I'm baack! I'm gonna be uploading new chapter for my other stroy as well as this one! I know it's been a while but school's been cray-cray and well...that's my excuse! Hope y'all like it! By the I've been obsessed with Fairy Tail lately, the new manga has just been soooooo OMG! Maybe I should write a fanfiction for it...
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"So Sonic." Knuckles said as he sat down in their living room. The entire group was there; even Shadow. Usually they held meetings in the girl's room but with Tikal now living there the risk was too high. "What is this about?"
The azure hedgehog shot Knuckles a look of disbelief. "As if you don't know."
The red echidna shrugged his shoulders. "She's not ready."
"Have you seen her?" Amy asked shocked. "She read every single mind in that class easily!"
"Yeah, but she just got her powers and you think she can get on the field already?"
"Well if she can improve so much within a few weeks of receiving her powers!"
Knuckles glared at the stubborn hedgehog. "I'm not letting my sister get hurt."
Rouge intervened with a sigh. "If you would stop being so overprotective and look at her powers you would realize how useful she could be."
"I am not changing my mind Batgirl!"
The ivory bat's eye twitched at the overused nickname. In a flash she was in front of Knuckles clutching the collar of his shirt.
"What did you call me Knucklehead?" Rouge snarled angrily. The echidna smirked in reply.
"Bat-girl." he repeated slowly. Rouge shrieked in anger.
"Why you little-!"
"Shut up."
Everyone turned to the direction of the voice. Shadow was leaning against the side of the door glaring at all of them.
"I agree with Knuckles." he spoke curtly. Knuckles shot a smirk of triumph at an enraged Rouge. "She just received her powers and would be nothing but a burden."
"But Sha-"
Amy was cut off by another piercing glare from Shadow.
"Regardless of how capable of her powers now Rose", Shadow continued. "She doesn't have enough agility or defensive skills so any offensive powers would be useless."
Amy, finding no rebuttal against Shadow, sat down in defeat. Rouge seemed to be thinking it through as well as she made her way back to her seat. Sonic raised an eyebrow at the ivory bat.
"All in all it's a group decision." Rouge snarled stubbornly. "All in favor?"
Much to her dismay, only Cream's hand rose as the rest sighed.
"Fine, I can accept defeat." Rouge said good naturally. "But how do we cover if Tikal finds out we're gone?"
"Well we don't share a room with her." Blaze pointed out with a thoughtful look. "So it shouldn't be obvious as long as we're back before morning."
"But sometimes we get called in the middle of class remember?" Rouge responded. "It's only because of Vector and Vanilla we get to leave school."
Suddenly the wristbands they were wearing began flashing with a bright urgent red.
"We'll figure it out when it gets to it." Sonic said as he and the rest of the group stood up. "But for now let's go!"
"Don't tell me what to do." Knuckles growled under his breath as he followed them out the window.
Rouge joined Shadow as he left the room through a separate window. The door in the room creaked open. A tan echidna walked into the room with a confused look on her face. She turned to face the window with a determined look and followed after the retreating group.
The group had finally reached their destination; the large statue in the middle of Station Square. They each donned different outfits (regular action ones). A large war machine was raging disaster through the city. It had a huge circular body with a large metallic moustache complete with glasses and an evil smirk built on its face. Behind the glasses made of actual glass was a man that looked identical to the machine. He laughed maniacally as he scoped the scene for his nemesis. Once he found him him he took a microphone from the control panel.
"So Sonic!" The machine boomed as it directed it's body toward the anthromophomic animals. "You finally arrived!"
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall, Egghead!" Sonic yelled back with a large grin adorning his features. With him were Amy, Tails, and Knuckles. Sonic turned to them and gave them a brief nod.
"Bring it on!" Sonic taunted.
Eggman grew angry and launched a missile at the group with a smirk. Sonic turned back to the others.
"Now!"
As soon as the missile neared the group, Knuckles jumped into action and punched against the momentum of the missile. With a loud battle cry Knuckles used all of his strength to punch the missile into the direction of Eggman's robot. Amy took out her hammer and held it at an angle Sonic could jump against. Once he was standing on it, Amy took a large swing towards of the direction of the missile and launched Sonic towards it. Sonic landed on the missile with ease and steered it towards the glasses of the Eggman machine.
"I will not lose that easily Sonic!" Eggman yelled and tried to punch the hedgehog using the robot. Sonic growled in frustration and narrowly guided the rocket out of Eggman's reach. Eggman smirked and continued to guide his robot's fist...
to Knuckles?!
