Chapter 10: ...Hello and Goodbye, Love Amy
She felt the wind rising upwards, she felt the last drops of rain hitting her wounds, and she felt the painful sticks of sharp knives in her body. Beaten and weak could only the describe Amy's many conditions. She fell and fell down the mountain, not knowing what to do but to fall lifeless. Her impaled mind tried to make think of her life before her eyes, but the sharp object in her skull made them disappear one by one. She saw the sharp rocks at the bottom of the canyon and closed her eyes hoping the pain will soon parish. It could've seem the end of Amy Rose...but it wasn't. In midair, before she hit the rocks below, someone caught her. Someone grabbed her by the green vest and soared her out of danger, like a superhero! She felt the tug and opened her eyes again. She had a strange feeling of being saved by someone she wouldn't expect. While in the air, for a brief moment, she looked up and saw her savior, Sonic the Hedgehog. That brief moment soon turned into event as everything slowed down for her. She remembered how he saved her a long time ago. When she was captured by the evil doctor, Sonic didn't know who she was, he just saved her out of heroism. His bright green eyes and his blue fur shining from the shred on moonlight in the sky made her think, why? Why now? After all she has done, he still had the heart to save her life. She even started to cry out a tear from her bruised left eye. But as the tear left her eye, all the pain in her body caused her fall into a deep sleep. Then all her worries...regrets...and her life memories...left her mind, forever.
Amy was saved and Mobius was safe for another day. After that, everything worked out during that harsh night. The people in the domes waited and waited for something to happen, but they were still in one piece. Amy didn't drop them, nor did the opposite dome in the sky. They were all so cheerful that they survived the crisis! They figured that Amy failed to make due of her threat, so they decided that it was time to bring themselves back on the ground were they belong. Many technicians and computer whizzes quickly got together in each dome and with a little search around the iron wall of the domes, they figured out a way to make the domes sync and descend slowly to the ground slowly altogether.
In an hour, the patient Mogul watched the domes descend to the ground to their original spots. Once the domes were back in place, the team shut down the shields and everyone was freed from their electric prison. Though the placement was a little crooked, objects sliding off tables and such, but everyone would adjust to that matter. It was better than falling hundreds of feet to the ground, so it was the least of their worries. Shortly after, generators were put up around various areas to keep the city lit while others could figure out how to bring most of the power back to the city. For the time being, generators were offered free to buildings that desperately needed them, such as the central hospital.
Later that night, dozens of people were sent to the hospital. Some were injured, bruised and lost a limb or two during the ascending, but surprisingly no deaths. Flame carried Rouge to the emergency room as fast as he could for her stabbed back. Once he got there, he saw loads of patients and nurses that there was hardy room for her at all. The hole in her back started to bleed faster and she was nearly ready to blackout. One of the doctors came in and there recognized the famous cat, Flame. The weasel doctor named Doctor K. Simmon, was honored to meet him and asked if Amy was taken down and if the King was alright, but Flame didn't answer. He told him to never mind them, Rouge needed treatment fast. Doctor Simmon looked at her back and saw that the hole went up to her spinal cord. It was bad. He immediately took them to one of the treatment rooms to treat her wound.
He gathered some of the nurses in a hurry and headed to the rooms. As they walked through the screaming halls of pain, Flame could only scold upon the clown's handy work. All those people and his teammates, didn't deserve it at all. Room 118 was the place. The doctor quickly opened the door and in the dark room with one lamp lighting the the place, he saw that the operating table was already full. To their surprise, there laid the unconscious Amy Rose and beside her stood King Sonic waiting for them.
"Y-your majesty!" said Simmon in shock, "What is she doing in here?" Sonic and Amy were still injured from the fight, so Sonic didn't want to make talk like Flame. Sonic placed his hand on the shuriken the was stuck in her head and looked at all of them with a serious look in his eyes.
"Doc, I need you to treat Amy back to health," he said, "I don't know how long she has." Flame scolded both the hedgehogs.
"...you have some nerve bringing that, thing, here," said Flame handing Rouge over to the nurses.
