Sonic IRL 7:
Happy Ending?
By: Cutegirlmayra (So, I was done… and then… I wasn't? lol! This might take some time to write out, maybe even going all the way to 2 hours or more to write. I don't know, I'll find out. But it's not entirely a happy ending, let's find out what will ensue next, shall we? I'm a little to much into Japan's sonamy right now to flip back to America, I feel they need time to grow and I'll probably write one for them when Sonic Boom comes out and I assess Boom!Sonamy and how their dynamic works. So let's have some patience, hmm?)
Dr. Hope picked up the last of her suitcases, and started to walk out of her office, taking a quick look back before sighing, "Well,… I'm gonna miss this place." She scanned the room and then looked out, seeing some familiar game faces who looked like they were faking a smile, but really, they were sad to see her go.
"You know, that cute guy you had your eye on was just getting the courage to talk to ya." Tails kid, walking up to her as she smiled and bent down, giving him a hug.
"Haha, yeah right… but seriously?" she leaned out of the hug to look at him, before laughing again. "I'll miss you, kiddo. You always were my favorite." She winked.
Tails chuckled and felt a bit embarrassed, scratching behind his head and shifting his head slightly down, blushing. "Awh, shucks. You were mine too."
She beamed.
As the rest of the cast members, human and game character alike gathered around to bid her a farewell, a voice shot up through the crowd.
"Excuse me, pardon me, making my way downtown here, could you just? Thanks. Sophie!" Amy pushed through the crowd, trying to angle herself to fit in-between the tight corners of the space other characters made between themselves and others. She outstretched her arms and ran into Dr. Hope's arms, as Tails rolled his eyes with a smile and side-stepped, knowing she needed the goodbye more than he did.
"Hey there, little darlin'." Dr. Hope was thrilled to see her, as her smile went from ear to ear, and her rosy and youthful cheeks went brilliantly with the sparkle in her eyes from seeing Amy again. "I'd have thought you'd be to hard to pull away from Sonic to have seen me off."
Amy giggled, and looked down… there was something she wasn't telling her.
"Actually… about that…" Amy really wanted Dr. Hope to stay. There were still things that didn't make sense to her,… things Sonic was doing that made her feel like last week never even happened…
"Hmm? What is it, love?" Her smile vanished, as she was filled with concern and sincere curiosity. Wanting to help her friend was one thing, but realizing her job and mission she was sent here to do wasn't fully fulfilled yet troubled her as well. "What do you need to tell me, sweetheart?"
All at once, before Amy could even say anything, the man she first met walked through and past everyone, and stood in front of Dr. Hope.
Dr. Hope looked up, and slowly rose. "Is there a problem, sir?"
"No, not really. Only that we need your temporary badge back." A man next to him walked up to her and unclipped the badge.
"Hey!" The second he did so, Amy and the rest of the game characters vanished from her sight.
Her eyes scanned the floors, since the characters weren't exactly very big, and she always had to look down to see them. She was in a frantic state at the moment, Amy and Sonic might still need help with their new found feelings, and she can't exactly tell SEGA that just yet cause how would they react to Sonic's almost criminal attempt at keeping data away from them? Data that rightfully belong to them in the first place, considering it would be them, not Sonic, that had the right to take or not use data the data they justly made and put into him.
"H-hold on, I think your making a mistake. I might be needed here a bit longer..!" Two men came up and placed their hands on both her arms. "H-hey! Get your hands off me!"
"The contract was very specific. We'll call if there are any further problems. Of course… if you did your job right, there shouldn't be any. Correct? We can always call someone else. Perhaps, more… affordable, if necessary." Could a man hold a grudge or could a man hold a grudge? He seemed to not like her from the get go, and still had that biased opinion of her not really understanding or being fully qualified for this job. Maybe he just didn't think this kind of job was even a job at best. He didn't seem to blink an eye when the characters all glared at him, shouting things at him but he barely seemed to recognize their existence.
Perhaps… it was all business to him, maybe he barely could see them…
Or maybe he couldn't see them at all?
"Sir, I must insist! Just in case-"
"Goodbye, Dr. Hope. And thank you for your work, but it does seem like things are going a lot more smoothly this past week. Sonic is even back to his typical, brimming with energy, self again. I feel no further assistance is required."
Oh, wow. He really was a stick in the mud!
Dr. Hope sighed, feeling the two men gently tugging her on as she shook free of them, adjusted herself, and nodded. "Y-your… ehem, you're right. My apologies I… I have stayed through the agreed time frame, and now it's time for my leave. But um…" She scratched her nose and walked up near his shoulder, whispering something to him. "If I do get a call back, which I definitely hope I don't, I may just offer a discount to SEGA. Then again, after being rudely escorted out, I might just triple it. Oh, and considering I'm the only one in this profession that knows a thing or two… well, I might even brag a bit and say I MADE THIS JOB available and even teach it online at universities, it may be a tad bit hard to replace me. I would definitely think about how you treat me and… take my bargain deal, won't you?" she walked out on her own, and waved behind her.
