Sonic IRL 9:
Character Flaws
By: Cutegirlmayra (Hello once more! I dedicate this to those who have stuck with me. I've read a lot of hate recently and there's just been a lot of disappointments in my life, which is making me sad overall. But those loving comments and sweet replies from friends and loved ones motivate me to not care about the sad and move forward into the 'what makes me happy!'. So thanks again! Here's a little something for ya~)
The meeting was closed for a further covering of the subject to another time, as Dr. Hope penciled it in and knew she would probably be leading the main topic… while they waited and discussed the finances from Eggman's rebellion, the company decided to 'ground him' so to speak, and he was officially confined to the virtual world, in his little file, where they could rebuild and hopefully make some sense of it all.
Until then, Dr. Hope was asked to leave. As most had considered her a 'disturber' of the natural and normal way of things, blaming her at times for the 'oddness' of the sonic characters that were being expressed far too greatly in America and Japan, the places she was called to work in.
However, all over the world, the Data of Original Sonic was wirelessly tampering with every Sonic out there, causing other 'odd' anomalies in each company.
So, Dr. Hope said goodbye, especially to Hoshi, which was a sad moment to say the least, and headed out on her long awaited vacation with her friends.
During her vacation, many offers sprung up from other companies, asking for her to take a job with them and their characters.
Seems the news of SEGA's chaos wasn't dampening her reputation, as most didn't even know she was 'kinda' involved in it.
She had to turn them down, however, feeling it her responsibility to first, relax and de-stress, and two, return to SEGA to 'finish what she started'.
She knew that Cy would be all over this, and couldn't afford to let the Sonic team down again… not after investing so much of her own heart into what was happening there now…
And besides…
She could see Hoshi again, right?
Halfway around the world, America was starting its big push on Sonic Boom! The next line of the Sonic series to grace the media through television broadcasting since Sonic X. The excitement was more than there, as Fans grew anxious at the new prospects to unfold…
"Have you seen him yet?" Japanese Sonic asked through a skype call to his American self, well within his own office once more and lazily having his hand holding up his head as his body was leaning extremely far to the right side.
"No. They won't even let me see more than what you and I saw of Rise of Lyric. I've heard mostly about the 3DS, but they won't even let me see my own kid!" he flung his head down on his desk, upset by the rules and regulations. "Emmmmm.." he groaned out on the desk, having the noise muffled as he 'ugh'ed coming back up and rubbing his head, flipping back his quills. "Was it this bad when I was being born?"
"Haha! I think you're finally feeling what it's like to be a father of an official 'Sonic' coming around. After all, since now, all the other Sonic's have been based off moi~" Japanese Sonic gestured both hands in to himself, closing his eyes in a haughty way and smiling, leaning back before laughing. "I waited awhile to meet you, that's true. But you've become a very different 'Sonic' from me. Due to cultures and all that…" he shook his head, sighing comedically, "tsk, tsk, tsk… You've become just as loud and rude as any typical American…" He then looked up, with a big smile on his face, "But I kinda like you, so I suppose, I'll keep you." He teased.
"Ha. Ha. Ha." Sonic faked laughing, folding his arms. He leaned back on his chair and kicked his feet up. "Admit it! I'm the best other you ever had!"
"I like myself equally." He continued to tease, but then continued with the topic at hand. "Have they told you anything about him yet?"
"Light-hearted, comedian, hero, still as fast as ever." Sonic returned to his normal lazy look of a hand holding up his head, but this time he leaned and looked away, before scratching his head. "…What if… What if I can't stand him?" Sonic asked, almost as if he was sincerely worried about that, as he lifted his head up and gestured to his Japanese Original self.
The Japanese Sonic laughed, putting a hand up to his face and then slowly lowering himself to his desk, finding that extremely funny. "If he's even nearly as entertaining as you, I think you'll both be fine. But I'm sure you'll rival for the spotlight and the last joke. I can already see that."
"Yeah… okay." Sonic looked away again.
"…You'll be a good Dad." Japanese Sonic finally spoke out something comforting, seeing as Sonic was feeling the jitters of having to raise a new Sonic around the place.
"….You think so?" He looked back at his other self, smiling.
"…Well." Japanese Sonic made a face, as American Sonic frowned and half-glared at him in a funny way.
"Out with it." He teased. "I'm going to suck at helping and change the whole fabric of the poor guy's life by doing something crazy, and not be around a whole lot to assist in it. Much like you, pa." he mocked in a joking way.
Japanese Sonic just chuckled and shook his head. "You'll do fine. But the real reason I called was… actually about that…"
The two paused for a moment, a serious turn suddenly taking on the conversation…
"…How's your… 'relations' with Amy?" he asked.
"…Why?" American Sonic took on a bit of suspicion, turning his head up and to the side, raising his eyebrow. "Has our Eggman took down our office, no." He then added, "Has there been any changes to my data from America? No." he continued. "And have I kept my promise? Well, honestly, I'm working on it." Sonic seemed to be getting a little frustrated at the question, and Japanese Sonic quickly interrupted.
He waved his hands out in front of him, a nervous smile on his face, "Hey, hey, watch it… I was just asking, is all." He then sighed, "There's been a lot of other me's that have been asking me questions lately… I figured you may as well. So I jumped to the point."
"…" American Sonic folded his arms, looking away and putting his feet down.
"…Have… you had questions?" Japanese Sonic raised his eyebrow too. "I know that you must have felt the data shift. After all, I'm kinda being more and more inclined towards… well, you know."
