Sonic IRL:

Hey, Sonic, Sonic, and Sonic!

Meet the-

BOOM.

By: Cutegirlmayra (Teehee, time to bring in the Toonies!)

A door was shut.

An expecting father paces the door at a distance.

The other Sega Characters, not just from Sonic The Hedgehog, are also piled into a now cramped hall-space, and blink in anticipation.

Sonic turns left and right, continuing his march before hearing some ruckus on the other side of the door,…

They all lean forward.

The ruckus ends with shattering of glass, and Sonic's tensed up shoulders drop down, and he continues to pace the door.

"Oh… Sonic…" American Amy watches his anxiousness skyrocket every time, and puts a worried hand up close to her face in front, "I want to comfort him…"

"Not much we can do, honestly." Tails lifted a hand as he explained, standing to her right, and staring at Sonic.

He moved his head to nudge a gesture for her to hear him out, showing he was addressing her indirectly, "We're all waiting for our new 'bundles of joy' as our originals liked to dub it, but you can't blame him, or us really, for being nervous."

"Heh, you guys worry too much!" Knuckles flicked his nose. "The second that Knuckles sees how cool his old man is, he's going to be groveling at my feet for some advice!" he pounded his chest, looking up with closed and confident eyes, showing his haughty attitude for himself.

"Right." Amy gave a look to Knuckles, but then looked kindly to Tails and turned back to show her concern for Sonic.

"Any minute now…" Tails started to sweat nervously. "Please don't let him be an lousy abridgment, please don't let him be a lousy abridgement, please don't-!"

The door suddenly opened on Tails's quiet pleading.

A gust of smoke encircled the hall as Sonic pivoted and spread his arms out to look down at the smoke.

Everyone started to mutter what was going on, and Miku and Ulala hugged each other in a bit of panic at the spooky mist that was coming out.

"Huh, some effects." Tails looked to Amy with a sarcastic ring in his voice, showing with a bit of a 'pfft' that he wasn't impressed, but Amy shivered from the cold of the fog, holding herself.

Suddenly, lights flickered and rayed across in an upward motion, almost like a party.

The crowd stared as figures glowed to life in lights, silhouettes with a unique outfit that glowed in the darkness from the door posed in different forms.

Suddenly, an announcer's voice was heard.

"Introducing, the cool, the confident, the radiant, and the charming-! Soooooonnniiiccccc BOOOOOOMMM!"

As each thing was announced, a spotlight flashed onto a figure to reveal them, and they started strutting out to music.

Here comes the-

Here comes the-

Here comes the-

The new Sonic stepped out and mouthed the words to the camera as if he was singing them, 'Ya'll don't really want it now, BOOM!'

Here comes the- BOOM!

Here comes the- BOOM!

American Sonic looked around, confused, but realized that this Sonic was probably just a little more showy than him and rolled his eyes, deciding to clap.

When Boom Sonic saw the slow clap, he took a little more courage and struck another wicked pose before his leg caught on a wire.

He continued to strut forward with his team before his leg tripped the wire, and he fell down, causing the lights above to shake.

"Oh no!" Boom Tails exclaimed, turning around to see the metal beam that held the lights up start to slowly shake downwards.

"It's gonna fall!"

People started panicking as the Boom team leapt into action!

Boom Amy hit away the lights that were coming down to protect Boom Sonic, and Boom Knuckles, with his stature, held up the beam that came slamming onto his shoulders, and was able to successfully lift it above him.

Boom Tails flew up and rewired the knots in the wires and started cranking the wire back in place, the lights and beam moving up again, though sparking as they went.

Boom Sonic got up and dusted himself off, before looking at the crowd and jolting.

They all stared, seeing the set behind them and the fog machine, then their outfits…

"..Uhh…Well, this go as planned." He nervously looked to his team, who faithfully came up to stand with him. "Ehem." He cleared his throat.

"Ladies and Gentle-!"

The stage started to fall apart, little pieces at first, before another huge background beam fell with a back drop, and a spotlight joggled loose to burst on it, setting it on fire.

The people gasped.

Boom Sonic twitched, and then looked hopeless as he continued, "men… we're Sonic Boom…"

"I see why they give you name." someone coughed.

Boom Sonic glared out in the distance, offended.

"He's kinda leggy…" "Look at that guy's build! He's gotta weigh a ton!" "Talk about a tight dress…" "Are those goggles?"

The comments started to become more louder and vocal, as the Boom Team started moving back, ears drooping, and looking down as they began to be embarrassed.

Suddenly, the Modern team jumped in front of them, Sonic speaking out.

"Hey, hey, hey! Give the kid a break! It's not like I had a 'perfect entrance' the first time I got out here, either!"

Boom Sonic perked up, smiling with a little more confidence at American Sonic's statement.

American Sonic then turned around, whispering to Boom. "Eh, don't give those guys a second thought. I thought it really worked." He winked, and then offered Boom Sonic his hand. "Sonic." He stated, "Sonic the real hedgehog."

Boom just rolled his eyes, and looked about to shake his hand, before withdrawing it slyly and stating, "The Elder Hedgehog." He teased, and then shook his hand, as Sonic made a face but laughed it off, and patted his back.

"I heard you were a wise-guy." He teased.

They led the team away from the crowd and back into the new team's sector, where a bunch of employees were being prepped for another day of work.

"This is your place! Your kingdom." American Sonic spun around with his arms out wide, and then smiled back to Boom. "But remember, you're just a province under MY land." He continued to joke as Boom looked around, awing everything.

"Why haven't I been here before?" he asked, also circling the place with his team.

"Well… kids didn't know you yet. You have to be loved and believed in enough first- Then! You get to live." He knew that from Dr. Hope's research she would sometimes spat out randomly, but at least he listened sometimes. "Well, do you like it?"

"Like it?" Boom Sonic turned around, "I love it!"

"Sorry we don't have flashy lights or music, but you can always install that when the fireproof floors get settled in." Sonic patted his other's back and gave him a funny look, as Boom just squinted his eyes.

"Haha." He faked a laugh.

"I think I'm gonna like you already." He continued to pat his back before moving over to see the other redesigns. "Woo… what do we have here? A utility belt?" he pointed to Boom Tails's belt, as American Tails gave Sonic a look like- 'Don't make fun of my son… he's sensitive.'.

Sonic gave another fatherly look back to Tails, 'He's a big boy, he can handle some kidding.'.

"O-oh, yeah! And it can do this!" Boom Tails hit the buckle on his belt to trigger the enerbeam.

The Moderns all looked amazed as the other Boom cast also triggered theirs.

"It's a talent." Boom Sonic spun his around, before it hit him on the head. "Ow! I swear, I'm really not this-"

"Yeah you are." The three others stated.

"…." Boom Sonic held his peace, before Boom Knuckles spoke up again.

"But it's okay, Sonic. Cause I am too." He glared the words as if trying to keep the same tone from before, but the others just facepalmed while he folded his arms, as if serious.

"Knuckles… you're calling yourself a buffoon too."

"Haha! Tails…" Boom Knuckles leaned down and patted his Tails's back lovingly but condescendingly as well. "I'm actually an Echidna. But I understand the confusion, haha… we're both part of an adorable family." He ruffled his head and got back up, as Boom Tails looked utterly annoyed.

American Sonic laughed, clutching his stomach. "Oh man! They nailed you good, Knuckles! Hahaha!"

"It's a parody." American Tails's eyes shrunk in horror. "Nooooo!" He threw his head back. "All my worst fears! The canonicity!"

Boom Tails turned to his other and looked sad at his words. "I'm not that bad of a parody… you're probably the only sound guy here!"

"Hey, I make sound too!" Boom Knuckles burst back into conversation.

"That you do, Knuckles. That you do." Boom Amy, her arms folded, rolled her eyes before American Amy stuck her head really close to hers, examining her.

"Ah!" Boom Amy jumped back a moment. "W-why are you..?"

"You look… nice!" Amy chimed, and happily grabbed her hands, jumping left and right. "Ohhhh! You're so precious! I love that they show off your figure! Ha! Look at me, in this silly old dress, you can barely tell where my hip begins and my legs start." She made fun of herself to help make Boom Amy feel better, as it worked, and she giggled.

"Thank you… oh no! I think you're dress is gorgeous!"

"Oh, you tease!"

"No, I really like it! We should swap clothes sometime!"

"Ah! I would love that!"

"Well, at least you two are getting along." American Sonic walked to the side of his new self, and looked to the Amys, before grinning back at Boom Sonic, who nodded and weak grin too, still unsure if he and his team was fully accepted or not by them.

"Sorry for the light effects, by the way. We just really wanted to impress you. I mean… you are kinda… the … I don't know…"

"The originals or something."

The team looked to each other.

Boom team got confused.

American Team excitedly started bouncing up and down in their excitement.

"He… He called us-..!" Tails started.

"The Originals!" Knuckles, who for a moment was silent in gawking at the stature of his new self, snapped out of it when he heard the word being termed for them.

"I've always wanted a baby!" American Amy exclaimed.

"Woohoo! That's got a nice ring to it! Power to rule, baby!"

"Um… are we missing something here?" Boom Sonic gestured to how weird they were acting, as the American team grinned knowingly to one another.

"Actually, we're not the ones you want to impress." He admitted.

The four of them looked shocked.

"W-wait… aren't you Modern Sonic?" Boom asked, pointing sheepishly and worried they had made a huge mistake.