When she walked past the cute boy she had her eye on these last months, she stopped, turned to say something, but ended up making odd noises that weren't English or even Japanese.
"I'm sorry, was that English or..?" the man seemed confused by what she was trying to say.
"Russian." She lied quickly, and pointed a finger behind her. "Ehem, gift shop?"
"Oh, uh, left."
She smiled, "Thanks." She started down the hall again, slamming her right foot down, "Dang it!" she shoutedly whispered. "I can give romantic advice to anthropomorphic hedgehogs, but heaven forbid I take my own advice!"
Amy slowly stepped out into the middle of the hall, and delicately placed a hand on her chest, feeling her dear friend might be gone forever. She grew teary eyed before Knuckles placed a hand on her shoulder and patted it lightly.
"Yeah, well… we'll see her again. Hopefully not soon, I mean, that'd be bad, but ya know..?" he rolled his hands as if juggling the possibilities, or maybe just making a weird shrug, when Tails came up on Amy's other side, and gave him a look.
"Stop that, Knuckles. You're not helping." He scolded, and looked to Amy more softly. "Are you and Sonic, okay? I tried asking him about what happened but he keeps dodging the question."
"Yeah, well… he's been dodging us BOTH lately…" Amy held herself, saying such things made her sad after what had happened… but she knew the few reasons he had given her… why… why this wasn't going the way she thought 'happily ever after's usually go…
-A week prior-
"Emi,… can you not?"
"Going back to calling me Emi now, huh? Hehe~! You don't have too, you know~ its okay by me!"
"Fine, Amy. Even though Emi sounds better to me,… Why are you shoving me into closets?"
"Well, you said you wanted to give everyone some time before we told them we liked each other…so~"
Amy moved closer, reaching up for a kiss when he stopped her.
"Quit that!"
"What's wrong? You didn't have a problem kissing me in front of Sophie…"
She swayed herself to and fro as she stepped away from him, trying to look cute to maybe encourage him to kiss her like he did before.
"Sophie?"
"Dr. Hope!"
"Oh."
"Sonic…"
"Amy..! Amy, just stop!"
Sonic took Amy's arms and held her there, stopping her swaying as she was moving back closer to him again.
"Look, … it's true I like you, a lot! Surprisingly…"
"Hey!"
"But anyway, that's not what I meant! Augh… look… no, better yet listen, okay? I'm still trying to… to figure this new data out, and you're moving a bit to-"
"Fast?"
He gave her the squinted eye, as if being insulted by that.
"Hehe! Okay, okay… I get it. It's all a bit to much to take in right now, right?"
"Yes… VERY to much.."
He let her go and turned to lean against the door, placing a hand up to his face, and squishing the middle part of his eyes together, thinking…
"W-well… I get it! So it's alright… You don't have to kiss me if you don't want too.." she reached for his hand, as he flinched a little, looking at her, and then looked away, blushing a bit as he gripped her hand back.
"Thank you." he stated, closing his eyes and not bothering to look at her. Still seeming a bit unused to this new fondness for her touch, and of her presence around him.
She chimed, "Hehe, that's what girlfriends are for, silly! We have to keep our man happy." She leaned against the door too, but not with her back like Sonic was, but just with her side, as she poked a finger at his arm, and then started moving his quills back, loving the new closeness she was now permitted to have with him… well, permitted secretly, by Sonic and not SEGA, that is…
"So… when DO we tell them?" She asked.
"Not now." Sonic spoke very seriously, looking away and taking a deep breath as he opened his eyes, and scratched an itch his nose for a moment. "These things need time… and to be honest, I don't even know if we should be dating right now or not.."
Amy moved back, as she glared his way and removed her hand from his head, but not the one still holding his hand. "Are you saying you don't want to date the girl you love!?"
"Is that all that matters to you? The official part of it all?" he glared right back at her, as her anger was lost to a new feeling of being accused and hurt by it.
"…Sorry. I didn't mean to shout out like that." He apologized quickly, "It wasn't my intention to hurt you. I just… Ghaw! This new code is almost unmanageable! I'm starting to understand why my other self pulled them out. So… frustrating." He shook his head, holding his head again before looking to Amy, seeing her concern.
"Ah, don't worry about me. I'll get the hang of it and..." he shook her hand up and down with his own, trying to keep the mood light. "Everything will be okay." He smiled up at her, as she grinned in return, but more kinder and softer now, as she had lost her earlier enthusiasm. "I just don't think I'm ready for this to get so… so intimate. It's nothing I'm used to and nothing I-" he stopped himself, seeing he was hurting Amy again. "I mean… I want too. Amy…I do."
