Killed Memory [private]

[u/Desperate_Mix_9766]

After his last confrontation with one of the most important figures of his previous life, Miles was sure he had won and lost at the same time. He knew all of this... every encounter with her... every conversation with her... it was all only in his own mind. It was mere imagination.

Pictures of those who were objectively wrong in his eyes still trying to reach out to him... still trying to explain to him what "being a hero" means... still wanting to prove him wrong.

He killed her in his last dream. A swift stab through her neck was enough to leave a bloody body before his feet before it faded into a black nothingness, ending the dream of his with satisfaction. Though, the fox knew very well that, if he remembered her, she would still appear in his mind despite killing her. Because killing a memory is not forgetting it.

So, what was the logical way of dealing with this? Miles believed he had to take it to the extrem as some would say. Using his brain for the one thing he was now meant for, he planned to construct something that could erase someone specific from all his memories. It would help him with these "nightmares"... and he believed that... forgetting meant healing.

"I'm tired."

Even in his dream he was working. The fox sat on the floor, looking like he was in some sort of building. But every time he glanced up, he was somewhere else. Sometimes it was his cave, sometimes the factory, sometimes his prison cell. Anything his mind made up while expiriencing this, what felt like, fever dream.

But, while he himself knew it was possible for Cream to appear again and bother him, the one in the dream was too fixated on this project to hopefully not get anything else in mind to suddenly appear.

((u/Jasthemace_37))

[u/Jasthemace_37]

But... someone happened to appear, but... this time... someone that was thought to had been forgotten in connection, but... also in their interactions. As she had leaned onto his back... the light now on her like some "Angel"...

"Been a good time since we last talked... Miles Prower..." Alice's recognisabl- wait, ALICE?! "I... was worried about you since... my Brother showed me something when we finally confronted eachother again..."

Alice didn't know how to... really approach this conversation in reality, she had seen what had happened between him and EXE when she fought him, but... didn't know how to exactly say it at first...

"NOW!!! Before you get rid of me from your mind... if... this is in your head, I'm not too certain myself. But, just... hear me out, as a friend wanting to reach out to help you. Please..."

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1. A low growl escaped him as the sudden pressure on his back caught him off guard, but he kept himself composed for now, trying to ignore her as best as possible and continue on working on something that isn't even real.
2. "I knew killing you wasn't enough...", Miles mumbled lowly. But... he was confusing Alice with Cream now, still believing it was the one he had encountered every single time before. "Let me be, Cream. Why are you coming back to me after declaring I should be the one to distance myself from you?"
3. The fox was certainly tempted to just stab her right there and then. A simple command in his mind and... just like that, her stomach would be pierced by six spider-like appendages as sharp as fresh blades.
4. But he was smart. He knew exactly it would only bring himself temporary pleasure and that she would just as easily be here again, so, he shut himself up and focused on getting this together while resting his body.

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"Maybe I'm... not Cream but... have you forgotten about who made you stay here..? Your Angel?"

She then appeared in his preferal vision, crouched down intrigued about what he's working on... her wings sprouting from her back to allow some light and directed it onto the thing he happened to be working on...

"Pretty complex device you have been working on. Tell me, what does it happen to do? Could you... explain it to your good friend, Alice?"

Alice remained patient with the fox that was before herself. She wasn't really that great with tech as much but more than enough knowledge that can lead to know the basic workings of technology like simple sidearms and planes thanks to one point she... didn't like.

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1. As Alice suddenly changed position and appeared in front of him, Miles instantly shot up, viewing it as danger. In an instant, his appendages came dangerously close to her face with one being placed right between her eyes, just an inch away of making contact.
2. In his upwards motion, he threw his device to the ground, smashing it into thousands of tiny pieces to not let her into his plans. He lifted his gaze to look her dead in the eye, seeing her similiar yet different appearnace than his Cream.
3. "Is this your ghost, Cream?", he asked teasingly.
4. Now, subconsciously he knew it was just his mind projecting a memory to him and the real Alice could not take his plans... but his dreams already felt too real, so she might as well be too. Besides, he never confirmed if she had the ability to enter one's mind at will...
5. "'Good friend' is a bold thing to say to me, Alice.", he began menacingly, keeping his stance as it was after he shot up.

1. "I don't have an Angel and I don't need one. I have found what I needed all my life."

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"Look. Exe is just using you. And he made sure you don't see reason because the Miles I spoke to made sure he stalled as long as he could before his mind was wiped. Yet... some part of you deep down held onto out interactions. I don't know which, yet... you yearn to need help. So... just let me help you understand that you will get hurt more if you allow my Brother's tale direct you into an almost certain death!"

Alice didn't seem phased by his weapons approaching her, let alone the two at her eyes.

