Sonic IRL 8:
Loading… Please Wait… Saving Love.
By: Cutegirlmayra (It took me a minute to figure out the title, but guess what? This is going to be an AMAZING chapter! :DDD I don't even know what I'm gonna do after this chapter cause it's gonna be AMAZING and no other chapter can match it! :D –well, that's what I'm hoping for, anyway- Do you love drama, suspense, romance, and lots and lots of feels?! Then welcome! To SONIC IRL!)
"Hope!" Amy was so glad to see her old friend, as she raced to embrace her, before seeing Dr. Hope stomp right through her, as she looked at her hands and turned around. "..W-what?"
Dr. Hope stomped to the receptionist and slammed her briefcase on the counter. "I need a badge." She demanded. "And what the heck happened?!" she started straining out her trench coat, leaving a large puddle on the ground beneath her. "Are you kidding me!? I can't believe the rain in Japan sometimes… it's like a full on shower!"
"U-um.. Ma'am?"
"WHAT?!" She slammed her hands on the counter, obviously, not happy.
The receptionist at the counter jolted in her seat, put a hand to her heart to calm herself, and took a deep breath. "You don't need a badge, we're logging you into the system so you'll have full access to wherever you feel you need to be. As you know, we filled you in on the details regarding our mascot, Sonic The Hedgehog." She calmly and professionally placed her hands on the counter's lower desk, keeping them together and trying to hopefully send her zenful vibe to the other girl, and calm her down as well.
"Yeah, I knew about that before the memo!" Dr. Hope wasn't calming down, as she continued to wring her coat out, and then touched her hair, before letting a huge sound of disappointment and frustration out of her mouth. "This is just not my week!" She flung her coat down and looked about ready to cry. "I was going on vacation you see.." she pointed to the receptionist, who wasn't accustomed to break downs in the work place. "I was gonna brag to all my friends how I saved Sega's mangy blue hedgehog from depression and… some other things best not mentioning." She thought it best not to say anything about the Sonamy she experienced back at her old Sega office. Considering nothing was mentioned in her briefing, and believed that perhaps Sonic didn't 'announce' that little detail to the world just yet. "The point is, miss. I'm exhausted. And I'm pretty fed up with lovesick hedgehogs and- uh, referring to Amy Rose of course,- and darn frustrating blue weasels!" she stomped her foot, as Amy glared at her, pouting.
"I don't think I like your tone…" she didn't like a lot of things Dr. Hope just said, but felt bad about pulling her away from a well-deserved vacation for her 'lastest' accomplishment.
"Well, apparently you did it wrong. And we need you back to finish what you started." The woman clarified, as Dr. Hope raised her head slowly, glaring at the woman as she handed her some files and began typing things into her computer.
"…what…did you just say?Not completed?! EVERYTHING WAS FINE AND DANDY TILL YOU PEOPLE WENT AND SCREWED IT UP!" Dr. Hope shouted, continuing to break down as she swung her arm in at the receptionist, but not to harm her, just to get a point across that she was referring to everyone at Sega, not just her. "Now, I just got one measly little question for you people…"
"Who do I need to kill to make this all better?"
The Receptionist pressed enter, and she became an official Sega employee again.
"His name is Cyrus Clyde!"
"….?"
Dr. Hope slowly turned around to see Amy behind her, as her frustrated tears still hanging in her eyes finally died down as she smiled and the two embraced.
"It's good to see you again, Amy. Even if I really didn't want to see you under these conditions… Still, work is work. What's going on that they're not telling me about, huh?" Dr. Hope moved back, still bending on her knees to be at Amy's height, and moved some of her bangs to try and comfort the girl, hoping she could, anyway.
"It's Sonic's data! They're analyzing it right now and deciding what they want to keep or trash! It's awful! I've been confined to my file and they won't let me or Sonic see each other!"
"That's awful!" Dr. Hope looked shocked to hear that, but also appalled.
"I know right!?" Amy's hands were shaking up near her face as she grabbed Dr. Hope's hands with both of her own. "Please, Dr. Hope! You helped Sonic and all of us last time! Can't you stop Cy from taking Sonic away from me? From us?" she pleaded, looking so worried as her eyes turned glossy, with tears that just couldn't form anymore from how much she had been crying over this.
"…Oh you poor little child… what horrible things have they put you two through?" Dr. Hope touched her head, seeing her poor mental condition and already evaluating her emotional level. "I'll see what I can do, this Cy guy is not messing with my OTP!"
"Uh, yes he is. Considering it's his Job-bah."
Dr. Hope and Amy looked to the side of themselves, as Cy held a clipboard in one hand, and his other was again, in his pocket. He had said that last word with a 'pop' of his mouth when pronouncing the 'B' in job.
Dr. Hope slowly rose up, keeping her eyes down for a moment at Amy, before glancing over to Cy, looking calm and collected. "So I've heard." She stated. "What are you, anyway? What gives you the right to-"
"Marketing." He grinned.
"Oh, I hate those guys." She muttered, as she leaned down to whisper to Amy, but clearly, allowing him to hear her as well. "There all a bunch of trolls!"
Amy giggled, as he smirked at how brave she was to state that right in front of him.
"A little bold, are we? I believe your profession isn't exactly taken as seriously as you would hope. Oh? But isn't that your name? Or your status?" he scoffed, giving her a look like, 'Game on, sister'.
Dr. Hope glared, getting a snarl in as well, as she held her ground.
He looked down to Amy, "Didn't you know you're supposed to be locked up in your pretty little pink file, sweetheart?" he was like a snake with each word, and Amy narrowed her eyes and gritted her teeth at every line he uttered. He was clearly what Dr. Hope had said, a complete and utter troll!
"Didn't you know? The witch wants her black cat back." She spat out, as Dr. Hope slapped her hand to her mouth and looked down at Amy, holding in a burst of laughter.
She put her hands on her hips and looked up to him smugly.
He hissed at her, since he got she was referring to him as the cat.
She growled at him as Dr. Hope moved her hand over her, pushing her gently back and away from the possible confrontation of insults she was about to throw down. "Listen, Mr. Clyde. I don't want to tell you how to run your job."
"Good."
"But I am." She tilted her head and pulled off an impressive fake and snooty grin. "Sonic doesn't need to be changed. He's still himself. And Fans will love to see some old code that hasn't been used before shown and finally see a side of him they've longed to get to know."
"…Miss Hope-"
"DOCTOR… Hope, if you will be so kind. I worked hard for that title."
"I doubt you did."
Her eyes widened with hateful rage.
He stepped forward a bit, "I've been told to watch out for you."
"Good advice." She hissed out through clenched teeth, holding her head up and at an angle from him.
"Heh, you see,… I have a job to do. And I heard from other … oh, friends of mine that you like to mess with the system to ensure the … health and… happiness of the characters so let me make one thing straight…" He said 'health' and 'happiness' as if they were whimsical things that didn't really matter, and then grew gravely threatening, standing a little too close for her liking as he stared her down face to face. "…I do love my job. Whether I'm the bad guy or not, I just love to be entertained by funny little passionate and feisty people who don't realize their place in this world. So watch your back, and don't nip at my tail, sister." He walked by her, grinning smugly as Dr. Hope turned around, enraged.
"You don't control me! Or these characters for that matter! You can't fire me!"
"And who can?"
"Oh, you really think I'm gonna give that information away? Nice try!"
"Heh, I like my competition being smart…"
"Witty, and you better believe I'm going to cunningly CUT. YOU. DOWN."
"Bite me."
"Is he flirty with you?" Amy looked up confusingly at Dr. Hope, as Dr. Hope suddenly grew flustered and adjusted herself.
"What?! No! These are clearly insults!"
"Y-yeah.. but the tension between you two was kinda-"
"DON'T SUGGEST SUCH THINGS! IT'S CREEPY!" Dr. Hope shivered with awkwardness from her observation, and clearly must have been worked up too much to realize that he was slightly flirting with her. "That's just wrong in so many ways!" she shook her head and then grabbed Amy's hand. "Come on! We've got to find some dirt on this guy and STAT."
