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3: A New Alliance
"Uhhh no no no!" Doctor Eggman growled in frustration as he scribbled out his latest notes. The pencil lead snapped under the pressure of his tense hand, stabbing a hole through the centre of his hypothesis. Eggman quickly scooped up the paper and scrunched it into a tight ball before throwing it towards his overflowing trash can where it bounced back onto the floor.
"Boss, you've been working none stop for days. Maybe you should take a break?" Orbot dared to interrupt his master while he was stressed.
Eggman slammed his fists down on his metal desk in frustration. "I have no time for tea breaks, I need to get this project up and running soon. I've been working on this for months and I still haven't got anywhere with it!"
The mad scientist knew that this would finally be the plan that would beat Sonic the Hedgehog once and for all. It was taking months of careful research, filming and recording the blue pest in battles and taking notes of everything that Eggman could see him doing. No matter what, Sonic was always able to defeat him; not even his most dangerous weapon, Metal Sonic, could get the job done. That hedgehog clearly possessed a lot of power that not even Sonic himself seemed aware of his potential. Sonic had even defeated Gods for crying out loud. Sonic didn't even seem to utilise his full potential as Super or Hyper Sonic either. He always seemed to be holding back to prolong the fight for fun. However, there was one thing that had caught Eggman's attention…
"This plan of yours is clearly incredibly risky though, even by your standards." Orbot said as he hovered closer to Eggman. "This could dangerously backfire."
"Don't you think I'm aware of the risks?" Eggman snapped. "This project is definitely worth it, I just need to find a way to activate it. I've tried everything! I've thrown every robot I've got at that blue speed demon and still with poor results. I'm clearly doing something wrong."
Eggman wandered over to his large chalkboard, placing his hands behind his back as he looked deep in thought at the diagrams of the chaos emeralds. He didn't have time to juggle looking for the chaos emeralds and spying on Sonic at the same time.
"Clearly I'm going about this all wrong." Eggman admitted. "There is some crucial piece of information that's missing."
"And what's that?" Orbot asked.
"His personal life. I know what Sonic's like in battle, but I have no idea what that hedgehog gets up to when I'm not around to interrupt. That could be the missing link in my project that I need to defeat him as an enemy."
Orbot cocked his head in confusion. "So you're going to become friends with him?"
Eggman laughed evilly before shaking his head. "Don't be ridiculous. Sonic would never let his guard down when I'm around. I need to get him when he's acting his most natural, when he's not on guard. I need someone who he can trust to be able to spy on him, only I have no idea how I'm going to manage to do that."
There was a sudden knock on the thick metal door that interrupted Eggman's brainstorming. The door slowly opened and Cubot peeped his head around, looking slightly nervous.
"Hey boss, you'll never believe this, but someone is here to see you." Cubot said in an unsure tone.
Eggman sighed before walking over to sit back down on his desk chair.
"Well send them in and it better not be those pushy charity people again; my trap door still needs fixing."
Cubot pushed the door fully open to reveal a small, familiar pink hedgehog stood next to the yellow robot. Eggman gasped before pulling a laser gun out of his desk drawer and aimed it at the girl. Amy didn't react as she stood there with her fists clenched tightly at her sides and a fierce expression on her face.
"Relax, I'm not here to attack you." Amy announced, but Eggman didn't lower his weapon.
"Then what do you want?" He asked. What could Sonic's crazy girlfriend possibly be doing here if she wasn't going to attack him? "Where's that idiotic boyfriend of yours."
Amy flinched slightly at Eggman's comment, but managed to remain focused. It was all depending on her now.
"He's not here."
Eggman finally lowered the weapon slightly. "Well I don't think he'll be too happy about you being here, especially after the fuss you made at our last battle." He chuckled.
"Yeah well I don't care about that blue idiot anymore." Amy snapped.
Bursting out into a fit of laughter, Eggman placed the weapon down onto the desk and adjusted his blue glasses slightly. "Finally, something we agree on."
Amy waited for his laughing fit to die down.
"But seriously though Miss Rose. You still haven't answered my question; what are you doing here? Has Sonic finally told you how much of a waste of space you are?"
"In a sense, yes."
"Really?" That one had caught Eggman off guard. He never got the impression that Sonic actually hated the girl.
"So I'm here to join you."
Ok, this day was turning out a lot weirder than Eggman had expected it to. Amy was the last person that Eggman expected to join him. That girl worshipped the ground Sonic walked on and teaming up with his arch nemesis would most definitely not score her points with the speed demon.
Amy's heart thudded in her chest as she processed Eggman's lack of reaction. Was this plan not going to work? What would she do if he turned her away? Her heart sped up even more as Eggman leaned forward, resting his elbows on his desk and intertwining his fingers.
