This story might contain somewhat childish acts, please forgive me for that… but I hope that you will be able to enjoy the story anyway.

Shocking End of Event

Amy ran for her life.

Why is Shadow doing this? The thoughts were racing through her mind. He killed Manic and Sonia! How could he?! Why would he? Why is he after me? I don't understand any of this!

As she ran, she heard an explosion behind her, and she imagined how Shadow blew the hedgehog siblings' house to pieces. That dick.

Amy peeked over her shoulder as she ran, but she shouldn't have done that, because she didn't see that she was running into a dead end by a huge, super steep cliff, not until it was too late. She cursed herself mentally for messing up. Now what?

She turned around and met Shadow's gaze. He had stopped, maybe ten meters away from her, and he was glaring at her with sort of empty eyes, and at the same time they shot the fiercest and craziest look she had ever seen from him.

She swallowed hard, as if in an attempt to melt her fear and tried to find her courage. "What do you want, Shadow?" she asked loudly, mostly to assure herself that she hadn't swallowed her voice too.

Her pursuer didn't react. He started walking towards her, his red eyes zany. "Amy Rose," he said determinedly, not as loud and crazy-like as before, but much more like his usual tone. "Come."

"Why would I?" Amy said and glared at him. "I don't have any business with you!"

"Unfortunately for you, that does not matter to me," Shadow retorted darkly, and his cold eyes scared Amy. She backed up until she pressed her back so hard against the cliff that it hurt.

Dammit, where is Sonic when you need him? She thought angrily. "What are you doing?"

She was about to pull out her hammer, but before she got the chance to even lift a finger, Shadow bolted up to her in astonishing speed, and he swiftly grabbed her arm and easily held her captive.

No! "What do you think you're doing?! Let go of me!" Amy shouted, wriggled and struggled to free herself. Shadow simply twisted her arm a little, making Amy scream in pain and fall to her knees. "Owww! Stop!"

But Shadow didn't stop, and he lifted her up on his shoulder, holding her in a firm grip, and all Amy could do now was to stare at the hedgehog's back while he carried her away.

"Ow! No! Let go, Shadow! Help! Sonic! Tails! ANYONE!" Amy screamed and desperately tried to free herself, but with wasted efforts.

For minutes that felt like hours, Amy tried to kick, punch, wriggle, pretty much anything to make Shadow let her go, but when she realized that it was futile, she gave up, and simply hung on her kidnapper like an exhausted worm.

Then, after God knows how long, Shadow suddenly grabbed her waist – making Amy wince and whimper irritably and embarrassedly – and spun her around so that he could change his grip to holding her under his right arm, while he covered her mouth with his left hand. Amy was confused and wondered why he did this, until she heard voices.

Amy's eyes widened. Voices! Her eyes desperately searched the area for those voices… and then she saw them: Tails, Cream, Vanilla and even Knuckles. Her friends. They were at Cream and her mother's house, sitting on the cozy sofa on the porch, drinking tea and laughing and chatting. Laughing and chatting without knowing that their pink friend was held captive by a hedgehog they thought they knew, maybe just fifty meters away, hidden by the trees of yet another grove, hidden from their view.

Amy's heart ached; she was furious and upset, she wanted to scream, wave her arms, shout at them, call for help, anything! But she couldn't. Shadow held her tightly under his arm, and he showed no intention of letting her go, or removing his hand so that she would be able to scream.

And so they walked on and passed the house, and soon the friendly voices faded away, and all that Amy could do was to glare at the hedgehog's feet and listen to his steps.

Suddenly Shadow stopped. Amy immediately lifted her head to find a white truck standing on the road, with the symbol of a black and red spin-dashing hedgehog on the sides. Shadow's symbol. Shadow's symbol?

Amy blinked in confusion. Really? This was Shadow's truck? Shadow had a truck?!

"When did you get a truck?!" Amy blurted out as soon as Shadow removed his hand, and he gave her a weird glare.

"That is unrelated," he said, and then he walked towards the car.

Unrelated to what? Amy thought. Wait, what's he doing? Is he going to…?

Unfortunately, Amy's suspicion was accurate, because Shadow opened the back of the truck and threw her inside on a hard metal floor. Amy hurriedly got up and leaped towards the exit, but Shadow shut the doors, which resulted in Amy jamming herself against them instead of getting out. She pressed her face against the small windowpane and glared at Shadow. "Let me out immediately! Or else Sonic will get you!" she demanded angrily, but Shadow ignored her and went to the driver's seat, despite Amy's protests. Soon she heard the motor grumble, and with panic in her mind she threw herself against the doors and slammed her fists against them, screaming and shouting. "Let me out! Let me out of here, Shadow! Immediately! Shadow…!"

When she realized it was futile, she sank to her floor and leaned her forehead against the doors, sighing dejectedly. "Why is this happening…?" she mumbled quietly to herself. "I don't understand…"

Her left ear suddenly flickered: She heard something! Amy lifted her head, pressed her ear against the doors and listened anxiously.

There it was! Except for the loud noise the motor made, Amy could still make out that other noise which made her ears flicker and her heart jump in excitement. It was the sound of rapidly running steps! Amy felt hear heart beat faster in her chest; there was only one person she knew who could move his legs that fast…

"Sonic!" Amy exclaimed happily, she rose and pressed her face against the windowpane once again, to see the face that she loved most of all faces in the world. And it was him, for real: The blue hero was running behind the truck, keeping its pace with ease.

"You've come to save me!" Amy exclaimed happily. "You… you…" she trailed off. Something about him made her frown suspiciously, and her eyes widened in shock when Sonic suddenly roared: "PANCAAKES!" at the truck.