"B-but how can he see us? It's a q-question I've wanted to know! Wait!" Amy was being dragged away, as Dr. Hope pulled her along and angrily looked around for her old office building. "I mean, he can't be a true fan,… right?"
"Of course not!" Dr. Hope spat out, and kept looking for her turn to the right hallway that lead to her old desk and lovely fake flowers she always liked. "He clearly only cares about the money value you guys give him and the company. Some people can just be fans of the ratings and income profits!" she cried out, as she finally found the door, "Ah-ha!" she kicked the door open and swung Amy with one hand into her seat. "Stay here, I'm going back for those papers and my briefcase!" she stuck her head in for a moment before slamming the door, gruffing loudly outside and scaring a poor intern.
Amy slowed her moderately heavy breathing down, before taking a deep breath and letting out a sigh. She wanted to believe that Dr. Hope had some kind of power to save Sonic.. or at least let them plead their case.
Dr. Hope headed down the hallway again before seeing a office water cooler and stopping at it. Being exhausted, she put down her briefcase and opened it slightly to just slide, or rather shove, her new papers in it before going to get a drink of water and maybe one for Amy, before remembering Amy's not a real person and doesn't need real water, but fake digital water, and just sighed after already pouring the second cup up. She leaned, exhausted and jet-lagged against the medium height wall that separated each cubicle from one another on that floor of the building.
A man walked up, seeming to want to get a drink as he saw her draped over it, exhausted, and smiled.
"Ehem." He cleared his throat, and then spoke English, "Are you alright?" He asked politely.
Dr. Hope moved her head up, with hair all over her face in a messy array due to her hair drying and frizzing out. She looked awful to be honest… "Huh?"
"Heh, you seem to have had a long first day." He took one of the cups, and began to pour himself one before she stopped him, and handed him her extra one.
"I just can't seem to snag a break before another virtual crisis arises and calls me back again." She swung her head quickly to the side to get some of her hair out of her eyes, but some stuck to her face due to being wet, and she just sighed and mustered up a smile. She began handing him the drink as he nodded with a slight bow, as was accustomed in Japanese culture. "Your uh… English is pretty good." She commented, lifting her arm up to rest on the wall and using it to puff up her hair and fiddle with it, almost looking a bit sexy if she only had good hair to complement her pose…
He slightly chuckled, seeing as she was drenched but was still playing cool even with her appearance being completely ruined. "Thank you. I studied in America for film animation, but came back here after getting the degree I wanted, and took a few more classes here for video games. I thought it'd be funnier somehow, since I love to play anyway." He shrugged, and drank his drink slowly.
Dr. Hope took her drink and took it like a shot.
He gulped and smiled at seeing her behavior.
She crushed the paper cup and threw it toward the trashcan on the other side, and it amazingly rebounded off the wall and went into the small trashcan.
"Oh, nice shot." He nodded, lifting his half full cup and slurped down the rest, before getting another cup for her and filling it up, handing it to her. "You really should take it easy though. On my plane back from America, it took me at least two days to get fully settled from the time shift. Best of luck though!" he raised his cup and took it like a shot too, but squinted his eyes a bit and shook his head, blinking and seeming not to be used to the action as she was.
She laughed, "I've never had a single drink in my life." She teased, "I just like to pretend I can do a shot."
"O-oh." He smiled, feeling a bit like an idiot before she laughed again, and he laughed too. "I don't drink either, I was just trying to impress you."
"Well… consider me impressed." She gave him the eyes that women usually give to let a man know she's interested, before realizing she was, in fact, interested and widening her eyes, moving away from the cooler and quickly rushing to get her brief case and get the heck out of that perfect little moment she was having. "I gotta go." She slightly whined and rushed the words out weirdly, being weirded out by herself, and took the drink he offered her like another shot before rushing to her office again.
Amy turned to see her walk in, "What took you so long?" she followed her hurried body over to her desk with her eyes, and watched Dr. Hope sit down and gasp a moment.
"N-nothing. Just… catching some water, I mean, fetching some, I mean! Ehem,… I was getting a few shots-CUPS of water…" she couldn't think straight, and so she took her name plate and pressed it up against her face. "Best cup of water I ever laid eyes on…"
"What?"
"I mean drank!" she put the name plate down and sighed, "Anyway, let's not talk about me right now. Let's talk about you." she went back to her routine, and placed her hands together, leaning on the desk. "It may not be too late to save you and Sonic's secret little romance. I have an idea, but were gonna need the big man.." she looked annoyed.
"Who?" Amy blinked her eyes and tilted her head.
"ESPIO!" Dr. Hope shouted, as a plant in the front and behind Amy suddenly jolted and fell over.
He faded into view as he seemed to have been invisible. "That's impossible, how did you know of my whereabouts?"
"Lucky guess. Now listen," she cleared her throat. "I have a mission for the Chaotix."
"..We're all ears." Espio got up, holding his arms and straightening himself up as he stepped forward.
-The Room-
Sonic was now strapped upright, stretched out vertically with his arms and legs spread out to either side on a table with a grid that had little lights move and zip around like little orbs behind him.
There were a ton of people in the room, as they all were now working on the computer, not touching him directly.
"Well, that's it boys! He's completely scanned up. Now we wait to hear what stays and what goes." A man got up, stretching, seeming old and wrinkly as the others took their stuff and started packing up.
"..? Hold on… you're not leaving without taking me down from here, are you?" Sonic had been bored and upset all day, but they were all mostly walking by him till he finally spoke, and the old man approached him again, rubbing his neck before scratching the back of his head.
"Well… you see… Sonic… you have to stay there till we come back. They'll have answers by tomorrow so… just hang in there, okay?" The man patted his shoulder as Sonic looked to the gesture, and then back to him.
"Wait! Come on! You can't just leave me here! I'm Sonic The Hedgehog! Hey! Wait! Come back!" they all left and closed the door behind them, only that guy took one more look, before closing the door and shaking his head. Obviously, he didn't like the way things were either, as Sonic just hung there, gasping in rage and fright at just being left cold turkey, and looked very worried.
It seemed all his power was stripped from him just because he re-downloaded all this old data…that wasn't fair! "I should have the right to love and feel whatever I want to!" he cried out, trying to struggle and get off the board, but it was no use, the scraps were tightly held down by nails that the fabric was ringed through like a button.
Sonic looked up at the strap on his left hand, before beginning to lose hope and let his head fall, hanging down as he closed his eyes shut, and worried about the future to come.
"…There there, now… Sonic The Hedgehog? Looking so down in the dumps?"
"Huh?" Sonic looked around, lifting his head up and scanning the dark room, squinting through it before seeing data fizz around, glowing almost but really just being reflected by the green grid that still was on and holding him there against it.
"Surpise~!" Eggman's glasses shone in the green glow as he put his hands close to his face and out, turning his head to the side and showing off a big huge grin, as Sonic freaked out.
"Augh! Ugly! Get it away! Get it away!" he tried to kick, but his knee just slightly struggled in it's place. He turned his head away as Eggman leaned back and laughed.
"Whohoho! Gets them every time." He chimed, placing his hands on his tummy, before raising one up to his chin to look over Sonic and placing the other behind his back. "Hmm… they really strapped you up good there, huh? Sonic? I've heard Amy's put you in tight situations before… but I never thought she'd string you up this bad, whohohoh!"
"Excuse me?" he glared up at him. "What are you talking about, Egghead?"
"Oh come on, the company may not know but that doesn't mean it's much of a secret among us virtual friends…~" he waved his hand out in front of him, before grinning evilly, and rubbing his hands together. "I know all about your silent small talk with Dr. Hope and your secret little white lie about your hidden code… I also know that Amy's the reason why your even here in the first place." He took his mustache and tugged on it lightly, before delicately stroking it and looking very witty.
"…Amy's not at fault here." Sonic knew denying it wouldn't help any better. Everyone did know, it was almost yesterdays news, except for the humans…
"4Ds have no right to take such precious feelings away from you, I get that." 4D is a derogatory term for the living humans or workers in the world. The ones that control them. Most villains and other evil doers use this term to insult those who are considered 'normal' or 'not virtual' as most use it out of jealousy for not being considered 'alive' and having no control or power over their lives.
