Dark Sonic Forces

Ch. 6

By: Cutegirlmayra. (This should be the last chapter, it's been a fun ride, eh!? My first makeout Sonamy... maybe my last, lololol I think I just like the cuter side of things, but with all the hyped up drama! I hope you guys enjoyed the story and the ending! It's a short story, but it was full of emotions and feelings! And I hope you continue to read my works. Here comes dinner and desert! Bon appétit!)

The sands swirled as Sonic took his embrace with Amy and lifted her into a whimsical turn. She was amazed at how... free it all felt.

She laughed as he set her back down, but honestly didn't mind taking in the hot wind that cooled her reddened cheeks as he turned her around in the air, appreciating it's touch that helped her realize this new bond with Sonic could remain and become her new norm.

The sun beat its unparalleled rays upon the golden land as Sonic moved slightly back to see her face, glad he had made her day with that little stunt. Placing her gently down, she didn't want her feet to touch the ground, but wanted to remain weightless in his arms.

"You were missing for days." she puffed up the side of her cheek, but her true annoyance was from him stopping his loving hold and spin. However, the expression that Sonic now knew all too well left him hunching down and almost falling to a knee at how much he had grown to love that puffed up cheek and squinted eyes. It overwhelmed him with her charms and he was glad he could finally let the feeling seep in like moisture absorbing into a drying world.

He didn't want to lose this feeling... Had she always been such a light in the dark? The first thought was yes, but the second told him he knew that all along, just never bothered to notice it as much as he was doing lately.

Oh, it was better than a warm patch of grass under the sunshine any day, with dew that would sit and cool to make it just the right temperature.

He may have been battling previously, but with her and her selfless acts in his heart, he could fight a thousand battles and still be smiling.

Now this was paradise, even in the sandy dunes that were overrun by Eggman's evil domain... she was renewed springtime and light rain.

The look her gave her left her happy except for the aching in her cheeks as she deflated them quickly and put her hands up to her face, bashfully. She had never seen him so openly adoring her, and she couldn't help but notice the subtle but gentle shift of his nature towards her.

He was always kind, but stayed aloof.

Now, he was staying and remaining in the moment with her, making no attempt to disrupt it's tender passing. It was like his fingers would reach out and let the intangible time slip off his outstretched hand like the rivers of a quiet stream glazing against his white gloves upon the surface of the water...

In that imagery, he also extended his hand to lightly stroke and pat her head, "I'm glad you're safe. You always tend to find me, Amy, when I need ya the most. How about that, huh?" those words and the smile that never could leave his face for a second now splashed the knowledge of what Amy had hoped for since the first day she first met him.

She was now within that stream, also feeling sweet mercy of this scene wash over her and take every fear or doubt she could ever have and rid it from her system forever.

He could enjoy her being there, what a wonderful thing to feel and know. He wanted her with him, the joy she felt at finally knowing that couldn't be described. He would fall in love with her and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it,... That felt like she was right at home.

She held that moment so much more tighter in her grasps then Sonic's wafting hand through time. To her, the water was quickly running down her hand, the droplets bursting like memories against the drought that was created from so many days without him... Especially when all thought he was lost forever.

Her hand squeezed so tightly, even to keep this one, small bundle of water locked in her grasp for all time and eternity... but as he looked to see that strain in her eyes, he turned concern and put his hands—almost awkwardly as though not really touching her at all—to the sides of her shoulders as his head turned left and right.

"Amy? Is everything okay? Did you get dizzy?" His adorable care over her sent another deep breath through her like a refreshing waterfall.

No need to relive those painful scenes of the past. It didn't matter anymore. He was here now, and he wanted to stay with her. That was all she would ever need to know, till the day her own waters slip off the edge of the world and time stops, that would fulfill her endlessly.

"I'll be okay." she responded, almost as if answering her own quiet questions that lingered in her mind. That time away from him... That time not knowing, but absolutely believing there was a miracle just around the bend... That somehow, he was still alive and fighting the war with them. That he had never abandoned their strife nor left them to their misery...

