Hi everyone! This time I tried a story that contained a bit more adventure.^^
I hope you like! Enjoy!
-GermanSonAmyfan

An unprepared travel
[Chapter 1]

A sad hedgehog was there, standing, looking at the little snakes of water that the rain was producing on her window. She appeared to be absent from the real world, maybe because she was worried. She sighed: "Where is he?"

She was wondering where Sonic, a blue hedgehog, was. 3 months had passed since someone had last seen him. He was nowhere to be found! The owner of his apartment even sent all of his stuff to Tails' house. The gang loosed hope of seeing him again and they were forced to sell his things because they were taking to much room. Everyone but one person had lost her belief: Amy Rose. She made researches every day; trying to find clues or evidences that could have helped to find the hedgehog she so dearly loved.

She stopped looking at the rain and activated herself on her computer once again. A moment later, a little yellowish fox made eruption into her room. He looked at her a bit with a disappointed expression before telling her:

"Get over it, Amy. Sonic is not gonna come back. You know as much as I am that he's dead."

The pink hedgehog didn't even bother to turn around. When the fox boy went closer he saw that she was lightly whimpering.

"No he's not, Tails! He's alive! I know it!" She shouted while letting her own watery snakes come down from her eyes making paths on her cheeks.

"It's ok, Amy. One day you'll realize. I lost my best friend and I still…"

The pink hedgehog didn't want to hear more.

"You're wrong Tails! You're wrong! You don't know what…"

She wanted to say more but she was cut off by a little sound that came from the computer:
[Di-ding! You have one new message].

"Oh what is it now?" She groaned.

Amy looked at the e-mail and noticed that it wasn't written in English.

"W-wait! It's about Sonic, look!"

There was an old picture of the blue hero. He was posing in front of the mountains with her on a bright sunny day.

"Do you know someone who could help? " Asked the pink hedgehog while wiping out her last tears.
"Maybe I could. A loud voice said."

The 2 animals turned their heads, meeting with a tall man.

"Tanaka?"

"Yes…hum, I'm sorry to have spied on you, but when I heard "Sonic", I couldn't resist."

"Don't worry. Anyway, we need help. Can you give us a hand?"

After a moment, the Japanese butler announced: "Sadly, I don't know what this language is, but I know someone who might!"

10 minutes later Chris' father entered the room.

"In need of some help, my friends?"

"Yes, we would like to know what language this is."

The father then leaned onto the computer screen. He seemed perplex for a moment, but finally announced: "It's in German. I wasn't able to read it all, but basically a German girl think she saw Sonic."

"Really?" exclaimed Amy.

"Yes, but you will need to go there alone and in Germany to get all the information. I think you'll be needing this."

Chris' father reached for his back pocket and withdrew a little watch like object and gave it to the pink hedgehog.

"What is it?"

"The translator 57! One of my most used tools! You can set a language and it will translate in English. Tanaka, please speak in Japanese."

The man spoke and seconds later, the gadget did its job. The screen turned out blue and sound emanated from it. A robotic like voice translated exactly what Tanaka had said.

"Amazing!" Said the pink hedgehog.

"You can even do the opposite by speaking in English and it will be re-say it in Japanese."

"Now let's set it to German and we can try to deduct what's written!" Tails said.

"Okay, here I go."

Chris' father started reading the content of the e-mail and the machine did her job: [Hello Amy Rose the hedgehog. My name is Gretel, I am from Germany. I think I have seen Sonic around here and I heard you were searching for him, so that is why I contacted you. Please answer this E-mail; I would love to help you find Sonic. Friendly yours, Gretel.]

The pink hedgehog stayed there for a moment, speechless for a moment. She began to cry lightly as she was heard whispering: "I'm coming for you, Sonic."

One week later, Amy was in Germany. She was patiently waiting for Gretel to show up at the airport. Amy putted her Watch like object and 5 minutes later a girl came to greet her.

"Good day, miss Rose!"

"Good day! You must be Gretel?" Amy asked.

The German girl was intrigued by the gadget and understood almost immediately how it worked.
"Yes, I'm Gretel. Pleased to meet you. Shall we go to my place to speak of some more urgent matters?" She asked.

"Yes, please. I'm a bit tired and a bit nervous about all this story."

"Yes, I understand. This must be really hard for you. Let's go then."

Arrived at the German girl's home, Gretel invited Amy to sit on the couch. She then went in her workroom and brought back her laptop.

"Here, I…"

Gretel looked up at the pink hedgehog and noticed that she had fell asleep. She smiled and putted a blanket over her and after that, she went to prepare dinner.

Amy opened her eyes, stretched out a little and looked to her left, where a small alarm clock was standing.

"What? 1:00 Pm? Oh yeah… I remember. I'm in Germany right now."

The pink hedgehog turned around, trying to find the German girl. She then called her name:

"Gretel?"

An answer was then heard from the kitchen:

"Oh!! You're awake?"

"Yeah, sorry I fell asleep. I was a bit tired"

"Oh, no problem at all. Please make yourself at home, okay?"

Amy got up and Gretel continued with her pleasant, yet reassuring voice: "I just made dinner, are you hungry?"

"Oh yes! Thank you, but what is it?"

"Wiener Schnitzel!"

"Spitzel what?"

The girls laughed a bit, making them a bit more confident with each other before Gretel said: "Taste and you shall see!"

Amy then took a bite of what seemed like lamb chops with some mustard sauce. Her eyes widened and she announced: "Hmmm! That's very yummy!"

"I'm glad you like it." Responded the German girl while making a big smile because of Amy's enthusiastic face.

During the meal the girls were having, they developed a nice friendship that made them much more comfortable to each other.

As the conversation flowed, Amy started a particular subject: "Gretel, I know we don't know each other very much, but… why are you so nice to me?"

The German girl stopped eating and said with a sad tone: "Amy, putting aside that I'm a fan of your team, I wanted to help. You see that situation happened to me before you came to our world. I loved a man named Hans. One day, we were supposed to go to our first date, at the movies. He never showed up. In the first moments, I was pretty angry, but one week later I learned that he was missing. He had been kidnapped and was nowhere to be seen."

Gretel paused a moment, letting tears come out and softly go down her cheeks, making trails of sadness in her face.

"Gretel…" Said Amy in despair.

"I deeply want you to find Sonic, Amy. I don't want you to feel like I felt… Poor Hans" She whispered.

Amy then got up and hugged her new friend.

"I'm sorry, Gretel."

"No, don't be sorry my friend! Let's find Sonic! Follow me!"

The 2 girls left the dinning table and went to Gretel's laptop.

"Amy, before we continue, I have to tell you something. I work as a G.U.N. agent. Part of my job as the main German radar operator is to watch any suspicious activity and keep some information secret. I didn't want the entire world to know that a possible Sonic location had been found."

"I understand."

"Good, thank your for your comprehension. I think that finally… we'll start the researches tomorrow morning as soon as possible. I believe we both need to be in perfect shape for this."

"Agreed."

With that the 2 girls finished their meals and talked a bit before going to sleep. The pink hedgehog thought of Sonic before she drifted off to sleep. She was worried that he might be hurt… or even worst…