He moved himself off the door and stood in front of her, holding her a bit closer, and letting go of her hand to hold her sides. He leaned his head in slightly closer to hers, making her look down as if she was growing shy from this sudden movement, but quickly moved her eyes back up into his sight, not wanting to miss a moment of his affectionate actions that before, only seemed like a fleeting daydream.
"Just give me time,… and all this will be worked out, okay?" he placed his head on hers, and she giggled.
"So… no kissing then?" she made a pouty face, only kidding around as Sonic shook his head.
"Not right now. No." he then pulled her closer, "That was a release of built up happiness at you being alive, I suppose… all these years… not knowing you were… well, you!" he started to tickle her, making her squeal and beg him to stop. When he did though, she looked up and glared at him.
"You said stop!"
"I didn't mean it, you idiot! I've been waiting for a rematch on a tickle fight since 1994!" she leapt at him, and he went crashing down on the supplies in the closet as she started tickling him. "You won last time! But I'm a LOT stronger than before! Ah!"
He got the advantage again by rolling her over and getting a good tickle attack back in on her.
"Ah! Sonic! Stop! HAHAAHA!"
"That means don't, right? Cause there's no mercy now!"
"Ah! Haha! Sonic! No! HAHAHAHAHHA!"
Everything seemed to be okay then… until…
-a few days after that…-
Amy was walking down the halls, listening to her music on earphones Tails specifically designed for their kind, since their ears weren't like humans and the headphones would be placed so high up that the string would hand down over the top of their eyes, making it very distracting. Anyway, she listened to her tunes while heading to the lounge area to sit on the couch and watch some good old drama shows when Sonic zipped into view.
Her face lit up as she dashed toward him. "Son-!"
"Sonic! There you are!" A man walked out into view as Amy stopped.
Sonic didn't seem to notice Amy as he shook hands with the man, and the man led him away as they seemed to be discussing things.
If her ears could bend down, they would have. But her eyes certainly did, seeing as he didn't even bother to notice her.
Every day since then she couldn't seem to find Sonic, as if he was avoiding her. She knew he had to get everything back up and running since he was dodging his duty for so long… but even then, did he have to exclude her complete?
She felt alone and isolated, did he even mean what he said? That he did want to be together? Just not now?
Not now…
Always waiting…
Was this her curse?
"I know now that any Amy who tries to love will find my same fate, and perish to their curse… of loving Sonic the Hedgehog."
Japanese Amy stopped a moment, and shook her head. Thinking back on what American Sonic had heard her said… thinking of those words… it shook her to her very core.
Dr. Hope had said she was so far gone in corruption… that those words shouldn't mean anything to her. But they did… and they scared her.
-A few weeks after Dr. Hope left-
"Come to me, Samantha… let me show you my world, a world of wonder and love. Where we can hold one another without any fear of who sees, and who doesn't see… because all I see is happiness in the days to come. Where are love will grow and create a paradise… just for you… and me."
"Oh, Mr. Ripley… If only it could be just… us…"
The woman on the television rubbed her stomached, as the macho and handsome looking foreign man moved down, and held his hands to her stomach.
"Samantha… is it?"
"It is yours!"
"Well, no duh."
Amy sat on the couch, eating some chips and looking bored as heck. Sonic STILL hadn't seen her… and every time she tried to see him, it was like he was one step ahead of her. She was beginning to wonder if he ripped out his data again or not…
She sighed, "Ugh! Just kiss her already and go off to Paris!" she yelled, wanting to throw a chip at the T.V screen, and seeming just about to, before looking at it and feeling pity on it.
What if it was the best chip in the world? And she was just gonna waste the delicious taste of it just because she was mad at the drama series?
She sighed and ate it, before a woman came in and turned the T.V off.
"Hey!" Amy screamed, "I was watching that!"
"Miss Rose, it's 2 in the morning." She placed the controller down.
"2..? Then why are you still here?" She asked, looking back at her as she put her jacket on, getting ready to go.
"Because I had to stay in and work late tonight. You need to get some rest, I'm starting to worry about you. All you do is coop yourself up in this room and watch romantic movies. Their not even very funny, just… emotionally traumatizing." The woman looked at Amy's face. "Is everything alright?"
"Just… dandy." Amy lied, rolling her bag of chips up and thowing it on the table. "I'll clean everything up, you just get back to your family." Amy stated, getting up with some groans and starting to clean up after herself.
"Thanks, and by the way, I think it's wonderful that Sonic's running around again like his old self, don't you?"
"Yeah… marvelous." She was beginning to sound like the old American Amy, and she laughed at the memory. Maybe she was influenced a bit by her..?
