The Burgershop was always open, no one could tell when someone would come in looking for food. An all night diner had better business than most thought it would. The place was empty except for two people, Joe, who had worked there at a good salary for years, and the store's only current customer, a pink anima hedgehog in a red dress, head band and boots on one of the turn seats. Stained white gloves with a brass bracelet on each wrist with a shine as dull as her eyes.
She wasn't really looking at anything in spite of the fact her eyes were open and looking straight in front of her. Staring into space, she didn't look too good. Her eyes were red and her cheeks stained, it was obvious she had been crying a short time ago. Her name was Amy Thorn Rose, and she had officially had the worst day of her life.
The contents of the empty drinks in front of her were building up in her system, but no amount of alcohol could dull this pain. She kept resting her head on the counter but sleep refused to come to her.
"You OK kid?" Said Joe at last. She looked like she had been to hell and back.
"I am not a kid!" Amy snarled putting both her hands on the table in a futile attempt to come to eye level with the burger guy. Joe took a step back.
"OK, OK, I'm sorry, it's just that you look like you - well, you don't look your best."
Amy then burst into laugher that quickly turned in short lived sobs.
"Best? Best? I've never given them anything but my best. And what's happened? Every project I've been on has been spat back in my face." Sonic CD, her premiere debut, considered a mediocre success, even though Metal Sonic got his show in the same game and the opening and closing music were hits among the fans.
Sonic R, R is for recycled, because that's what all the sounds are, (strange it was the only time anyone ever complained about since the same sounds were used in Sonic Adventure) R is for regurgitate because that's what the optimistic hop songs will make you do. She had appeared in that game too, she hadn't even been a track contestant, she had used her go cart, only Robotnic in his hover craft also didn't go on foot in that game. The music had been good! Or at least that's what Amy thought. And to top it off, since it wasn't officially a Sonic Team game, it wasn't being revived with the rest of the series.
Sonic Adventure, her big break, everyone knew her name after that, she ended up with only three stages, but she ended up having some important parts in that game. But next thing she knew, everyone was complaining that there were too MANY characters in the game, and that her stages were stupid, and they instantly linked them to her. She wasn't dumb; it was just the stages they gave her. She had to work with what she was given. Why couldn't people understand that? And now Sonic Team was saying that Sonic Adventure was no good, no good, just like all the other projects she had worked on with Sonic. Sonic . . . . She loved him. Why couldn't he love her back? Amy realized she was crying again.
She hoped with Sonic Shuffle that she might be her big break, but what happened? The game was a big flop. Amy wanted to jump off a cliff. She almost suspected that they made that game just so she could live out her contract so they wouldn't need to put her in the next game.
Sonic Adventure Two, Light Dark, Future Past, Ying Yang, Original Fake, Tenth Anniversary Special. Big got cut from the roster; Amy didn't think anyone was surprised. Big had to be the least popular character in the game. (she hoped she wasn't it) And fishing wasn't exactly in the style of Sonic the Hedgehog. He seemed happy enough to spend out his days fishing in the Mystic Ruins jungle. She thought a lot of people were sad that Gamma bit the dust at the end of Sonic Adventure One, he came back as a secret character in Sonic Shuffle, maybe they were living out his contract too.
Now Eggman was a playable character to replace Gamma, Amy though she was going to throw up. Eggman as a player character made her head spin. It wasn't right. And the Chao were coming back, but Tikal and Chaos were nowhere in sight. Talk about just dumping them after you use them. She wonder who would give hints in the next game? Or whether they wouldn't be any in-game hints. Or maybe Tikal would keep her old job but not have any part in the story line. The latest gossip suggested a robot Chao was going to be the hint giver this time around. And Chaos, she wondered how they would explain the Chao.
And Tails was coming to the game at least, but most rumors said either as Dark Sonic or as a non player character. No main role or player character part. That sucked.
This all came down to one thing, people were starting to think Sonic and Co. was getting too cute, and now the two biggest cute factors (her and Tails) were being removed.
"Dark Sonic, heh.", Amy chuckled dementedly(sp), she thought of all those writer who had ignored the positive negative forces of the emeralds in their fan fictions, and now it was the main plot piece of the second game. Amy couldn't help but laugh at it. So an evil Sonic was a player character too, Metalla must of been fuming by now. As for Silver, well, who knew what he thought if anything.
Now she was gone, Sonic's maybe, maybe not love interest. She guessed loved interfered with Sonic Team's idea of Sonic. Suddenly Amy shuddered. She remembered Sonic X-Stream was supposed being revived, and that there was new female hedgehog in it. One who had made Amy look liked a dead fish. Amy felt so small, so helpless, so worthless.
It wasn't a girl they didn't want, it was her they didn't want. She had heard Tails might of been getting a love interest in the form of a bat name Nails, sure it was just a rumor, but it pretty much killed any hope she had for a relationship with the fox kitesune. Amy came to the dim realization she just might be drunk.
Now here she was, blowing what few savings she had left drowning her sorrows. Maybe she should go back to her apartment and sleep a little. As if it would make anything feel better.
She dug into her pocket and took out her debit card and handed it to Joe who punched up her bill and handed it back to her.
She got up like a zombie, the alcohol and other junk food she had stuffed into herself still not having the desired effect but actually added to her pain. She walked out of the Burgershop not caring really which way she went, she walk by the Burger Statue without a glance and sat down on a park bench in an island in the middle of the asphalt sea in front of City Hall. Exhausted, hurt, depressed, and her body temperature lower than it should of been Amy fell into a fitful dreamless sleep.