"Haha! That I am! But there's another me you have to met. HE'S the one you have to impress." He folded his arms after gesturing out to himself and the others, before winking. "The Japan sector is the Originals. We're all just copies based on them. Kinda like how you're copies based on us!"

"There's a term in the virtual community called, 'children'." Amy started explaining, cutely turning to her head to the side to explain behind Sonic, as he looked to her, and gave her the floor. "'Children' are what Originals, or the 'First ever created' Characters call their copies that are around the world, and change due to that companies preferences on culture! Usually, there's only a few major nations that get to produce video games that can create copies to do those things, but we call the Originals, the 'parents' of those 'children' or copied clones."

"So in other words, " Tails stepped in, also extending out his arms to explain, "We're your 'parents'! Because you were created off the American code for Sonic and all of us! But we were created through the Originals, the Japanese code for Sonic, which was the first code ever made for a Sonic games. That makes them your 'Grandparents' in a way." He smiled, getting the lingo, but understanding that it was a bit weird for them to have a 'family tree' in a sense. "Surprisingly, this usually doesn't happen. You only ever get 'parents' but it's very rare for a code, that's not he originals, to be copied and get 'children'. So 'grandparents' aren't usually a thing in the Virtual Community."

"In other, other words~" Knuckles stepped out, and then extended his arms. "Come to poppy!"

Boom Knuckles's eyes shot out wide, his grin rapidly graced his face as he thumped the ground while running to the little him.

He scooped up his 'dad' and squeezed him tight, "Hey, hey! He's like an action figure!" he pulled him away and pressed his thumbs on his chest, making Knuckles do an anime 'pop-out' like the toys twice, and then get hugged again. "I never had a dad before!" Boom Knuckles started tearing up.

Knuckles groaned.

But then patted his 'big' kid on the back, "There there… I got'cha."

"Well, someone's taking it literally." Sonic confessed, then looked to his own 'kid'. "Don't expect a hug." He kid, holding his hands out, but then laughing.

"I'll do with the handshakes." Boom Sonic held up his hand, liking his old man's sense of humor.

"You can expect one from me!"

"Hey!"

"I'll be your momma!"

"Amy! Put him down!"

"But why?"

"Amy, you're scaring him."

"Opps! Sorry…"

Amy put Boom Sonic down as he shivered from the sudden hug he wasn't expecting, then shook himself loose from the tense sensation and rubbed his head, "Well, you're certainly different from our Amy, that's for sure." He stated, but seemed to be holding back anything that would look like judgment. After all, he was still just trying to get along with his new 'family' so to speak.

"Aren't you forgetting something ELSE here…"

The gang all turned to see another character, her head burnt on the top and tangled in wires, holding a boomerang.

"Oh… Sticks…" The Boom team flinched back, seeing she was caught in that mayhem from before…

"YOU LEFT ME FOR DEAD!" she threw her boomerang as Sonic called out 'duck!' and the team dodged the boomerang.

"Amy! Look out!" American Sonic saw the boomerang coming for her and raced to push her out of its way.

They both went tumbling down.

The American team got up, all ready for a rumble.

"Whose that? The New villain?" Tails asked, not impressed.

"Looks savage enough for me!" Sonic stated.

"But she doesn't look that intimidating…"

Sticks turned a crazy eye on the lot.

"AHHH!" the American Team freaked out and Amy summoned her hammer.

"WAIT!" Boom Tails stepped in front of the team, "She's with us!"

"… huh?" the team raised an eyebrow.

"The Looney toon?"

"I'M NOT A WHACK JOB!" Sticks whacked Boom Tails in the back of his head, and then shook her boomerang at the Modern team, "I'm on to you shape-shifting anliens… and your little hoop-skirts too!" she pointed to Amy's dress.

"Hey! It's a dress!"

"Hiding an alien teleporter, I presume!"

"W-what?"

"Tails! We're not in the show or game anymore! We're in the real world! These are the characters were based off of. It's two separate continuities, we're- oh nevermind." Boom Tails had gotten up, holding his head before trying to explain, and then dropping both hands and looking as though he gave up.

"…Huh?"

"Look, Sticks.." Boom Amy approached her much gently. "We're sorry we left you behind, we were a little caught up in meeting our… our…" she thought of a good word for it. "Parents." She shifted her eyes back to Sticks, thinking that might help.

Sticks's expression completely changed, something clicking.

"Oh, well, hello there!" Sticks happily, and with a friendly smile, went up and shook every Modern's hand. "It's so nice to meet you! Love your kid! Hey, how are ya? Sorry for the alien comment, I can see that just was a result from the baby bump. She has your eyes!"

Amy opened her mouth, offended to no end, but Sonic quickly realized the situation and popped it shut.

"Calmly… Amy…" he cautioned her to keep her anger in check.

She took deep breathes, and smiled. But clearly,… she was holding a lot back.

"W-well, ehem." Tails took the reins back and led the rest back on track. "You're other characters in your world should have been led to the virtual world by now. Why not help them adjust and settle down? We'll see you when we get back with Japan about them meeting you guys too!"

"Remember, you're called Toon Sonic, there. So be polite when they address you as such, don't push the whole 'Boom' thing." Amy also cautioned, waving her hands out in front of her, showing that was a 'no, no'. "We respect cultures here, and it's just polite to let them call you what they know you by there."

"Sweet! The Grands are coming!" Boom Sonic turned to his team. "This time, we'll nail that entrance!"

"Yay!"

"…Yeeeahhh, best not." American Sonic put an arm around his kid, and patted his chest. "I think you should just come and bow. That's always a good call. Just smile and bow."

"I-I don't understand!"

"AUTHORIZATION DENIED. LOCK SECURED."

"But computer! I'm-!"

"THE DATA COMPREMISING THE TITLE, "DR. EGGMAN" IS ON LOCKDOWN UNTIL RELEASE DATA IS AFFIRMED. ACCESS DENIED."

"…But he's suppose to show me around…"

A Boom Eggman sorrowfully dropped his suitcase from up around his neck, having pleaded with the computer to no avail.

He sighed and turned around, sniffling, as Orbot and Cubot watched him walk past them.

"His mustache was so low…" Cubot stated, worriedly.

"There's nothing we can do if this Eggman's code is under strict lockup. I wonder what he did to deserve it…" Orbot looked up at the file they were in front of, the rest of the space around them white, besides the panels they were on which were clear.

Other files were around too, but the floating File Folder they wanted was unable to be accessed.

"GERONIMMOOO!" Boom Eggman suddenly ran back, launching himself at the file.

"UNAUTHORIZED ACCESSS."

"AHHH!"

The defensive protocol took over, and they shot red hot, fiery lasers at him, and brought him down from entering the file above.

"Oh doctor!"

"He flew!"

"It's the virtual world, gravity is very different when you can swim through data- DOCTOR!"

The two scrambled to catch him, as they were crushed by his body falling on him.

He leaned up and banged the side of the ground. "Dang it! At this rate, I'm lost without purpose if he can't tell me the secret of how to defeat Sonic!"

"Well, to be fair.." Orbot pushed and pulled himself out from under Eggman's stature. "He hasn't really figured that out either…" he rubbed his orbish head.

"Hmmm.." Eggman narrowed his eyes, as he felt a spike. "Ohhh!" he then reached down and pulled Cubot out. "Corners…" he growled out, and tossed him behind him, as Cubot first pushed his fingers to each other apologetically and then waved shyly before being flung off.

Boom Eggman rose up, dusting himself off, and huffed. "Well! Some welcome party. More like a horrible BIRTHDAY! Hmph."

"Birthday… Birthday… Password engaged."

"Ohh..?" Eggman smirked, suddenly seeing an opening.

"Dr. EGGMAN, ENGAGE ENTRANCE PASSWORD."

"Don't mind if I do." He adjusted his collar and flicked the yellow sided flap on his attire. "Ehem." He stood forward, "Eggman's birthday is-"

"Wait! Doctor!" Orbot interjected, which had Eggman glare down at him.

"WHAT?"

"If you go in there, you won't be able to come out!" he warned.

"Oh… good point. I'll be trapped just like my old man." He looked up at the file. "On second consideration… I think I'll meet him when he's not a prisoner."

"PASSWORD DISENGAGED."

"Yeah, yeah. This is why I don't install a woman's voice on my control computers…"

They walked away, as Cubot took a second look back, and then continued.

Suddenly, the file twitched.

Cubot freaked out and dashed towards Eggman, tugging on his back coat.

"I should of known… Meeting my original would never be a 'warm' or 'pleasant' greeting… he's probably more handsomely evil than me. You know… being a … stupid parody and all I could never match up-"

He turned to pull his coat back, "Would you kindly QUIT THAT…oh?"

The file was now violently shaking, lights being let loose from within it.

"Ohh… that's interesting." Eggman smirked. "I knew he wouldn't leave me without at least a welcome card!"

The file let out two comet balls of data, both hollering out in fright, as they landed down from being shot forth out of the file and rolled into existence.

"You'd think he would have thrown us out a little gentler.." Modern Cubot rubbed his cubic butt, before looking to his friend.

"Uhh… I think my circuits got rearranged… hmm? Cubot! That's him! The new doctor!" Orbot pointed to Boom Eggman, who put his hands behind his back and stuck out his chest more, trying to also impress these two.

"How do you do." He sarcastically spoke out, his tone a little intimidating.

They gulped, and quickly got up. "A thousand apologies! Our Doctor Eggman is currently 'grounded' so to speak from…uh… disobedience to the laws of reality." Orbot bunny eared the 'grounded' part and then put his hands together, trying to be polite and mannerly.