Eggman… was apart of the jealous group. As he was the only human really in SEGA, he thought he should be able to have a right over himself, but his company still considers him the same as all the other characters. 'A Character' is still controlled and given lines, animated, and such. So Eggman was still stuck being a virtual puppet like the rest of them, and hated every second of it! He never came out of the virtual world because of it,… until now…
"But even with the stupid company doing this and that to you, don't you think it would all have been simpler if you just… didn't love her? I mean, considering the advances and disadvantages." Eggman moved his hands like scales, showing the two different sides. "On one hand, you could of continued your daily life without falter, and now, you can have chaos reign, your life completely changed, and maybe a kiss or two but does that really amount to anything?" He held an innocent 'I care deeply about what's happening to you' look on his face as his mouth turned to a 'o' of pity as he clearly was faking his remorse. "You poor, poor little rodent…"
"..HEDGEHOG." Sonic corrected, clearly annoyed by him already. "And they're just doing their job."
"Managing you? Can't you manage yourself? Why do they need to make it their job when you've clearly proven to think and act on your own?" Eggman was clearly drawing from some experience of his own… "Lousy 4Ds… always thinking their better just because they designed your brain and place doesn't mean you can't fight BACK." He growled out.
"…Eggman, why do you care?" Sonic didn't want to respond too much, he knew Eggman was trying to get him more upset, but also knew something fishy was happening…"
"Oh, yes, my apologies~" Eggman turned back, acting all jumpy with delight and 'a caring heart'. "I just felt you needed a… well, a friend after all that's happened to you… I also have a proposition for you!" he chimed, before his face turned into one of an evil genius, as he put his hands up against the other and wiggled his fingers to tap the tips of the other ones. "Why not give me your old/new data, hmm? I could keep it safe~ And then give it back to you after they think you're all better, hmm? The old, switcheroo?" he moved his hands over the other, showing the gesture of a 'switch'. "What do you think?"
"I think you're insane in thinking I would ever trust you as a friend, Doc." He was so over it, he just wanted Eggman to leave him alone. "I'm not Knuckles, Eggman… Don't think you can fool me so easily.." he hung his head low again, as Eggman did a secret scowl before quickly changing his face so Sonic wouldn't see and looked away.
"…What about poor Amy? If you allow them to get away with this… won't she be hurt?"
Sonic's head slightly twitched upward a little, as Eggman's smirk grew in size, seeing he had struck a heart string. "Ah..! So she is that important to you now." He turned around, putting his hands behind his back, before letting one come up and gesture some whimsical movements. "You want her just brimming with joy and wonder over having you love her at last! Ah! After all this… what, 20 years or so of being left alone and forgotten? Oh, to find your little Rosy wasn't dead after all?" he pinched and wiggled Sonic's cheek, speaking to him like a baby now, "I bet that made you happy, wappy, right? Seeing her so cheery, weery… After all the pain you've put her through from keeping that precious data a secret. And not to mention the cruel act you've done to your other copies as well…" he released his cheek and stood back, taking on a more serious tone. "So, Sonic The Hedgehog has finally fallen in love, huh? Then maybe he's also willing to die for it as well." He started to turn away. "Such a shame.. I would of really loved to help…Ta-ta…Hedgehog.." that last few lines seemed pretty dark and brooding, as Eggman's frame slowly began to disappear in the back darkness of the room…
"…Wait!" Sonic reeled his head up, looking desperate.
Eggman's face was still covered in shadow, but all you could see was the white of his teeth, before he turned around, looking loving and having pure intent in his actions, "Yeesss~?"
-The next day-
"Team Chaotix reporting for duty, ma'am!" Vector and his crew stood straight and saluted, as Dr. Hope giggled a little.
"Ah man, you three really are iconic. I need your help." She stated.
"Perfect! What can we do for you? At… a reasonable price, that is! Hehe~" Vector leaned down and rubbed his fingers together, offering her his hand to give him something in return.
"…How about I not tell Amy here your crush oooonnn-~" she held the 'on' out, waiting for Vector to stop her as he immediately tensed up and slammed his hand on the desk, rushing over to do so, and looking to her worriedly. She knew no one really knew about his little crush on Vanilla…
"I-I-I thought that w-w-was confidential to patient and doctor!" he cried out, sweating galore.
"I'm not always the best of doctors. I like to break rules for the common good. Now then,-" she put on her sunglasses and grinned, looking at some files. "I need you to break Sonic out of that room."
"…You mean.. THE room?" The three of them shook slightly in fear. "But that's the room where glitches are found and characters are rewritten! Nu-uh! No way! There's no amount of pay that could make us want to take this case-"
Dr. Hope kicked Amy's chair to make it spin around to them, showing them her big, sorrowful eyes, her lower lip trembling, and the cutest little sorry face you could ever imagine.
The three's attitudes suddenly dropped as did their eyelids. "Aww…."
"So?" Dr. Hope grinned. "Will you not help this cute little solder of love reunite with her romeo?"
The Chaotix team tried to resist, but Vector ended up giving in. "OHHHH ARLIGHT! We'll do it for the little girl hedgehog!" he cried out. "But only because I'm a sucker for cute and dramatic love stories!" He cried out, "Like my favorite sitcoms!".
"He watches them all in Spanish…" Charmy muttered to the side, looking away as Vector blinked and then grabbed him.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!? Are you judging me!?"
"N-no sir! Well, a little? HAHAHA!"
"WHY YOU-!"
"Get a hold of yourselves! We have to rescue Sonic before-"
Tails came crashing into the office. "They've done it! They came in earlier and Sonic's been officially rewritten!"
"….No." Dr. Hope put her sun glasses down and walked out, following the rest of the gang as Amy held her hand close to her heart, begging in her mind that they didn't find it, or didn't delete it, and that somehow… some way…
He still could love her.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! No need to gawk! It is I- the one and only, Sonic! Sonic The Hedgehog! Woo-baby!"
A large party with press interviews was happening in a certain room, as Sonic stood on a tall pillar, and confetti sprayed behind him after he stated his name. He danced to his own music and jumped down, touching his feet behind him in a cool fashion before moon walking and skidding along the table with goodies he fazed through, before doing a break dance move and spinning on his head and landing on his knees. Arms spread out, and with a big signature smile, the press ate it up as he continued to show and goof off.
"Wha… happened to him?" Dr. Hope stated, seeing him so bold and carefree all of a sudden. "I mean… I know he's suppose to be like that… but he HASN'T been like that for a while now.. not with all the drama happening here." She gawked, clearly seeing that they made him a little more… well,… fake to be honest.
Tails flew up to Sonic, "Sonic? Are you okay?".
"Tails! Buddy!" Sonic grabbed Tails's hand and spun him around.
"W-woah!" When he released him, Tails spun a bit with his eyes rolling around before shaking his head and regaining his focus, looking back at Sonic and seeing him dancing about.
"What took you so long!? The party's already started!"
"But-but… Sonic… what about…" Tails looked around, before flying up to Sonic's ear. "You know who?"
"Who? Eggman? Not invited!"
"No! Not him! Someone more important, you know… Amy!" Tails flew down, seriously troubled by Sonic's actions.
"Oh, yeah, right!" Sonic looked to see Amy, the Chaotix, and Dr. Hope at the door, before sliding over in a cool fashion to Amy, and grabbing her hand. "Care to dance?"
"H-huh!?" Amy was pulled out as the press took lots of pictures of her confused face as she tried to crack a smile for image reasons, and pretended to dance next to him. "Sonic! What are you doing!?"
"Dancing! What about you? Just trying to shake it and make it or what!?"
He didn't seem to get what she was talking about, which made her huff before really getting worried about what they did to him. "Sonic, a word, in private?"
Sonic stopped dancing and looked at her, before shifting his eyes to the side, and then looking back at her. "Uhh… sure? Be right back, everybody! And enjoy the chilidogs!" he pushed her back and to the opposite door where an adjacent room was. Closing the door and peeking out of it, he looked back at her. "What's the deal? Are you trying to make me look bad? Why couldn't you just smile and wave?" When he said wave, he actually did a dance move where he lifted his arm and the action thereof moved through him until he let it go on the other side with a gesture of his hand.