"…Do you like her." American Sonic looked down, mumbling the question out and acting as if he didn't say anything.
His nose sniffed, and he refused to look back at the screen, staring down and glancing at the pictures around his office.
"….I am liking her." Japanese Sonic finally spoke out, and turned his head. "The real question is… is that affecting you?"
American Sonic remained silent, looking down, before straightening his back and putting on a smirk for his other self. "Are you kidding? I practically started it." He tried to shake it off with a humorous gloat, as Japanese Sonic chuckled, but then again tried to bring it back to a serious note, which was hard for these two to keep anyway.
Talking about emotions with a Sonic was… challenging… to say the least.
"I said I was working on it, alright?" American Sonic finally admitted, them both keeping up their smiles but clearly trying to be honest as best as they could. He shrugged and leaned forward, "But just get one thing straight here…" he placed his pointer finger down on the desk. "Don't do anything… without consulting the rest of us. You should at least consider how we're all feeling here about this. I'm… supportive, to say the least, but we should at least be aware of the new… 'new' that's coming. Alright?"
"I'm fully aware of all your rights to know that." Japanese Sonic nodded, and smirked again. "So if you ever feel a little weird around Amy…" He bounced his head up a little bit. "Call me."
American Sonic pointed his finger at him, a funny threat. "I better not." He joked, almost sighing it out as he shook his head when Japanese Sonic laughed.
"Well, they're still talking about it. But don't expect anything sudden and dramatic. I'm taking it one step at a time till I know how to approach the company about it. I hate defending myself, but that's what happens when you suddenly bring a new character trait out into view, I suppose."
"You suppose?" American Sonic turned back to himself on the screen. "Look, pal. Don't suppose nothing." He swiped his hand out with his wrist, slightly. "The company isn't going to take anything regarding 'you falling' well. But at least I kept my secret stuff on the down low, unlike some people!" he gestured his hands out and up at the Sonic on the screen, as that Sonic shook his head, and looked unamused with a smile.
"I'm hanging up now before I get further insulted."
"That's right. Run away. Leave me to my awkward realizations that I may be making all of Amy's fantasies come true."
"Not quite so dramatic."
"I'd hate to see what your definition of 'not so dramatic' really is.."
"You may have to coming up."
That last statement shook American Sonic… and he wasn't okay with it.
He was uneasy with his promise, but was trying his best to be kind. He didn't know much about love other than how his heart felt to loose his Amy to glitches, now he had to watch her revision and wonder if the same fate would befall her, and try desperately to make sure that doesn't happen.
He would watch what he said or try and find the best possible way to approach whatever she was doing. It was kinda taxing him, and he didn't like it one bit.
However, he knew he didn't need to be so cautious, but something just made him worried he may cause another glitch by doing something her code couldn't respond too, and that….
That scared him.
"Chin up. You look horrible!"
"Gee, thanks."
"Just chill out. I'm only messin' with ya. Hey, do me a favor and type again when you hear anything."
"Will do."
"And also…"
"…."
"Be yourself."
The screen turned off, and American Sonic leaned back and scratched his head.
He wasn't too sure who he was anymore…
In the games, American made, that is. Amy had been changed a lot too. No more random death hugs, just simple pleasant conversations, but not frequently. He was spending more time with Tails than ever though, which he liked, but he wondered if the company was being just as cautious as he was.
American Amy dashed around and jumped over a couch in the lounging area, sliding under the pool table, and opening the door out of the room. "Sorry!" She cried out, rushing to a nearby computer and downloading herself in.
She materialized into a bunch of glowing green data bits that burst back into the computer, sending her to the virtual world where she sighed, and watched a little metallic tubed machine come out of the ground.
"RESISTERED CODE 'AMY ROSE' INTO VIRTUAL SPACE."
"Computer, send me to my file, I want to see something in my 'mind's eye' please." She cutely put her hands together behind her, and leaned towards the machine, waiting cutely for it to respond.
"ACCESS CODE REQUIRED FOR TRANSACTION."
"9,23,1993." She stated her birthday.
"…ACCESS ACCEPTED. GRANTED ADMISSION INTO FILE."
She felt her data begin to slowly get sucked in and giggled at the fast movement of data being pulled through the tubes of the computer data and finally reaching her file.
Nice and shiny~
She opened it and jumped in.
Her mind was perfectly operational, unlike the memories she had of her former life, this mind was showcasing all her old memories on its screens, and her main control panel flared to life when she touched it.
The lights glowed white as she giggled, "They fixed you up quite well, huh?" she looked over her coding and quickly started typing.
She saw an image of Sonic and her laughing, and sighed, swooning over it.
She then thought of some of the questions she's been having, and started typing that in too.
"Now.. let's see… ah-ha! Skills and Talents!"
She had read in some magazine somewhere that skills and talents can lead you to finding someone attractive, since people were usually fond of those who had many talents and abilities that showcased their most 'flattering' features and self. It was known to be an expression, more than to impress, but to woo as well.
Something interesting popped up on the files, and she tilted her head at it.
"What's this..?" She had always wondered….
Amy has the unique ability to have bad guys question their motives.
This 'questioning themselves' results in them rethinking their ways and doing good things.
This can be shown through a few examples:
Shadow's decision to spare earth in Sonic Adventure 2
Omega's change of heart in Sonic Adventure
Silver's confliction over killing Sonic in Sonic '06
She thought about this as she scrolled down through the file, revealing things even Wikipedia doesn't know about.
