"Koff, Koff, Koff!" Amy stared up at this familiar face, blue spikes, green eyes, it was. . . "SHADOW! What's with your eyes?" Shadow stared at me and growled, "You're paint stunt cost me two dollars for eye contacts. People kept on telling me: Oh, Sonic, what's with your eyes? So I had to get these." (Emphasis on 'these.') Shadow pointed to his eyes.

"Eh-heh. Sorry 'bout that. . ." Amy said apologetically.

Shadow growled, then shrugged.

"So what brings you here, stalker?" Amy asked, seeing how angry he could be at her.

"Arr. Stop that!" He shouted, and slapped her shoulder; Amy barely winced.

"What happened to the plane? I want to see what could have been!" Amy cried, peeking around. She spotted pale smoke in the distance and whined, "Did?. . .Is that?. . .My plane. . .?" Amy watched in horror as Shadow nodded.

"Get up, crybaby, we're gonna fight him now!"

"What? Fight who?"

Beep. Beep. Shadow stared down at his wrist that carried a thin black watch.

"Sorry, Amy, I've gotta dash! Sonic and friends need help!" Amy sadly watched Shadow use Chaos Control to blast out of the island/U.S. state.

"Fight who?" Amy asked uselessly.

"He's gone now! Muah-ha-ha!" Amy whirled around quickly. "That psycho laugh! Eggman?" A metal hand reached out for her. Amy slapped at it. But it was metal! Who was she to use Knuckles' power of fists? Giving up, Amy let Eggman pull her up to his ship.

"You! You tried to hijack the plane, Eggman!" Amy shouted.

"Yes, Amy. You know I have so much physical skill, and I let it go to waste on something that could easily be made using my great knowledge! Heh-heh!"

"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US ALL!" Amy cried, her pleas almost drowned out by his laugh.

"Let us talk this out at my base, shall we?" Eggman flew off, Amy jerking and screaming all the way.

"So this other base of yours is on Hawaii, still?"

"Yes, and don't touch anything that looks dangerous! It will probably alter you in strange ways! We are now here!" Eggman landed the ship in some freshly-cut grass, and yanked her out of the metal hand.

"Follow, or you will die." Amy did as she was told. If she got the right device, maybe she could alter Eggman.

Inside of the cool base, Amy looked around at dozens of heaps of metal that had once been lasers.

"Has Sonic smashed these all?" Amy asked curiously.

"No," Eggman replied, "some were either already canceled out or were too powerful. As you can see, some over here are in great shape!" Dr. Eggman pointed to the right, filled with shiny new lasers.

"Now stay here and don't touch!" Eggman warned. He walked off into another room.

"Ooh, lookie! The Reverse-o 3000!" Amy squealed as she picked up a small, yet heavy green laser. She put her finger on the trigger and stood poised, ready for action.

"Okay Amy, you'll have to—Ahh! Put that down immediately!" Eggman cried.

"Say hello to my little friend!" Amy shouted, then aimed and fired.

"Ah! Ah! I'm a. . .!"

~Third Person POV(Shadow)~

"Shadow! He disappeared on us!" Sonic shouted with Tails and Knuckles at his side.

"What? You let him escape?" Shadow growled.

"I couldn't stop him!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Did he tell you his destination?" Shadow asked curiously.

"No. He just said he had important business to attend to!" Sonic responded.

Important business. . .!

~Third Person POV(Amy)~

". . .FOX!" Amy cried.

"Amy! I said not to touch!" Eggman shrieked.

"Shut up, I heard!" Amy groaned and held up another laser, it read: Warning: Point away from body and use for training only!

"Amy, no! That one's the most dangerous; stop!" Dr. Eggman shouted, only to be drowned out by a loud zing and green light.

'Eggman' now sat on the floor, licking his paws.

"Hey, that's one ugly puppy!" Amy laughed and picked up 'Eggdog' by the scruff of his neck.

"Well, Eggdog, looks like you're a hostage!" Amy grinned and listened to the baby blue healer whimper in fear.

"EEW! YOU PEED ON ME! GROSS!" Amy leaped out the door of the base and ran; never stopping, being afraid that Eggdog might wriggle out of her grip.

"Into the sea!" Amy cried out, and dived in, splashing water all over.

Amy kicked and paddled quite fast, probably because her fox tail was spinning underwater and propelling her forward.

~Third Person POV(Shadow)~

"Important business?" Shadow asked.

"Yea!" Sonic responded, "He said he couldn't miss it, or else he'd have strange consequences that would connect to us, somehow."

"He probably held someone hostage. . ." NO! Could it just be. . .?

"Did he fly west afterwards, out towards Japan and Hawaii?" Shadow asked quietly, his blood-red eyes full of intensity.

"Yea. . .hey! How did you know?" Sonic asked.

"I had a hell of a feeling! Don't wait up! Stand guard here and tell me over our mini walkie-talkies," Shadow pointed to the item hooked around his wrist, "if that Egg-dope comes back!" Shadow commanded and leapt off, running exactly west of the Sonic group.

"Gee, he was in a big hurry, Sonic." Tails pointed out.

"Yea, you think somebody in our group was taken hostage?" Knuckles asked the smirking blue hedgehog.

"Nah, it probably has to do with Maria!" Sonic joked, not realizing how serious he should have been at the moment. . .