This is just a little something forming from my anticipation for Sonic Boom. I figure something like this would probably happen given the circumstances. I kinda just went with the plot, but in my own way. Don't have too much detail about the story plot yet, so this is what happens!

All new and old Sonic Characters are (c) of Sega

Now

"Lyric, you've got the wrong guy! Will you get that in your scaly brain! I don't have your stupid crystal!" Sonic yelled in frustration as he'd tried multiple times to convince the reptilian villain that who he thought Sonic was was that of his imagination. The reptilian adversary, named Lyric, was persistent on confirming his suspicions. What those suspicions were, no one was aware of, but they all knew he was willing to hold anyone he could as hostage in attempt to get what he wanted. Even Amy.

"You shamelessly deny your past? And for what? For fear that your 'new friends' might abandon you? For something that you can't even grasp to fully understand? Stop this you fool! You will finish what you started and give me the crystal, or else..." Lyric glared at Sonic while aiming his claw gun at a cage that was on the left side of him, which contained a, not at all, frightened Amy. "...the girl will die."

Sonic's eyes widened at this threat, but he wouldn't let Lyric get the better of him. Although Amy was in a tough pickle right now, Sonic would most likely find a way to save her, as he always did. If he had any doubts that things weren't looking so hot, he would immediately dismiss them and look for anything that would make him think otherwise. Of course, that would be the outcome every time. Over the years, Sonic gained a knack for this 'nick of time' saving concept and lives were saved countless times within a day. He was the world's greatest hero. No doubt. But he wasn't alone. Oh no.

Along with Sonic would be his main pilot man and little brother, Miles "Tails" Prower, who was the brains of every operation. The brawn of the team and number one hot head was none other than Knuckles the Echidna. And finally, the heart of the team and female heroin was the pink, passionate Amy Rose. These four heroes were well-known amongst their people and were always hard at work bringing justice to civilians. Unfortunately, now was the time that both hero and civilian were in deep with injustice alone.

Earlier

Amy, as well as a couple of passerby townspeople, had been captured by Lyric in his own attempt to blackmail Sonic into surrendering the Shattered Crystals. Fortunately, not all of the passerby had been captured thanks to Tails and Knuckles who fought off some of the strange-looking robots who were obviously under Lyric's control. Amy had also been trying to protect the people, but in the midst of protecting them she was also caught in the line of fire. Lyric hurriedly caged the people and Amy inside the huge, dome-shaped room of the temple with his outstretched mechanical bars. It wasn't long until Sonic noticed civilians had been captured along with Amy, so he told Tails and Knuckles to get the remaining civilians back to the town and bring back-up. He'd handle this for now.

Amy, being the hot tempered girl she is, threatened Lyric to let them go or else she'd show him no mercy. Lyric laughed at this, found it rather amusing and instantly took a liking to her fearless attitude, which then he decided, harshly, to put her in her own cage for 'special' treatment later on.

So, yes. Amy had gotten herself into more trouble, but it wasn't anything she couldn't handle. She was a lot stronger and more dependable now. Sonic knew she could handle herself, but there were times when he'd worry that one day, her mouth would be her worst enemy. This was one of those days.

"Lyric..." he sighed "Even though I don't have the slightest idea as to who you are, and I don't, I'm smart enough to know that a guy such as yourself isn't gonna use hostages for something you're not even sure of. It's kinda stupid."

Lyric's eyes widened at Sonic's last words. He was insulted. "Rodent, even if the situation as it is now were not unfolding, don't think for a second that I wouldn't murder these people before you now. Perhaps..ah, the pink one was with you before, I assume you two have some kind of tie?"

Sonic's face didn't change. If he gave the slightest clue that he was right, who knows what'll happen to Amy.

Now

Even under the threat of a large robotic, reptilian monster, Amy was not phased.

"Heh, really? You're gonna shoot an innocent girl to get what you want? Sounds a bit old school if you ask me." She had her arms crossed over each other with one arm up as she leaned against the cage, twiddling her fingers. "I mean, you're kinda old as dirt anyways, so I guess that works for you." she chuckled to herself.

The hostages lightly chuckled under their breathes as well. But Lyric was not amused and neither was Sonic. He cursed under his breath at how ruthless Amy was being. Didn't she know what kind of danger she was in? This wasn't your typical everyday villain. No. This was your typical every thousand years villain! Surely, not one you'd take lightly, but Amy didn't seem to grasp that.