"Oh, and I wouldn't watch the rest of that drama series." The woman stated, grabbing her keys and walking out the door.
"Huh? Why not?" Amy turned to her, curious.
"The baby's not his, its david's." she waved her goodbye as Amy's mouth dropped.
"SPOILERS, HINA-SAN, SPOILERS!" Amy fell back on the couch. "Augh! I got to get out of here!"
Amy suddenly felt a buzz in hammerspace. She reached back behind her back, and magically pulled out her cellphone, seeing a text. "Oh…great." She flipped it open,…
She sat up quickly and moved her quills back out of her face, and read the text again.
AA: Having girl's night with the Nintendo girls! You should too! :D
She huffed.
JA: Your mingling with our rivals?!
AA: Hey! They were sad when the old Amy died too! And they want to get to know me better… even though I'm pretty much the same but with different memories, well, you get it. Anyway, you should hang out with the Japanese versions of them too! They're really nice!
JA: There are frienemy!
AA: Well, start using the 'Frie' part of the deal! Lol!
Amy flipped the phone off and sighed, leaning her head back. "Hmm… I could use the support of my fellow women.."
-The following day-
Amy grabbed her car and started to make her way out from Sega's building, looking back at it and shaking her head. "They said I'm grounded… till the ends of eternity.." she shifted the gears. "Well, how bad can it get, now?" she drove off, moving down the roads pretty smoothly… considering she could move through the average car like a ghost, but hey, that's the advantage of 'not really existing' so to speak.
She was thinking of that kiss with Sonic… and how anyone could just completely ignore someone they had been missing for years… how could he do this to her? He promised her… even to marriage!
She laughed, but knew he probably wouldn't follow up on that one.
Though… he never broke a promise before?
Suddenly, as she was lost in her thoughts, something slammed into her car's back rear-end, and she freaked out, stuck at a red light that she didn't really have to obey, but by doing so made her feel like she was somewhat real in a sense.
She looked back and saw a red and angry Echidna jump up at her and start screaming in her face. "AND WHERE, EXACTLY, DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!?"
"Eh…eh-heheh… Knuckles…" she turned her head slowly, smiling weakly and nervously as some sweat drops formed on the side of her face. She leaned down in her car, still having her hands on the wheel.
"Pleasure seeing you too."
"THIS ISN'T FUNNY, AMY! YOU'RE GROUNDED! REMEMBER? FOR ALL TIME-"
"And eternity, yeah, yeah. Whatever." She rolled her eyes.
"This isn't funny!"
"It's hysterical."
"Are you listening to me!? You can't leave Sega grounds! You, and your kind, have been causing too much trouble lately!"
Knuckles stood up in the back, lifting a leg up on the side of her seat that could only really fit two people if she squished over enough, kinda like what her and the old American Amy did. Boy, did she miss that closeness and friendship right now…
"By lately, do you mean glitching and dying, by any chance?" She wasn't in the mood to talk about rules right now. Not after all the rules Sonic was making up. Was he even that in love with her? He said he was… it felt like he was… then why was he treating her this way!? She deserves love and better love than what he was offering! Hmph!
She puffed up the side of her cheek, growing more and more mad about the thought of Sonic abandoning her and pushing aside his newly found data stating his feelings for her again.
How dare he be so cruel…
What a jerk!
"Helllllo!? Turn this car around, I'm taking you back to HQ and telling an official about this-"
Amy was getting real tried of people telling her what to do, and tried to think of what the old American Amy would do… if she was in this situation.
Suddenly, Amy looked up to see the light turn green, and the thought raced into her mind, like lightning striking her think-box!
Knuckles was reaching over for the wheel, as she slammed on the gas, making Knuckles stumble and lose his balance as he fell off the car, and she raced away.
"A-Amy! AH!" he dodged a car, and lay flat to let another one roll under him. However, his hand ghosted through the car's wheel, and he freaked out as he got up, and looked it over.
He looked back around his shoulder, twitching in anger. "That girl…!" anger marks showed all over his forehead.
"GET BACK HERE!" he jumped up in the distance and started yelling, as Amy felt the adrenaline rush leave her and parked, huffing and puffing as she hid her car in a tight dead-end alley way it seemed.
Letting her head rest back on the side, she started to slowly laugh, letting her fear catch up with her and thinking how proud the old American Amy would have been of her.
"Did you see that?" she looked up at the sky, as if talking to the old American Amy. "I've never felt so bad in my life!" she said that in a good way, and laughed again.
Getting out of the car, she peeked over the street corner she was meant to go too, and gasped, seeing the Nintendo Starlets all eating cake together, and gulping.
"There they are…" she thought to herself.
