Sonic IRL - Tumblr Request
Sonic Boom BONUS Addition
By: Cutegirlmayra (Tumblr Ask wanted something like this. I wrote it quick for a prompt :)c )
After the fiasco with Classic Amy Rose, Boom!Sonic began to wonder about this… secret code he doesn't recognize in himself. Mostly because it seems odd to him, a code he was born with, but that the other Sonics had gotten through Japanese Sonic regaining his original data…
He rubbed his chest, sitting on top of his favorite employee's cubicle in one of the many office levels of SEGA.
He stared off into space, but clearly was distraught and troubled with a comical look of annoyance on his face. He couldn't quite understand which part of him was different from the other Sonics… and that difference seemed to frustrate him.
The spotlight was taken from him after Classic Amy appeared, so of course, he wasn't quite sure what this 'orange' and 'new' code really was, only that it was causing a lot of ruckus among the other characters…
Especially for Genesis…
With Modern American and Japanese Sonic handling whatever it was that made Classic Amy such a big deal, Boom!Sonic laid back and tried to relax.
He didn't want to think about it, but…
The way Classic Sonic reacted to seeing her… the way he reacted when coming in contact with her… what made her so important or special that the code activated like that? And how was he programmed or born with it already!?
He groaned, rubbing his hands with powerful scratches to ruff up his quills on his head and kick his legs up, coming down to flop on either side of the cubicle and look utterly miserable.
The employee looked up with a raised eyebrow, smiling. "Something wrong, Sonic?"
"Eh, it's nothing." Sonic lied, liking the employee for his sense of humor, not so much for his sense of unyielding curiosity…
"Ohh..?" The Employee leaned back from his hunched stance at the computer, rocking his chair slightly as he moved back to get a better view of Sonic. "Pining for anyone..?"
Boom!Sonic stuck out his tongue. "That's for my Gramps to worry about."
"Haha! You're the one born with the 'data of love' son." The man laughed, wiping an imaginary tear from his eye, then moving up back to his computer. "Maybe you should talk to your Amy? She may know more about what's going on."
"I could care less about getting involved in drama." Sonic stuck a finger in his ear, twisting it a bit as he closed his eyes and looked aloof from it all.
"…Do you really not care about what's happening with the Amys?"
His finger stopped turning in his ear.
"I mean… a lot of them are glitching… all over the place. Don't you worry your Amy might suffer the same fate? If you're not aware of what's going on lately..?"
His eyes rose open just barely…
The light of SEGA's offices was just about blinding to a normal human eye, but to an AI system, he could just stare at it for a while and blur out his eye focuses…
"…I'm born with the data." He leaned up, pulling his feet towards him and balancing a little funnily on the halved wall he was on. "…She should be fine from the effects."
"You sound so confident. Don't you want to be sure?" He looked up, pushing further as Boom!Sonic looked down with a bit of an upset face.
"What happened to all your funny one-liners?"
"What happened to all your sense of adventure?"
"Tsk. I'm still Sonic!"
"Then act like him. Go on an adventure with your girl!"
"…She's not my girl." He grumbled, pouting and looking away, growing a bit nervous and lowering his voice now.
The man across from his favorite employee's desk chuckled slightly.
"Wha!? Is everyone ease dropping on me!?" Sonic looked all around.
The other employees were all covering their mouths, trying to remain absolutely quiet but unable to hold in a chuckle.
"Geez…" He seemed very shy now, not liking the joke to be on himself…
"As you said, my friend." His fav employee looked back up to him with a cheeky grin. "You are Sonic The Hedgehog. You were made for entertainment. We're just enjoying you performing your proper function."
Everyone burst out then, and Sonic grew frustrated, jumping up and stomping a foot down on the wall, still gaining a good sense of balance, "I'm Sonic Boom! I'm meant to be attracted to funny things!"
"Ouch, I feel bad for Amy!"
The entire office started howling in laughter, and finally, Sonic quit.
He jumped down, racing off to find a better place to lounge.
