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Chapter 6

Eggman was cracking up.

"What do you mean you hate him!? Wasn't that obvious before!?" He couldn't stop laughing. It only made Amy feel tenser in the situation. Shadow paused. His sudden anguished form had depleted in Amy's desperate scream. He slowly tilted his head in her direction enough to the side. Sweat was bundled in Amy's fist. She didn't know what to do now. She wasn't about to explain to him that she had only said it so he would power down though.

"Just stop…" She mumbled, afraid to use her entire voice at him. Shadow didn't appear appalled, or mad, he just stared. It was within those darting red eyes that made Amy's heart jump into the air. "Don't change like you did before." She pleaded.

"Why not?" Her eyes widened at his reply. Why did he reply like that? It had seemed as though they both had their different opinions on what was going on.

"What do you mean 'why not'? You'll turn into the thing that's…" He raised an eye waiting for her to finish. "the thing that's not you. I don't want that." Eggman wiped the tears off his face from uncontrollable laughter. Then he went back to being the antagonist.

"Okay, that was a great quality of final words my dear Amy. What about you, Shadow?" Shadow was caught in two unusual dialogues. He knew the only way to clear them both up was to start off with what was on his mind. He shook his head in unbelievable thoughts, and he swished himself around to face Amy.

"What are you talking about? If I don't do something, we're going to die; do you at least understand that?" Amy's nose flinched his voice was pounding so hard in her face.

"I can see that! But isn't there another way!?" Shadow slapped his hand in his face.

"No Amy; no there's not another way otherwise I wouldn't have to have resorted to that!" Eggman watched as they bickered.

"Oh…Well you should've told me!"

"Told you what?"

"That you were gonna do that, that scary thing again!" She stammered. Shadow paused once more.

"What?"

"AH! YOU DON"T GET IT!

"Don't get what?!" She shook her head.

"Never mind, Shadow." Eggman yawned to gain their attention.

"Well it's been fun you two," He griped, "but I have a world to conquer!" He pressed another button and a light spread around the inside of the cannon! It was going to fire! Shadow thought quickly as the bright shine blinded his eyes. He stepped back closer to Amy enough so she could hear him.

"Amy, when I say, run to the keypad!"

"W-what?! And do just what exactly there?!"

"Type in the code, of course!" She blinked.

"Oh, right!"

"Humph." He said when he looked back up at the cannon. If she wasn't so lightheaded, she could be my better half! The cannon was about to fire. "NOW, AMY!" Doing what she was told, Amy leaped to the side and lunged for the keypad. Then Shadow scurried the opposite way and he had distracted Eggman. Amy focused her eyes on the keypad.

"Okay; just what was that old password again?" She said to herself. Amy was paralyzed in thought as she rested her fingertips on the board. Why had she told Shadow she knew the code when she did not? And more importantly, why wasn't he fazed about her saying she HATED him? Or maybe he wasn't shocked because he didn't even care about what Amy thought of him…

"AMY!? THE CODE!" Shadow called out. She perked up

"Uh, right, of course!" She stammered and scrambled to get herself in place to study the keys. "Uh, is it…EGGMAN?" she typed in the keys.

-Access denied-

"Darn! What about…? CHAOS EMERALD?

-Access denied-

"Grr… SHADOW?!"

-Access denied- Amy was steamed and panicky all at once. Too concerned as to how Shadow's reaction to her knowledge of the code. With all haste, Amy zipped her fingers across the keypad. "C'mon damn it work for me!!!" She cried. Then she bashed her hands on the keypad a final time in defeat.

-Access Granted-

"Huh?" Amy was more fixated on a way to shut down the weapon after her odd success. She scrolled through some files quickly until she saw –lock down sequence- on a line. She chose this, and launched it without hesitation.

"I got you this time, Shadow!" Eggman proclaimed. The weapon was a head of Shadow and there was no way for him to avoid it at his speed. But suddenly the robot's arm flung up and it stood still. The robot was shut down; but the weapon wasn't! The most incredible light had revealed its content and destruction on the roof; creating a huge hole on the ship! Everything started to crumble! Amy stepped back when the keypad was destroyed by a large boulder of rubble. Then she felt the comfort of another from behind her and he carried her away from the demolition.

"Shadow, you're okay!" He let her down.

"Without the code, I wouldn't have been." There was almost a relief in his voice. This made Amy give her tilted smile again. She put her arms behind her back, unsure of what to say now that they were safe.

"We should hurry and get your friends." He finally said.

"Of course!" She yelled agreeably. He started to walk passed her. She prepared herself to follow him; but not before he gave her a question.

"Why did you say that?" There was a faint rumbling from the destruction in the back, but it didn't distract them.

"Why did I say what?" She was afraid to ask.

"Why did you say that you hate me? Is, is that what you really think of me?"

"No, not at all!" She answered quickly. "That's the COMPLETE opposite of what I think of you, Shadow!" She shook her head in denial. No, he thinks I hate him!!!

"Really? Than what do you think of me? I'm just wondering…"

"Shadow, I…" He twitched his ear, but he didn't turn to her yet. Amy had realized that he only had a sense to look at her when she had said something astounding to him; now he was waiting for what she had to say this time. "I…" CRASH!!!! The floor was rumbling and the metal walls were crumbling! "Shad-!" She was picked up immediately. She was afraid to open her eyes as they jumped from rubble to rubble in the air, but she did anyways. "SHADOW!?" She saw him being pulled by Rouge out from the hole in the ceiling. She eyed up at rescuer.

"Hey Amy; how's it going?" Sonic asked her with a smirk.