Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails " Prower, Knuckles The echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat or other character's made by Sonic Team. I do own RX.
Summery: Continuing from "A good Deed gone wrong". Things have quieted down and everyone's begun to relax again, when Eggman returns with a new plan, kidnapping Amy to lure Sonic into a fight with his new weapon. But is that really all there is to his plan?
Part VII
Despite only having been active for only a few minutes, E119, code name Rho, were already facing a heavy decision. And even for a robot of his level that was very unexpected at the moment. Currently the only information not uploaded into his memory was the data regarding whom he was supposed to take orders from.
As a result of this he was at a loss as to what to do, he could help the other robots capture the pink hedgehog and the lizard, but then again he could side with the pink hedgehog and the lizard since they had been the ones to turn him on.
Running these things through his computer brain, Rho began to feel it overheat as it hadn't been designed to have a fully self a-where robot run a once in a lifetime decision problem, and switched over to a more safer solution to the problem. "Running basic voice recognition program for master input!"
"Huh?" Daring a look over her shoulder as the robot began to babble lose behind her, Amy barely stumbled back its eyes moved to focus completely on her. "What, don't tell me you're working for him?"
Lifting up both hands as his computer brain processed the data, Rho would have smiled if he could, instead he filled in the missing data using the newly obtained one. "Voice and visual confirmation data complete, Voice pattern recorded." Stomping forward, the E100 model machine snapped his arms down as they transformed into a pair of rather nasty looking three barreled machine guns.
Eyes moving over to focus on the robot again, Metal-Knuckles nearly hissed as he stepped forward. "What are you doing, she is not your master; Eggman is!" Taking another step, he stopped as he spotted Rho pointing his weapons as him. "Robot, I order you to stand down in the name of Dr. Eggman."
Not replying verbally, Rho instead let lose with a round of cannon fire, the spray of bullets ripping through the two guard robots easily as they dived in to protect Metal-Knuckles. "Protection program activated, protect master from all harm with any means available."
Giving loud yelp as the loud rapid sound of bullets getting fired hit her ears, Amy gritted her teeth while holding her hands over them to block out the sound, her eyes seeing RX do the same, or she assume he did as she still had no idea where his ears was on his head. "Stop, stop it!"
As the pink hedgehog spat the words out, Rho stopped firing his main weapons and turned his head to face her as his eyes glowed with a dim light. "As you wish, master." Lowering down his weapons after giving a voice confirmation of having understood her order, Rho entered his non-violent guard mode as he resumed scanning the robots before him for any kind of threat.
Eyes glowing bright green, Metal-Knuckles flung the remains of Phi and Chi out of his way, his robotic emotions running far into the rage area. "You traitor, I shall enjoy ripping out your processor unit and power cells." Powering up his claws, the red colored robot dashed forward to strike.
Elsewhere, Sonic the Hedgehog tore through a bush as he climbed up a hill, his shoes slightly damp from the moist jungle floor. "Amy, Amy you out here!" He had managed to pick up on Amy's trail rather easy, her boots leaving a nice set of prints on the grown as she had run this way. "Come on, why are you hiding?"
Reaching the top, Sonic briefly stopped his search as he was met with one of the most breathtaking views he had seen so far, Angel Island's Jungle going out in all directions as the mountain in the center of the island rose up into the cloud covered sky.
Turning his head to the side, Sonic took in a sharp breath of air as he spotted Amy standing near the edge of the hill, or rather the ledge of a steep fall. "Amy!" Rushing forward, he stopped as the pink hedgehog turned around to face him, a clearly seen level of sadness in her eyes as she spotted him. "Amy, are you okay?"
Not answering, the Pink hedgehog returned her attention to the jungle below, her eyes closing a bit as she grinned on the inside. The hedgehog had come to her as she had expected, and now that they were all alone, she could launch her plan and try and get him to lower his defenses around her. "I'm... sorry, Sonic."
