I'm writing this fic to take a break from my Warhammer Fic. I was inspired by other Sonic fics and fan projects such as Archie Sonic Online, Rediscovered Frontiers, A Sly Encounter and Redemption and Revenge. I'm just writing this for fun to pass the time and to relieve my frustrations from the unresolved plot threads of the Archie Comics.
Skull Egg Zone (during the events of the comic Sonic & Megaman: Worlds Collide)
"RRRRGH! NO NO NO! They're going to use Chaos Control to undo everything the Genesis Wave just accomplished!" shouted Eggman in frustration.
"Then ... that's it ... we lost. We crossed dimensions, rewrote realities, altered time and space and ... and ... that's it. All for nothing. I wonder if I'll remember any of this once Mega Man resets it all." muttered Wily in disappointment.
"It's not ending like this!" shouted Eggman as he started to jury rig wires.
"Ivo, it's over. I know it's a challenge for you, but show a little grace and dignity."
Eggman was repairing his half of the Egg-Wily Machine X to ram Sonic as he attempted to fix the timeline and stop the Super Genesis Wave, had these events gone on normally Eggman would've irreparably damaged the Multiverse as reality was reset and the Cosmic Interstate would be filled with the screams of untold billions being erased from existence. However, this time someone intervened. A Blue Hedgehog dressed in the equipment and uniform of the Zone Cops suddenly appeared out of a Warp Ring right next to Eggman.
"Zonic?!" shouted Eggman in surprise.
"I'm gonna have to stop you right there." stated Zonic the Zone Cop as he fried the circuitry of the ship with his laser.
"No!" shouted Eggman.
"Serves you right!" shouted Wily from the Wily Capsule.
Later in New Mobotropolis
As Nicole and Rotor lay the finishing touches on restoring Sally's freewill, they then heard screaming. Sonic rushed to see what was going on. What he saw was Sally pulling at her own head in a fit of hysteria. Sonic did his best to calm her down.
He held her arms and spoke to her.
"Sally! It's okay, everything's okay. I'm right here." he told her.
"S-Sonic?" muttered Sally as she turned to look at him.
"It's me Sal." answered Sonic.
"I'm so sorry Sonic. All those things I did. I was fully aware of everything!" She cried.
"It's okay Sal, you weren't in control." Sonic reassured her.
"Also, after everything that's happened lately, I've realized that life is short and I've decided to ask you something." Sonic said as he took something out and showed it to her. It was an engagement ring.
"I want to ask you if you'll be my girl." asked Sonic.
"Oh, Sonic. Yes! Yes, I would love to!" answered Sally.
Sally grabbed him in a tight hug as her eyes began leaking coolant as if they were tears.
"Uh, Sal, you're crushing me." stated Sonic plainly.
"Sorry." Sally apologized sheepishly.
A few weeks later
"This looks like the place." said Sally.
As they landed the Tornado in front of the abandoned laboratory where strange energy readings had come from. Sonic couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched.
When they entered, they hadn't noticed a hidden camera recording their arrival as 7 individuals watched them through a screen.
"Holy Shit! Is that Sally?!" asked a red-furred Vixen in a black leather outfit composed of a black halter top, black fingerless gloves, a utility belt, black belted skinny pants and black boots with a yellow bow on her head.
"HAHAHAHA! I can't believe I missed Sonic's girlfriend getting an extreme makeover!" laughed a green hedgehog with sunglasses, a biker jacket and scars on his abdomen.
"Don't just stand there, eliminate them." Said a pale-furred Echidna wearing glasses.
As the group of Freedom Fighters walked into a large opening that had led to 4 different corridors excluding the one they came out of. Multiple individuals emerged from each corridor. Sergeant Simian walked down the first hallway, Lightning Lynx came from the next, Scourge and Fiona came from the third, while Predator Hawk and Flying Frog emerged from the fourth hallway.
Sally turned her attention to Fiona who was smirking while holding Scourge. She couldn't help but notice that Fiona had a dagger holstered on her belt.
"Hey Sonic! Long time no see!" said Scourge mockingly.
"Hello handsome!" said Fiona while she mockingly blew a kiss at Sonic.
"Well, if it isn't my ex-girlfriend and my slightly less handsome evil twin." said Sonic.
Sally narrowed her eyes at the dagger. As the Destructix prepared for combat Sally turned on her thrusters and charged at Fiona. She grappled with Fiona who looked visibly annoyed.
"Some Freedom Fighter you turned out to be. The only person who's freedom you actually cared about was your own." said Sally accusingly.
