It was a dark, ominous, and stormy night. The sky was furious and sounded off thunderclap after thunderclap, threatening rain that never came. Amidst this terrible evening, Amy found herself walking along the bow of the original Egg Carrier, still floating upon the sea. As she looked around, lost and confused, she could not remember what she was doing previously or how she got there. She was also, for some unknown reason, terrified.
"What's going on?" she wondered aloud. "The last thing I remember was Shadow...but I can't...think any farther ahead." She tried to recall what she had been doing, but she couldn't, no matter how hard she attempted. "What am I doing on the Egg Carrier?" She looked at her reflection in the green glass and was shocked. "And why have I shrunk back to my old self? Am I...dreaming?"
"Oh, I assure you, Miss Rose," spoke a robotic voice behind her, "This is quite real." Amy spun around and came face to face with none other than the being that (unbeknownst to her) still terrified her in the darkest recesses of her mind: Metal Sonic. She immediately backed away in surprise. The evil machine of the Eggman's creation stood before her, inexplicably in his Neo form, glaring at her with his usual expression of hatred and apathy.
"What's the matter?" Metal said above the thunder. "You look like you've seen a ghost." Somehow, Amy found enough of her bearings to force herself to speak. "What the heck are you doing here?! And what's with that form? I thought you lost it!" Metal Sonic mechanically scoffed. "To answer your last question first, that's none of your business. As for why I'm here..." He then dashed forward and struck Amy down with a slap to her face. "It's time I finished what I started when we first met."
Amy rubbed her bruising cheek and stood. She was frightened, but she refused to back down to this abomination. She was not a child anymore. "You're still after Sonic, aren't you?" she said defiantly. "You're wasting your time, you know. He's just gonna beat you again. Just like he always does."
"SILENCE!!" Metal Sonic quickly launched himself with a Spin Dash, tearing through her guard and beating some Rings out of her. "It's not him I'm after right now!" He saw her checking her person for a weapon and raced forth. Just as she found her Piko Piko Hammer, Metal punched her hard in the gut, costing her more Rings. Metal caught the dropped hammer, while Amy bounced along the floor until she landed in the cold, familiar hand of E-100 Alpha.
"W-What?!" Amy exclaimed in shock, "You?!" Metal Sonic could almost be heard chuckling. "Oh, so you remember your old friend, Zero. I hear you two shared some good times." Amy struggled to get free, but the Chase-master's grip was as tight as she remembered. "Let me go! I mean it!"
"What do you intend to do if he doesn't, hmm?" Metal Sonic taunted as he twirled Amy's hammer. "Smack him with this stupid toy?" When he saw her glare, he casually snapped the Piko Piko Hammer in half. "Whoops, how did that happen?" Amy immediately started shouting unladylike obscenities she didn't know she knew, but was soon silenced by Zero's sudden crushing. "Temper, temper, girl. Don't fuss at me just because you're too weak to defend yourself." Amy shouted, "I'M NOT WEAK!" Metal Sonic replied, "Nonsense."
"Let me go and I'll prove it!" she challenged. Metal's glare did not waver, and Amy was convinced that if he had a mouth, it would be smirking. "...Very well." Zero released Amy, who ran towards Metal Sonic. She punched and kicked at him, attacking fiercely, but she was denied with little effort. Still, she kept trying.
An uppercut: dodged. A leg sweep: avoided. Jumping strikes, left hooks, right crosses...no matter what she threw at him, Metal dodged and countered them all. After a few more minutes of toying with her, he got bored. Parrying a punch, he grabbed her shoulders and struck her with three knee strikes to the stomach, an elbow to the top of her head and a kick to the left side of her waist. This brutal combo was followed by a Homing Attack that expended her remaining Rings. As she sailed through the air, he zoomed behind her and activated gears within his head, which moved his metallic spines to a grouped position that Amy then landed on.
