A New Life

Prologue

Amy hated watching Sonic and her other friends fight battles without her. If there was something she could do to help her true love she would do it. She would go to the ends of the earth for Sonic. Her hero.

Eggman had invented another giant battle suit and was currently trying to defeat his adversary, Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were fighting with it while Rouge and Shadow had entered the armor of the suit in an attempt to find the control panel and put an end to its days of destruction. Amy wanted to help too. With her only weapon, her piko piko hammer, she began attacking it.

Smash after smash she focused all her energy into the task at hand. However, her blows weren't causing any damage to the robot. From inside the suit they heard Eggman's uproarious laughter bellowing out.

Sonic was speeding up the arm and aimed for the head while Knuckles assaulted it from a lower position. Tails was in flight and was attempting to blast a hole in the torso of the armor with a weapon of his own creation. Rouge and Shadow had apparently not made any headway.

Suddenly, a metallic claw reached down and wrapped around Amy's waist. She cried out and began pounding away at the claw in an attempt to free herself. "Let me go!" she yelled.

"Oh Sonic. I've got your girlfriend hostage and if you don't want me to squeeze her into a fine pulp you better tell your buddies to get out of here. And I suggest you stop attacking me," the egg bellied man said.

"Hey guys! Stop attacking!" Sonic commanded. "Amy hang in there! You're gonna be ok!" Then he pulled out a walkie talkie and said to Rouge and Shadow, "You guys, I need you to abandon the mission. I repeat, abandon the mission."

Shortly after that, Shadow and Rouge exited. "You're a fool Sonic. You know that?" Eggman asked. Without warning the robotic suit began to lift off the ground due to the jet packs within the feet.

"Amy! No!" Sonic cried racing toward the now airborne craft. By that time it was too high off the ground for him to reach.

"Soniiiiiiic!" Amy screamed as it began flying away.

"Shoot!" Sonic yelled. "He's got her again."

"Well let's go after her," Tails said.

"You're right buddy. Let's go!"

Later, at Eggman's current lair, Amy awoke in a prison cell. Just as she had most of the other times she had been captured. Sonic would come after her just as usual. Even possibly risk his life to save hers. And there was nothing she could do to stop him. She had heard Eggman gloating through the corridors of his lair. He had reinvented Metal Sonic. This news could bring nothing good.

The twelve-year-old girl sat in the cell thinking about how she was always getting caught and then used as bait. As she thought she ran her fingers over the end of her red dress. She always wore the same thing everyday. Maybe it would be a good idea to start wearing other clothes.

Her thoughts quickly snapped from that random train of thought. There wasn't usually much she could do until Sonic came and released her. But what if she could escape before he got there? Then she couldn't be used as a hostage. And she could help him by fighting off Eggman. Not that that idea went over great the first time.

She stood up and walked to the edge of her confined cell and surveyed the room for keys. No keys. Then she thought about the movies and how locks could be picked using everyday items. She checked her hair and discovered a tiny hair clip she used to keep the under layer of her hair from poking outward. The only problem was she wasn't experienced with picking locks.

She took the lock in her hand and pushed the hair clip into it and began digging around listening for something to click. Five minutes passed and she was unsuccessful. Finally something clicked. The lock popped open and fell to the floor with a loud crash. Without further delay she ran out the door and into the corridor that stretched as far as she could see. This escape wouldn't be as easy as she thought.

After ten minutes of walking around aimlessly because she was lost, she heard a boom and then a crash. Using her hearing, she was lead to the back exit of the lair. Outside she could see Sonic and Shadow working together to fight off the blue hedgehog's look-a-like.

Rouge, Cream, and Tails saw Amy and ran to the door. Amy walked out and Tails asked, "How'd you escape? Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. Now we have to help Sonic!" Amy cried.

"I'm trying to override Metal Sonic's hard drive and I don't want Cream to get hurt," Tails said pointing to the little hand held device he was holing.

"Well then Rouge can help me."

"I would except I can't keep up with them," Rouge said pointing to the brawl.

"That's no excuse! We have to help Sonic! Fine! If you're not going to help me I'll do it myself." With that Amy ran off toward the fighting trio.

"No Amy don't!" Rouge yelled after her.

Amy had pulled out her hammer and leaped at Metal. She pounded away but nothing happened, except the fight came to a stand still. "Amy get out of the way!" Sonic demanded.

She refused to listen and continued hitting Metal. With a quick, unpredictable motion, Metal grabbed her and held her with her back to him. His arm snaked around her throat and his metal finger slightly pressed to her jugular vein. "Take one more step and the girl dies," the evil robot said in his robotic voice.

Shadow and Sonic exchanged worried glances. "Metal, just let her go," Sonic said calmly.

Amy didn't notice how close they were to a cliff until just now. Suddenly, Metal tossed Amy over the side of the cliff and leaped on Shadow whom was closest to him. Sonic jumped over the side after Amy. "Ammmmmyyyyyyy!" he yelled.

Amy was falling at an incredible speed until she hit some water. Hard. So hard she went unconscious. It was like hitting concrete because of the speeds she reached. And the fact that she had her arms and legs spread out didn't help the situation. It was an extreme belly flop.

When Amy woke up she was lying on a bed. Tails was in the corner of the room digging around in a backpack. He was sitting in a chair. "Where am I?" she asked.

""Whoa, you're awake. You don't seem to be in bad shape either," the fox observed pulling his head out of the backpack and walking over to the side of the bed.

"Where's Sonic?" she asked.

"He's in a room down the hall."

"Where am I then?"

"The hospital."

"What?! Is Sonic ok? What happened?"

"He couldn't swim so he nearly drowned. But Rouge pulled him out before he did. He's going to be ok though."

"Oh my gosh! I have to go see him!" She sat up all too quickly, and a jolt of pain went through her body forcing her to lie back down.

"You're going to have to rest your body a little. You hit that water hard. Not to mention the couple of rocks you hit while you were unconscious. That river was pretty strong."

Then she began to think. This was all her fault. If she hadn't tried to stop Metal Sonic and stayed out of their way like Sonic asked this whole situation would have been avoided. But now Sonic was hurt and in the hospital. All because of her.

"Wait, what happened to Metal Sonic?" she asked.

"Shadow finished him off."

"Oh."

She was only trying to help. Like she always did. But somehow she always became a hostage. Then Sonic's life was put into jeopardy when he would try to save her. How could she put an end to this? How could she stop putting her friends in danger? She could just quit fighting at all but that wouldn't work. Eggman would always find a way to get her and use her to lure Sonic right to him, even if she had nothing to do with the feud between the two enemies.

Why her? Why did he always seem to pick on her? Probably because she's an easy target. But why wouldn't he use some everyday civilian? Most likely because of the brother/sister relationship she had with Sonic. That only thrilled Eggman more. Though Sonic probably only thought of her as a bothersome brat of little sister.

There seemed to be only one other thing she could do to keep Sonic from getting into danger because of her. But she wouldn't like it. Not at all.