Metal Sonic Muffuletta

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Forced Into the Wild: Eggman launches an attack that reverts anhomomorphic animals back to just normal animals. We watch the fallout of that as Tails+co deal with the situation. Current status: Chapter 35/36. 73,897 words.

A Spark of Lightning: Surgeamy fic (currently holds the title of longest surgeamy fic on ao3 :D)! Amy gets in a fight with Surge and very quickly falls for her, but also sees that she needs help. We follow their troubled situation. Current status: Chapter 6/?. 11,663 words.

I'll save you again and again and again: Written for The Sonic Library Secret Santa 2022! Prompt: sonadow time travel. Follows Shadow trying to prevent Sonic from getting infected by the metal virus. Current status: Completed one-shot. 5,406 words.

Sonic's Christmas To-Do List: Christmas fic with the classic brothers! Follows Sonic trying to convince Tails Santa is real because he's 4 and deserves it. My personal favorite (i think)! Current status: Completed one-shot. 3,633 words.

Project Polarization: Written for The Sonic Library January Prompt 2023! Prompt: mind control/amnesia. Eggman has a new plan, one that might take out Sonic for good. Current status: Chapter 1/2. 3,367 words.

Grew Up Too Fast: Conversation between Sonic and Shadow reminiscing on the past. Short and sweet. Probably the shortest fic I'll ever write. Current status: Completed one-shot. 526 words.

How To Bake a Mint Chocolate Cake: Valentine's fic where Sonic tries to cheer up Tails by baking him a cake. Sonic is a bad cook. Shenanigans ensue. Current status: Completed one-shot. 4017 words.

The Kingdom's Lost Prince and Healer: Written for Sonic Platonic Fairytale week day one: Rapunzel. In which Shadow takes on the role of Rapunzel, Rouge is Flynn Rider, and the Babylon Rouges are the Stabbington Brothers! :D Current status: Completed one-shot. 7310 words.

find the meaning in the stars: Written for The Sonic Library March 2023 Prompt: super forms. ARK siblings angst where Shadow is given a mission from Maria to find a reason for her to like the stars so much. A The Fall™️ fic. Current status: Completed one-shot. 3182 words.

A Responsibility To Carry On: Written for The Sonic Library April 2023 Prompt: transformation. Follows Tikal looking after Knuckles as he grows up. My new personal favorite fic I've written c: Current status: Completed one-shot. 3761 words.

Hold For Sixteen: A simple fic where Espio's a little stressed about what happened back on the Mirage Express so Vector prescribes him a trip to fish with Big. Current status: Completed one-shot. 2102 words.

Once every year, and it happened to be tonight: A metamy fic written for a friend in which Amy decides to revisit Little Planet, and finds she wasn't the only one. Her and Metal reminisce. Current status: Completed one-shot. 1512 words.

Not perfect, but memorable nonetheless: A fic written for a friend's birthday where Cream has a sleepover with Charmy and things go terribly, terribly, wrong. Current status: Completed one-shot. 2366 words.

The Weird Tail Trio in: The Case of the Console Caper!: Written for The Sonic Library Secret Santa in July 2023! Tails, Belle, and Tangle team up to take on a case where someone took a gaming console from the Spiral Hill library. Current status: Completed one-shot (with potential for a sequel/series). 2282 words.

Shadows of Ashes: Written for The Sonic Library July 2023 prompt: Disguise/Puppet. Sonic is the only one that remembers the events of 06 and Mephiles is back. Current status: Chapter 1/?. 2611 words.

The Weird Tail Trio in: The Mystery of the Missing Emeralds!: A fic written for a friend's birthday where Tails, Belle, and Tangle team up once again to take on a case where the chaos emeralds mysteriously go missing. Current status: Completed one-shot (that is a sequel to my first one). 4327 words.

Forget again and again, but I'll remember you: Written for The Sonic Library August 2023 prompt: Dreams/Memories. A metamy royalty au where every day Metal meets a familiar pink hedgehog and every night Robotnik scrubs his memory of her. It doesn't end well. Current status: Completed one-shot. 5563 words.

believe me darling, the stars were made for falling: A fic written for a friend's birthday. Masquerade ball metamy with a little Metal and Sage siblings sprinkled in there. Current status: Completed one-shot. 2422 words.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Blaze and Sonic reflect on the events of Sonic 06, and how it affected those closest to them.

Word Count: 2,323

been thinking about sonic 06 lately and also siblings and here is the product of that c:

Written for 35 Days of Sonic day 10: Remembrance!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Eggman’s badniks are attacking Central City, attempting to dismantle Omega, and threatening the future of the Eggman empire. And worst of all? Poor Charmy Bee caught a bad case of who-knows-what :(

What's with all the unorganized badnik attacks? Why would some go after Omega? What's going on with Orbot and Cubot? How is this all connected? And where is Metal in all this?

Join the Chaotix on a multi-perspective adventure as they try to uncover the center of the panic overtaking the subserviates of the Eggman Empire!

Word Count: 7,856

IM BACK BABEYYYY DID ANYONE ORDER SOME CHAOTIX FAMILY WITH A SIDE OF EGG FAMILY ANGST 😌🫶

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my notes for myself for this fic in case anyone wants to see more of my metal sonic insanity

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: In an attempt to finally escape the Eggman Empire for good, Metal ends up finding himself stranded in a strange dark world. Seam, excited to see something new, let’s him take refuge in their shop, and two unexpected voices join them…

Word Count: 2,183

ITS METAL IN DELTARUNE BABEYYYYY WE PUT METAL SONIC IN DELTARUNE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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Summary: Pepper’s stressed about Salt spending more time with OJ for reasons she can’t figure out, and finds an unlikely person to comfort her.

