Anonymous asked:
Hiiii! My friend and I really love your writing of Sonamy and she had this concept that she really wanted you to write: Concept: Eggman, in an attempt to ruin Sonic, invents literal nightmare fuel that slowly breaks down Sonic's ego and makes him feel powerless and afraid to sleep. He first tests this on Amy and after that, he tests it on the rest of the team...
cutegirlmayra answered:
I LOOOOVEEEE request like this! :DDD Thank you so much! It's a plot, it's depth, and it's so cute~3
Tell your friend she's a mini-genius! :Db And thank you both for supporting me and my stories! Means a lot :'3
I hope I can do her idea justice, precious anon!
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Prompt:
Eggman was using a drill-bot to carve it's way into the deepest, darkest cave imaginable. All the way out in the middle of nowhere, Eggman peered inside the drilled, crumbled rock.
Only his glasses shone in that pitch darkness, as then his smiling teeth as he saw the object he desired, glowing with whisps of purple light, not like the aliens, but darker… more corrupted entities.
Back at his lab, he snorted, giggled, and squawked laughters as he pushed and pressed buttons like his fingers were dancers.
"At last! I've got it! I think I've got the code to trigger their power and centralize it into one … dream…" he rubbed his hands together, "Huhuhu… with these 'nightmares' I'll have Sonic losing all hope! He'll believe he's a good-for-nothing! And I'll be the emperor of the eggman empire in no time!~" he jumped to turn around and click his heels together, rushing over to the cylinder, clear tube that held the destructive creatures. They're mouths opened to whispy daggers for teeth, and their purple, smokey bodies blinked with glares.
"There, there… my little evil critters~" he tapped his fingers to the glass, making them freak out and shake their hands, wanting to attack but returning to the urn which they were trapped inside.
"Hehehe~ Hohoho!" He billowed another loud laugh as he leaned his back into an arch in his joy.
But within that laughter, he realized something. "ho, ho?" he blinked his eyes, motioning his neck down. "But what if my test run doesn't work? I'll need to test my hypothesis on directing these little balls of terror before I actually unleash them on Sonic's team! Hmm.." he rubbed his chin, thinking…
He suddenly smirked, turning to his computer.
"…Wasn't Amy Rose tracking Sonic just a moment ago?"
—
Amy waddled through the forest, huffing and puffing in her weariness, tapping each tree she passed with the palm of her hand, as if checking to make sure she had stable support if she ever needed it.
She finally stood up straight, exhausted from a long day, and leaned her head back. "Ugh.. He's traveled too far this time." She moaned, before lowering her head with a heavy sigh. "And I was really hoping to spend time with him today…" she pouted, looking truly disappointed, but not that upset as she was used to sometimes failing on her ventures to find Sonic.
"He's a tricky one." she mused, picturing him dashing over large fields, defeating robots, and maybe even taking a second to stop and smile at a passing thought of her.
"Ha~~~" she sighed, melting at the idea of Sonic taking a second to think of her for a change.
—
Eggman positioned his gun perfectly, focusing the nightmartic spirits where he wanted their power concentrated.
"Eat her dreams alive, boys… woo-hohohho!" he laughed, and fired down once the gun rocked it's way to have her in the center of it's target. "Fire!"
Eggman's gun sprung the spirit's power, a misty purple smoke, straight through the atmosphere as it hit her in the back of her head, and spiraled down her body.
—
Amy suddenly felt a wave of sleepiness hit her upside the head, and all of a sudden, a strange aroma was pulling her to sit down… to rest… to take it easy…
"Wha-..what..?" she knew this wasn't right, as she slowly came to her knees, and started to lay down. "H…Help…" she lightly rested her head down, as her whole body became too heavy to move, and too weak to stand…
There were puzzles under her feet, and as she looked down, she noticed some were glowing a bright, see-through gold.
"Amy…"
Amy looked up, before smiling happily towards Sonic, a little ways away on the same puzzle-piece floor she was on.
"Sonic!" Her voice echo'd in the empty space.
He looked upset, turning away from her. "You have to stop this mess."
"…Ah… Mess?" she was confused, but she held her hands back, her feet paused from rushing towards him.
She had never seen such a shallow expression on his face before…
"I don't want you always trying to find me! To hog my attention away from the world!" he swiped his hand out, looking more and more frustrated, as she stepped a foot back.
"…A-..Attention..?" She held her fists up to her chest, not sure what he was saying.
The puzzle-piece below her suddenly fell, as her foot almost fell through the crack.