"He flew us out here to explain to you his latest plan, and uh… something else… um.." Cubot scratched his head, before Orbot shook his head and smashed his fist on top of it.

"Oh! I remember!" Cubot bolts and screws seemed to make weird noises but he remembered his part of the relayed message. "That your mustache makes him very proud!"

Boom Eggman suddenly broke his stature, and leaned down with his hands up to his face, happily crying out, "Really? He likes it!? I was trying so hard to make sure it was nice, shiny, and soft for our first introductions! Ah!" he lifted a foot up, a little girly, but truly happy he was accepted by, what he thought, was the original Eggman. "It's nice to know my original thinks I'm sexy." He winked to his own Cubot and Orbot.

Modern Cubot and Orbot looked at each other, and then back at Eggman. "He's not the original." Cubot stated.

"…Wha-hu-huh?" Eggman turned back, shaking his head in surprise. "But he's my daddy!"

"W-well… the Japanese Eggman.. is the original of all Eggmans. He's the one that had all the current Eggman's locked up." Orbot explained, before more trashing and hollering of anger came from within the file.

They all turned or looked up in a cringe, seeing the obvious frustration that that had on the other Eggmans.

"My condolences." Boom Eggman teased.

"Anyway! We have plan!" Modern Cubot stood up straight, and pointed to his head, before Orbot shook his own.

"No.. Cubot… Eggman has a plan…"

"O-oh, right. You have a plan!" he pointed to Boom Eggman.

Orbot shook his head again and face-palmed.

Boom Orbot looked to Cubot, then they both hovered over to their others. "Then, in that case, hello fathers." They offered their hands.

The Modern Cubot and Orbot looked to each other as well, and then happily, but kinda awkwardly, shook their own as well. "How do you do."

"Great, now that THAT'S out of the way…" Eggman put forth his leg and scooted his robots back, before flinging them far away, and then trying to smile politely to the two other robots. "Now… if you'd be so kind as to tell me what to do?"

"Oh, right!" Cubot jumped up, after the two cringed at seeing that this Eggman was about the same as theirs…

"He says…"

A few weeks later~

"I really need to speak with him alone though…"

"They're all coming on the plane, Sonic. We're gonna have to be patient!"

"But I'm worried! Boom's at home all by himself, and you know how he parties! He'll trash the place! And what's more, I'm not there to help him!"

Sonic paced in the airport, Tails shook his head.

"Look, we both agreed to come with these employees and pick up our Originals from the airport! I'm sure everyones fine! After all, Knuckles and Amy are watching over everything there."

"…Yeah…" That's another thing Sonic was worried about…

Amy talking to Boom Amy about…

About…

Everything that happened…

He was worried about that Amy too.

Her data was so fresh that it was hard to tell what she was really like. She was definitely more 'warrior' than Amy was, but she was also a little… more emotionally unstable as well.

It was a parody, after all, no matter how much the company called it a 'Parallel universe' it was still just for jokes and giggles.

But he worried… if his Sonic there would be kind to her too…

So that they didn't have to worry about one more glitch…

"There plane's coming in!" Tails stated, as a few people started coming out.

"Looks like it's here." Sonic corrected.

"If you ever get a little weird around Amy… Call me."

Sonic's head raced back to the kiss… him slowly coming out of the data splurge that energized his whole being, almost taking over him as he hastily leaned off and away from Amy, before watching her laugh and cry in joy, and not knowing what else to do but laugh with her.

The weirdness was a little too much for him to process.

He couldn't understand it.

And he didn't know if he really wanted too… but it wasn't about if he wanted to or not!

He needed to show he cared… his promise… but it wasn't just the promise anymore! And that terrified him even more!

What if…Boom Sonic… nah, he wasn't so closely connected to Japanese Sonic, that couldn't possibly effect him…

Could it?

"Hey there!"

"Oi!"

"Good afternoon!" Japanese Amy used her English, and waved as she saw the employees rush to the SEGA men, and helped them with getting their bags.

"Woo, what a long ride." Japan Tails stretched out, before seeing his Sonic racing around the airport, and laughed. "He needed a breather." He admitted.

Sonic nodded, "I know that feel…" he looked like he really did feel the pain of his other self, being coped up in a small plane, forced to be seated most of the time, and feeling slightly claustrophobic.

Japan Sonic raced back, doing some flips as Amy swooned, and Tails rolling his eyes.

"Show off." American Tails unfolded his arms, and then looked to his American self, and patted his shoulder as he walked by. "So, tell me about the new guy! Is he smart?"

"Parody." American Tails's eyes shrunk again.

Japanese Tails stopped, turned, and pursed his lips. "…I'm so sorry."

"He claims to be the most reasonable soul on the show."

"…I'm double sorry."

"He does have a really nice plus though."

"…Screen time and appreciation?" Tails turned around with a humor to his tone.

"Nope, better." American Tails smirked, and folded his arms, lowering his eyelids.

He then bounced them as he stated, "A lady friend."

Japanese Tails dropped to the floor, "NO!"

American Tails laughed.

"I WAS SUPPOSE TO GET ONE FIRST!"

"He beat us all there!"

"Sonic X… and then those American comics… we lost them all. But now? His heart has to be broken too? In a Parody!?" he turned around, looking confused and a bit frustrated for his other self he hasn't met yet. "It's unfair." He got up.

"Actually, I think this ones gonna end up still breathing… and with him too." American Tails walked up and continued to walk out with him.

"Really? That serious?"

"First episode she was in? Kissed him on the cheek."

"No! Are you for real?"

"I'm totally not pulling your leg!"

"Woah! He's already there!"

"I know, right?!"

"That Vixen!"

"You should see her! She's pretty cute too! Her names Zooey."

"I'm… I'm kinda jealous."

"Don't let him in on that, he'll start making up fake stories until you hear from Boom Knuckles that it was all in his head."

"Oh… Well, he still got that."

"He still has that kiss…"

"…Sonic X had a kiss…"

"A ghostly apparition doesn't really constitute a REAL kiss…"

"Hey, I take whatever I can GET! Okay?!"

As the two Tails wondered off (lol, sonic puns) the Sonics stayed behind, as Japan Sonic looked to Amy.

"You should go too."

"Huh? Are you shooing me away?" she looked saddened.

He tried to give her a pleasant smile, "No, Amy. I just need to talk to America for a second here…"

She looked to American Sonic, who looked away from her and down at the ground.

"…Oh… Okay." She figured it was about coding, and she slowly withdrew, taking one last look to her Sonic.

He saw her looking and twiddled his fingers charmingly to her.

She smiled, giggling, and waved goodbye back, and held an employees hand as he offered it to lead her down to the car.

The two Sonic's then looked at each other.

"…I know what happened." Stated Japan Sonic.

"..!" American Sonic was stunned. "H-how do you..?"

"Secret files… 'magical' cameras." He walked by his other and arched his hands in a 'rainbow' or 'mystical' like gesture and continued on.

"Hmph, well then you know what I'm about to ask then!"

"Yes."

Japanese Sonic turned around, smirking.

"How to kiss better."

"What..!? Erk..! NOO!"

"Haha! I'm only playing."

"How can you be playing!? This is SERIOUS! Sonic The Hedgehog doesn't do the kissing! The kissing does him!" he stomped to a halt and pointed to his lips, as Japan Sonic had stopped looking over his shoulder, walking on before stopping at that comment.

He looked down.

"What's your question then?"

"My question is… how… how do I control it?"

"Control it?"

Japanese Sonic turned around, a look of offense starting to come across his face.

"Yes! Control it! I mean, do you even know how far it will go? None of us have seen your data. We have no idea the limits or restraints it has. We can't go around ruining our image by smooching Amy all the time!"

Japanese Sonic closed his mouth, and stared at his other self.

"…I thought you… of all my copies… would have gotten it."

"Gotten what? The hang of it?"

"No." Japanese Sonic chuckled, and shook his head, before sighing and raising his head back up.

"I thought you would have accepted it."

American Sonic's eyes widened.

"…What?"

"You of all the Sonics have experienced the price of losing your Amy. I did too, remember? I don't hold it all back because I don't want that awful, horrible, nagging-"

He started walking closer to him, pointing inwardly at himself.

"-terrible, painful, guilty, heartache that lead me to seal it up in the first place! It's awkward. It's frustrating at times. Well, get used to it! Cause that's apparently how love feels. And if it keeps her smiling and happy, then I'm happy too."

He then violently pointed back towards the direction that Amy walked off too with the employee, and stared down threateningly towards American Sonic.

"Other Sonics have asked how to deal with it. You're the first to ask how to control it."

"…."

American Sonic looked away.

"Look at your own data, Sonic… Are you keeping your promise and actually trying to fall for her? Or are you giving in to the data your used too, and comfortable with? Are you being-

Selfish?"

American Sonic closed his eyes, and then glared back towards his Japanese self.

"…."

His Japanese self scanned his eyes.

"I know you."

He stated.

"I know you're afraid."

To say that to a Sonic… was a huge insult.

But this time, it was done with a sincerity that made American Sonic look away, ashamed.

"…Don't you know… kiddo? Heh… I am too."

American Sonic blinked his eyes, and started realizing something, and looked back to his Original.

"…When I got this data… I didn't want it. But… Dr. Hope helped me to see that it was selfish… but I realized on my own that I wasn't just being selfish by keeping it from Amy.. I was also being selfish… to myself."

Japanese Sonic turned away, his own face looking of shame, and started walking on.