Gaining a puzzled expression on his face at the words, Sonic scratched his head as he took a step forward, stopping as the pink hedgehog moved her arms up to hug herself. "Sorry, sorry about what, you haven't done anything wrong. Eggman was"
"I couldn't help him, I couldn't even get enough courage to help Tails fight Eggman." Spitting out the words with as much sadness as she could, Amy grinned on the inside as she increased the strength of her hug a little. "I made this big speech to him of how I was stronger and more mature then before, and then I couldn't even help him when he needed it."
Moving further towards her, Sonic stood right behind her as she spoke out the last word, memories of the first time he had gone up against Eggman running through his mind, the thought of losing back then still clear after all that time, but not as powerful as he had won that first strike against Eggman, making it far more easy to stand up against him all the other times.
That was what Amy had been through, at least he thought so, but unlike him, she had had someone who showed up and protected her, while he had been on his own and forced into overcoming that fear or end up as just another one of the evil madman's victims. "Hey, Amy."
Turning her head as Sonic spoke her name, Amy stared at him from the corners of her eyes, grinning on the inside as she could clearly see she had won this round. He wasn't suspecting her one bit, if fact, he seemed to be concerned about her.
Pulling the Pink hedgehog girl away from the end of the hill, Sonic held her lightly as he grinned down at her. "It's okay, you just froze, and from what I have heard happened to you, it is understandable." Moving her around to face the other side of the hill and the jungle they had come from, he grinned a bit at her. "You'll get over it, trust me on that, so don't blame yourself okay."
Still having a feeling of sadness to her, Amy nodded once and slowly pushed herself away from Sonic, staring up at the sky above them. "You're going after Eggman right?" Her voice giving off a small bit of her normal cheerful attitude when talking about him. "If you are, can I, can I come too. I'll try my best you know, to be a better fighter against Eggman."
As the pink hedgehog before him stopped talking, Sonic briefly opened his mouth to protest, knowing that if she tacked along Eggman would just find away to use her against him, then he mentally shook his head. If he refused her request, she would never get over the fear she had gotten into her, she would spend there rest of her life wondering if she really only had been a bother.
Swallowing down the reject, Sonic gave a mental groan and smiled at her. "Sure, but stick close to us, just in case." As he finished talking, he grinned as he saw her really smile again, liked she used too. "Hey, now that is the Amy I recall, so, you ready?"
"Yeah!" Cheering loudly, Amy's yell nearly turned into a scream as Sonic grabbed her and took off running, heading back towards the clearing before them. He still hadn't found out what Eggman had done, but she would tell him, when she was ready too to do so.
Wasn't that what the comic book heroes said, besides, what's the worst thing Eggman could have done. Made a killer clone robot looking just like her.
No, that was too obvious, and far to much like a comic book. Even Eggman didn't have that bad taste in evil plots, did he?
Smirking mentally as she was carried off to the others, Amy grinned as she already had several plans laid out inside her head. Some of them getting removed as they were simply to easy, and not rewarding enough. She wanted him to scream and cry over the fact that it was someone who loved him who would kill him.
Oh yeah, she was going to simply love carrying out her mission.
Even before he reached Rho, Metal-Knuckles was forced to give up on his attack, a red and golden hammer nearly hitting him being the cause. As he landed in a ready to fight position, Amy stepped forward, fire in her eyes as she glared at him with pure hatred. "Stay away from him, or I'll turn you into so much scrap metal."
Turning his attention back to Rho, Metal-Knuckles simple switched over to his long-range weapons, intending to take out the hedgehog and lizard before trashing the traitor.
But this time, the distraction came in the form of a lump of bullets riddled metal hitting him in the head, RX holding up another part of the Chi and Phi's left over scrap parts. "You heard her, stay away from us Metal-Knuckles."
