Hi! Thanks for reading! Just a few things before we start..

This story is finished and will be posted periodically. It was originally posted on Wattpad under the name Chelliegrace. If you see this story anywhere else other than here or Wattpad, please let me know, because chances are, I did not post it.

This story will contain many shippings, but they will not be the main focal point.

This is also a strange plot, because I started it back in 2013.

Please enjoy~


Curling up, whirling through the air so effortlessly like it was nothing.. what a nostalgic feeling. It had only been two years of peace, two years without having to fight anything big; but it felt like much longer. Nowadays, I took a shot at any threat, no matter how small, just for that feeling again. My calling, if you want to call it that. Although, Amy suddenly being attacked by a rather large robot was an actual threat.

"You need to be more careful, Amy," I said out of old habit as the robot exploded behind me. I walked up to the pink hedgehog and offered a hand as she stood and dusted off her dress.

"It was a good thing you came, though," She said, opening up her arms to reveal a little plain chao, all happy and dancing in her arms.

I bent down a little to get a better look at it, tilting my head a bit. "It wanted.. Cheese?"

She heaved a sigh. "No, dummy. Cheese has a red bow tie!" She said, clearly pointing out that this chao was completely plain.

"Then.. what?" I asked cluelessly. "And what are you doing in the Mystic Ruins, anyway? I thought you lived in Station Square still.."

Amy hugged it. "That was one of Eggman's robots, right?"

That got my attention. I hadn't even noticed that she didn't answer. "It was, wasn't it.."

"And he's been missing for two years."

"Nocturns again?"

Amy shook her head.

I saw the problem now. None of Eggman's old robots had any way of operating anymore with him gone, and surely not another crazy space clan would try and rough things up. And for whatever reason, the robot was after the chao.

"Well let's take the robot remains back to Tails and-"

"You blew it up." She cut me off. "Here, I'll look. You just hold this little guy." She pushed the chao into me, which I had no choice but to hold.

Holding the little chao gingerly, I watched as she crouched down and started looking through the heap of scrap the robot had left behind. She had gotten much more mature in only two years. I was still somewhat surprised when she didn't beg me to marry her, with her lack of stalking me and all. She would still chase me around occasionally when she got the chance, but not so much. When she did, it was more like us playing together. Not since a few months back when she had arranged an entire wedding and I made the awful mistake of telling her that she went overboard, then ditched her. In a way, she had been weird ever since then. Albeit, she seemed to have it more together now, and although I didn't miss her obsession with me, I still halfway expected it.

And I didn't think she could become more motherly, but she did. She not only dedicatedly helped Vanilla take care of Cream, who was still young, but she volunteered at a daycare center all week. I couldn't help but find myself meeting up with her at least once a day on her lunchbreak or after she got off her shift, just as I passed by. It took me a while to realize it, but she had stopped trying to get me to hang out with her, and before I knew it, I was pursuing her instead. It was embarrassing for me to admit to even myself that I missed her company, but I gradually became used to the idea, and I lived like that every day. Nobody knew except Tails, though. Nobody else could know. If anyone else knew that I willingly went to see Amy every day, they would think that I was finally giving into her, which I almost was, but I couldn't have that. Perhaps I had way too much free time.

"Sonic!" Amy's voice snapped me back into reality. "Found something!"

"Yeah? What is it?"

She sprang to her feet and spun around to face me. "I found a.." She held it up in front of her face to take a better look at it. "I believe it's some sort of microchip, or piece of the hardware or something."

I held the chao out to her, and she took it. "Robots have hardware?"

"I.. don't know. Maybe? Either way, Tails might know. Let's just go." She replied, averting her gaze. I caught her doing that often lately, though I didn't quite understand why. Nevertheless, I didn't dare question her, and only picked her up to run with her in the direction of Tails' workshop.

The little shack-like building sat near the cliff, looking out on the sparkling ocean. Quite a view it was. I never questioned why the fox had chosen such a spot to call his home. Inside, however, it was completely empty. Tails wasn't there, and neither was the little boy of who. he had recently taken in as his apprentice.

"Ahw yeah.. I forgot. He left to go run some errands in town. That's why I went for a walk in the first place." I said as I let her in and guided her into the living area.

Amy just plopped into a chair, cuddling the chao in her arms. "Well, we'll just have to wait for him to get back. I'll let Cream know that I'll be home late." She said, taking her cellphone out and flipping it open.