American Sonic, seeing the blame be kinda lifted off of him, silently followed behind his clearly conflicted original self as well… watching him and his expressions, and trying to understand what his logic was in bringing this new code to light anyway.

"…I found myself realizing that by denying any form of affection towards her, I was also cutting myself off from learning patience, gentleness, mercy, and… and well, love."

As he explained, American Sonic walked slowly beside him, but for Sonics to move slow was almost practically impossible, and so to have time to keep talking, the two looked over at a smoothie shop, and smiled to each other.

"Tails, tell the employees not to wait on us… we'll be there to greet 'The Boom' soon." American Sonic teased, talking into a wrist communicator and shutting it off before any response could be made.

"Toony!" Japanese Sonic joked, excited to meet his grandson as well. A unique thing, for a video game character of over 20 years old.

He leaned back on a chair, letting his head fall back.

They were going to get down to the grind of it all, the 'emotional stuff' they always hated addressing or talking about.

As Japanese Sonic rubbed his eyes and tried to wake himself up from the jetlag, American Sonic brought over the smoothies.

"There's a new café, you know." Japanese Sonic stated, slurping some of it.

American Sonic pouted, "That's cool and all, and I'd love to hear about it… but.." he was urging him on to explaining more about the situation.

"Eh, since when were you so interested in the storyline?" Japanese Sonic teased, stretching and yawning, before smacking his lips and looking back down.

"I really did see Rosy in her… and I couldn't hold back the data when I felt the relief from my past self flow over me in my old data…"

American Sonic put his hands around his smoothie cup, staring into it, and trying to see the moment for himself in his mind's eye.

If he was in that situation, would he have done the same?

"When Amy came in… I didn't know what to expect, only that I wanted nothing to do with old data… but when I knew she was Rosy…" he cut himself off, and then continued, as if skipping some scenes… "I just knew I needed her, and that was that."

"That was that?" American Sonic raised an eyebrow, looking up at his supposedly 'true self' and watching his face change as he slurped the smoothie up.

"What more do you need?" Japanese Sonic stated, looking back down at him, before making a startled face as it tightened and grabbed his head, "Ah, brain freeze!"

"Dude!" American Sonic laughed, and then showed him his thumb, "Put it on your roof, man!"

Japanese Sonic didn't understand the American custom of putting your thumb at the roof of your mouth for a brain freeze. Superstitiously, this is supposed to warm the roof of your mouth and stop the freezing sensation from your nerves getting cold.

American Sonic showed him and he thought it silly, but did it.

"Lwike Twis?"

"Basically, yeah."

After the lightheartedness, which was usually to break up serious moments, a typical Sonic diversion among their personality traits, before going back to any serious topic.

"..What made you end up… giving in?" American Sonic seemed to want further clarity.

"..I can't really describe it, buddy…" Japanese Sonic looked away, folding his arms, before looking intently at the smoothie cup.

"It's kinda like a brain freeze."

"Huh?" American Sonic perked up, but looked confused, also standing straighter in his chair.

"It's like…" Japanese Sonic looked up, then smiled and placed his elbows down and his hands out, "It's like buying a smoothie." He put his hands down across the table, as if mapping out the situation.

"You don't really know which flavor you want, because you haven't really tried them all. So you take a chance, and you don't want to waste money, so you tell yourself you'll drink the whole thing. Whatever you choose, that's it. Then, you find you like the flavor, and you start chugging down, but not all at once, or else you'll get a brain freeze." He then lifts up the smoothie cup and places it in the center of the table. "Now, instinctively, you want to fight the pain." He looks at American Sonic, as if implying something about him. "But instead…" he slowly circles his finger around the cup. "You give in to customs." He smirks.

"Go on." American Sonic looked unamused, seeing that the 'fighting' was suppose to be him wanting to control the data somehow.

"Ah, don't give me that look. I'm trying to explain myself!" Japanese Sonic leaned back and threw his hand up, showing he was kinda giving up on it. "Why aren't you listening? This should be making sense, I mean, I'm you!"

"Are you?" American Sonic tilted his head and gave him a cynical look.

"Look," Japanese took a more sarcastic turn, and put his elbow in front of him and turned his body slightly, giving Sonic a good point with his other hand's finger. "Just because I have new data, doesn't mean it wasn't the original. This is how I'm supposed to feel. I just never wanted it before."

American Sonic stopped drinking his smoothie to think for a second.

He folded his arms, not wanting to accept that his 'new code' was simply by a 'revelation' to feeling more than before.

"What if… too many feelings… leads to another you?" American Sonic challenged.

This paused Japanese Sonic in finishing up his smoothie by removing the lid and about to chug the last bit in his mouth by raising the cup up.

He slowly lowered and looked at the slush still remaining.

"…Well…" he took a deep breath. "I suppose… that would mean… perhaps.." he motioned a lean to the right, before slowly looking up to his American self.

"That'd it be a good change of pace."

"What if it's a slower pace?"

"You really challenging me now, haha!"

"But for real? You could lose who you are for a … patient, gentle, and… pansy-er you."

"Alright, who calling who a pansy? You're the one that promised. I'm the one that swore. I think we're both in the same boat here."

Japanese Sonic threw the smoothie cup and it went straight into the trashcan.

"Ha! Still got it!" He gloated to his other self, as American Sonic looked down. "Hey, stop looking so gloomy! You haven't tried the full flavor yet! How do you know it's a bad idea when you haven't even seen her eyes light up with such deep joy before?"

"How is that transitioned into your joy?"

"Now you're just crazy talkin' it." In another cool attempt to show that he was still a regular old Sonic, Japanese Sonic got his knees under himself and side-flipped out of the tall chair. "Ta-dah!" he showed off. "Still awesome!"

The thumbs up was reassuring, but American Sonic used his feet to scale the back of the chair, and do an angled flip to land out of the chair.

"Badda-bing-badda- oh shoot!" American Sonic was about to gloat, until he remembered his son back home. "BOOM!" he quickly looked out from the smoothie shop in the airport they were at.

"Oh yeah, I still gotta judge your kid." Japanese Sonic rolled his eyes, clearly not meaning it but just joking around.

"Right, cause you don't judge." American Sonic smiled, and they both sounded off,-

"Classic Sonic does."

Suddenly, from behind them, a data surged to life, and a flurry of 0's and 1's swirled into a tiny dust devil that created their blue little friend.

Classic Sonic pointed to himself, triumphantly, that he had been able to materialize just on time.

He looked to Japanese Sonic and jumped up and lightly nudged the side of his face, almost as if saying, 'Quit the romance talk, get back to the adventure.'

Then, he motioned for the two to get moving as he was a ways ahead now.

"…You know," American Sonic stated, "It was easier back then. When did it get so complicated?"

"Whelp," Japanese placed an arm around his other self, and started the two walking in the direction of Classic Sonic. "A lot of fans would argue it was somewhere around 2006."

He looked at his other and they laughed together, before shaking at heads and groaning.

Back at SEGA of America, Boom Amy, Japanese Amy, and American Amy were all around a table having herbal tea and talking to one another.

"Wow! I didn't know I got that from you!" She exclaimed, and laughed again, as the Amys were discussing character traits.

"Oh yeah! That emotional rollercoaster isn't foreign to us, sweetheart." Japanese Amy took a sip as American Amy died laughing.

She placed her head at the table's end and pounded lightly the desk. "I..hahaha! I can only see the look on- hahah! Eggman's face when we first turned aggressive after being such a 'sweet' child."

Boom Amy looked a little puzzled, seeing the two knew what they were talking about, but she felt a little left out from the 'ring of knowledge' as in, the group understanding.

"I'm not sure if that's an inside joke or not…"

American Amy and Japanese Amy looked to her and felt bad, realizing she didn't know the history as well as they did.

"Hmm, that's a problem." American Amy turned to her original self, placing her cup down. "We should introduce her to our last 'self'." She beamed.

Japanese Amy had her mouth up to her cup, and looked to American Amy, "Huh?"

American Amy gestured her eyes down and then back up. "To our more… Classic … self."

Japanese Amy choked on her tea.

"Y-you mean.."

"Summon her!" American Amy exclaimed. "Shouldn't be too hard. You have her data, don't you?"

"W-well…" Japanese Amy looked away, placing the cup down and seeming nervous. "I-I've never summoned her before. I've shifted into a likeness of her, but.." She hadn't tried since then, and knew that the Sonics haven't seen her in years… She worried it would disassociate her from her classic self to Sonic if he saw them as two separate beings again.

"What's the harm?" Asked American Amy, as Boom Amy jumped her eyes from one to another, also not understanding the concept of a 'Classic' her.

"Th-th-the harm?" Shakily, Japanese Amy took the cup and tried to drink out of it, but it was spilling everywhere.

"Japan!" American Amy gasped, and quickly used the napkins to clean up her spot as she quickly placed the cup down and covered her face.

"I.. I don't know! I can try!" she bent her fingers down to a fist over her chin and looked to America again, "How long will the Sonics be gone?"

No harm… if she's extra cautious!

"W-well, I don't know! But usually, Sonic's gone for a couple of hours." American Amy tilted her head, confused by the question. "But… isn't that like yours…too?" she continued to cock her head further to the side as she questioned her original self.

"O-oh, of course! I was just making sure…" she waved her hands out to try and turn their suspicions off of her.

"Is there something about this 'Classic Me' that Sonic doesn't like?"

The irony of her words struck Japanese Amy as she knew it was the exact opposite.