"Stop it! You're not a party animal! I mean… you shouldn't be right now, anyway!" she stated, holding her hands up to stop him from moving so much as he looked at her with a surprised expression, not sure what she was doing. "..Did they.. you know." She looked away. "Did they take you away from me?" she tried to not sound so desperately hurt when she spoke those words out, but couldn't contain her tone of voice and it ended up saying more than she wanted it too. "Oh Sonic.. I've been so scared. You told me not to worry… but they'll do anything they want to us! We have no say… not unless we make a plea but now.. now look at you.. what's happened to you?" she was on the verge of tears, which made him uncomfortable as he wiggled his arms out of her grasp on them and gently pushed her hands away from him and to her sides.
"….Look, Amy… I know … some things happened between us before… but I think it's best that I didn't rejoin with that data from by younger years, okay? It was a mistake for the company, and besides, America Me doesn't even know what he was talking about! I'm sure everything will return to the way it was and we'll all have fun again, okay?" he winked and gave her a thumbs up, as Amy's heart literally shattered into a million pieces.
"…For the company?" she gasped out.
"…Well, for all of us! You and me included..!" He scratched behind his head, not sure why she was getting all worked up over this. "Look… we had our fun, okay? But was it really worth all the trouble you started? A few kisses and this and that, it-I mean it didn't really mean anything in the long run, anyway. I think we should just… stick to how things were, alright? It was better this way. And maybe we'll talk to the company about your glitches in your copies, okay?" He smiled kindly, but all Amy could see was an imposter, as he held her hands with his and tried to play it off as nothing but Amy quickly moved her hands out of his own.
"…N-no.." she felt her programming kick in. "Don't do this… Sonic please! I can't fight you on this! I won't be able too! My programming will-!" She clutched her head, wishing to fight for her love, but knowing that she would love Sonic regardless of who he was. She loved Sonic, whomever SEGA made Sonic to be… even if it wasn't the Sonic she really wanted…
"..Amy?" Sonic was confused, seeing her actually fight her own programming to try and fight for the love she tried so hard to obtain.
"I'm begging you, Sonic! Take it back! Tell me it'll be okay and you'll come back! You told me everything would be alright! But you're not my Sonic.. you've changed! You've.." she felt her will being overrun, her body starting to not follow her orders but the orders of her code, as her hands fell to her sides and her head tilted. Tears being forced back as she was made to smile.
Sonic watched the transformation and lowered his eyelids in what looked to be pity. "…Amy…Don't fight it. It's… who we are. If we're ignorant, then it will seem like our will,… and not their own…" he turned away, as if he'd given up on fighting it.
"Sonic… I'm glad your back." She was forced to say, she was forced to accept this fate, and she was made to love and accept him. "Please…" she wanted to say 'don't see me again' but she had to say, "Have fun at your party, okay? Hopefully, you won't be too partied out to enjoy a little date with me~ hehe!" she dashed off with a skip in her step behind him to the door, flinging it open and racing past the people, holding a smile but keeping her eyes shut, holding back tears…
Had they also programmed something in her too? Or was it always like this? Amy couldn't tell,… but maybe… that's what American Amy had meant about true freedom! To feel the way she wanted to feel! And not have code dictate otherwise!
Ignorance… he had said something like ignorance is bliss…
That wasn't something HER Sonic would say…
He wouldn't give in like that.
What had they done to him?
And what could they do to all of them?
"Amy!" Dr. Hope and Tails turned back to her, not knowing what had happened, as they quickly went after her, but Sonic grabbed Tails.
"Let her go."
"Let her go!? Sonic! Have a heart! Don't you know what you've done!?" The cameras turned to Tails, as he freaked out and pretended to dance again, smiling as he continued to speak to Sonic. "You've given her everything she could ever hope for and more, and then just ripped her to pieces by taking it back!"
"I never promised anything~ hehe~" Sonic danced too, faking his smile.
"It's not like you to hurt her! What were you thinking?"
"I might or might not have fallen in love, oh well, c'est la vie!"
"Don't you DARE go French on me!" Tails pretended to spin, and accidentally hit Sonic as Sonic held his head.
"Ow!" he pretended to quickly incorporate it into a break dance move, as Tails began to fly out.
"The Sonic I know wouldn't just toss Amy to the side after he said he LOVED HER. Have they taken you're humanity out? You're no friend of mine if you treat me that way! At least my code allows me to fight with you! SHE CAN'T! She can only stay mad at you for so long, you jerk!" the cameras couldn't take pictures of words, so Tails dashed out as microphones started popping out.
"Hmph." Sonic looked away, before seeing Eggman walk into the room, grinning. "Oh! There you are!" Sonic dashed over to him, as a SEGA representative turned the holograms off, as was the illusion of Sonic and his friends dancing. However, Sonic did run off the screen, and as the representative took over for interviews, he followed Eggman into the nearest closet room.
"What gives? I thought I told you to wait till AFTER the party?" Sonic tapped his foot, and folded his arms, upset by Eggman's early arrival.
"Hush, what did Amy say to you?"
Sonic sighed, putting a hand to his head, "She was making a scene, as usual!" he snickered. "But I played her off, great!"
"Shut up, you! If anyone finds out you're not the REAL Sonic, I'm screwed!" Eggman whacked Sonic on the head, as he 'ow'd and whined about it a bit.
"That hurt!"
"Quiet! For the last time, you must act exactly as I re-programmed you to do. Hehe! Sonic was foolish enough to give me his data, allowing me to tamper with him after they were done editing him! Now, my OWN code runs through your veins! Well, virtual data veins, anyway, hehe! Now, go cause mayhem and destruction for the company and friends, hmm?" he adjusted Sonic's quills, almost like a dotting father, as this Sonic 'pfft'd and shook his hands out in front of him to get Eggman's hands off of him.
"Whatever! I'm tried of being a goody-two-shoes! When can I reign some havoc, hmm?" he rubbed his hands together.
"Oh trust me. Break that little girl's heart, and then you'll be able to completely destroy Sega from the inside out! Oh, and remember-!" he flicked his nose. "I always win in our boss battles. No matter WHAT the programmers command you to do~"
"Of course! Dad~" Sonic nudged his side as Eggman 'ugh…hehe?'d and didn't really know how to take that.
"Quit that and get back out there!" he kicked his butt out of the closet and turned his pocket watch on. "Cubot, stage 3 is ready to go! Fire it up!"
"Bzz….Yes Doctor Eggman, sir! All systems…bzzz… ready to go!" Cubot's voice sounded through the fizzing radio.
"Excellent! With this fake Sonic running around, and the REAL Sonic completely destroyed, I'll have no trouble in taking over the company and being named as Sega's TRUE mascot and most beloved character of all time~ WHOHOHOHOHO!"
…..Outside the door, a small blue hedgehog listened in on Eggman's dialogue, and gruffed.
Classic Sonic rubbed his nose and huffed out a puff of anger, steam coming from his ears as he made classic noises from his game, such as jumping up and down old video game sounds. "Ah! Grrah!" he shouted out, before racing off and looking for something…
-Virtual World-
"Amy… you can't just stay in there and cry forever!" Tails spoke through her door, and felt bad when he heard no answer.
"Amy…" he looked so sorry for her, as he turned on his MilesElectric that held a skype camera shot of Dr. Hope.
"Is she there? Is she alright? Talk to me, Tails, come on!" she was in her office, shaking the computer screen, her own tears being held back. "She's not crying her eyes out, is she? Although, I don't blame her really… I just hope that's not the case."
"Sadly, that is." Tails sighed out, knowing there was nothing either of them could do at this point. "I think she's more mad at her code than anything… it didn't really help when she wanted to not love this Sonic, and was forced to care about him anyway." Tails stated, looking away as he held his own chest. "…I still have to forgive him.. but at least I'm allowed to stay mad and hold a grudge for a little while…" he stated, seeing how unfair it truly was. "…Dr. Hope? Why are we… why are we not made to feel like normal… well, like you?"
