Disclaimer: Sonic, not mine, we all know this. They all know this. Everyone knows this. Hopefully.

Characters Thus Far:

Sonic the Hedgehog - Likes throwing parties in other people's houses.

Sally Acorn - Likes to point out the obvious.

Miles 'Tails' Prower - Wanted to be like Sonic. That also means having a pink stalker.

Marvel St. Vanderburgh - Isn't as weak as one may assume.

Amy Rose - On a warpath of vengeance and malice.

A/N: The chapter is kind of short, albeit I couldn't really figure out what to make happen here. Oh well. Nothing more to say, so enjoy.

The Night Before

Vector the Crocodile was having a hard time getting his point through to the young, pink hedgehog in front of him. Though he had told her numerous times that she wasn't allowed inside of the establishment, Amy Rose continued to persist, to the point where he was beginning to lose his patience. "Listen, kid, I can't let you in. Laws are laws."

Amy stared at him angrily. "You guys break the law on a daily basis! What's so harmful about letting me in?! It's Sonic's birthday! I should be in there!"

"Sorry, but the blue man gave me specific orders not to let you in there."

"He did what?" Amy fumed. Vector held his hands up.

"Listen, this has nothing to do with me. You take it up with Sonic."

Steaming mad, Amy spun around and stomped away, leaving Vector to breathe a sigh of relief. A moment later, Espio appeared from beside him, having been invisible through the whole altercation. "Is she coming back?"

"I don't think she is. And I hope she isn't."

Just then, Vector felt something crawling about his neck. It was a scared and shivering Charmy Bee. "She's not going to hurt us, is she?"

"I think the danger is over for now. But I don't think Sonic is going to be too happy about the wrath he's incurring."

Amy Rose, upset that her attempts at joining the party were foiled, kicked the side of the building furiously. She felt betrayed, mostly because Sonic had purposely kept her out in the cold. Should she have expected that? Probably. But this was one night where she was certain she had to be with her Sonic. She wouldn't miss out on his big night just because someone told her she couldn't attend the party. You tell Amy Rose no, and she'll find some way to do what she wants anyway. That's when she suddenly came up with the idea to end all her frustration. If she couldn't get into the party legally, she'd have to force herself in. And what better way to do that then sneaking around back. As she made her way to the backside of the club, she came to a solid steel door that marked her point of entry. Whipping out her infamous Piko-Piko Hammer, she spread a wide grin and giggled. "Nothing's gonna keep me from my Sonic! Ready or not, here I…"

Amy's line was cut short when, as she swung back the hammer and prepared to bust the door down, felt it smash against something behind her. The sound was followed by the awful screech of someone getting the wind knocked out of them. Amy turned around sharply to see who, or what, it was that she had hit. Whatever it was, it now lay in a heap of boxes on the opposite side of the small alleyway behind the club. The only things visible were two legs. Pink legs. Which were sporting some very fashionable black boots. Amy wondered who it was she had just maimed, but the thought didn't cross her mind until moments later that the person might actually be injured. She approached the boxes cautiously and tapped one of the feet with the end of her hammer. It didn't move. For now, she might have been safe from any sort of hostile retaliation. For all she knew, the person lying under those boxes was dead. Amy reached out and grabbed the person's feet, pulling with all her might until little by little, the body slid from underneath the cardboard tomb. As soon as the body was fully free, Amy jumped back in surprise as the hedgehog instantly sat up, looking half-dazed.

But her surprise wasn't because of the sudden resurrection of this mysterious hedgehog. No, it was because, in all forms, the person she now stared at looked almost identical to her. The other pink hedgehog stared at her, with a semi-annoyed expression. "You hit me."

"W-W-Well." Amy was trying to gather her words. As she stammered to talk, her eyes wandered all over the other girl's body. Though they almost looked like twins, there were distinct differences between them. The most notable being the outfits they wore. Amy would have never found herself walking around in a lacy, black maid uniform. "Y-you shouldn't have been sneaking around back here!"

"Look who's talking." the girl grinned.

"Just who are you anyway!? Why are you here?"

"That's confidential information, I'm afraid." The girl said, standing up and dusting herself off. "But I can assume we might have a similar objective."

"And that would be?"

The girl pointed to the door. "To get inside this place."

"You have some sort of business here?" Amy looked angry. She couldn't tell if this was someone's idea of a joke or not, but for now, she'd decide to play it cool. The other girl shrugged.

"I was led here by the threads of fate."

"The threads of…what?"

"Destiny itself has led me here...just as it always had before. There is someone inside who awaits my presence."

Amy didn't know what the girl was talking about, but she seemed like she was living some sort of daydream. Either way, she didn't have time to fool around. Sonic was inside, and she needed to find herself in there with him. But this girl shows up at the exact same time she does, looking like her, and wearing a very provocative outfit. That just seemed a bit too opportunistic. Sonic didn't invite her, but instead hired a look-a-like to pose as her while giving him a lap dance? A look-a-like that had more proportions than she could ever wish to have, anyway. It was all beginning to make sense now. That's who she was waiting for inside, and that's why she herself couldn't get into the party. Glaring madly at the girl, who was simply bobbing back and forth and whistling, Amy lifted her hammer up and slang it over her shoulder. "Well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble sister, but I'm the only one who's got a date with destiny tonight."

