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Here it is, chapter 4! Thank you all so much for your kind reviews! I'm so glad you're all enjoying it! The song in the chapter is 'What Do You Mean' by Justin Bieber. I'm not really a fan of him but I love this song. Somehow I thought it worked in this as well. Anyway, enjoy!

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Amy was both surprised and ecstatic when they had reached the one hour mark and Sonic hadn't gone completely insane yet, although it couldn't be long now. She had a feeling that may have been the reason he'd barely said more than two words the whole way through the forest. She had to do something, anything for them to at least talk.

She looked over her shoulder subtly to see him watching his feet drag across the dirt as he walked. Chaos, it made her almost as sad as he was obviously feeling, and he was never sad. She turned back around and pulled a map out of her pocket, quickly examining it to find a lake up ahead. Maybe they could take a break there? It would be around midday by the time they got there, anyway.

'Hey, how about a break soon?' Amy asked after turning around with a smile.

'Sure, why not?' Sonic shrugged through a small smile.

The fuchsia hedgehog flashed him a smile, now at a lack of conversation again, before turning back around to continue walking. It couldn't have been that long, but it felt like days before they finally made it into a clearing that held part of the lake. The sun that beamed down through the trees sparkled on the water, reflected onto their faces, causing Amy to smile and Sonic to feel a little queasy.

'Wow, it's so beautiful here.' Amy stated a little breathlessly before walking forward.

'Sure.' Sonic shrugged, trying to ignore the mass of water.

Amy ditched her bag at her feet before she continued walking towards the lake, taking in all the surroundings of fruit bushes and flowers. Sonic followed behind, stopping where she dropped her bag and simply watched her walk around a little. He took a seat before pulling out some water from Amy's bag and watched her bend down to feel the water through her fingers.

The anxious cobalt hero finished his drink before leaning back and resting his eyes, head propped up with his hands. Amy stood up and turned around, about to say something, to find him snoozing under the sporadic rays of the sun. She bent back down with a cheek smile on her face, put her hands in the water and flicked it up over him.

'H-Hey! What the hell was that!' Sonic exclaimed as he jumped up.

'What? I don't know?' Amy shrugged before turning back around, holding in her laughter.

Sonic cocked a brow as he slowly and quietly got to his feet, creeping over to her cautiously before holding up his hands to her back and pushing her in with a squeal. As the water splashed up, he folded his arms with a proud smirk plastered on his face. The pink, saturated bundle of quills broke the water's surface with a gasp and stared straight into his eyes with shock.

'What? I don't know?' Sonic shrugged.

'You know what's great?' Amy began to smile as she slowly walked out of the water.

'W-What?' Sonic stammered.

'You can't run.' She winked.

Sonic turned a beat red colour, nervous partly from what Amy might do to him now and partly because he couldn't help but wonder if the water was going to drag down the strap on her shoulder any more. He back away slowly, his hands up in a defensive position, unable to break away when Amy leapt forth with a 'HA!'.

She jumped on his back, pushing and pulling him closer and closer towards the edge of the water. She quickly slid down onto her feet, Sonic grabbing her waist, about to push her in and beginning to laugh now that he had the upper hand. Amy joined in when she began to win him over, tackling him into the shallow end of the water.

'G-Give it up, Ames!' Sonic gritted through his teeth as he tried to hold her down.

'N-Never!' She laughed manically.

As the two continued to laugh, Sonic had completely forgotten they were even near water let alone in it. Even better, he'd forgotten all about the bomb and the reason they'd taken this trip in the first place, which evidently made Amy that much happier. Sonic's long quills were dripping wet, now darker in colour from the water while Amy's clothes were drooping and almost see through.

'Give up?' Sonic panted as he pinned the fuchsia hedgehog down, his torso lying over hers.

'Fine.' Amy grunted.

When she finally stopped squirming, they both let out a chuckle and looked into one another's eyes. In a brief few seconds, despite it feeling like a lifetime, it was as though Sonic had realised he had laughed or even smiled for the first time in a few days – all because of Amy. Which then led him to realise, they were a mere lips distance away from one another…

'Um, uh, so… should we set up here tonight?' Sonic stammered as he got off her and rushed out of the water.

'Y-Yeah. Sure.' Amy responded, sitting up and staring at her knees as she heard him walk off.

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Tonight was colder than usual, a cool breeze wafting through the air as the moon dazzled high in the midnight blue sky. It was late, everyone should have been in bed, but alas even Cream was still awake and doing anything she could to help out. The entire gang was still in the garage sifting through the textbooks, internet and brains for anything that could be of use.

'I still don't understand why we can't just rip it off him.' Knuckles shrugged as he took the coffee from Cream.

