I'll Make It Up To You

Part 1

Conversing

"In order to save the universe, you must stop the Metarex."

These are the words that Amy kept in her mind. Ever since the alien girl known as Cosmo crashed on Mobius warning of this great threat, Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends have been traveling through space aboard Tails's humongous ship. She remembered when she was first introduced to Tails's newest aircraft.

"It's called the Blue Typhoon!" said Tails. "Probably my greatest ship yet!" Amy did have to admit, the spaceship was pretty amazing. But after already being on the Blue Typhoon for 4 months, the repeating schedule was becoming quite tedious.

Amy Rose the Hedgehog started everyday waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Or at least the clock said it was morning. She couldn't really tell out in space. After getting dressed in her favorite red dress matched with red boots and headband, she would meet with the others for breakfast.

All the conversations were the same. Tails would eat pancakes along with Cream and Cosmo (who would look in awe as Tails would impressively talk about the daily maintenance of the Blue Typhoon). Amy would eat scrambled eggs while conversing with Sonic as he ate some chilidogs.

But Knuckles was never there. He would always come in, grab some fruit salad, then leave. It always bugged her how antisocial he seemed to be, even though everyone would tell her that "he's just used to being alone" and "he'll socialize eventually." She always wanted to know what was going through his mind, what he pondered about all day long. The fact that their priorities didn't allow them to hang out all, Amy managing the ship's controls and Knuckles maintaining the fuel supplies and guarding the Master Emerald.

It was a quiet morning, and she once again spotted the echidna walking in to get breakfast. Much to Sonic's surprise, she excused herself and left the table. She approached Knuckles, determined not to let him shut her out. She smiled. "Morning Knuckles! How are you? Did you sleep well last night?"

He glanced at her for a few awkward moments. Amy worried that he would close her out and leave as everyone else assumed he would. "Fine." He said. He actually responded! Amy almost jumped for joy. "Didn't really sleep last night, though. Had to fix the Chaos Energy reactor and do some modifications to the generator." Amy's smile faded. "That's like the third time this week the fueling equipment has been breaking down! But you really don't have to stay up all night fixing it when one of us could help you." Suddenly an idea popped in her head.

"I'll help you!" Amy exclaimed. "You will?" Knuckles asked. The pink hedgehog nodded. "Yeah, sure! You seem to need some help, not to mention some company as well." The crimson echidna smiled something Amy did not see quite often. "Thanks Amy. Why don't you come to the fueling station later and we'll see if we can't fix everything up." He grabbed his breakfast and walked out the door as Amy smiled and waved back. "Okay! See you later, then."

She sat back down next to Sonic. As they continued to talk, she couldn't help but ask herself "Why on Mobius would someone as shut out as Knuckles suddenly open up like that and accept my offer! I mean, even if he was just trying to be polite, he's usually agitated and hot-tempered! And his smile…wow! I never expected it to be so welcoming and heartwarming! "Yo, Amy?" Said Sonic, which quickly brought Amy back to reality. "Are you okay?"

Amy quickly brushed it off. "Yeah, I'm fine." The rest of her day went as norm, controlling the ship's flight and monitoring for any Metarex. After a few boring hours the young hedgehog raced in excitement to meet up with Knuckles. As she stepped out of the elevator and entered the fueling station she was greeted by the red echidna himself. He had obviously been working all day since he was covered in rust, oil and dirt.

"Knuckles! I thought you would wait until I came to help!" Amy nagged. Knuckles grinned and shrugged. "Sorry Amy, had to be done!" She still wondered what made Knuckles open up all of a sudden. After a few more hours of gross mechanic work they sat down and conversed some more. Amy couldn't help but bring up the question.

"So what's up with you? You haven't been social or open since we've gotten on this ship, and now suddenly you are just a big ray of freakin' sunshine! What's going on?" Knuckles laughed and shrugged. "Just trying to be nice! You did offer to help and the least I can do is be polite. Any more questions?" Amy thought about it for a moment, then asked. "How come you are alone all the time?" Knuckles smile went to a blank expression as he stated, "I don't know."

Suddenly the alarms blared and the lights flashed red. Knuckles rushed to the intercom. "Knuckles, what's wrong!" Amy cried.

"Tails says the Metarex are attacking!"

After Knuckles told Amy to head to the control room, she sprinted as fast as she could.

Worried out of her mind.