A s1 remaster tacopep drabble c:

Word Count: 1,159

went a little crazy at these bitches actually interacting in canon and wrote about 2/3 of this after episode 3 came out then i forgot about it and now its done c:

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Salt and Pepper have lived in the Sunset Commune for as long as they could remember, but when Salt finally pushes the head of the town over the edge, he bans the two from the town, saying they could never come back unless they brought a million dollars with them. Salt decides the two should turn to a life of banditry to scrounge up the money, and Pepper will follow her anywhere. They run into a rogue pair of maraschinos on the way, and suddenly The Shaker Bandits and The Marksman Maraschinos are born! But with security in the west worst than its ever been, and the famous Purgatory outlaws more dangerous than ever, the bandits' first train robbery may just turn fatal.

Chapter Summary: Prologue for the fic! Going through a brief history of the gang before we jump into their latest crime c:

Word Count: 4,225

FINALLY here’s that saltpep western au I’ve been working on! :D

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: MePad Mansion is about halfway through construction, and every night Cabby sees outside, just barely off in the distance, someone sitting there in the cold. Tonight, she decides to go talk to her.

Word Count: 1,893

here's that cabco sickfic! it uh got a little out of hand so now its also a post ii18 hurt/comfort i think about these guys a normal amount i promise

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/61920880

^tumblr isnt embedding ao3 links right now for whatever reason

Title: "Home" for the Holidays

Summary: Thundersnow hits Purgatory Mansion, reminding Apple both how unsteady the house is, and how close the holidays must be, in a confusing mix of emotions. Luckily, she’s got her purgatory family to help her out c:

Word Count: 4,370

my osc secret santa gift for @steeltwigz!!! :D happy holidays dude i was SO excited when i got you lol please forgive me for being a week late 🙏

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: On the brink of a turning point in the Metal Virus, Metal Sonic goes to seek advice from a computer with half of a time god trapped inside of it. But after being trapped for so long, who is Mephiles not to take advantage of the situation?

Word Count: 1,022

was cleaning up my google drive and found this fic between metal sonic and mephiles that i wrote back in *checks notes* may that i completely forgot to post mb gang 🤘😔

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Total word count for the year: 68,566

this year I wrote something for 9/12 months not too bad 🤘😤

thank you so much to everyone for all of the kind words this year I really feel like I’ve improved a lot as a writer and I feel that reflected in the kindness I’m getting back c:

fics under the cut!

January- Beginning When You Know How It Ends chapter 1 (Sonic)

February- wish you were on my mind (Sonic)

May- Everything Stays (Sonic; written for the Kaleidoscopic Absolution Zine!)

July- evelyn evelyn (Sonic)

August- “It’s just water” (Sonic)

September- Your Puppets, My Puppets chapter 1 (Inanimate Insanity)

October- Your Puppets, My Puppets chapter 7 (Inanimate Insanity)

November- some things you’ll do for money, and some you’ll do for fun, but the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one (Inanimate Insanity; part three of my tacopep trilogy)

December- Better at the Game, Still Left out in the Rain (Inanimate Insanity)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: The holidays are nearing, meaning more stress that Espio tries to take a break from when he goes to the beach to meditate. He doesn't expect to find Metal Sonic, who recently fled the Eggman Empire to see if Eggman would notice. He didn't. The two share a quiet moment in the cold before the holidays.

Word Count: 1,804

whats up gang i was thinking about metal a lot and i wanted to write something with him so i just decided to make him talk to my OTHER favorite sonic character and also its christmas 🤘

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Salt suffers from her coding that she's unaware of, and Pepper suffers from having to micromanage her best friend and love to make everyone happy. When their heater breaks, the two girls have to huddle together for warmth, and want so badly to be able to want each other.

Word Count: 2,314

ok i promise i was actually just trying to write fluff this time and then i thought about what salts coding did to her and what if it was like a shock collar on her brain that forced her to love oj and uh yeah i promise ill do tooth rotting saltpep fluff eventually 🙏

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: After being cast out by Microphone, Taco goes to have a conversation with Balloon about the game, season one villain to season one villainess.

Word Count: 1,900

Chat help I thought really hard about what it would be like for taco and balloon to have an honest conversation with each other and then this suddenly appeared

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

TOTALLY didnt forget to post this on my tumblr but heres a quick tacopep fic i did yesterday morning in anticipation of ii18

Summary: Taco sneaks into Pepper’s room, and the two share a conversation about the happy life they could live far away from the show and all of the drama that comes with it.

Word Count: 1,312

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Taco and Pepper begin enacting their plan to take revenge against the game, both fighting through memories of what brough them together in the first place. When their kidnapping of Lightbulb ends up with Test Tube lifeless on the forest floor, everything changes. This is about more than just them, and more than the game. This is about revenge, betrayal, and love.

Word Count: 11,971

whats up gang i did a third tacopep fic thats got toxic yuri tragic yuri AND doomed yuri weve got all the yuris

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think im just gonna stick to posting fics on my main and then reblogging them here because i realized im kinda wishy washy about how i do it and it could probably get a little confusing

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Would love to see more tacopep

ask and you shall receive dear anon o7

heres a sequel to my last tacopep fic thats double the word count

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Taco and Pepper keep trying to change each other into the person they’re longing to be with, Taco slowly starts to see Pepper for who she is, and Pepper keeps denying her disillusionment with loving Taco as she grieves her own heartache.

Word Count: 4,394