I looked away, a forced and delayed reaction, as I sat in a chair across the room from her. We sat in silence for a long time, the only sound being her fingers against the buttons. Each little thump rang in my ears, piercing the uncomfortable silence that I was probably creating all on my own.

"Amy.." I accidently started, then stopped myself.

She looked up at me with a look that meant she was ready to listen. Feeling like an idiot already, I continued.

"Wh-.. Why don't you like to hang out anymore?"

Her plain expression slowly turned to a questioning look, but she didn't say anything. I had no choice but to continue.

"I mean.. before, you always wanted to be with me." I rubbed the back of my neck. "You would always try to get me to marry you, and always, I don't know.. hug on me.. You don't act like that as often.. In a long time.." My words faded as they escaped my lips, hanging there vaguely in the space between us.

She stared at me for quite some time before a smile spread across her face. "Sonic the Hedgehog," she said, lowering her phone into her lap, where the chao took it straight to its mouth. "Are you saying what I think you're trying to say?"

I stopped for a short moment. What? "Depends.. What do you think I'm trying to say?"

"I only thought I was annoying you. And to think you actually miss me being a bratty kid who would cling to you like you were her knight?" She giggled.

I couldn't see what was so funny. In fact, I didn't really understand what was going on in that moment. I just knew that it was nice talking to her as a person. Lately, I rather enjoyed talking to her; I just never knew what to say. And when I finally say something, I get lost in the conversation. Whatever was going on, I just went with it.

"I-I don't know. I kind of felt like I was your knight." I smirked faintly as memories flashed through my mind. Scenes of her being carried under the arm of a robot. Scenes of me scooping her up and running with her through fields and valleys as she clinged to my neck. The good times, where it was just she and I, the damsel in distress being saved by the knight. "I always had to rescue you, even though whenever I was touched by someone else you suddenly became Super Woman and whacked away with that piko piko hammer of yours."

We both laughed a little and she agreed, then it grew silent again for a long time. "I.. I miss those days.." She finally said softly, so softly that I could barely hear her.

I looked at her for a moment. "Hey, Amy.. Do you think-"

She had looked up at me with hopeful eyes. Reminiscing, smiling.. It was the perfect moment. The rarest of moments for me. But one voice had to interrupt and ruin it all.

"Tails! Taiiils!" A red echidna's head poked in through the window beside me. He tried to wriggle his arms through, but stopped abruptly and frowned when he noticed us. "Oh.. it's just you two."

I could hear Amy growl - literally - as she jumped up. She pulled her hammer from seemingly nowhere, something I hadn't seen in a long time, and whacked Knuckles right over the head with it.

"Ow ow, Amy!" He said, looking to me in distress. "Why is she so ticked?" He asked as he got his arms through and tried to pull himself in, but failed miserably. "Where's Tails?"

"He's out on an errand. And there's a door, y'know," Amy answered, glaring still.

"Sheesh, hold on," Knuckles said. He popped out the window and went around to the front, where he let himself in. "If he's on an errand, why are you two here alone? It's late."

"We're just talking! And it isn't late. It's like five." Amy answered, obviously still steamed. I patted down the quills on my head and just averted my attention to the large, blinking machine to the right of me. I had no idea what it did, even though I had seen Tails use it about fifty times.

"Talking? Alone? Just you two?" He looked to me and raised a brow. "Since when do you two-"

"Stay in your own business, Knucklehead." I chided. "What did you want?"

Knuckles' gaze narrowed. "I wanted to ask Tails if he knew any-" He stopped, looked around, then walked back over to the window. He stuck his head through and bent to reach something from the ground, coming back up with some sort of little robot about the size of his head, smashed.

"I wanted to know if he knew anything about this."

Amy and I exchanged glances before I turned back to him, crossing my arms over my chest. "You're finding Egghead's little minions too?"

"It was creeping around the Master Emerald. I don't know how it sneaked up on me. It is Eggman's right?" He asked as he looked down at it.

"You think he's after it?" I asked, to which he nodded. "And so you left it alone and came here?"

"No," Knuckles said, crossing his arms. "I broke it and scattered the pieces."

I stared at him blankly for a moment, then heaved a longsuffering sigh. "You Knucklehead! How many times are you going to do that before you realize that it just makes everything worse?"

"What would you rather me have done, lugged it here with me?" He asked with a pang of annoyance in his voice.

I shook my head in dissappointment. "At least tell me you have the Chaos Emeralds?"

"Don't worry, Sonic. I'm not that stupid." He said as he reached up into his cowboy hat to pull out two gems: a red one and a green one. I looked at them, then up at him then back to them.