"KNUCKLES LOOK OUT!" Sonic yelled from the sky.
Knuckles was too far to hear Sonic and was distracted with looking for a Chaos Emerald he sensed nearby. He also didn't notice when a tan echidna ran in front of him.
But Amy did.
"TIKAL!" the pink hedgehog screamed in horror.
Tails turned and gave Amy a questionable look. Amy began running towards the two echidnas as Eggman's robot arm was coming dangerously close.
1 second.
It took 1 second for Knuckles to finally notice his sister.
It took 1 second for Tikal to realize she had no defense and to shield her face protectively.
And it took 1 second for Amy to jump in front of Tikal and take the full hit from Eggman's robot.
"AMY!"
"Tch." Shadow scoffed as him and Rouge scanned the area for any Chaos Emeralds. These two prefer to work alone due to the others being too 'charismatic' for them. "Must they always make a scene."
Rouge shrugged with a smile. "You know Sonic; making scenes is his thing."
Shadow shook his head in disbelief and turned towards the battle area. Rouge cocked her head in confusion. Even though she's known Shadow for years longer than the rest of the group, he was still the hardest to read. Maybe it was his troubled past that Rouge still hasn't found out; even with her high espionage skills.
"I can't sense any emeralds." Shadow said. "We might as well save their asses."
Rouge nodded with a smirk as the two began moving quickly
"Blaze." Silver said with wide eyes facing the purple cat. "Did you hear that?"
Blaze's horrified face confirmed his assumption. "Why would Amy's name be screamed like that?" The cat said barely above a whisper.
Silver turned to the direction of the voice in concern.
"Blaze we've got to-!"
He was stopped by an arm pulling on his elbow. He turned to face Blaze with a confused face.
"Blaze?"
"We must not let this interrupt our mission Silver." The cat spoke tightly. "We can't let our people down."
Silver stared at his friend in disbelief. Amy was their friend and Blaze was willing to let her be hurt or worse? Silver reluctantly nodded his head. Blaze turned and continued down the path. Silver sighed and faced the sky.
'Amy, wherever you are... Please be alright!'
"AMY!" Sonic screamed in anguish as Eggman's 300 ton robot's arm connected with Amy.
Amy was then seen flying out eye range with a piercing shriek of pain. Sonic growled with anger as he directed the rocket at the person responsible. As soon as the rocket neared Eggman's robot body, Sonic jumped off it as it connected with the target and exploded. Eggman shrieked in anger and presses the emergency exit button. The Eggman robot's head lifted off the body as it began disassemble and explode
"This isn't the end, Sonic!" Eggman exploded as he steered his pod towards the sunset.
Sonic landed on the ground with ease and walked towards the echidnas. Tails landed on the ground as well and tried to stop Sonic from walking over to them.
"Sonic don't do anything you'd regret." Tails said in desperation as he noticed Sonic's fur slowly turning to a navy blue. Sonic roughly shook his arm out of Tails' grasp and proceeded to Tikal and Knuckles. Tails stood defiantly in front of his friend.
"Go find Amy, Sonic."
With one last piercing glare, Sonic turned and began running at top speed towards the direction of where Amy was thrown.
"That won't be necessary."
Sonic skidded to a stop as everyone turned to the direction of the voice. An ebony hedgehog, companied by an ivory bat, walked towards them. Cradled in his arms was an unconscious Amy with several cuts and bruises cascading along her body. Shadow cocked an eyebrow at the group.
"It seems I was correct, Rouge." Rouge responded with an eye roll.
Tikal fidgeted uncomfortably from the twin very dark glares she was receiving from Sonic and Shadow.
"As I said earlier this girl was nothing but a burden." Shadow snarled as he slowly made his way to Tikal. "Not only did she risk her own life, but she also risked the lives of others."
"I-I." Tikal stammered. Rouge shook her head.
'Don't try to fight it, sweetie. It'll only make it worse.'
"You what?" Shadow growled. "What was the point of attempting to protect your brother if you had nothing to protect him with?"
"I have defensive spells!" Tikal cried defensively. "I thought they would work!"
"Did they?"
"N-no."
Shadow scoffed and glared at the clearly intimidated echidna.
"If there's one thing I can't stand." Shadow snarled angrily. "It is lives being voluntarily thrown away."
Tikal averted her glance in shame. Knuckles felt a sympathetic streak flow through him. 'I'm sorry, I can't save you from this.'
"Shadow you're wrong."
Everyone turned to the injured pink hedgehog who was struggling to sit up in Shadow's arms.
