Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails " Prower, Knuckles The echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat or other character's made by Sonic Team. I do own RX and Maya hedgehog.

Summery: Continuing from "A good Deed gone wrong". Things have quieted down and everyone's begun to relax again, when Eggman returns with a new plan, kidnapping Amy to lure Sonic into a fight with his new weapon. But is that really all there is to his plan?

Light and Shadow
Part I

"Memory uploading progress complete!"

Lifting up his head form his latest set of weapon designs, Eggman watched the message scroll across his master screen a second after the audio message had been played. "Excellent, I have been waiting for this." Turning his chair around, Eggman walked over to stare at the round glass tube before him. "Begin activation progress, retreating feeding lines and draining the chamber of liquid."

A series of loud beeps reached him as he watched the greenish liquid drain out of the chamber, a figure slowly becoming clear as it was no longer hidden the by the green stuff. "Ah yes, my little project seems to be in perfect condition, but I should make sure anyway."

Turning to face the computer screens in the room, Eggman grinned as he walked over to them. "Prepare the Egg Arena for a test drive." Looking over his shoulder, Eggman smiled as the last liquid was drained out of the tube. "All of my skills have been used in making you, so don't fail me, my ultimate creation."

Inside the tube, the creature growled a bit before standing up in its full height, drops of liquid sliding off its frame as one claw dragged along the glass in a testing manner. "Who am I? Where am I?"

Standing in front of the glass, Eggman chuckled a bit as he punched in the key code to unlock the last part of his creations birth tank. "You are the greatest thing the Eggman Empire had made so far, and with you on my side, I am a step closer to completing my dream of world domination."

Stepping back as the glass slid up into the ceiling, Eggman watched as he creature took its first few steps, head moving here and there to take in all the sights around it. "You are my creator, the one who gave me life?"

Nodding in response, Eggman walked past him and settled down into his chair. "Indeed I am, and you, well, I can't keep on calling you creator or creation." Tapping a finger on his armrest as he gave a deep thinking sound, Eggman smiled a bit as he gazed over at the creature. "I believe you should pick one, my child."

"My name, I should pick it?" The question voice came as the creature gazed at his maker, one hand clenching and unclenching as he began to think about it, his eyes running through the mess of words and letters in his head trying to find something to call himself. "I, I am RX."

Looking up at Eggman, RX smiled as he thought about his name, the small thing sounding so big to him, like it was all that mattered in the world. "And who are you?"

Grinning lightly, Eggman smirked as he sat up straight in his chair. "Me, I am the brilliant doctor Eggman, the greatest scientific genius in the world." His face lit up with a very self assured look as he had practically jumped out of his chair in the middle of his introduction, several sounds systems blasting out a fanfare for him in the background. "Now come, it is time to see how perfect you are."

Having a rather confused and put off expression on his face after having witnessed such a un-shameful display of arrogance and pride, turned to follow after Eggman out of the room, one foot landing lightly in front of the other as the door swished open to a brightly lit up corridor. "Okay, father."

Arriving at their destination, Eggman nodded as they entered into a slightly round room, a single circle of light hitting the center of it. "Now, if you will RX, step into the light." Watching as his creation did as he had asked, Eggman nodded to himself and ran a finger over a set of keys. "We'll start of easy, try and hit the dummy target as many times as you can in one minute."

Pressing the remaining button on the panel as he finished talking, a crudely made Sonic doll popped out of a small opening, it's stuffed arms flopping a bit as it stopped. "And, begin!"

Giving the dummy a strange look for a minute, RX shrugged and began to simply punch the dummy with both hands, sinking into a set rhythm as he just slugged away at it. Only stopping when a loud whistle filled the room, and the dummy sank back down into the floor. "So, how did I do?"

Staring at him a bit, Eggman finally smiled as he clasped his hands together. "Very good, but a fixed target is nothing compared to one that is moving of course." Hovering his hands over the control panel, Eggman gave his best friendly smile at his creation. "So, what do you say, want to spend some time practicing against the dummies while I finish some work?"