She gasped as she pulled it up, looking down at the puzzle piece, and studying how it could have fallen…
As her eyes scanned, Sonic's voice once again arose, this time much harsher and crueler than even she thought possible to imagine.
"This is it, Amy! I'm tried of letting you get away with what you want!"
"What I… want?" she turned around, her eyes shaking at his words.
"Sonic…" she could feel her heart breaking, her lips trembling as tears almost threatened her.
Around her, puzzle pieces on the floor started falling, strikes of lightning taking some of them out.
"I can't stand it, Amy! I can't stand you!" Sonic bit down on the word, glaring as he lunged himself forward.
"I WISH YOU WOULD JUST DISAPPEAR!"
As he threw his arm out, Amy felt the ground beneath her break and dip down, the puzzle pieces falling rapidly as she fell with them, reaching up for his cold, unfeeling expression as he watched her fall.
"Sonic…" her eyes widened, gripping her hands before forcing them apart and reaching up for him. "NOOO!"
She disappeared into the darkness, hovering in the air.
"I don't want to be alone… I don't… I …" She gripped herself into a tight curl, but not fully a ball, as her hair and dress rippled in the mist of the empty space.
There was nothing now.
No sound but her own desperate cries.
Tears floated in the space around her.
"I… I don't want to die without knowing…. knowing what it's like… I don't want to be alone… I don't want to die alone!"
She threw her head up, screaming.
"SOOOONNNIICCCC!"
The Sonic above, turned his head away, walking away from the surface.
Once absent from her sight, his face suddenly morphed to the snickering of the nightmaric spirit, chuckling with it's jagged, spiked teeth; Sonic's body myistifying into a purple smokey being.
—-
"Excellent!" Eggman jumped up from his seat, watching the activity of her vital signs and pulses, mental strain and brainwaves, the like; determining right then and there that his experiment was a success!
"Now, then! To the others!"
He pushed some buttons, as the gun flung around and shot the remaining nightmaric spirits to the different locations he punched in.
He twirled around with the gun, doing a little silly dance before looking back at his creation. "Tonight! Eggman industries presents a spectacular, dream-like experience you've NEVER dared to have before! WHOHOHOH!" as he laughed, the nightmaric spirits all gathered together in the tube, seeming to scheme, before turning to Eggman, and laughing creepishly towards him…
—
Sonic turned in his sleep, as did Tails and Knuckles, as each one had a horrific nightmare of their deepest, darkest fears.
Sonic was engulfed in water, unable to do anything, and for some reason, still able to breathe.
"Noo!" he cried out, trying to move upward, but only sinking as Amy and his friends were slashed through, shadowy silhouettes showing their last moments of life, and even Amy reaching down in the water to him, before red filled the water, dying it as it floated past him like curved paint in an oil canvas, swarming his being.
Powerless, Sonic watched the red surround him, polluting the water and gripping his throat.
He struggled to breathe now.
"N.. nmm!" he gripped his throat, his cheeks puffing up to try and remain with oxygen.
His arms flailed through the water, as suddenly he was pulled down into a dark abyss, his friend's silhouettes being thrown into the water… Metal Sonic's shadow… turning to stare down at him from a distance… at the surface.
Then, it shifted, turning into a nightmaric spirit's face, and cackled as Sonic's feet were limp, and weren't able to kick him towards the surface of the water…
He closed his eyes, feeling life drain from him.
He was forced to be pulled under the water's current…
—
Tails was trapped in a small cube, as he pounded on it and cried out to let him out, his X-Tornado turning on him and firing, causing lightning to spring out from it's guns and attack the cube.
Tails threw up his arms, crying out as his mouth hung in utter fright.
He ducked down, unable to avoid as the X-Tornado went back up into the thunderstorm, and then spiraled down to let out a fresh new patch of lightning down upon his trapped self.
"Stop it!" Tails shouted out, as suddenly he heard Sonic's piercing cry, and looked up.
"No!" Tails banged on the cube, "Sonic!"
Sonic,… Amy… Knuckles… they were all being struck by Lightning, and falling down, rising up as zombie like expressions on their faces, and walking towards him.
"You couldn't help us, Tails…" Amy's faint voice barely made it to his ears.
His eyes shook, scooting away from that side of the cube. "No…"
"You're useless to me, Tails…" Sonic's body kept hobbling towards the cube, his head going limp.
Tails shook in utter terror.