Nearly glowing with anger as these worthless organics dared to attack him, Metal-Knuckles reactivated his claws and glared at each of them. "Fine, you fools want this the hard, we'll do it the hard way." Shooting forward, he punched Rho harshly, spinning around and landing a kick on both Amy and RX as a finish sending all three staggering back. "See, you can't win against meee!"
Flying forward as a far more powerful attack hit him from behind, Metal-Knuckles grumbled as he smacked into the wall, his systems showing only a few damages, but still enough to leave him even more angry then before. "You!" Pulling himself out of his impact spot, his eyes glowed as he stomped forward, each hand dancing through the air as bullets were deflected as easily as knocking down a tree, this time he did notice the small sign of a missile launcher built into Rho's chest region.
Having pulled herself up while nursing a growing bruise on her stomach; Amy narrowed her eyes as her hammer re appeared in her hand, her mouth twisting into a dark grin as she shot forward. "Hey metal head!" Getting his attention, she jumped up as she focused her power into her hammer; using a trick she had only used a few times before doing the time she had followed Sonic around doing the Metal-Sonic incident. "Tornado Hammer!"
At her last word, a tornado made up of pink energy ripped across the room, catching Metal-Knuckles off guard complete. His reward for it being a nice trip around the middles of the twisting winds before smacking into the metallic ceiling with a loud clang, bits of his vision turning fuzzy as he fell down again.
Seeing the robot off guard, RX rushed forward, using the one chance he could see to strike, his body lifting off the ground in a perfect kick that sent Metal-Knuckles flying back out through the door he had entered through. "Quick, let's get out of here!" Yelling out the words as he landed, RX wasted no time in running away himself, his feet clicking against the ground as he shot past a downed Metal-Knuckles.
Amy and Rho following him after a while, the pink hedgehog letting her hammer hit the robots head as she shot past him while sticking out her tongue at him. "RX, show us the way, Rho, keep scanning for any danger, I'll take the rear." as she yelled out the order, Amy grinned as she thought of how her old teammates would have stared at her at the moment.
Regaining his bearings after his abuse, Metal-Knuckles pushed himself up again, his repair systems screaming at him that those weaklings and the traitor had done more damage then he would let them get away with. "You." Stomping off to find a big fat weapon to terminate them with, the robotic echidna stopped as the faint sound of Eggman calling him echoed through the base. "Damn."
Moving to accept it at the nearest console, Metal-Knuckles grimaced on the inside as he suddenly had a vision of Eggman dismantling him for not only failing in stopping the prisoner from escaping, but also for letting RX betray him and steal one of his outdated E100 model machines.
Punching in the command that activated his com link, a small screen on the wall showing the upper parts of Eggman's body. "You, prepare the base for my return, and b quick about it." Nearly spitting at the screen as he spoke, Eggman moved form commanding the robot echidna into screaming at him for constructing such a worthless new version of the Egg-Hornet.
Metal-Knuckles never replying once doing the verbal abuse he was suffering, but inside he was seething. Mostly at the escaped furries and the stupid robot for attacking him, but even Eggman got a few rather obscene words tossed at him.
As the transmission finally cut off, Metal-Knuckles emotion center was ready to let him lose and cause massive amounts of damage, as payment for that chewing out, and the robot knew just whom he should take it out on.
After yelling at Metal-Knuckles in order to relive some of his anger without destroying anything, the good doctor the robotic echidna was fearing were still cursing the loss of his rebuilt Egg Hornet. "That rotten hedgehog, always he get sin my way, even when it is impossible for him to show up he still manage to, how I hate him!"
Hammering one fist into the wall, he growled as the elevator doors open up before him, bright lights streaming in at him as he marched out to stare at his current arsenal of offline robots minions, one hand pressing a single button and bring up a screen with the number of robots in total, eyes narrowing even more as it became clear that he still lacked a great deal to once again match his once proud army that had been lost doing Metal-Sonic's little rebellion.
