The Struggle

Chapter 2

Authors note: Sonic the hedgehog is owned by Sega.

"Sittin on the toilet, sittin on the toilet, sittin on the toilet…"

There's silence.

"Say it Shadow!" Rouge shouts from the other side of the door.

Shadow flushes the toilet.

"You're suppose to say it and do it!" Rouge sighs.

Shadow walks out of the bathroom with a pissed of look on his face, directed at Rouge.

"How was your bowel movement?"

No response. Shadow just looks at her.

"Not too well I'm guessing."

Shadow bumps past her to leave.

"Hey watch- … Oh my god!" Rouge suddenly starts laughing out of control.

Shadow turns around curious, but see's nothing funny.

"What?!" Shadow asks upset because he doesn't know what's funny.

Rouge is laughing so hard she looks like she's having a seizure, standing up.

Omega comes up behind Shadow and tells him why he thinks Rouge is laughing…

Shadows POV

Shadow is walking around Green Hill Zone trying to figure out what to do.

'Should I go to Sonic for help? A doctor? Wait it out?'

He's wearing pants because there was so much, "activity", going on near his rear end that it started to chafe and now the fur is gone. Omega had to tell him because Rouge was laughing so hard she couldn't breathe. And when she did caught her breath she decided to insult him instead of telling him what was funny.

"It's like there's white sprinkles all over your chocolate frosting." Then, "You're so cheeky!" After that, "Your skin would be just as tan as mine. If you didn't have a rash."

"I agree," Omega had said.

Shadow just gritted his teeth. The last time he had insulted Rouge she had threated not to help him anymore. But that didn't stop him from stealing Omegas batteries.

"AAAAAooow," pain ejects Shadow out of his flashback. He sinks to his knees and holds his stomach, and his backside.

"rrrrrrrr," Shadow breaths heavily and lays on the ground.

"Hey! Are you alright!" a feminine voice says.

Shadow opens his eyes and moves his hand away from his backside. A pink hedgehog in a red dress is standing at the edge of her property. She has a pretty big front lawn with a pink rose garden and pink grass, in front of a pink house.

"Come over here and let me look at you. I'm a nurse so it's okay."

Shadow thinks about this for a moment. There's no one else around. He tries to get up but it hurts too much.

'Oh God I'm ganna need a bathroom soon.' He thinks about telling the pink hedgehog that she should come to him because he's in too much pain, but he doesn't want to seem weak.

"I can't come to you. If you want my help you'll have to come to me," she says.

"Why," Shadow asks in a small, pained voice, looking at the pink hedgehog.

"Because of this," she shows him her ankle. There's a device wrapped around it. An ankle monitor. "It's an ankle monitor."

"Oh really," Shadow says still in pain, "I thought it was a pretty ankle bracelet."

The hedgehog's face changes color to match her red dress. "Fine smart alick I won't help you!" She starts to walk away.

"Wait," Shadow says still on the ground. "I'm…i'm…"

'Damn this is hard,' he thinks.

"I didn't meant to say… to say that to you." He looks around to make sure no one is watching him try to apologize.

The now pink hedgehog turns around. "You mean you're sorry?"

'I cant say that word,' he thinks.

"Yeah," he says instead, hoping that's enough to satisfy her.

"So say it."

'Damn.' He thinks defeated.

Shadow looks around again and says, "Sorry" so fast the pink hedgehog almost doesn't hear it.

"Grab this," the pink hedgehog is back at the edge of her property and now she is holding out a hammer with a long red handle for him to grab. Shadow does and the girl pulls him onto the lawn, picks him up and carries him into her house in one quick, fluid motion. It's so fast Shadow doesn't even remember being moved.

"Damn. You got me in here quick." The girl closes the door with her foot. "You could be a professional kidnapper."

"I am," the pink hedgehog girl says, dead serious.

Shadow sweat drops.

"So what's wrong? Stomach ache? Food poisoning? What?" She asks laying him on the couch.

"Yeah. Stomach ache." Shadow lies. "Can I use your bathroom?"