Never before had she experienced such pain. The spines went right through her, jutting out of her arms, her sides, and her legs. She was fortunate her head was not impaled. Just when she thought it could not get any worse, Metal Sonic cruelly used his Electric Attack to shock the girl for a full minute. Amy screamed in agony as her pain was increased exponentially. He then shook her off. Amy lay on the floor, bloody and electrocuted, with a spirit as broken as her body. She gave it her all, used all the strength she had...and it was all useless.
She heard Metal Sonic's ridiculous looking feet clank towards her, and she strained to look at the heartless robot. Metal looked down at the injured hedgehog with contempt. Or disgust. Such an emotionless face cannot be read easily. "Look at where your false bravado has gotten you, Amy. You're a fool to think you could ever be strong or protect anyone." He bent down and grabbed her by the throat, hauling her up like a piece of meat about to be slaughtered. "Your flukes in the past mean nothing."
"No," Amy struggled to breathe as she remained defiant, even in the face of her own defeat. "You're...wrong..."
Metal Sonic scoffed again. "Am I? See for yourself." He yanked her to the right towards Zero who now held two more hedgehogs in his hands: Shadow in his right and Sonic in his left. Unbelievably, both hedgehogs were in the same condition she was! "SONIC!! SHADOW!!"
"Yes, my two loathsome copies," Metal Sonic said in disgust. "While my personal vendetta is with Sonic, Shadow has been a source of irritation as well. I'd be much better off with killing them both, but since you're here, I'm in a playful mood." He looked straight at her, glaring deep within her eyes. "Which would you prefer to live?" Without thinking, Amy shouted, "Sonic, of course!" She realized what she said a second too late as Metal said, "As I suspected. You heard the lady, Zero. Crush the black one." Zero began to squeeze Shadow, who yelped in pain, in spite of himself. Tears began to form in Amy's eyes as she saw the agony Shadow was in. "NOOO! DON'T KILL SHADOW! I BEG YOU!"
Metal Sonic nodded as if he were pleased. "Oh, so you'd rather I have my revenge? How generous, milady. Zero?" The green robot's tightening froze to keep pressure on Shadow, while his grip on Sonic got harder. The boy yelled in response. "NO, PLEASE!" Amy shouted through her own pain. "YOU CAN'T!" Wordlessly, Metal Sonic commanded Zero to stop. "You're working my nerves, Rose. I believe I made it clear that you can only allow one of them to live." Amy shot daggers at Metal. "How can you ask me to make a choice like that?!" If Metal had the ability to roll his eyes, he would have done so. "Oh, come now. It's not that complicated. Which do you care about more? Sonic, right?"
Amy opened her mouth to answer, but the words do not come as easy as they once did, which confused her. "Isn't Sonic your idol?" Metal continued, his robotic voice seeming to drip with what his programming referred to as sarcasm. "The light of your world? Your 'future husband'? Surely his life is worth the sacrifice of another whom isn't as close to you, right?" The girl looked toward Sonic tearfully. While she may have thought these things at one time, now such feelings for the Blue Blur seemed...childish. Amy wondered exactly why she felt so strongly for Sonic when he never even returned those feelings. And while she was still angry with him, his death was the last thing she wanted.
"Or," Metal Sonic spoke, "Have those feelings transferred to his dark doppelganger?" Amy's glance then shifted towards Shadow. As the Ultimate Lifeform looked straight back at her, she pondered why she found herself glancing at the Black Blur longer than necessary, why she could not imagine herself without him at her side...why his company felt so natural. Years ago, she never would have imagined that she would be so close to him.
Metal Sonic shook his head at her silence. "It would seem that, like any female, you can't make up your mind. If that's the case, I may as well get rid of them both and save you the trouble." Amy helplessly struggled to break free, despite the immense pain such movement wrought. "No! You can't do this!" In response, Metal Sonic tightened his grip on her throat. "QUIET! You're FAR too weak to tell me what I can or can't do! Zero, kill them BOTH!" On command, the Chase-master continued crushing Sonic and Shadow.