Feeling a bit of adrenaline and excitement running through his body still, RX nodded and turned back as more dummies popped up, these ones looking very different from the first blue one, the was a orange fox like one and scowling red dummy with long cloth pieces hanging from the side of its head. "Um, shouldn't I be trying against a moving target?"

"Yes, and they will, my program is simply great for a truly great work out, and will therefore alternate between moving and non moving targets." Walking over to the door, Eggman didn't look back as the sound of fighting started up in the room again. "Must a failure in the battle program, or maybe it hasn't unlocked completely yet, even that rabbit friend of Sonic's had better moves then him"

Retuning to his main lab, Eggman sank down in his chair before his computer, and began to move across images of his past battles with Sonic, and trying to ignore the fact that each one also showed a failure of his great genius. "There has to be a way to ensure my creation can win against them, even if he doesn't have the battle skills I programmed him with."

Tracing a finger over a single image, Eggman froze as an idea formed in his head, the very nature of it sending a shiver down his back with its sheer brilliance. "That's it, not even the hedgehog will be able to see through that, and it will my creation time to become better." Laughing, Eggman tossed the image away as he turned to his computer screen. "Prepare my Egg-O-Matic and four dozen Eggpawns at once, we're going hunting for the first part of my newest and greatest plan to date."

Laughing, Eggman walked out of the room, the image lying forgotten on the floor behind him as the doors opened and closed before the human.

On the image, Sonic was seen holding Amy after having freed her from one of Eggman's traps, the machine that would have crushed them both had it worked were in the process of blowing up after getting trashed.

"Wakey, wakey!" Grunting in his sleep, Tails vainly tried to pull the covers up over his head and block out that ever-happy voice coming from right beside him. "Come on Tails, Wake up, the foods getting cold."

Adding his pillow to the covers over his head, Tails sighed as it finally reduced the voice to a mere whisper, allowing him to fall back to sleep again and dream about building the greatest thing ever.

"Get up!" Then it was shattered as both the pillow and covers were torn away from him, the blurry world spinning before his eyes as the force of the pull had him twist around to face the owner of the voice, now holding him covers and pillow with a evil grin on her face. "Breakfast ready Tails, so get your behind down here now"

And with that passing comment/order, his houseguest left him alone to wonder why the damn construction company couldn't speed up the repair of Amy's apartment so he could the morning to himself, how hard could it be to patch up a place that had suffered a minor missile attack anyway.

Pushing his legs out over the edge of the bed, Tails grumbled a bit as he across the room and out into the workshop area, spotting Amy's guest bed made up in the corner, covers neatly folded up and pillow fluffed up, she lost the right to sleep in the comfy bed after a game of go fish, and Tails hadn't wasted time in moving into his own home away from home slightly more comfy bed.

Pushing open the door as he sniffed the air, Tails smiled a bit as he could pick up the faint smell of freshly heated buns, and a hint of tea as well. "Mmm." Licking his lips a bit at the thought of what he would be eating in a bit, he closed the door behind him and picked up a nearby towel.

Placing across his shoulder, he turned on the cold water and watched as it filled up the wash rather fast, turning off the tap when it had filled up about halfway. "Here goes." Mumbling out the words, the fox cupped his hands and quickly splashed the cold water onto his face, feeling it soak through his fur and hit his skin. "Ah!"

Looking up briefly from sipping on a cup of tea at the scream, Amy shook a head a bit and went back to reading her forwarded newspaper, a half eat bun sitting on a plate before her as she glance dup to see Tails emerge from the bathroom with a slight chattering to his teeth. "Morning, you woken up yet?"

