I watched both scenes listed here, and instead of making it so cookie-cutter ‘This is him and this is her’, I decided to let them both have lines lol XD I never did watch Inyuyasha, but my friend is a huge fan of it! I have seen Titanic, it’s a sad, tragic love story and I tend to try and avoid those, hehe. But! Did you know Link’s design was based on Jack? Hehe >///w///<

I’ve been having a rough time with things in my life, but it’s not all that bad. It’s more so anxiety, and I’ve been trying to edit my original stuff so I can get back to the ‘One-Chapter Challenge’ fun stuff! Thank you with your patience towards me! I also have old video games I want to get back into… You know, outlet stuff XD

I decided to not call out the duplicates from the Prompt Request cheats... I hope we can all look fondly on the era and know how much we both adored the moments and stories together. I still look back at some kind comments and excited words… You all have given me so much, and I’m more than happy to give you what I can now. Cause you Cuties deserve to still have some fun stories every now and then xD I hope you’ll read my original works when they come out, too, please! <3

And to those who may have known they cheated the system… We were all rascals and kids once. Thanks for enjoying my writing ^^ (I just deleted your dups, no worries. Have a wonderful life and keep being inspired to make the world a more creative paradise!)

Prompt:

The pain in her joints is unbearable.

The realization that everything she’s longed for up to this point, everything she’s worked so hard to do… her training with her Piko Piko Hammer, the tournament successes and losses, and even her tarot card reading…

The electric beam shocks her motors in her arm, and she is compelled to lift her hammer up. “N-No..!”

Her memories overwhelm her as another beam zaps a powerful command to her knee, and she dashes forward, striking at the single most important thing in her life.

A harrowing laughter, taking maniacal ecstasy out of the dramatic predicament. “That bald looney…”

Sonic… His voice…

It brings no comfort to her as she is forced to obey the tethered beams of electrical compulsion over her body to–”Strike him down!!!”

Eggman, leaning over his Eggpod, shakes his fist in the air and slams it to the metallic hide of his flying machine.

Spit flys from his orders, the same as when he laughs…

She strains herself back, trying to take control. Sonic has been dodging up to this point, but she’s unable to rein in her own body.

“Look out!!! Sonic!!!”

Her foot steps with precise sturdiness, and she swings with her eyes closed.

Air.

Good.

She peeks a scared eye open to see nothing before her. “Phew…”

Their first meeting… The sky that is brighter than his fur, but his being richer in color… To her, she has only known him for a short amount of time, but has admired every choice he has ever made…

Except this one.

“You have to fight back!” She calls out, feeling her body twist and reel her around in a violent jerk, “Erk..!” Her hammer is flung behind her, her butt sticking out, catching her footing at the last second from such a turn.

Sonic is trying to homing-attack the Eggpod… ‘He really is so fast…’ Her eyes, glossy with fright of hurting her hero, see that their is a forcefield of some kind around it.

She can’t cover her mouth in shock, she can only wince her eyes as she has to comprehend that Sonic must defeat her… “If you keep dodging, he’ll exhaust you!” She warns from below.

“Hohoho!” Another cheerful, evil laugh from that villainous, waving mustache..!

After a few failed attempts, richochetting off of the barrier around the Eggpod, Sonic finally lands back to the ground. Silently, he looks behind his shoulder to Amy… ‘Such serious eyes…’ She thinks that doesn’t suit him.

‘He won’t fight back…’ She feels her chest heaving… ‘He probably can see that I’m already getting tired… but that won’t matter. How ever hard Robotnik will push me… My body will just do it, no matter how fatigued I appear to be… So long as I’m controlled, and his hand remains on the joystick… I’ll be forced to keep fighting till Sonic drops.’

This terrifying reality sank into her quaking bones. She’s never had to fight this hard before, and it felt completely unnatural. The subtly stinging beams attached to each one of her joints couldn’t be damaged for her release, due to Eggman’s defenses…

She knows Sonic didn’t want to hurt her… But…

“It’s okay, I understand!” She felt her body shift, two hands being placed tightly over her hammer in front of her. “I won’t blame you!” She watched without any foreknowledge as her arms slowly brought her hammer to her side, angling it as though about to do a hard, arching swing.

“No..!” Her eyes shook again, “Please!” She closed her eyes, begging him. “You have to fiiighhtt!!!”

A wild swing, powerful, even though her training had only been for a couple of weeks.

She felt nauseated, her quills bending against the windspeed as she spun like a turbine, and felt a rock in her footing as though hitting something. “Ah..!” She dared to not open her eyes.

Another hit.

“Sonic..!”

Another.

“No..!” She squealed.

Eggman’s laugh was the icing on the cake to this horrible nightmare. The music of every dream she ever had disappearing…

When she finally came out of the spin, she was gasping for air. She blinked open her blurry eyes, only having them focus on the blue figure laying on the ground.

Her emotions welled up, but Sonic… without showing much effort, slowly got up to his hands and knees, then… pushed off of a raised knee and stood.

He was so silent… but she could tell he was putting on a show. Acting like it hadn’t hurt him too much.

He winked to her, as though he could keep going…

“No, please… You shouldn’t let me hurt you…” Her voice became fainter, as though she was struggling to speak. “Your friends… they’ll all blame me. I’ll blame me… If anything should happen to our hero…” Her eyes teared up.

