I'm releasing this early because I might not be able to get on tommorrow. Snow Storm + Power Lines Bad. Warning: Get's kinda suggesive at the end (with the raccoon, not after) But nothing too graphic. I moved the rating up to T just to be safe. Oh, and I've refrained from talking directly to reviewers up untill now but I have to say this. I hope the writer of the annonymous review that was signed as "Coco" is reading this. How, in any way, is Shadow Amy's brother? They aren't related. It never says they are in this fic. Where did that little bit even come from? Did you just want to make a negative review or something? But since I'm talking with reviewers, I want to thank you all for sticking with this fic. Ok, now that that's out of the way:

Disclaimer: Everyone is owned by someone, usually their owners.

Chapter 10: Spending the Night

Amy managed to sit up halfway. "Please... don't hurt him anymore..." She begged.

Cyber Shadow turned as well and stared at his captive. "Alright, then I'll simply change my target." He sent the bolt of energy at Amy, who screamed as it hit her. She was blown in the back of the cage, which electrocuted her again. She fell limp on the floor of the cage, barely breathing.

"No!" Shadow yelled, running over to the cage, manging to stop before he hit it. He knelt down to look at her. Cyber Shadow laughed. A horrible, metallic laughter that echoed off the walls. Shadow was once again filled with rage. He was drawing energy from something deep within him. His hand glowed white and a beam of it shot at Amy, completely healing her. He turned, now able to stand upright again.

"Impossible. How can you still use chaos abilities? You shouldn't have enough energy remaining in you to even chaos control 3 feet ahead." Cyber Shadow said, backing up. It was definitely time to leave.

Shadow chaos controlled in front of the door. "You are NOT leaving that easily." He slammed himself into Cyber Shadow, knocking the android into a wall. He then fried at least twenty chaos spears at the android, who fell to the floor in two pieces. The two halves reattached to themselves and the now completely fixed Cyber Shadow laughed again. Shadow drew the last of his energy together and began to glow red. Amy stared wide-eyed from her cage. "CHAOS..." Shadow floated into the air, the red glow becoming brighter. "BLAST!" He released all the energy at once, blowing Cyber Shadow apart into a thousand pieces, which fell to the floor and thankfully, did not piece back together. The blast had blown open Amy's cage along with destroying many crates in the room. Shadow fell from where he had floated just a couple seconds before and landed on the floor, totally unconscious.

"Oh he's dead! I just know it! They caught him. My device didn't work..." Tails said as the group wondered where Shadow was.

"Hey, I wouldn't worry about him, Tails. He's the ultimate lifeform. I don't think he'll get captured too easy." Rouge said, reassuring herself as well. She still thought of Shadow as a brother and she didn't want to lose him.

Hours past, and when he awoke, it was night time. He awoke to find himself alone in the warehouse. "Amy?" He called out, getting up and finding a note beside him. He read it:

Dear Shadow,

Thank you so much for saving me! I left to find something to eat. Don't worry, I'll be fine. The place I'm going is just a couple blocks away. In case you want to make sure I'm ok, I left at around 7:00pm.

Sincerely, Amy

There was word scratched out before 'sincerely'. Shadow wasn't sure, but he thought it said 'love'. Shadow then checked his watch. It was 7:45. He quickly ran out of the warehouse to find Amy, not noticing that the pieces to Cyber Shadow were gone.

Miles away, Shade and Cyber Shadow were talking. "I'm sorry sir. I did not realize he could draw power from his rage." The android apologized.

"It is understandable. Not even I knew he could do that." Shade replied. "I knew rage would make him gone insane and fight until the end, but not that he could draw energy from it."

Shadow was on a building, looking all around for Amy. He heard a scream and instantly ran towards it. He stood above the alley it had come from to find a male raccoon with a knife, forcing Amy into a corner. The alley had many broken beer bottles strewn around. "Please! No!" Amy was screaming as she was forced more and more towards the corner.

'Hell no.' Shadow thought as he leapt down into the alley. Just before the raccoon was able to commit his crime, it received a huge kick in the back of his head. The raccoon turned and leapt at Shadow, who stepped out of the way. Once the drunkard had hit the ground, Shadow raised him into the air by the scruff of his neck and turned him so they were face to face. "And if I ever see you do that again, to any girl, I punch you till you beg for the grim reaper to rid you of your pain." With that, Shadow threw the raccoon out into the street, were the coward ran off.

Shadow turned to see Amy staring at him. The night gown she had worn when she was captured was now torn and she had to hold it closed. Shadow removed his jacket and gave it to Amy, who graciously wrapped it around herself. "Thanks Shadow..." Was all she could say through shock that Shadow had protected her like that and what remained of her fear.

Shadow nodded. He scooped Amy up in his arms and ran back to the warehouse. He set her down where he had been laying before. "Shadow... you've saved me three times in just a couple days. I... can't possibly thank you enough..." Amy said, not knowing what else to say. Shadow sat down beside her. Something about this made Amy feel the way she did around Sonic, like everything was right with the world.

"You're welcome Amy." The ebony male said. He suddenly felt something on his cheek. He looked over to find Amy was giving him a kiss on the cheek. She pulled away in a second, which seemed to last an hour to Shadow and smiled sweetly at him. Shadow fought back blushing.

"I guess that's the best 'Thank you' I can give." She said with a sigh. She was suddenly hit with a shocking realization. She had broken a vow she had made to herself. To have her first kiss be with Sonic! But, she didn't care for some reason. She tried to tell herself that it was just a gesture of friendship, but somehow, she couldn't believe that. The thought of Sonic made a question pop into her mind. "Hey Shadow, why didn't Sonic come to save me like he always had before?" She asked. She dreaded the answer, but knew she would have to hear it.

Shadow sighed. "Well... he didn't want to hog the spotlight so, cause I was already going for the supplies..." The ebony hedgehog said, not being very convincing.

Amy looked into his crimson eyes. Her emerald ones seemed to bore in Shadow's soul. "Tell me the real reason." She said.

"Alright. That faker complained about having to save you from some psychotic robot again, so I did it instead." Shadow said.

Amy looked away. Her heart felt horrible. Everything was messed up. Sonic didn't like her. She was having some odd feeling for Shadow. Nothing seemed right. Suddenly she felt a weight on her shoulders, and turned to see that the ebony hedgehog beside her had his arm around her. She wanted to squeal with delight. Everything seemed to instantly become right at that very second. Sonic and Blaze didn't seem to matter. Nothing did. A voice in the back of her mind said, 'Screw Sonic. He just pushed me away. He had his chance.' Amy was barely able to belive that she had just thought that, but somehow, it made sense. She was feeling very tired, and apparently Shadow was too, because he had fallen asleep beside her. She sighed and slowly began to drift into sleep, laying her head on her new hero's shoulder.

Whoot! Chapter 10 is done! I hit double digits!