"I'm listening."
The pink hedgehog held in a sigh of relief before speaking. "I've had it with those lot. Obviously Sonic thinks I'm a worthless waste of space and after the way he's treated me, I want revenge. You're the only person who can see him for who he really is. An arrogant pest who hogs all the glory. You are much more worthy of my services."
Eggman smiled as she flattered his ego. "How do I know this isn't some sort of scheme?"
"I'll prove my loyalty in any way possible." She answered quickly, walking forward to stand in front of Eggman's desk, her passionately angry green eyes burned into Eggman's. "Sonic has lead me on for years, only coming to me when he needs something only to drop me the next second. I've had enough. He's really hurt me. I want to see that boy suffer the way I have; I want revenge."
Her fingers were pressed tightly against the desk as she spoke with clenched teeth. Her ears were flattened with rage and her quills rose slightly before she took a deep breath through her nose to calm down.
Eggman, Orbot and Cubot watched with fascination at the once cheerful and bubbly girl before them. Eggman raised an eyebrow at her. It looked like Sonic had played with her emotions for the last time. Twisting the poor girl into a revenge driven maniac. Eggman narrowed his eyes as he stared at her face, still debating on whether she was lying or not. She was panting slightly and her eyes remained hard as steel, the strength of her grip on his desk left small imprints in the hard metal.
This girl could obviously be useful in some way.
That's it!
It was so brilliant that Eggman nearly fell out of his chair at the thought. The love of Sonic's life working for him. The thought of using her against his arch enemy would be the most wonderful form of justice that Eggman could ask for. He'd asked for help with his project and now he had gotten it. Amy was perfect for this! His plan was finally coming together. Project darkness was back on and ready to go. One of the largest hurdles had now been crossed and now Eggman just needed to use this new weapon in front of him to access all the unlimited information on Sonic he could. The possibilities were now endless.
"Then by all means Pinkie, you can join me in my cause."
Amy smiled wickedly. This was it. Sonic was finally going to respect her. She couldn't wait to see his reaction once she finally revealed what she had done.
Amy grinned at the thought as Eggman pulled out a large file from his desk and began flicking through it, being careful to not let Amy see inside. He looked through a few of his notes carefully before looking up and smiling innocently at Amy.
"Actually, you've come at just the right time my new little minion."
Amy reached into the pocket of her red dress before pulling her fingers back out again and placing a hand on her hip.
"Oh really?"
Eggman nodded as he placed the file away again. Clearly that was not meant for Amy's eyes.
"Because I've been developing a plan that, shall we say, Sonic will have no choice to bow down to in the end." He let out a light chuckle. "A little project I have been working on for a while. However, I need to create the appropriate conditions in order for this project to become a success. So far I've had no such luck, but now with you on side, I have the advantage again."
Amy nodded as she listened carefully with great interest.
"For this to work I've decided that my first best bet is collecting the all the chaos emeralds. In my absence I need you to do some little tasks for me."
"What is this project?" Amy asked slightly timidly as her eyes flickered from the draw that contained mysterious file and back to Eggman. Eggman just smiled and patted her head in a patronising manner.
"All in good time my dear."
Amy decided not to push her luck for now. If this plan of his forced Sonic to notice her and prove that she wasn't a mere nuisance then she was all for it and didn't particularly care right now. Her first task was to join Eggman, nothing more.
"If you want to take part in my project then I'll need you to spy on that blue pest and report back. If they come across a chaos emerald then sabotage their attempts to get it. I want to know everything about that hedgehog. Every tiny piece of information, no matter how trivial, I need to know. When I ask you to do something, you do it without question. Only then can my plan finally work. Can you do that?"
Amy smirked evilly. "I can."
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"Amy!" Sonic gasped out as he woke up from his very uneasy sleep.
The sun had now risen over the horizon ready for the new day. It was another clear, warm spring's day and the flickies in the trees had begun singing. Completely juxtaposing the horrible dream that Sonic had just experience. It was fading from his memory and all he could remember now was that he was too late to save his friends from Eggman's clutches.
Sonic shook his head at the thought. He would never let that happen in a million years.
A whistling sound suddenly caught his attention. His ear twitched at the sound before he looked down from the tree he had crashed in and saw Amy walking up to her house, whistling to herself. This was his chance. He easily leaped down from the tree and dashed towards the front of her house, halting in front of her door and making Amy freeze in place once she saw him.
"Amy can we talk?" Sonic pleaded giving her his best puppy dog eyes.