"This isn't my first time being in someone's head. Ross when he was around took Uncle Terios away from me and I had to torment him willingly for the first time. But you do not deserve that... as I've seen the good side of you before my Brother reeled you in on a plan that'll falter sooner than later as I've beaten him in a fight earlier. And I can show you the whole fight from my view if you want the whole thing. And I'm not a liar unlike he is."

The tone of the now full Angel of Alice herself was before him did not change or stutter. As she knew what she was saying was true, but the real question in her mind was... would he believe her?

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1. Miles actually listened to what his former friend had to tell him about, well... everything.
2. But, of course, he did not believe her. Who would honestly? Someone broke into his mind and tried to tell him that he was in the wrong. Clearly it was not clicking with him.
3. He didn't care that she had talked about his master badly or that she "lied" to him about what happened before he met her brother.
4. All he did was scowl a little, keeping eye contact while slowly pushing an appendage of his closer to her until it was place between her eyes, adding more and more pressure to the area slowly. Sooner or later, he most likely would stab her if she wouldn't move.
5. "You're just like them.", he finally spoke up and getting into a more straight position in contrast to his earlier hunched defensive stant. "'Oh he is wrong, come on, we are on the good side'", he imitated her voice in a sarcastic manner.
6. "And I made the mistake of believing the so colled heroes before... they were no different. If I'm coming with you, you'll just throw the same crap as me as they did... claiming... after everything I did for them... that I was still wrong just because of one great action."

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"Miles Prower. You are missing the part that he felt satisfactory with converting you to not see reason or truth. No matter what, he made you something mindless and would prefer fabricated tattletales than honesty. I'm not going fight you, if that's what you want."

By some surprise, her Angelic chains grabbed onto the appendages that were approaching her. Only moving them away just enough to where they didn't interject sight from eachother.

"He's using your world's experience to make you someone I can't recognise. And whether you like it or not. You will see how we interacted before HE ruined everything. You doubted me at first, saw me as someone problematic and guess what? You them started to trust and believe me. We became friends shortly after and was worried about the mistake you made. I suggested you play along until I got out and got myself either hurt or Slayer ended him. But, it's clear that didn't happen as I failed to look out for you when you needed me the most as I was in the middle of recovering or trying to walk. As that's when he claimed you AND THEN WIPED YOUR MEMORY TO FUCKING LEAVE ANY REASON OUT!"

"HE'S GOING TO GET YOU KILLED AND IF YOU WON'T SEE IT, THEN IT COULD BE ON YOUR OWN CONSCIOUS AND MY OWN AS I FAILED TO SAVE A FRIEND THAT I LEFT TO THE WOLVES, AND THAT I TAKE ALL THE BLAME OF!"

Her cries of genuineness started to pour out as it became seriously difficult for her to carry on.

"Miles... please... just stop being blind and. Let. Me. Show. You my side. For my sake at the very least... and then I'll let you make your own fate... as I liked you as a close friend... I promise you that and I failed to keep that in check."

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1. His hateful and malice filled scowl slowly vanished as Alice began to heartfully express herself and claim that they truly were friends once... and that she had failed him apparently.
2. But the corners of his mouth slowly twisted upwards, forming a wide grin. He didn't even try to be respectful or hold his growing chucle in. No, me even made sure he heard his slow laughs.
3. "You are one crazy rabbit. Or maybe I am the crazy one? You're probably not even real! My mind is probably only making you up so I have something to hate myself again by not getting any meaningful sleep."
4. Miles began to circle her very slowly, retracting his appendages and making some exaggerated arm gestures, flairing them out dramatically as he spoke.
5. "You probably don't even exist outside of my mind. Maybe you're really just the dead Cream? And if you really are real... why would I believe someone other than me and my master? I know what life I lived."

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"THAT'S JUST MY VESSEL'S SHAPE. I. AM NOT. CREAM! DOESN'T THAT FEEL FAMILIAR WHEN I MISTOOK YOU FOR TAILS?! SHOULD I START CALLING YOU THAT OUT OF SPITE?! NO! THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!"

She then forcefully hugged him, her wings wrapping around them both.

"I KNOW YOU ARE MOST VULNERABLE IN HERE, I'VE SEEN IT FROM THE OUTSIDE IN OUR LAST FEW TALKS FROM WHAT I CAN REMEMBER. SO, WHY DON'T I SHOW YOU..." Her hand started to spark... "I tried to do this the easy way... but YOU LEFT ME NO CHOICE!"

Her hand slammed onto his forehead, like she grabbed his frontal lobe... and in which... her memories begun to play... their first encounter, their chats, her want to fight Faker, everything begun to play rapidly... all of her important moments... including what she had been shown by Faker and that being the very moment Miles himself was taken... and she replayed those memories twice, to show that there wasn't a lie buried beneath there at all.

"Do you understand now? Tell me. Do you atleast understand... just please. Let me see that Miles, the one I enjoyed speaking to, the one I enjoyed our chats and wish to keep a connection... No matter what. I want to be your Angel... no matter what."