"Doctor! We need to operate on Miss Rouge now!" Said one of the nurses.
"Ok, take her to Room 122 down the hall, it should be empty," he ordered. The nurses quickly brought her to the room and left the others to argue. "Your majesty..with all due respect, I can't do that. I don't think I can treat a monster like her!"
"Why you'd think I used the window to get in here in the first place?" He said, "She's already on the table, so it's only right to treat her now."
"Ah who are you to talk about what's right, huh?" Said Flame angrily as he pointed his finger out in the noisy hall, "You hear that? Those are the screams of people that are in pain and agony. All caused by one person and you're standing right next to her, wanting to bring her back to health! She shouldn't be treated, she should be dead, but nooo! You just had to save her!"
"Your majesty, you saved this maniac? That's why you two are arguing?" Simmon said in shock, but he had to agree with Flame, she shouldn't even be in that room.
"I had to save her alright," he said in a calm tone, "It was the right thing to do."
"Again with telling me what's right," said Flame frustrated, "You didn't do it because it was right, you only did it because you can't stand to see someone die. You are incomparable like that." Then he reached for his pistol but didn't point it anyone but gave a clear message to who he wanted to point it at. "...I should end her right now." The doctor really didn't want guns in the hospital and wanted him to put it away, but Flame didn't want to. Sonic didn't worry, not at all, because both of them knew that Sonic had enough strength in his legs to zip over and grab the gun before he had the chance to fire. Knowing that, the two took one good look at each other and before the doctor said anything, Flame just gave up.
"You know what Sonic? Forget it," he said putting away the pistol, "Do whatever you please." Then he went off to see if Rouge was doing ok.
"Flame, you're in bad condition too, I need to check if you have any internal injuries," Simmon suggested, but Flame didn't want to get treated.
"No," he said back, "Stick with the hedgehogs in there, I don't want to see those two again, ever...Oh Sonic, don't worry, I won't tell anyone she's in here and still 'vulnerable.' But don't come calling me back if that maniac tries to strangle you with your own quills!" He left and left the three there in that dark room alone. Once he left, the doctor quickly closed the door and locked it so no one would get in and turned on the main lights so he could see better. He walked over to the two hedgehogs and saw that they were both in bad shape. Sonic's legs were scratched and had bruises on his face, but Amy was 10x worse. No words could describe the condition she was in.
Doctor Simmon turned to Sonic and had only one question, "What happened?"
"Too much," Sonic said looking at Amy's body, trying to explain what they done to her as Doc looked at her closely, "She had the device, to drop the domes. I asked her and asked her to hand it over, but she didn't listen...then I..lost my temper...then Flame...Look we have get this star out of her head, it's stuck."
"The crisis is was over by you guys? Yes I see, I am very grateful you two were able to stop her, grateful indeed," Simmon said trying not to touch it at the moment and checking her heartbeat, "...the shuriken doesn't seem to go that far in her brain, the tip seems to be simply stuck between skull and the frontal lobe and her heart is still beating. Not normal rate, slightly faster actually. Yes, I can say she's unconscious, but in terrible condition. It's amazing she's still alive."
"We're wasting time Doc! Can you please do it?" Said Sonic. The Doctor turned his back and looked at the open window Sonic came in from and breathed deeply. He really didn't want to treat that clowned maniac.
"First of all it's Doctor 'K. Simmon', not Doc. Second, there are people in this hospital that would love to get their dirty hands on this woman. Some would like to see her die or see dying or even video record her dying, bring it home and eat popcorn while watching it in High-Definition, or HD TV if you will, with their loved ones or upload it on the internet for all to see...But, as much as I hate to say it, I am a doctor after all and it's my job to treat the weak. No matter how much I despise their guts."
"So you'll do it, Simmon?"
"...Of course, with no charge majesty. Although I have to find some assistance that won't try to kill her and keep a secret as well, but consider this the last and only time I help someone like this, ever. We'll treat you too of course. our legs are in bad condition as well."