She put a finger to her chin. "I can get people… to do what I want?" her interpretation wasn't quite on the money… but she seemed to smirk at the thought.
"Hmm… I was wondering about any further abilities I may possess other than my hammer…, but now I'm even more curious about how I can tap into this power! These coincidences must have been through my ability, right?"
After all, the poor thing was bored.
With Sonic always being so weird around her, and the others just trying to get used to her, she felt very much an outcast or 'the weird one out' and didn't want to be known as 'the new Amy' but as just plain, Amy!
She was actually looking for a solution to THAT problem… but this would have to do to for the time being…
She giggled and raced off, seeing if this could actually work and be a thing!
She wanted so desperately to be liked and accepted as herself, and she was tried of walking by and seeing people look at her like she was in a casket at a funeral.
She didn't want to be the zombie of a glitch.
And she had to find a way to prove that, but for now, she just wanted to have some fun for a change of pace! And honestly, a change in the mood too.
Back in Japan, Amy also was trying to keep her mind off of things.
Being told by Dr. Hope to 'wait' until the date they promised to discuss the new changes further. Problem was? She didn't know what to do just yet.
It seems her feelings of 'looking for something to do' was also influencing the other Amys'…
She sat at a desk, lowering her head down to it and sighing, before she looked up and saw Sonic talking to American Sonic in English.
"Huh..?" She blinked her eyes, realizing he hadn't switched his language settings into English, and was still speaking through his normal Japanese voice.
She couldn't understand a word he said, only little pieces, like her name, but that was it.
She thought he might be worried about his other selves, since they were calling him pretty regularly now about this and that, and he was helping them out. It was admirable, to see Sonic caring about how his other selves were taking in the new data that wasn't even naturally apart of them. It really was wirelessly indirect, and all connected through Japanese Sonic, meaning that the other SEGA corporations had no idea about the new code, only from what they had heard.
The 'invisible code' was more accurate to call it really, a code that was being transmitted through her Sonic, to all his other copies all over the world.
Whether the companies wanted it or not… they couldn't do anything about it unless they got the original Sonic.
It was crazy how everything was connected to him, but it made him even more special to her.
Because he was caring about her, and that meant all the other Sonic's must be beginning to care about their Amys too. And that was exciting news.
When he hung up, he walked over to her. "Thanks for waiting, Amy." He put his hands to his hips, and sighed, "Wooo… I didn't realized how many of my other selves would be affected by this… whole new thing." He lowered his head, before shaking his arms out in a funny way to show the awkwardness of the whole new thing, as Amy giggled and got up, having patiently waited for him to be done.
"How'd you do that?"
"Do what?"
She cutely pouted, "Come on! Talk to America in perfect English!"
"Oh, that." He looked away and scratched his head, "Everyone knows English, Amy. It's kinda necessary when we work closely with them over any other place." He shrugged, as she looked a little offended by that. "What?"
"I…" she turned away, a little embarrassed. "I don't know English very well…"
"What?" She was muttering, and he couldn't hear her. "Speak a little louder, I can't hear you?"
"I can't speak English without the language settings!" she finally admitted, before covering her face. "There, laugh at me."
He did.
She threw her arms down and looked cutely upset.
"What? You told me too! That's basically permission!"
She hit his shoulder.
"Ow! Okay, okay… geez. Well, not everyone can. I just figured since you talked with American Amy so much, you'd be able to know some." He rubbed his arm, but looked a little like this situation was kinda funny to him.
He rolled his eyes as Amy turned away, folding her arms.
"It's not as easy as you think!" she puffed out.
He snickered at her, "Drama, drama, drama. Is that the only genre, you know?"
He suddenly did something very unexpected, and hugged her from behind.
She was still getting used to having Sonic try out his old data, but this was rather… nice.
She giggled, turning around and hugging him as he let go from her response.
"Eheh. I thought you might like that." He closed one of his eyes as she tried to snuggle up close but realized he wasn't hugging her back and pulled away, pouting.
"Why'd you stop?"
"Cause I think it's rather cute when I do something and suddenly stop, to see you pull away and make that face." He teased, closing his eyes and mocking her with a big wide grin. "Heeee."
"You're cruel!" She pushed him away, as he wobbled back and got his stance again.
"Wha-woah..! Phew." He let out a sigh, putting a hand to his stomach before straightening himself out. "Give me a break, Amy. I'm at least trying." He tilted his head with an awkward sweat drop. "Really, Amy… you act like this is easy for me."
"It should be." She looked away, not liking how 'love' had to be a difficult thing for him.
He sighed again, "Here we go, more drama." He leaned his head back and lowered himself slightly down and away too. "Listen, I'm trying to get my others to get the picture and accept it as it is. But that's hard to do when they've lived their whole lives one way,.. and consider how I'm feeling! I have the data, they don't, they just feel the influence of it through me." He explained.
"It's still their will, what's wrong with more emotions? Shouldn't that make you feel.. realer or something?" she turned around and put her hands to his chest, as he put his to her sides, smiling nervously with more sweat around his face.
"It's not that simple…"
She may never understand…
Suddenly, a thought pierced Sonic's mind, as he blinked his eyes and looked down to her. "Hey, aren't you supposed to be focusing on something else? Dr. Hope said you needed a hobby for the meantime until SEGA saw us again." He let her go and moved out of her grasp, holding his arms out before folding them, and looking to her like she wasn't doing what she was told.
