headcannon-central-deactivated2 asked:
I know it seems dark but a sonamy ficlet where in Amy talks Sonic out of beating eggman in a more "permanent" way? You could do it with shadamy if it seems too OOC for the blue blur
cutegirlmayra answered:
Ficlet… I've finally found the word I've been looking for to explain my 'prompts' *w* thank you~
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Prompt:
Shadow fumed with rage building in ever tendon of his body tensing and pulsing the veins out through a tight fist.
The gloves even revealed the tension as Shadow moved through the flaming steel room, the ceiling collapsing in some places and debris falling around him, along with robotic cords as Eggman slowly brought his head up from the ground.
"You used her image… you disgraced his work…" Shadow stopped in front of Eggman, who placed a hand on his head and looked in terror and regret up to Shadow.
His eyes were lit with hellfire, vengeance for the fallen, and to rid the one who tainted it from their sight.
His body hunched as his teeth gritted before finally the pain from clenching his jaw so tightly forced him to speak again, "You don't deserve to remember their pain!"
"S-Shadow…" Eggman grinned nervously, but Shadow drew up his hand.
"Perish!"
"Wait!" Eggman threw up his hands, waving them about in frantic horror before Amy gasped and threw the fallen piece of metallic see-through plating off of her.
"Shadow, no!" She reached up and grabbed his hand, pulling it down as he fought against her.
"Let me go…" his eyes were almost going bloodshot, showing that the drug Eggman used to control him was still affecting his mood swings.
"What Eggman did was wrong! He should never have interfered with your memories!" Amy admitted, her eyes tearing up from the pain in her bleeding leg, but refused to let it stop her from doing the right thing. She squinted her eyes shut as she fought the ultimate lifeform's struggling arm to release itself and leave a devastating blow that may permanently end Eggman's life…
Eggman placed his hands together, a begging stance on his knees.
"He may be blood-related… but he doesn't share his grandfather's views. He used your precious memories of them… but please, Shadow! This isn't you! And this isn't what they would want! They wouldn't want you to hurt anyone!" She finally shook her head free of her pain and looked into Shadow's eyes, screaming mercy.
Their tenderness paused him in his struggles, but his eyelids twitched and he tsk'ed, looking back at Eggman.
"You and your friends wouldn't have to worry about the world any longer… nor would you be kidnapped so frequently either." He was still convinced… What could she do?
"Sonic would—" he began, but Amy threw his arm behind him, surprising him by putting him in a held lock. "W-what?!" his back was forced to rear back. "Amy!"
"No! Sonic would never do this!" Amy cried out, truly fighting with everything she had left in her. The place continued to fall to shambles as Eggman dodged another burning section of his control room topple over beside him.
"Eee!" he freaked out, spreading the sides of his lips apart wide and sweating, bowing straight down and throwing his arms up in their pleading begging once more; trembling and slightly seeming to pray Amy sway him out of his bloodlust. "Amy, please! Save me!" he whimpered out, realizing if she let go… "Don't let him hurt me! I'll change! I'll stop bothering you, I swear!"
"He's lying." Shadow's eyes narrowed, intensifying. "You know you can't stop me."
However, the drug was almost out of his system, making it's run and draining him… he was starting to breathe hard, feeling his body slowly begin to falter.
His stance weakened, Amy could feel his balance shift and found she was helping him stand.
"Shadow…" Her eyes shook with concern, but she wanted to him to remember… "Sonic may do whatever he feels is right to solve problems in his life… but he would never sacrifice a life willingly."
Shadow's eyes waned… his energy fading as he slowly… released the force in his back arm…
"Shadow… He lives to protect, not destroy. If he destroys… he does it for a just cause." Amy then began to slowly get him to step back with her, away from Eggman as Shadow's complete attention was upon him.
Eggman peeked from his spot, before slowly getting up.
Shadow struggled to charge him again, but Amy forcefully pulled him back and started to lead him out of the burning building. "Shadow… follow me… this way…"
He looked back at her, and with the last of the effects of the drug, couldn't help but see her shifting into Maria's form…
"….Maria…" He followed her willingly then, as Amy kept soothingly speaking to him.
"There's more to life than just good and evil, Shadow… You're living proof that something made to be good can still be good. Don't throw that away just because someone doesn't believe in the ideals you or your loved ones cared about."
"But… he wronged you." Shadow's haze continued, but his mind was starting to be cleared of the illusion.
They finally made it out of the building, as Amy pulled on his arm for him to follow in his very 'out of it' like movements. She looked to sorrowfully see Eggman fleeing, looking back to her with a slight look of gratitude and indifference… frowning before looking down with the same amount of disappointment she had shown him… and then took off.
"That's the last time I work with neurotics and neuroscience!" Eggman spat out, dashing off into the dark forest… Letting his latest scheme crumble to rumble and burn in flames.
Amy felt then Shadow's limpness and quickly grabbed him before he collapsed. "M-…Maria…"
"I'm sorry he used her against you, Shadow… he controlled you and that was wrong." Amy teared up, closing her eyes, before hugging Shadow and sitting on the ground, letting him fall into her.
"…It wasn't fair… it wasn't right… but you did what was fair and right… you didn't seek revenge…" she looked up then to see a figure coming from the dark forest…
"Sonic..?"
He emerged from the flicker of flames light and looked down at Shadow.
"…You came to fight him… didn't you?" She blinked and some tears loosened from her eyes.
He looked back at her… and in a very serious way, nodded.
She ducked her head and sobbed a little before he helped take Shadow off her hands.
"Where's Eggman? Scrambled and ran?" Sonic's usual tone was still missing, but a remnant of its likeness still remained.
"…Yes… Shadow tried to—" she cut herself off, holding it back and handing Shadow more fully to Sonic, getting up before her leg faltered her and she fell back to one knee.
"Amy?!" He flinched and moved Shadow's body away to try and see her more fully, "What's wrong? Did he—" some anger momentarily traced Sonic's face but Amy extinguished it right away.
"N-No…" she quivered in the pain, feeling her leg go numb. "I'm fine… Shadow…" for the first time in her life, she looked up into Sonic's eyes…
And lied.
"Shadow saved me." She held her face in a straight line. "Eggman escaped, and I…" she looked down a second, but forced herself to continue in what she told Shadow about black and white…
She held a stronger face to Sonic now, "…I then saved him." She admitted.
Sonic scanned her face for a moment as if maybe some suspicion had taken over his thoughts, before nodding and adjusting his hold on Shadow in his arms.
"Alright. Let's get you two somewhere safe. Get that leg looked at." He offered her his arm. "You'll have to hold on a bit."
She nodded and took his arm, holding on as he raced off.
Why would she not tell him about Shadow?
Well..
Because she knew Sonic was just as capable… of destruction.
But she knew in her heart… he wouldn't.
She remembered Omega…
Not if she was in his way… and wouldn't turn away.