy's GONE?!" Tails shouted out.
"Em-hmm."
"Where?!"
"To America…"
"….O-oh… did you-?"
"I was about to tell her… tell her everything… even about… well you know."
Sonic looked away from Tails, remembering how that day he decided not to fall in love with Amy either… the day… she was saved.
"Sonic… you know you have to follow her right!?" Tails shouted out, not sure what else to say. "I mean… you have to tell her!"
"How Tails?! She hates me now!"
"Well, I tried to warn you… but you wouldn't listen to me!"
"I know what I did wrong.. but how do I do what's right?" Sonic looked to his friend, troubled and puzzled as much as he was.
"…I..." Tails sighed.
"I don't know…"
(Still didn't edit XP but I hope it's okay. TO BE REAL~ -starts singing- ahh~ that song just fits PERFECTLY! So yeah… they had some bonding… or… not… more like a fall out, but… ANYYYWAYY~ hope you liked it and it gave you feels~ I'll try and work on the next chapter someday :p When I'm free, lol I wanted to write another big one, since most of my chapters on my other stories have been short, so here XD lol)