"Rose..." Shadow murmured in concern. Amy brushed off the comment and smiled weakly at Tikal.
"Although what she did was completely ridiculous and stupid." Amy mused with a soft raspy laugh. "Instead of berating her, you should be commending her for the amount if bravery she had."
The rest of the group smiled with a newfound respect. Even Sonic who can never hold a grudge. Shadow on the other hand...
"Tch whatever." he grumbled under his breath. Tikal was curious as to what he was thinking so she attempted to use her powers.
'Huh?' she thought in confusion. 'Why can't I read his mind? There's some kind of wall or force stopping me.'
Tikal furrowed her brows in concentration but was unable to penetrate Shadow's mind.
"Amy are you alright?" Tails asked worriedly. Amy responded with a smile.
"Don't worry I'll be ok in no time!"
Sonic moved over to her and Shadow and held out his arms. "Alright I'll bring her back while you guys look for the emeralds."
Shadow pulled away from Sonic with a frown.
"I have to heal her with the Chaos Emerald." Shadow said. "There's no emeralds around anyway."
Knuckles frowned at this but didn't speak a word.
"Thank you again Shadow." Amy said as a faint blush scattered across her cheeks.
He responded with a curt nod. With that said, the ebony hedgehog speeded away with incredible speed.
"You could've waited for me." Rouge grumbled under her breath as she followed the two hedgehogs. Knuckles elbowed Sonic teasingly.
"Maybe if you're lucky she'll get a crush on Shadow and leave you alone!"
Sonic frowned towards the direction the hedgehogs left.
"Maybe."
'I don't understand.' Sonic thought as he, Knuckles, Tikal and Tails began heading back to Emerald High. 'Why am I so bothered by the thought of Shadow and Amy together?'
Sonic shook his head to get rid of the confusing thoughts and began running at super speed towards their boarding school
Shadow gently layer the injured hedgehog on her bed in her room. Amy groaned in pain as she sat up on her bed rest.
"Where's the injury?" Shadow asked as he brought his green Chaos Emerald out. Amy pointed to her thighs and back. "Alright take off your shirt."
"W-what?" Amy shrieked, immediately getting the wrong idea. Shadow rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Just take it off then turn your back to me." Shadow grumbled impatiently. "I won't see anything."
Amy reluctantly pulled her jacket and tank top off (but forced Shadow to turn around while doing so) and turned her back to Shadow. Shadow's emerald began glowing a brilliant green as he placed both his hands on it. After a few minutes. he removed his now glowing hands from the emerald and moved them to Amy's back. Amy sighed in relief as all the internal and external pain began to disappear from her body. Once Shadow was done, he gave the emerald to Amy. Amy stared at him in confusion.
"You heal your thighs." Shadow said as he took a seat beside Amy. "I want to see the result of your training."
"Alright." Amy said in determination.
She mimicked the actions Shadow did with the Chaos Emerald then moved her hand to her thigh. Although it was much slower than Shadow, Amy wounds began to disappear from her leg.
"I did it!" Amy shrieked in excitement as she pulled Shadow into a tight embrace. Shadow's eyes bulged open as he attempted to breathe through Amy's bone-crushing hug.
"What are you guys doing?"
Of course,all of their team happened to be standing in the door with identical confused expressions.
Shadow sighed. 'I'm not going to even bother.'
"Well, well, well." Rouge said with a a fake smile. "Shadow is actually able to show affection!"
Shadow shot her a glare as Amy backed up from him with a light blush adorning her features.
"I thought you were healing her." Sonic said with an accusing face. Shadow gestured to Amy's now non-existent wounds. Sonic scoffed and left the room with Tails. Amy got up and hurried after him.
"Sonic what's wrong?" The cobalt hedgehog turned to her in surprise.
"Nothing, why?"
Amy looked down shyly as she held her arms together behind her back. "You looked angry."
Sonic turned his back and continued walking. "It's nothing, I'll see you later."
Amy watched Sonic and Tails leave. 'He's horrible at lying.' Amy thought with a scoff. 'Could it be he's...
Jealous?!'
Amy had a dumbstruck smiled etched on her face.
'So he does like me!' she thought with happiness. 'But what about...Shadow?'
Amy sighed to herself as she thought of the ebony hedgehog. 'I did feel butterflies with him that I usually only feel with Sonic.'Amy thought with a troubled expression.
'Do I like Shadow as well or-?'
"Amy." Amy turned quickly to face an annoyed ivory bat standing in the hallway. She strutted her way over to her and bent down to Amy's level.
