Dark Sonic Forces

By: Cutegirlmayra (My sincerest apologies! Lots of things are happening right now. I received my first few commission orders for writing (PM me for prices and what's offered if you're interested) and I've been getting paid and doing that. Plus, tumblr prompt requests are high and I'm still getting art submitted in for the contest so I could write those prompts with preview images. Lastly, I've been living with a friend for a while and having a blast! There are so many chapters and things I want to write. I know you're all excited for Second seasons of Instincts and Metallic Need after I edit them, and even more are excited for this story and Harmony, and the continuing of Sonic IRL and Pokemon Daycare. I swear I'm trying. It's... quite a lot to write, but I love you and I love these stories and I'm sincerely trying. It's just a whole lot of writing, lol. I'm also trying to edit all my old stories, so one thing at a time! Now, you're all very excited about this 'make-out' sonamy I promised you, but remember, I only do innocent stuff. So although exciting at parts, you can be sure nothing's going over the deep end. I'll also attempt to keep this in character as I've been known for. So again, enjoy, review, and once again, I love you so much! -I wouldn't be bustin' my rear-end to get all these things done for you if I didn't... wait, am I still writing my inner thoughts? Oh shoot!- *P.S: This was made before we knew anything about Sonic Forces. I'm sticking to the AUish idea of Sonic Forces, so please, understand it's loosely based on it.)

"He's gone!"

The bustle of voices sprang from every loose nook and cranny in the metal compound of HQ. The battle was far from over.

However, stirring very lightly in her sleep, Amy Rose remained recovering as the voice rang into a shrilling fright, a panic of worry and uncertainty, something not normally associated with Sonic...

Her sheets lightly wafted against her skin. Her dress had been changed out into a hospital's open gown in the back, tied neatly and attended to by the nurses on standby. Each a volunteer and each worried about their planet and loved ones...

But they all agreed, every rookie and every recruit knew, that as long as Sonic had returned and the main leaders were still present; Knuckles, Tails, Silver, Rouge, Team Chaotix... all those who fought as their mentors and friends... they would be safe.

Amy was included in their aspiring hope for a brighter day, a new era... one free of Eggman's tyranny and Infinite's destruction.

Amy softly breathed upon the soft pillow, her lips grazing the surface before the uncanny musical ruckus of the outer world began to interfere with her daydreams.

She remembered... darkness.

Something suffocating her.

An airy touch that licked at her chin and cheeks...

She turned in her sleep, uncomfortable with the sensation returning to her memory, and moaned slightly in her sleep. Her eyes narrowed and increased their pressure at this thought replaying for a moment.

Then... as if lulled back to sleep, the crowd cease to exist, but a warm and tender hand touched her forehead and she was soothed.

"...She's having a hard time recovering with all this... madness." Silver shook his head, removing his hand. He walked away from her and towards Tails, "How is she doing?"

"I.. I think she's having nightmares." Tails looked a little concerned, moving Silver towards the readings. "We can't fully tell, but she's experiencing a lot of... weird sensations. It's as though energy was transferred to her and it's causing some discomfort."

"Energy?" Silver looked innocently confused back at Tails, seeing the readings but unable to identify them. "I specialize a little in... other things." He admitted, frankly, before showing his apologetic look to Tails, who only laughed.

"That's alright! Technically, she should be waking up soon. Although, granted, taking it easy for awhile... but we'll set her up in her old communications room again so she should be able to relax and feel more comfortable there."

"That's a good start. After what happened to Sonic..." Silver nodded... but folded his arms and looked back to Amy.

Concern wouldn't describe the perplexed fear that smothered his face almost instantly...

"I just wouldn't want her to experience the same effects." He looked down, clearly worried. "We're not sure if that 'energy' can spread yet." He clicked a few buttons to replay Sonic's outburst from before.

The video showed the whirling of pressure and items crushing and darting around, the dangling of cords from above when they finally sedated him.

"...It was pretty messy to create an alibi for that."

"Yeah... everyone would have freaked out." Tails gulped, already on the verge of panicking himself.