However, she knew what she was doing. Earlier, when she was separated from the hostages and put in her own cage, she'd seen a flaw in Lyric's caging mechanism. It had no locks and the bars were rusted from being inactive for so long. Her hammer could batter through it with no problem, but she wasn't sure it would work entirely. So, to be sure, she figured the only way to break out of his cage was for him to break it himself. And she knew exactly how to make it happen.

One look at Sonic's expression towards Amy, Lyric saw the frustration in his eyes."Judging by the look on your blue friend's face, I'd say you'd better think before you speak. He doesn't seem to trust your judgement and neither do I. So...I've conjured up two options. Since you refuse entirely to give me what I want...I'll make an offer you simply can't refuse. The blue one can obviously make an easy choice considering he's not too pleased with you." he said regarding Amy.

Amy looked at Sonic, who was indeed giving her quite a nasty glare, to which she rolled her eyes. She sighed and said "Sonic, I can take this guy. Look at him! He's so worn out, even Doc can take him!" she chuckled and Lyric, becoming quite annoyed with her teasing, banged her caged, sending vibrations through her body. She gave a light whimper but regained and balanced herself before she looked up to see if the cage had been damaged in the least. It had. Her plan would work. If she could just get him angry a little bit more...

Sonic tensed at the abuse and angrily gave Amy an evil stare. "Amy! Stop this! Are you trying to get you and the others killed? What's wrong with you?" he extended his hands out in plea, hoping Amy would cease her 'old' jokes. She ignored him and examined the cage some more to see how many more hits she'd need from Lyric to break the cage.

"Listen to your friend you ignorant rodent! If you only knew who's hands your fate was in, you wouldn't be so rash."

Amy and Sonic looked at Lyric, wondering what he meant. He continued

"You can either choose to save the hostages...or the girl. Choose wisely, blue one." he held up both cages horizontal to each other like a balance beam.

Sonic's face features scrunched up at the sight of this and he found it insulting that this was even an option. There was no choosing. Everyone is always saved in Sonic's book. No one gets left behind.

"Lyric, you're crazy if you actually think I'm gonna choose wh-"

"Take them, Sonic." Amy interrupted Sonic before he could tell Lyric off. He looked at her with a mixture of worry, confusion and surprise.

"Amy, stop it already. You know I can't do that. I'm taking all of you and that's final. Don't try to be a hero, Ames."

Amy took his last words as an insult assuming he felt she couldn't protect or fend for anyone else. She knew that wasn't true because he'd counted on her before. What made this any different. Maybe if he knew what she was planning, he wouldn't doubt her. She looked down and sighed before looking back at Sonic.

"Sonic...don't worry about me. You get these people safe and out of harm's way. I will be fine. I'm a tough girl, ya know." she said as she winked at Sonic before turning to Lyric while clasping her hands together. And idea was brewing. "How about we make the decision a little easier for him, Lyric? Shoot me and he'll have no choice but to take the remaining option. It's only logi-"

"Amy, are you crazy! Why would you give him that idea!?" Sonic shrieked, surprising everyone in the room except Lyric who was still amused by Amy's suggestion. Amy reassured Sonic that she knew what she was doing by winking at him a second time, but more dramatically. He raised a brow at her, but reluctantly decided to play along.

Where is she going with this? Gah, I guess I have no choice but to trust her. Still, she's risking a lot here.

"Well, the blue one now seems to be in a cooperating mood. Have any last words to your friend?" he said as he turned to Sonic while gesturing to Amy.

She gave an awkward smile to let him know that she was going to be okay and that he had nothing to worry about. Sonic looked at her still with worry covered all over his face, but he trusted her. Whatever she had planned had better work, for everyone's sake. He put on a fake smile and gave her a thumbs up.

"See ya on the flip side, Ames."

Amy smiled, gave a wink, and turned back to Lyric in a straightened position signifying she was ready.

He cocked his head at her determination. "You seem almost eager to die. And the blue one doesn't se-"

"It's Sonic." she corrected.

"...the blue one doesn't seem to care for your life as much as I thought he would. He must really carry a burning hate for you. Perhaps that is your motivation in being sacrificed for people you're hardly associated with. I almost find it hard to kill you. There's just no torture in it now. I'd rather you beg for your life. Not shamelessly give it."

