Dust, sweat, and blood inhabited my senses. Every other moment, a new cut or bruise would appear on my tiring body, and I would constantly taste the salt and dirt as they mixed together in small pieces of brown muck on my chapped lips. This fight seemed to be going on forever and there was no sign of stopping. Maybe it was just the feeling of exhaustion that made time itself appear to drag on slower. I wasn`t paying too much attention on this, however, for my concentration was on defeating these blasted pieces of metal that Eggman constantly kept on sending.
I skid across the ground as another robot sent me flying with a punch. I stood up quickly and curled into a ball, spinning rapidly. It charged toward me, but I threw myself forward and sliced right through the robot`s middle. I landed behind it and heard its remains clatter onto the ground, defeated. One of its companions spun its metallic head and targeted at me. I knew what was coming, and I jumped in the air, managing to avoid the rain of bullets that followed the whirring of the robot`s gun. I repeated the same spindash on this one. I came down hard on it and cut through it, just like the robot before.
As soon as I hit the rocky floor, I went into a fighting stance, and to my surprise, there were no more robots coming. I looked around, trying to locate any that could still be around and wandering. There were none. Instead, there were the broken corpses of the robots, scattered around in heaps and a great amount of dust that had been unsettled by the fight. I could hear distant sounds of guns and the thunderous sound of missiles as they hit their targets from afar. Despite the absence of the robots, I waited a few seconds to see if there would be a sudden attack. When nothing came, I relaxed a bit. I took this opportunity to catch my breath, but my break was short, for I heard a shriek coming from behind me. Instantly, I sped toward the location I heard the scream come from. I stopped right in front of a large robot that had a squirming pink girl in its claws.
It was her.
I felt my protective side flare up immediately, and I attacked it with a spindash, cutting right through its arm. I heard Amy scream as she fell, but I caught her right before she hit the ground. I sped behind a wall to hide from the robot, since we were vulnerable to it, considering how both of my arms were occupied. I stayed standing and looked at Amy up and down, trailing my eyes on her body to see if there were any serious injuries. Other than a few cuts and scratches, she was okay. I breathed a sigh of relief and placed her down gently. "Sonic?" I heard the worry in Amy`s voice and looked at her. Her eyes were wide and her gaze darted all over me. She was probably noticing my hurt state after the previous battle I had fought. I smiled at her.
"I`m okay, Ames," I reassured her. She nodded softly in return, but the worry in her jade eyes didn`t go away. Suddenly, the robot that Amy had been fighting before appeared in back of her. I growled, and she whipped her head around, gasping slightly. It`s cold, red stare fixated on Amy, and I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I was not going to let that thing hurt her. It raised the claw it had left towards Amy, and right when I was about to attack it, she snapped her fingers, her hammer popping into her hand. Amy pounded it viciously, denting its metallic arm severely. I smiled. That`s my Ames. As she continued harming the robot from the front, I decided to finish it from the back. I sped behind it and crouched down on the floor. I shouted at Amy to move out of the way, and she did as she was told. I spun and lurched forward, slicing through the robot. When I reached the other side, I repeated the same movements and cut through another part of it. At one point, I jumped far from it and waited until-
BOOM
There we go. I coughed as I accidently inhaled some dirt, and I waved my hand in front of my face, trying to clear the cloud of dust that formed due to the small explosion. Amy ran toward where I was, her hammer in hand. "Sonic, duck!" Even though I was surprised and confused, I did what she told me. She swung her hammer, and I heard a loud 'SMACK' as it made contact with something. I turned my head and saw a small robot go flying backwards. I stood up and looked at Amy, smiling. "Thanks, Ames," I told her, winking. She giggled and I felt my stomach do a flip. Amy suddenly gasped softly, and her eyes widened a bit as she looked behind me. I looked towards the direction her gaze was at and saw dozens of robots heading towards us. I growled. Not again...
I turned back to Amy. She clutched her hammer tightly and gave me a determined gaze. She nodded at me, and I knew that she was not planning on leaving me to fight alone. I nodded back and got ready to face the robots. Several of them attacked me at once, and they reached their claws at my arms and legs. I punched right through one, ripping my glove in the process, and I kicked another one in its middle. I jumped up and spindashed across another robot, bounced off the ground, and crushed another as I came down. I could hear Amy grunting slightly behind me as she fought off another group, but judging by the crunching of the metal, I could tell she was doing fine. I crouched down, spinning, and shot through a line of robots that were coming towards me. I successfully cut through them and saw as their pieces fell sideways, clattering against each other and the ground. I could see even more robots coming, and those were a little bit bigger than the last. Something whizzed past me, and I realized that they were armed too. Amy ran past me. She turned her head briefly only to say," Come on, Sonic! What are you waiting for?" I laughed at her excitement, but ran alongside her.
As soon as we reached the new batch of robots, we began destroying them. Amy`s hammer crushed the robots` head, and she swung it in front of her, blocking off incoming bullets. I was quite impressed. Who knew her hammer was bullet proof? I jumped and kicked off my robot`s head. I bounced off of it as it fell, using the momentum to come down on the others, punching and cutting off their heads each time I came in contact with their metal skin. I was done with mine quite quickly (duh, fastest thing alive here) and helped Amy finish off hers. By the time we were done, we were both exhausted. We panted heavily as we stood in the heaps of the fallen robots. Neither of us said anything for some time, and I used that to clear my head. Something was off. Eggman usually never gave up so fast. I looked around to see if there were anymore army of robots, but there were none. Was the evil genius planning something? I was still tense and didn`t let myself relax. We waited a few minutes, but when nothing came, I finally spoke up.
"Alright, Amy I think we should-" I stopped. What was that strange noise? It sounded like a faint beeping, and it was increasing steadily by the second. Amy looked just as confused, and she was looking around frantically, trying to locate the source of the sound. Her gazed stopped behind me, and her gaze went wide. "Sonic! Watch out!" I was just about to turn when I felt myself being shoved aside, and I landed on my back, skidding across the ground.
BOOM!
A huge explosion deafened me, and I could feel an immense amount of heat burning at my sore body. I started coughing like a madman, as the smoke filled my nose and mouth. I opened my eyes, trying to see, but all that did was sting my eyes. I quickly shut my eyes together to prevent that from happening again. Everything was muted out, and the only thing I heard was a ringing in my ears, echoing over and over. I kept coughing. What the heck happened? I wonder what Amy had- Then it hit me.
Where`s Amy?
I tried shouting her name, but I choked on the thick air as soon as I opened my mouth. I felt panic fill my heart. I had to find her. "Amy..." I managed to say, my voice rough and hoarse thanks to the smoke. I opened my eyes slowly, trying to ignore the pain as much as possible. I squinted trying to make something out of the black I was seeing. I tried sitting up, but felt immense pain shoot through my body. I kept coughing. I could feel my senses dulling because of all the smoke I was consuming, but I tried ignoring that. I just had to find Amy. Then, slowly, my vision began clearing, and I could make out a form, laying across the ground with a thick pool of blood slowly growing around it.
It was Amy.