Um...hi! This is my first fanfic ever so I really hope you enjoy it. That might be a little hard though, my writing definitely isn't the greatest, English has to be my worst subject so there isn't really any exciting techniques used or anything in this heheheh. But that's okay, I'd rather try to tell a good story with bad writing then a bad story with good writing. Still I hope you can enjoy this story that I'm trying to tell! Oh right, disclaimer I spose. Sonic and all that doesn't belong to me but, this story is of my own creation. Okay, on with the story!

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Chapter One - Prologue

It was a dark and stormy night as Sonic laid up against a tree just outside of the hideout that he and his comrades were forced to use, unable to sleep as he laid there, lost in thought, thinking about all the events that had unfolded since everything changed as he stared at the storm clouds. Typically storms were somewhat common around this time of year but tonight's storm was worse than usual.

It had been four years since the downfall of the Eggman Empire. Having been defeated time and time again by Sonic and his friends, Eggman had returned once more to his greatest creation: Metal Sonic, in hopes that finally he would defeat Sonic, his archenemy and the one constant that had always foiled his plans of world domination and the creation of Eggman Land.

By copying all of Eggman's knowledge and placing it in Metal Sonic via a merging of mind and machine, Eggman had hoped that Metal Sonic would be able to devise a way to take Sonic down in a way he had not considered. The process had worked, but only far too well. Eggman's emotions were also transferred in the process. To a program, feelings mean nothing. But Metal Sonic could see how feelings could be used to win against Sonic. With it's calculating and cold AI programming combined with Eggman's knowledge of feelings, Metal Sonic created a plan. A plan that would shatter Sonic, his resolve, and his chance of victory.

Sitting there by himself, tilting his head back, Sonic wondered about his current situation.

"Will all this pay off...will we ever win?" he quietly said under his breath. "Things have really gone to hell with Metal Sonic around and Eggman nowhere to be seen," he continued to say quietly to himself while a giant lighting strike arced across the stormy night sky. The noise generated by it was so loud and the lighting strike itself so bright and big that it was as if the world itself was angry about the abuse it had received in recent times.

In the time after the creation of the "new" Metal Sonic, things had gone downhill. The first act of Metal Sonic was to get rid of Eggman, a hindrance to his mission. Although Metal Sonic was going to kill Eggman since it was the most efficient way to eliminate him, Eggman used his talent for running away to disappear before Metal Sonic could take him out. Before disappearing completely, Eggman vowed that one day he would return to make Metal Sonic pay for such a betrayal against it's master.

From there Metal Sonic had been able to take over the majority of the world in an extremely short amount of time. He had created a robotic army that was vastly superior to Eggman's typical robots using Eggman's very own machine lines forcing a retreat of Sonic and his friends. With the majority of the world falling to Metal Sonic's control, there were few places left where anybody could be safe.

Luckily, Knuckles knew of a place for them. He had found a secret location deep within a cave that served as an alternate location to house the Master Emerald in case something went wrong. Surrounded by dense forest and swamp land with a rocky landscape in various places made it a formidable hiding location. The cave itself had paths splitting off everywhere and it was easy to get lost in. Anybody who didn't know the route through the forest and cave could easily meet their end. The area was known as one of the most dangerous locations on the planet due to all the lethal plants and wildlife in the area and the highly unstable terrain.

After regrouping from Metal Sonic's initial assault upon the world, Sonic and his comrades had resisted with the people of the world as armies fought back in a unified defence against Metal Sonic's robotic armies. With the robotic army easily wiping out the defence without much effort however, it soon became painfully obvious that it was all in vain. Anybody who resisted typically died on the spot. They were the lucky ones, as the ones captured by Metal Sonic became subjected to suffering and intense torture until they either submitted to his rule, or perished. And to make matters worse, in the chaos that followed the unified defence's defeat, the Chaos Emeralds had fallen into Metal Sonic's hands and the Master Emerald was all but lost with it's destruction.

Unable to get into the Hidden Palace where the emerald sat on Angel Island, Metal Sonic had turned to the one thing that could take it out no matter what. With the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds powering it, the Eclipse Cannon was easily able to destroy the Master Emerald. Although the Eclipse Cannon was meant to be able to destroy entire planets when used with the seven Chaos Emeralds, Metal Sonic altered it to fire a highly concentrated beam that would pierce only up to the magma under the crust of the planet but destroy anything in the way before it hit the magma.