"No, no, I can shake it off...just take care of her," then as Sonic hopped on the ledge of the open window, showing his good health, he turned to the doctor with smile and said, "Thank you.." He leaped out the window and ran into the night. Once he was gone, the doctor called for some help to begin the treatment. He didn't say who or why, just called for assistance, immediately. Later near midnight, everything seem to calm down as most of the citizens were able to sleep safely in their beds. Not knowing that Amy was still alive and hearing from her, they accepted the fact that she was gone for good. Queen Sally saw it that way too. She and her two children were snuggled together on the living couch in their intact castle, sleeping after a long night. She held them tightly in her arms, making sure that they'll be safe for another day. Sally was sound asleep and the children's snores couldn't wake her up, but something did. She felt a small breeze in the room, then a touch on the shoulder. She slowly opened her tired eyes, turned her head to the right, and saw her husband Sonic snuggling up with them were Manik was in the middle of the two parents. The king and Queen looked at each other and there were no words spoken, just smiling, and that spoke loud enough. They laid together with their sleeping children and quickly fell right to sleep.
The whole fiasco was over, for now. People thought they were well, people thought nothing else could go wrong, but one individual amongst the whole city had a huge turn of events. That night, Tina the Hedgehog wondered the dark and silent streets of her neighborhood, wanting to get some rest too. She had no transportation, since most of the cabs around the city were flipped over, so she walked all the way home. Her shoulders were a bit sore from the beating earlier from the crowd and made her walk slower. The wind suddenly picked up and made her cold. She knew once she got home to her husband and kids, she would have a hot coco with extra sugar. She walked and walked along her block trying to get home, but, the street became unfamiliar to her. She saw her neighbors' houses street to street, but couldn't find her house. She began to worry and looking for her own home in the dark made her scared. Where was her house? Where could it be? She then took a closer look at her street and realized that there was a huge fissure in the street, where the domes separated the city. She looked closer and discovered her house key under a big pile of rubble. It was a mystery why it was laying like that, yet a sign. She yanked it out from the cracks and it was muddy, bent in a 90 degree angle, a speck of blood at the sharp end, and... it all became clear. The streets weren't that close together, for in front of her was her neighbor's lawn...above her house. When the domes separated the city, her house was the only one that didn't get caught in the electric field, because the connection from the domes weren't perfect. So when the domes were brought back down...her home and most importantly, her family, were crushed below. Her husband and kids, were gone. She didn't know how to react, all that came from her were tears. She kneeled to the ground where her house was and cried her heart out. She cried and cried and cried some more...at that moment, extreme hatred ran through her body. She became furious, pushing her over the edge as she screamed and yelled trying to lift the land off her house...but there was no point...they were gone forever. She stopped trying to lift and held the dirty key to her face. There was only one person to blame, the one who was responsible for everything that has happened that week, the one that was suppose to be her friend...Amy.
Tina knew that Amy would get her in someway and the death of her family was her last laugh. Tina kept crying and crying and crying alone in the dark with no one noticing her. That night, she changed. All that she thought was true, about Amy being her friend, about her not being vengeful, became lies to her. She should've told everyone to track her down instead of not being mad at her. She was wrong so many times in her life that she saw it as her fault. While still crying, she looked at the sharp and dirty key and held it up to the left side of her face. For everything she was wrong about, was engraved in the left side of her face that night. All the way to her chin. The pain was immense and sufferable, it made her cry even louder. Through ever mark the pain grew, she didn't care how she would look, she lost everything, she had nothing to live for. When the left side of her face was scrapped to death by her own key, all she wanted...was payback.
A solid week have passed and so many things has changed since that night. The city was slowly returning back to it's normal as well as the emotions of the citizens. Within two weeks the streets were cleaned, the buildings and houses were repaired, and power and water back up, and normality seemed to come back to the city. What they were thinking through the days was what has become of Amy Rose? News and anonymous resources claimed the hired gun, Flamed, killed her and didn't have to worry about the madness anymore. They were half right.