"And now, with Sonic demanding to go out to battle like he did... then just disappearing against our wishes regardless..." Tails looked down.

"You knew he would do what he wanted too, Tails. It's not that he wasn't thinking of us." Silver placed a friendly, assuring hand on Tails's head, lowering himself down to smile and be more in view of him. "He's just Sonic. He always goes where he wants, and does what he feels is right."

"But he didn't even explain what happened to him. Our records show that that energy is somehow tied to his emotional distress. What if he gets agitated again? And can't control himself like last time?" Tails moved away a bit from the comforting touch, and looked back to Amy, still slightly lifting her legs up and down in random order, shifting herself side to side.

"Amy was only exposed to a little of the pressure from it... and she's still in a lot of pain from her run-in with infinite... she's been tossing and turning like that all night." He sighed, "I watched the videos... Even if she wakes up, she'll be at half her regular strength. And Sonic... something's influencing his darkness. This is above any Chaos reading I've ever recorded or studied... I have a bad feeling about this."

Tails returned to the monitor and began clicking random buttons, taking the video off the screen and closing the rest of the data. He only kept her vital signs on display and then looked to Silver.

In a serious tone, he nodded and spoke again, "For Amy's sake... and the others, we should keep what's going on with Sonic to ourselves. We don't know how much she knows about this either, and we won't until she fully wakes up." He looked back at her and then down, as if he felt he had failed her in some way, and walked to the door.

"Do you need help with the luggage?" Silver gestured to all the records he was huffing around, as Tails politely smiled and lifted a leg and a tail up to grab some tumbling documents.

"Yes, please."

The friendly exchange was soon over and the two went back to their jobs, and later Amy batted her eyes, looking around.

No one in sight.

She blinked, feeling dust on her eyes, and wondering why that was so.

She tried to move her arm, "Ah..." she felt a huge resistance in her body as it seemed to forfeit the will to comply.

She felt the muscle was heavier than she ever remembered and stopped struggling to move her arm after a moment.

Still dazed, she looked to the only possible answer.

She was drugged up.

Groaning in agitation, she looked to the side where the doses were. "...How... much?" she thought they had to be kidding her.

The dial was almost to it's farthest, what were they afraid of?

She didn't feel broken and battered or in immense pain. Although, there was that unsettling feeling before... but she didn't feel it now.

She tried to at least will her arm to scoot itself up to the dial.

After a few frustrating minutes of clenching her teeth as tight as her drugged-induced body could manage force, she was able to press down the button, and wait it out.

When the machine stopped bumping the medicine to calm her down and not feel pain, she suddenly, and wearily realized her body was a bit worse than she remembered.

It felt soggy, as though there were no muscles at all.

She knew it would wear off, but worried about how much pain they really thought she was in.

What else could explain the high doses?

When she finally grew the will to get up, the strength to push off, she felt the cool air whisk by the sweat on her back and mentally noted she would need to bathe after all this.

How long was she out?

She still felt tried but knew it would only get worse if she waited about.

She slipped from the comfy bed and clung to its railing, seeing the rollers were jammed so she wouldn't be sliding everywhere with it.

She looked to the screen.

If she wanted answers... she'd need to get over to that monitor.

Crawling on her hands and knees, Amy wobbled as her head began to reel.

She felt like throwing up.

Whatever damage she had sustained, it couldn't have been so bad that they needed to induce this must pain resistance to her.

However... Infinite had struck her pretty good.

She gripped her stomach, then her throat.

She checked her cheeks, she herself was a qualified nurse, she had done Sonic and her friend's injury cleanups for years.

She lifted herself up to the console, carefully trying to get her feet under her. Your foot was cranked completely back and weakly dragged as she tried to position it correctly.

It hurt to place weight on it, but she did so anyway.

Gritting through the process, Amy pressed her chin into the steely surface of the console, puffing out air as she struggled to get herself upright.

After another few minutes, she was exhausted, but up.

She leaned over the cool, metal counter and looked up at the screen, her hands folded under her to stabilize her.