She noticed one of the girls, dressed in red with brown hair, Pauline…? Was it? Get up and leave, waving goodbye and walking away while pixelating into data and falling away from reality and into the virtual world.
Now there was just Toon Zelda, Regular Zelda, and Peach.
She took a deep breath, "For the company! Don't. Look. Stupid!" she flipped her hair back after her small pep talk and walked out to meet them.
"Ehem, hey guys!" she greeted, as she sat down by the table, seeing the small cakes around her. "Thanks for getting my message today!"
"Not at all!" Peach greeted, and looked to the Zeldas. "We were just mentioning how great it is to see you. After all the horrible things happening with your copies, I'm glad you're still smiling."
"Ah!.. Emhmm." Zelda made some speech noises until a box appeared below her.
[ It takes a strong woman to go through that kind of pain and stress on her own. I wish you'd contact us sooner. Us girls should stick together! ]
She placed a hand up and shook it, "Em, em!" showing she meant that last line.
"Ah-ha!" Toon Zelda flew around, being in her ghost form and placed her hands together.
[ Everyone can support each other! Isn't that wonderful? ]
"Em, I agree." Amy smiled, happy that their old rivalry wasn't showing through right now, and pleased that they would look past that to help a friend in need.
"Oh, here! Have some cake." Peach offered her a slice, as Amy nodded.
"Thank you very much!"
"Ah-mmh!"
[ Don't be shy! We're all big eaters when the boys aren't looking! ]
Toon Zelda materialized into her other form, having flesh and bone, and picked up her slice of cake and taking a fork and eating a piece of it. When she liked the taste, she shook a little and smiled, as music played in the background.
Amy smiled, but had an awkward tear drop slightly on the side of her face. Small, so no one would see it. "Umm… does music play whenever she does something?" Amy leaned over and whispered to Peach.
Peach covered her mouth and giggled, "I think it's cute!" she chimed.
The girls laughed before the regular Zelda began to speak again, "Um…emm…?"
[ So… how are you and your copies doing..? Better I hope… ]
Amy froze up a moment, her body jolting lightly as she felt the sorrow of her friend's lost race back to her heart and mind… Though, they never did leave… except for when Sonic told her the truth… and when he confessed he loved her… and… and he…
She shook her head, now was not the time to think of their kiss! Or that situation! She came here for support, since Dr. Hope was gone, she needed someone or some people, to talk to about this.
"It still hurts, you know? It's never easy losing someone for… well, forever. But I know she would want us to be happy… so we're trying to move on with our lives, you see?"
The girls smiled and nodded, as Toon Zelda wiped a tear from her eye.
She sniffed, as her text box popped up.
[ T-that's… that's so touching… ]
"Em, ha."
[ Very strong of you. ]
"I agree!"
Peach clapped her hands together, and gave a closed eyed smile down to Amy.
"T-thanks you guys." Amy smiled, holding back her sad feelings to try and keep the mood light. "But the real problem now is… well…" She looked away, wanting to talk about Sonic… but worrying about his image for a moment.
"Hmm..?" Zelda tilted her head.
[ Don't tell me… ]
"Ah!" she opened her mouth real big, holding a hand up near it as well.
[ He's been being mean to you! ]
"Grrr… rufh, hah!" Toon Zelda materialized back into her ghost form, and looked upset. Moving up and kicking her legs, she punched and then spun around to do a round house kick.
[ If he's been rude to you… ohhhh! I'll have to give him a talking too! Ha-yah! See what I mean? ]
Amy giggled, these girls were so kind to her… she felt bad about thinking of images at this rate… it would only ruin things, and everything was going so well too…
"Actually, what um… what do you girls do when…" she was getting nervous, not sure if she should ask this question right away or not, and held her hands down in front of her, on her knees.
"Sweety…" Peach gently put her hand on her chin, to help her look up. "We're here for you, okay? Please don't be afraid to speak your mind."
The Zeldas nodded, all seeming anxious to hear her out and to lend some knowledge if needs be.
"Ha-ha!" Toon Zelda pounded her chest, looking proud about something when her text box appeared, as was usual for how she spoke in games, carried to this world as well.
[ They didn't give me the triforce of wisdom for nothin'! Spill girl! ]
She seemed to be beaming with energy, as her counterpart looked to her and giggled, smiling at her response.
"Well…"
They all leaned in, "Hmm?"
"It's just…"
"Ah..?" they urged her on, leaning in closer again.
"Um,..um!" Amy was about to burst from wanting to talk to them about everything that's been happening, as she opened her mouth and finally let it out. "How do you get your man to want you!?"
The girls's face we're frozen with their previous open smiles…
"Eh…" Toon Zelda's was the first to flinch, the girls blinked their eyes and leaned back, blushing and looking nervous or covering their faces out of embarrassing.
