Hi! you're probably wondering two things. First off if you did the smart thing and not read any of the cringe inducing things made prior to 2016, Who am I. to answer that, I am that really bad rash you got that one day that wouldn't go away and keeps poking atcha. ;)

Secondly Why am I writing a fanfic that doesn't belong to me...well to answer that, it DOES belong to me. At least now anyway. I adopted this from UltimateisUltimate I went ahead and fixed a couple grammar issues and whatnot.

Story wise if you don't know who Nicky is, imagine the cutest little introvert nerd you can imagine, then multiply that tenfold. Nicky is Sonic's Alter Ego from the 1992 manga that was exclusive to Japan. He was Sonic and Sonic was he...I'll show myself out for bad jokes...

Anywho part of this chapter takes place before Sonic CD but the rest of it takes place in the modern era.

(Normal P.O.V)

Nicky looked up at the night sky. There were so many stars, just how many were there? He had asked his mother many times, and she always had the same answer.

"No one knows how many stars there are, and that's the point. You're not supposed to know."

"What if I want to know? "Nicky would think. What do I do then?"

He had brought up the subject to his two best friends, Amy and Little John, who wasn't so little at all. "Well then, maybe we should count the stars," Amy had said.

Nicky and Little John look at her, taken aback at her suggestion. "There's no way we count them all!" Nicky had replied, "There's too many!"

"We never know unless we try, right?" Amy said.

"Right!" Little John answered.

"Nicky?"

Nicky looked at Amy, then at Little John. He didn't want to let them down, right? "Al-alright. I'll go." He agreed.

"Yay!" His friends exclaimed in unison.

And now we have the present day, on the hill in Amy's backyard, listening to the "oohs" and "ahhs" of Amy, and the heavy panting of Little John, who really needed to work out more, as Amy has said. There was a meteor shower that night. The sky looked beautiful. It took a while to realize that his friends were no longer counting the stars, as they had done just minutes before.

So Nicky kicked back and relaxed, thankful to get away from life for a while. There has been news that a new hero, a kid just a couple years older than he, was the savior of Earth. The worst part was, Nicky looked a lot like the kid, getting him picked on by Anton Brooke, the nastiest bully in his side of Station Square.

Amy was slowly turning into the kid's number one fan, hanging out with the other girls more and more, and less time with Nicky and Little John."So Nicky relaxed. He chatted with his friends and had a blast. They chased each other around, had scaring contests and threw pebbles at Old Man Dewy's window. When the old guy came out, they ran, with Nicky crying all the was the most fun Nicky ever had since his birthday party.

Little did he know...that this would be the last time he would be truly happy...for a long time...

Four Years Later...

(Nicky's P.O.V.)
"Help! Help!" I could hear a voice in the distance. It was female. Amy. "Sonic, save me!"

"Hohoho! Your boyfriend won't be able to save you now!" Another voice, male. "He's in my high-security prison!"
Only one voice could sound so cruel. Dr. Eggman. "Sorry mom, I gotta go!" I said to my mother, who was clothes shopping for me.
"Nicholas! Where do you think you're going!?" My mom called after me.

I didn't answer. I just kept running. True, I wasn't as fast as the blue blur himself, but I was pretty fast. In what felt forever, I finally made it to downtown Station Square, where Dr. Eggman usually terrorized the town. There was Amy, trapped in the arms of some giant metal monster. "Nicky!? Is that you?" Amy called out.

"None other Amy! I'm here to rescue you!"

"No Nicky! Run! Save yourself!" Amy grunted clearly remembering my cowardly childhood

"Sonic!? That disguise won't fool me! Just give it up!" Dr. Eggman said, clearly mistaking me for the hero.

It wasn't the first time, so I didn't take that offensively. Instead, I went along. "N-no can do Eggh-head! I-I'll just take Amy and be on my way." I cursed myself for having such a weak voice. If I was going to impersonate Sonic the Hedgehog, I had to sound like him too! I couldn't just look the part!

"If you want to save your little girlfriend, you'll have to fight my robot first!" He pointed to his giant robot-thing...I dunno what to call it.

I gulped. There's no way I can fight that thing! Oh Chaos, what have I gotten myself into? Then, suddenly, I had an idea. If Iyou can't beat-em, trick-em

"W-well, I would love to, but you gotta keep in mind who your hostage is." I have more than once, on TV, seen Amy pummble her enemies with her giant hammer.

