Finally! It's the weekend! And now, on with the next chappie!

"GUARDS!" Tails shouted out in fear, interrupting Amy's and Shadow's little love moment.

"Grr, what now!?" Amy growled as she looked forward.

"RUN AWAY!" Sonic yelled out as he, Tails, and Knuckles were running away from something, ducking and climbing over some planks as they did so.

"TAKE COVER!" Knuckles hollered out frightfully.

"There you are!" one of the familiar guards said as he cuts down some of the planks with his sword.

"They're after me!" Amy and Shadow jumped up to their feet in union. Then they looked at each other oddly. "They're after you?" they asked each other at the same time.

"You can run but you can't hide!" another guard said as he cuts down some of beams with his long, curvy sword.

"This is bad. This is very bad", Shadow said to himself nervously.

"What do we do?" Amy asked as she looked around for a way out.

"We jump", Sonic walked to the edge. "It's the only way."

"I guess…" Knuckles said with a bad feeling. He was the first one to jump, and then Sonic followed.

"Tails!" Amy gasped for his life.

"Watch this", the orange fox said with a wink. He spun his two orange and white tails like helicopter blades and went up in the air. He then flew out of the apartment.

"You're in big trouble!" the leader of the guards said as he was many feet away from the two hedgehogs.

"Father must've sent them to-," Shadow gasped to himself.

"Shadow, do you trust me?" Amy asked him as she offered a hand.

"What?" the black hedgehog turned to her worriedly and confusingly.

"Do you trust me?" Amy asked again in a more serious tone.

"I trust you with all of my heart", Shadow said truthfully as he took her hand.

"Then let's jump!" Amy pulled him to her and they jumped off the edge.

"C'mon, this way!" the guard at the end of the line said as he went back to the front door.

Amy and Shadow fell through the air as they passed through some laundry lines, window shades, and through a few power lines. Before they could've faced their death, Sonic and Knuckles caught them in their arms. Hurriedly, Amy and Shadow got off of their arms.

"C'mon, this way!" Knuckles said as he took off running. He stopped when the same group of guards came out of nowhere. A large gasp came out of his mouth.

"We just keep running into each other, don't we, street-rat?" the crocodile guard said as he grinned evilly. "Hey, what the devil!?" he said furiously as his turban was pulled down, covering his eyes. It was because of Tails, who was struggling to keep the turban on his face.

"I got him, run!" the orange fox said bravely.

"Then let's go this way!" Sonic turned around and ran to the other direction. But then, he stopped when lots more guards came out of nowhere and blocked the exit. "Oh, no!"

"Going somewhere, street-rat?" one of the guards (which was a yellow/brown mixed squirrel) asked sarcastically with an evil grin.

Amy looked around for an exit. However, the guards began to close in on her and the others as they giggled evilly. The crocodile grabbed Tails by the neck and threw him to Knuckles. Since the echidna wasn't paying attention, he got knocked down by one of his colleagues. Time was running out. The street-rats backed away until they reached into a dead end alley between two tall buildings. Suddenly, an idea came up to Amy's mind. She remembered that she and the others were good at hopping from one building to another, so they might be able to get away in no time!

"Follow me!" she ordered and began to hop from one side of a building to the other building side and reached to the rooftop.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles nodded with agreement. Tails used his two tails to fly up to where Amy was, Sonic ran up the building on his right with his feet, and last, Knuckles grabbed Shadow by the hand and hopped from building to building until he reached to the top. After everyone was back together, they began to hop from rooftop to rooftop.

"Ha-ha! Suckers!" Sonic laughed.

"Umm, guys? Tails looked back cautiously.

Everyone else looked back. Apparently, the guards were following them! They were jumping from one rooftop to another like them! Was there anything else that they could do to get away? Were they going to surrender? No way. With Amy as the leader, as always, she jumped back down to the ground and landed on her feet safely. Then she took off and the others followed. Plus, the guards followed them as well. Before Amy could've passed by a liquor store, a sudden hand grabbed her and pulled her into a corner.

"Amy!!" Sonic and the group gasped in fear as they went for her rescue. All of the boys reached to the corner and noticed that a few more guards had her hostage as she struggled to escape.

"Into the dungeons with you, girl!" one of them threw Amy to a more muscular guard, who began to tie her up with some rope.

"Get off of me!" Amy yelled angrily.

"Hang on!" Sonic dashed to her rescue. "Release her!" he raised a fist in the air. In result, he got punched down by a couple guards and they began to kick him hardly as they laughed.

"Grr, that does it", Knuckles crackled his fists and went to save Sonic. One of the guards stopped kicking Sonic and locked his fists together. Before Knuckles could've thrown a punch at him, the guard stopped his punch, strikes him in the gut, watched him cough out some blood, and then knocked him down.

"Knuckles, no!" Tails gasped for his life.

"Let go of me-!" Amy hollered out unpleasantly until her mouth was covered by a guard's hand. She mumbled in antagonism as she continues to struggle to get free.

"Gotcha, you little fox brat!" a guard came out of nowhere and grabbed Tails' arms from behind.

"No, let me go!" the fox begged as he struggled to get free.

