7-Rescue Plan

"Tails, we have a problem!" Sonic shouted, bursting through the workshop door.

"What is it?" he asked. "Did you tell her already?"

"No, that's not it. Dr. Eggman has Amy!"

"What?"

"He has her tied up and he wants a Chaos Emerald in exchange for her!"

"What are we gonna do?"

"We're gonna rescue her, what do you think?"

"But we need a plan. Did he set any time restrictions for the delivery of the Chaos Emerald?"

"Did he what?"

"Do we have a deadline?"

"Yeah, tomorrow at noon."

"Okay, let's think up a plan."

"You think up a plan," said Sonic, taking a step towards the door, "I'm going to go save Amy."

"No, Sonic! We have to think this through!"

"Tails," Sonic said, looking directly onto Tails' eyes, "you don't know how much she means to me."

"I think I do," Tails said, returning his friend's gaze. "And it won't help Amy any if you go and yourself captured too."

Sonic's voice was quiet as he said, "I don't want anything thing happen to her. I- I think I…"

"Love her?"

A small amount of pink tinted Sonic's cheeks and he broke their gaze, smiling a little. "Yeah, I guess so." He looked at Tails again, his expression serious. "And I don't want to loose her."

"So let's make a plan so that you don't have to. So that none of us have to."

"Okay."

"Now, I need you to go find Shadow for me."

The three sat around the table, discussing their plan.

"So then, it's settled," concluded Tails. "We'll do it this evening."

Shadow didn't look happy. "I still don't see why we can't just take the Chaos Emeralds with us and go Super. It would make it so much simpler."

"Tails already told you; Knuckles said he needed them for something."

"That still doesn't explain why we can't take the Chaos Emeralds."

Tails rolled his eyes. "Shadow, we're not just gonna just take them from him. Besides, the plan should work out just fine without the gems."

Shadow scowled. "Why does he need them anyway? It would seem to me that rescuing Sonic's girlfriend would be a much more important cause."

"She's not my- never mind."

Shadow cocked an eyebrow at Sonic, his red eyes curious. "Yes?"

Then Tails interrupted the two, saying, "We're going to respect Knuckles' privacy. Whatever he needs them for, I'm sure it's important."

"Fine, but don't expect me to be happy about it."

"Thanks Shadow," Sonic said winking at the black hedgehog. "I owe ya' one."

"Don't you know it," he muttered.

"You ready?" Tails shouted form the open cockpit, starting up the engine. The blue hedgehog jumped up onto the plane's wing and nodded. "All right." The X-Tornado took off. "Don't fall off," Tails joked.

"Why on Mobius would you think I would fall off?" came the shouted reply over the wind.

"I dunno, just be careful."

After a few minutes of flying, "Where is he?"

Tails looked out his window. "Uh… right there," he said pointing at a dark figure running below. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Why do you dislike him so much?"

"I dunno. Were just so… He's just… We're total opposites. We may look similar, but we're not. And he's…" He trailed off.

"Yeah," agreed Tails. "That's Sonic for ya'," he added to himself.