"AAAGH!" Sonic screamed, "Amy, get us out of here!!" Shadow gasped, "Can't...break free... Can't...breathe..." As the two struggled, their bleeding got worse. Amy could not watch any more of this torture. "STOP IT!! STOP IT!!!" Metal Sonic shouted at her, "Why don't you stop it, girl?! Oh, that's right. YOU CAN'T!" He then shocked her again, shooting an unprecedented number of volts of electricity through her body.
"HOW DARE YOU EVEN THINK YOU CAN MATCH THE MIGHT OF THE EGGMAN WHEN YOU CAN'T SAVE THE TWO CLOSEST TO YOU! YOU ARE WEAK, AMY ROSE! YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND YOU ALWAYS WILL BE! NOW WATCH! THEM! DIE!!"
Metal Sonic forced Amy to look at Sonic and Shadow as her body was violently surged with electricity. Zero kept crushing and crushing, until they were about to burst open!
Sonic kept screaming...
Shadow kept screaming...
Metal Sonic kept laughing...
Zero started laughing...
Amy kept shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
...Until she sat bolt upright in her bed. As Amy's screams died down, she looked around and saw that she was in her bedroom, far away from the Egg Carrier...she was in her new form...and she was in perfect health.
"What's going on?" she wondered aloud. "The last thing I remember was Shadow...but I can't...think any farther ahead." She tried to recall what she had been doing, but she couldn't, no matter how hard she attempted. "What am I doing on the Egg Carrier?" She looked at her reflection in the green glass and was shocked. "And why have I shrunk back to my old self? Am I...dreaming?"
"Oh, I assure you, Miss Rose," spoke a robotic voice behind her, "This is quite real." Amy spun around and came face to face with none other than the being that (unbeknownst to her) still terrified her in the darkest recesses of her mind: Metal Sonic. She immediately backed away in surprise. The evil machine of the Eggman's creation stood before her, inexplicably in his Neo form, glaring at her with his usual expression of hatred and apathy.
"What's the matter?" Metal said above the thunder. "You look like you've seen a ghost." Somehow, Amy found enough of her bearings to force herself to speak. "What the heck are you doing here?! And what's with that form? I thought you lost it!" Metal Sonic mechanically scoffed. "To answer your last question first, that's none of your business. As for why I'm here..." He then dashed forward and struck Amy down with a slap to her face. "It's time I finished what I started when we first met."
Amy rubbed her bruising cheek and stood. She was frightened, but she refused to back down to this abomination. She was not a child anymore. "You're still after Sonic, aren't you?" she said defiantly. "You're wasting your time, you know. He's just gonna beat you again. Just like he always does."
"SILENCE!!" Metal Sonic quickly launched himself with a Spin Dash, tearing through her guard and beating some Rings out of her. "It's not him I'm after right now!" He saw her checking her person for a weapon and raced forth. Just as she found her Piko Piko Hammer, Metal punched her hard in the gut, costing her more Rings. Metal caught the dropped hammer, while Amy bounced along the floor until she landed in the cold, familiar hand of E-100 Alpha.
"W-What?!" Amy exclaimed in shock, "You?!" Metal Sonic could almost be heard chuckling. "Oh, so you remember your old friend, Zero. I hear you two shared some good times." Amy struggled to get free, but the Chase-master's grip was as tight as she remembered. "Let me go! I mean it!"
"What do you intend to do if he doesn't, hmm?" Metal Sonic taunted as he twirled Amy's hammer. "Smack him with this stupid toy?" When he saw her glare, he casually snapped the Piko Piko Hammer in half. "Whoops, how did that happen?" Amy immediately started shouting unladylike obscenities she didn't know she knew, but was soon silenced by Zero's sudden crushing. "Temper, temper, girl. Don't fuss at me just because you're too weak to defend yourself." Amy shouted, "I'M NOT WEAK!" Metal Sonic replied, "Nonsense."