"Pancakes?!" Amy exclaimed. "Oh, no! Not you too…!" she added and almost stumbled backwards in disappointment. She clenched her fists against the glass and felt the confusion mix with irritation in her stomach. "What are you talking about, Sonic?! It doesn't make any sense at all, I don't understand!" she shouted furiously. "What is up with 'pancakes'?! What is up with the two of you?!"

At the same time, Shadow glanced at the driving mirror and noticed that they were followed. He frowned irritably. "Sonic, that nuisance," he muttered. "I won't let him get in my way." He pushed a couple of buttons and pulled a lever before he stepped on the gas, and three rocket motors shot out of the rear, and the next second the truck blasted away in a flash, too quickly for even Sonic to be able to catch up.

Amy didn't even get the chance to gasp in confusion before Sonic was out of view, and eventually the truck slowed down to normal speed again. Amy sighed deeply when she realized that Sonic wasn't going to catch up, and even if he did, she had the strange feeling that it wouldn't make any difference. So all she did was to sink to the metal floor and lean against the truck doors, all alone with nothing but questions.

Why had Shadow kidnapped her? What was he going to do? Why the hell did Sonic roar: "pancakes"? Just what had happened to the two hedgehogs?

Amy was curled up, thinking hard while she chewed on her thumbnail; and that's when Shadow stepped on the brake and the truck stopped dead with a screeching sound from the wheels. Amy almost crashed through the opposite wall and into the driver's seat.

The pink hedgehog rose instantly and pressed her face against the windowpane. Where was she? At least far away from the road, she thought.

She could hear Shadow open and close his door, and she listened eagerly as his steps moved closer to the truck's rear. As soon as he opened the doors to the boot, Amy opened her mouth to say something, but Shadow grabbed her in a firm grip, and once again she was his prisoner as he pulled her out of the truck.

"Oh, will you please just let – me – go…!" she trailed off at the sight of the landscape. What the heck…? They were out in the middle of nowhere; they stood on a hard rocky ground, surrounded by cliffs with no trees or growing whatsoever. And on top of that, it's chilly, Amy added to herself as she shivered and squeezed her arms.

Shadow seemed to be impatient to get moving, because he pulled her along towards one of the cliffs.

"Shadow, what are you going to…?" Amy began. That's when she noticed the altar. What the… The altar was in front of one of the cliffs, very old, and frankly it looked like it was just some poorly readjusted ruins. What was most odd though, was the fact that a radio was placed on a tall chair in the middle of the altar. On the left side of it, there was an old wooden chest. Amy cocked a suspicious eyebrow at it; maybe there were weapons and knives in there? For a horrible moment, she almost thought that Shadow was going to sacrifice her to some holy spirit or something, but he couldn't possibly be that crazy, could he?

"Up." Shadow's voice broke the silence. When Amy didn't move, he forcefully pushed her up on the altar.

"Ouch! Don't touch me, you imbecile! Don't you know how to treat a lady?" she hissed at him.

Shadow ignored her. He gave her a sharp look before he actually let go of her and walked up to the chest.

Amy's heart took a leap: This was her chance! She could escape now! But, she thought, and her eyebrows sank into a depressed frown, Shadow could easily catch me. And then who knows what he will do with me?

So she didn't move. And she hated herself for not doing so.

After a while, when Shadow had jerked the chest open, picked out something black and something white, and then closed the chest again, he turned around and walked back to Amy. And then, to Amy's utter surprise, he dressed himself in a tuxedo.

Amy blinked several times to process this. What… the…?

She cast a suspicious glance at the white stuff the dark hedgehog was holding, and then it all made sense. Or not. But she realized that it was a wedding dress, and she regretted horribly that she hadn't run away when she had the chance. Amy opened her mouth to protest, but before she got the chance to do anything at all, Shadow had already stripped her off and thrown her clothes in a messy pile on the side.

Amy was rather flaming red than pink right now. She had never ever in her entire life expected Shadow the Hedgehog to do something like this. And she was so taken by surprise that she didn't move, nor scream in embarrassment or even talk at all.

This is crazy. There's no way he is going to… there's no way he would… is he going to…? Amy was so shocked and disturbed right now, she was barely able to think clearly.

Shadow forced her into the wedding dress incredibly quick, and it was not until he stuffed her feet in a pair of white high-heels that Amy regained her talking ability. "Shadow, you're insane! You're insane and perverted and awful! Something's happened to you, this is madness, you're mad!" she squealed and tried to back off, but Shadow caught her arm.

He pulled her along to the middle of the altar, in front of the chair and the chest. Amy's brain was on the verge of a mental breakdown and she failed to order her legs to run away. Her brain failed to realize what was happening right now, it was just too absurd.

Shadow suddenly clicked the "PLAY" button on the radio, and after a few seconds of humming and screeching noises, a mechanic male voice spoke from the loudspeakers: "We are gathered here today, on this lonely and cold—" Shadow skipped that part of the tape, "—Do you, Shadow the Hedgehog," his name sounded very false and mechanic, like if someone had been mixing with the voice at that moment, "take Amy Rose to be your wife?"

And when the radio voice said that, Amy's brain finally processed what this was all about, and her chin almost fell to the hard ground. She blinked and stared at the black hedgehog for what felt like eternities while she repeated the last words in her head before she finally came to the absurd conclusion, which probably just made this day the weirdest one in her life: Shadow was going to marry her!

Like Amy would've said: "What the fuck?!"

AN: This story is not meant to be a ShadAmy romance story (if that's what you thought. Love ya, have a nice day! 3) And this story might still make no sense to you... but that's why we have incoming chapters :D

Please feel free to point out mistakes (including grammar, anything you want) and if you'd like me to change anything!