The only one that was free was Shadow. He just had to do something. Not only he had to save his friends, but also his chosen love. However, he felt like he should save Amy first. But what did they want with Amy? Was she going to prison for stealing and hiding from the guards? And why did they have to beat Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles up senselessly? For some reason, Shadow began to think that his father was behind all of this madness. He growled as he looked at the guard that was holding Amy hostage. Courageously, he charged at him.

"Look out, there's another one!" the crocodile called out to one of his teammates.

"Release her!" Shadow demanded as he raised a fist.

"Oh, really?" the same guard that punched Knuckles down said sarcastically. Before Shadow could've taken one shot at him, he back handed the hedgehog and knocked him backwards. He and the other guards laughed meanly as Shadow nursed his bloody nose.

"Shadow!" Tails gasped in fear.

"Unhand her!" Shadow ordered as he stood back up. He then removed the hood of his cloak. "By order of the Prince!"

Suddenly, the guards gasped in shock. By Allah, they've just injured the prince! Tails had his jaws dropped in shock. Amy looked at her crush in shock and confusion. Sonic and Knuckles were still unconscious, so they didn't hear or see a thing. Just then, the guards made the aware street-rats bow with them.

"Prince Shadow, please forgive us!" the chameleon said.

"A prince?" Amy mumbled surprisingly as she lifts her head up a little.

"Oh, my Allah!" Tails said in complete shock.

"Prince Shadow, what are you doing out here? With these street-rats?" the guard that punched him down asked feverishly, yet confusingly. "Look at you, your nose is bleeding-!"

"I'm the one who gets to talk here!" Shadow snapped at him, causing him to shut up. "Now, do as I command and release Amy!"

"Well…We would, but our orders are taken by Rouge, and Rouge only", the guard explained briefly. "I don't know how she got in charge, but you might as well talk to her about this."

"Shadow…You, through the whole time, you…?" the fox whispered in utter distrust.

The black hedgehog looked back at Tails, and then looked at Amy. Both of them were surprised. True, they don't like rich people, but they've been with one all day! In fact, there was no wonder why he looked cleaner and more polite than all of them. Plus, the biggest point is that they've befriends with a prince! The son of the almighty sultan! From the look in Amy's eyes, she felt a little angry. She despises the "rich", but she did not know that she was falling in love with one. However, Shadow still had feelings for her.

"Then I might as well talk to her", the prince crossed his arms with an aggravated look on his face.

Later that night, the guards took Amy to prison. Shadow couldn't see her, because everything was suddenly under Rouge's control. But where were his parents? Why would they let that witch take over their place? However, the parents, Diamond, and Re-Re didn't notice his mysterious return, so he wasn't too worried about it. In fact, all of them were asleep. And they looked like they've been sleeping all day! So anyways, he went to find the royal vizier.

Rouge was leaving her chambers secretly. She looked around and found out that no one was around but her. She walked out of the entrance and began to slide the door shut slowly. But then, Shadow came in, with a fuming look on his face.

"Rouge!" the prince hollered out madly.

"Oh, young Prince", Rouge looked back with a smile on her face. She pinned the door frame on Bubba, who was about to walk out of the chambers.

"Aah! Rouge, help! I'm stuck!" the black chao coughed for some air.

"Salutations, good evening", the white bat bowed a little as she spreads her dark blue cape in front of the door.

"The guards just took a girl to prison, by your order", Shadow explained unkindly as he came up to her.

"Huh? Oh, oh, yes, her", Rouge said as she crossed her arms. "Well, your parents asked me to take charge of keeping Agrabah in peace. Plus, that girl was nothing but a criminal."

"And what was her crime?" the prince asked rudely as he crossed his arms.

"I can't breath. Rouge!" Bubba tugged her by the cape.

"Well…By kidnapping you, of course", Rouge answered calmly.

"Rouge, please help-," Bubba begged weakly until Rouge kicked him back inside the door and it slammed shut. "-Oww, that hurts!" the chao cried in pain.

"She didn't kidnap me, I ran away", Shadow told with an irritated attitude.

"Really?" Rouge said, pretending to be shocked. "Dear Prince, you should've came to me earlier", she walked pass him a little. "But I'm afraid you're a little too late, Shadow. I've already taken care of her."

"Hm? What do you mean?" the hedgehog asked suspiciously.

"I've made a sentence for her", Rouge confessed, pretending to be innocent.

"What kind?"

"Death."

"What?!" Shadow gasped in alarm and fear.

"Beheaded", Rouge crossed her arms.

"No…" Shadow shook his head slowly and looked down at the floor unhappily.

"But I am truly sorry, dear Prince", Rouge apologized with a fake sorrow look on her face as she placed her hands on his shoulders.

"You wicked fiend", Shadow hissed at her. Then he ran out of the room, covering his face with tears.

As for Bubba, he struggled to open the door as hard as he could. Successfully, he was able to open it and made it out. Panting in exhaustion, he flew up to Rouge and rested on her shoulder. An evil smirk was on her face as always.

"So…How did it go?" Bubba asked tiredly.

"He fell for it", Rouge answered in a sinister tone.