Amy just sneered at him. "I have nothing to say to you." She knew what her job was but if she made this easy for him it might look a bit suspicious. Besides, she supposed it would be fun to watch him squirm under her angry glare.
"Well I have some things I would like to say to you." Sonic replied before Amy pushed him out of the way of her door and pulled her keys out. The lock clicked as she twisted them in the door and pushed it open to step inside. She was about to slam the door before Sonic's strong hand prevented her from doing so.
"Let go Sonic." Amy ordered as she tried to push the door shut. Sonic wouldn't relent.
"Oh no, you are going to hear what I have to say whether you like it or not."
Amy suddenly yanked the door open without warning, causing Sonic to stumble forward like an idiot before face planting the wooden floor of Amy's sitting room.
"This just proves it." Amy sighed, ignoring the pained groans of Sonic, still lying by her feet.
"Proves what?" Sonic's face was muffled by the floor before he looked up at her. She was looking down sadly, avoiding all eye contact with him. The sight squeezed at his heart and he quickly leapt to his feet. He reached out a hand to comfort her but the words she spoke next halted him in his tracks.
"That you only care about yourself. You're apologising so you'll feel better, to get rid of the guilt, rather than to make me feel better."
Sonic's eyes dropped to the floor and he rubbed the side of his arm awkwardly.
"That's not true." He mumbled. "I really didn't mean the things I said. I don't think that you're a nuisance. I just got caught in the heat of the moment and I know that's no excuse. I guess my pride was just hurt from Eggman getting the last laugh again and I took it out on you. I'm so sorry."
Amy looked up at him in shock of how sincere he sounded, but quickly dropped her gaze again before he could see.
"I forgive you." She whispered and Sonic looked up to beam at her.
He soon realised that Amy hadn't crushed him against her in her death hugs which was unusual. He was grateful for it though and took a hesitant step towards her and held out his fist in front of him.
"So are we cool?"
Amy giggled slightly before meeting his fist with hers.
"We're cool."
"Alright!" Sonic yelled happily, performing a miniature air guitar solo. "We should eat cake to celebrate our mended friendship. I'm starving!"
Amy rolled her eyes as she followed the blue blur into her kitchen. Sonic raided her cupboards until he found what he was hunting for.
"Cake for breakfast?" Amy asked in disbelief with an eyebrow slightly raised.
"Why not?" Sonic laughed as he got a knife out of the oak wood drawer and cut himself a huge piece. "Besides, your baking is the best."
"It's nice to know I'm useful for something." Amy muttered as she walked to stand next to him as he tried to judge what size to cut her piece.
"How big do you want your piece?" He asked. "Or are you on one of those weird girly diets?"
Amy huffed in irritation as she snatched the knife off him and cut herself a massive piece. Sonic's eyes widened slightly as she placed the piece on a floral patterned china plate.
"What? After the night I've had, I deserve a treat."
Sonic laughed as they made their way into Amy's cosy sitting room and sat down as far apart as they could on couch opposite the TV and stoned fireplace. Sonic propped his feet up on the coffee table before Amy frowned and kicked his feet off, causing Sonic to laugh again.
"You need to relax a little more."
"And you need to respect other people's property." Amy retaliated as she swallowed a huge bite nervously before suddenly losing her appetite. Sonic wolfed his down in seconds while Amy just pushed her leftovers around with her folk, feeling her eyes droop slightly as the sleepless night caught up with her.
"Listen, Amy," Sonic began, sounding anxious, "I still feel bad about what I did so maybe we could do something together? As friends?" He quickly added before she got the wrong idea. Taking her out to do something would be the least he could do after everything he had said to her. His stomach did summersaults at the thought of being alone with her and he put it down to the fear that she might interpret his actions and start telling people that it was a date.
"Yeah, that's fine." Amy replied sleepily, not really registering what her blue companion had said properly.
Sonic, surprised at the lazy tone of voice, turned around to see Amy slumping against the arm of the sofa. Her eyes drifted closed.
"Amy?" Sonic said. "Are you asleep?"
No reply. Amy's soft snores began to fill the room and Sonic smiled down at her. He reached down and took her plate off her and placed it on the polished, pristine coffee table before turning back around to stare down at her.
"You really are hopeless." He muttered and before he could stop himself, he brushed a stray quills off her face. Electric shocks travelled up his arm, but it wasn't unpleasant; it was warm and comforting.
Shaking his head at the weird direction his thoughts had taken, he quickly got up and headed out the door, leaving Amy to sleep peacefully. He would come back later when she was awake. Sonic gently closed the door behind him and made his way down the stone pathway, breathing in the scents of the many flowers and the fresh morning air.
Spending the evening with Amy couldn't be all bad, he hoped.
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