She froze up in a white anime shock, and didn't speak.

She then shook herself out of it, and with a sweatdropped, tried to lie about it.

"Oh, well, hehe… he just hasn't seen her in a while, and I wouldn't want to surprise him!" She waved her hand out in a fan motion, and then closed her eyes so they couldn't see how her soul couldn't lie.

She trembled as she shifted on her stool and slowly pointed her arms out to create or summon her past self.

American Amy looked to Boom Amy, who also looked to her, and they both just shrugged.

Then, Boom Amy leaned towards American Amy, her hand up to whisper something to her, "Is she always this jittery?"

"Normally, she's the one giving the jitters…" American Amy honestly spoke back, although, that was her fate as well.

'You can do this… it's not that bad… she might only be half there..-ish? But you could improvise..?'

She tried to summon forth all and any data that was left over from her past life.

In a swirl or cluster of data, she had formed a small cloud.

"Wow." She exclaimed, blinking her eyes in wonder. "I didn't realize… I had so much left over…"

"What do you mean, left over?" Boom Amy asked.

She jolted in surprise, turning around and fanning with her eyes shut again, saying, "Oh, nothing, nothing…heheh.."

Her fake laugh made American Amy, since she was more used to her antics, narrow her eyes and question why she was acting this way so suddenly.

Japanese Amy turned back to her work, and looked seriously determined to create some form of her past self.

In a moment of desperation to please and also to relieve herself of feeling like she had lost that part of who she was, she closed her eyes as data glowed in them.

Pushing forth a design and reference for the data to mimic, and gathering the cluster into a dust devil like swirl, the glowing silhouette began to take form.

What the other Amys didn't know was that this was a miracle in progress.

The old, practically broken code, was for some reason, being willed into existence from its later failure of being life.

In a meeting room, Dr. Hope demanded the freedom of Sonic's choice about his data to the board, however, the discussion took a philosophical turn, leading to her looking unprofessional.

"According to my research on Video Game Characters, I have created a structure or pattern if you will, of how life is created within fictional characters."

"Miss Hope, I'd hate to interrupt your lecture, but we're talking science and facts, not artificial intelligences springing out of their data boxes."

The meeting room laughed, but quieted down as they heard her chuckle.

"With all do respects, sir. This is science and fact. It's just on a deeper, more… spiritual level that can be defined through mathematically reasoning."

They seemed a little skeptical, but her confidence and serious tone made them stop and listen intently.

"The theory goes, that when 'Will' becomes too strong, then it becomes 'Life'. When 'Life' gets too strong, then it becomes a 'Heart'. If the 'Heart' gets enough strength, it takes action."

Sophie leaned over the long table to the executives, lawyers and other important that she was in no way intimidated by, on the outside.

On the inside, however, she was panicking to make her statement clear enough that they would listen to her proposition.

In this meeting, also sat calmly in his chair, Cy….

With both her hands down, and with a stare that could scare a snake, she looked straight down the line to Cy's smug little face.

He, on the other hand, didn't quite notice, as he was shining his nametag which stated his authority in the company, and then proceeded to put it back on as almost stating an implied power play towards her.

She turned her gaze and continued, "Sonic's already hi the 'Heart' stage, have you noticed?"

They all looked at one another, but Cy just glanced at his comrades, before looking bored and turned his uncaring stare back to Dr. Hope.

"And now… the question is- How far will you push him to fight?"

A slow clap was heard in the room.

A deep glare showed across Dr. Hope's face before she, professionally, held herself back and leaned up from bending towards everyone.

"What a crouching tiger!"

Cy's comment sent a electrical current of fury and rage through her being.

It took everything in her power to stay silent and keep a straight face.

She had to close her eyes, not wanting him to see if she was fased by his little act.

"I just love how much she believes in theories."

If this was an anime, an anger mark would have protruded onto her head.

"Please, by all means! Explain these concepts of Will, Life, Heart, and Action for us, please."

He gave what looked to be a bow of respect, a sign that he wanted to know more, but really, she knew he was just trying to twist her odds against her, and dig up more things to point out in flaw.

To be strategically ahead, she limited how she stated her theory.

"Will is a character's well-defined character. In other words, when a figment of imagination is so well made, that you could literally have a conversation with your own creation, or when you could drop said creation into any situation and know exactly the personality type and choices that will lead it along that path, then it has secured itself a Will. This Will, if it because well-defined, and then given 'Life' through being advertised, commercial, sold, etc. For example, Sonic was only a 'Will' created, but the second he was launched as a video game, he became a 'Life'. That figment of imagination now has been put into reality. When this occurs, then it's natural for him to gain a 'Heart'. A 'Heart' is the definition of when the character is well-recognized, beloved, and even believed by children to be real. Then it has truly stepped into reality, and begins to walk around the Company, getting noticed by some, and has made for himself a virtual persona. In simpler terms, an artificial intelligence with a still unexplainable ability to fashion itself in data bits into the real world, interacting with living organisms and even taking on traits of life as we do. Bu then… there is 'Action', also known as 'Code Motive' which is when this Character becomes so real that he starts to try and make choices for himself… This leads to rebelling against data sometimes, or even forcing himself into reality, creating new unexplained data, removing unwanted data from himself, or other such unpredictable actions such as falling in love. Now, Code and Will act differently together. Code dedicates a few things; color, movement, thought, a role they play in said franchise, personality, etc. But Will is a character's drive, like I mentioned, their forced expression of their 'Will' or personality. Will chooses what it wants to do, and Code enacts it. Glitches occur when Will wants something but Code cannot connect or when Code doesn't have an option for Will to take and so an endless loop occurs. It's kinda complicated, but at the same time, rather simple. Because it's like a human brain making choices, but not having the reasonable resources, strategy, or enough thinking time to actual do said action, leaving you in a state of pondering."

The meeting room kinda chuckled, seeing her act out someone in that 'endless loop' by putting her finger up to her chin and looking up at the ceiling, then showing the opposite of when Will and Code can't connect, and showing her moving to the left, but then the right, as if not sure which path to take.

She smiled, seeing she had won them back with her charm.

"Just like indecisive humans, these artificial intelligences have also a type of process… more forced really, but… similar to our own processing."

"And yet, you even mentioned that some is 'unexplainable.'"

This whole time, Cy had his hand up to his chin, a leg up on the other, resting his foot or ankle on his other legs knee.

So relaxed… how did he think himself professional?

He smirked, "I think we're done here. Seeing as you can't even explain how some characters get enough 'Umph' from children's 'love' and 'believing in him' like they do fairies to somehow propel him into existence! For example-" he used her terms, and got up, challenging her directly in front of these men. "IF your theory is correct… That would mean that the characters are conscious of children watching them, and somehow or other, get a signal that the child's love for them is real and then, in return, they feel real. Then, without really a thought for Code, which you stated was clearly a definitive feature that can't be overruled, it takes its own 'will power' so to speak, and makes data life?"

"Code can be overruled."

The whole room stared.

"Beg your pardon?"

"If they create a code that works for them."

"That's impossible!" A man rose up. "This is nonsense! A creation can't create himself!"

"Getting into the 'spiritual' science of it all, sir… A God created you… and you created a creature. Then, by philosophical standards, would your God rule your creation too?"

"This makes no sense!" another man, bewildered he couldn't understand, also stood up. "What does this have to do with Sonic? Or with Eggman's unexplained robot download!?"

"It has everything to do with it! It's showing that our creations are creating for themselves! It's an endless cycle… creation… as they grow strong, our control on them grows weaker… they comply to us because they love their life that was given, or because Code does dictate that. But there have been accounts of 'Originals' such as the first ever Sonic The Hedgehog, ripping his own data from himself, to later retrieve it and input it back within himself! He then can be redesigned many times… but can create again his former life into existence through data that still lingers! But only these 'Originals' have these unique powers, and their-"

"Let me guess.." Cy's expression turned to mock again, "unexplained?"

"…You could see them… which means you contributed, at one point or another, some of their 'Heart' too…"

His face suddenly dropped.

Anger formed readily on his face.

It turned red, about to lash out before a man rose up.

"Enough."

The others turned to him, and respectfully sat to his presence.

"Mr. Satomi.." Dr. Hope respectfully bowed.

"I'm the CEO here… I care about Sonic just as much as any fan should… but I have to think of the security of not only his future, but of ours as well." He looked very conflicted, probably over the soundness of her theories, but continued, leaning up.

"I will have to excuse this meeting for another time. Whether we keep Sonic's new 'initiative' to fall in love, or we remove it as he, himself, once concluded on doing behind our back… which is still a ridiculous concept to believe a character could feel and suffer loss so immensely as to make such rational decisions but… nevertheless… he did. And that fears me greatly… You mentioned love can be a good media form to market if we approach it slowly, with good intent,… but I know this world. I know how most will react… I've seen it over time. I think it's safe to say that we should debate this more carefully… the fans deserve something new, but this new? And this company was never about 'going slow' in the first place. We'll conclude this meeting for now, and 'ponder' as it were, upon it before our next meeting. Good day." He bowed to Dr. Hope, even using a play off her own 'ponder' joke, showing no ill towards the woman, and then got his things together.

The people all got up, packing up, as Cy walked over to a still Sopie… paralyzed by her beliefs and scientific research she was acclaimed for being ridiculed and turning to no avail in helping her in any of her goals so far for Sonic and Amy…

"Well, I've always been a fan of Sonic." He admitted, before nodding his head a goodbye and starting to walk out, "Until I became an even bigger fan of money. Something that can actually save you in the nick of time."

