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"RUSTY! GET OUT OF IT- ARGH!"
So, summing up everything that happened, Rusty Rose, somehow, managed to leave the pirate world and returned to New Yoke, and meanwhile, Sonic managed to recover the fragments of the paradox through the dimensions, meeting more and more versions of his friends, whether they're good or evil (*cough* and getting spanked *cough*), and now, there's only one fragment missing, which is in New Yoke City, so he can make everything go back to normal.
That is, if Rusty and the Chaos Council let it.
Now, at this moment, the New Yoke resistance is fighting the Chaos Council and trying to save Nine, who is the only one who knows where the shard is, while Sonic is fighting Rusty and trying to find a way to bring her to the side. them, and for now, he's taking a beating.
"Give us the fragments now if you know what's good for you, otherwise I'll have to eliminate you."
"Rusty! Stop! You don't have to follow orders from the Chaos Council! You can be whoever you want! Make your own path, come on! Even if you don't have one, you don't have to be so heartless!" Sonic said, while dodging Rusty's attacks.
"Like I said earlier, Birdie would disagree."
"Rusty, you can be better than that, come on! My friend Amy, managed to be friend of a robot! And he made his own way by the way! I don't know where he is now, but if even he managed to turn against his creator, you can too! And you have organic parts to top it off, you've been robotized! Don't you remember anything from your childhood before this?!" When Sonic said that, Rusty suddenly stopped attacking and crashed. "...Rusty? A-are you alright...?"
"...I remember...I remember NeverLake." Rusty said, as a memory flashed through his mind, and Sonic froze. "I remember reading my tarot cards, where it said that something bad was going to happen to me, but I was destined to find someone who would save me." Sonic remembered this story, when the two met, and Amy said that they were destined to meet, but if that happened, why was she robotic? He didn't know her? Or worse, if he knew her...
Didn't he save her?
*Rusty’s Flashback*
Rosy had just finished reading her letters, which said that she was destined to find someone who would save her from something that was going to happen and would also be the love of her life, when suddenly the sky darkened, and above her, was Little Planet, but when she got a closer look, Little Planet had a chain holding it back, and with it, it couldn't get back into its orbit, so she would definitely investigate who put it on it, and also try to find its knightly meaning.
With that, she climbed up the chains and got there, only to find robot after robot in Palmtree Panic. This was nothing like the stories people told her about it. People said that Palmtree Panic was beautiful, with lots of flowers and animals and a lot of other things, but she just found these robots.
She was paralyzed upon finding this, only to see that a robot was heading towards her and, with her hammer, she dodged and destroyed the robot, which dropped a seed and a beautiful flower grew in its place.
When she was admiring the flower, she heard screams, and turning around, she saw that the robots were about to attack the animals, but she was faster and also managed to destroy them, thus saving those little animals, who were very grateful for the way , jumping and flying around her, making her a little shy, but happy that they were now safe, when she got back to her mind why she was there, and with her hammer, she went back to looking for her knight meaning, taking advantage and destroying robots and saving animals.
She went through the entire Palmtree and didn't find anyone, so she prevailed to go to the next zone, which also looked like a pinball zone. Collision Chaos was in the same situation as Palmtree Panic, with lots of robots, no flowers and the animals hiding from these robots.
With no time to waste, she returned to her quest, but before she could, a robot suddenly came and picked her up. She tried to free herself from the robot's grasp, but he was too strong.
She was terrified at that moment and tried to call for help, hoping her brave knight would come and save her, but no, no one was coming, but the robot's grip got stronger, and she ended up passing out due to lack of air.
When she woke up, she was in a whole new place, like a laboratory, and she was handcuffed to a table, unable to move.
She tried to free herself, but the handcuffs on the table were too strong. Then a door opened, and she immediately looked at it, hoping someone had finally gone to save her, only to find the Chaos Council (which she didn't know the name of at the time, but I'm too lazy to write it down now).
"Well, well, well... look what we found... a little hedgehog, walking alone through our territory and destroying our robots, what fun."
"Who...w-who are you...?" Rosy said, terrified.
"No one you need to know for now, but guys, since she's destroyed several of our robots, what do we do with her?" Eggman said.
"*Baby noises*"
"Great idea Babble, let's robotize it" Said Dr. Deep.
doctor Don't then pressed some buttons on his tablet and a gun started to descend from the ceiling, heading towards Rosy.
Now Rosy was more than scared, she was horrified! She wants whoever her rider is to come save her now.
"N-no! wait! You can't-"
"We can do anything, dear... what is she again, a mouse? Oh, whatever." Said Dr. Done-it.
"W-WAIT!" Rosy couldn't even finish her sentence when the weapon's laser hit her.
Moments later, all you could hear was screams and more screams from the girl.
*End of flashback*
"After that, I woke up like this." Rusty said, finishing the story.
Sonic was horrified! He didn't appear, like in Nine's story, but the difference is that Nine managed to defend himself later, but with Rusty, as he didn't know her...
He didn't save her...
She ended up being robotized because of it...
"Rusty... I'm so sorry... I should have come along and saved you... But look, you remember saving the animals, right? You have to have a good heart, you just need to find it again. So please join our group... We need you... I need you... Please..." Said Sonic, who was almost in tears.
Rusty, still expressionless, just stared at him, when she suddenly felt something... something new, or something she hadn't felt in a long time...
She felt…compassion.
And looking around, seeing hes world, with people fighting or fleeing from robots in order to survive...
"...What did I do...?" Said Rusty, dropping to her knees. "I turned into what I was most afraid of...a heartless person...a robot...a villain."
Sonic, seeing what was happening, became more hopeful that she could go back to being good, without being controlled by someone, being good or not, he smiled and started walking towards her.
"Rosy... you may have turned into that, but you can change again, you can do what's right, not being controlled by anyone, doing things for yourself and no one else, helping people... please..." Rusty then looked at him, and he saw her eyes changing, the left one having the white pupil turning black again and its brightness returning, while the right one became the exact color of her left one, a beautiful jade green.
"...Do you think I can go back to being... who I was? That hedgehog full of hope... and happy?"
"But of course! Come on! You can become Rosy again! Even though you're in a robotic body, you can do whatever you want! Without being commanded by anyone! Be free again!" The twinkle in Rusty's eyes intensified, and she, for the first time in years, began to hope again, and seeing this, Sonic smiled even wider.
"Yes... Yes! I can!" Rusty smiled.
"Rusty, why did you stop attacking him?! Did he surrender?!" Eggman said.
Looking to where the Chaos Council was standing, Rusty spoke: "My name isn't Rusty... My name... IS ROSY!" And attacked them.
Sonic, now felt very happy and relieved, now that Rust- I mean Rosy, was now on their side, and, now with her on the resistance's side, they might have a better chance of being able to defeat the Chaos Council, find Nine and get everything back to normal.
And when everything goes back to normal, he's definitely going to spend more time with his Amy.