Woop Woop! Happy New Year everyone! Starting the year off with a new Chapter! I'm glad to see people have been enjoying this story so far, I hope you all like it as much as I like writing it! :D So here you go, have fun reading this next chapter everyone!

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Chapter 4: ...Sorry.

Blue streaks of light zoom through the terrain, ignoring the cries of those in Gogoba Villiage, who were not at all happy with the sudden gush of wind from his speed. Sonic didn't want to stop running, not until he found her. The desperation almost leaking through his eyes to find his friend. She's been acting so strange; she even tried to practically kill him! Now...now she was gone. He didn't know what to do. He didn't know what to think. Running seemed to be the only thing keeping his mind from exploding with anxiety. But his thoughts still remained. He couldn't find her, even though he swore he did not leave any stone unturned he could not find her. He couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. It seemed like he couldn't do anything. In aggravation he picked up his pace, looking once again around every corner of the land. The rest of the gang were looking without break as well. Sticks had set up traps with lures to entice her to fall in them, like a small rabbit would to a carrot. Knuckles was told to just ask around the village, though the task would sometimes prove difficult as he got distracted from time to time. Tails had made a prototype device that would possibly locate Amy through DNA samples which he had obtained from her quilbrush. They tried, but the pink hedgehog was just nowhere to be seen.

Except for the doctor of course.

Back in his lair he had kept an observant watch over the hedgehog who trampled through the forest still in a fit of fury. He got up from his seat and began to make way to his hovercraft.

"I think now is a good time to have a little chat with Ms. Amy Rose." He chuckles. The two robot companions look at him with confusion.

"Sir, are you not concerned that she might pulverize you the moment you lay near her? She's still in quite the frenzy. I'm surprised she has not been found in fact!" Orbot questioned. The doctor turned and gave the round bot a menacing grin.

"They haven't found her because she's entered an area I figured she would! So I set the place up with transmission interrupters and sound barriers so no one can hear or find were little Ms. Rose is throwing her tantrum. As for the tantrum itself, well let's say I'll have a way with getting through the her" He gloats to the robot taking a strange remote from his pocket and waving it in front of his lackey. Without bothering to wait for a response the doctor turned back around and stepped into his hovercraft. "Now let's get going you dolts! While they can't hear her if that blue rodent gets close enough he may eventually notice where she's around." The two robots give each other a glance before following the doctor and heading out the lair.

•••

Every stomp she took could almost be burned with her fury. Anything that was in her way immediately faced wrath of her hammer.

"That stupid asshole Sonic! He...he's...just unbearable! He kept accusing me of doing shit I don't even remember, and dared to call me a bitch because of it! And what is going on with my memory! UGH! I can't remember a damn thing other than getting up this morning!" She screamed into the forest. Leaves floated down from the trees as critters scurried to hide from the screams of anger. The sounds of the forest creatures irritated the thorned rose, so much that she growled and threw her fist into a tree. The tree shook to its very core, critters jumping in panic to escape the area. Amy clenched her fist to her chest, pulling back to notice the blood seeping through her ripped gloves. A groan of frustration and pain comes from her mouth before throwing her hammer to the ground and dropping herself down with it. "Perfect. Just what I need." She hissed at her wound. Eventually tears began to form on the hedgehog's face. She was angry and frustrated, and every part of her just wanted to let it all out. She screamed into the forest once more, pounding her uninjured fist into the ground before reflectively bringing it back. "Damn it!" She yelped. Now both fists were bleeding.

"You really should get that patched up so it doesn't get infected." A voice came from nowhere. The Rose instinctively grabbed her hammer and slung it towards the direction of a voice, hearing a scream of terror in return. Her head turned to see a cowering Eggman on his hovercraft, with Orbot and Cubot near him. "Watch where you throw that thing! You might hit someone you know."

"Shut the fuck up Eggman. I'm not in the mood." She hissed, turning herself back away from the doctor.

"Cute language." He retorted. "I can see you're not in the mood. Want to talk about it?" He began to close in on the hedgehog carefully, not trying to scare her off.

"Why would I need to talk to you about my problems. You're my enemy aren't you? You're probably LOVING this right now."