The result was the destruction of Angel Island and the beautiful ocean which Angel Island once floated above, turned to a hellish wasteland as the ocean within a 200km range was vaporized and the magma that once sat under the planet's crust rushed out to take the ocean's place. As the two met, the lava cooled and created a new landscape that left an ocean circling the blast zone and the remaining lava creating a giant hellish lake within the blast zone. The two were separated via a wall of cooled lava. Knuckles was crushed that he was unable to save the Master Emerald as he was helping a group of people escape one of Metal Sonic's patrols at the time, but knew that the least he could do now was do what he could to make up for failing his duty since there was not a piece of the Master Emerald left.

Sonic closed his eyes and let out the shallow breath he had been holding. Screams of a girl played over in his head.

"Sonic! Please, help me!" the girl screamed. Sonic tensed and held his eyes closed tighter. "Help me...help me!" she screamed again. The night began to play in Sonic's mind, a night not unlike the night tonight. The worst for Sonic had only come after they began their resistance.

In a desperate attempt to recover the Chaos Emeralds in hopes of using their power to stop Metal Sonic, a handful of resistance members were selected to be a part of a dangerous raid on Metal Sonic's outpost, the Ark. Having found a forgotten Ark transporter created by Gerald Robotnik in case something went wrong, they developed a plan that would hopefully slow Metal Sonic down. The Ark transporter however was in horrible shape and had no power left in it but the group was able to transport onto the Ark in secret using the energy of a lighting storm to charge the transporter for one final use before it gave out.

Moving as swiftly as possible, the group split up into their designated teams to complete the missions they had.

Tails and Shadow were to Chaos Control around via use of a fake Chaos Emerald in attempts to sabotage enough of the Ark's reactors and critical support structures to at the very least cripple it, if not destroy it.

Blaze and Silver were tasked with making the Eclipse Cannon inoperable in case the Ark was not destroyed. Omega was to go solo and gather any intelligence in the computers it could.

Knuckles and Rouge were to create a big distraction the very second any of the teams were detected in hopes they could complete their missions and get out safely.

Sonic and Amy were left with the biggest mission, recovery of the Chaos Emeralds. Racing to the control room as fast as they could manage, they remained undetected. If any patrols were encountered that couldn't be avoided, another fake Chaos Emerald was used by Sonic to Chaos Control both him and Amy past the patrols. It worked well right up till when they finally reached the control room.

Unknowingly, Metal Sonic had actually laid a trap so he could finally complete his plan. The rest of the teams were jumped by the robotic forces of Metal Sonic before they could do too much, with the exception of Sonic and Amy. As Sonic and Amy were about to begin removing the emeralds, Metal Sonic came flying in and pinned Amy up against the Chaos Emerald control panel with his right arm.

"Sonic! Please, help me!" she screamed.

"Hang on Amy! I'm coming!" he shouted back.

"Wrong Sonic, you shall not," Metal Sonic said in his cold voice as he raised his left arm at Sonic.
Before Sonic could even react he was hit with an energy blast that knocked him up against the wall and left him unable to move.

"Ugh, can't move," Sonic said as he struggled against the effects of the attack. "Just wait Amy, I'll be up soon," he continued to say weakly.

"Not likely," Metal Sonic countered. "Now you shall watch as she ceases to be," Metal Sonic continued as he began to press his left arm up against Amy's head.

"What are you doing Metal? No, you wouldn't dare! We might be rivals, enemies, but there are lines we never cross!" he shouted, fear creeping into his voice.

"That is where your wrong," he replied, as some form of energy started being channeled into Metal Sonic's left arm from the Chaos Emeralds. As the charge grew stronger and stronger, intense energy began circling into his arm. "This is the end hedgehog!".

Flying back, he discharged the energy at Amy all at once while she was still sitting up against the wall, being held there by the Chaos Emerald's energy itself.

"Help me...help me!" Amy screamed again.

"Noooooooo, Amy!!" is all Sonic could shout out, powerless but to watch, still under the effects of the energy blast he was hit with as Amy, disappeared right before his eyes in a blinding flash of light. When it passed, there was nothing. Not a trace.

Still lying up against the tree, but now shaking from remembering that tragic night, Sonic started to cry. As he wept, he slowly said with pain in his voice "Amy...can you ever forgive me? I didn't protect you, the one who I cared for the most. The one I loved with all my heart."

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And there you have it, one evil per say Metal Sonic, one messed up world, one Amy now gone, and one messed up heartbroken Sonic. Will things get better? Will there be action? Will anyone actually like this story!? Find out in the next chapter! (Yeah okay, I watched a little too much Dragonball Z lately XD) The next chapter will be uploaded soon...I wrote the majority of it today and I've got to write a little more and do some touch up stuff and it should be up in a day or two I suppose. By the way, I know I suck with my paragraphs, so please don't hound me about it too much. A few suggestions are fine but pleeeaase don't hound me too much about it.