Sonic wouldn't leave this world with work still left to do, and he wouldn't just carelessly stray from his friends.

And now, she knew he wouldn't betray her trust in him either.

He blinked, still not certain how to take her response, but seeing a hopeful look in her eye and being content with it. "Well... alright then." He nodded, letting it go and removing his hands.

'Stay...' she begged within the twinkling of her love-struck eyes. 'Don't go.' Her eyes tried to communicate this to his hands as she watched them drift off of her, but she knew it was to no avail-

But then his hands paused...

As she watched them, her face shifted to an unimaginable surprise that tickled her with sudden joy. She looked up to Sonic, wondering if he actually could read the desperate longing that she didn't verbally speak...

They glided seamlessly back to her sides... and gave a little pressure to their hold on her shoulders. It was as though they were saying they'd never leave again, if that's what she wanted.

Time all but halted in amazement at the looks they gave one another just then, and for a moment, it let the two reside in it's space away from itself, making it their own.

Sonic lowered his shoulders as though relaxing into it, and moved to place his nose as comfortably close to hers as he would allow while still in public.

"You sure... you didn't miss me?" That's what she heard, but his eyes...

She could finally read their secret meaning.

'Okay. I missed you.'

She almost couldn't stop herself, the bubbling geyser in her wouldn't be contained anymore. She jumped back into his arms, her giant open smile let Sonic know she had understood the meaning and received his returning affections. He hugged her back as well, smiling gently into the embrace again as though never wanting to part from such a moment as this. This... was his true strength.

This all happened while Knuckles approached from behind, not sure how to interpret Sonic's sudden approval of Amy's usual, and often over-enthusiastic, displays of affection.

He made a face of confusion with the side of his mouth snaking into a side-frown downward, before his eyes sudden widened with the thought of Sonic getting triggered again, and rushed over with his hands out in an attempt to remove her from him.

"Amy, it's not safe-!" he had seen the darkened quills in that medical lab, had experienced Sonic's weird outburst of power, but Sonic held up a hand from behind her and lightly looped an arm around Amy.

He gave Knuckles a soft look, as though to let him allow her to take in the moment and not disturb it.

Knuckles swayed his head in disbelief, scratching the back of it too as he didn't understand Sonic's odd behavior all of a sudden.

"You two are a bundle of mysteries lately..." He admitted, grumbling a bit in his ignorance to everything they went through to bring Sonic back to his normal senses again.

He stepped to the side and turned away, giving them another second of privacy but not sure exactly why they needed it. He looked up at the sky and tried to count any small clouds he could see. However, the pollution made it more like counting puffs of smog...

Hearing Knuckles's complaints behind her, Amy breathed in one more minute of the exquisite and rare treat of being held back by Sonic, and then pulled away. Sonic kept a loosened hold of her, but understood the need to return to the broken world now. After all, it still needed to be saved, and let her exit the tranquil and mutual scene of grandeur moments to come that they had created together. At last, Sonic was willing to be affectionate. What more could she ask for now?

She turned to Knuckles, "When is anyone or anything not a mystery?" she quipped, even though she had just discovered the channels of communication that remained unknown to most of Sonic's friends... but now, she could clearly read his expression, his eyes, and even that charismatic smile.

He had given her a key to see his true heart and real thoughts... it was more than anything she had ever wanted. It left her completely content.

But there was a being who was not so content.

Two in fact that immediately saw that interaction, and as though monuments of forgotten evils... they schemed in still observation.

Eggman pulled up in his Eggmobile, flying off as Infinite and him had shared an unspoken idea...

Infinite suddenly let out a laugh, alerting everyone to his presence.