"Oh please. We're Fuzzy Puppy Buddies remember? Let it out on ol' Eggy over here." He stepped off of the hovercraft. Before extending his arms in an embracing invitation, he clicked a button on the remote. The Rose eyes widened. He anger was...fleeting? She looked to him with a confused looked. The relief of not feeling this burning anger made her tears well up. She began to realize all the things she had said, all the things she did. Her house was probably a mess, she said a plethora of uncouth words, and Sonic...oh she really hurt Sonic. She didn't know why, but she felt relief when Eggman came in. She got up and ran over to the mustached doctor, drowning her tears into his clothes. She didn't understand why her long time villain was such a comfort to her, but she guessed that at times like these someone is better than no one. The doctor placed his arms around her, giving a pat to her back. He was a villain, but he didn't like to see her in this state...but he was a villain; so the plan must go on. He coughed and pushed Amy away, handing her a handkerchief. She proceeded to blow her nose loudly, the doctor giving a slight face of disgust before turning it into a smile before she noticed. He patted her back and put his other hand behind his, with the remote ready. "Bet it feels better without a stuffy nose ay?" He chuckles, only receiving a glare in return. "Fine, fine I get it. What's wrong?" He questions. The Rose is hesitant. While Eggman has proven to be a decent friend before, it didn't change the fact that he was still an enemy. But then again she thought; maybe, maybe he would be able to figure out what's going on with her.

"Apparently I've been bursting into random fits of rage, but I can't seem to remember any of them. It's annoying. I'm hurting people and I can't even remember doing that." She tries to hold in the tears, her voice breaking as she speaks. "What is going on with me? What if Sonic never forgives me?" The Rose brings her head down. "I yelled at him and hurt him Oh Chaos I bet he'll never want to talk to me again!" She felt her tears welling up as she began to cry once more. The doctor patted her head.

"There there. Well, if it means anything, I can always try to run some tests to see what I can find?" The doctor lies. He takes a moment to think, letting the silence drown themselves in the woods, except for the now and then sniffle that would come from Amy, which he would pat her back in response. Then it came to him. "You're worried about Sonic aren't ya?" The Rose simply nodded. "I wouldn't blame you, Sonic can be a bit much with his payback sometimes." She looked up to him, interested and concerned with what the doctor had to say. He tried to hide a grin as he saw her falling for his plans, then continued. "Yeah, I'm surprised you don't know! It sounds like you put a real beating on the guy. I've seen him pull some pretty mean tricks on his friends for doing him dirty sometimes. That red guy Niffles? Left him in pit once and made the poor guy get himself out. And Tails? Oh boy, it's like the closer he is to someone the more severe the punishment!" He scoffs. Amy, clearly not entertained from the subject forms a face of despair the more he spoke. "What I'm saying is...just be careful with him for a while. You never know what he might pull to make it 'even' with him. I know this isn't probably the best thing to say in your situation, but it'd be best to give you a warning. Like I said earlier however, I'll run some tests and see what I can do about your...anger situation." He looks at her with a grin. A part of the hedgehog told her not to trust the mustachioed villain and just hammer him out of there, but another side said to believe and trust every word. She thought she knew everything about Sonic, she used to be obsessed with him! But this...this was new. She never figured he would be so petty; then again he wasn't very mature to begin with. She sighed and wiped her tears, looking down before dropping to the ground.

"You sure you could figure something out?" She asked softly.

"Sure thing. We may be enemies but this seems to really have gotten you in a knot." He responded. "All I need is a DNA sample, maybe one of your gloves could work?" The roses looked down to her bloodied gloves, covering the fists that she had forgot we're stinging from the pain. The blood had dried. She nodded before removing the glove from her hand. She handed it to the doctor who took it, then placed it into a small plastic baggie. "Well then, I'll return to your hut as soon as I find an answer. Until then Rose!" He waved before jumping back into his hovercraft along with his two lackeys. The two boys bid their farewells before they flew away, leaving Amy to herself. She sighed, and looked to the ground once more. She really hoped she could get an answer. Now that she thought about it, she could have asked Tails...but after all that's happened, she didn't really want to see anyone. She figured it wouldn't hurt to stay in the woods a bit longer. She made her way to a tree and sat against it, trying to unscramble her thoughts.

Flying through the air Eggman threw out the glove. Not like he needed it or anything. Orbot looked to his creator with worry.

"Sir? If you don't mind may I ask a question?"

"I do mind, but you're gonna ask anyway aren't you?" The doctor snapped back. Orbot lowered his eyes and continued.

"If Miss Rose is already capable of being under control, why go through all these extra efforts to manipulate her like this. Won't this not only tarnish your...Fuzzy Puppy friendship...but also be considered undignified?" The doctor scoffed.

"Sure I could just control her like I usually would, but then she'd be vulnerable to be taken out of my mind control in a snap! This way I can get into her brain, pick at the insecurities that her friends will unconsciously bring to her, and make her completely submit to the mind control itself! If she submits both physically and mentally, then it'd be practically impossible to escape the microbots grasp." He grins, taking one hand off of the hovercraft to make a fist and pull it close to his person. "Even if that two-tailed genius rodent attempts to override it, her mind would refuse any help from her friends. That way it could be all the more damaging to Sonic knowing that she could not care for him, and he cannot save her. She'll be the one go destroy him, and he won't do a damn thing unless he wants to wilt his precious Rose! MUAHAHAHAHA!" He laughs maniacally, the robots slightly cowering in fear. "And about our friendship. Eh. She'll forgive me eventually. Not that I care." He chuckles as they reached the lair. "Now if you're done with your stupid questioning help me get ready for the next phase of my plan." He commands as he shoves the two robots inside the lair. Orbot looked to his cubed friend with a concerned look.