"Hi Sally. I like the new look, I have to say it's an improvement." said Fiona insultingly with a smirk on her face.
"Also, as for why I'm like this I got fed up with you people with your holier-than-thou bullcrap and how you would never shut up about my past so I decided screw it, you can all go to hell for all I care. But then again, I like being bad, it makes me happy." Fiona said before she gave Sally a grin that was absolutely brimming with malice.
Fiona then proceeded to give Sally a headbutt causing sparks to fly before kicking her away.
"Aunt Sally!" shouted Tails as he flew towards Fiona with a look of pure anger on his face. But he was intercepted by Predator Hawk with a kick.
T-pup tried to rush to his master's aid but was caught by Flying Frog with his tongue.
"Is this your toy, boy? Can I play with it?!" asked Flying Frog jovially.
"Oh, and for the record, Sonic doesn't really love you. Since you're a robot he'll just lose interest and leave you for someone else. After all when you slapped him like a spoiled little brat and dumped him last time, I was just the replacement." Fiona stated with a look of absolute certainty.
Sally's eyes widened at Fiona's words as coolant seeped from her eyes. Her hands were shaking before they clenched into fists.
"Shut your damn mouth!" shouted Sally as her thrusters turned on before she headbutted Fiona in the gut and sent her flying before Fiona stopped herself with her hands and skid across the floor. Sally activated her arm blades and began to slowly approach.
Then Sergeant Simian grabbed Sally from behind restraining her. Fiona smirked before walking away.
"Have fun with him. I'm gonna go help Scourge deal with your boyfriend. Later." said Fiona as she removed the dagger from it's holster.
Amy was going to help Sally but was cut off by Lightning Lynx who kicked her from behind.
"Don't turn your back on me." said Lightning.
Sally propelled herself upwards with her thrusters and head-butted Sergeant Simian before breaking his grip and flipping him over with a martial arts throw.
As Sonic and Scourge fought each other they countered each other blow for blow. Despite Scourge's enhanced strength and stamina, they seemed to be more evenly matched than before. Sonic was focusing on parrying punches to use Scourge's own strength against him and dodging his spin dashes to flank him afterwards, using his Super Peel Out to add momentum to his punches and creating after-images to confuse Scourge.
"You're craftier than before Sonic." commented Scourge.
"Well, after having one-too many close-calls recently I learned that I have to think fast too." commented Sonic.
"Sonic look out!" Sonic heard Tails scream before he felt a sharp pain stab into his back causing him to stagger before Fiona kicked his feet out from under him.
"Looks like you weren't fast enough! Ha! Good job Babe!" shouted Scourge as he went over and started to kick Sonic while he was down.
Sonic turned to look at Fiona who only smirked.
"Why?" Sonic couldn't help but ask.
"Hmmhmm! Oh, Sonic I always hated you." Fiona said cruelly while looking down on him.
"Hahahaha! Little goody two-shoes!" teased Scourge.
Sonic then looked around to see all his friends had been incapacitated then he turned to see Sally's Mechanical body torn in half with Sergeant Simian about to crush her head. Then something in Sonic snapped. A nearby glass container holding Power Gems started to glow with an ominous dark aura. The Chaos Emeralds in Scourge's possession also began to glow with the same ominous light. Then a pitch-black mist started to envelop Sonic.
(Que music-Dormammu theme from Marvel vs Capcom 3)
Then Sonic disappeared in a blur of motion knocking Scourge and Fiona off-balance.
Sonic then reappeared in a strange dark form. His pupils and mouth had disappeared, his fur had turned black and his skin a dark gray. Sonic's first act in this form was to break Sergeant Simian's arms and ribs, then smash Lightning Lynx into the wall. He then reappeared and spin-dashed flying frog against the floor until it caused him to cough out blood, before breaking Predator Hawk's back against his knee. Scourge panicked and decided to use the Chaos Emeralds Doctor Finitevus had helped him gather after the job he had done for him.
All seven emeralds appeared before phasing into Scourge as he turned Super. However, as he was using Chaos Emeralds and not Anarchy Beryl, instead of having purple fur and red eyes with black sclera his form had magenta fur and orange eyes with white sclera.
"Thanks for the advice last time on the difference between Anarchy Beryl and Chaos Emeralds, this time I'm not gonna lose." said Scourge before he felt a punch in between his stomach and ribcage as Dark Sonic appeared in front of him and the Chaos Emeralds were literally knocked out of him with one well-placed punch done at full-force to the middle of the abdomen.
As soon as Scourge reverted back to normal Dark Sonic started knocking him back and forth with multiple sonic spins before spin dashing him into the floor.