The girl immediately glared back at Amy. "Is that so?"

"Yeah. That's so."

"Then you must realize we are at opposition."

"Yes. We are."

"I've traveled a long way to get here, so you must understand..."

"Well, I've also traveled a great distance to be here tonight, and I'm not stepping aside to some bimbo dressed like a maid!"

"So...you have no intention of stepping aside?"

"Oh, I don't believe so."

"Then please don't hold this against me…"

"Wha-!" Amy was barely able to mutter before she felt something smash against the back of her neck. A moment later, she blacked out. Her body crashed on the ground, unconscious, and the other pink girl stood over her; her outstretched hand still lingering in the air.

"There's only room enough for one female protagonist in this story, and that's me."

Amy clenched her fists furiously. "You….do you have any idea what I've been through because of you!?"

Marvel looked at her with her eyes half open and a wide grin. "Can I buy a vowel?"

"STOP ACTING LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW!"

"I'd like to guess the phrase, Alex!"

Amy charged at the girl like a mad bull bent on destroying its target. In response Marvel leaped into the air, letting the other girl run right under her, where she tripped on a piece of the broken table and came crashing to a halt on the ground. As Marvel landed again, she shook her head and frowned. "Well gosh. Never mind then. I'll settle with the bankruptcy plank."

"What in the world is going on?" Tails looked confused, still clinging to his chair for dear life.

"I don't know, but I like where this is going." Sonic smiled. Which earned him a toe-crushing stomp from Sally.

Amy slowly stood back to her feet, breathing heavily. She turned to Marvel, who was just standing there with her hands behind her head and whistling. "Do you…know how it feels to be nearly crushed by a burning building?"

"One might say that."

"You attacked me…and you left me there…"

"Better than being burned alive."

"And I was trampled…by hookers who were on fire…"

"Dropped like it's hot, Huh?"

"And I was arrested for suspicious activity…"

"Well, you were lying in the middle of an alley…"

"My night has been a living hell…and this is. All. YOUR. FAULT!"

"Amy! Please, will you calm down!" Sally yelled at the younger girl. But the princess' pleas fell on deaf, and enraged, ears. Her sights were focused on the other pink hedgehog that had caused her so much misery in the past night that would last her a lifetime.

"Sally's right. This is no time, or place, to be fighting!" Tails said, finally having the courage to get up and leave the safety of his chair. "Though I can kind of see why you would be angry…" he said, narrowing his eyes at Marvel.

"We're going to settle this!" Amy screamed at her doppelgänger. "I'm not going to let that go! I refuse to lose to someone like you!"

"I never knew we this was a competition."

"Don't lie to me! I know why you were there last night! You think I couldn't realize it?!"

"Uhh…."

"You think that just because you look like me and dress like that you can just barge right in and lay your greasy little fingers all over my Sonic!"

"Wait, what?" Marvel said confused.

"Yeah I admit! You have a better body than I do! And your tits are a bit bigger too!"

"A bit? Really now..."

"And how your waist is so small, and how your legs look so soft and beautiful….and…" Amy found herself getting off track. But a moment later, she snapped back to her delirious anger. "Y-You bitch! You're going to pay!"

"Yo, Amy, chill out!" Sonic said, steadily advancing on her. "I know what you're thinking, and I have to tell you, you've got it completely wrong. She isn't trying to steal me from.."

Amy whipped around and hissed at him, which made the blue hedgehog cringe and freeze in his spot. "DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME! I KNOW IT WAS YOU WHO KEPT ME LOCKED OUT!"

"I won't do it again! I mean it! Just calm down!"

"Sonic the Hedgehog, we'll settle this later…but right now, I have more important business with that bitch over there!"

"You know, insults are mean…. honestly...it hurts." Marvel said.

"I'm going to show you hurt." Amy said, walking over to her hammer and pulling it from the wreckage of table and smashed chili-dogs. She spun it around furiously before she charged for the other pink hedgehog again. However this time, Tails jumped in front of her, shaking his hands.

"Wait Amy! Listen!"

"RRRAAAGGHH!" she roared as she neared her target. She wound back for a devastating swing, preparing to unleash untold fury. But Marvel wasn't as worried about her own well-being as she was for the fox's still standing in front of her. If he continued to try reasoning with the maniacal girl with the hammer, there was no doubt that he would be the one to get smashed. That was something she couldn't allow. Something she wouldn't allow. She reached out and grabbed Tails by the top of his head, which surprised him when he felt the force of her fingers latching down and effortlessly lift him off the ground. In an instant, she tossed him to the side, before Amy's hammer could connect with his face. Instead, the tip of the hammer found itself caught by the little pink maid, who only bothered to use her index finger to stop it dead in its tracks. Amy was dumbfounded, floating there like a hedgehog in headlights. And that same shock and awe was seen on the faces of everyone else who saw the marvelous spectacle. No pun intended. Marvel smiled as she flicked the hammer with her finger and sent it thundering out of the girl's hands once more. It spun madly in the air until it crashed down into another table, which unfortunately for a young couple, ruined their lunch and possible wedding proposal. Marvel then dashed behind Amy with a speed that would even rival Sonic and wound back her right hand.