"Ah..! Ah..! Emmmmmmm, yeee-ahh!" Zelda covered her face, shaking it back and forth.
[ To-to ask something like this… so suddenly,… Noooo! I'm not prepared! ]
"Ah hah, emm! Yeeahhhh!" Toon Zelda pounded the air and then covered her face again.
[ I-I don't know what your talking about! It's not like I manipulate him or something! He just… I don't know, he's never called me cute before… but he always looks at me like I am so he never has to tell me and- yeeeeahhh! Stop it, stop it! Your making me blush! ]
While the two Zeldas went on with their little embarrassment spree, Peach calmed herself down and held a hand to her chest, and then lightly tapped the table. "Girls, this is not how princesses should act."
The Zeldas stopped and peeked through their hands to Peach, before straightening themselves up and looking away in embarrassment in opposite directions, still blushing.
"Ehem, Amy. I believe a girl shouldn't have to do anything. If he loves you, he'll love you just the way you are." Peach spoke very calmly, but with her usual high pitched and sweet voice. "Just stay calm and do what you have to-a do. Oh!" she covered her mouth.
The Zeldas laughed, as the regular Zelda explained.
[ She's been trying to lose her accent all year, it's rather humorous. ]
"It's a goal I wish to keep at." Peach refrained herself from getting emotional about her mishap, but you could see the small tears in her eyes. Apparently… she wasn't holding back her emotions very well either.
"S..So there's no way to make him want me any more?" Amy looked down, a bit sad about the answer, since that meant she was still left with no options on how to get Sonic to notice her again… "Even after all that kissing…" she accidentally spoke out loud, and sighed.
The girls froze a moment, before leaning over the table, "WHAT?!" "EHHH?" [ SAY WHAT?! ] [ Huh?! Say what now!? ]
Before Amy could explain herself, or even calm down from her own mishap, her phone rang again and she pulled it out.
"O-one second please!" the girls we're in an uproar of questions and curiosities ran high before Amy pulled out the phone. Not wanting to be rude, the girls sat down and started chatting among themselves, as Toon Zelda hovered in delight, having her hands put together and her chat box just exploding with new sentences by the minute.
"H-hello?" Amy leaned away from the girls, moving her head down and over the chair's side.
"Amy! It's Tails!" the voice rang out in worry.
"W-what's wrong, Tails? You sound flustered about something.." Amy narrowed her eyebrows, he didn't seem mad at her, but rather frantic about something.
"It's Sonic! The development team took him in for something, you know, regular work stuff, and came out hauling him towards another room. He looked pretty out-winded by their reactions and seemed unamused and all, but here's the creepy part! They we're all wound up because they found some data in him that hadn't been there before! Someone might have tampered with Sonic!"
"…uh oh.." Amy realized what had happened. Sonic hadn't told them yet… "Listen to me, Tails. It's not some evil programmer's doing. He's lost the code for a long time, or rather… hid it, but it's all okay! He's fine and-"
"They're strapping him to the table!"
Amy's eyes widened.
"They're strapping him to the table!"
"… strapping him to the table …"
"…strapping him… table…"
Tails's words echoed through her mind, as pure horror shone in her eyes.
"Not again.."
Her eyes started to shed tears as she dashed out of her chair, racing to her car.
"I.. I'm sorry! I… I have to go!" Amy turned around quickly to explain to the girls, who looked a bit confused, but saw the sheer terror in her eyes and how quickly she had bolted from her spot.
"…oh…" Toon Zelda slowly turned her head to Peach, looking concerned too.
[ It seems a lot of weird things are happening at Sega… it's… kinda scary. ]
Zelda nodded, "Em."
[ Yes… I hoped we helped… even a little…]
She kept her head down, feeling she didn't really do much for the poor girl in the little time they spoke together.
"…She'll be fine." Peach smiled, looking off after Amy as the Zeldas looked to her in amazement. "A leading lady must learn to how to handle these things…" she closed her eyes as she kept talking. "And remain strong through them. No matter what happens, the game must go on." She opened her eyes and seemed to be full of hope for Amy and her company.
-Back with Sonic-
Sonic lay with little to no amusement sprawled out on the table and strapped down as the men started to dig through his new code.
"Like I said, it's old code I re-embedded into my core. Geez, you don't have to make a big deal about it…" he looked away, but had to keep his head firmly still as they worked through him.
"Don't worry, Sonic. We're only analysising the newly found data… though, I'm not sure how you 'lost' it in the first place." The man stated, as Sonic smirked, knowing EXACTLY how he 'lost' it.
"Wow!" A man found some code that shined a little brighter than the others. The men looked at it, seeming awestruck as their jaws opened at seeing it.
"That's fresh data…" A man said. "Not even touched or accessed yet… dang, Sonic! How long have you not had this?!" A man, younger than them all, walked over to look at it.