"Oh, don't give me that! I want to be with you!" she suddenly leaped forward, and Sonic held out a hand to her shoulder, as she repeatedly threw her arms out in a flailing motion to get to him, very anime of them to act out.
"Come on, Amy. I can't spend every waking moment with you." He then made a cute fish face, "You have to be patient~"
"OooooOOOOhhhh, Stop teasing me!" she put her hands up close to her face, shouting, before moving his arm and ducking under before tackling him to the ground. "Ah-ha!"
"Oo-wah-ahh!" he fell backwards and struggled, before sighing and realizing she wasn't gonna let him go so easily. "Oh bother.." he thought about his other Sonics', and the poor mess he would cause them with all these new data codes for different situations with Amy, and wondered how they respond to them.
He knew America would just grin and bear it, for old promises sakes, but the other nations weren't so easy…
Well, okay. France wouldn't care less either way.
But still…
"Hmm?" Amy opened her eyes from gushing out her devotions through her hugs to him before realizing his thoughts were elsewhere… She didn't like being ignored…
"What are you thinking about?" She seemed to be accusing him, slightly glaring at him for not paying attention to her doting on him.
"…Oh! S-sorry, Amy." He got up and moved her off of him too. "Hey, here's an idea!" Sonic put a finger up, leaning a little closer to her. "Heheh~ Why not learn English? That should keep you busy for the time being." He suddenly got up and stretched, not liking having been pushed down and quickly loosened up his body again, getting ready for a run.
"W-what!?" She looked up, not sure how to respond but definitely saw him prepping to leave. "W-wait! You can teach me! Don't leave!" she reached out to hug him again but he zipped out of her grasp, having her hesitate in the air a moment before regaining her balance and landing.
"I've got a lot of press and media things to do today, Amy. I still have to live life, you know." He then looked back at her and jolted.
She put on her saddest face.
"No, no. Don't do that. That's manipulation and I don't like it." He immediately scolded, putting a finger out and then placing his hands on his hips, leaning forward and giving her the eye.
She continued to pout, her eyes shining and growing glossy, her lower lip starting to tremble.
"…That's not fair." He squinted his eyes, upset she was doing so well at this.
His old, used to data wasn't so easily turned…
But the new data he received back into his programming was finding this rather… irresistible.
"Nope." He turned to look away, fighting her charms, and folded his arms.
He refused to let this new data he allowed in to affect him like that. He knew he definitely had an appeal to Amy now,… but he wasn't gonna let her get her way through it all the time.
So he triggered another set of data that had him pull away.
At least this new data mixed with his older one made it easy to choose options rather than instinctively go for something.
In other words, he had more reactions to choose from, and he definitely saw that as a plus.
Maybe every now and then… if she played her cards right…. He could give in to that… plus.
He smirked, thinking of that, before shaking his head, and frowning.
"Great, even my thoughts have changed…" he put a hand to his head before looking back behind him. "Have a straight conversation with me in English, and I'll think about it." He then dashed off.
"Ah! Think…Th-think about what?!" Amy ran forward a few steps before looking down the hall at the papers flying from the offices and people holding their nick-knacks down from being pushed over by the powerful wind.
"Why is there always a strong draft here?" A man, not able to see the characters, got up and muttered that in Japanese and closed the windows.
Amy watched him and sighed, before looking determined, "I'll learn English!" she stated, and nodded to herself.
Back in America, American Amy smugly leaned on a desk, watching Jet use some rings to get a virtual soda pop from the vending machine, and watched him whistle and turn away, before pulling out the rings with a small string attached to them all and hitting the soda machine, making another soda pop fall out. He beamed with his treachery, and took both cans in his hands and started to gleefully walk away.
Amy moved swiftly, getting up from leaning and her wicked scheming to stand behind him. "Hey!" she cheerfully waved, but also a little awkwardly too.
Jet stopped in mid-stride, turning around as he had one can already up towards his mouth, before looking confused at her and shifting his eyes about. "Huh?" he said with his mouth still open, a corner of his mouth twitching as he spoke.
"Eh-he." She quickly giggled, but it just sounded weird. "What'cha doing?" she tried to make small talk, her arms swinging around a lot as she rocked on her heels.
"…Do you know who I am?" He pointed to himself, and then leaned forward. "Cause… I'm not your blue boyfriend."
"Oh no!" she quickly put her hands out in front of her, "I-I didn't mistake you for him! I know who you are."
"…Really? Oh, well, okay then. I just know you've done that silly mistake and skit before with some other dudes, so I had to make sure." He used his beak to pop through the soda and started to drink.
He noticed Amy watching him and looked back at her weirdly, before lowering the can and looking away. "Uhhh… shoo." He tried to gesture his hands to get her to go away.
"Oh, I was just wondering if you could get me one too! I'm kinda short on rings." She looked down, swinging side to side and trying to be cute, which made him even more weirded out by her.
"Does it look like I run a charity? Scram, kid! Go grovel for compassion from some other loser." He threw back his head and started to chug the drink again, before she pouted and ran to step in front of him, making him almost spray his drink out at how shocked he was to see her persistence.
"I know how you got that can. And I know no one really cares about breaking a human law and all that, but then why not help out someone else who can't afford the same thing? I mean, you kinda deserved the drink, after all, it was your cunning that got it. But don't you think it's a little sad to trick a machine? When you could of just spent the money, or even gotten some for your friends? If it was that easy?"
