"I'd be nice if you could, you know, do something." I called out to the yellow and black patterned hedgehog, as I spin dashed a robot. What the hell was that guy doing. I glanced over and saw him looking out towards the water, holding his large mace in his right hand.

"I'm busy, just give me a moment man." He said holding his hand out as he kept looking out towards the ocean. I growled and rolled my eyes as I dodged a crab robot, as it tried to pierce my skin.

"Worst timing ever Zinex." I muttered as I spun into a ball and slammed into the crab, launching myself towards another set of them and quickly finishing them off.

Recently, big egg Robotnik's robots had begun attacking in small hordes along Emerald Beach. They would arrive from the ocean on small boats, ready for battle and attack, but they didn't seemed to be aimed at anything in particular. They just caused damage to the poor innocent people of the town who didn't know any better. I glanced over at Zinex and saw him finally doing something, but he was in way over his head. About 20 of the robots, all of differing sizes and models, surrounded him. He quickly spun his mace, smashing three, but that wasn't going to be enough. I quickly bolted over towards him and spin dashed into five, drawing their attention to both of us.

"Thanks." He muttered, swinging his hammer into the faces of five more robots, knocking their bodies onto the darkened sand of the barely morning day. Suddenly the robots stopped circling us and began to retreat back towards the ocean, in the boats they had come from, which Zinex definitely didn't like. "Where are you going! The party's just started! At least stay for the light show!"

"Oh no." I muttered, running back quickly, I knew exactly what was about to happen. He raised his left hand and a huge flash covered the beach, followed by a loud bang. The robots that had been trying to escape on the boat were doomed to death. A giant lightning bolt had slammed into the large boat, lighting the entire thing on fire, frying the circuits of every single one of the robots.

"Well you think that woke the town up?" Zinex asked looking out into the horizon with a satisfied smile on his face, though I could see that there was smoke coming from his left hand.

"To be honest, I think you woke everyone in the world up." I told him with a laugh and he gave me a sideways grin.

"Think we'll make the news this time?" He asked. We had never made the news for our efforts, as they were always early in the morning or late at night. No one was awake, no one was here to witness it. Just as I liked it to be.

"I certainly hope not..." I said actually concerned. He turned left and began walking quickly, headed towards the cabin that we both shared.

"Don't worry, that girl your hiding from wont find you." He said nonchalantly, baffling me for a full 5 seconds. I quickly regained my train of thought and ran up next to him.

"How did you know about that?" I asked, both astounded and embarrassed. I wasn't sure at all how he had known. I hadn't told anyone about Amy Rose.

"You talk in your sleep." He shrugged, not stopping his quick stride. He was quite an odd person. He wore an unnecessary amount of clothing. He wore a black shirt, black pants, black metal boots, and a long black trench coat to top it all off.

"No I don't." I said in a matter of fact tone. Zinex stopped immediately then looked at me, making me do a weird move to try not to fall over.

"Really?" He asked surprised, his face contorted in full thought, as if it were something he just couldn't understand. "You know I could have sworn that trick works every single time. I mean it does in all the movies."

"How did you know?" I repeated, and he shrugged his shoulders and kept walking.

"Plasmus did some investigating into you." Zinex told me, putting his mace into his holster slung across the back of his trench coat. "You always have to know your friends Sonic."

"You snooped in my life?" I asked irritated, but Zinex didn't even look at me or react. He just kept on walking towards the cabin.

"Look, there are a lot of people in this world. No matter if they preach good or evil, they hurt people...I had to make sure you were okay to be around." He said in such a simple voice, but it hit me deeper than it probably should have. I couldn't say anything else after that, as all my thought had turned towards Amy. Like, what was she doing these days? Was she still with Shadow? Did she look different? As we neared the cabin I couldn't help but get more and more curious as to how he had found information no one else could have. I hadn't told anyone but Tails, and he didn't seem like the kind of guy to-

"How did you know I loved her?" I asked impulsively and we both stopped walking; his lightning yellow eyes bore into me.

"Miles Prower has a running theory on why you left. It just so happens that he only told his diary this theory he had." He explained then looked over to the ocean once again. "Which of course our incognito blue friend went through. By the way I only have one more word to say: Proximity."

I immediately knew what this meant, someone was watching us. My entire body went on high alert as I did my best not to look around, that would only bring more attention to us. This was the kind of Mobian Zinex was, suspicious and planning. He had all these code words and phrases I had to learn, just so he would shut up about it, but this was the first time it had actually come in handy. I turned over to him, and looked him in the eyes.

"What time are we supposed to get there?" I asked methodically, remember what he had told me. I needed to remember the hands on a clock if I wanted to find where he thought the person was.

"About 9 o'clock. Old boy Plasma said he was throwing quite the banger. I think we should go get ready." He told me seriously. Whoever was watching us was to my left, back towards the city. He then turned around and quickly entered the cabin, and I was right on his tail. Zinex quickly shut the door an turned the lights on, scanning his eyes across the cabin.

The cabin wasn't very big, it was only one level with three room and a single bathroom with a shower. There were two main bedrooms and one kitchen/living room. Due to Zinex's secretive nature, there was only one window that was allowed to be open in his presence, and that was the window in my room, everything else was covered in three layers of curtins.

"Who was following us?" I asked but Zinex didn't answer, he just walked into the kitchen and put his hands on the counter, looking absolutely distressed. I walked around to the opposite side of the counter and looked at him. "Who were they Zinex?"

"G.U.N. agents." He said exasperated, then looked me in the eyes. He lightning yellow eyes full of distress."The press is here too, your little girl won't have any trouble finding you now."