She turned.

That man had some emotional problems being hinted at… something, possibly, to do with Sonic.

She just couldn't put her finger on how or what that was…

-Somewhere in the world-

"Whose that?"

"It's Classic Amy Rose."

"Really!?"

"Yeah, here."

A older man let a little girl, his sister most likely, hold the action figure in her hands, before seeing another doll similar to its design. "Woah! Dolly!"

"You can't play with that one. It's a collectors addition." He smiled, liking how excited she got over his collection.

"Want to see more?"

"Who is she?" she asked, sweetly.

As she moved her on the action figure, the older brother walked back and placed a figure of Boom Amy Rose up to her face.

"It's her."

"Woah!"

"But about your age."

"Aw, she's a baby here…" she pointed to Rosy, "and a grown up there!" she pointed to Boom Amy.

"That's right." He smiled.

"…Which her did you like most?" she beamed up a smile into his eyes, an innocent question, but one he had to think about.

"Well…" he studied the action figure in his hands, and then the one in hers.

His mind raced back to when he was her age, sort of, but younger anyway.

He was playing Sonic CD when she appeared, and would make fun of her. "Scram, you pink blob!" he would laugh, before he saw her get whisked away, "Wha-ah… Hey! That's my pink blob!"

He would enjoy every second of saving her from Metal Sonic, before rejoicing when victory finally prevailed. "Yes!" he held his control up in one hand, closed his eyes tightly shut, and then held his other arm back.

He then flopped them both down and bounced a little on the ground, before looking a little more intently at the little data bit of Rosy the Rascal.

"…Okay." He flopped again, sighing.

"I'll save you when you need me."

The boy, now much older, looked back at the same design with a fond memory of kicking Metal Sonic's butt at racing, and then remembering the feeling he had when he looked at her hearts flying everywhere when her 'hero' saved her.

"I guess I'm a sucker for Classics." He grinned from ear to ear, admitting his little guilty pleasure.

His sister laughed, and gave him back Rosy, and then took Boom Amy. "Then we'll share her! Cause I like her too!" she swayed before dashing to the floor, and swishing Boom Amy's arm around, swinging the hammer attached to it.

He smiled, and looked back at the action figure in his hands, remembering also Sonic Fighters, Sonic Racing, and other fun games she was featured in.

"Whelp, the past is the past. Shame…" he put her back in her spot on his shelf. "You really were kinda… special."

In a flurry of code being recreated, Will, Life, and Heart being in place from the memories fans still had of her from around the world…

Bounced out an adorable pink blob that jumped to and fro, holding her hands in fist near her face, hiding it slightly, and then wiggling herself to the right as hearts flew out everywhere.

"…"

In silence, Boom stared, America beamed an open grin, and Japanese Amy looked horrified.

Rosy blinked her eyes, and looked up at the strange four ladies.

Though, the old deleted code wasn't there, she still had some of her memories of her old game data, but only segments, and was still very artificial in completed design or memories to say the least.

She was like waking up from a nap that had caused her to lose so much of who she was, her memories, and the like.

At least it kept her adorable hearts, hyper personality, and adorable original design to her.

"….Hi there!" American Amy finally bursted out, and nearly gave Japanese Amy a heart attack.

She had never used her 'Original Power' before, and it was all still a bit sudden and shocking for her.

So naturally, she didn't say a word.

Boom Amy leaped down off the table, and leaned down before bending to the child's level.

"Hello, I'm your future self! I'm Amy Rose!" she greeted, and extended her hand. "I'm a different parallel universe, but I'm pleased to meet you!"

The little Classic Amy, still getting used to her code trying to figure itself out from all the loose ends, looked up towards Boom Amy, shyly.

She then smiled widely, opening her mouth and jumping into her arms, completely side-stepping her.

"Ack! Haha… a little slow… isn't she?" Boom Amy twitched a little at the killer death hug this Amy could give, before cuddling her back and completely falling for her charms. "AWWW, but even so! She's adorable! Why didn't you summon her before, Jap?"

"Oh! We don't call her 'jap' it's… offensive." American Amy leaned closer to whisper that, before scooping Rosy up in her arms and holding her out. "Hyah, cutie! I'm Amy Rose from America! Can you believe your loved half way around the whole, wide world!?"

Classic Amy blinked her eyes, unable to process that meaning.

"Ah… Well…" American Amy sweatdropped, closing her eyes. "We have to remember that her last processing function was in little bit frames…"

"That's right." Japanese Amy finally spoke, coming out of her shock, and worry for when Sonic finds out…

"She's processing on 16 bits.. she's probably in a state of confusion and her code is trying to work through all the upgrades…" Japanese Amy got up and reached out to take her, hoping to help. "Poor thing… let me try and help…"

She already knew data was missing, causing this slow reaction as well, as the code had to travel to the best possible reaction.

Which… was seeming to be a hug or blink right now…

"Hmm.. Let's get a little creative here…" The Amys all circled around her, giggling, as the new Classic Amy looked around, not sure what was happening.

"Okay, hold her still…" The other Amys held her while Japanese Amy pulled out her code, and started working on it.

However… for some reason, this would tickle Rosy, and she'd fidget, giggling.

"Hold her still! If she moves so much, I might mess her up and she could glitch again!"

"Again?" the two looked at each other.

"U-uh, I mean… well, she is only 16 bit…" she closed her eyes, fibbing again.

Not her strong suit.

She finished up the edits and helped the code to find places to go, creating new avenues that fit her style and made sense to how an 'Amy' should be.

"There! Done!" Japanese Amy pushed the cloud of coding back into Classic Amy, who 'ooo'd it as it came flying back like miniature crystals to her.

She looked around, seeing the flakes of data glow back and get absorbed by her.

She kicked her legs and giggled again.

"At least she can laugh." American Amy smiled.

"Aw, I don't know why you guys are calling me the 'baby' around here!" Boom Amy put her hands on her hips, allowing American Amy to hold Classic Rosy like a baby. "She's the kid to me!"

"Yes, but you've only been alive for maybe a year." Japanese Amy gave her a look as the three laughed.

Rosy suddenly flickered out and in from existence.

"Oh no…" Japanese Amy stepped back.

"W-what's happening to her?" Boom Amy stepped back too, worried, but she had never seen something like this before. "Can we help her? Is it her code?"

"Umm.." American Amy was freaking out slightly, because this flickering looked a lot like a…

Suddenly, the coding burst into a light and Classic Amy jumped up excitedly.

"AH!" the three all blinded their eyes with their arms, as she jumped down and the light faded, but it seems the flickering was just from the code taking it's place and rearranging itself to be more organized, as Rosy the Rascal danced on her feet, kicking them behind her left and right, left and right, humming the Sonic tune she knew and then turned to the other Amys.

"Alright! Looks like the code has stabilized!"

"Oh… g-good." Japanese Amy put a hand to her heart, feeling it racing in its simulated way.

"Awww, look at her! Experiencing life again after probably a good long while, right?" Boom Amy put her hands to her knees, watching Rosy paw the ground and circle in a funny way, shifting her legs and just acting like a child as she figured out how her coding worked.

She beamed up at Boom Amy.

"So cute!~"

"Precious~"

"Heheh… little ball of sunshine… heh.." Japanese Amy put her hands out, still her eyes were closed, as a darkness seemed to engulf her.

Sonic can't know this happened…

If he finds out… he might think she betrayed him… or if not that, maybe he would focus on her more than herself…

The thought terrified her, especially since Sonic was starting to fight for an actual relationship with her.

She couldn't endanger that now!

She scooped Rosy up.

"Okay! Fun time with Classic me was fun. Bedtime!"

"Wait! Don't put her away! She's darling!" American Amy stopped her, scooping her up again and tossing her up in the air. "There, feel the wind and feeling of flight! Weee! Heheh, Weee!"

Japanese Amy froze in spot, a deeper pool of how heavy this situation was turning out to be started to slowly rise up as if she was drowning in the possibilities of how bad this could all end for her.

"I wonder… Hey, Boom Amy! What did you first do when you created?" American Amy turned to her, as she blushed and looked away a moment, then fiddled with a quill on the side of her head.

"Oh.. I um… might have… um…" she put her hands over her face. "I might have thought that I was looking at my hammer when it was really Sonic's tail and so I pulled it and then he shot up straight because his code thought for a moment that he was electrocuted and it was SUPER embarrassing when we started to mature in our coding and I don't like talking about it!"

"Oh…" American Amy plugged her mouth with her hand. "Oh my… you tried to pull and swing his tail like-… Like our hammer!?"

"It was an accident! I swung him around my head and then he went flying up!"

"That's… hilarious." American Amy startled to snicker.

"No, please don't! You guys! Let's just go on with the program and do arts and crafts now, okay?!" She pulled up a quick scrapbook she made, "Look! I'm making memories! See? It's you guys coming back from the airport, then our tea time- I've even gone all the way back and caught Sonic tripping! See? You should be laughing at that!"

American Amy used her other hand to try and plug the laughter at her mind's image of an innocent Boom Amy grabbing Boom Sonic's tail, swinging him over her head, but before she could smash him to the ground, he flew straight up into the sky and in her mind, hit the ceiling.

The scene was so funny to her that she could barely breathe through her hands.

"STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!" American Amy burst out of her lungs, making Japanese Amy leaned back, not used to how loud THIS Amy could get. "Don't you remember your first moments of life too!?"