“I’d rather faint… then ever let myself beat you up!” She felt her puffy green shoulders bounce in her falling tears.

Eggman twirled a finger around his mustache, lifting a leg up behind him, seeming to fawn over the heartfelt exchange in his gleeful comfort about. “What a heartfelt sentiment… Sooooniccc? Aren’t you going to respond? Your girlfriend seems to need a hug~” He jammed the joystick forward and Amy–currently known as Rosy the Rascal at this time–stumbled forward as the electrical shocks began to rise her hammer above her head.

“WHAHAHAHAHA!”

“Heh,” Sonic smirked, seeing her charging but with a wobbly advanced.

He took every hit, consistent swing, and charmingly kept his smile with every new bruise.

“Sonic!”

“Myyyy~ What a hero~” Eggman rolled his eyes, but also grinned at seeing his conniving plan to take over one of Sonic’s friends was working.

“How long can this show last, Hedgehog!?” He goaded.

“Everyone will live well after me.” Sonic’s snarky reply lifted Amy’s heart, but it still hurt to see him take every hit.

She jammed her hammer into his stomach, hearing him vocally grunt out in pain, then swinging to slam him down to the ground again.

Eggman’s laugh was ticking her off…

“Your way is not gonna last forever! The world needs you more than little old me!” She protested, trying to keep her voice low so only he could hear, and Eggman wouldn’t weaponize her begging…

Sonic squints an eye up, looking at the links and the main, center orb laser in front of Eggman’s Eggpod… “Tsk… Guess there’s no helping it…”

He stood back up, but Amy thought he was finally going to fight back.

“It’s okay, Sonic. I… I really don’t blame you.” She wasn’t sure how he was going to do it, but felt her hammer moving over her head. “Dodge and strike!” She felt the shaking of her arms from the strain, but so did Sonic.

His eyes darted to them with a fierce expression…

“Don’t you do that… don’t you look at me like you’re saying goodbye..!”

Amy’s eyes widened.

The machine fizzled slightly.

“Huh|” Eggman looked at his controls, seeing the joystick start to slowly move on its own.

Amy was frozen… Eggman gripped the joystick and kept it from moving…

Sonic’s glare was intense… She couldn’t move under it.

She wouldn’t.

“Sonic…” She felt her heart start missing beats, or was she too overwhelmed to hear and feel it anymore?

“... You should know.” He then smiled, disarming her entirely. Her mouth opened, admiring him all over again. “I hate goodbyes.”

He flicked his nose, holding up his ionic finger, giving him a gentle scold.

Her mouth curled up into an open grin, “Sonic..!” Her eyes sparkled at being this close to her idol, a handsome hero indeed.

However…

“Grrk..! Got it!” Eggman slammed the Joystick down and Amy’s hammer swung.

She cried out in alarm, seeing her body moving, and turned her head to look directly at the hammer.

“Sonic! You better fight me! It’s coming down!” She closed her eyes again, feeling the impact of debris from the ground hit against her face and cheeks, gritting her teeth as the vibration from such force rippled throughout her whole being.

“Don’t let him win!” She cried out.

When she opened her eyes…

She didn’t feel anymore stinging.

Her hammer was steaming… and she turned to see Sonic standing behind her… his eyes twitching as he intercepted the beams..!

Her eyes shrank as she understood what he had done to save her.

“Ohhh-hohoho~” Eggman blissfully rubbed his two hands together, “Lookie ‘ere! You were willing to be my puppet in her stead, eh? How noble of you..!!!” Eggman began to swing the Joystick around, and as the Eggpod tilted, Sonic’s body was yanked about, the joints looking as though they were burning from the intensity of the commands they were sending to his joints.

“This… This is why I fell in love with you.” A tear rolled down her cheek as she blinked, watching him take the brute force of her earlier prison.

“Sonic…” She’d still have to faint him now, but he clearly opened an eye to smile at her, as though suggesting that she had to be the one to fell him.

“Why..?” She finally let the breath out, as Eggman shoved Sonic’s body to the ground, his limps shaking from the abusive manuevers he was compelled to do.

“Heh, isn’t it obvious?” Even in this state, Sonic was still teasing.

He looked up, and even though he was straining against the electric signals stinging at his joints, his smile never wavered. “... You’re so beautiful when you smile… Amy, right?” He confirmed her real name, which was odd, because she usually went under her nickname.

“You… You remembered?” She was floored.

Eggman held off on the jostling of the joystick, raising an exaggerated eyebrow up to figure out what this conversation’s point was that was coming across…

Sonic? Calling someone pretty? “What a player one…” He spat out the side of his mouth.

“You should also know something…” He started to crawl in shaking motions, moving closer to her, so she’d have a better shot… “Urk… Ah… You… You should know… I hate tears… I could never… Ah… like a girl that cries.” He had made it, with great difficulty, to her feet. He breathed heavily…

She shakes her head, not wanting to do this. “Please… Don’t make me do this. We can fight him together!” She reached forward to grab his hands.

“I… Can’t feel my body.” Sonic admitted, forcing his eyes to close as he knew the pain in them would only stay her hand longer… “

Her eyes soften to him.

“We’re both just gonna get getting damaged and outwinded if this keeps up… You should go, Amy. He’ll drain the life out of me before he ends the fun too quickly.” Sonic leaned up his head, finally squinting his eyelids open again, just a little bit.

