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Metal Sonic didn’t think they were Sonic himself, they thought they were better. Correction, they knew they were better. Their programming showed zero signs of emotion, they couldn’t be swayed by the tug of emotions and that was the difference between them. Between perfection, and failure.
So when they began to feel a sense of pride out of the blue, they had no clue what could be going on within their hardware. Telling “father” of such a feeling could result in system shut down and rework. Naturally they swayed away from such a concept. But as they continued to attempt to ignore it, they couldn’t help but feel more, feel…alive.
It wasn’t like there was a separate mechanic they could go too…well there was one. But it was Sonic’s two tailed brat. But nonetheless, one is better than none. And that was how they found themselves at the engineers doorstep.
One small knock and the door swung open. Damn near sending metal sonic off of the porch. The small fox stood outside, looking at him with a glance of almost concern.
“Metal? Why are you here…?”
His voice was raspy and almost rusted. Painful to feel down his metallic throat.
“I’m feeling things.”
“Woah woah, I don’t need to know all that metal-“
“Negative. I am feeling emotions.”
Tails eyes widened at that, what was he supposed to say? ‘Oh that’s probably normal even though you're a robot!’ No! That’s insane. And he knew that was insane. So he did what he did best, welcomed them in.
When metal sonic entered, they couldn’t help but watch as the fox moved. He walked with a distinct bounce, a way that was notable to only him. Metal sonic never did have a way of walking, he just traveled in the way he always did, either by flying or running. It was almost enamoring how the fox had his own personalized walk.
They sat down at the work bench shoved in the corner, it was littered with sticky notes and hot glue. The whole place smelled of smoke and grease, it was rather stuffy as well, causing Tails to cough a bit before resting his head against one of his arms.
“So, you say your feeling things?”
“Correct.”
“Hm, well maybe it’s a new part of your code or something? As far as I am aware, your software auto updates…”
“Negative. No new updates have been added.”
“Well shit.”