"….Oh, Tails." Dr. Hope felt her heart break at hearing him ask that. "You know why."
"I know… but-" he took a deep breath, his tails falling down as he slid down the side of Amy's door, and gripped his three hairs on his head, softly starting to cry too. "It's not fair that we can only feel a few things.. based on what someone programmed for us to think or feel… I mean, if someone wanted Sonic to fall for Amy eventually, then why is the company taking that out, now? It was meant to be apart of him right? I don't really support Sonic having a girlfriend… but he actually seemed to be… I don't know, happier? More alive? The new data made him realer to me… I guess to make us all more realer, it would take a lot of programming, If's and Of's, but at least we'd have the ability to choose what we want or don't want to feel… why is everything based on computer personas?" Tails hit his head on the door behind him, leaning it back as he thought. "I really love machines, but knowing you are one? That kinda makes it all… different… somehow."
Now Dr. Hope was a mess of tears. "Baby…"
"Heh, sorry. That might have been too deep for you." he rubbed his eyes from the tears in them and straightened himself up. "But I know you're trying to help." He sniffed out, "So… can you? Help us?"
The communication went a little static-y.
"Oh, sorry, I have to go, we're breaking up. But don't worry about helping us or not. It's not like you really have that power anyway… so… um… good luck!"
That was a lot of weight on her shoulders now… having the hopes of the Sega characters resting on her ability to save them from this cruel fate of the business world.
But Tails was right, she had little power to do anything.
Sonic raced up to her office, stopping in front of it as she looked up, wiped her tears away, and waved for him to come in. Maybe she could get his side of the story, and everything could be settled by a few little details of information she was missing.
Sonic looked at her gesture, and just smirked.
She looked at him confused, shocked by his strange expression.
He held up his pointer finger, waited a moment, and shook it side to side, keeping his eyes closed before winking one open and then giving her a crazy, exaggerated face with his mouth opened wide and using his hands to push his lower eyelid down and stick his tongue out to cartoony lengths.
It rolled back in as he laughed, hugging his stomach, saluted her away with a wink, and dashed off, snickering…
"…Okay,… that wasn't Sonic." She quickly got to her computer and started typing. "Get…me… a conference… meeting… right… now!" she typed as she stated it.
-A day later-
Dr. Hope was walking down the hallway, having team Chaotix fill her in on the details of Sonic's behavior.
"I saw him run through a stack of papers, lift up wemon's skirts as he ran by, and even dance around in the mud outside and run all through the halls with it! Snickering as he did so!"
Charmy explained, flying around her head as she tried to swat him away.
"Hey! Not cool…"
"Sorry! I hate bugs!" she admitted.
"Aww… but we're so cute! Look at these big eyes! And these cute little long and thin antennas. And this sharp little-"
"CHARMY!"
Vector grabbed him before he pointed his stinger at her, which made her freak out slightly as she reared herself to the opposite wall and gasped in fright.
"Eh..heh, excuse our little friend here. But what he says, about Sonic, is true." He turned to look at Charmy and make sure he understood that only the 'Sonic' part was true.
"Hey! Everything I say is true! Let me go! Let me go! Grrrarararrr!" he bit Vectors arm, tugging on it and trying to fight him to get let out as the two started brawling in a cloud of dust as Espio just had an awkward tear drop drip down the side of his face.
"A thousand apologies for my co-workers and I. We sometimes tend to forget our manners…" he felt he had to say that, folding his arms and muttered to himself. "Find your happy place, find your happy place…"
Dr. Hope sighed, running her hand through the top of her hair and pushing it away from her face and down. "Oh trust me, I know. I was your counselor, remember?" Dr. Hope dusted herself off as the same animator guy went to get a drink of water.
Her face blushed red as she was getting ready for a meeting, and straightened herself out. "Take five you guys, keep an eye on him for me though. Good work." She took out her flash drive and handed it to them, as Vector and Charmy stopped fighting, having money in their eyes, as Espio held his hand out and Sonic rings popped out from the flash drive into his hand. "If the company ever realized I had the cheat codes for rings, I think I might have a lawsuit on my hands…" she teased, obviously, it wasn't that big of a deal, but the three looked pleased.
"Have a great day, boss!" they chimed, and took off to spy on Sonic more.
Dr. Hope pulled her nice and formal dress down a bit, it hugged her body nicely and was now below her knees a bit, as her short jacket that went up to maybe her chest hung out a bit and the design of another layer that draped over her chest with a bow on it made her look really spiffy. Trying her hardest to look good, she took her bun out and let her lovely blonde hair down, and took a deep breath. "Come on, Sophie. You counsel video game pairings all the time… all I'm asking you to do is stop being a hypocrite and try your own advice out! Walk straight and just be friendly. Whoo… just be friendly…" she psyched herself up, as she suddenly glanced to the side of her, and freaked out when seeing Classic Sonic with his eyelids down, before raising his eyebrows up and down and looking to the animator guy, and then her.
"…Where did you come from?" he was hanging with his two arms on the side of the medium-high wall of the hallway where it split off into an office room covered in cubicles for every square they could fit into the room. He had one hand up under his chin, and the other was just keeping him on the wall as his small feet pushed up against the wall to try and hold him steady there. "…I didn't realize Sonic could make two of himself…" She looked away, thinking about it. "I guess it makes sense though, I mean, that's how we get copies for the whole world right?"
As she looked back to him, he gestured a wink and motioned for her to go 'make a move' on the man.
"…Oh, no, you see, ehem!" she grew flustered again, embarrassed that he must of overheard her small pep talk. "I don't have time to flirt with hot Asian men, see, I'm trying to actually help you!" she pointed to him. "Well, more or less… your real self… the other, you… umm.. this is getting awkward and you clearly can tell that I want to talk to him before the meeting, don't you?"
He just stared at her, knowingly…
"…Oh! Alright! Alright! He's really cute, though." She bounced her body up and down a little bit, bending over and getting nervous. "But I have a fear of… you know, messing it up! Tell me how to be cool!" she gripped the side of the wall as he leaned back, seeing as her nose was barely about to touch his.
"Please?" she blinked her eyes and tried to give him the old 'puppy dog' eyes. "And don't tell your other I'm this uncool, he'll never let me live it down!"
He grinned wickedly.
He got up on the top of the wall and balanced himself a moment, before taking on the persona of a woman.
She laughed, and he just snapped his fingers at her, being slightly sassy about it.
She took it seriously and did as he did.
He showed her not to hold her hand on her hip, but to let her arms swish out on the sides of herself, and then put her sunglasses on.
She did so, as the animator stepped back a moment and smiled, seeing her coming near him.
She didn't know if he could see Classic Sonic to the side of her or not, but Classic Sonic mimed for her to take her glasses just slightly lower, almost off her nose.
Everything he did, she copied, as he flicked the glasses off and she did the same.
He moved his mouth, making a game noise come out, as she took that her own way, "Hi~" she chimed out, but tried to sound as cool and mature as she could possibly be.
"…Hiiii, haha." He laughed, being a bit spooked by this change of attitude.
Classic Sonic mimed taking a jacket off, as she did so, and took it and put it over his shoulder.
The jacket she had on flooped over her shoulder as she held her head high, as he positioned it on himself.
He then saw her hand on her hip and jumped on her shoulders, she tried not to giggle at the feel of him reaching over her shoulder to move her arm but let out a yelp at his shoe slipping and him pushing off her boob to get back on her shoulder.
"….Um, how was your day?" The man asked, as she tried to keep her cool.
"F-fine." Her voice was to high as she clearly felt awkward about the possibly invisible to him hedgehog that just pushed off her boob with his foot to stay on her shoulders.
Classic Sonic sat on her other shoulder, not even recognizing his folly as he pointed to a cup of water, and crossed his legs.
She got a drink for herself and walked to a nearby chair, putting her jacket down over her lap and sipping.
Classic Sonic nudged her cheek, and took his legs and unraveled them to have them crossing the other way, showing her that she needed to cross her legs.