"Let me go and I'll prove it!" she challenged. Metal's glare did not waver, and Amy was convinced that if he had a mouth, it would be smirking. "...Very well." Zero released Amy, who ran towards Metal Sonic. She punched and kicked at him, attacking fiercely, but she was denied with little effort. Still, she kept trying.
An uppercut: dodged. A leg sweep: avoided. Jumping strikes, left hooks, right crosses...no matter what she threw at him, Metal dodged and countered them all. After a few more minutes of toying with her, he got bored. Parrying a punch, he grabbed her shoulders and struck her with three knee strikes to the stomach, an elbow to the top of her head and a kick to the left side of her waist. This brutal combo was followed by a Homing Attack that expended her remaining Rings. As she sailed through the air, he zoomed behind her and activated gears within his head, which moved his metallic spines to a grouped position that Amy then landed on.
Never before had she experienced such pain. The spines went right through her, jutting out of her arms, her sides, and her legs. She was fortunate her head was not impaled. Just when she thought it could not get any worse, Metal Sonic cruelly used his Electric Attack to shock the girl for a full minute. Amy screamed in agony as her pain was increased exponentially. He then shook her off. Amy lay on the floor, bloody and electrocuted, with a spirit as broken as her body. She gave it her all, used all the strength she had...and it was all useless.
She heard Metal Sonic's ridiculous looking feet clank towards her, and she strained to look at the heartless robot. Metal looked down at the injured hedgehog with contempt. Or disgust. Such an emotionless face cannot be read easily. "Look at where your false bravado has gotten you, Amy. You're a fool to think you could ever be strong or protect anyone." He bent down and grabbed her by the throat, hauling her up like a piece of meat about to be slaughtered. "Your flukes in the past mean nothing."
"No," Amy struggled to breathe as she remained defiant, even in the face of her own defeat. "You're...wrong..."
Metal Sonic scoffed again. "Am I? See for yourself." He yanked her to the right towards Zero who now held two more hedgehogs in his hands: Shadow in his right and Sonic in his left. Unbelievably, both hedgehogs were in the same condition she was! "SONIC!! SHADOW!!"
"Yes, my two loathsome copies," Metal Sonic said in disgust. "While my personal vendetta is with Sonic, Shadow has been a source of irritation as well. I'd be much better off with killing them both, but since you're here, I'm in a playful mood." He looked straight at her, glaring deep within her eyes. "Which would you prefer to live?" Without thinking, Amy shouted, "Sonic, of course!" She realized what she said a second too late as Metal said, "As I suspected. You heard the lady, Zero. Crush the black one." Zero began to squeeze Shadow, who yelped in pain, in spite of himself. Tears began to form in Amy's eyes as she saw the agony Shadow was in. "NOOO! DON'T KILL SHADOW! I BEG YOU!"
Metal Sonic nodded as if he were pleased. "Oh, so you'd rather I have my revenge? How generous, milady. Zero?" The green robot's tightening froze to keep pressure on Shadow, while his grip on Sonic got harder. The boy yelled in response. "NO, PLEASE!" Amy shouted through her own pain. "YOU CAN'T!" Wordlessly, Metal Sonic commanded Zero to stop. "You're working my nerves, Rose. I believe I made it clear that you can only allow one of them to live." Amy shot daggers at Metal. "How can you ask me to make a choice like that?!" If Metal had the ability to roll his eyes, he would have done so. "Oh, come now. It's not that complicated. Which do you care about more? Sonic, right?"
Amy opened her mouth to answer, but the words do not come as easy as they once did, which confused her. "Isn't Sonic your idol?" Metal continued, his robotic voice seeming to drip with what his programming referred to as sarcasm. "The light of your world? Your 'future husband'? Surely his life is worth the sacrifice of another whom isn't as close to you, right?" The girl looked toward Sonic tearfully. While she may have thought these things at one time, now such feelings for the Blue Blur seemed...childish. Amy wondered exactly why she felt so strongly for Sonic when he never even returned those feelings. And while she was still angry with him, his death was the last thing she wanted.