It was untouched, completely original script, and I mean, fresh like a newborn baby's bottom. It had never been read before,… meaning that the situation that would call for it to be tapped into never occurred yet, or… it never had the chance too.
"How is that possible? What does the coding even say?"
This is where Sonic got nervous, having a sweat drop drip down the side of his face as they were about to access it. He shifted his head, and the data moved away from them along with his head.
"Sorry, boys. But isn't it cooler to leave it untouched?"
"Very funny, Sonic." The men moved his head back, making him upset and annoyed, as they wrote down what they found. "But the bosses need to know EVERYTHING that was taken away from you, to then understand what can be used, kept, altered, upgraded, taken out, and so forth."
"Taken… out?" Sonic thought about the program that stated he liked Amy Rose, and shook it from his head. 'Not again.' He thought. 'I can't do that ever again… not to her. She doesn't deserve it.'
The door slammed open as Amy burst through the door, huffing and puffing as Tails was right behind her.
"Don't touch a HAIR ON HIM!" she ran over to his side, as he moved his head to look at her, and so his data moved with him like a swarm of birds in the sky.
"Amy… What are you doing here? I thought Knuckles said you left?"
"I did… I mean, not forever or whatever, but Sonic! That's not important right now! What are they doing to you..?" she looked at him strapped down, and fear caused her eyes to tear up once more.
"…" Sonic scanned her eyes, seeing the fear and quickly smiled. "Hey, come on. I know this room and this table make you scared, for good reason too, but this room isn't a death sentence."
She looked up at him, crying without a noise.
"Hey, shush-shush… don't cry. I'm fine." He couldn't reach up and comfort her, but he could smile, and so he did. Closing his eyes and smiling, he tilted his head, trying to show her he was alright. "Nothing's gonna happen to me, or to you. Alright?"
"Wrong."
The two looked to a man who walked in the room, having cuffs on his sleeve and adjusting the buttons on them.
"I'm afraid, from what we've gotten from the data reports and are still getting, the company is concerned about their precious little hero. Which is why I'm here. To make sure Sonic is who he is suppose to be. Excuse me."
He rudely shoved Tails out of the way, and stepped toward the table.
"H-hey!" Tails was thrown back, but quickly gained his balance, and glared at the man.
"What do you mean, suppose to be? I am me!" Sonic shouted back.
"Haha! That's cute, really funny. But actually, with this old and outdated data that hasn't been used in oh.. say… some odd years, maybe a decade or two, it's unnecessary." He put his hands in his pockets, and moved to the side, rocking back and forth on his heels, wearing a high-end suit with a tie and everything.
"What do you mean… unnecessary?" Amy narrowed her eyes, something was suspicious about this whole thing… and it worried her greatly.
"Well, you see…" he moved forward, holding his head down before flicking it back up again, stepping with some kick in his feet, and looking harshly but slyly down at Amy. "Sonic already has a persona. A personality given to him that the whole WORLD knows and loves. But more importantly, can recognize!" he smirked, holding his hand up with his thumb and pointer finger touching. "We can't just ruin that because Sonic has some new data. I mean PFFT, come on!" he looked back at his men, and then to Sonic, seeming charismatic. "I mean, that's a whole new marketing scheme no one's willing to pay for! And if their not willing to pay…" he stepped up, as Amy tried to shield Sonic from him.
"Then he doesn't change."
He leaned down, hanging intimidatingly over her, as Sonic quickly tried to get out of his straps, leaning up, but to no avail.
"Hey! It was my fault this data was lost! I'll take responsibility for it! But that doesn't mean you can just take it away and delete it like it never existed! Just because the fans don't know about it!? Well, what's wrong with showing them a new side to me, huh!?"
The man just smiled at Sonic's struggling, leaning up and laughing a bit at it.
"Ah, see. That's cute. Really it is, but um…" he moved his hand over his chin, rubbing it.
"There's just nothing I can do on this matter."
He dropped his hand and held it out like 'oh well!' and placed his hand back in his pocket like the other one in the opposite pocket.
"I don't make the rules, Sonic. I'm just here to enforce them." He snapped his fingers.
"Okay people! Let's get this big boy BACK to his original heroic state, come on now! Chop, chop! Time is money here!"
He snapped his fingers over his head and then started walking out when Amy looked back at Sonic.
"They'll take it away." She breathed out through her tears.
"They'll change you back into not loving me again…"
Her hands fell from the table, as she slipped to her knees as well.
"American Sonic won't be able to keep his promise again… A..Amys will start glitching all over the world again.."
Sonic stopped her by looking up at the man. "Hold your men!" he demanded.
The men stopped, as the man stopped walking out the door, and was right in the middle of its frame.