Amy was left hesitating, her eyes completely enamoured with his bravery. “Sonic…”

He smiled, “I hate not feeling like myself… especially in front of a pretty girl.” He lifted his hands, lightly pushing her to rise up above him, helping her to stand and be away from him.

“I… I remember meeting you that day…”

Her body couldn’t move, his words had paraylzed her heart.

She couldn’t stand the idea of his self-sacrifice… it would inspire her for the rest of her life… With Gamma, Shadow, and Silver…

His hands slowly inched down her arms, since he had moved her from her shoulders.

“Sunny, wasn’t it?” His voice was being constricted by the shocks. “Grk.. Windmil-like flowers… they twirled as I passed by… the wind brought me to you.”

She couldn’t see anymore, her vision was completely overtaken with her grieving tears.

“That was a beautiful day… the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“Sonic…”

Eggman tapped on the joystick, “Pfft, I’ve never seen you so sentimental before, Sonic? What’s gotten into you? Is it… realllly love?” Eggman seemed baffled, but also jokingly assuming Sonic was just putting on some flare and giving off smoke for a fangirl.

“Heh, I’m not much for reminiscing… I usually live in the moment, so you’re right about that, Egghead.” Sonic spoke over his shoulder, still trying to act cool and confident.

Eggman sneered with glee, “Go on, then. Since losing all your assets, being unable to walk or even run on your own without my say so, and having admitted this is your greatest nightmare… I’ll add to the suffering by allowing you to say your final farewells~” He rubbed his mustache’s ends, truly, a timeless criminals signature, go-to gloating technique.

Amy lowered her head… The tarot cards were blown away in that wind… and when she went to chase them, they were all scattered. She randomly picked from them, and from what she could tell… it told her that he’d come.

“But it never said this… I don’t want to lose you… this fate isn’t what I want it to be!” Her shoulders bounced… but she took her arm and wiped her tears, not wanting him to ‘dislike her’ as being a crybaby.

He smiles up to her, “Hey, Amy… You live kinda wildly, right? Can you… erk… promise me… you won’t lose that sense of adventurous spirit in you?”

Did he not know? Could he really think she tailed him all this time… just for the spirit of adventure?

“That’s… that’s perfect, then. Live just as you always have, Amy… following your ever-enduring heart.”

She looks at his hands, reaching her own, and stops them from slipping off.

She pulls them back up… and kisses them lightly, not letting them go.

‘I’ll never… I’ll never stop loving you, Sonic The Hedgehog… Though I see now… It’s not necessarily me who is in love with adventure… Although it can be quite exhilarating.” She tries to comfort him as he did herself, and smiles with a charming tilt to her head. Looking rather cute, she continues in that newfound strength, “There’s no room in your heart for me… Adventure will always be your first love… but you’ll always be mine.” She nods, her lips swiggling at the depth of speaking that truth aloud.

She places his hands lightly on the ground, gently slipping his fingers from her own, and letting them touch the dirt.

She then glares at Eggman, “If this is to be our fate,... to meet, to fight, and even die alongside each other… then I’ll happily take on that bet without a second thought. I’ll outrace destiny…” She stood taller, summoning back her hammer, which had been discarded on the ground beforehand.

“I’m not gonna hurt you, Amy.” Sonic felt Eggman tilt the joystick, and rose back up to his feet, stumbling backwards.

“How could you?” Amy smiles, tapping her hammer in her hand.

“When you’re gonna have to trust, and let me do the rest?” She tilted her head again with a smile and light giggle.

‘My dreams won’t disappear…’ The last thing Sonic saw was looking up at the hammer swinging down on him…

He then the soft embrace of fabric as he stirred awake, feeling a bump the size of a bounce pad but the coolness of a ice pack over it.

He wiggled, swaddled well into the bedsheets, but got a hand out to remove the ice to look better at the injury, before placing it back on and looking about.

There were windmil flowers on the side in a vase, gently twirling to the open window on his right.

He looked towards the window, his mouth open, before smiling and closing his eyes to the sweet-smelling wind.

‘It was me Eggman was after the whole time… I figured, if I let her weaken me enough, then it would bide time for the gang to arrive… But still, kinda embarrassing to have to act all heroic in front of a sweet girl like her.’ He rubbed under his nose.

A few footfalls alerted Sonic that someone was approaching, and turning to the door lightly swinging open, he smiled to see Amy holding a tray of pancakes, and looking a little nervous to see him awake.

“... Hello.” She dipped her head, as though ashamed. “How… how are you feeling?”

He smirked and kicked his feet out of the bedsheets, rolling backwards to jump up and onto the bed, giving her a perfectly healthy thumbs up. “I’m fine--Ow!” He felt the ice pack land back on his head from having being lifted off of him in that feat, and it made Amy laugh.

“Haha! Easy tiger!”

“Hedgehog…” Sonic folded his arms, grumbling.

The two shared a cute laugh.

“What had happened after you knocked me out?” He asked, curiously, plopping down on his butt and rubbing the new bump the ice pack had made, adjusting it back on his bigger bump it was previously treating.

“Emm…” Amy blushed, but placed the tray of food by the windmil flowers. “I was pretty emotional…” She placed her hands together, they were down while her arms straightened out.

She seemed… a bit shy to say it.