….For American Amy… they were memories of another Amy… before the…

When Boom Amy dropped her scrapbook and cried out, Rosy seemed to be startled by the loud noise, and quickly jumped up and started climbing up Boom Amy.

"Ah! H-hey, what are you-!?"

She pulled on her hair.

"OW! Hey!"

Before getting up to her shoulder and then hugging her head.

It looks like she was trying to comfort her from making further loud noises.

"…Aw, you understand that it was an accident! Don't you~" Boom Amy reached up and snuggled with the cutie, before Rosy burst out in a giggle, and kicked her feet, loving the attention she wasn't used too.

"Haha… a peacemaker, eh?" American Amy nodded, wiping a tear from her eye from laughing so hard, and pretending off the comment about her 'coming to life' moment.

"Hard to resist that. Hey, I bet Sonic will be excited to see her again too!"

The very mention of Sonic's name sent an invisible lightning bolt down Japanese Amy's back.

"No, please… anything but that!" she quickly reached up and grabbed Classic Amy.

"H-hey! What's the big idea! We were snuggling here!"

The two fought over possession of Classic Amy, as she began to feel uncomfortable with all the tugging, before American Amy stepped in.

"You guys, stop fighting! No ones taking her away! Japan? What's gotten into-"

"Amy! I'm home!" Japanese Sonic called out, laughing as American Sonic rolled his eyes.

The three jolted, and slowly turned around, blinking.

That was… new.

The three were all surrounding Rosy, so the Sonics couldn't see anything.

Quickly, she took Rosy and swiped her out of Boom Amy's arms, and put her behind her back, smiling the most sheepish and crazy fake smile she could, before backing up quickly.

"I-I-I-I-I got to go to the little ladies room!" she sped off down the corner and it's adjacent corridor.

The two Amys looked back at her, and then to their Sonics. "Uhhh… We'll go with you!" the two bolted after her.

"…Huh, well that's weird." Japanese Sonic narrowed his brows…

Classic laughed, as Boom Sonic shrugged.

"Girls. They always have to go 'together' in everything." He rolled his eyes.

American Sonic laughed so hard, "It's true!" He turned to his Japanese self, "Do they do that in Japan as well!?"

As the two laughed, the Amys all gathered in the bathroom.

"What do you mean he 'can't know' about her?" American Amy whispered, furious that she didn't explain his beforehand.

"It's… it's super complicated!" She admitted, and then looked down to Rosy, who was happily unaware of what was happening.

She looked down, smiling, then up, clicked the tips of her shoes together, and then started singing out loud, making weird video game notices as tunes.

It was cute, but it was loud!

The two shushed her lightly, knowing she wouldn't understand if they were too harsh with her.

"Okay, new plan." Boom Amy adjusted her hair, calming herself down. "Alright. I'll distract the Sonics. I'll… I'll tell the about the pool table and how it's been moved.. or something! You guys get Classic to the virtual world, asap!"

"Would love too." Japanese Amy admitted, "But sadly… I… I can't go into American computers much like that..?" she thought about it. "I mean… hypothetically speaking, I have done it kinda before, but-!"

"You're coming with me! We'll get you into my file, you'll be safe there!" American Amy nodded to Boom Amy, we're trusting you!"

"How do we hide her? She's as big as my head!"

"Let's curl her up or something? Also, she is NOT as big as your head. Excuse you, that's also my head, thank you very much!"

The two tried to curl her up, but she kept popping out of the curl.

"Ohh… okay! Absorb her!"

"Right!" Japanese Amy started to retrieve the data back into her, but something occurred to her.

She stopped.

"I can't."

"You can't?! Why not?"

"My Sonic's an Original! He'll feel the data through the air and wonder what's going on!"

"….That's a thing?"

"Yeah, it can be. I don't know. I'm kinda freakin' out right now!"

"Okay, look, first step, calm down." American Amy put her hands on her shoulders.

For a moment, Japanese Amy looked up at American Amy and saw her old friend again…

Risky and courageous…

"I might not understand what's going on… but if you need me.. I'm here for you!"

Those words… were somewhat exactly what she had said to the old American Amy…

When all that chaos first ensued…

She was literally the start of all this…

And because of her sacrifice… her and Sonic actually stood a chance.

Japanese Amy looked down.

"You're right, let's go."

She leaned down to pick Rosy up.

She froze in horror.

"…No." American Amy's eyes widened.

They both looked to the swinging bathroom's door.

"She followed Boom!"

"Amy?"

"AMY!"

"Ames?"

"AMES?!"

The two Sonics turned around, having been looking for Amy to find out why they bolted so fast, and also to introduce Boom Sonic to Japanese Amy…

But then…

"Since when do you give a nickname to Amy?!" Japanese Sonic turned to America, before looking to Boom.

"Uhh… I don't?" he raised an eyebrow.

They both slowly rolled their eyes down to Classic.

His judgey stance.

His folded arms and slow shake of his head to Boom Sonic.

He looked away.

"He's not happy about that either." Japanese Sonic admitted, looking disheartened in a comical way as they both sweatdropped.

"W-what? What's wrong with shortening my friends name?" Boom Sonic started to defend himself, and was worried that Classic Sonic had disowned him for some reason.

"Dude, let ME let YOU in on a little Japanese custom thing…" American Sonic, taking the role as mentor, put his arm around his boy and led him away from the two.

Japanese Sonic folded his arms and shook his head, before looking to Classic Sonic who literally stood with dignity and unamused judgment that he just shook his head at him too.

"You really need to stop being so hard on the new guys."

He stuck his tongue up at him.

"…Okay,… You need to stop being so hard on ALL of us!" he smiled, his younger version so preoccupied with how his future was looking.

Either everything needed to be cool by his standards, or it was a lame shack that he wanted to get out of as soon as possible.

"Such a 'fine' taste you carry with you." Japanese Sonic rolled his eyes. "Times have changed, little buddy. Generations was fun, but lighten up a little about the future!"

"It's gonna be a good one!" Quoted American Sonic, who originally said the line. "Sorry! Code took over!" He laughed, not being literal.

He then looked to Boom, "In Japan, giving a girl a nickname means familiarity on a whole new level… so… I know you didn't mean it, but… what made you call her Ames?"

"What do you mean? It's natural. It flows off the tongue." Boom Sonic showed a bit of finesse as he flicked his hand out, and gave a charming look back up to his dad.

"…Flows…" American Sonic looked away, thinking…

His eyes lit up, and he literally, slowly, leaned up and back at the thought.

"Oh chaos." He thought outloud.

"W-what?" Sonic Boom stepped back…

Modern Sonic turned to Japan, and Classic. "Hold him down! I want to check his code!"

The next few minutes were wrestling and battling like no man's business.

Boom Sonic hated being restrained, and just couldn't remain still, he started to go crazy if he was held down for too long, and would feel 'tickled' for some reason when his code was being looked at.

"That's weird." American Sonic looked to Japan, who was letting American Sonic have the wheel with fiddling around in code, since he never really could being a 'copy' before. "Why is it ticklish to him?"

"Could be that with the upgrade, it comes with more stuff that makes that effect?" Japan shrugged, "I don't know! Don't look at me! I haven't had a new 'japanese made' game in a while!"

They finally got down to the basis of it, as Japan recognized some code.

"Wait-wait, stop… Please, look, kid.. just…" He tried to tell Boom to stop freakin' out before Boom looked up and saw what they were looking at.

"Hey! That's my extra!" Boom stated, and mentally highlighted it in orange for them to see better.

Japanese Sonic, in his shock, quickly pushed American Sonic to the side, and starting to look through the code. "This… this can't be…" he sweatdropped.

"Hey! Push me out of it all, why don't you." He got himself up and was about to say more, before he noticed his other's eyes…

"…What's wrong?" he took on a more serious tone.

"This is impossible… America doesn't have this!"

"Have what?"

"My code! My code is in him! It's literally embedded!"

"….You mean… he…"

American Sonic slowly turned his eyes back to Boom Sonic, who made a face like he didn't know what was happening, spread out the ground, with Classic Sonic sitting on one arm, and turning around to glare at the other two, not sure what they were doing either, and clearly upset his day was ruined by not going on a high speed adventure.

Although, chasing and catching Toon Sonic was kinda fun…

"…How…"

"Maybe…" American Sonic turned around, putting a hand to his chin, then waving a finger back behind him and clapping. "I got it!" he moved up to his original self.

"Look, your employees were helping supervise Sonic Toon, right?"

"R-right.. but that doesn't explain-"

"It took him a long while to get here, don't you think one of those guys could have sympathize with them rebooting you?"

Japanese eyes widened.

There was a someone… who double looked before leaving… who clearly wished he could help…

"..Do you know how absolutely improbably that would be? They could have lost their job!"

"No! Look! This is what you want!" American Sonic suddenly got excited, "Don't you see!? If Toon Sonic is a success, then that proves to the company your code is not a bad thing! It'll be wanted! You'll have your romance and your adventure and the company will be shown at last that you have some right to your own life!"

"…Oh my chaos." Japanese Sonic looked down, before his eyes widened and he smirked, repeating what American Sonic had said before.

Sonic clapped his hands and spun around, "Yahoo! It's a miracle!"

"It's more than that! It's-!"

They suddenly heard Classic Sonic make noise.

They turned around, even Boom Sonic lifted his head to see what they were looking at.

Boom Amy was trying to hide her, but Rosy kept peeking out and crying out for Classic Sonic, before she noticed they all saw her, and facepalmed.

"Whoops… failed already…" She blurted out, defeatedly.