"You're still a no one… not a friend of ours." Knuckles's arms stretched forward. "Now we'll take you out… so the lightning can kill you too."
They all piled the box.
"No…Stop… please…! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I wasn't good enough! I'm sorry!"
The three nightmartic spirits chuckled, their faces shifting as Tails threw his hands over his head, his tails also encircling him in his great fear.
—
Knuckles struggled to try and keep his new family safe, but with each robot army that came, he turned to suddenly see them swiped down, out of existence, turning to nothing more than dust.
"Ah!" he rushed to them, gripping the dirt. "The last echidnas…" he was alone again, before looking up and seeing the robots break the Master Emerald, turning it into small fragments that they crushed to utter oblivion…
Their sparkling powder floated by him, as his eyes widened and they stung his open eyes.
"NOOO!"
Angel Island came crashing down, the robots self-destructing as suddenly the Island bent into itself, cracking and splitting, till lost in the sea…
Knuckles smashed the earth beneath him, before his shoulders bounced in his tears, and he laid down before the crashing sea…
"No…Rouge… Sonic… My friends… My family… The Master Emerald… I've failed them.. I've failed them all…"
Behind him, the robots faces turned to nightmaric spirits, laughing…
—
"WHHOHOHOHHO! BRILLIANT!" Eggman danced around in his lab, even going disco-funky with his actions. "Now, to take over the world!" He stuck a finger up, posing, before typing more coordinates.
But by this time… he hadn't realized the Nightmares were growing with the dread and fear that came from their hosts… and they're being morphed into Sonic, Amy, Tails, and Knuckles.
The remaining nightmare spirits laughed in their usual way, before breaking the cylinder tube… and going for Eggman.
"W-what?" he saw the gun stop firing, and turned around.
"No… no,… NOO!" Eggman threw his hands up, as they chuckled and swarmed his being in their mist, knocking him out and diving into his dreams… their laughter never ceasing…
—
Sonic woke up in a cold sweat, blinking hard and breathing irregularly.
He touched his chest… no water.
Just the cold of the wind.
His eyes were heavy, but he shook his head, getting up.
"That was no dream…" Sonic concluded, and turned to look out away from him.
He heard someone shouting his name…
Suddenly, the sound became more clear as he gained control over his senses again…
"Amy!" he charged, bolting himself through the long distance to find where the echo was coming from.
It disturbed him, seeing he was awake, but her voice was bouncing off from everywhere.
The mountains didn't help.
The valleys were worst.
He finally found her, collapsed under a tree, screaming out with tears pouring down her face.
"Tails! Knuckles! Someone help me!" she cried in her sleep, talking outloud.
"Hang on, Amy! Wake up! Snap out of it!" Sonic knelt down and shook her, before her eyes sprung up, and she fought him slightly away.
"Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me!"
Sonic, startled by the response, immediately pulled his hands away from her, backing away.
"Amy… it's me… It's Sonic.." he took a gentler tone, his eyes bending back as he worried his shaking had startled her to the point of possibly hurting her.
"Amy… You're alright. It was just a dream."
She breathed hard, gripping herself, looking around.
"It's… it's dark."
He saw she was getting her senses back, and bent down again beside her, offering her his arms. "It's cold too."
She gripped him with a death-hold of pure, unfathomable terror.
She clung to him like her source of life, breathing rapidly off measure, and having her heartbeat influence his own rapidly beating one.
"You're alright, Amy. I don't know what's going on. But I'm worried about Tails and the others." He gently held her, before feeling her tremble and lightly moving his hand to her head, stroking it to try and still her.
"You're alright. I'm here… Whatever that was… Whatever thing possessed us… I won't let it get away with this."
He found some relief in having her around… at least he knew he wasn't dreaming anymore either.
She nodded, finally calming down to a regular breath, before wiping her eyes and finally letting him go.
"My dream… While I was sinking into the dark… I heard Tails, and Knuckles laughing too. Everyone was laughing."
"Mine too." Sonic could only recall the deformed image of Metal Sonic, his eyes glowing… his face turning to a jagged grin…
He looked away from her a moment, considering the possibility… "Maybe we were all trapped under the same dreams…"
"Why do you say that?" Amy looked more directly to him, confused.
"Because I was sinking too."
Amy let out a pity groan, lightly, as if feeling empathy for him.
"I'm fine." He lied, patted her head again, trying more to sooth her than himself.
"We… we need to stick together. To find the others." He wouldn't admit it, but he didn't want to leave her side. Fear still gripped him. He wasn't letting her out of his sights.