"Or," Metal Sonic spoke, "Have those feelings transferred to his dark doppelganger?" Amy's glance then shifted towards Shadow. As the Ultimate Lifeform looked straight back at her, she pondered why she found herself glancing at the Black Blur longer than necessary, why she could not imagine herself without him at her side...why his company felt so natural. Years ago, she never would have imagined that she would be so close to him.
Metal Sonic shook his head at her silence. "It would seem that, like any female, you can't make up your mind. If that's the case, I may as well get rid of them both and save you the trouble." Amy helplessly struggled to break free, despite the immense pain such movement wrought. "No! You can't do this!" In response, Metal Sonic tightened his grip on her throat. "QUIET! You're FAR too weak to tell me what I can or can't do! Zero, kill them BOTH!" On command, the Chase-master continued crushing Sonic and Shadow.
"AAAGH!" Sonic screamed, "Amy, get us out of here!!" Shadow gasped, "Can't...break free... Can't...breathe..." As the two struggled, their bleeding got worse. Amy could not watch any more of this torture. "STOP IT!! STOP IT!!!" Metal Sonic shouted at her, "Why don't you stop it, girl?! Oh, that's right. YOU CAN'T!" He then shocked her again, shooting an unprecedented number of volts of electricity through her body.
"HOW DARE YOU EVEN THINK YOU CAN MATCH THE MIGHT OF THE EGGMAN WHEN YOU CAN'T SAVE THE TWO CLOSEST TO YOU! YOU ARE WEAK, AMY ROSE! YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND YOU ALWAYS WILL BE! NOW WATCH! THEM! DIE!!"
Metal Sonic forced Amy to look at Sonic and Shadow as her body was violently surged with electricity. Zero kept crushing and crushing, until they were about to burst open!
Sonic kept screaming...
Shadow kept screaming...
Metal Sonic kept laughing...
Zero started laughing...
Amy kept shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
And shrieking...
...Until she sat bolt upright in her bed. As Amy's screams died down, she looked around and saw that she was in her bedroom, far away from the Egg Carrier...she was in her new form...and she was in perfect health.
Suddenly, space-time warped on the right side of her bed and Shadow appeared. Amy screamed hoarsely in terror and punched at him. Shadow blocked it and said, "Amy, what's wrong?!" She looked at him frantically and touched his face. There were no cuts or bruises. "S-Sh-Shadow, you're ok..." She looked to her left and right in fear. "M-Metal Sonic... Where is...?"
Shadow cupped her face in his hands. "You were having a nightmare, Amy. Metal Sonic isn't here." Amy still looked extremely frightened. "A...nightmare?" Shadow nodded. The relief from that did little to make her feel better. "He...He almost killed me and you and Sonic and...and I couldn't stop him...I couldn't save you..." She began sobbing. "I couldn't do anything..."
Shadow silently held her close to him, soothing her and letting her cry for as long as she needed to. While he was unfamiliar with giving such gestures, he was not so heartless as to abandon her in such a state. He, of all people, knew what it felt like to be terrified and alone.
Shadow cupped her face in his hands. "You were having a nightmare, Amy. Metal Sonic isn't here." Amy still looked extremely frightened. "A...nightmare?" Shadow nodded. The relief from that did little to make her feel better. "He...He almost killed me and you and Sonic and...and I couldn't stop him...I couldn't save you..." She began sobbing. "I couldn't do anything..."
Shadow silently held her close to him, soothing her and letting her cry for as long as she needed to. While he was unfamiliar with giving such gestures, he was not so heartless as to abandon her in such a state. He, of all people, knew what it felt like to be terrified and alone.
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