Sonic tilted his head, “What… what happened to Eggman? What’d you do to him..?” He cringed a little back, as Amy covered her face.

“Ah! I just felt so ashamed! Like…” She pushed her quills back, “Like I wasn’t worthy anymore to stand by your side… I couldn’t bear the responsibility of making sure you passed out… I told myself that when you woke up, I would… I would ask if I could repay you by staying by your side…” The faint pink on her cheeks made Sonic roll his eye to the window, letting out a soft sigh.

“Is that right..? But that’s just what a hero does, Amy… No need to apologiz-OFFPH!”

She had jumped into his arms!

“H-Hey! What gives? Am-Amy!?” He fidgetted and moved while in her grasp, but she didn’t let him go.

“You did that so I didn’t have to… I don’t want our ‘fate’ to be a negative thing for you!”

“Our… fate?” He watched her nuzzle up to his chest, and something in him… stirred compassion for the kind girl…

He looked away, rubbing under his nose a second as he thought, looking up at the sky outside… “What I did must have really bothered you… huh?”

He looked back down at her… Placing a hand delicately on her own, he smiles and lowers his voice.

“It was a fun adventure.”

In her iconic whine, “OOooohhh!! I can’t compete with your first love, Sonic!”

He blinked his eyes, then snickered into the top of his hand on her head. “That’s cause you already are one.”

She opened her eyes, wondering what that meant.

She leaned her head away and he clarified, keeping his nose at a distance from her own.

“You’re the first girl I’ve ever saved on one of my adventures, it made it quite entertaining, Amy!”

Twitching animated, an anger mark appeared pulsing on the side of her head.

She pulled away and huffed, puff clouds coming from the sides of her face as she pouted and declared, with hands situated promptly and proudly on the sides of her young hips, “Ohhh, I took all my courage to ram into that Robotnik! And this is the thanks I get!?” She pulled out her hammer, swinging it about, “I couldn’t stand the thought of your friends coming and saying I was the death of the legendary Sonic The Hedgehog!”

He smiled and grinned at her motions, though… a small sweatdropped appeared to show he was nervous around her ‘raw strength’ as well…

“In the end, I gave it very little thought… I put all my heart into that decision.” She brought her hammer close to her, holding it like a golf club, and looking back towards the door. “I want to be your hero, too, Sonic… I want to stay right by your side… and I’ll get strong enough to do so… you’ll wait for me, this time, won’t you?”

He blinked, a bit flabbergasted to hear that. “You… want to be my hero?”

She nodded, blushing, “Em-hmm…”

“Ohh…” He kinda spaced out for a second.

After he didn’t say anything back for a while, she grew worried, and hurriedly stated, “O-Okay? C-Cause meeting you was no coincidence! It was fate!” She waved a hand out to her side, the other remaining to hold her hammer in place. “It was the best day of my life, too!” She hollered out, making Sonic lean back with that same, circular open mouth and blank stare.

Her face turned red, and she leaned back, “And-And-And… Ahhh, I’ll make our destiny a good one! Not ill at all! Because-! I’m gonna make our lives together super bright! A happy one! I’ll fight to get that right fate, too, Sonic! Just like how we didn’t have to hurt each other too much or too severely yesterday…” She looked away in her flustered rambling, but Sonic just tilted his head, a bubble showing a question mark appearing overhead.

“Deep down… I want you to know I want you to live just as you do, too… So while… while you were taking all those hits… I wondered why you’d be so willing to sacrifice yourself for a complete stranger… Doesn’t that… show that it was fated? Our meeting..?” She turned to see he had flopped back down and fallen asleep during her confession.

“AHHH!!” She screamed and dropped her hammer, her eyes turning fully white at seeing him disregard her so quickly.

A snot bubble had appeared, “Ohh… So he must have been more tired then he let on!” She puffed up her cheek again, hands back to her hips. “That Sonic…”

She still had a faint blush mark on her cheek, and walking over to him, she took his hands again, leaning over the bedside. She stared at his sleeping expression… and love filled her heart.

Rampant and unyielding, it spread through her like a warm summer’s day.

The day they met…

“I want our future to be a happy one. I want to see you laugh more. I don’t know what exactly little ol’me can do for you, Sonic… But I’ll promise that… I’ll promise to always be living my fullest life… right by your side. Haha, even your adventurous side, Sonic..!” She chimed, bouncing her puffy green shoulders and then kissing his hands again.

I'm afraid I had to shut down the prompts for good, due to many duplicates and people submitting more than 2-3 requests into the inbox during and not during the time slot of the open asks. They mostly hid under Anon, but I have discovered some misclicked, using their name for one and then anon for another, helping me to see who was breaking the rules. Due to this, I can't fully trust the Cutie Community anymore. I'm so sorry, team… It's literally the actions of the few that ruined it for the whole ;-; Due to their actions, I had received waaaayyyy too many prompts. It's overwhelming, unfair, and emotional since I did this project as a way to have fun with my community, not requiring commission requests of a dollar. I feel abused and deceived. I'll probably make a post of who did what, but I also don't want them to get harassed… I just want everyone to be aware and know that this is no longer acceptable, and has caused these unfortunate circumstances. There are many reasons as to why the permanent shutdown happened for prompt requests, but this broke my heart–the last straw that cracked the grandma camel's back. Though, again, I'm also an adult with life stuff going on, so there's that, too XD

I will not be taking requests for fanfictions either, but I do intend to write my own works–including fanfiction! So stay tuned for more exciting updates :3 (I'm not mad at everyone, just disappointed in the few ;)b) I recently published the first chapter of a Kingdom Hearts fanwork, so I hope you know many exciting 'original/fanworks' are coming in the future! 3

I'm so incredibly excited for the 'One-Chapter Challenge!' event! It's where I post one chapter of many different original stories I've had acclimated over the years. ^^ I hope you enjoy that.