"Can you get there on your own?"

Shadow tries to get up, but the pain forces him back down. The pink hedgehog picks him up and walks him into her bathroom, which, like the rest of her house, is chocking on pink paint.

"Here you go," she says.

Shadow sees a picture on the bathroom wall of a blue hedgehog. Sonic.

"Why do you have a picture of Sonic in your bathroom?" He says to the pink hedgehog. He suddenly remembers who this girl is. "You're Amy Rose right? That explains a lot."

"What's that suppose to mean?" The hedgehog yells throwing him towards the toilet. Shadow nearly falls into it, he grabs the sink just in time, but his back and head hit the tank of the toilet.

Amy is red with anger again, so Shadow answers the question.

He clears his throat and interlocks his fingers. "Amy," he says in a very professional and calm manner ,"my earlier statement was just an observation of this particular room in your house. It's strange to have a photograph of someone in this particular room, and not in another location of the house, yes?"

Amy's so thrown off by the question that she stops being angry. "Just shut up and use the bathroom," she says slamming the door behind her.

Shadow tries to get up so he can pull down his pants, but his stomach and backside still hurt when he moves. So he leans on the back of the toilet and pushes his hips up so he can pull his pants down.

Shadow doesn't know what Amy will think of him when she hears him pushing and grunting and struggling.

"Hey!" Shadow loudly calls Amy back.

Footsteps are heard on the other side of the door, "What?"

"Why do you have an ankle monitor?"

"You couldn't wait until you were out of the bathroom to ask me that?"

"I might be here for a while."

Amy giggles, "do you have aggressive diarrhea or something?"

"No," 'Just the opposite,' Shadow wants to say.

"Well," Amy starts, "Sonic was suppose to meet me on a date, but he -"

"What does this have to do with the ankle monitor?" Shadow interrupts.

"I'm getting to that," Amy snaps, "and I thought you were ganna be here a while."

Shadow shuts up and listens.

"Anyway," Amy says sliding down to the floor with her back to the bathroom door. "I was upset because Sonic stood me up so I searched for him, and when I found him I brought him to my house so we could have our date –"

"You mean you kidnapped him," Shadow corrected.

Amy bangs on the door hard enough to scare Shadow nearly off the toilet seat. But yet again the sink saves him.

"Any way…" Amy continues to describe her "date" which Shadow is sure was torture to the blue hedgehog. That thought alone makes the otherwise boring story worth listening to. Shadow smiles the whole time.

"…So Sonic filed a restraining order and said I 'kidnapped him'," Amy exaggerates the word "kidnapped", "And I was suppose to stay 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters away from him, but I just couldn't. So I was suppose to go to jail, but I had a good lawyer so instead im just on house arrest."

"I could use a lawyer that good. How long are you on house arrest?"

"2 more months."

"And you won't be off your property at all?" Shadow wanted to make sure Amy would have no one to tell about his current 'condition'.

"No. But I can still make calls and tweet and stuff."

'Damn.'

"And you're here now to keep me company."

"Ooorrr," Shadow says, " I could get Sonic to come here and when you two go back to court again no one can say you initiated the meeting because he came to you."

"Really?!" Amy squeaks excitedly, waving her hands.

"Of course. But you'll have to do something for me."

"Anything," Amy says dreamily, already thinking of what she'll do when Sonic gets here.

"Tell no one what happens here."

Shadow attempted, really, really tried to go poop in Amy's bathroom. But nothing at all came out. Amy practically ignored him because she was too busy thinking about Sonic and what a "good" time they would have together. So Shadow could grunt and scream in pain without worrying about embarrassing himself, too much.

"You'll bring back Sonic right," Amy asked for the 1000th time, while Shadow limped out of her house. His butt and legs were numb, and the emerald had moved closer to the "exit" but now that it was there it was excruciatingly painful. The space it was in was in seemed way too small for this emerald that seemed to just get bigger and bigger.

"Yeah…," Shadow said exhausted and in pain.