"Knuckles.. There's seven. You only have two there." I pointed out flatly.

"Sonic, will you relax, I know what I'm doing. I gave them..." He trailed off.

I gave him a questioning look. "First you break your precious Master Emerald, and now you're giving the Chaos Emeralds away?"

"You know, I'm getting really tired of your attitude.." He growled under his breath. "I gave them to you, hero. Remember?"

I just stared at him. "Huh?"

"Yeah! You came to the Island, helped me beat off the robots.. And you said to give you some of the Chaos Emeralds for, and I quote, 'safekeeping'. Then you agreed it would be best to break the Master Emerald, and left. Oh, but you told me to find Tails and tell him.. Then you left."

"I haven't been to Angel Island in months, Knuckles. And I sure as heck wouldn't take them with me or let you break the Master Emerald."

"You were there. I'm not an idiot."

"Knuckles, you are an idiot!" I spat, leaning back in the chair with my arms crossed. "How do you suppose I even got there without Tails? It's a floating Island; I can't fly."

Knuckles stared at me for a moment, then his gaze hardened. "I'm tired of you treating me like I'm stupid. I swear you were there. I only know what I know, and what I know is that you were there and you took the other emeralds from me."

I could tell he was serious, dead serious, so I didn't exactly answer. I glanced to Amy, wondering why she had stopped talking nearly at the beginning of our conversation. She was just staring out the window. I took a breath and started to say something, but the door burst open.

"Soniiiiic~ I got us some-" Tail's voice boomed as he walked in and stopped, noticing us all there. "Ham.. salad..." He finished slowly, putting the grocery bag on the table by the machine.

"Tails!" Knuckles shouted, rushing up to him with the robot in his arms. Amy rushed up to him at the same time, lugging the chao. I went for a spoon for the ham salad.

"H-Hi guys," Tails said awkwardly, "What are you all doing here?"

"Tails!" They both exclaimed simultaneously.

"Eggman's robots!" Amy spat before Knuckles could say anything else. "This chao here.. I was walking through the forest when I saw him being chased by a robot. Sonic came just in time and smashed it, but I was able to rummage through and find this. I brought it since it looked important." She said, getting the chip from the inside of her shirt. I had never seen her act like that before, regardless of her being more mature. Let alone the fact of her using her shirt as a pocket.. How did that even work?

Taild took it and brought it up to see it better in the light. "If I didn't know any better.." He mumbled to himself, walking toward his equipment. We all three watched as he placed it in a thin drawer that slid out, and pushed it back in. Thousands of words and numbers came up on the screen, and Tails' eyes lit up. "I knew it! Amy, how'd you know to grab its holming chip?" He asked. She only shrugged. "Since Eggman is gone and his robots shouldn't be activated at all, let alone out in operation, this is the most useful thing you could have found!"

Amy kept a straight face. "Can you backtrack whoever is sending the commands?"

"I think I can! Amy, when'd you become so smart? Do you want to help me?" He asked. Amy smiled and nodded.

While they started to work, Knuckles came over, grabbed my arm, and pulled me out the door. I almost dropped the bowl of ham salad in my hands, he had pulled me so roughly.

"Hey, dontcha think Amy is acting a bit strange?" He asked quietly as he closed the door behind us and dragged me forward a bit. "I mean, not so much the fact that she's suddenly 'smart', because she has tried taking charge in the past and never failed to give her input. It's the way she's reacting. I don't know, something's just off.."

I thought about it for a moment, leaving the spoon in my mouth. Maybe he was right. I just took it as her changing, as people did whilst they got older. I just thought it was her trying to be mature. I had been brushing it off like it was nothing. But Knuckles had come to the realization that she was acting weird. He didn't spend near as much time with her as I did, and he came to accept it before me?

"Y-You're right.." I said, sticking the spoon back into the ham salad and staring down at it for a long moment. "But I just thought it was her trying to be mature."

Knuckles slid his arm around my shoulder, giving me a smirk that caused me to feel a chill down my spine. "How about we test her?"

"And just how do we do that?" I put my arm around his shoulder, playing along.

"Kiss her."

I nearly choked on air. "Wh-what?"

He let go of me and jumped in front of me. "Think about it, Sonic. She stalked you for years, begging you to marry her. She even set up a whole wedding when we got back here, remember? And you just ditched her, and she threatened to kill you for months until you brought her those flowers.."