"Zero, I need more of them, much more!" As be barked out the order, he kept a cold glare on the robot turning to face him from the center of the small construction factory built into the Egg-Destroyer. "So get a move on, I expect you to be completely done tomorrow, or I'll reduced you back into the scrap heap I recovered from the Egg-Carrier."
Saluting him a reply, Zero moved back around and increased the pace of construction, more robots marching out and slipping into line with the others, switching off until an order for them to fight or work came from the doctor.
Turning around and marching off, Eggman kept walking through several corridors, one hand rubbing his chin as he slowly felt his anger fade away. Sonic had beaten him, but it had been a surprise attack, and after Tails and Knuckles had damaged the Egg hornet no less, so a failure was to be expected of course.
So it wasn't a total failure, his foes had escaped his revenge, but his clone was still there, and she would wreck havoc soon. And with Sonic out of his way, he could begin his new and improved plan, and attack G.U.N. while they were unprepared for such an event.
And he even knew how to make sure they were completely unable to fight back. "Sigma, increase speed and set course for Eggman Island, it is time I return and completely my secret weapon." Dropping into a chair as he venture into a side room, Eggman grinned as he called up all the information form every single one of his bases, checking the numbers of fighting units currently under his command. "Now, to see if what I have will be enough for my plan to truly begin?"
Running across another large metal walkway, Amy huffed a bit as she could clearly heard the sound of Eggpawns rushing to keep up with them, her eyes growing a bit wide as a stray shot passed a bit to close to her for her liking. "Rho, isn't the place where we can take a break, my side hurts from all this running."
Not showing any sighs of having heard her, Rho did slow down enough for him to be next to her, his head turning to regard her as he suddenly reached out a hand and scooped her up into it. "Unit RX get on as well, I will carry you until a safe location has been found."
Smiling gratefully as he too had begun to feel the strain of having run for too long with every single robot in the base hunting him, RX grabbed a hold of Rho's arm and allowed himself to be carried off as well, his eyes narrowing as he cast a look down at the factory below. "Hey, I think we're moving in the wrong direction, we should have reached the main doors by now."
"Affirmative." Rho responded as his eyes kept scanning for any attacks from up front. "Network information state that massive forces had taken up guard positions in front of main gate, attack is therefore most likely to end up in us getting terminated."
Slowing down and turning a corner, Rho stopped as they reached a large lift, this one much larger and looking far more like it belonged in a heavy industrial factory then the other ones encountered so far. "So, where are we going instead?"
Stomping onto the lift, Rho kept scanning for any robots while activating the machine, Amy and RX looking a bit sick as the lift shot upwards far to fast for their likening, not to mention the fact that it seemed to stop in less then a second without slowing down, a large set of blast doors greeting as they steppe doff it. "Information gathered before access was denied this unit includes a map, which shows that the best escape route is through the Metallic Citadel Zone."
Staring as large blast doors opened before them, Amy and RX blinked in shock at the sight of a massive building stretching out before them, towers and factories poking out of the roof and road sections of the main construction easily. "We have to cross this, to escape?"
Moving forward as the doors closed behind him, Rho lifted up one arm and pointed it at the distance, a lone mountain range reaching up into a cloud of smog pouring out from a nearby factory. "To escape, we must make out way to the shuttle, and use one of the arial units there to fly away in."
Staring darkly at the horizon, Amy sighed and began to move forward, her eyes and face taking on a determined expression as he looked more darkly at the zone before her. "Well, no one said it would be easy, so let's go, the sooner we get there, the sooner we can warn Sonic."
Rubbing one hand one his head, RX opened his mouth to protest, ready to tell her that since she now had a robot to protect her, he didn't need to help her anymore. Only to close it again as the sound of robots pounding on the door behind them made him grimace and rethink the whole part about him staying behind after helping Amy escape.
Moving forward as well, he quickly began to run in order to keep up with Amy and Rho, still wondering how his life could have changed so drastically in less then five minutes already.