I also have plans to update and finish my continuing fanfictions as well as just concluding things. Season 2s have to get started, too. Editing has been a NIGHTMARE so let's hope this loooonnngggg break will serve me–and hopefully, as a result, you patient Cuties–as well!

Prompt:

Amy was picking at some rust that had started building on the ring of her Piko Piko Hammer. She was hanging out on top of some storage boxes when the crowd gave off a sound of shock, and she looked over to see Shadow huffing and puffing.

Silver floated down and looked ready for more, as Shadow raised a hand up and the two lightly smiled in respect, smacking hands together to show an end of the spar.

"Well done." Sonic clapped, looking to Tails as he leaned against another storage box. "You want a turn, bud?"

"Nah, I'm pooped. Who do you think wore down, Shadow?" Tails teased, and Amy smiled at seeing everyone getting along.

She looked back at her hammer… Taking a deep breath, she thought about all the distress calls she had been getting over the intercoms… It was a lot for her heart to handle. Having Sonic back gave her some respite, but its honestly true that she hadn't fought in some time.

"Oh, come on. I'm itching for at least one round." Sonic, antsy as ever, couldn't stay in one place too long.

He stretched out his arms and shook his hands out, walking into the 'boxing' ring the Forces had set up for both entertainment and staying active with exercise.

Those 'illusions' as they were now being called were still everywhere, and sometimes, you didn't have a Wispon on you for safety.

Amy looked around, seeing no one really wanting to go up again THE Sonic The Hedgehog. Recently revived from seemingly the grave, the Forces were too respectful of their 'light of hope' to dare challenge him… even for a friendly spar.

"... Really? No one? Silver?" Sonic held out his arms to the masses, then gestured to Silver, walking over to him but he held up his hands and shook them–along with his head.

"Woa-woa-woah. Sorry, Sonic. Even I need a bit of a breather…" Silver honestly gave him his apology but looked too roughed up to just dart back into the fray.

Sonic's eyes looked a bit perplexed, wondering why everyone was so hesitant. "Come on, guys. I may have been tortured for a couple of months, but I'm not fragile." Sonic struck his signature pose. The back of his heel hit the side-arch of his other foot, then he wagged a finger upwards and turned his head, smirking.

Amy looked back at her hammer, gauging the weight of it. It slowly slipped a little from her grasp, and she lazily brought it back to herself, balancing it on her teetering palm. She realized… Sonic probably didn't want to be treated any differently. He hated the 'special' treatment when it came to things like competition or sports… It's why he rode an Airgear or drove a Car when competing in other events.

It was really him verses himself, mostly… challenging his own limits was something Sonic just naturally did on his own… far before Eggman ever showed up…

Amy finally sighed and jumped down, "I'll take you on!" She cheered, as the crowd gasped and moved aside for her to walk through them.

With her hammer over her shoulder, she gave a small curtsey to Sonic, still being lady-like as she then struck her hammer down to her side, creating an echoing, hollow bang that carried throughout the bunker…

However, when Sonic turned to address her, he looked… disappointed?

Uncertain?

"Amy…" he groaned slightly, and she knew that look.

Back when they met with the Babylon Rogues, he had made the same face and same responsive look of weariness… Turning away from her and looking down at the ground.

She didn't 'like' that look, per se, but she knew how to counter it.

"Alright with a friendly spar against an old friend, Sonic?"

Amy looked behind her to see Knuckles, who jokingly sneered and 'heh'd out the side of his jeering smirk.

He bobbed his chin up slightly, encouraging Amy to stand her ground.

She smiled, he must of known she hadn't 'stretched her hammer arm' in quite sometime, too.

"We all need a little stress reliever." She commented, "Wouldn't hurt to take someone on, right?"

Sonic slowly stood towards her, pivoting and adjusting his footing to do so. He gave a weak hand out as he gestured with it to speak, which made Amy feel like he was faking being tired.

"It's not that I don't think it'd be fair, it's just…"

"Something the matter?" Amy knew energy picked Sonic right up! She would give him that, and twirled her hammer about.

The crowd was in awe, 'Ooh'ing at her skill and precision with the hammer. She threw it up after a few baton twirls and caught it behind her, winking to Sonic and striking a pose with her leg up.

The crowd roared in approval, clapping and cheering.

"Heh," That did it. Sonic's smirk returned, and he looked more determined now.

There's nothing Sonic wouldn't do to please his own ego.

He punched the air a few times, jumped for the crowd with a spinning kick, and landed with fighter's bob–one foot behind him and the other in front, lightly moving back and forth in soft hops.

"You're right, Amy! Knuckles! Can't let my friends rust away like old bones..!"

He charged with super speed at Amy, who immediately went to spin her hammer in front of herself as a guard… but he jumped to the left…

Was it a false start? A bait and jab?

She jumped the opposite way, not pursuing, and stood to await his next charge.