Now he was really confused. "Are you…" he leaned forward, holding a finger out with one of the cans. "Trying to trick me?" he asked.
"No." she shook her head, continuing her act. "I just think it would be a shame to waste such a brain and talent on some soda machine, when you could be using your talents and abilities to help others. Which in return…" she swayed her body past him before leaning her head back and talking to him over her shoulder. "Would make you seem like the coolest guy around! Cause you didn't do some lame gimmick. You actually used your wit to do awesome things, receiving praise for accomplishments done by your hand, and your hand alone, even more impressive than some ring-slip."
Jet thought about it a moment, "Well… I mean… this is very juvenile at best." He turned around, almost defending himself for some reason. "I mean, I could break that machine but why leave a trace?"
She beamed, letting off a huge smile, seeing she had him, before slowly letting it slide down to a common smile and going nearer to the machine. "I bet Wave and Storm won't believe you actually got a few sodas by trying out many different ways. Even a way… that no ones ever thought of before. Or you know… you could do it the old fashion way and still see if you can get an extra one." She looked away, leaning on the machine and waiting for him to come try it out again. "I mean, that's suppose to be your speciality, right? Getting the extra can? But with no gimmicks? That would almost be clever AND honorable."
"…Hmph." He walked over, "Look at you, trying to be reasonable." He started to untie the rings. "I mean, clearly girly, if I was able to do it and get my rings back, I could do it again without the sly gimmicks. Besides," he put the rings in and leaned on the machine, listening to it, before hitting it with the back of his foot, and still getting an extra soda. "I'm just cool like that." He smirked, and picked the two up.
Amy looked and smiled, before standing and side-stepping to the edge of the machine, still watching to make sure Jet didn't see, and summoned her hammer to hit the machine on its side.
The force let out a few more cans, hitting Jet's head.
"Ow-ow-ow! Hey!" he got his head out of the machine and rubbed it. "What on the turbulence is… huh?" he noticed the extra cans, and got really excited. "H-hey! More came out!"
"Wow! Doing it the old fashion way must have it's perks!" Amy faked her excitement, before looking at the cans, and putting her hands to her mouth. "It's as if karma gives you more for good than bad!"
Jet was so thrilled, he jumped with his arms full of cans and laughed. "You know how many faces I can blast with shaken up pop cans now!?"
She mentally rolled her eyes, 'Well, I can at least make him honest, we can work on respectable next.'
She swallowed and looked away.
"..H-hey… what's wrong? Look at the bounty, girly!" he held up his treasures, "I'm loaded! Thanks to my expertise, of course." He smirked from the side, not giving her credit for coming up with it.
She sighed, "Yeah… I guess you'll still do the string thing, huh?"
"Are you kidding?!" He laughed, leaning his head back. "I've gotten more cans from that honest deal than I've ever had! I'm sticking to a new code for a while."
She smiled, "R-really!? That's… so cool!" she stated, having him lift his head at her praise.
"Now you notice? Pah!"
She started to walk away.
"W-w-woah! Wait a sec!" he looked down at his bottles, before feeling a bit bad and then dropped one, kicking it her way. "Heads up, pitiful!"
She turned around and caught the can. "Oh!" She had thought he said 'beautiful' at first, but was glad that wasn't the case.
She wasn't trying to manipulate him, just see if she could make him re-think his ways.
Which,… kinda worked?
He smiled, "Take it as a peace treaty. Smell ya later!" he got out his airgear and rode off.
American Amy looked down at her can, and suddenly grew really excited!
"If I can get bad guys to do nice things… maybe I can get them to do other fun things too!" she got riled up and jumped to kick her feet in the air real fast before rushing down the hall, looking for her next 'target'.
Japanese Amy was sitting on her computer, looking up online English books and what not, before she came across something that looked interesting.
"Hmmm…."
After studying for a few hours, she raced out to see Tails and Sonic talking.
"Hey! What up, dogs!" she shouted out.
The two turned, surprised and also looking funny at her.
"Excuse me?" Tails started to hold in his laughter.
"Yo ah waz up, brother?! Excuse the hollah, but I waz just wonderin' how you is? Ight? I've been cool. Sup, Boo! You is lookin' fine today." She started acting weird, and the two boys just gawked a second.
Tails let out a huge laugh, "Boo!?" he looked to Sonic, and couldn't help but just lean back before slowly falling to his knees. "I can't… I can't…" he started to crawl on the ground before falling to his stomach, and rolling to his back.
"Woah, you be all rofl." Amy looked down, as Sonic looked back up to her with a puzzled look.
"Okay, noo." He stopped her. "First off, do you even know what you just said?"
"I said hello and how are you?" Amy responded, very innocently.
She blinked at Tails before pouting and stating, "It's English!"
"That's not English!" Tails continued to laugh, breathing every now and then before getting a word out, "That's dumbed down ebonics!"
"E-what?"
"She must of confused it with English." Sonic shook his head, "Amy, you don't call anyone 'boo'." He stated, and just shook his head in disbelief. "Oh man.."
He then started to laugh too, as Tails saw him trying to hold it in and started laughing even harder, having almost been able to get up before falling right back down.
In her anger, Amy glared and started to walk away. "I'll show him! I'll speak good English, just you wait!"
The problem was… Amy was speaking ebonics all over the place, and the people were being offended by her slang and how rude it was, especially in a work place.