Dropping into his chair at the small table, Tails gave her a small grin as he began to loot the breadbasket for warm buns, several piling up on his plate. "Yup, there is nothing like a splash of cold water in the face to get me going in the morning." Grabbing the knife, Tails cut up the first bun on his plate and moved towards the jar of jam. "So, any idea when your apartment will be done, not that I mind having you stay here, I'm just curious."

Lowering the newspaper a bit, Amy sighed and handed it over to Tails, her finger pointing at the head line and article on the front page. "Won't be anytime soon, Twinkle Park's expanding their area with the new Carnival Beach zone remember? They bough up all the materials I need to get my place fixed to build that aqua park of theirs."

Staring at the article, Tails sighed and nit into his bun with aired expression. "Hey, at least they could work on fixing Rouge's club, then we could finally be out of this workshop." Thrumming a finger on his table, Tails looked up as Amy sighed a bit herself. "Now what?" The question rather dumb sounding to him, as he already knew what was on her mind. "Look, Sonic will be back sometime next week, he's just visiting some friends on South Island, that's all."

"I know." Amy muttered out as she grabbed her half eaten bun and began to stare at it while thinking. "I'm just wondering how I can get him to at least stick around long enough to hear what I have to say. And I even backed off a bit like Tikal advice me too, but he still treats me like a bio hazard that needs to be avoided."

Grabbing the news paper, Tails proceed to clock out the brooding Amy as she continue to rant on about how much she missed Sonic, despite the fact that he had only been gone for a day and a half, how she could get him to notice her, like she wasn't doing a good enough job to begin with, why else would he run away every time he saw her, it sure wasn't because she was quiet and hard to miss was it.

Turning the page around, Tails briefly wondered if he instead of using a normal chaos emerald to power his new plane, could use the fake one he had made to trick Eggman with, it didn't have the same amount of power flowing through it, so it was less likely to blow up the plane, overpower the engine or just mess up the systems like it had happened with first emerald powered plane, but it was also needed to power his other invention, the one he hadn't had a chance to try out yet.

Dropping out her Sonic centered dream world, Amy looked over to see Tails hiding behind the newspaper again, the only sign of him even doing anything came in the form of one bun after another getting picked up and eat. "Tails, Tails are you listing to me?"

Not really paying attention to his quest anymore, Tails did pick up the fact that his name had been spoken out loud by her and that he really should answer. "Yeah?"

Narrowing her eyes a bit, Amy leaned in over the table, a devious thought forming in her head as she tried not to giggle out loud. "So, are you really sure about that?"

Still not listing to her, Tails merely mumbled out a response that was less likely to cause her to lash out with her hammer in anger. "Uh huh."

Rising an eye brown, Amy leaned back in her chair and smirked a bit as watched the newspaper move a bit. "So, you're willing to go shopping with me after this mess is cleaned up?"

"Of course." Staring at a picture on the page he was reading, Tails went back over the last sentence from Amy as he got the feeling of having missed something vital, a look of horror forming on his face as it became clear what he had just agreed too. "Amy, no! Not again."

Smirking, Amy stared at him as she placed her plate on the kitchen table and began to wash it off. "Too late Tails, you agreed to it remember, it's not my fault you weren't paying attention." Giggling like a mad woman, Amy walked over to look for her purse, and other things she might need for her shopping trip, shooting one look over to see Tails rub a finger on his temple in a tired way. "Hey, if it makes you happy, we can visit the tool shop as well."

Giving her a less then overly happy smile, Tails stood up as well, dumping his plate in along with the other one in the sink. "At least it will make up for the all other shops you'll drag me through."

Amy, standing over by the main door pulled it open as she stuck her tongue out at Tails. "It just shows how little you know about shopping, you can't just buy the first thing you find and." Closing her mouth she stared at Tails as the fox boy had suddenly gone stiff and were looking at something behind her. "What?"