Classic Sonic slowly moved closer, as if not believing what he was seeing.

The new code in his older self still effected him as well, and for the first time, his eyes started to tear up, getting glossy.

He lifted a hand up to his confused face, and touched his muzzle, looking at the wetness and not understanding.

Rosy quickly dodged Boom Amy, moving around her running towards him.

Classic Sonic looked up, his heart conflicted, his data telling him it can't be true, as he started to step away.

She was a ghost to him.

A cruel reminder of days long gone.

She stopped when she noticed his solemn face, his look of pure confusion and sorrow.

She withdrew back her arms, and looked to the other Sonics.

Japanese Sonic's eyes were fixed on the scene in front of him, as American Sonic quickly looked to the two of them, and then to Rosy…

"I… I thought she was gone?"

"Whose that?" Boom Sonic smiled, tilting his head. "Hey, little thing."

She looked to the only person addressing her, and giggling, kicking her feet up in the air before racing to Boom Sonic on the ground, and tugging on his ears as if saying, 'What are you doing down there, silly?'

As the other Sonics stared in amazement, Boom Sonic got up, his data shifting and the highlighted part starting to react to her data.

It glowed a brighter orange for a second.

Boom's expression changed to a gentler look.

"You've been awfully lonely, haven't ya?"

She twirled, not understanding him very well in the least bit. (haha,… 16 bit… get it? Lol!)

The data glowed again, as he smiled sweetly. "Promise me something, little thing." He patted her head, and rubbed it as she giggled and happily grinned up at him, enjoying the attention.

Her code told her to stay by his side, so she did so!

"…Don't give up on me."

The Sonics all leaned back.

"I know I'm an idiot sometimes… and I know that you have to put up with that… but honestly…" he winked to her, showing off that charming Sonic smile. "You make me a better hero!"

She jumped up and down, excited to have been seemingly praised, before looking back at Classic Sonic.

They both couldn't speak like they used too, at least, not with their current data.

But their stare said so much.

'Hello.'

'Are you really here?'

Boom suddenly snapped out of it when the orange data turned back to normal code, and disappeared in the cloud of shifting code as he moved.

"Huh? What did I say? That was weird." He scratched his head, and then adjusted his bandana. "For some reason, she just seemed like a long lost friend from a distant memory."

He got up as the others stood and stared at his words.

He was far more connected to the old data than even Original or Classic Sonic…

Probably because he didn't resist it.

He let it happen.

And the others had learned to choose to fight it instead.

"She just kinda reminded me of Amy, which is a memory that's present, so it's funny… this feeling from long ago, and yet… still present and here. Ames? I-I-I mean, Amy…" he rolled his eyes, then shook his head at the blank stares of dumfounded blue hedgehogs to his side.

"Do you know who she is?"

Boom Amy put her hands together and up to her chest, smiling sweetly to him. "She's my first me."

"What!? Really!?" he looked shocked, and looked down at Rosy.

She cutely started to advance towards Classic Sonic, being cautious, and not knowing why he was acting so skittish of her, but a different kind of 'shy' than usual.

She tilted her head really low to an angle, as if saying, 'What's wrong, hehe!' not getting that he hasn't seen her in over two decades, and thought he lost her forever.

The other two Amys raced out, before stopping in shock at seeing the three Sonics gawking and Boom Sonic looking to Japanese Sonic, and waving.

He nervously put a hand up to his head and scratched it, "Oh, uh. Hi… sorry for the awkward room! Apparently we're experiencing nostalgic feels, or something along those lines."

Classic Sonic remained still as she moved closer, and finally, touched his chest.

A burst of code flung out into the open, and she slowly flickered again in and out.

"…No.." Japanese Sonic's eyes widened, as did Classic Sonic's, as he reached out and grabbed her, not willing to lose her again.

"No! It's okay! She's not glitching!" Japanese Amy jumped out, waving her hands to try and calm the two panicking hedgehogs.

The Data within Classic Sonic helped her reform the correct channels in her data flow, and she happily sprang out from a ball of light again, as everyone shut their eyes from that burst once more.

Japanese Sonic gasped, taking breaths, before looking over to Amy, his stare a bit harsh. "what…

Have you done?"

"I.."

She stepped back, seeing the fierce look he gave her, and realizing that all her fears were about to be realized.

Classic Sonic watched her bounce around him, moving more rapidly now, having more data to go off of, and lots more expressions to make.

She hugged his arm, just like in the game, and hearts flew up from around her.

….Rosy…

You're alive.

The data in him soared to life, and a huge open smile crossed his face.

He made the happiest video game bounce noises as he burst into a spin ball, bouncing around in his joy, before grabbing her and spinning her in the air.

Rosy!

Rosy!

ROSSSYYY!

Teehee! They call me Amy now! Don't you know?

She hugged him back, thrilled by his reaction, and remembering now her time with him.

This silent exchange was done through data, since their voices were stripped form their coding now.

How'd you form back?!

Some code from my new self!

You're alive! You're alive!

Hehe~ I knew you'd miss me~

Amy!

The two danced around one another, acting like kids who haven't seen each other in years, before…

Classic Sonic's face turned suddenly.

I… I kept my promise.

He took on a serious look, narrowing his eyes.

I even ripped out this code to keep it.

It was always yours, anyway…

I…

I waited…

Maybe I just was having a hard time waiting for you to come back…

I didn't know technology could bring you back until the future… I didn't even know till now!

Amy…

I still..!

You're still my..!

Rosy turned around and blew him a kiss, before turning to her other Amys.

She softly stopped her walk, and turned to look at her over her shoulder, a sorrowful look of love…

R-..Rosy?

I'm not completely here anymore… I'm still very much a memory…

She teared up, and gave the best smile she could.

But I'll see you again! Every time you look in my eyes! I'll come back! But my code is telling me I've spent too much time with you… I'm only allowed a handful of screentime… Until I get further upgraded, I'm forced to leave your side… I… I don't want too but… farewell.

Rosy…

Rosy, noo!

Classic Sonic reached out and raced for her, but she became nothing more than disbanded code… all around him…

He clung to the air… watched the sparks of crystal all form and start to fizzle out.

It wasn't strong enough.

The Code that Japanese Amy gave her had a time limited that stated Rosy could only be on-screen for the duration of how long she could be featured in a game.

It was truly just a result of bad coding.

It wasn't fashioned in a way to allow her to choose her own course.

Because of that, she faded.

Was it not enough 'Will'? Not enough 'Life'? 'Heart'?

Not many cases take 'Action'.

But clearly, she couldn't get passed code.

That same feeling of loss…

The anguish…

Everything swarmed within Classic Sonic as he fell to his knees, before gripping his head, not being able to handle the code's reaction to losing her again.

"No…" Japanese Sonic knew EXACTLY what was about to happen. "Little me!" he charged forward.

"NOOOO!"

A noise that sounded like 'no' came blasting out of him.

He reached in to his code.

"STOP!"

Japanese Sonic grabbed his arm, forced him to not rip it out again.

I don't want it! I don't want the pain!

"She can come back! We have the power to do so! It was a hasty remake! She wasn't perfect! We can make one perfect!"

A wrestle of wills, of torn hearts, as Modern Sonic fought his Classic self.

He fought for love.

"If you take it out, you'll be killing more of her! She'll glitch and die!"

I can't… she's it… she's the one… she was made for me… this code… if I can't defend her… I can't live with myself!

"You can still be her hero, Sonic! Listen to me! It's not over! We can get her back!"

Everyone stared at their fighting, their desperate attempts to fight coding or save it.

Japanese Amy held her hands over her mouth, crying…

Classic Sonic's pain…

She had never seen that before…

This was why he first took it out.

This was why Sonic didn't want it back.

"STOP!"

Finally, Modern Sonic pinned and calmed Classic Sonic down…

They breathed heavily, for a small guy, he could pick a fight and stick with it.

Both Boom Amy and Sonic were shaken up, they moved closer to each other, something in them knowing that this was important, but also scary to watch.

Surprisingly, the American branch also gravitated towards each other…

Even more shocking…

Japanese Amy didn't move.

"S…Sonic… I'm so sorry… I…" she fell to her knees, crying hopelessly.

This is what she wanted to avoid.

She covered her face as her tears flowed.

Such heartbreak… how could she bring that again!?

Why didn't she see the code that showed the limited screen-time?

She could of stopped this, it could have been beautiful!

Or… was her fear… what stopped her?

She looked up.

Maybe she didn't want to see the code… afraid that Sonic would pick her over herself…

Was she really the redesign..?

Was the tiny bit of coding left from Rosy… not enough to make her like what she was?

It was broken, but it was there.

The memories distorted in vision, but the words clear enough to make out…

"….Amy…"

Japanese Sonic slowly let go of Classic Sonic, who stayed in his grief and misery, turning to the side, and not wanting anyone to see his anguish of soul.

"…I need your code…"

He turned to her, his look like nothing she had seen before.

An animal.

He looked at her as if she was nothing more than data complied to look like something.

"Now."

(The 'Boom' wasn't Sonic.

It was her.)

(Will this destroy the very carefully fabricated plot I've tried to form?

Will this shake the very stance that Sonic had on his old code?

What will happen?

Now that Boom Sonic is the first to be born with this old data?

What about the Amys?

More to come! Stay tuned!

I actually wanted to make this longer, but 50 pages, holy crap!

Time for bed. Lol)

You: HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT A TIME LIKE THIS?!

Me: Cause I know how it all ends.

Kinda…

Sorta…

I'm working on it.)