While he did so, he thought about what he had said… about the glitches…
He wasn't around during that time, but he knew it was a thing.
A very hard thing apparently…
Video Game Characters don't really experience 'permeant' death… so having so many Amys…
It was just uncomprehendable to him. To lose a friend…
He dived into the nearest computer, seeing Knuckles and Boom!Knuckles playing ping-pong in the employees break room, and not wanting to really be disturbed too much right now.
However, he stuck out like a sore thumb in the Virtual World, and it was only a matter of time before Boom!Tails started noticing his odd behavior.
"Want to play Tomatopotmus?"
"…Sure."
They spent a while playing, but Tails would happily look over and see Sonic looking depressed, sighing a lot.
"…Want to try and scare Sticks by setting off some of her booby traps?"
"Eh."
Tails raced through the elaborate but basically designed traps Sticks had set up, laughing as Sticks raced out with tin cans on her head and waving a piece of foil like it was a shield out in front of her. But when he turned back to see Sonic, Sonic had already raced through the traps and was sitting on a tree branch, looking out at the world and groaning, hunching his shoulders up. "Ooh…"
"Uhh… Sandcastles?"
"ALIENS!"
"…Whatever."
Finally, Tails had enough. He threw down his shovel he was using to make a sandcastle as Sonic barely strained his arm to place a leaf stuck through the stick to the top.
"That's it! I know you're worried about what's happening in Japan! So, spill! What do you want to talk about?"
"Huh?" Boom!Sonic shook his head, "No I'm not! I wasn't even thinking about Amy!"
"…So you do care about the glitching stuff!" Tails leaned back, looking relieved to finally hear it. "I was worried you were never going to talk about it…"
"It's just…" Sonic gestured his hands up, and then got up himself, walking a bit down the beach… "I was just born, and suddenly I find out my data isn't the same as the other Sonics. Something in me is the cure-all to all the Amys glitching, and since I was born with it, I don't resist it like the other Sonics do." He spun back around to Tails. "So-!? Does that mean I'm not a real Sonic?"
"What are you talking about? Of course you're a Sonic!" Tails looked confused, getting up and dusting the sand off himself.
"The code SEGA was so uncertain about is being preserved in you! You don't ever have to worry about our Amy glitching from your actions." He said this as if it was science, but the true impact of them hit Sonic, and he stepped back, his face turning a new shade of white.
"…Sonic?"
He scanned the ground.
"Tails… Does that mean…" an immense sadness suddenly poured over Sonic, and he gripped his chest again,… feeling the code spark a reaction… or something inside him. "Sonics really are destroying Amys?"
"…Oh, Sonic." Tails suddenly realized what his words meant to him. "Of course not. I'm sorry, I-I didn't say it right!" he waved his hands out in protest to Sonic's thinking, but Sonic continued.
"No, no. That's what you said. That's what everyone is saying." Sonic turned away, waving a hand out to show Tails he didn't want to argue about this.
"If those programmers didn't salvage what they did… then that means I would be putting Amy at risk too. Just as much as the other Sonics are when they choose not to follow the old data— new data..?—Whatever data's pathways!" He seemed to be getting upset, forming fists and holding them out in front of himself.
"I can't imagine it… Being the sole reason Amy hurts…"
"Glitches aren't exactly painful. They rewire the system. If there's not a path or reaction to take, the system either freezes, crashes, or… becomes corrupted…" Tails lowered his ears, reaching out for Boom!Sonic, but pulling away to leave the topic at that.
"…Have you talked with her recently?"
"…"
"Are you too afraid too?"
"Pfft! Me? Afraid?" Sonic turned to look over his shoulder, shrugging his arms out and acting confident… before it faded instantly.
"I'm terrified."
"You can't hurt her though!" Tails raced right back up to his side, shifting to be beside his melancholy friend. "That data… the data that reacted so kindly to Classic Amy's return… it only proves that you have the key to keeping her from glitching! You're safe to be around, Sonic! I'm sure Amy feels the same way… she probably misses you too. You're her friend!"