'The bomb will recognise that it's no longer attached which will more than likely activate it.' Shadow answered.

'I already checked. It definitely will, we can't risk trying anything like that.' Sally sighed as she held up the snapshots of the bomb.

'Don't be down,' Manic began as he placed a hand on her back, 'We'll figure it out.'

'That's cute.' Sonia mumbled, causing Tikal to giggle behind her cup of tea.

'Well, what else have we accomplished today?' Cream asked as she sat down with her own drink.

'Zip.' Rouge muttered.

'Zilch.' Silver sighed.

'Nada.' Blaze added.

'Come on, guys, there has to be something?' Tikal smiled, trying to lighten the mood.

'Oh no.' Tails trembled to himself as he stared at the computer screen.

'What's wrong, Tails?' Cosmo asked as she walked up behind him.

'Look at this.' Tails told her as he pointed to what he was reading on the screen.

Cosmo gave him a worried look before turning to look at the screen, she slowly began reading aloud before her words faded and her eyes began concentrated and fixated. Tails watched her for a few seconds before he couldn't bear to watch it anymore. He could tell when she'd finished, she stepped back as if all the wind had been knocked out of her.

'What is it, hun?' Rouge cocked a brow at them.

'We've got another problem.' Cosmo tremored.

'Chaos, what now?' Shadow huffed.

'It's a timer… The bomb, it's a timer.'

'Shit.' Knuckles and Blaze cursed in sync.

While the team discovered some new and disturbing information, Sonic was wandering around the clearing gathering fire wood for the night. He'd filled his arms up with twigs and logs of all kinds, just able to see over his arms full before walking back into the clearing and to where they had set up. He dumped to pile down, dusted himself off and looked around, wondering where Amy had gotten off to.

'Ames? Amy?' Sonic called out as he walked around.

He made his way towards the lake, looking around for any signs of pink. He stepped around some thick bushes that led to the shallow ends of the lake where he found what he was looking for. Well… sort of. His entire being was soon painted red, blood rushing to his heated cheeks as he began to stammer nervously.

It was a good thing she was sitting down and had her back towards him, he might have passed out otherwise. Her clothes were strewn along the shore of the lake along with her head band and shoes as she relaxed in the tranquil waters under the moonlight. Her short quills were dripping water as she ran her fingers through them.

She slowly brought her hands back down to the surface of the water and splashed around a little, feeling like a little girl again. She giggled to herself as she flicked the water into the air, the light from the moon shooting through the droplets and sparkling in the air. She let out a happy sigh as she sat back, propping herself up on her hands.

Sonic tried not to look, although he was pretty much frozen in place. As she leant back, the moon bouncing off her features, the sides of her breasts were beginning to fall to the side. The cobalt hero began to blush even more, if it was possible, as she brought one knee up and rested comfortably, the water sliding down her legs and back to the water.

'O-Oh… Holy Chaos. S-Shit.' Sonic's mind raced.

He should run. No, wrong, he just needed to get out of there. Well, he would if he could, but he had quite literally never been so frozen in place with shock, embarrassment and maybe slight fear. It couldn't get worse, there was no way it could get worse. Could it? Wait, no, she's starting to sing. With that beautiful, siren-like voice of hers.

What do you mean? Oooh,
When you nod your head yes, but you wanna say no,
What do you mean? Oooh,
When you don't want me to move, but you tell me to go,
What do you mean?
What do you-

Amy cut off her singing when she heard some rustling in the bushes, which was really Sonic tripping over a rock and falling head over tail into them. Lucky for him, she didn't see him, merely heard the rustling. Although, it did freak her out. She looked around cautiously before standing up and shaking off before quickly getting dressed again.

Sonic had already scurried away back to where he left the logs, hurrying to light the fire before Amy got back from her bath. He nervously whacked two rocks together continuously, trying to stop his hands from shaking nervously. He finally made the sparks hit the wood before he began to blow anxiously into the flame. He almost choked on his own saliva when he heard footsteps coming towards him.

'Ah, looks good!' Amy smiled as she sat by the fire.

'Y-Y-Yeah. F-Finally got it g-going.' Sonic involuntarily stammered.

'Sonic? Are you ok?' Amy cocked a brow as she shuffled closer to him.

'What? Yeah! I'm fine!' Sonic exclaimed as he shot up out of his seat.

Amy watched him intently as he walked off and out of the clearing. She cocked a suspicious brow at him, knowing he was able to feel it in the back of his quills. She watched him until she couldn't see him anymore before she turned back to look at the fire, picking up a stick and starting to poke at it. Why was he all of a sudden so jumpy? Because he couldn't run? Yeah, yeah that was it…