"JUDO CHOP!" She yelled, slicing the back of her palm down on the girl's neck and knocking her out. Again.

Amy fell to the ground, and Sonic was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Thought it probably wasn't the ideal way to deal with it, things could have been a lot worse. However relieved he was to see the rampaging pink tyrant silenced, Tails wasn't too pleased to say the least. Picking himself off the ground from the powerful throw he had been so kindly given earlier, he stared angrily at Marvel, who now looked as if she knew what was coming next. "Why do you do this!?"

"She was going to hit you."

"That's not what I meant! Why do these sorts of things always happen whenever you're around!?"

"Bad karma, I guess."

"And why do you keep treating this like it's some sort of joke!?"

"I am?"

"You're always making jokes, no matter how serious the situation is! Somebody could've gotten hurt! And here you are acting like it's not a big deal!"

"Well…"

"Just why are you still hanging around here!?"

"I already told you that. I came here specifically to meet you. And now that I have, I'm going to stay by your side."

"And I already told you that I'm not you're looking for!"

"But, I just proved my devotion to you, did I not?" Marvel looked pleadingly at him. "I saved you from a vile beast that was going to attack you."

"You beat Amy over the head and you expect me to be happy about that!?"

"I did it to protect you!"

"You did the same thing to her last night!"

"Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat was different."

"I honestly can't believe you!"

"I can't believe it's not butter."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Ugh….I can't take much more of this…" Tails said, beginning to walk off. Marvel ran up to him and threw herself to the ground at his feet and latching onto them.

"Don't leave me here! I'll promise I'll be good!"

"Hey, d-don't do that here!" Tails said, trying to shake free of the girl's grip. As he looked around, he noticed quite a bit of eyes staring questionably at them. The current situation only made it look worse.

"Please, master! Don't leave me here alone!"

"H-hey! Stop it! You're drawing too much attention!"

"I'll behave myself! I promise!"

"I said stop it!" Tails said, attempting to shake his leg free and accidentally kicking the girl in the face. The small crowd around them burst out in audible gasps as they heard the impact of his shoe meeting Marvel's face. Tails stood there for a few moments, feeling like he had just been pierced with a million spears.

"Did you see that? That boy just kicked his maid in the face!"

"He's such an irresponsible young man."

"How can he treat a poor, defenseless maid like that? Is he some otaku?"

The whispers were all beginning to become louder and louder, until Tails' uneasiness got the better of him. He glanced down at Marvel, who was apologetically staring up at him, pretending as if she were about to cry. "Get…off of me…" he said in a deep voice.

Marvel, having never heard his tone so dark, instantly released the older boy's feet and watched as he wasted no time taking off into the air. Sonic and Sally didn't know what to think of the situation, but knew that obviously, Tails had been utterly embarrassed and humiliated just then. For reasons now known to him, he was partly responsible for what happened to Amy, much less Marvel, all though most of the trouble spawned from a misunderstanding. She had as much right to be angry as Tails did. And just like him, most of that anger spawned from one person. Marvel.

As she sat there on the ground, Sonic walked over to Amy and picked her up in his arms. "I better not leave her out here. No telling what might happen to her this time." he sighed. He looked at Marvel, who didn't really look like she was in any mood to talk to anyone at that moment. Sally palmed her face and exhaled loudly.

"I'll stay and take care of this mess…you make sure she gets home."

"Yeah, I'll do that. Hopefully she doesn't wake up and clobber me."

"And if she does?"

"I'll ditch her on the side of the road."

"Sonic." Sally crossed her arms. "Get."

"Yeah, yeah." The blue hedgehog said, speeding away.

As Marvel continued to sit there on the cold cement ground, she noticed that the sun overhead was beginning to be drowned out by clouds. Soon, the entire sky was cloudy, and a strong chill blew in. She felt something wet tap her on the head, and as she looked up to the sky, she found that the sky was pretty much imitating her current mood. That reminded her of the day when she had left her hometown and set off on her perilous journey. Of course, now, she figured that it was just foreshadowing more disaster in her life. Things weren't always known for going well with her. That much was a fact, and her entire life up to this point was pretty much a testimony of it. But even so, she was still capable of making it work out somehow. Things always looked up, after a while. But this seemed like one situation where it didn't look hopeful. And haven't been hopeful since her arrival. Thunderclouds rolled in, and lighting began to fill the sky. This must have been one of those flash storms she heard so much about. You never know when they were coming, and you never know when they'll leave. And just like that, the few, tiny drops of rain became a full torrent of hydrosphere bullets that covered every inch of the area, and left pedestrians scrambling for shelter. As she continued to sit there, her clothes instantly soaked and her bangs sticking to her face, she sighed and hung her head.

"Definitely bad karma…"