"Ha! With how my other mes are reacting!?" Sonic pointed to the virtual sky, gesturing to the outside and real world. "Tails, I think we all know where there headed." He shook his head.
"They're trying to protect their Amys and save them from the same fate as American Amy…" Boom!Tails tried to explain, before looking away and gripping his arm. "Look… you may think it's strange… but I'm glad you're able to have data that allows you and Amy to interact normally and how you should be like… it means… well, that the past actions of the Original Sonic won't affect the future from here on out."
Sonic looked back to Tails, "Tails…" his eyes bent a little.
"You're never usually worried about drama or things like this… but I can tell that when disappearing and never returning are at stake… you really do care about all us. And I know that if you speak to Amy… you'll realize that code is the key to healing everything that's been happening around us lately. She may need as much comforting as you do, Sonic…"
"Comforting?" Sonic was about to make another comeback, just something to combat revealing so much feeling but…
He looked away, closing his mouth. "…Yeah. I should find her. You know, to make sure she's holding up well with her Sisters and Mom all in array like this…" he rubbed under his nose, looking up as the computer's cylinder rose up from the sand in black and green highlights.
"SONIC BOOM HEDGEHOG."
"Identity confirm." Sonic looked a bit annoyed, folding his arms.
"What do they want now?" Boom!Tails looked a little suspicious of its appearance as well, looking like it barged in on their 'heart-to-heart', or close to it, conversation.
"IDENTITY CONFIRM THROUGH IDENTIFICATION CODE."
"Ugh." Sonic let his head drop behind him before bringing it back up again and stating some digits with significant meanings.
"CONFIRMED. SONIC BOOM HEDGEHOG. MESSAGE FROM: AMY BOOM ROSE."
"Woah! This thing can send text messages!?" Tails looked genuinely surprised.
Sonic's eyes widened.
"REQUESTING PERMISSON TO OPEN?"
"Denied." Sonic raced away.
"Hey!" Tails flew up, "Ohh… Why can't I hear it too!?" he threw a mini-tantrum in the air, "SOOONNNIIICCC!" he called, but ended up giving up, deciding to tinker with his inventions and…
Suddenly gained an idea. "Heyyy…" in a wicked grin, he rubbed his hands together, snickering…
Sonic raced to the outside world, popping out and looking around the empty room to some manager's private office.
He typed some things in the computer and the voice came back on, along with the green light.
"SONIC BOOM HEDGEHOG. YOU HAVE ONE MESSAGE. CONFIRM READ NOW. DENY READ LATER. ERASE ALL MESSAGES-"
"Confirm read now." Sonic looked nervous… his eyes scanned the flowing words as they began to type up upon the screen…
"Dear Sonic,… I know a lot has happened between the other Sonics and Amys… okay, a whole lot! I mean, we were just born and now we're being told we have some mysterious data that the Originals hid away and-? Yeah, it's messed up. But I'm really kinda happy about it… I mean, not about the other Amys glitching! Goodness, no! Gosh… Wait, are you still recording my words? Ah! No, delete, delete! Oh man… this is a disaster…"
Sonic smiled.
"Anyway, I just wanted to say that how you spoke to Classic Amy… the way you treated her… it was so gentle and kind. I've never seen that side of you. I mean, we've had only two games and then a television show b-but… I have noticed… how much… kinder you are than what the other Sonics seem to be like towards their Amys. Not that they don't care about them! But I can't help but feel we're somehow… different. Not exactly closer, but able to be good friends and act like it, you know? Maybe that is closer… maybe I don't know cause I live within our relationship and can't see it from another's perspective? I don't even know if my code could… look, I'm worried about my Mom and Grandma… but the truth is… I honestly just want to be around you more. I want to learn what that new code is and see where it takes us. Opps, that sounded romantic. Backspace, backspace? Can't I start over? Ugh! Stupid machine! BAM! Ugh! Stop recording! Okay, okay, fine! I don't care how you take this! I just want to talk and feel safe! I'm…"
Sonic held his virtual breath in.