"I'm sorry, I really am. I don't know how I could have been so clumsy." spluttering out the apology as she helped Sonic back up, Amy grinned on the inside as Sonic wiped away some of the mud form his head, his body having left behind a nice imprint where it had landed after she had tripped him. "I really am Sorry about that you know."
Spitting out some of the foul tasting dirt, Sonic grinned at her as he wiped away some of the extra muck form his body, his face darkening as he looked up at the sky above them. "It's okay, could have happened to anyone too you know, now let's hurry up, the others are waiting."
Giving him her best smile, Amy quickly stuck out her foot to push up a small branch as Sonic turned back around, grinned as he let out a loud yell just before smacking face first into the mud again, his shoe having hit the branch as he took a step forward.
Hiding any from of amusement she might have gained from it, Amy quickly put on her best attempt at a concerned expression as he pulled him up again. "Are you okay?"
Coughing out some more muck and keeping a firm eye on the ground this time, Sonic began to walk forward, not even noticing that he was still holding onto Amy's hand. "Yeah sure, I just don't know why this keeps happening, aw yuck." Spitting out some more mud, Sonic kept glancing down as they walked forward, tired of all the small accidents that had been happening for the last half an hour. "The place where we should meet Tails and Knuckles is just up ahead."
Grinning, Amy nodded as she reached out and pulled on a nearby low branch, her face cracking up as the mighty pull she gave it cause the rest of the tree to toss of the water from all its others branches and leaves, the full cascade of it raining down on Sonic, with just a few drops hitting her. "Um, sorry about, I didn't think that would happen."
Sighing loudly as his fur was now soaked with nearly ice cold water, Sonic shook his head to at least get the wet fur out of his eyes. "It's okay Amy, it could have happed to anyone." Speaking with a light hint of annoyance, Sonic gave off the impression that he wasn't starting to lose whatever patience he might have had.
Still grinning widely as they walked off, Amy began to look around the place, wondering just what she could do to torture the hedgehog before her some more. Just as a warm up to when she would really making him suffer just before ending his miserable life.
"Hey Sonic!" Yelling out the greeting, Tails landed on the ground before them, his eyes growing a little wider as they took in the blue hedgehog's state. "What happened Sonic? You got into another fight?"
Running a hand over his arm to remove as much mud as he could, Sonic sneezed loudly and shook his head before giving Tails his attention again. "Not really, just a bit of bad luck." Staring up at the sky, he narrowed his eyes as he failed to see it for all the trees above them. "So, how's the tornado doing, not to damaged is it?
This time, Tails did give Sonic a glare as he held up a small bit of metal for him to see. "Sonic, while any landing you can walk away from is a good one, I don't believe it is an invitation to crash the plane by running off as soon as you have made touchdown."
Giving a shrug at Tails outburst, Sonic gave his best buddy smile as he rubbed one hand though his wet fur with a sheepish glint in his eyes. "Well, I thought you were all in danger, so I decided it would be best to get here as fast as I could."
"You crashed it!" Tails spat out as he held up the metal part. "Do you have any idea how hard its going to be to find the spare parts around here, not to mention I can't even fix it unless I have the tools needed to do so." Turning around rather fast, Tails looked over his shoulder at Sonic. "I think we have about an hour or two to fly the plane in before it will crash, unless I make some quick repairs."
Narrowing his eyes, Sonic shook his head as turned Tails back around to face him. "You mean we have to, I'm not going to let you do all the work fixing up a mistake I made." Glancing at Amy, Sonic gave her a hesitant smile as he noticed her shooting a very intense stare at them. "Um, you don't mind waiting around while we fox the plane do you?"
Returning Sonic's smile with a far more darker one of her own, Amy did her best to sound as much as the real pink hedgehog would as he smiled at the blue hedgehog and fox. "Of course not, take all the time you need, after all, the longer you work on it, the longer time I can spend around you." The last was add as she ran a finger down his stomach and gave her best; I am a cute girl smile at him. "If you can handle that, that is."