She did so, as he patted the air and she patted the table, "Sit with me, won't you, please?"
"Ehk!" Classic Sonic scolded, not liking her saying 'please' if she wanted to be cool.
He folded his arms and she just ignored him after that. "You know what, this is silly." She put her sunglasses down and started adjusting her hair back into a bun. "I have a meeting and I just wanted to tell you that I was really appreciative of you cheering me up the other day, and well, cheers!" she took her cup and raised it, drinking it quickly and about to walk away when he stopped her.
"Wait! That's it?" he smiled, "I thought Genesis was going to have you flirt a little more with me."
"…Genesis?" Dr. Hope looked confused as Classic Sonic laughed on her shoulder, hitting his knee and seeming to just crack up hysterically. "Wait, you mean you two were in on this!?" she shouted out.
"Ha, I am an animator. I can make him move just on thinking how to do it on a computer alone. Watch." He turned in his chair, and stared at Classic Sonic.
Classic Sonic got up, moved her hair into place, and helped her pin her hair back up into a bun.
"..Wow, so like, you can telepathically control them by thinking of how you would simulate that action on your computer?"
"It's my job." He lifted his hands up and shrugged, before offering Dr. Hope to sit down again. "I saw him from the moment you came up, and after seeing you mimic him, I thought I'd have some fun!" he admitted, "Please don't leave yet. I would love to have an actual conversation with you." he teased.
"…Hmph." Now she was really embarrassed, as she sat down and put her jacket back down on the table, placing her sunglasses on her head. "What's your name?"
"Kagayaku Hoshi. It means… in English let me think… Shining Star?"
"Good name. Sounds a bit like a famous Idol though."
"Haha, can't always live the 's yours?"
"O-oh! Um…I'm Dr. Hope."
She nervously rubbed her sweaty hands together underneath the table, feeling really nervous but strangely… it felt good.
Classic Sonic still hung on her shoulder, as he looked down to see her jitters getting the best of her, and smiled pleasantly to her, as if he knew that she really liked this guy.
"Doctor? Oh, is that your first name?"
"What? N-no, it's a title!"
"Really? That's a relief, I was really hoping to call you by your first name. If that's alright by you. Since,… they do that in Amercia."
He laughed, and she giggled too, having the biggest smile on her face, as Classic Sonic rolled his eyes at her cute actions.
"Sophie. I'm not sure what my name means though."
"Well, let's look it up." He stared at Classic Sonic.
Classic Sonic looked to Dr. Hope, then him, before realizing he was staring at him, and 'Ugh'ed by tilting his head back and running to the computers.
"You can make him look things up for you?" She grinned, "Oh that's so evil, but genius!"
He smirked, "Well… I only like to do it when it's Genesis. He doesn't complain too much."
"Genesis… you've said that name before."
"Oh? I guess you didn't hear. Genesis is Classic Sonic's nickname around here. When the real Sonic needs to escape to his past for a bit, he goofs around and changes into that form." He took a drink from his paper cup. "He's our favorite Sonic around here. Because he just does his own thing, and sometimes, if he likes you, he'll sleep on your cubicles wall. It's almost like his declaration of friendship towards you!" he teased, raising his glass as Classic Sonic came stumbling back with a laptop in his hands. "Ah, there's the little hero. Thanks buddy."
He raised the laptop over his head and glared at Hoshi.
He smiled and picked the laptop up, as Classic Sonic spinned and jumped up on Dr. Hope's shoulders again.
"Woah." Hoshi looked up a moment, "He only ever does that with his favorite people. That's odd… he doesn't take to strangers very fast…"
Classic Sonic laid down on her shoulder, having one hand holding up his head and one leg dangling off her shoulder as he relaxed and grinned, having a video game sound effect as he did so. "Wa-o!"
Classic Sonic then jumped on her head, laying down with his hands behind his head, and further making a statement.
"Woah! Maybe he's fallen for you!" Hoshi kid, as Classic Sonic looked to him with wide eyes, blinking, and then 'yuck'd and ran off. "Haha, or maybe not so much."
"Eh, that's okay. But you said the regular Sonic did this? But the regular Sonic is still running around…"
"Really? I thought he was just running around as Genesis for a while."
"…huh, how odd…" she looked away, thinking it over in her head.
"Hmm… Well, here we are! In Greek, Sophie means 'Wisdom.' And Hope… is a Christian virtue. So maybe your wisdom brings hope to others? You are a Game Character Counselor, right?"
"Yeah, but some people don't see it that way…" She looked away, remembering what Cy said.
"Hey, let me tell you something." He leaned forward, looking like he was about to say something meaningful and true. "Ever since you came to first help Sonic, all the characters were buzzing about how amazing and passionate you were. A little quirky, but they loved you." he held his hand up horizontally and shook it a bit at 'quirky' but it just made Dr. Hope laugh. "You have an amazing, and important career. Maybe you don't exactly help 'us' out." He used the bunny ears. "But you definitely help the characters. And let's face it, if they're not happy and willing to work, then our jobs get ten times harder. So in a way, I should thank you. You do help us out."
Dr. Hope stared into his eyes for a moment, before leaping up and leaning closer to him. "Do you want to… I don't know… get a real.. drink sometime? Like,… a soda?"
He laughed, "I'd love too." He nodded. "But…" he helped her get up, "You have a meeting?"
She glanced at the clock, "CRAP."
"That's a swear word in Japanese, be careful." He tapped his nose, helping her out, and walked back to his work. "Good luck!" he waved.
She shouted back, "You too!" and walked away, but kept looking back to try and see where his office desk was. When she found him finally sitting at one of the large square ones, she 'YES'd to herself and fist pumped, seeing as she now knew where he worked on that floor.
Amy was finally out of her room in the virtual world and walking to one of her 'jobs' she had to do. She was carrying her script when Sonic zipped by, knocking them out of her hands by having them fly off in his wind turbulence. "Oh no!" she cried out, trying to catch them all.
Classic Sonic zipped by before seeing the mess, and looked shocked, as he was about to help her, before seeing the other Sonic. He made a shocked game sound, and ran to hide.
"Oh..! Amy~" The other Sonic stopped, turning around to see her, and then grinning a wicked smirk before leaning against a wall, watching her pick up the papers. "How have you been?"
"….I'm… managing." She picked up her script as tried to ignore him.
"Aw, you're not still mad at me for that harsh truth are you?" he stepped over the papers, before slamming his foot on the one she was reaching for, and startled her. "You know I only said it cause I cared, right? I don't mean to hurt you…" he started to move down, bending to be at her level, as Classic Sonic gripped the side of the wall he was peeking at them from, glaring a death glare that could pierce through solid ice!
"It's just… part of my programming.. I guess." He shrugged, as her hand froze and twitched a moment. He noticed this, and smiled a little more, before hiding his smile and lifting the paper under his foot, and holding it out in front of her. "Maybe if you were more like the Rosy I used to love… maybe then." He let the paper fall into her trembling hand, as her eyes widened, feeling her world crash down on her as her code didn't know where to go.
She was literally frozen in a looping of code, unable to process what to do or say next.
Seeing the emptiness in her eyes, the other Sonic did his signature snicker that he's been doing since his editing, and got up, pushing her with his foot to watch her fall over and still not be able to move. "hahaha! You're pathetic!" he cried out in laughter, as Classic Sonic had the last straw.
With fury in his heart, and hatred in his eyes, he dashed forward and headbutted the imposter Sonic in the gutt, before spinning into a ball, and whacking him in the face, flying up and uncurling, he took the slight pause in the air to create a fist with his hand and slammed it down into the back of the other Sonic's head.
"OWWW! What the-!?" The other Sonic turned to see Classic Sonic land as paper flung around him in a cool manner. He slowly lifted himself up, and clenched his fist, turning around to glare at him. "…Who… what are you? Daddy said I was the only Sonic left!" he roared, and took off, tripping a few times on Amy's script before rushing to look for Eggman.
Classic Sonic sighed in relief, and quickly ran to Amy, cooing sweetly in his video game noise vocabulary and seeming to try and get her to wake up from her endless loop. She wasn't all there, as he pushed her over on her back, and lightly kissed her cheek.