Her feet were on their tip-toes, trying desperately not to fall over. To assure this, she leaned all her weight to her torso and keeping herself laying halfway up on the console.

She was careful to not press any buttons, but in her pain and uncomfortable state, she clicked some buttons with her nose.

"This... is... ridiculous." She finally spoke out loud, hearing her unused voice's raspy quivers as it tried to form words.

She was really out. They totally did her an injustice by putting so much medication into her tiny, sensitive body.

Amy took to medicine all to well, mostly because she was careful to never need it. Healthy diet, not too many dangerous situations; overall, she was fairly wise with what battles to fight and when to fall back.

A folder opened, mostly for Sonic, and reading it as confidential and the date on its file name... she found more interest in that than her own vital signs.

She double-clicked her nose into the button... before the horror of the scene spiraled around her eyes like a lucid dream.

"Sonic..." Her face grew into a grave and sorrowful one, her mouth opened as her eyes moistened at the rage on his face, the coloration of the film, and the objects getting compressed around him.

Tails... Silver... Knuckles... they were all struggling to get off the floor.

"What has happened to you..?"

That's when she saw them slam on the dial and then strained to move her head and look back at her own.

Her eyes shifted around the device...

We're they afraid... of the same thing happening with her?

She swallowed, feeling the thirst for water and food in the action, but also the realization that whatever was happening...

Wasn't intended to happen to her either.

"I have to... find him." She removed her arms from under herself, letting them push passed her chest and reach to grip as much as she could the corner of the desktop.

No way was she going to have Sonic suffer on his own.

Where was he? How was he?!

She was almost able to reach the next operation tools holding desk, when she collapsed and fell from surprise when the door opened.

"Oh, my Chaos! Amy!" the girl dived as quickly as she could to catch her, but Amy's jaw hit the ground fairly hard, and she groaned in the pain of it.

It shot up like mini lightning snakes, slithering up to her brain and then holding the pain locked in their muscly bodies.

She winced when the girl turned her over and looked up at the screen.

Amy could see the information take hold on her face, and slowly shift it into a horror film's tragic Vitim.

She screamed for help.

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"Not, under any circumstances, are you ready to go out there and fight!"

"I got it, Tails."

"You have to stay here! Where it's—"

"Safe!" Knuckles, storming with every fall of his feet after them, hovered dangerously with a booming voice by Amy's left ear. Tails was like the pattering of rain, steadily keeping on course with her position, but constantly chattering like seagulls caught without land for refuge.

Amy had gained her strength back and put on her iconic dress. The drugs wore off not to long after the pain in her jaw subsided, and she was able to tell Knuckles and Tails what she saw.

They constantly asked about what she knew, but she only told them she saw Sonic like that for a moment. It wasn't long enough to ask him how he was feeling.

"The whole of the base is buzzing with what that young nurse saw. You have to play it off as a rumor, or-or-"

"We can't lie to the people, Knuckles." Amy wasn't in the mood for horsing around with politics.

"Grrr... FINE! Then you try and stop mass panic!" he once again held up his fist, and hollered so loudly in her ear that she had to close her eyes and turn from the ringing it caused in her ear.

"Knuckles! Amy is still recovering, show some sensitivity and don't yell at her like that." Tails held up both hands defensively, before balling them up into fist and trying to earnestly stop the raging hurricane in Knuckles's tone.

Knuckles seemed to almost growl a moment... before huffing away from her and keeping on a straight course again.

"Alright, alright... I'm sorry, okay? We're all worried sick about Sonic, and you just waking up makes us a little... fidgety."

"What Knuckles is trying to say—"

Amy swayed her arms as she moved faster, passing the two and figuring out what she wanted to do to reach her objective.

First, she had to reassure them that everything was gonna be alright.

When she came to the door, the two were exchanging glances behind her and were hurrying to quickly catch up to her footsteps before she abruptly turned around to them.

Like the game 'red-light, green-light' they froze as if being caught in the act of whatever they were mutually thinking about.

"...Thank you for caring and taking care of me." Amy bowed.