Blushing rather heavily at the sight, Tails shot a look up at his hero to see him stammer out a few words before backing off to escape Amy's cute attack. "I think that's enough for now Amy, he needs to help me work on the plane, not keep an eye out for you all the time."
Clenching up one hand, Amy glared very briefly at Tails before walking off, her eyes staring right into Sonic's as she walked past him, one finger moving out to tilt his head back a bit. "Fine, then come on, you want to fix that plane right?"
Shaking his head, Sonic shot the pink hedgehog girl a very confused look before moving in the right direction, his face returning to normal as he began to pick up speed, keeping a close eye on Tails as the fox showed the way. And behind him, he could hear Amy as she followed, her boots making more noise then he was used to as they walked through the still damp jungle.
Returning his full attention to Tails, Sonic couldn't help but get distracted as he remembered just what Amy had done a minute or so ago, it was so unlike her. He would have expected something like that from Rouge, not from the hedgehog he kept on saving, the one who had nothing but complete confidence in him, along with happiness and a feeling of innocence, and a rather obvious crush to boot.
Whatever she had just done, it was simply to far away from the innocent little Amy he had gotten to know. It was almost as if she was a completely different person.
And most importantly, did Knuckles ever feel like this after Rouge had pulled a stunt like that on him?
"Sonic look out!"
Snapping out of his thoughts, Sonic eyes grew as wide as they could as he ran face first right into a tree, bark and water flying off it as he fell backwards from the force of impact. "No!" Yelling out the word, Sonic felt the one thing he hadn't wanted too, mud, his body making a perfect landing in a deep and very sticky puddle of it.
Spitting out some stray mud that managed to hit him in the face despite landing on his back, Sonic grumbled as he was pulled up by Tails and Amy, a single thought running through his head now, instead of the massively confusion before.
Could this day get anymore worse?
Busting down the door without any regards to what damage it might cause, Metal-Knuckles moved onwards, stepping out into the massive citadel roof sections, his built in long distance scanner already picking up the signal of the traitor robot moving across the area further up ahead of him. "All Units, peruse and seize them! I want all escape routes guarded in case they make it there."
Moving out in an orderly fashion, air born badnicks flew over his head and headed out to tale up patrol of an area to prevent the prisoners from advancing any further. Meanwhile on the ground, Eggpawn after Eggpawn marched out, the few of them with Jet packs built into them taking off to hunt the prisoners and the traitor robot from the air.
Watching as they marched off, Metal-Knuckles turned around and moved over to a small, well-hidden storage room. "Humph, to think they would be this much of a problem." Giving off the signal to open the door, Metal-Knuckles would have smirked if he could, instead, he just watched as the old version of the Egg-O-Matic rose up from the ground, an add on combat unit already attached to it.
Jumping up and gliding into the Egg-O-Matic, the robotic Echidna grinned as the bulletproof glass dome slid into place over him while the machine powered up. Getting the full power signal from the main control, he gave off a dark chuckle as he pulled back on the lever activating the machine. "Ready or not rodents, here I came."
Zooming off, the robotic echidna turned on the com link and waited for the first report of the badnicks and eggpawns securing all escape routes to come in, after that, he could plan out just where he should go to greet them, the painful way.
Running across the rooftops, Amy had taken up the position of leader as she kept a firm eye out for any robots nearby. The trio already having made it a good one third of the trip they needed, with only a few robots getting in the way so far.
Behind her, RX had begun to relax a bit as he took a few precious seconds to stare up at the sky, the faint glimmering of stars signaling the final hour of light for the day had arrived. "Strange, how he wanted nothing more to stop and watch as each of them emerged, yet at the same time he knew deep down, that it would be much prettier to watch them far away from Eggman's base."
Jumping over a obstacle in their path, both he and Amy stopped as Rho gave off the loud warning sound they had already learned signaled that an Eggman controlled robot was nearby. Stopping as fast as he could, the lizard moved to watch their backs, his hands curled up as the few days worth of unarmed combat training came back to him. "Amy, Rho can you see it?"