Then Sonic grabbed Scourge and smashed his head against the floor multiple times before picking him up then turning him to face him before smacking him in the face repeatedly.
(End Que)
Scourge was gasping for air with broken sunglasses and his face turned black and blue while missing a few teeth.
"Please no more!" Scourge begged.
"Oh, what's wrong? Isn't this what you two wanted? To get me to snap and break my moral code?" asked Dark Sonic scathingly to both Scourge and Fiona as he could tell they were both afraid.
"Listen, low life. If you ever come near me or my friends again there will be Hell to pay. You got that?!" stated Dark Sonic to Scourge who was currently pissing himself while nodding.
He then tossed Scourge away like trash. Sonic didn't just become more violent and cruel, but his voice had also changed becoming more gruff and guttural. Fiona didn't recognize Sonic at all.
Sonic then turned to Fiona who started to back away in fear, his eyes narrowed to slits.
"Okay, Sonic, you win. Now you wouldn't hurt a lady, would you?" Fiona said nervously.
"You're no Lady!" Sonic shouted angrily.
He then appeared right in front of her and grabbed her by the throat then slammed her against a cement column as he began to choke her. Fiona turned to look at Scourge who just ran away leaving her alone to die at the hands of This Thing that Sonic had become. She loved him and had done everything for him only to be betrayed and left for dead. She then turned to Sonic.
"You were a Fake Freedom Fighter, a Fake Girlfriend, is there anything else about you that's fake that I should know about, huh Fiona?!" asked Dark Sonic scornfully.
"I'm so sorry. I messed up, I-I can start over." She gasped out the words as her ears flattened and tears left her eyes.
"You don't mean that. Do you know how much I wanted to believe that there was still good in you and that we could at least be friends again? I loved you! But you just kept doubling down on being an evil jerk, you hurt me, you hurt my friends. Why should I believe you now?! Well, I guess that doesn't matter now because you won't be hurting us anymore!" Sonic said with a genuinely hurt tone in his voice as he tightened his grip.
"S-Sonic please stop you're hurting me, do you really want my death on your conscience? Sonic! Sonic! *Gasp*" Fiona panicked with tears streaming from her eyes as she frantically pleaded while trying to get his hands off of her neck. But her cries seemed to fall on deaf ears.
She remembered how Sonic stopped looking at her the same way when he was beginning to suspect her then secret relationship with Scourge. Fiona only felt even more ashamed as she remembered how unnecessarily cruel she had been to Tails when she had slapped him, Tails was just a kid. She had known trust would be hard to earn back after what she did. She had no way out of this, no one was going to save her and she had done this all to herself. Fiona was no longer the strong confident fox she normally was, now once again she was the scared trapped little girl she had been all those years ago.
All Fiona could do was let out a silent scream as Sonic slowly squeezed the life out of her.
"Sonic Stop!" a voice cried out, it was Sally.
Sonic turned to look at the sad blue eyes of his robian girlfriend who was reaching out to him, her eyes blinking in and out of static.
"Sonic this isn't you! You're not a killer!" Sally cried out.
Tails had been conscious enough to see the whole thing and was crying.
Tears began to stream out from Sonic's eyes as he dropped Fiona and returned to normal.
Fiona Fox gasped for air then turned to look at Sonic walking over to Sally.
"Come on Sal let's get you fixed up." He said as he picked her up.
Sally kissed him as coolant leaked from her eyes in place of tears.
Then some words her old rival, Rouge had said to her not too long ago swam around in her head.
"If there's one thing I know about Sonic, it's that he treats women with respect. Now that you're dating his opposite what did you think was going to happen?"
She should've seen all the signs; the way Scourge would yell at her and how he seemed to almost never appreciate her help. Maybe, it was that deep down she knew but had been too afraid to admit to herself that she had made a mistake. Fiona watched as Sonic kissed Sally even though she was made of cold hard metal. That was what true love looked like, something Fiona never knew had been right there all along and was now something she could never have. Fiona then ran away crying to herself.
"I've been so unfair to you Sonic!" Fiona said as she ran.
Fiona was a shameless thrill-seeker at heart and that had been what had drawn her to Scourge and his more rebellious nature. She had held on to a grudge, turned on her friends and went out of her way to be with a man that in the end didn't truly love her. She remembered that from a young age she had become convinced that being selfish was the way of the world so she had called Sonic weak all that time ago for following his moral code and yet now when he finally broke it she had become terrified of him, now she wished Scourge had those morals.
"What's wrong with me?!" Fiona asked herself.