The sad prince ran into his room as he had angry tears. He never thought that Rouge would do something awful! Well, he never liked her anyway, so now, he truly hates her. For the first time, he wished that his parents were there to tell him that they would take care of things for him. Although, they were still asleep, so there was nothing that he could do. So he had to wait until morning so he could tell them. Sadly and angrily, he walked to his bed and sat on it. Then he covered his face again.

"This is all my fault", he said to himself shamefully. "I…I was going to claim her as my bride…" With that, he hid his teary face on his pillows as he squeezed them tightly. He cried whispery, feeling lonely without Amy.

However, she was still alive. At a building near the palace, she was kept in the deep dark dungeons. Amy was chained up to a wall as she was sitting down on her bottom. Hardly with rage, she struggled to get free, but the chains were too strong. But what was going to happen to her now? Was she going to go through a death sentence? Or worse, was she going to become a slave to the sultan? There was no time to lose. She had to break out fast! But how?

"So he was a prince?" she asked herself as she remembered Shadow showing his real self. "I can't believe this. I must've sounded stupid to him!" she growled with fury.

"Amy! Are you down there?" Sonic's voice asked out of nowhere.

"Hello? Anybody home?" Knuckles' voice said after that.

"Look!" Tails said as he pointed down below them from the window that was at the top of the dungeon.

"Thank Allah! I'm down here!" Amy called out, but kept her voice a little low, because the guards were outside of the cell.

Thanks to Knuckles' strength, he was able to pull the bars from the window and threw them away. Tails twisted his fox tails and took Sonic's and Knuckles' hands. Carefully, he began to land to where Amy was, even though the two were pretty heavy. After he made a secure land, he sighed in fatigue as he dropped to his knees.

"Get me out of here, hurry", Amy whispered impatiently.

"First of all, do you have any idea how you got into this mess?" Sonic asked her upsettingly, as if he was their mother. "First, you waste your time to save your Romeo, you talk to him for a long amount in time, and then you fall in love with him", he said poetically with his eyes widened like a cupid. "And now, this!" he stomped on his feet madly.

"Shh!" Knuckles whispered, just in case the blue hedgehog would lower his voice.

"Not only that, but he's a prince", Sonic continued, this time with his enraged voice lowered. "He was probably spying on us so he could tell all of his rich friends about us. If I was still awake and I saw all of that back there, I would've killed him."

"Relax, Sonic", Amy said calmly as she rolled her eyes. "Truly, he was in trouble. But…he was pretty handsome", she said dreamily.

"Lock-picks please", Sonic sighed with annoyance as he held out a hand.

"Hmm…" Knuckles searched his pockets. Gladly, he pulled out a silver lock-pick and hands it to Sonic. "Poor you", he said as Sonic begins to unlock Amy's chains slowly.

"Hey, I won't see him again anyway", Amy spoke back. "I'm a street-rat, and I think there's some certain law. He has to marry a princess."

"Whoo-hoo!" Sonic cheered as he got his sister free.

"He deserves one anyway", Amy rubbed her hands in depression.

"Ta-da!" Sonic held the lock-pick in the air, as if it was a big deal.

"I feel like a fool", Amy wrapped her arms around her knees.

"Ah, but you're only a fool if you give up, girl", an old lady said, who was sitting in a corner near Amy.

"Gah!" Tails and Knuckles shrieked like girls as they hugged each other dreadfully.

Amy turned to her right as Sonic looked behind him. All of the four creatures were staring at an old lady who was a purple hedgehog. She had dark green eyes, wore terrible looking rags, and had a cane to hold her up correctly. Funny, they didn't notice that she was there. Where did she come from? And what did she want with them? Better yet, how long did she stay in the dungeons?

"Who are you?" Amy asked curiously.

"Why, I'm just a lone female prisoner as yourself", the old lady said as she walked to the group slowly. "But together, perhaps, we can be more."

"…We're listening", Sonic nodded slowly.

"Ah, you see, there is a cave, children", the old lady explained. "It's called the Cave of Mysteries. Inside of that cave is lots of treasure, just enough treasure to impress your prince."

"Will this lady hurry up?" Bubba thought as he kept himself hidden in the back area of Rouge's disguise, pretending to be a small hump. "I'm dying in here by a lack of oxygen!"

"But the law says-," Amy began to explain.

"There's a golden rule that says if anyone has the gold makes the makes the rules", the old lady interrupted nicely.

"But why are you telling us all this?" Tails asked as he released Knuckles.

"Well, I need a pair of young legs to help me get to the cave", said the old lady as she poked Sonic with her cane and then walked to a wall across from Amy.

"That's nice, but it's out there", Amy said doubtfully. "And we're in here, trapped."

"Well…Things don't appear as they seem", the elder woman said as she touched a part of the wall and a hidden passage was seen.

"Ooh…" Tails and Knuckles looked at each other in awe.

"So, do we have a deal?" the old lady looked back at Amy, with a smile on her face, even though her teeth didn't look too well.

"Hmm…Well, what do you guys think?" Amy stood up.

"Umm…" the boys pondered for a moment.

And I'll stop right here! Gosh, my chappies are long, huh? Well anyway, what do you think is going to happen next? R&R, later!