•••

It was the next day. Amy had left the woods and went back to her house before nightfall came and had went straight to sleep. The light shone through the crack of the curtain causing the sleepy Rose to groan in irritation. Her eyes still slightly swollen from her tears of the night before, she turned herself away from the light. Being awake suddenly flooded her mind with her thoughts. Her mind throbbed as the anxiety began to rise within her. She took a deep breath and shoved her face into a pillow, and sighed. She recalled her conversation with Dr. Eggman.

"Sonic can be a bit much with his payback sometimes." Her memory of Eggman's words drilled into her brain. Paranoia started to settle in. Is Sonic plotting something against her? Is he going to humiliate her? Is he going to fight her? Is he going to ignore her? End their friendship? The fear made the Rose shoot up from her bed. She didn't want to think about it. She stood off of the bed and made her way to her bathroom. Maybe a cold shower would help calm her down.

She turned the water on and made her way in the shower. The cold water drenched her face as she looked up to the showerhead. She remembered her knuckles that have scabbed from the dried blood due to yesterday's events. I never bothered to clean that up...huh. She thought to herself.

"I'm just overthinking everything." She said to herself. "I just need to talk to him. He hates talking about his feelings, but maybe this time he'll listen." she looked down to the floor, watching the bubbles from her shampoo slip into drain. "Even if he's mad at me, I should probably talk about this." She slapped her cheeks and shook her head. Finishing the shower she got dressed, patched up her knuckles and put on her gloves, and finished readying for the day. Despite the anxious feeling in her stomach, she was Amy Rose. She wasn't going to let the situation get the best of her; she is better than that. She looked to the mirror with a look of determination. "You got this Amy! You are a strong woman and you can do anything!" She grinned, proud of herself from stomping down on her paranoia. Just as she was about to give herself a pep talk, she heard a knock at the door. "Coming!" She said, making her way to her front door, and opened to find a familiar mustached being.

"Good morning Miss Rose." The doctor grinned. Rose looked up to him, unsure how to feel about the situation. She knows she was vulnerable to him the day before, but now that her head was more cleared she grew cautious once more.

"What is it, Eggman?" She asked.

"Well, as I mentioned the day prior I promised I would look into your situation. I ran some tests and came to the conclusion that you're only going through a few mood swings. Perhaps it is a hedgehog thing." he chuckled. Amy looked to him unamused. The doctor ignored her expression and continued. "So I made these pills that would help control these...I guess you could say 'Mood swings' of yours." He pulled out a bottle with small red oval pills inside. Amy hesitated before taking the bottle, looking at the contents before looking up to Eggman.

"How do I know this isn't poison or something?" She asked flatly. The doctor laughed.

"Oh come on Amy, I'm not that cruel! Besides, you think if I wanted to destroy you guys through poison I wouldn't have done it by now? I think Meh Burger is doing a fine job with that as it is." Amy couldn't help but chuckle at his statement, even though he was their enemy.

"So how many of these I gotta take?"

"Twice a day, with each meal should do the trick." He replied. Amy looked at the bottle once more. She signaled the doctor to stay were he was and she walked into her house. Making her way to the kitchen counter she placed down the pills before walking to her room. She came back after a couple seconds with a box in her hand, and handed it to the doctor.

"I wanted to wait until our FPBFF anniversary, but take this as a sort of token of my gratitude." She said with a smile. The doctor opened to see a small figurine inside, surrounded by pink plush pillows. His eyes widened.

"P-pink poodle?" His mouth gaping open. She chuckled.

"I know you've been trying very hard to find her. It took some searching but I was finally able to grab one. Now the next time we can meet up you can try her out!" She explained with her usual bubbly tone. The doctor looked to her with gratitude, not long before eyeing at the bottle of pills behind her. His smile quickly faded. Deep down he truly appreciated his friendship with Amy Rose, but he wanted to be rid of that blue menace once and for all. He sighed and pulled a smile.

"Thank you Rose. I'll see you next time." He said softly, before stepping into his hovercraft and leaving. Slight guilt formed in his heart. "Oh Eggman. What am I going to do?" He said to himself as he left. He shook his head and growled. "The show must go on that's what I'm going to do!"

Amy closed the door before making her way back to her kitchen. She opened the fridge and decided to make herself some breakfast. After a quick whip up of a meal she sat on a highchair and looked down to her food, and to the pill Eggman had given her. She sighed, and pushed it aside, not willing to try it just yet. A spybot from her window caught sight of her actions, with Eggman on the other side back at his lair. He sighed.