The programming, buried deep in her, had a response to that, and she gasped for air, now being able to find an escape to her looping system and looked around, "Sonic? Sonic! I felt it, I know that was the real you, where..?"
Classic Sonic moved back, looking a bit skittish as she spoke.
"Wha… Genesis?" she got up slowly, and shook her head. "Oh… Wait, did you..? I thought Sonic…" her ears bent back. "How are there two of you?"
"…" Classic Sonic stared at her with gentle kindness, looking sorrowfully toward her as he opened his mouth, but nothing came out and he just looked down, closing it, realizing she wouldn't hear the words anyway.
"…He's different… isn't he?" She turned away, tears forming again, as he stepped back, flinching almost at her response, and shook his head, trying to calm her down.
He looked around before rushing to gather the script pieces up, and then shifted them all back into order and placing them on her lap, before reaching a hand up to caress her cheek.
She giggled, and looked back at him. "At least you're noticing me more now. That's a sudden change I like." She was forced to stay positive, she had cried too much and her programming wouldn't allow her to keep falling back into sadness. Ever since American Amy's glitch, the company has taken extra precaution to make sure the Original Amy, Japanese Amy, didn't glitch under any circumstances. They were threw with risks… which might be why they quickly edited Sonic after learning he had new script… to keep him safe.
"I just wish you were all back. The real you… lost script and all." She took Classic Sonic in her hands and embraced him, but it wasn't your typical Amy Rose hug, it was more of a longing and forlorn hug.
Classic Sonic wasn't too good with hugs, but knowing what was happening at Sega, he decided to let this one go. He only struggled for a moment, as was his programming, but he then rested his hands on her shoulder, and turned his head, allowing himself to just stay there and let her hug him.
"Heh, that's the first time you didn't try and escape me. Maybe you're a clone Sonic left for me, hmm?" She thought of what Sonic did before, in tricking her to stop thinking about American Amy, and if he did something similar now. She put Classic Sonic down and sighed, "Well, I don't want that." She admitted. "I want the real Sonic… I'm sorry. Thank you for your help, but I have to go." She picked up her script on her lap and started running off, before looking back at Classic Sonic, and waving to him. "Thanks! My little hero!" she blew him a kiss, smiled, and ran off.
Classic Sonic waited for her to be out of sight, before reaching his hand up, saying goodbye…
But he closed it. As if catching her kiss, and gently held it to his chest.
The alarm suddenly went off, as he looked around, and his eyes went back to intense 'time for a fight!' face and dashed off to find out what was happening, his little figure-8 legs taking him wherever he needed to be!
-Meeting room-
"W-what's going on?!"
"Is it an earthquake?"
The meeting room was interrupted as Dr. Hope gripped the table, and the entire building shook as a red alarm light flickered above them, a siren coming on.
"WHOHOHOHOH! This is your new boss speaking, HEEELLLOO?" Eggman's voice came on the microphone. "I've been waiting so long to prove to you, pitiful 4Ds that I, Doctor Eggman, can be just as real to your world as I am to mine~"
"What's going on?" "Is this some kind of joke!?" "Did he leak through the system!?"
"Sonic…" Dr. Hope raced out of the room, charging out before Hoshi stopped her in his arms.
"Sophie! Quick! You have to see this!" he grabbed her hand and quickly ran her to the main entrance of SEGA.
"WHOHOHHO!" Eggman was in a huge virtual robot, that was sucking the electricity from the computers on the different floors to actually make it start phasing into the real world.
"How… how is that possible?" Dr. Hope asked.
"It's not really phasing." Hoshi explained, "He's hacked into our computers, and through a magnetic pull, he's literally building a robot! It looks like it's phasing because the original design of it is still in the other realm!"
"Then… what I'm seeing is a blueprint.. where's… the real robot then!?"
Miles away, a factory was freaking out, having been hacked into as the other Sonic ran a muck in it, snickering as a magnetic field was generated and car and other electric pieces began being hacked into, mostly this was happening to printers, and other electric things at Sega, and started forming half of a robot, before being pulled through the air and tumbling through the streets to blast through the entrance to Sega's main entrance room.
The receptionist was crying, freaking out, as the Robot was literally spiraling into existence above her.
"I think it just knocked." Hoshi stated, as Dr. Hope rushed down stairs.
"What are you doing!? It's an electric, metal tornado down there! You could get hurt!"
"I have to find Sonic!"
"What?"
"Sorry, Genesis!"
"Genesis?"
Sonic burst into the room, snickering as he waved to Eggman, "It's all operational, Dad!"
"Ugh, Eggman! Call me Eggman!"
"Eggy!"
"UGH! If I didn't have to have you to make this possible, I swear…"
"What's going on?" An official burst from one of the rooms downstairs, as the elevator was ripped from the wall and sucked into the tornado as it joined to make Eggman's Robot.
"Hear ye, hear ye!" The monitors on every device flickered to show Eggman's face. "I, Doctor Eggman, have seen the… recent fault, in Sonic's behavior, and have taken it upon myself to create a NEW Sonic for you! As I am, now, of course, the new owner and CEO of Sega corporations! I was thinking of changing the name to EggIndustries, but we can work that out in copyright later~"
The people gasped, as Dr. Hope stood bravely below the monster Robot's tornado, as it finished its creation, and Dr. Eggman was the first video game character to ever find a way into the human realm.
"Ah, Dr. Hope. So glad to finally meet you~" he chimed, as the robot turned around and stood above her. "My~ I thought someone of your field would look more… scholarly! Happy to be disappointed, I assure you." he stated, as the monitors showed him looking at her with a big grin. "What can I do for you, little lady?"
"Heh, knock it off, Eggman." She boldly stated, taking off her jacket and putting her hands to her hips. "You think you've successfully taken over Sega? Considering your still not really here?"
The room grew silent as the wind ceased, but the magnetic force still held as electricity kept Eggman connected to his machine, as it lowered itself down, bending and almost kneeling, and seemed to intimidate with Eggman's grimaced glare at Dr. Hope's small frame. "I AM here… And I would be careful what I say… Dr. Hope. You wouldn't want a broken bone or two, would you? Those don't heal like us cartoons do." he bellowed.
"No, you're right. I just wanted to congratulate you on being the first ever game character to control a non-living object in this realm." She clapped her hands, but no one clapped with her. "Ah, that's great. But you know, how are you going to fit that bad boy into a small CEO office?"
"I'll manage." He wasn't certain what she was getting at.
The imposter Sonic jumped on the robot's arm, and glared down at her, not amused by her boldness or entirely sure what she was getting at. "Hey! Why aren't you scared and trembling like the other pathetic humans?" he asked.
"…Well, for one. You're not real. Two, your little creation isn't NEARLY as frightening as the REAL deal. And third-"
"Woah, woah, woah… real deal?" Eggman tossed his robot's arm so that Sonic fell off it, as he made his robot crawl on his knees to get a closer look at Dr. Hope. "What do you mean? There's only ONE of these robots."
"…I wasn't talking about the robot."
"…Hmm?" Eggman reared the Robot's head back, as Classic Sonic took his first step in the real world. "..That's.. not possible." Eggman's robot moved back.
"I'd like you to meet the animatronic stimulator known as AI-B. For Alternate Intelligence- Body. Made by my people, which is kinda why I'm considered a Doctor? And my field is important. Where ever you are Mr. Clyde, I hope you just wet yourself.." Dr. Hope looked around, glaring, before pacing around the robot.
Sonic's prototype animatronic followed after her, though it wasn't very expressive.
"You see, while you were having fun gathering up all your stuff, I got a few animator friends of another animator cute friend of mine to start up the system. I went into today's meeting to introduce a way for people who can't see Game Characters to have an opportunity, even without being a member of their company, still interact and see them. I thought the fans would go ga-ga over it." She stopped and spread her arms out wide, not the least bit frightened.
The imposter Sonic got up, glaring, "B-but that's not me!"
"You're right. I think I know exactly who this Sonic is." Dr. Hope grinned.