Sonic finally figured the mess of it all had to stop, and came in when she was reading some printed out sentences in a room that wasn't being used, and tried to pronounce them.
"Wha? He my sugar-daddy? Don be my real daddy come-"
He took the book out of her hands and put it down, before sitting down and pulling up a chair, looking at her and putting his hands down as he leaned forward.
"Hello, how are you?" he gestured for her to repeat it back in English.
"…Oh!" she leaned up, "AYYYYYEEEEE~ WAZZ UP~?" she did some weird peace signs and Sonic face-palmed himself.
"Ehem. No." he quickly readjusted himself. "How." He started, then leaned his head up so she could see how his mouth was moving. "Ha-ow."
She mimicked his movements with his mouth, but made no sound.
"How."
"Haauw?"
"Are you."
"aru u." she tried.
He smiled, "There. That's step one."
The next few minutes, led into some hours, as he taught Amy, without the language settings, to speak some English.
It was actually some quality time of them bonding they never really experienced for a while, since all the drama. And they laughed and just enjoyed one another's company, along with Amy's silly English he had to break her out of to teach her proper English.
After a while, Sonic felt she was ready. For a sentence or two, anyway.
Tails was walking in the hall when Amy popped out from the corner, almost scaring him half to death as she looked back to Sonic, who had his arms folded and came out from the corner as well, rolling out to lean on the side as he gestured for her to go ahead.
"How are you, Tails?" she spoke in English.
His ears perked and he looked up, "Oh? Someone's learning real English." He smiled.
Amy looked to Sonic, who stated, "He's saying your English is good."
Tails just smiled at him before looking back to Amy, who happily tried something else.
"Nice weather. Don't you agree?"
"I totally agree." Tails looked like he was being sarcastic but also just messing with her.
"Sonic… what did he say?" she looked back at him.
"He completely and full heartedly agrees with you." Sonic smiled. "That's what 'totally' means."
"Toad-tah-ree." She tried to pronounce it out.
"You have to admit, Tails." Sonic walked up to him. "It's better than 'boo'."
Tails chuckled, "At least you caught her before she said sugar-daddy." He teased.
"…."
"Oh man, did she really?"
"Not directly."
Tails just started to laugh again.
"English is the hardest language." He shrugged and shook his head, still laughing as Amy pouted, thinking she might have failed and they were making fun of her again.
Back in America, Amy was seated and looked up at Sonic who was pacing back and forth, having heard all the rumors of how silly everyone was acting with Amy and doing nice things for her.
It was becoming ridiculous and so Sonic had to start speaking to her after she tried to get Mephiles to mow the lawn.
He turned, his head down and his hand up to address her, before reverting right back into pacing.
The wind was nice up on the rooftop, but she could tell he was really thinking about what to say.
"Look… I know you don't know how to address me. But I want you to know that I'm not going to glitch if you say something wrong." She tried to comfort, as he stopped and turned to her, before looking forward and away, being to the side of her at a distance, and folded his arms.
He took a deep breath.
"I know that you've been acting kinda weird around me from all the rumors in Japan and also from what happened here… but I like who you naturally are. You shouldn't feel you have to be someone different around me." Amy stated, trying to help further as he seemed nervous to talk to her.
He continued to stay silent, before looking behind and talking to the wind. "It's not that simple." He stated.
"…I'm sorry for tricking the villains or otherwise bad guys into doing things for me." She looked down, knowing that's what this was about. "I was bored… and I learned something new about me and wanted to test it out…" she cutely tried to look innocent, but Sonic slowly turned his head towards her.
His face showed he wasn't going to believe that bullcrap.
"Alright, fine." She dropped the act. "I got a little carried away since Metal Sonic handed me keys to an Eggcarrier. You have to admit, Silver putting on a pink hat for me and holding my umbrella over my head was pretty cute though." She nodded, admitting to her past deeds.
"You convinced Shadow he needed to buy you that by asking him what Maria's favorite color was, and what she wished she could wear. Than you said to him that one good deed is another smile on someone's face, and tricked him into thinking he was making Maria smile by helping you out." Sonic stated bluntly, "I'll admit, I'm not sure how that exactly went down, but it's a little disturbing how well it worked."
Amy looked away, knowing she was guilty, and smiled weakly at Sonic. "Tee…hee?" she knew she wasn't getting out of his easily.
"How'd you do that?" he put his hands to his hips, being reminded slightly of… of his old Amy's habits…
"…My ability." She looked away.
"Ability to what?"
"Make people question their evil intents."
"And so you take that, and manipulate it into doing evil things, yourself?" He put both hands out, showing her fault. "If you ask me, you took a character trait and shifted it into a character flaw." He seemed to be actually quite amused by that, and thought her antics funny.
However… he wasn't realizing that wasn't his own data…
Japanese Sonic, while running along the coast of Japan, suddenly stopped on his stroll to feel his connection with his other Sonics, and looked up. He realized him thinking about the data and Amy might be affecting the other Sonics in weird ways…
"Eh, they'll figure it out." He wasn't gonna worry about it. He took the run to NOT worry about them, and figure out what he was gonna say to the officials…
He continued his run.
American Sonic walked over to her, rubbing the back of his neck.
"You… you've never used that… on me… have you?" he suddenly looked worried, but was trying to fake it off and be cool.
Amy looked up, and shook her head. "No, never!" she admitted. "You've never had ill-intent."
He nodded, "True. I'm usually good through and blue." He smiled, as she giggled at his joke.