Turning her head, she blinked as a rather tall Eggpawn loomed in the door opening, two more behind it with others moving to cover the other exits from the workshop. "Not this again!" Slamming the door into its face as she yelled out the words, Amy wasted no time in pulling out her piko piko hammer and moving back from the door as the recovered Eggpawn began to pound on it. "Tails?"

The two tailed fox looked up as he lifted up a rather large gun like gizmo from his tool bench. "I'm fine, but why's all those Eggpawns here?" Switching the gun into active mode, Tails grinned to himself as it hummed a bit, the sound loud enough to make Amy look over at him. "A portable chaos gun, I based it off the E100 series weapon system and used the fake chaos emerald to give it enough power and still be safe to use."

Jumping back as the door broke down, Amy landed next to Tails and moved to face the door again "Save the tech talk for later, we got unwanted guests."

Lifting up his chaos gun, Tails nodded as twin crashing sound made it clear that the hanger had been broken into too, as well as the bedroom. "Here they come!" Letting lose with a volley of brightly glowing yellow shots, Tails cheered out loudly as the first Eggpawn was quite noisily blown away. "It worked, did you see it Amy? It worked!"

Knocking one Eggpawn away from her, Amy shot an annoyed glance over her shoulder. "Yeah, yeah. Now get the rest of them will you?" The last bit was spat out as she smashed one Eggpawn into the floor hard enough to dent it a bit. "These guys are a bit too much for my hammer."

"Aw, are they too tough for you pinky?" The rather insulting words were followed a slight chuckle that had no emotion behind them what so ever as a half broken Eggpawn was violently tossed out of the way by a smaller, brightly red colored robot with green irises for eyes. "Guess who's back."

Snapping around to face the robot as it spoke, Both Tails and Amy growled as they prepared to face the new treat, the remaining Eggpawns forming a circle around them as they closed in.

Only Tails really recognizing it from both the brief news clips that had been shown of its rampage through the ruins of Rouge's nightclub. But mostly from having heard both Sonic and Knuckles describe it once to him after their last crazy adventure. "Metal-Knuckles, just what are you doing here, Shadow said you were destroyed when the Final Egg collapsed."

Eyes moving to briefly stare at Tails, Metal-Knuckles shook his head a bit as he gave the best robotic impression of a superior smirk. "Eggman saw it fit to salvage my remains from the ruins and repair me fox." Lifting up the razor sharp dagger like hands, the robot began to slowly advance on them. "Now, I will be able to get revenge on that blasted hedgehog, both of them to be precise."

"That is enough Metal-Knuckles." Eggman voice boomed out as his Egg-O-Matic hovered down to the ground, the good doctor smile filled most of his face as he looked at the furries trapped between his robots. "Now, I believe it is surrender or die that I should be saying."

Seeing both Tails and Amy's eyes twitch a bit along with their weapons, Eggman quickly held a hand over a button on his controls. "Now, no sudden moves from either of you, or my forces will make short work of you both. You can't beat both me and my forces at once."

Staring around him, Tails gulped as he noted the freshly arrived Eggpawns backing up the evil madman's claim. "Amy?" As he spoke out her name, he felt her tense up. "Got any ideas?"

Also keeping a sharp eye on all the robots, Amy felt her hammer grow a bit heavier as it was more then clear that none of them could win against them all at once, least of all with both Metal-Knuckles and Eggman helping the robots fight. "No, you?"

Taking a deep breath as he ran over the mad mans words, knowing that there was only one way to get out of it, Tails lifted up his chaos gun and pressed the off switch, the humming sound fading away as he placed it on the ground before a large Eggpawn. "We surrender" His declaration followed by his hands getting raised above his head.

Behind him, Amy stifled a gasp as she heard the two words she had hoped he would say, a small hope that the two tailed fox would have had a plan to save them shattering, her hammer fading away as she raised her hands up into the air at the same time as Tails did.