"Oh, uh..." Tails looked to Knuckles, who was as weirded out by this change of pace too. "Em." They turned back to her and bowed as well, showing some respects.

She immediately moved herself back up, straight as a plank. "Now. I'm going back to work. Assure everyone I'm fine and so is Sonic!" with absolute moxie and confidence, Amy opened the door and entered in, closing it quickly with a tight click of its lock and wandered over to the computer.

Knuckles and Tails blinked for a moment in surprise.

They then looked at each other with smiles.

"You think she'll be alright?"

"She was just like you when we found out about Sonic, Tails..." Knuckles took a deep, low breath in, before winking to Tails and lightly nudging his shoulder. "She was resilient then, but still a bit snapped. But now that he's back, look at you! Steppin' up to the plate. I'm sure she's just trying to do the same. Sonic inspires hope and the best in all of us. We need to keep that going. No matter what may be wrong with him."

Tails nodded, looking back to the door. "But..."

Knuckles kept walking, only calling back to him, "Come on, Tails! She knows her place is here. We've gotta lead the squadrons. They need to come home, and the next batch needs to head out!" Knuckles rotated his shoulder, seeming relaxed or loosening tension he was once harboring as Tails sighed and hurried after him.

"W-what about Sonic?" Tails looked up to him after catching up to his rough stomps.

Knuckles billowed a laugh and wrapped a friendly arm around Tails's shoulders, pulling him along. "Haha! He's Sonic! And he's alive to boot! We'll have a word with him when he returns. Maybe he just needed to let some extra tension out, eh? Get that fresh, smoky air of rebellion back in his lungs!" Knuckles lightly jabbed Tails in the stomach, making him 'offph!' forward and grip his stomach.

"Right... some air." He strained to speak through the 'friendly gesture' Knuckles had so graciously bestowed upon him.

"Hmm..." Amy lowered her eyelids, honing-in on Knuckles's loud voice, waiting for the two to leave. "Some pep-talk."

She typed away. "I gotta find Sonic's location... this room has the fastest communication systems. I should be able to locate him on one of the armies video-cams on their communicators..."

There was a loud hum and then metallic interference on the radio signals, and Amy knew that was an indication that they were under heavy assault.

"Battle means Sonic." She picked up the headphones and placed them on, hearing tons of voices before scanning through the videos.

"There!" she saw a blur of dark blue... before the image reset and she switched the radio channels to that soldier's particular channels.

His name flashed on and she quickly called to him, "This is Amy Rose! I'm seeing what you're seeing. What's going on?"

"Amy? Ah! We're under heavy fire!"

"I can see that but- Ah! Look out!"

A large piece of earth came hurtling over to the side of the soldier's video camera, but he dodged before getting rammed by Zavok, seeing him laugh as he tumbled himself behind some cover.

"Woah! Phew..."

"Please! Where's Sonic!?"

"He's... they're provoking him."

The soldier's camera positioned itself to Infinite, Eggman, Metal Sonic, and Chaos all surrounding Sonic, who let out a huge, powerful cry that shook the area. Around him was a dark matter of some kind, wisping around him and having the look of a spinning sun.

"What... what is that?" Amy's eyes shook, seeing his eyes glow white as the image started to frizz out. She was removing the headset... her hand reaching out to Sonic's image as he seemed to be panting in extreme exertion. He fell to one knee in the distance as her hand pressed and fell on the screen towards his image.

"Miss Amy—!" the soldier's voice caught her attention, snapping her out of her longing to be there with him, wanting to help before she shook her head pulled the headphones back on. "Whhaaa!"

She cried out his name again, before seeing Zavok snicker into the camera before his foot crashed down on it.

"No." she closed her eyes and looked away.

Tears began to fall before she tried to force what she just saw out of her thoughts.

Though her heart ached, she needed to find Sonic.

She threw the headphones down, already knowing the area they were battling in, before the door's locked click and was slammed open.

"Going somewhere?" Silver floated into the room, looking suspicious as his eyes narrowed to show he suspected her of ditching.