-Flashback-
Sonic surrendered his code to Eggman, as Eggman snickered and put that code into Sonic's, tampering with it from the moment he got it with his own code, and creating something completely new through it.
When Eggman disappeared back into the virtual world, Sonic poured out another complete copy of himself, making sure Eggman only got a SAMPLE of what he was.
The other self he configured into Classic Sonic, as he looked around, only being a clone.
"Look, I can't trust Eggman." He stated, as Classic Sonic looked up to him, worried… "I need you to absorb all my original script. Turn me into the clone, and that way, I'll be free through you. Are you willing to trade places with me, Genesis?"
Classic Sonic nodded, knowing it was his duty after all.
The clone's data and Sonic's original data went flying through the air, colliding in a huge massive cloud, as the Original Sonic landed in Classic Sonic's form and position on the ground, free of the straps, and the clone now in straps, in his position. He nodded his head in a 'thank you. It's for Amy.' And took off.
Eggman came back however, after the men had already touched what they thought the Original Sonic was up, and forced his new and corrupted edits into the new Sonic, turning him into his personal Sonic puppet.
-End of Flashback-
"Grk! I was out-witted it seems!" Eggman grinded his teeth together. "No matter!"
The Robot reared it's arm up. "If you pathetic 4Ds want to live, then sign over the company to ME and all will be well with you all~ You can work and go home at your leisure, once I ROBOTIZE YOUR BRAINS THAT IS! WHOHOHOHOO!"
A lot of the members started crying, as the receptionist tried to run for the door.
"Oh? Is someone trying to escape their fate?" The robot reached forward and grabbed her, as she screamed, and lifted her up to his face. "Hehe, now, where's that Doctor..? Hmm?"
The Sonic animatronic suddenly dashed up at lightning speeds up the robot, and began spin dashing into it, breaking the pieces and magnetic field apart.
"Urrk!" Eggman was amazed to see the animatronic moving so fast, but for a moment, felt excited at how amazing it felt to have a real battle in the real realm! "Ha…haha…HAHA! COME AT ME, SONIC!" the thrill of battle led him to completely let his fear and anger go, as he completely enjoyed being defeated!
The robot battled, but the animatronic moved more swifter and better than any device of this century ever created. He spun and kicked through the hand that held the receptionist, helping her down to safety as he ran to continue to tear the robot in half. The magnetic field didn't really affect him, considering he was being remotely controlled and his frame was made of heavy metals that couldn't easily be lifted up or manipulated by Eggman's electric pulses.
"Go Sonic!" Dr. Hope cheered from above, having climbed the stairs to get a better view. "Beat him up!"
"You-!" Eggman reached for her, but she quickly ran into the hall, hearing the building fall apart form his reach for her. "I will remember this, Dr. Hope!"
"Hehe, Eggman knows my name!" Dr. Hope felt goose-bumps creep up her arm as she rubbed them for a moment before sliding to a halt at Hoshi's desk. Him and a bunch of other animators worked together at lightning speeds to help Sonic multitask and have the robot moving the way it should.
"I originally had it on a huge remote control, but computer access works too." She teased.
"Is this really a laughing matter?" Hoshi only glanced at her for a split second, before typing as fast as he could and clicking with expert timing. "I don't even understand how none of us know what this software really is but we're able to maneuver it like a pro!" he stated.
"Well.. you're the tool, Sonic's the real one fighting. See that?" she showed him the three different colored lines that moved like ribbons in a rectangle grid. "Those are Sonic's brain waves, at least, there's his electric signal from his file data base."
"Is that what you meant by 'I gotta go find Genesis?'" he asked.
"Yes. Yes it was, and thanks for rushing to get your friends in on this too." She leaned over and kissed his cheek, before dashing away and praying that wasn't too bold of her. "Spur of the moment, sorry!" she quickly apologized, just in case.
"No need!" he cried back, laughing, as she stopped and blushed.
Tails and the others were in the virtual world, finally finding Eggman and stopping him from over there.
When that happened, they also defeated the other Sonic, fizzing him out of existence and destroying his faked code.
"NOO!" Eggman was disconnected from the real world, which meant his giant robot's magnetic field that was keeping it together disconnected, a field of junked up and trashed electronic parts crashed to the ground.
Amy materialized back into the front of Sega's entrance, and looked around, "Sonic? Sonic!"
She couldn't touch the wreckage, as her hands and legs phased through it. "SONIKUU!" she cried out, worried he may be lost.
"Where's his file!?"
"Hold on, he's fine, look!"
From the pile of scrap, came a metallic dark grey arm.
It pushed the trash off of himself and shook himself, before walking out of the mess, looking a little like a Metal Sonic.
"Oh thank goodness!" Dr. Hope clutched her heart. "I almost felt myself have a heart attack. I need to get the disk out of him and back into the system!"
"I thought it was wireless?"
"If that disk broke, it's not!" she rushed downstairs. "MORE THAN A COUNSULAR! HECK YEAH!" she jumped in mid-stride, happy her invention she's been working on with other professors finally paid off.
Amy covered her mouth, glad to see him as she dashed forward.
When she leaped, he stopped and acted like he was going to catch her, but she phased through him, and fell on the ground. "Ah…O-oh… your in that world now.." she turned slowly, sorrow in her eyes as she worried. "Will-.. I mean." She shook her head, rotating her body to face him on the ground. "You're coming back.. right?"
The Sonic animatronic looked back to her, still no expression.
"Sonic! Don't move!"
Dr. Hope reached into his back, and pulled out the disk, as the robot turned off, and was disconnected.
-A few hours later-
"Amy! Amy! I kept telling you! It's the real me! No edits, I promise!"
"Oh Sonic~"
"Hey, you two, come on. The officials are freaking out over Eggman's damages, and other companies are concerned for the same. You need to first make a statement about that before saying anything about you two growing a fling for each other."
"Ah! A f-fling..?"
"Don't you back out now, Sonic The Hedgehog!"
"Urk! I wasn't thinking that! Honest! But can't I just talk about how completely AWESOME it was to feel real for once? I felt kinda heavy though…"
"If you stepped on my foot in that robot, Sonic, I would have had a shattered foot bone be considered powder in me, and it would have been amputated by now."
"..Ouch."
"Ew."
"Sonic, Amy, Dr. Hope? The heads are ready to see you now." Joked the man who poked his head out. "Get it? Hehe, cause their heads on a monitor screen!" he laughed.
"….Hold my hand, Amy." Sonic took her hand as she looked cutely up to him.
"Why?"
"Because as of this moment, I'm not gonna let them take me away from your side."
"Oh, Sonic~"
"My OTP feels, though."
"Sophie, be professional! Or I'll tell Hoshi you drew a picture of him while trying to complete a crossword puzzle.. again…"
"SHUT UP! THAT WAS ONE TIME!"
"…but he said, Again?"
"ONE. TIME."
The three entered the room, as Sonic mumbled something about 'her anime drawing skills are terrible' and the door closed behind them.
"Ehem, as you know, we don't know how to feel about Eggman actually leaking into this world, nor do we appreciate all the expenses we now have to make because of him… this has gone too far… and there's really no one to blame or point fingers at but ourselves." One of the men spoke, before another intervened.
"That's why we've come to the conclusion that all Game Characters should remain in the virtual world, constantly monitored, and no more freedom given until further notice-"
"That's not fair!" Sonic shouted out.
"Silence! This is half your fault too!"
"How so?"
"Sonic…" Everyone froze as the CEO's voice came on. "You know what you did. We tried to edit you and you ran away, took the form of your classic self, and betrayed this company's trust."
"You were going to take away pure and untouched data from me. I want that data! I used to think it was a burden but now…" he looked back at Amy, who smiled and gripped his hand tighter. "…Now I just can't afford to lose it."
"…Why are you two holding hands?"
As Japan now has some building repairs to do, understanding to take place, and definite fears of what is to come with increasing distress of Game Character's leaking into this world, what will happen when we return to Sonic IRL? Will Sonamy be alright? Or will more problems arise to push them farther apart from their happy ending? Stay tuned~
AND WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD WITH SONAMY!?