One of his eyes moving to focus on the lizard, Rho gave the robotic version of a dark stare. "Negative, I am not detecting just one unit, I am detecting around 379 at the moment, long range scan adds another 234 to that number, but I am unsure, to much interference from power sources identified as high level power generators."
Turning her head to the side, Amy stared at Rho as a calm, yet lightly dement grin formed on her face. "Rho, where is the nearest power generator?" The question making RX turning around to glare at her, his mouth already opening to spit out a comment at her. "Look, we have to get out of here, but right now Metal-Knuckles will be looking for us up here, along with most of Eggman's forces."
Losing the bit of anger he had grown, RX nodded as even he could see where this was going. "And he really won't count on us going right back into the base again." Turning to regard Rho as well again, he smirked lightly as the robot had already begun to walk off in a given direction. "So tell me, do you do this kind of stuff often? I mean going up against dr. Eggman and Metal-Knuckles?"
Blushing at the comment/question, Amy shook her head and gave him a smile right back. "Not really, I usually tag along on Sonic's adventures, but he never seems to notice since he's always busy running off to save the world." Grinning lightly at the thought, Amy didn't bother to hide the blush forming on her face as the dream hunk of her life flashed before her eyes, figurative speaking, sonic wasn't there of course. "But that's way I love him, always willing to save the world no matter what, and he never seems to brag about it, well, unless it's Knuckles, or Shadow. Come to think of it, he does seem to like recounting all of his adventures quite often."
His eyes rolling back upwards as Amy giggled and thought about her Sonic, he shook his head and turned back to stare out over Eggman's citadel. The whole thing not able to hide the fact that it was nothing more then a gigantic factorial city kept under several giant lids. "Eggman, is it really to late, have I gone to far over the line to never be able to cross back?"
Shaking her head as she picked up a faint mumbling and the word Eggman, Amy huffed as she had once again allowed herself to sink off into a Sonic dream, and there wasn't time for that. "Come on RX, we have to catch up with Rho, or we'll get left behind."
Running off, Amy turned her head around when she saw the lizard following her. "Hold on Sonic, we'll make it back in time to warn you about the evil me."
Clenching up her hands as her side, Amy watched as the tell tale sign of Eggpanws moving in reached them, the loud humming sound of hover engines and the buzzing of weapons getting loaded. "I will make it, no matter what's in my way!" Lashing out with her hammer, Amy grinned as it completely tore off the front plating on the nearest Eggpawn even before it had landed.
Her momentum carrying her forward to attack the other one while RX went into close quarter combat with the third Eggpawn, she couldn't help but grin. Not matter how much it mattered to reach Sonic, she had to admit it was rather fun to go against all these robots, letting lose with all of her skills for the first time.
TBC:
AN: A little bit of the old day dreaming Amy near the end, and for a good reason, I am trying to show that while Amy wants to change in order for Sonic to like her just as Tikal advised her too in "A good Deed Gone wrong." She still hasn't fully understood how to do it, and isn't completely free of her old habits and is prone to slip into the old Amy behavior now and then.
But by having a set goal, one that is urgent and demands her to focus on it, she will slowly overcome it and emerge as a new hedgehog, hopefully.
And don't worry; she won't become a Female Sonic.
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Another thing is this. I am still inviting people to join my Yahoo group called "Sonicartgroup" where I show off some of my sonic art, and where others are welcome to post their as well and talk about them. But please people, if you join, leave a message on the group to say you have joined or what you think of what is there, it is confidence wrecking to see people having joined the group, but leaving behind no messages even if I post anything with a question in it.
It makes me think no one really cares about it.
Also, is anyone up to doing a drawing of what they think RX looks like? I want to see how you readers see him. And if you do make a drawing, send it to me at along with a penname, or real name and I'll send a reply ASAP and post it on my site.