Amy eyed Lyric like she was going to punch him in the throat. Sonic, however, was satisfied with Lyric's sudden change of heart...technically. He didn't want to have to watch Amy be killed right in front of him helplessly if her plan didn't work.

I know how to change his mind.

"Oh, yeah? That's your excuse. Ha! You're only sayin that cause you're probably too slow to even kill me off! Isn't that right, grandpaaaa..." Amy stepped back as Lyric began to charge his claw gun and aim at her. Her teasing really ticked him off and the thought of sparing her life was no longer present.

Sonic watched Amy's every move, checking to see if anything went wrong then he'd have to jump in. But, as soon as Lyric shot her cage, the light ball that extracted from his claw gun shot the bars off of her cage, allowing Amy to swiftly dodge the flying bars, jump up, revealing her hammer, and come flying down towards Lyric with a mighty, hard blow to his armor. The collision of the hammer sent him sliding across the floor to the other side of the room long enough for her to run to the hostages that had been released when he was hit, taking his caging bars with him.

"Sonic, now's the time. Let's go now!" Amy yelled to him while motioning the civilians to head towards the exit.

While they were escaping, Lyric chose this opportunity to strike back while they weren't aware. He charged towards Amy, who noticed him in the corner of her eye and quickly dodged his arm coming down on her. She back handspringed out of the way and pulled out her hammer to prepare for the next attack. Lyric followed her movements and used snake-like motions to counter-attack. When she couldn't predict where he'd slither next, he slithered behind her and smacked her across the floor with one swing of his mechanical claws.

"Ugh! Why you stupid, scaly- ack!" Amy was hoisted into the air after having recovered from the last blow. She landed on her right arm and winced in pain as she held it for it was probably broken. Sonic heard the commotion as he was helping the the last of civilians escape and turned to see Lyric hovering over Amy's body, ready to attack her once again.

"AMY!" Sonic ran while rolling into a spin dash for momentum, colliding into Lyric head-on, sending him flying back towards the other side of the room again. Sonic quickly ran to Amy's side.

"Amy, are you okay?" he said as he tried to help her up. She was surprisingly objective to his help. "Amy?"

She attempted to sit up on her own. "I'm...ugh, I'm fine, Sonic. I can handle myself." she slowly stood up, holding her arm and looked towards the exit. "Is everyone out?"

Sonic cocked an eyebrow."Yeah, they're good. But they're not the ones I'm worried about. Let's get outta here before he pulls another fast one." Amy nodded and ran along side Sonic towards the exit. He watched her from the corner of his eye, only to see her struggling to keep up. He slowed down so that they were running at the same pace.

Lyric finally gathered himself and realized they were getting away. He looked behind him to pull a lever that would close the exit door. It was a vertical sliding door, so they didn't have a lot of time to escape, but they could make it. Lyric saw this and aimed his claw gun in their direction.

"I'll show these rodents. You won't get away from me again." He fired. It was heading straight for Sonic. Amy, being a couple of feet away from Sonic, saw the blast coming towards him and acted out of panic.

"Sonic, look out!" As Sonic turned to see what Amy was shouting about, he was pushed out of the way. The death ball was inches away from hitting her completely, but it only grazed her back, still applying a 'generous' amount of pain. She gasped, falling to the ground on her stomach to keep from landing on her now injured arm and back while using her good arm for support. Sonic regained himself and looked to see Amy lying on her face, looking unconscious.

"...Oh no...no...Amy...Amy!" Sonic rushed awkwardly to her, lifting her up bridal style and running towards the exit. The door was almost closed.

"Sonic, you have to hurry!" Amy shouted from his arms.

Sonic looked down to see a very conscious Amy. He looked up to see that he did, indeed, need to hurry, but he couldn't make it through the small amount of space left under the door with Amy in his arms. There was no other way.

"Amy, I don't think we can m-"

"Not if I can help it!" Amy magically pulled her hammer out with her good arm and through it under the door to hold it long enough for them to go under it. Sonic took this opportunity to send himself and Amy sliding under the door. Amy grabbed her hammer as they slid past it, allowing the door to slam closed.

I didn't plan on making this more than one chapter, but it seems like it's gonna have to be a 2-chapter thing. The next chap will be up soon!

By the way, I know Lyric has claws, but let's just say he's got guns within those claws...let's just say...

I was never good with writing action...it's...so darn difficult -_-. So, sorry if the description seemed too loose for ya.

Comments are appreciated.