He sighed and sat down next to her. "But you are right about one thing… I have been acting… not myself around you." He admitted. "I'm… sorry. I know I shouldn't, but I get…"
"Worried?" Amy looked to the side of her, as he took a deep breath, not wanting to look at her.
"Yeah, worried."
"…Did you love my other self?"
"..That's probably not a good question to ask right now." Now he definitely felt different, and shifted in the awkwardness, placing a leg over the other and putting a hand down to keep that leg in place, keeping himself away from eye contact as well.
"…I can see… you holding a zero… in your hands."
Sonic's eyes widened.
"I saw her looking at you… and cursing us."
"…cursing?" he looked back at her, this time, very intrigued, but also, hurt. "What do you mean?"
"She… she wasn't me… she wasn't any of us. No Amy would ever say or even think of what she said!" She had looked through the back-up data, but she also heard faintly the words from her past self.
She had Sonic's memory of the last zero code of the old Amy, and those images never left her thoughts…
"I've had nightmares… of sorts. When I shut down for the night… and I just replay those memory files… over and over.. and one day I heard it. And it scared me. And I don't want to think that you think that way too." She suddenly turned to him, deep concern in her eyes as he leaned back, scanning them and wondering what she had heard…
"I know now… that any Amy who tries to love… will find my same fate… A-an-an-and perish.. to their curse… of loving Sonic the Hedgehog."
American Amy gripped her head, and shook it. "She was so wrong… she was so, so wrong!" she stood up, getting angry, and trying to not cry.
Sonic was more worried about what had been spoken… But something made him rise up and follow her, not wanting her to be in what seemed to be pain of heart over this.
He reached a hand out to her.
"She didn't hear the promise! She couldn't think right anymore! I don't want you thinking that's how I feel… or how I felt… cause it's not how any Amy feels! Or thinks! Or anything! That's not what we believe!" she turned around, trying desperately to end the long distance that Sonic had created from her and him.
"I… I promised to love." Sonic stopped himself there, and lowered his hand slightly. "I don't know what 'curse' you're talking about. But I know she was glitching, I mean, she has wings." He kinda gave her a silly look but returned to the seriousness of the situation. "But nevermind that… I don't know if it was just the glitching or not but… but I felt… guilty." He closed his eyes. "I cared about her more than I ever had, because at that time… I knew I… I couldn't save her." That seemed hard for him to say.
Amy blinked her eyes at the new information he just told her, processing it, and looked away. "You weren't in the wrong…"
"But I was." He opened them abruptly, and stood tall and firm. "My original took out the data I needed to save her from that fate. She never would have glitched if her data could respond to how I was treating her… That's why I was so mad. In my grief, I knew if I had just acted differently… none of that would have happened… which is why…. I think the company distanced us after that… so that couldn't happen again… but I never forgot… that promise… within that moment, I felt something. It was as if my data did have something and couldn't connect anything to it. So it latched onto my sense… of being a hero." He stepped forward, Amy watching him do so.
"My will to protect you."
He took another step, as American Amy saw a new expression on him she had never seen with her own eyes before.
"My desire to keep you happy, and smiling."
He tilted his head, before slowly…
"My want…to keep… no," he shook out his head, a weird situation coming over him, as data started to fly through him, a coding being triggered…
He shot out his arm after hesitating a moment, before grabbing her arm and pulling her close.
"I need to take care of you."
The soft whisper of those words breathed out by a willing soul, not a reluctant sigh to calm or comfort, but a statement of one's heart.
Amy put a hand to his shoulder, and gripped it, tears beginning to form as she gulped, realizing that his data was very different from that of when the Glitching Amy was around…
"…I…" he clenched his teeth. "I admit I don't see you as her… but that doesn't make me less fond of you. You are her. You're who she really was." He pulled her away a moment, to look at her, and this time,…
Not avoid her eyes.
"It's my character flaw, I guess… to never want to lose you."
"Sonic…" she let out a gasp with his name intertwined in her breath, she only wished her past Amy could see this… how much she deserved too.
"I don't know what she said. But I'm hoping you don't believe it." His eyes searched hers, and she just let herself fall into his arms and embraced him, crying out her fears of him never seeing her or caring about her the same way he cared about the previous American Amy version of herself. Even before the glitches…
"I…I still have code… from when we were at the store… the little boy and girl?" she pulled herself away as his eyes opened.
"I… I remember.. what you said." She smiled through her the beginning of small and quick streams of teardrops, and laughed slightly. "I was happy,… because even though I was there to comfort you, you comforted me, which in return, helped you to understand."
She then took a deep breath, "I'm still her, Sonic. I'm still your Amy Rose." She had been wanting to explain that to him, but until now, she didn't know how too.
"She… you weren't glitching then?" It was the first time he recognized her as the same person, much like how Japanese Sonic didn't recognize that the Amy Rose who stood before him was still Rosy the Rascal, until she proved it with a memory. Before that, he just couldn't grasp it at first.
She smiled, "I'm not sure." She admitted, "But the data was saved. I think it was pure, and I think it was me. Because… that's the fondest memory I have of being with you… before the incident." She looked to the ground, getting nervous about telling him remembered thoughts.
It was also a memory from Sonic's data letter… but she remembered how she felt and what she was thinking…
He slowly rose his hand… and moved it past her hair to her cheek, raising her head up from looking down.
Now that he was looking at her eyes… he didn't want to stop.
"Amy…" he spoke quietly. "I think I see you now."