Laughing darkly as he saw them give up, Eggman motioned for Metal-Knuckles to pick up the chaos gun; the thing would be going onto his workbench so he could study very closely later, but first. "Well, well Tails, Amy." Voice dripping with fake sympathy for them, Eggman moved a finger down to one of his weapon activators. "While I am accepting your surrender, I think I better use some knock out gas just to be sure."

"Why you." Amy yelled out as her hammer began to reform, but never getting a chance to form it fully before getting hit with a rather powerful sleeping gas. "Soniccccc."

Turning around as he tried to avoid breathing in the gas, Tails caught Amy before she could hit the ground, the weight of the pink hedgehog pulling him down with her. "Amy, you okayyyy?" Before blacking out completely, Tails mentally smacked himself, for trying to ask Amy if she was okay while surrounded by a cloud of sleeping gas.

Smirking as he watched both of them lying on the ground before him, Eggman motioned for his Eggpawns to pick them up, the next step of his operation ready to start. Even if his new weapon would be in need of time to learn the use of all his powers, he would still be able to strike out at Sonic.

Still laughing, Eggman moved his Egg-O-Matic towards the small transport he had used to bring the robots to the Mystic Ruin with, the large brightly colored Eggman logo clearly seen on its side. "Okay, return to the Eggtower at once, we have a world to take over."

Blinking her eyes a bit as she awoke to a rather powerful headache, Amy took in a deep breath of air, nearly choking on it as she noticed where she was, and then who it was standing nearby a set of master controls while clearly humming to himself as he continued to press a few buttons, anger took over and began flowing through her as her hand began to pound on the side of the transparent tube she had been placed inside off, a similar one placed next to her.

Staring at Amy as she pounded one hand on the side of the glass tube while yelling loudly, or looking like she did so from the hectic movements of her mouth, Eggman grinned as he moved his chair closer to the control panel. "Scream all you want little Amy, this great beauty of mine is soundproof, and with that new and improved super glass, it will be able to withstand even a direct hit from a battle tank."

Lowering his eyes as he relaxed his triumphant stance, he blinked as he saw her stare in confusion at him, he sighed as he remembered that the soundproof part of his machine was two way and she wouldn't be able to hear him, like he wasn't able to her complain or insult him, let alone scream as she was most likely to start doing in a minute.

Smirking at her as he regained his cool, Eggman walked over to the glass tube while she seemed to spitting out insults at him. Right before it, he stopped and reached out a finger that he tapped on the glass with. "See, soundproof." Smirking slightly as he moved back, it quickly turned into annoyance as she began to pound lose on the glass again. "Bah, I should have expected it, very well, waste your strength for all I care, it won't stop me."

Moving back to the machine's control panel, Eggman began to laugh as his fingers danced over the control buttons. "Now my dear Amy, you might feel a slight stinging sensation, but I assure you, it won't last long." Pressing a big fat yellow button as he finished talking, Eggman looked back at her. "Now, let the show begin."

Looking up, Amy gave a loud gulping sound inside the glass tube as light began to descend towards her, several wicked looking metal arms descended just behind it, four of them having equipped with restraining clamps, and the fifth one with a syringe, a bit of light gleaming off its needle point as it slowly descended.

Turning back to pound on the side of the glass tube, Amy screamed out for her hero as the light reached her and began to move down over her head, restraining clamps following right after it to secure her wrists and prevent her from moving.

But knowing that he wouldn't save her this time, he didn't even know she was trouble, or that Tails was for that matter.

TBC.

AN: Yes I'm writing a sequel to "A good Deed gone wrong", but this one won't have so many characters as the last one, only a small central core group will be featured. Now, how many of you can guess what Eggman is up to with his new machine?

On another note, I read Eggman's profile in the Sonic heroes manual the other day, it said that he's a romantic and a feminist and the greatest scientific genius around, but that Tails might be better then him one day, so don't be surprised if he acts a bit different then your used to every now and then.

And finally, review people, review, I lose interest in writing more chapters if no one wants to show me that they have even bothered to read it.