Tails and Knuckles were both awakened, and the only explanation to the increased power source that night, from Tails's readings, were coming from Eggman's base.
"I didn't know he had a base way out here." Sonic saw the robots smashed against the side of the doors… the doors wide open… the halls showing wired ripped robots…
"Something came in." Knuckles tightened his fists, getting ready…
"No…" Sonic stopped walking, turning seriously with a knowing look towards the broken cylinder. "Something got out."
Eggman groaned.
The four all turned to him, laying down, up against his control station.
"I don't want to be alone.. without a cause, please! Let me destroy you a little longer! I promise! I'll be better! Don't go! Don't leave me without a purpose!"
He tossed his head desperately, before Amy walked over, taking her hammer out.
"Amy." Sonic cautioned, worried what she would do with him.
She saw his arm extended, and nodded, "I'm just waking him up." she answered over her shoulder, looking back to him. "No one deserves the nightmares we've all endured…"
No one disputed her.
Amy whacked Eggman on the head, light enough that it wasn't painful, but still enough to snap him out of it.
He woke up, flinching, sweat trailing down his bald forehead.
"Wha..where… where am I?"
"Alive." Sonic almost spoke through his teeth. "Now… tell us where they are?"
"You're not good enough."
The team turned around, seeing the nightmaric spirits, all morphed into their figures, even an Eggman one, raising their heads with smirks.
"You're pathetic!" The Tails spirit stated, right after the Sonic one spoke.
"Pitiful." The Amy spirit spat out.
"Worth less than dirt!" The Eggman spirit swished a ghostly hand out, purple mist trailing it's action.
The five stood tall,.. there was a moment of silence… as more hurtful and piercing insults stung at their pride and their hearts.
"…Sonic." Eggman dipped his head down, but clearly addressing him. "I wouldn't normally say this… but… circumstances as they are-"
"We'll fight them." Sonic spoke carefully, but quickly.
He nodded his head, "Together."
Eggman turned to him, seeing the forgiveness and nodded, turning back to the nightmare spirits.
"That urn in my large, broken flask is the only thing that can trap them."
"We have to conquer our fears then." Amy threw her arm back, her hammer positioned and ready to strike as she bent her knees. Ready.
"We have to stand together." Tails also prepared himself. Ready.
"I may be able to forgive Eggman… but not you creeps!" Knuckles bashed his fists together, shouting loudly his war cry. Ready.
Sonic… was not ready.
He clenched his fist, as Amy could see.
His nightmaric spirit tilted his head, smirking as it narrowed it's eyes.
"…Sonic." Amy gently put her hand to his.
He twitched his head up, looking to her.
He was surprised at first, but nodded in understanding.
He wasn't going to fail his friends.
He wasn't going to be useless.
He was going to fight.
And he was going to win!
His friends would be just fine.
"Ready!" Sonic called to them, looking fierce with a renewed, confident smile.
"READY!" They all charged, as Eggman looked around, and sprang up to follow after them, swinging a fist to his nightmaric spirit.
"AHHH!" he went right through him, as the other spirit laughed, hitting him down.
"Grr.. Oh, I get it." Eggman got back up. "I'm worth twice as many evil villains as you!" He threw his fist again.
The spirit looked confused, startled into freezing still, as the fist made it disappear, and it's purple mist came back into the urn.
"Heheh~" Eggman boasted, blowing on his fist to get the remaining purple trail off of it.
Sonic spin dashed, "I'm the hero of my own story!" the other Sonic vanished in a similar manner, returning to the urn.
Sonic struck a pose, his hand flared up as he landed and uncurled, smiling his signature cocky grin.
"I'm not worthless, I'm ten times smarter than you!" Tails threw a wrench into the spirit, as it trailed back into the urn.
"I'm not alone!" Knuckles whammed into his spirit, "My duty isn't over yet!" as it returned to the urn.
"I'm… I'm…" Amy was still under the nightmares influence, as it waited, before knocking her down in impatience.
"Offph!"
"Amy!"
The team gathered around her, even Eggman, helping her up.
She looked around her, seeing her friends right by her side.
She turned to the spirit, eyes fixed in her resolve.
"I'm… Strong."
She took out the spirit as it returned to the urn.
The urn was placed back in the cave, sealed up by Eggman.
He crossed his heart in a gesture to Sonic and his friends, showing he wouldn't go near that cave ever again…
(I tried to keep it canon, what do you think? :) )