As Fiona ran out of the facility she then saw Scourge. Remembering what he did only made her blood boil as she then walked up to him and kicked him in the balls before summoning the Warp Ring, opening a portal back to the No Zone and throwing him in there.
"Say hi to Smalls for me, Snot!" Fiona shouted to Scourge spitefully.
The last thing Scourge saw before the Warp Ring closed was Fiona flipping him off.
Fiona then used the Warp Ring again to go somewhere in the Great Forest then she slowly walked towards a tree and sat down in the shade looking at the ground in shame. Fiona Fox was alone again.
Meanwhile more than ten-thousand years ago
Somewhere in Ukraine in Russian occupied territory was a seemingly abandoned laboratory but if one where to observe closely it was anything but. The bodies of two guards lay at the entrance with holes of the sort left by arrows leaking blood from their heads. But there were no arrows to be found. Inside the building the sounds of combat could be heard with the screams of dying men and the sounds of something less than human attacking an intruder. They were attempting to stop a lone man dressed in combat fatigues who was dual wielding two Chinese Falchions.
Shirou Emiya was a mercenary but he was also a magus. He had heard that another magus that specialized in necromancy and automata was working under the employ of the Russians. Shirou was here to eliminate him. He was cutting down mercenaries of the Wagner group that were there to defend the rogue magus and his experiments. Said experiments resulted in the mechanical monstrosities that were made from human corpses.
As Shirou dealt with the last of the mercenaries and shambling monstrosities, he projected a bow and pinned the fleeing magus to the wall with arrows before projecting his married blades once more and killing the man. But something happened outside that Shirou hadn't been prepared for. The facility was hit with a stray drone strike which opened a chasm in the ground as the laboratory along with Shirou fell in. Experimental gases leaked out of machinery that had been damaged by the blast and put an unconscious Shirou in a state of suspended animation for thousands of years.
Ending Short: Sally's Grief
Tails was busy fixing the damage done to Sally during the fight last night. Sally had still been getting used to the fact that she now needed repairs instead of medical treatment. The first time had resulted in a trauma induced breakdown due to what Eggman had subjected her to as Mecha Sally. But Sally had gotten better at controlling herself over time.
"Wow! Sergeant Simian really did a number on you Sally." commented Tails as he put Sally back together.
He then noticed that Sally was being awfully quiet.
"Aunt Sally, what's wrong." he asked.
Sally hesitated before she finally spoke.
"During the fight Fiona mocked me saying that Sonic would lose interest in me because I was a robian." she said.
Sally knew of the trauma she had caused, she noticed how people in New Mobotropolis would give her nervous looks whenever she passed by, how even Sonic had flinched when he woke up with her standing at his bedside.
"It's just not fair Tails! Fiona gets to stay beautiful after everything she's done, while I tried to be a good person and I get stuck as a metal freak!" shouted Sally as she cried her coolant tears.
"Sally, you're not a freak. Sonic's Dad can relate a lot to you, as he's been stuck in a similar situation for years. And you're still beautiful, you're still my Aunt Sally." said Tails.
"Thanks Tails. I really needed to hear that." Sally said.
But Sally didn't realize that Tails now had a growing hatred for Fiona which had gotten worse from what he had just heard now. And neither Sally nor Tails knew that Nicole had been listening in and was now crying.
The reason why Sonic became like that is because the Dark Sonic transformation is where negative emotions such as anger, fear, sadness and hatred take over along with the darker aspects of Sonic's natural instincts such as the desire to trample and impose over opposition. And the reason he tried to kill Fiona was because he considered her more dangerous because she was the mastermind who organized the attack on Freedom HQ in the past and she had planned the ambush as well. And as for why he didn't believe her apology even though she was crying, he thought she was just trying to save her own skin rather than expressing genuine remorse. The reason I pity Fiona is because she basically started as a character that held a grudge but wasn't necessarily evil then she became a heroine only to devolve into one of the evilest characters in the comics. Scourge on the other hand is a creep who has a history of cheating on previous girlfriends, and left Bunns and Rouge for dead, how would Fiona be any different.
He killed his deadbeat dad and was going to kill Locke if Rouge didn't stop him. When Scourge first turned Super in the comics he went on an insane rant about spin-dashing through Moebius and Mobius and repeating this across the multiverse until he found a world that acknowledged him and remember that would've killed Fiona as collateral damage. Sonic's Dad, Jules also saw right through him and pointed out that deep down at his core Scourge was a coward.
Art belongs to RummyCoffee on Deviantart.
For the scene where Sonic is strangling Fiona I like to think of the song, It Took Me By Surprise by Maria Mena.
