Days turned to weeks and life started to go back to normal. Everyone seemed to move on. Everyone except Amy. She had almost become obsessed with her so called vision.
"Sonic, can I talk to you for a while."
Sonic wasn't really in the mood to sit and listen, but he knew Amy needed help. So in compromise they decided to walk.
"I know your tired of hearing about…that day. Its just that, I really need to talk to someone."
"Well I'm right here. Talk away."
She took a deep breath. "I have a lot of questions. Like could I have saved Benny? If I didn't panic, would we have gone with him? Would we have died?"
"Whoa, Amy Calm down. That's too much "what if". You've gotta live in the now. You cant let some tragedy ruin your whole life."
"Your right Sonic. You always know what to say." Amy smiled up at Sonic. "Its just, since that day, I've felt like someone is watching me. Do you ever get that felling?"
Sonic didn't know what to say so he decided to make something up. "Well now that you mention, I guess I have felt like that once in a while. I kind of see it like Benny is still looking down on us." He smiles thinking he just made her feel better again.
"No…it can't be him. This feeling that comes over me…its nothing like the one I felt when I was around Benny. This one is cold and dark. I swear there are times that I see… shadows."
"Amy, we all see shadows, everyday."
"Sonic I'm being serious. This shadow…it follows me."
Suddenly the wind picks up and Amy squeezes Sonic tighter.
Tails, as always, is in his shop working on the tornado.
"Just…a….little…bit…got it! That should do it." He jumps out of the pilot seat but slips on a puddle of oil. Trying to catch himself, he accidentally knocks over a few of his tools including a power drill that lands drill bit facing up. He falls back and hit's the bottom end of the handle making the drill swing up to the side of his face. The handle slaps him and the drill bit barely misses stabbing him through the side of his face and into his eye. After taking a few breaths he stands up and talks to the power drill. "That was a close one. you would have killed me…or hurt me pretty bad." He looks towards the tornado. "Now lets see where your dripping from." He puts a pair of headphones on and slides under.
A shadow starts circling the plane as Tails works unknowingly underneath. The shadow grows closer and Tails sees a glimpse of it.
"HEY…WHO'S HERE!?" Tails comes out looking around kind of scared. "WHO…WHO THERE!?"
"BOO!!"
"AH!" Tails jumps. He turns to see Knuckles laughing in the pilot seat. "Gees… give me a heart attack."
"Sorry…couldn't help it." Knuckles replied trying to stop laughing. "I got board so I decided to se what Sonic was up to. I thought I could find him here, but I guess I was wrong."
"Yea…he's out with Amy. She's still freaking out."
"Still!? C'mon that was weeks ago. We got over it and now were good to go!"
"Riiight. Anyway I've got to go put these up I'll be back out in a minute." Tails walks away while Knuckles jumps down from the plane.
"Why do you continue to work on this thing? Sonic never uses it anymore."
"Yea, but it keeps me occupied."
Knuckles walks around stretching out. "Hey, what does Sonic do when he's here?"
"Sleep, and sometimes watches TV."
"Well you know what I'll probably do the same."
"Hey, before you go. Don't come over here for a while. I've got to mop this mess up…oh and I'm gonna leave the tornado running for awhile."
"In here? Why?"
"I don't want the propellers getting old and rusted and I'm too busy to go on a test flight so I usually just let the run in here."
"Yeah…whatever you say. Just wake me up if I fall asleep."
"Amy, you want anything?" Sonic asked as the waiter took their orders.
"Um…just a glass of water." The waiter walks away. "Sonic, I never go the chance to ask but, what was Benny's funeral like?"
"It was pretty much what you would expect from a funeral."
"Did they say anything?"
"About what?"
"About me, about why I wasn't there."
"No. Everyone we knew already knew you weren't going to show up. Everyone else thought you were sick." Sonic stopped when he as his chilidog make its way to the table.
Amy sat there staring out the window. She was interrupted by the waiter placing her drink in front of her. "Oh…thanks" She smiled "So how are the guys doing?"
"Well Tails has been in the shop twenty four seven. Knuckles comes and goes. As for Shadow and Rouge, I haven't seen them in a while."
Amy started to lose interest. She picked up her drink to take a few sips. As the glass approached her lips, she looked at it and dropped it on the table spilling the water everywhere.
"AMY!? what happened?" Sonic was looking at her like she was crazy.
"It…It was blood! I saw it, it was a crimson red!"
"Amy, calm down." Sonic yelled for the waiter "HEY CAN WE GET SOME NAPKINS BEFORE SOMEONE SLIPS!?"
Amy put her head down for a moment, then turned back toward the window. She freaked out and jumped out of the chair. Sonic jumped after her.
"Amy, Amy enough! What wrong."
"My reflection…in the window. I was cut up, blood covered my face!"
Sonic realized she was making a scene. "Okay, its time to go. I'll take you to go see Tails. We'll hang out at the shop for a while."
Knuckles was on the couch watching TV, out of nowhere he feels a small gust of wind. he looked around to see what it was when from the corner of his eye he spotted a shadow.
"Alright you little bitch what did you throw at me?" Knuckles got up and started to chase the shadow down thinking it was Tails. He followed it until he walked into the room with the tornado. "GOD THIS NOISE IS ANNOYING!" He tries to cover his ears thinking it could block out the sound of the propellers. He spots the shadow on the other side of the plane, so he runs to grab it but finds nothing but a mop and bucket. "I KNOW YOUR AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE!" Not heeding Tails warning, he runs on to the wet floor. He slips slamming his head against the side of the plane and falls to the ground. As he staggers to his feet the lights start to flicker off and on. "THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANY MORE. YOUR STARTING TO PISS ME OFF!"
Outside Tails see's the lights in the shop turning off and on, in curiosity he runs in to see what's going on.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH! CUT IT OUT!" Knuckles starts to walk backwards trying not to slip again. "YOU BETTER HOPE SONIC FINDS YOU BEFORE I DO! Suddenly his foot lands in the bucket of water. Panicking, he hops backward trying not to fall again, but due to the wet floor he struggles. He turns just in time to see the spinning propellers as Tails walks in through a door in front of the tornado. In seconds Tails is covered in blood.
A few minutes later Sonic and Amy arrive.
"Tails would be happy to see you aga…Oh shit! Tails! What did you do!?" Sonic shouts finding the yellow, white, and red furred fox sitting by front of the door, eyes as wide as the sun. "Amy please go get a wet rag for me."
"NO…DON'T GO…"
"AHHHH!" Amy screams like never before.
Sonic stands and runs inside finding Amy staring at the tornado. He slowly turns the corner and sees the bottom half of Knuckles behind the propellers while the top half is splattered all over the wall. He shields Amy while the sound of sirens approach.