"I thought we agreed Shadow was off-limits."
Amy shook her head confused. "You said Knuckles is off-limits!"
Rouge shushed her with a panicked face as she turned to check whether Knuckles heard her or not.
"I don't like Knuckles." Rouge said with a tight look. "I'm starting to think he's asexual."
Amy stood up defiantly in front of Rouge.
"I think you do still like Knuckles but you only just want to be the first girl Shadow likes."
"I don't want Shadow!" Rouge yelled with a frown. "I just want to know why the first one he has feelings for is YOU?"
"We don't even know if he has feelings for me Rouge." Amy said in an hushed voice. The bat rolled her eyes.
"He treats you much differently than everyone else 'Rose'" Rouge said in an angry voice. "He always helps you do your best while he belittles everyone else."
Amy stubbornly stood her ground. "Well that's not my fault."
"You're impossible Amy."
With that said, Rouge angrily left the apartment with a second glance.
"Urgh!" Amy screamed in frustration as she stomped after her friend. Knuckles stepped into the living room with a puzzled expression.
"Should I tell Shadow?" Knuckles pondered. He smiled maniacally at the thought of impending doom on Shadow.
"Nah!"
With that said, Knuckles left while laughing crazily
Tikal stood awkwardly at the entrance of the door as Shadow continued to heal his own wounds.
"Um...Shadow is it?"
Shadow gave her no sign of acknowledgement as he finished the rest of his wounds. Tikal cleared her throat nervously.
"I just wanted to apologize for what happened earlier." She stammered quietly. "I didn't mean for Amy to get hurt."
Shadow tilted his head and glared at her. "Am I the person you should be apologizing to?"
"N-no." Tikal murmured.
The reason she was apologizing to Shadow was because she didn't wanted to be hated by him. It seemed he would whether she liked it or not.
"Don't worry, it takes time for Shadow to open up to new people."
Amy's words floated in her head. 'I will get him to open up to me!'Tikal thought with determination.
Tikal turned to open the door. All of a sudden her eyes fluttered shut as she dropped in the ebony haze of unconsciousness. Shadow stood behind Tikal's crumpled body as he pressed a few buttons on his wristwatch. 10 faces showed up on it.
"Did the mission go okay?" Wave asked with a smirk. "Or did you guys screw it up?"
"Well other than Amy getting the shit beaten out if her it was ok." Rouge said with a sultry smile. Amy rolled her eyes with a sigh.
"I can't believe we missed it!" Jet scowled. "Just because we had to do homework!"
"Would you like to fail?" Wave asked angrily.
"Why did you call us up Shadow?" Tails asked curiously.
"I just knocked out Tikal."
"You WHAT?!" Knuckles shouted from his intercom.
"I'm putting in her bed." Shadow continued, ignoring Knuckles' reaction. "When she wakes up she will most likely believe this was a dream."
"Oh I see!" Amy said with a smile. "So she won't give away our secret."
"Or hurt you again." Shadow said as he picked up Tikal with his left arm.
"So is this because of Amy?" Rouge accused from her section. Knuckles snickered.
"Did I miss something?" Cream asked concerned. Amy rolled her eyes.
"Trust me it's nothing."
"I only told you this Rouge." Shadow said as he laid Tikal on her bed. "So none of you mess it up."
"Got it!" All of them said in unison.
"By the way Faker it's your turn to teach Amy."
Sonic looked surprised. "Really?"
"She needs to learn Chaos Blast."
"Come by tomorrow, Amy."
With that, Shadow shut off his wristband and glanced at the unconscious Echidna. 'She has potential but she still has much to learn.' Shadow thought as he opened the window to her bedroom. 'Now to find Eggman.'
With that thought, the ebony hedgehog jumped into the darkness of the night.
Rouge is such an idiot -.- Shadow considers her to be one of his closest friends and now she's getting jealous over this. Yes this story is KnuxRouge but it's gonna be gradual. Rouge has sorta a crush on Shadow who's of course oblivious to any romantic notions. And Amy? I'm debating over Shadamy or Sonamy tbh, let me know in a review who should get the lucky hedgehog! And if I should make Shadow get with Tikal who he currently dislikes right now! For those who think this story is about Tikal; it's about ALL the characters not just her so don't worry! And yes, Amy has just recently acquired Chaos Emerald powers so Sonic and Shadow take turns teaching her how to use one. C'mon all hedgehogs have to have Chaos powers not just the guys! R & R please!