He sighed, and turned around, "…what?"
He looked around and swayed a little, as if completely content, and not even caring about the gang or they're feelings at all. He puckered his lips for comedical effect, as if he was acting his way through not being framed the bad guy, when clearly, it was too late for that.
Sonic then looked down to Amy, "I won't let that happen again." He stated to Amy. "I'll make a new promise to you. I'll talk to Satomi, no… I'll talk to everyone!"
Amy giggled, seeing the determination in his eyes as Sonic leaned his head against her own, as tears kept piling up in her eyes, and some… even in his own.
"I won't let you be lonely and forgotten again, Amy… I promise! I won't keep this data away any longer!"
"Sonic…"
"Wow! Touching!" The man looked around and started clapping, walking back in the room and looking at everyone. "Yeah, yeah, way to comfort the bae." He teased, and looked down at Amy. "Listen little missy, he won't have time to talk to his people, cause his people have already spoken. And you know, when big boys feel their wallets getting a little lighter, they tend to panic. Because this is their big boy!" he pointed to Sonic, "And he has to be protected at all cost!" he picked her up by the back of her neck.
"H-hey!"
"AMY!"
Both Tails and Sonic called after Amy, seeing him carrying her out of the room as Tails charged him, grabbing his leg.
"Leave her alone!"
"Ugh."
The man wiggled his leg and then kicked Tails off of him.
"Offph!"
"Tails!"
"H-hey… you can't do that."
A man who was working on Sonic spoke out, as the man holding Amy stopped, and slowly… turned around.
His eyes lost that false sense of friendliness for a moment before he tried to regain it. Walking back over as he took his other hand rubbed his chin again, looking down before up at the man's face, he seemed very threatening at this point.
"Are you… stopping me… from doing my job?"
The man froze up.
"Heh."
The man looked behind him, pointing to him and saying, "Look at this guy." And then looking back at the man.
"I could have you fired like THAT." He snapped his fingers.
The sound of the snap made everyone jolt, but Sonic only grew more in his anger each second.
"Now then…" the man turned before Sonic called out to him.
"Let Amy go and tell me your name!"
The man stopped again, shaking his shoulders out and mumbling, "Why do I have to deal with these kids and things kinds of things every day, just trying to get my work done and they just…"
He spun around and walked right back to Sonic, "The names Cyrus Clyde. Cy, for short. And this?" he held Amy up, as if she was a kitten dangling by the extra skin on the back of her neck, and wiggled her around in the air, making Sonic glare even more at him. "Is coming with me! As to not cause disruptions, of course." He grinned, and then frowned quickly. "Anymore questions?" he put her down to his side, but didn't let her go as she quickly fought through her fear and summoned her hammer, swinging it around before he held her away from him, and dodged her swings.
"Woah! Hey-hey! This is a new suit! Someone please…Please!?" a man ran out and grabbed her for him, as he dusted himself off and adjusted his sleeves and cuffs. "Get to work!"
"…CC…?" Sonic teased, as the man just glared at him and stomped his foot.
"NOW!"
-A few days later-
Amy hadn't seen Sonic in a long time, no one was allowed near him… but she had to plead his case! They were still working on analysising the data before destroying it, and she had to convince Sonic Team, or any of the officials for that matter, that that data could be desirable for the franchise and for Sonic himself! But… how?
"Amy, your requested to come down stairs at once. We have a guest coming that we need you to meet." A man had opened Amy's file, since they had confined her to it, and wouldn't even let her out into the virtual world, worried Sonic may vanish to it too.
He unlocked her file and she was able to enter reality again, as he told her what to do.
She walked solemnly downstairs, still worried that they would finish anaysising Sonic at any minute and then take his feelings away…. The feelings… he had kept away from her all this time…
It still didn't explain why he avoided her… was he that cautious? Not wanting them to find out about his hidden data by hanging out with me to much? Too often?
She had originally thought it was just because he was getting settled with his new data, but some of that data hadn't even been unlocked, so Tails heard in rumors, so then … was it more than her that he ripped out of his data core?
She opened the door, swiping her hand over the card reader as if it was her identification and waited for the front company doors to open up.
She gasped.
Dr. Hope was drenched in her trench coat and completely soaking wet.
"Why am I BACK!?"
(A new story plot unfolds as we now meet are newest villain! Cyrus Clyde! Will Sophie Hope show him what's what!? Will love triumph? Or will they have to go to even EVILER odds to defeat this evil rep!? Like… Another Doctor… perhaps? ALL NEW CHARACTERS WITH ALL NEW PLOTS! And familiar characters you haven't seen in this story yet make an appearance in this all new plot formula! :D What will happen to Sonic and Amy now!? And the whole gang for that matter!
Find out! In Sonic IRL!)