"Isn't that just cute..." He put a hand over his mask, leaning down as thousands of red cubes suddenly began to materialize in pixels, shifting in rubik movements. He bent down as though charging up, the cubes' random turns and shifts intensified around him, more appearing as he dipped his head down. His body tilted low and far to the side, "You've found a counterweight..." and the entirety of the space around them was almost blacked out by the red cubes.

"What the-!?" Knuckles looked around, knowing that one touch from those cubes could send them into a world of hurt.

Infinite took off forward at incredible speeds, that whistle sound was still as threatening as ever when he pushed off the ground and targeted Amy, whipping so fast through the sands that he created a massive tunnel-wave of speckled grams of the yellow particles.

The cubes spun backwards and formed clones that immediately began attacking Knuckles and his troop, keeping them at bay as one swooped in and pushed Knuckles back away from the two. Another attempted to grab Sonic, but he used his other hand to punch above his opposite shoulder and reach for Amy.

However, Infinite was moving unusually precise, not enough for Sonic to think faster than and although Amy reflexed back he shot into her stomach with a powerful headbutt, ramming like an arrow and wrapping his arms around her to make sure she couldn't escape. He had a goal in mind, and drove her back, making sure Sonic couldn't interfere...

"Ammmyyy!" Sonic cried out, swiping the air and then having to adjust his footing. He stumbled through the loose sand, trying to get a running start but kept having to drive his hands into the hand to get a good enough footing for his feet.

There wasn't much of a chase, Infinite threw Amy and punched her down, leaving her prone before repeatedly not letting her up. "Patheic... Hahaha!" He then swung a kick that sent her flying off while he bent to dodge Sonic, rotating his back in a circular motion as he dove over him, and flew back to continue his beat down on her again.

Clones tackled into an airborne Sonic to keep him from reaching the ground again and pursuing Infinite at the remarkable pace by which he had summoned to himself. This speed... could it be? Was it the same that he had used to foil him before?

"Infinite!" Sonic called out, getting held back by the piling clones in the air that held him suspended. His face slowly went out of sight along with the rest of his body as more and more clones piled into a large ball around him, making sure there was no escape or chance for him to break out and save her.

Amy coughed to try and get her breath back, gripping her sore stomach and fighting through the pain. Her head ached from the whiplash of his assault, but hearing the whistling sound again, she swung her head back and tried to summon her hammer. Attempting to break his speed and fight, she prepared to intercept his rapidly moving body, but the wind spiked around Infinite as he flipped up to stop himself from hitting her hammer's guard and used his tail to smack her down. "Ahh!" she fell hard as he stomped on her hand to release her hold on the hammer, kicking it away.

"Just stay put while I finish you off..." Infinite flared his hand a moment, as though fashionably thinking how to continue this pathetic pursuit, knowing she was no match for him. "You can't possibly defeat me. None of you could." He walked around her, seeing her trying to scatter the sands and crawl away to get her bearings again but he wouldn't have any of that.

"I'm not sure how you countered what we implanted into Sonic..." He began, but this was something still new to Amy. Sonic was implanted with this dark element? But why? "But you're not going to stop our plans..." He bent down and gripped her three quills, forcing her head up.

"For what purpose?" She spat out, punching her fist into his covered eye where she figured a blind spot would be. It temporarily disoriented him, making him shake his head and let her go, grabbing his mask as she tried to take the opportunity in stride. She got up, a bit wobbly, but started a stumbled run.

While still holding where his face got shoved against his mask from her blow, he shot a beam at her back and she fell again, tumbling down the dunes as he floated after her.

He spread his arms out, "Just succumb to your end... Amy." His form bobbed in the air above her, "It's futile... you... and your resistance will end. By your own hero's-"

"Shut up!" She turned her body over, "I don't know what you're trying to do to Sonic but-!" she tried to force herself to not feel so-

"...You're too weak to oppose it." he pivoted his body, lowering his arms as though done with the showmanship. "That darkness must grow into an unfathomable power... only then can my transformation be complete!" he summoned more cubes, and they all—one by one—shot towards her and sent her through the phantom realm, exploding and contorting reality to leave her absolutely unconscious.