But… he rounded the crowd, watching her as the crowd reached out to try and have his quills touch their fingertips… very much like fans do.

However… one fan pulled.

"Ow!" Sonic rocked a moment, feeling some spines on his hedgehog head had gotten pulled out. He rubbed and scratched at it, moving away from the crowd.

Someone cried out, "Hey! Don't do that!" To defend Sonic, but Sonic paid it no mind.

He wasn't used to the crowds being so close during any of his adventures, but it was an enclosed space. That, and there were kids and their families about taking shelter from the Egg-Empire out there… One might have just gotten excited.

He really, seriously didn't dwell on it as he noticed Amy getting confused.

Her expressions were always so easily seen on her face… He smiled, thinking that her tells were cute but exploitable.

He had to be subtle, he supposed…

He saw her moving to the center of the boxing ring, perhaps thinking he was trying to corral her in and attack her from the sides… she'd have no mobility but plenty of time to pivot swiftly if she just needed to turn to block his attacks.

He purposefully slowed down… He had heard that she had suffered the most when he was cooped up and beaten down by Zavok for revenge.

He spun into a ball and began to run into her hammer. Any time she lifted it, he perfectly hit against it, skidding to a turn when he was knocked away.

'What's he doing..?' Amy thought, noticing how she was 'constantly' hitting him away.

"Sonic… You-!" Noticing he was going too easy on her, she walloped a strong swing, like a pro golfer to see if he would allow himself to take the hit.

Sure enough, he hadn't gauged the strength before ramming into the center of her hammer, and getting flown off across the wide expanse of the underground bunker.

The crowd gave horrified cries before he landed his feet, legs bent against one of the horizontally structured support beams in the rafters above.

He grinned, he could tell she hit him hard as a way to scold him for making her look so good…

"What's wrong, Amy?" He teased, "Don't like winning?"

She growled out of the side of her mouth, playing along. "Not when it's not earned, Sonic! Come on…" She took a finger out and wiggled it as a 'come 'ere' gesture, egging him into coming back down. "Don't want me to notice you've been kissing the face of my hammer..?"

His eye twitched, his grip on the beam steadied himself but he launched off of it and went for a punch.

Amy had plenty of time to dodge, bending back and flipping her body about to dodge his on-coming-...

Ugh… He was still being too slow!

"That does it!" Her eyebrow twitched, and she gave off a flurry of blows he blocked with his bare–er, uh–gloved hands.

These were blunt, direct hits to his fists… He must be feeling that…

"Sonic..!" She was getting annoyed now, "Why aren't you fighting me? For real!" She huffed as she threw her hammer to make one of his arms go flying up and behind him.

She rammed the top of her hammer into his stomach, forcing him to hobble back and lose his footing.

"You're never this way with the others!"

Her mad expression made Sonic sweat a little bit down the side of his face, giving a false smile as he grew a bit nervous.

"You sure this isn't wearing you out already, Amy?" He didn't mean to come off insulting; he just didn't realize how much pent-up energy she really had.

Yes, she had been depressed, but that never stopped her heart from hoping.

In her dreams, she felt he was alive, and never gave up that spark. She kept it close to herself, and when the time came that it was announced to the Forces that their hero was recovering instantly from his trauma, she let it all go.

She had cried in joy, she had felt the weight come off in relief.

She had felt that, even if the rest of the world accepted Sonic's disappearance as his death, she would hold on and be the last source of light remaining till the end of the world…

Till the end of time…

"You're disregarding me..!" She felt her grip on her hammer's hilt tighten. "You're putting to shame all the hope I built for you!"

Sonic was caught offguard and lowered his fists.

She held her hammer down by her side, bending her legs, shaking her arms that were finally feeling a heat to them which hadn't happened in a long, long time…

"I worked so hard… I made sure no one lost hope in you… I, especially, wouldn't back down!" She lowered her head.

The crowd listened in… even Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, and Silver were all ears on this one…

They had seen how his disappearance impacted her… They were wondering if she was offended by his 'taking it easy with her' stance throughout the fight.

Yes, they could tell he was also faking a real sparring match with her, too.

"I had prayed and hoped that you would gain your strength back. That you would come back in a blaze of glory… to take back the lands we've lost!"

The whole of the crowd went silent, but everyone's hands were on their hearts.

She lifted her head up, furious..!

"Don't take our righteous desires to have you well and in fighting shape… and put them to shame!"

Sonic was deeply touched.

His eyes softened as the bottom of his eyelids came up. "Amy…" This time, there was a silent appreciation to his breathless voice… Not a groan, not looking away, but acceptance that Amy wasn't so easily 'tired out' at all.

She was eternally tenacious and spunky.

As though his theme song was playing in his head, he launched as though a gust of wind, his knee coming into Amy's forehead and pushing her back.

He pushed off of her as she stumbled, flew up into the air, and spun as he crashed his head directly against hers yet again… causing her to fall as he rolled into a ball and jabbed her stomach once before uncurling and looking behind him at the carnage.

Amy–hilariously–spread out on the ground and gave a wheezy, "Ahhh…" As the last of her air came out at such a quick turnaround by Sonic.

A kid in the crowd went, "Ouchie."

The crowd immediately gave Sonic's his laurels with cheers, but then also clapped and gave honors to Amy's bravery and speech as well.