"Not gonna take the pill hmm? Well, we'll just have to change your mind about that." He said as he got up from his chair, commanding his two robots to begin plans.

•••

Amy made her way to Sonic's hut. She was nervous, anxious, but she knew she had to make amends for being so rude. She walked to the open entrance, seeing sight of blue quills peeking out from his couch. She knocked on the edge of the opening before knocking on the side.

"S-Sonic?" She spoke softly. Her low tone of course wasn't enough to wake the sleeping hedgehog. She sighed and slowly made her way to the hedgehog. He was sleeping in a sitting position, his head drooping down. She noticed the slight bags under his eyes. Was he not able to sleep? She saw small scratches around his body, and wondered where they came from. His shoes were muddied and his quills were out of place. She got close to him, trying to move his quills into a more decent looking position. He groaned slightly and bobbed his head, still fast asleep. She flinched her hand back, but as he slept soundfully she couldn't help but blush slightly. The moment was so peaceful, it was like her anxiety was not even there.

Until blue lids snapped open revealing his emerald eyes to her. She jumped back in shock.

"A-Amy?!" He shot up from the couch and grabbed her arms. "Where were you? We all looked everywhere for you?! Why didn't you tell us you came back last night?" He looked to her with anger and worry. She only looked down.

"I'm sorry. I just needed some time to myself. I was frustrated."

"A little much for just frustration if you ask me." He retorted, she looked up to him with a frown before pulling his grasp off of her.

"I'm sorry that I was confused by all your accusations Sonic the Hedgehog." She snapped. His eyes widened before he furrowed his brows.

"What, you're gonna tell me you forgot almost sending me to my grave yesterday?!" He growled. Amy looked to him like a deer in headlights. Her ears drooped.

"I remember that. I wanted to come here, to apologize." She spoke softly. Sonic, still irritated just kept his gazed at her. He crossed his arms and moved his foot up and down in a fast pace. "I don't know what was going on with me. I was so angry, and I couldn't even remember those times you accused me of. But I remember this time, so I bet I sound stupid...huh?" She looked down, trying to hold her tears. "I just wanted to apologize, it's up to you if you want to talk about it or not. I really would appreciate if you did though." Sonic sighed.

"You really don't remember anything?"

"Other than hitting you...no not really." She looked up at him. "Are you okay by the way? I noticed you have some scratches. Was that...because of me?" She asked. The pain of her actions were clear in her jade eyes. It made Sonic's heart beat faster than normal to see her concern for him. He jumped as she placed her hand on his arm, examining it.

"I just have a bruise from your hammer actually. These...are from searching for you yesterday." He said, avoiding eye contact with the rose as she looked up to him. Her face drooped.

"I see. Sorry, I'll try to make it up." She said as she walked to his bathroom, coming back with a first aid kit.

"I don't remember getting that."

"That's because Tails and I did, knowing you probably wouldn't have."

"Not like I really need it."

"Just hush up and let me do this at least." He pouted and looked to her. She focused at all the small scratches and bruises and began to patch them up. She cleaned the smaller ones, and put a bandage on the bigger ones. He flinched at the stinging from the sprays, but was more focused on trying not to let the rose see him blushing red madly by her presence being so close to him. After some time she finished cleaning the last scratch and looked up to him. "Done. Hope that feels a little better at least."

"Thanks, Amy." He looked back to her with a smile. She couldn't look away, and neither could he. Their eyes locked to one another for a few moments, the distance between the two slowly shrinking. It was just the two of them, with the sounds of the birds chirping and the waves crashing along the shore.

**BEEP BEEP**

A noise came from his watch. The two shook their heads and quickly increase the distance. Amy coughed and Sonic pressed the button on his watch.

"E-ehem. What's up Tails?" He asked, looking away from Amy to avoid letting her see his muzzle burning bright red.

"Just wanted to make sure you're back at your home. I know you want to keep looking for Amy, but you do need to take a break." The fox kit replied.

"Yeah about that, I found Amy."

"What?"

"Yeah, she's with me. I think we'll all meet up together soon to discuss the past events. Right Ames?" He said looking to the Rose, who was avoiding contact. She simply nodded. "You tell the other's and we'll meet up at your place soon."

"Oh, uh okay! No problem. See you soon, Sonic." The fox replied before closing the call. Amy sighed and got up. Sonic got up right after her and walked with her toward the entrance and held her hand.

"Sonic?" She questioned. He simply looked at her hand before opening his mouth.

"Can we meet up later by the cliff near the beach?" He asked. He still didn't look at her, but he could tell she had a shocked expression on her face. She looked to the hand holding hers.

"...Yeah. I'll be there."