As she was flung out of the phantom realm, he waited a moment and stared at her limp body sliding into the sand, then rolling to a complete stop.

"...And that is that." As though to dust off the sand that might have gotten on his glove, he flicked his wrist and looked over the dunes to see Sonic on his hands and knees, his eyes shaking at Amy's form, having defeated the clones in a hurry to reach her.

The clones all laid on the ground behind him, turning into pixels of the cubes as they disappeared... out of reality from the power he displayed.

"No..." Sonic's whole form seeped out into darkness, getting triggered as Infinite's one eye narrowed in satisfaction.

"I've snuffed out your light of hope, Sonic... Now you truly have failed... for the last time, I'll finish you!" he flew up into the air as a ripple cut out through Sonic's body and exploded in dark, lashing vines.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO...!"

The vines thrashed the sands as though a kraken in the sea. The vines soon felt what was giving them power, and stiffened themselves like a spear to shoot out and stretch towards Infinite, Sonic's emotions seemed directly tied to him... and they were starving for power and dominion again...

Infinite's head tried to follow their movements but there was too many of them, and they overtook him, entangling him in a tight grasp that squeezed his sides. It sounded like metal denting in... along with the marks that revealed some flesh... a cyborg's strained growl of pain was the only sign that this dark mist was in fact affecting him. It seamed as though searing him, but no evidence remained of its internal damages...

He tried to struggle out but the vines quickly shot him down towards the ground, grinding him against the sand as they dragged him in a curve around in the sand. Mounts of sand sprayed up in his wake, getting his face skidded against it and his mouth shoved full of it. When the vines brought him back up, the clones had already reappeared and dashed after him in random directions from the air, trying to tear through the vines to free their origin, but Knuckles's men mounted the tip of the dunes.

"Fire!" he cried out, "Aim for the Phantom Ruby!" Knuckles hadn't seen Amy yet, and was solely focused on the mission at hand. The men took to a knee and held up their wispons, firing as lights and abilities shot through the air but all seemed to miss their true target. Instead, the clones crowded the skies to take the damage, fading into pixel red cubes upon impact.

Then Knuckles looked down, seeing Amy. "Oh no..." He began moving down the dunes, sliding himself to stay balanced but then noticed Sonic close by, pitch black as night... "Oh double no..." he looked worried, fearing for Amy and his men, seeing the vines were directly connected to him. "Of course, why did we let him out again!?" he scolded himself under his breath and continued to turn back to his men. 'Amy... I can't abandon my men at this time...' he closed his eyes, his teeth gritting against each other. 'You'll have to settle this one on your own... stay safe.'

Her dress flapped in the wind, but with her back towards him, he didn't know the full situation...

It wasn't obvious from the blowing sand, and he was too far up the dunes to really see if she was okay or not.

Sonic's bared teeth locked as his glowing white sockets targeted Infinite. He came after him on all fours, picking up speed with wafted sand in his dashing as the misty dark beast surrounded Sonic's body like it had before, controlling him through his unleashed emotions.

"I'll save Amy, you take care of the rest!" Sonic called out to Knuckles, who looked to him as though amazed he still was somewhat himself in that form.

"Holy Chaos!" He cried out, never having seen Sonic full-blown encased in a see-through monster before. "You just keep getting worse, don't'cha!?"

Infinite was able to cut through the vines with his claws, gaining some strength back against the darkness. "Yes... It's ready." He watched them spurt out black mist as though steam escaping quickly from a gas pipe. Sonic used the beast's mouth to bite down on Infinite as he leaped into the air. Infinite had been monitoring the vines and didn't realize their massive length and size was growing because of Sonic charging from below. Sonic had jerked his head forward, as though cuing the beast on what to do, as it's powerful and large jaws extended from Sonic's head and grabbed Infinite.