Sonic smiled and turned to take a knee and extend his hand out to Amy. "You did ask for it." He said that with a tenderness that only Amy could pick up on, as she sighed and took his hand, letting her help him up.

As he did, she whammed her hammer down on his head, causing the crowd to flinch and cringe back, "Oooohh…"

"Yep, I didn't deserve that." Sonic kid, and flopped to the ground.

Amy giggled slightly, pulling the hammer away and propping him back up, too. "That's for the sly comment in the beginning." She flipped her hair back, "But don't worry…" She gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "That's for being handsomely kind about taking me seriously."

He rolled his eyes as the crowd 'aw'd.

He wiped the kiss off his cheek, "You take too many liberties,... Amy." He gave her a playful look and she just giggled and blushed.

However… later on… Amy started hearing 'ding!'s on her Miles-Electric. It was so late at night, she was snuggled so wonderfully in her comfy, large but dusty blankets that she wondered if something horrible had happened.

She rolled over in her military-like bedding and picked up the device.

Her eyes shrunk at what she read.

Later, a meeting was called, as Knuckles was giving orders out to Sonic, Little Sonic, and the rest of the crew before holding up Amy's Miles-Electric.

She held her arm as he addressed the threatening messages… So many of them… Claiming Amy was fake, petty, and disrespected Sonic that she should be banished to the cruel metallic world outside of the bunker. Apparently, someone had misunderstood her battle with Sonic, and took to taking a stand against it.

"That's stupid." Sonic shook his head out, putting his hands defensively on his hips, "Me and Amy always have tufts, same as the rest of you." He gestured to Amy, who sweetly found that an odd reply, but shrugged as she wasn't sure how to go about someone 'actively hating her' either…

"Either way, we can't stand for this division." Knuckles placed the Miles-Electric down on the table, then put both–large and mittened hands–down on the counter. "I've asked Tails to track the culprit. They sound hostile and fanatical. We can't have tensions rising over crude matters like this. We have Infinite to worry about… People's emotions are already slowly cracking their resolves… We can't let things like this spiral out of our control. We'll lose them. More than any of our current losses can make up for…"

Silver looked at the device, then to Amy. "Are you… gonna be okay staying at the base? With all this going on… We're worried about you." He was correct to suspect some malicious trick coming if things didn't get handled shortly.

"Is there anything we can do?" Tails took the Miles-Electric, "These are highly secured channels amongst the few of us… I'm surprised anyone even got a hold of one to send such threats across…" He began to click some buttons, looking into it right away.

"... My question is… Have you noticed anything radical towards your return, Sonic? With any unusual interactions with anyone?" Shadow investigated directly at the source of idolization… Sonic himself.

Sonic folded his arms, shifting his weight, thinking hard as he stared at the ground… he was already pretty upset by this news… Who would want to hurt Amy?

"... There was… something." He looked away, as everyone pulled in closer.

"During the match with Amy… someone pulled out some of my quills." He pointed to the area, "I figured some kid got excited, but it was… stronger than that. It felt intentional." He then dropped the hand and looked to Little Him. "I think protecting Amy should be handled… Let's get the new Recruit to do it!"

Little Sonic nodded, sitting up on the table with his feet wiggling every now and then before agreeing with Sonic that this would be a good job for them.

Knuckles nodded, "Alright, that's a good call." He looked to the Recruit, who's eyes glazed over to Knuckles, then Amy…

"Think you've got what it takes to keep her safe?"

The Recruit nodded, taking it what looked like… seriously…

However,...

The Recruit knew who the culprit was…

And when they came to try and hurt Amy, used their grappling cord to fight them away.

Amy had no idea, neither did the rest of the team.

The Rookie single-handedly took down the fanatic, and reported the missing quills to Sonic…

After taking them in his hands, he gripped them hard within his grasp, nodding.

"Thanks." He simply said, but he was gritting his teeth.

Little Sonic worriedly looked between the two.

Sonic pulled back his emotions, giving the best smile he could to them. "Rookie, this means a lot. I know I can trust you now." He nodded to them, "I'm gonna tell the others… and check on Amy."

The Recruit saluted, but… They put a hand on Sonic's shoulder, as though to comfort him.

After their interaction, Amy was attacked again.

Sonic and the others soon realized that it wasn't just one person… the Recruit was also apart of a terrible fanclub… They were removed from position and Amy was put permanently back on Coms… They didn't want to risk her getting involved in social dramas again…

She was out of the public eye… cooped up in a small room with a head-mic and multiple screens again…

Little Sonic delivered her some soup and a warm beverage.

She patted his head, thanking him, before noticing a note.

Reading it… Amy covered her mouth, and rushed to the surface above the bunker.

There, she found Sonic. After the battle, he had set up in the desolate wasteland a…

Picnic.

"To think… There was a whole organization trying to hurt you…" Sonic had been pretty pleasant the evening, except for this one moment.

Amy stopped eating her sandwich to watch him, wondering how to comfort him after he believed the corrupted Recruit.

"It's not your fault, Sonic." She put a hand to his shoulder, and he remembered what the Recruit did.

He gently moved her hand from his shoulder… back to the blanket… but left his hand on top of hers.

"It doesn't make it right… I should have… I keep thinking everything's alright now. But during the match… I wonder if I should have said more about how we naturally are… How could anyone hate you, Amy?"