"Oh, right. I forgot." Dr. Eggman set Amy down. "Now stop stalling!"

"Just a sec," I said, walking over to Amy, and grabbed her hand. "Run."

We ran, hoping that we'd be able to avoid the evil scientist's rage "Hey! Get back here you little rats!"

After what seemed like forever, we evaded the robot, coming across Emerald Coast, a place I'd only been once. The sun was setting too. Perfect! Now's your move, I thought. Go for it! "Amy..." I grabbed her hand again, even though I don't remember ever letting go.

"N-nicky..."

"Iloveyou," I said it so quickly, even I couldn't understand what I said.

"W-what?"

"I...love...you..."
She didn't respond, she kissed me instead.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

I awoke to my alarm clock. I was kissing my pillow...again... I released the pillow and shut off my alarm clock. I was about to go back to sleep in hope of salvaging my perfect dream, when my little sister came in."WAKE UP! WAKE UP! THE TOONS ARE ON!"

The toons, is what she called the Saturday cartoons. I usually watched them with her, but today I really wasn't in the mood. "Come on, come on! We're going to miss them!" She thankfully lowered her voice when she got closer to me.

She was a little brown hedgehog with windswept quills that were just starting to grow. When they get longer, she'll be able to do whatever she wants with them. She was only five, and looked so cute with her big, brown eyes and her footie pajamas that I couldn't say no to her. I sat up and reached around my bedside table for my glasses. When I reached them, I put them on. I couldn't see without them. "There, I got out of the bed."

"Brother! Get a shirt on!" Anita, my sister, looked away for no reason.

"What? I got socks on." I wiggled my socked feet at her, causing her to giggle.

She grabbed my hand and pulled me out of my room, down the stairs, and into the living room. Anita already had the "toons" on. There was an unfinished bowl of cereal on the floor, as well as a Sonic doll that I wish I could strangle. But didn't have the permission too.I plopped myself on the couch. I could barely focus on the TV. There was too much on my mind. Amy, my dream, Anton, and of course, the person that started my misery. Sonic the Hedgehog. He's the reason Anton started making fun of me, why my dad viewed me as a failure. And, of course, he took Amy away from me...MY Amy...

True, I was only 9 at the time, but Amy had meant a lot to me growing up. She still does, actually. She's one of my best friends! Or was, anyways, now I barely talked to her. Now that I'm old enough to know what a crush is, I realize those were the feelings I had felt for Amy. Ever since I went past the cootie stage, I couldn't stop thinking about her. Her eyes, her smile, her laugh, everything! At first I denied it, but now... Now I know...

I love her.

(Amy's P.O.V.)

When I woke up, I was... confused. Usually my dreams were filled with Sonic saving me, and me kissing him, and then we live happily ever after! But today... was different. I was kidnapped by Eggman, as usual, but I got a rather nice and strange surprise. Instead of Sonic, my old childhood friend, Nicky, saved me. That was really strange for him. While growing up, he cried at the water park, crying because he couldn't swim. Nicky was a lot of things, but he certainly wasn't brave.

But... in this dream... He saved me. He saved me. He impersonated my hero, Sonic, something he would never do, he hated disobeying. He tricked Eggman, and he got me out of there. The only way I could tell it was him was that he stumbled over his words!

He would never do those things! Never! But then again... People can change over four years. True, I had gotten to see him before... But that was almost two years ago... I pondered over this dream as got dressed, brushed my teeth and quills and made breakfast. It wasn't just the fact that he had shown bravery in that dream. He had told me he loved me. And how did I respond? I kissed him. I... kissed... him.

That was the part I woke up on. Why? Why did I kiss him? I always saw him as a friend... Right? My question was never answered, because I soon heard a knocking at my door. Oh that's right. I'm taking Cream shopping today. I put my cereal bowl in the sink and skipped over to the door. "Hey Cream!"

"Hi Miss Amy, are you ready to go shopping?"

"You bet I am, just let me get my purse." I ran into my room and grabbed my purse from my dresser. Shopping, that ought to take my mind off of Nicky, right? But halfway through the spree, my mind traveled to Nicky know what, screw it. I'm going to see Nicky again.