"I'm scared too… about the future. If Amys come out as threats to the company I… I just want to know I lived a really good life with you… you know? Okay, that turned morbid. Not that I'm going to die or anything! Okay, this is stupid, please turn off! Cancel! Operation over! Where is the Task Manager on this thing!? MESSAGE ENDED. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY IT AGAIN? DELETE MESSAGE? REPLY TO MESSAGE-"
"Reply." Sonic cleared his throat, placing both hands over on the sides of the computer, leaning his head down and trying to think of his words carefully…
"MESSAGE RECORDING IN 3… COUNTDOWN 2… BEEP."
"…Dear… Amy." He found himself pausing… and quickly tried to take a breath and just not stress over this so much…
What he didn't see, was that a device was sent to the real world, and was hidden in the darkness of the room, under the table as it looked around a moment.
"Ehem… I know that a lot of talk about glitching and stuff is going on… but I want you to know something…" He didn't want to tell her how scared he was too. That the unknown of what was befalling SEGA really did bother him. He wanted her to feel the safety she mentioned in the message. He wanted to help her know he wasn't running from her with his tail between his legs…
"That just because other Sonics can't seem to get a grip on their relations with Amy Rose…" He brought out that orange code, feeling it soar through his being and calm him…
It was… soothing, and he smiled at it. He didn't know exactly what it was, but it was what assured Boom!Amy of her life, her future, and her very existence depended on him not rejecting it like the other Sonics did.
"That you will and forever always be… my friend."
"BEEP-OP-REE…. I sincerely want you to trust me."
"WHAT!?" Sonic flinched, moving back, "Is that..? UT!" he glared, looking below his feet.
"BEE-REE-OP… Stupid, Robot! Don't spoil my heroic moment."
"HEY!"
"I'm not happy that you're revealing the words of which I so carefully planned to be concealing the truth of how afraid I am to admit I fear what no other Sonic has ventured to undertake."
Sonic tensed up.
He was too afraid to speak further of what that could mean…
He turned to the screen, kicking UT into a trashcan as he wobbled in with robotic noises of discomfort.
"As I was saying…" a faint pink was barely noticed upon his cheek… "Let's not run from the possibly of disaster." He took courage… gripping the courage code as it soared in a river like line from his chest… "We don't need to worry about a future that won't ever be. We are different. We're gonna be the example to all the Sonics and Amys out there! That whatever this code does to me… it's meant to be specifically for you. And specifically, for how we're supposed to be around together. How we can be around each other… Amy, I don't want you feeling afraid. Not when there's no reason to—so!" He reached through the computer, "So… Take my hand! Just…"
The computer seemed to fizz a bit.
"Trust me! And help me trust you! That no matter what, we're gonna make whatever this is… work!"
A hand suddenly gripped his own.
"H-huh?" His eyes widened.
"MESSAGE SENT. USER AMY BOOM ROSE ONLINE. CHAT ROOM ENGAGED."
"Wha..?"
He felt the hand… he could feel the texture of her data seeping through…
He rubbed his thumb a moment over it, feeling how loose it was from forming into her, and turned the hand to realize that it was waiting…
He grinned.
"Alright… I'll pull you out then!" he tugged.
Boom!Amy came soaring out of the computer, causing the two to tumble to the ground in the dark office room.
Her eyes were full of blobby tears. "Did you mean it..? Do you really think we can be totally normal and not have to worry about all these scary glitching problems..?"
He was a little hesitant at first, but the orange code was still burning neon, and he smiled and put an arm around her, the other coming up to give her a thumbs up.
He winked, "I sure do. Let's just have fun, Amy! No more crying… alright?" he looked a little troubled at seeing her so upset and took his thumb—still up and ready to do the job—to gently remove the tear.
The willing action of tenderness touched her, and she felt her heart skip a beat as her data reacted to his own…
She laughed.
Placing her forehead to his own, he nervously leaned away, before dipping into the intimate space and smiling as she laughed in relieved joy.
"BEEEEEEP-BOOP-BOOP… Let's fall in love."