"I know," I said, glaring at him slightly. He didn't have to remind me.

"Anyway, if she got a kiss from you, she'd be thrilled. Maybe even freak out. Anything but respond like a normal person, you know what I mean?"

"Yeah.. I guess you're right." He was right, in a way. Either way, Amy understood me more than anyone. I acted as if I didn't know, but I knew. She knew if I was sad, even if I were smiling. She knew when I was ticked. She knew that when I would run off for months at a time, I just needed time to find myself, and to wait for me; because she would be the first person I would go back to. She knew that I wouldn't just go all-out and kiss her.

"Then go on down the runway and wait! You gotta set the mood. Sunset, looking out over the ocean.."

"Wait a minute, who said I was going to play along! No way I'm kissing Amy!"

"I'll go get her!" He rushed inside, completely disregarding what I had just said.

I sighed and slumped, watching him go. Before I knew it, I found myself walking down the runway, to sit on the edge looking out over the vast ocean. It really was beautiful. The waves reflected the sky's red and pink hues, mixing it with brighter colors, making it shine. It was rare to see such a beautiful sunset very often.

I had been thinking about our relationship for a long time. Thinking about us. Thinking about what life could be like if I were to give in to her, and actually marry her. Nobody, not even Tails knew that I thought of things like that. And I preferred it to stay that way. Aside from that, what if Amy really was normal, and we were just reading her wrong? What if she thought I liked her because of it? I wouldn't be able to live it down. Not in a million years. But then again..

"You wanted me?"

Her soft voice came from behind. I turned around to see her and faked a smile, patting the ground beside me. She sat, returning the smile. "What were you saying earlier?" She asked.

"Nothing really," I replied, looking out on the water again. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. I hadn't kissed anyone, not in a long time. My heart felt like it was about to pound right out of my chest, and I didn't like it.

"..Then.. what is it? I need to go help Tails. Knuckles acted like you really needed to talk to me."

That was where I stopped. Amy had never complained about spending time with me. In fact, she would usually drop everything and come drag me to sit with her and talk and watch the sunset. What if Knuckles was right? What if something was wrong with her?

She stood, but I grabbed her wrist. "Wait!" I said, standing up with her. I stood there for a brief moment, frozen. I had put myself on the spot. I lunged forward, squeezing my eyes closed, only to find my lips to hers. I had stopped thinking, and apparently so had she. She just stood there as if she were confused. Then, to my surprise, she calmly and naturally melted into it, sliding her tongue between my lips. No.

I pulled away abruptly and backed away a step, in slight of a shock. I was more embarassed with myself than I was finding her action peculiar. That was what people were supposed to do when they kissed, right? Geeze, had I forgotten how to kiss? Why was I so flustered?

"What?" She asked after a few seconds of silence. "That was all you wanted, a kiss? Then you backed away?"

"You.. You talk as if that was a normal action coming from me," I said slowly.

"We are in a relationship.."

That was when it clicked. "You're not Amy."

Her eyes widened. "What?"

"You're not Amy." I repeated, clenching my fists.

I didn't come to the conclusion that she wasn't normal. No. It wasn't Amy at all. She would never so nonchalantly say something like that. She would kidd, or try to imply it, or act under the illusion that we actually were in a relationship, but she wouldn't so seriously say it, and after having chased me for so long, she would never, not in a million years, pass off a kiss from me as normal.

"Where's Amy?"

"Wh-what do you mean, Sonic? I am Amy! I.. I love you, Sonic!"

"Yeah right!" I grabbed her arm. "Tell me where Amy is, now!"

She tugged, but I kept my grip firm. She glared at me, then groaned. "F-Fine," She said, closing her eyes. Within seconds, her whole body changed. What was once a sweet, cheerful, pink hedgehog Amy was now a purple dog with piercing black eyes, wearing a slick, black, full body suit.

I unconsciously loosened my grip, and she pulled out of it right away. She smirked and jumped back.

"You're smart," She said, her raspy voice completely different from Amy's. "But not smart enough!" She backed away to the edge of the runway, turned around, and dove off the side. "Stop!" I yelled, diving after her. In all my years of being afraid of water, it didn't even dawn on me that I had plunged into the vast ocean. That is, until my body broke the surface. All I thought of was Amy. Where was she? What happened to her? Who was this dog, and why was she masquerading as Amy?

I flailed, trying to swim after her, but she was too fast. I only sank. I lost my breath, and the last thing I saw was the figure way ahead of me disappearing. Then, it all went black.

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