That was it.
She looked up at him and let out a bit of a laugh, smiling from ear to ear, and letting the tears flow out.
That's all she ever wanted.
Was for him to see her as she truly was, which was the Amy he knew, just not so… glitchy.
"I'm sorry I didn't see it before." He let her hug him, and just kept her close.
The new feelings he was having different bother him, because he knew something similar must of happened in Japan…
But then something clicked.
"Oh no." he thought out loud to himself.
Amy leaned back, wiping her eyes. "W-what? What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
He chuckled lightly at her remark, and rubbed her head, "No, silly, not you." He reassured her. "It's me… I'm starting to act like Japan…" he looked to the side, off in the distance with worry…
"Why? What's wrong with that?" She asked, knowing the Japan Sonic and Amy were falling in love.
"…You know what." He looked down at her, smiling. "You're right. What the heck is wrong with a little drama and chaos every now and then…or you know… for the rest of forever…And… stuff… like… that…"
He started to lean down closer and closer to her…
Her heart beat raced as he closed his eyes and tilted his head, before she lightly pulled away.
"Wait."
His data roared, and his eyes flashed open and he quickly moved away. "Woah! Wha-!? Amy! I'm so sorry!" he had NO IDEA where that came from, and being rejected was ACTUALLY something his data recognized, which he didn't think was possible.
"Ehem. That was… weird…" he shifted his eyes about, thinking about what Japan said about… 'questions'….
He didn't like the new feeling of rejection, and while he wondered why he was rejected, a few more angry thoughts came into mind, all too quickly though, as he tried to think straight for a second.
"Sorry, it's just…" she looked down and twiddled her fingers a moment, breaking his thought process to look back at her again. "I just wanted to make sure… you're falling for me not because of… of what may be happening with the originals! But because you-"
That did it for him.
Again, her thinking he was leaning in because he felt he had too, not because it was something he willingly wanted to do, made him smile.
"Have I seemed that worried about it?" He realized how much his distance and attitude had affected her thinking of not only the situation, but also herself.
"I mean, you just recognized me as the real Amy, I just want to make sure you're not just doing this to oblige to an old promise and not because it's what your heart wants or-"
He cut her off with a quick and sneaky kiss, having ducked under her hands, which moved and twiddled about while she spoke, to reach her when her head was down.
As he came up, he brought her with him, making her lean back slightly as he caught her in a sudden, swift, and sweet dip.
The dip kept going though… till they reached the ground, and Japan, miles and miles away, suddenly felt a sharp spark his chest.
"Oh no.." he looked around, "Crap!" he dashed back to SEGA.
Japanese Amy was walking along the streets of the city, also looking for Sonic, but getting some shopping done too, when a foreigner came up to her.
"Excuse me, do you speak English?"
She quickly started to freeze up, and mumbled, "I-I-I do!" she just remembered the situation Sonic had placed for her in one of their role-plays. A man looking for the restroom…
"Do you know where I could find a restroom?"
Her freeze suddenly boiled into rapid water of excitement, as she quickly pointed and communicated with the man, "I-It's there." She stated, simple and brief, but she knew he said 'restroom' and that's all she needed to know to figure out what he must be asking about.
"Ah, thank you!"
"No probrum!" she mispronounced that but didn't notice, as she literally squee'd and danced around at her triumph.
Some other characters from different companies watched her strange outburst, and she looked around, embarrassed and fixing her hair and dress, before walking on.
She skipped into a jump though, whispering a shouted, "Yes!"
Japanese Sonic, on the other hand, had quickly gotten back to HQ, and entered the virtual world, jumping down and talking to the computer.
"Sonic The Hedgehog, Access, everywhere and anywhere I want. I want to go into my universal file." He turned, almost frantic in his movements, as the little metallic tube came up from the ground.
"ALL ACCESSES GRANTED. OVERRIDE- SONIC THE HEDGEHOG."
He was taken through the computer to the top secret locations of hidden files, and quickly scanned through them. "No, no, no…There!" he grabbed one after fully materializing and spin dashed into it.
He landed with one hand out, and got up, looking at the screens, which weren't memories, but the other Sonic's around the world…
Similar situations were happening, and all over the world, his others were smooching Amy.
"Oh crap…" Japanese Sonic realized the new data was just a long distance signal… it was becoming part of them too.
"The company's gonna kill me." He exaggerated, putting a hand to his head, not liking to watch or easesdrop on his other selves, but realizing he was affecting them indirectly. He chuckled nervously, looking to the audience with an awkward sweat-drop. "Opps?" He shrugged. (forth wall break, lol. It's common in Japan.)
….He suddenly also had the urge to join in on the fun just then, but quickly shook the idea away, before hearing the computer turn on.
"ALERT FOR SONIC T. HEDGEHOG. PASSWORDS INCORRECT. A DATA COMPLICATION KNOWN AS 'AMY ROSE' IS TRYING TO ACCESS YOUR FILE. THIS IS AN ALERT."
He smirked.
"Right on time."
(Next time on Sonic IRL! :D Oh no! The new data seems to be 'testing itself out' now going wirelessly and affecting the code of each and every Sonic! Making them all start to fall and have similar 'confessions' much to how Japanese Sonic fell for Amy! With all this commotion, could it be that the Amy's forgotten code is also being triggered? What new things will come of that? And how is SEGA gonna react to these confessions and new feelings? Find out, as you continue the oneshots of Sonic IRL! :D)