SMWTNB ~ CH3
Tails flew through the clear blue sky with some birds at his side. He took the opportunity to take a glance at some places Amy would have been gone to. He wouldn't like to lose a friend, and it would be worse if he lost a friend like Amy.
'Strange. She is nowhere in sight. I already knew that Amy knew Mobius like the back of her hand... but not like this' Tails landed softly on his feet and turned around to guess where he was 'A forest. There aren't too much forests in Mobius ' Tails started to walk until he almost passed a clear spot in the forest.
"Woah! This is wonderful! An arbor in a forest is not normal"Tails looked up to the sky and saw that the trees weren't small. They were quite bigger than the others.
Tails approached the old arbor and landed a hand on one of its pillars. He removed it when he finished admiring the arbor. He went to one of its corners and saw that it was really old, more than he mainly thought. He touched the pillar and an electric feeling took place on his arm. He removed it and touched his pained arm.
"Ouch! Where did that come from?" He stepped back and went out from the arbor. He looked at it and touched his chin with a finger some times as if he was thinking. He gave up on his idea and started to rise from the ground to make his way home. He arrived moments later just to see that his workshop's door was wide open.
"Huh? The workshop is open!" Tails ran inside and saw that everything was in his place, and nothing seemed to be amiss. He went into his garage and nothing was wrong. He went to his Tornado X and checked it out. Nothing.
"I might have left it open. Well, let's finish this. When it is finished we will be ready to look for Amy and the Emerald" He took up his dear spanner and started to update his Tornado X for this journey.
Or adventure...?
With Sonic.
Sonic ran once again through the fields of Dew Meadow looking for his knucklehead friend, Knuckles. He passed the meadow in seconds and arrived to the spot where Knuckles was. Or where he should be.
'Where is he? When we wanna hang out, he is busy, but when we need him, he is somewhere where we cannot find him. He is so...so... WHAT IS HE DOING?!' "Knux! What on Mobius are you doing up there?!" screamed Sonic.
"Relax man. I am just relaxing and watching the land. I am also looking for any hint about Amy's disappearance"
"You would be more helpful down here, not in the cup of a tree!"
"Okay, I am going down" Knuckles landed on his feet and looked at his companion.
"How did you know that Amy left Mobius?"
"Cream, and also the fact that Amy was missing when I called her to practice with karate lessons. I would discover the secret of her hammer's hardness as a reward" Knuckles laughed.
"That is... weird. Amy would never tell anyone her hammer's secret, she even refused to tell me" Sonic laughed. Knuckles sighed and shook his red head
"Amy has still dignity, for your information. I miss her" said Knuckles.
"Me too..."
Some seconds passed until Knuckles talked.
"Do you know?" asked Knuckles quite mad.
"What?"
"Do you know why she left?" asked Knuckles more angry.
"Maybe, part of it was my fault. I treated her kinda bad..."
"Kinda? You made her life miserable Sonic! She only-"
"Yeah yeah, she only wanted love... but I am not that kind of guy. She deserves something better" Sonic sighed kind of dramatically. Knuckles didn't buy it.
"What about Sally, huh? That hurt her the most. She even told you that she was cheating on you and you told her to leave. No, you kicked her out from your house" Knuckles was definitely mad.
"That was different. She forgave me after that" said the blue speedster.
"Oh yes. I remember! You tried to go on a date to make it up to her. How sad that you forgot" Knuckles was winning the psychological battle, that was clear.
"She understood me, she forgave me again. She loves me man! I don't understand why-"
"She doesn't love you. She thinks she loves you, but it is a silly crush"
"Of course, a silly crush that lasted 8 years. She is 16 now, I am sure that she loves me deeply" said Sonic smirking.
"Actually" Knuckles frowned "she is 17 now. Her birthday was yesterday"
"Really? I forgot!" said Sonic.
"Your brain is way smaller than I mainly thought"
"How hilarious. You also forgot Rouge's birthday" said Sonic.
"That was different. I don't threat Rouge like litter or I don't dump her in the dates. Amy will find someone else sooner o later, and the problem is that you haven't realized yet" Knuckles turned around and walked out from forest. Sonic followed close behind.
"We must start looking for Amy before sunset" Knuckles laid a hand on his forehead to avoid the sun rays that now were disappearing on the horizon "The search will be more difficult at night"
"We are not looking just for Amy" Knuckles turned around to see his friend crossing his arms "A new kind of emerald appeared a few hours ago. Or at least, that's what Tails has told me"
"Okay. We might need some extra help too. Any idea?"
"Well, Silver is a good choice"
"I will give him a call. We should meet all together to decide what to do" Sonic nodded and turned to see the now dark sky "We will find her, don't worry, Sonic" said Knuckles laying a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"I know" said Sonic with a false smile.
"I need to go. I will look for some information about the emerald in the library ok? What was its name?"
"Diamond Emerald. It is very rare, so it may be difficult to find" said Sonic facing Knuckles. Knuckles nodded and started walking home "See you!" Sonic dashed to Tails' workshop. He arrived there in few minutes.
"Hey Tails! I have found Knuckles!" Sonic closed the door "He will look for-" Sonic gasped "Tails!"
Sonic didn't realize that the whole workshop was a disaster now. The main tools that Tails used were on the floor, and his inventions were now, most of them, pieces of litter. Strangely, the Tornado was in a perfect state, but Sonic couldn't make out if it was that perfect, because a dense smoke was covering the workshop. It was even covering his friend's unconscious body on the floor. Fortunately, Sonic found him fast.
"Tails!" Sonic shooke his friend's body to wake him up "Wake up man!" Tails stirred and moaned in pain. Sonic carried him out from the workshop and led him outside to take fresh air "What happened?"
"W-When I finished looking for Amy" Tails coughed "I-I started t-to upgrade the Tornado's security shield" He coughed again "But there was a strange gadget inside the Tornado..."
"Huh? What's this?" Tails holded the gadget in his hand and turned it a few times to see its structure "It would be better to open it and see what it is" Tails approached his work table and, with a screwdriver, he opened the gadget. When it was wide open, he gasped "Oh my god! It is a-"
"It was a b-bottle full of toxic gas. It was made to be opened when the gadget was opened too. You are lucky because you haven't inhaled too much gas" Tails sighed in relief.
"I thought it had killed you, buddy. C'mon, let's take you inside" Sonic took his friend inside once again.
?, Outside Tails's workshop.
"Sir, the plan hasn't worked. The blue speedster has interrupted" whispered a black female hedgehog, holding a communicator.
"Damn it! This isn't good. We must get them! Don't give up!"
"Alright" she smiled slyly looking at the workshop "Over and out"
OHMYGOSH! This is getting interesting! Who is this girl? Anyways, I am so sorry for the long wait, but the exams are difficult, so I haven't got time enough... I also wanted to have more reviews, please... at least two... (I am pathetic...) R&R! :D ~FreezeTheFuture.