That last line hit her. His downcasted gaze as though he had failed somehow…

"Oh, Sonic. They don't know you like I know you." Amy took her hand and lightly rubbed by his ears…

He didn't even try to stop her… Which showed how lost in his thoughts he was.

"Nothing Infinite did or said got to me… I knew I could handle it and everyone would be okay." Sonic admitted.

"But you…" He lifted his head, looking into her emerald, kind eyes now. "Amy… What if I take you for granted?"

Amy pulled back her hand and giggled into it.

"I admit, I was pretty scared." She pulled her legs up under her hooped skirt, moving them off to the side. "But… you still are doubting my abilities, Sonic."

She pulled out her hammer, pointing to the rust that used to be there.

"I'm used to people thinking something weird about us… How I'm the fanatical one." She snickered, but Sonic narrowed his eyes, not liking how jokingly she was being about that.

"Doesn't that… hurt you, though?"

"Do you think I'm crazed?" She lifted an eyebrow up, and Sonic pulled back his lips into his mouth.

She gasped and went to strike him but he took her wrists to stop her. Allowing her to overpower him, he laid on the picnic blanket as she climbed over him.

"You-! I'm tougher than that, Sonic The Hedgehog!"

"You are my biggest fan!"

"Is that a fat joke?"

"You know it's not!"

"Ooohhh..! I'm not a weird zealot, Sonic!"

"You are my most devoted, though."

She kicked about but realized… he wasn't letting her get off of him either.

"Huh?" She looked at her position… then back down at him.

Her hammer rested by his face, as he seemed to just… be taking her in.

Their expressions turned into a timeless moment… and for the first time… Amy really noticed Sonic's eyes trying to… She wasn't sure.

Was he memorizing her? Taking in the sun behind them, the open sky behind her head..?

No… He was truly appreciating her. Inside and out, he was realizing how much her influence in his life meant to him… to saving the world, too.

"I believe in you, too." He said it so softly… She got spooked!

She tried to move off of him, "W-What's gotten into you, Sonic? I didn't get knocked out or anything-woah!"

She was pulled back to now laying on his chest… blushing at how odd this behavior was from him.

Placing his mouth by her three propped-up bangs, he took a deep breath.

"Back when I was being tortured… They would say awful things about the war… Lies to try and break me… Nothing ever stuck, though. I knew you guys would pull through… I gave you the same faith you gave to me, Amy… And for someone, or for any other people outside of who really know us, to accuse you of being fake… or dishonest… or not really rooting for each other..? Doesn't that mean I should have threats towards me by your zealot fans, too?"

Amy held her breath.

"... N-... No one really likes me like we all like you, Sonic…" She smushed her nose into his chest, trying to hold back being emotional… it was hard, she was already feeling her chest building with the warmth that didn't feel comfortable… it was like tears about to gush out of her eyes and all her fears and anxiety coming up all at once.

That would overwhelm him… That wouldn't be good-

Something wet hit her head.

Sonic sniffled, letting her go and pulling her away as he rubbed his eyes, pulling his head completely back so Amy couldn't see him.

'Wait…'

Amy moved off of him, but realizing men don't like to be seen as 'emotional' darted her eyes about and looked away…

She faced her back to him… but couldn't help but… peek over her shoulder, seeing him lift a leg up and kick it towards the sky.

"Screw fans! Screw fanatics..! Can't friends just be happy picking on each other, sometimes? Aren't we allowed to scrap and buttheads, at times?"

Amy smiled.

"Aren't we supposed to hold back against a girl in a fight? Think about them first before ourselves? Realize they've been hurting… they've been hurting because of you for so long… that it's only right to hold back how much you've been hurting? Thinking you could have failed them?"

Amy's smile disappeared, replaced by understanding.

Empathy overtook her, and she lay down by Sonic's side, as he kept spouting out more of what must have been kept so close to his chest… that it was only now coming out once Eggman and Infinite had been truly defeated at last…

"Aren't we allowed to just be ourselves? Be flawed. Worried about the other. Have misunderstandings. Be vulnerable towards each other… Nothing can stop me from wanting to save or protect my friends… Your words were so you, Amy… You're not fake, or a fake 'fan' either. You're my friend. You know me. It's gonna take some stupid idiot to think you're not."

"Sonic…"

"And another thing-"

"Stop,... stop it, you're gonna make me crrryyy..!"

Amy's eyes burst with cartoony tears and Sonic was already covering his own. He peeked and burst out laughing.

He clutched his stomach, lifting his feet up to kick them out a moment. "I've been all over the world… I can't say I 'hate' people… but they really shouldn't think they know me, or my friends, either."

"... I was pretty scared… but I never gave up on you, Sonic. And even though we trusted the wrong people… there were plenty of Recruits and Rookies who do love and support us… I think… Some people just take it too far, sometimes…"

"Yeah… Let's just forget about people." Sonic turned and hugged her, and it made her squee.

"War is a weird thing." Amy commented, "Makes people do weird stuff…"

"Yeah… Well, I'm more determined than ever to make sure we never have another war again!"

Amy laughed through her tears…

She had never felt more loved and known than in that moment… where Sonic and her were the only two people in the world… so it felt like… so it seemed…

WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN–A LOOSE CANON FIRE FROM AN EGGBOT. SONIC JUMPS UP WITH AMY IN HAND, CHARGING FORTH AND TAKES IT OUT AND-