Through Simmom's advanced treatment, he was able to nurse Amy back to health with in those weeks. It wasn't hard, his assistance bothered to keep the secret and did what whatever they could to help. All of them succeeded. She was completely healed of her wounds and brain damage. Even though she was well, there was a bigger problem they've encountered while they tried to communicate with her. When they were talking to Amy, she seemed, calmer than. In fact, she wasn't crazed or sociopathic like she was before, she scared and confused. When they called her by her name, she didn't know what they were talking about, for the hedgehog has forgotten who she was...she had the case of amnesia.
Simmon couldn't believe it, not for a second. One ninja star to the head couldn't have caused amnesia, it was impossible. He ran scans around her brain and discovered the waves cooled down over time, as if most of things she remembered all vanished. He even tried tricking her to see if she was lying, but everything proved negative, she couldn't remember anything at all! Knowing this, he suddenly became fascinated how a woman like her was able to escape her conscious like that, rather too fascinated as he began more tests over the hedgehog.
A sunny and cloudless day in the city of Mobius was a peaceful day. At the hospital, Rouge was finally let out. The nurses and doctors successfully fixed her back by filling the hole with both her wings intact. It was painful, but Flame was their by her side all the way. She had to wear a cast around her waist and most of her back for several weeks before she could ben straight. Flame was even there to give her a ride n the motor cycle. She really appreciated the help. She wondered what happened to Amy, but Flame kept it a secret and told her he didn't know. It didn't matter, as long as she was stopped. As the two rode away on the motorcycle, holding on to him tightly, she felt that she was never nice to him before. So out of no where, she asked if the two of them could, have dinner together, to celebrate. Flame the Cat, refused. When she asked him why, he said, "Heh, because, I'm married." She couldn't believe he was married! "Where did you think I kept going all the time, the bar?" She smacked him on the shoulder for all the times the creep flirted with her. In that moment, they couldn't help but smile. Flame said to the bat that she would meet someone else one day. People always do.
Back at the castle of the King and Queen was a lot easy going with their new security they hired around the perimeter, so that the home invasion will never occur again. On that day, Sonic , with his legs fully healed legs, was with his kids about to play a little game of "Catch" in the royal garden out back, that was big enough for a baseball field. Sonic had a clean baseball and Sonia and Manik where the catchers.
"Alrighty guys!" Said Sonic to his kids out in the field, "You know the rules, the one with the most points in two minutes, gets this huge ice cream sunday!" On a table shaded under an umbrella was the sunday delight,the prize of the game, and it was their favorite. It had big scoops of ice cream of three flavors, banana pieces, chocolate bits along with coco seasoning, and of course a cherry on top of it all. They were both speedy kids like their dad and either one of them could with the delicious treat. Manik smirked at his sister with over confidence.
"I think you should quit now Sonia," he said, "I'm the faster than you!"
"Nah uh!" She said back, "I weigh lesser than you, I'm faster!" Sonic couldn't help but chuckle at the two arguing.
"So? You're dumber!" He said, "I'm smarter! I can catch that ball in a split second before you blink!"
"Please, you couldn't even catch a cold!" She said back again, Sonic then had to make them stop before the ice cream melts away.
"Sonia! Manik! If you keep stalling, the ice cream will melt you know?" He said, they apologized for that behavior and was ready for the game. Sonic quickly flung the ball upwards in the air, charged his shot by swing the bat round and round at incredible speed, and once the ball came down and met the level of his eyes, *pow*! The ball went flying across the yard. Once struck, the kids speeded off to where the ball was going to land. Manik was so sure he was going to catch it head on, but Sonia had a quick strategy. She ran towards the tall trees planted in the yard and began jumping from them. Higher and higher she got, as Manik knew what his sis was doing, he ran to the nearest castle wall and ran up the wall to the ball level. At the same time, the two kids leaped off the the structures and into the air like their feet were made of springs! They went closer, closer, and closer to the ball, until- *Thud*! The two kids collided with each other and hit the ground hard as the ball landed before them.
None caught the ball, but that didn't stop them from having a good laugh though. As the three played on, Queen Sally look at them from the back balcony of the castle. Just looking at her family being happy made her forget about the crises not so long ago. She thought it would begone for good, but it didn't. She heard the telephone ringing in the living room, ringing so loudly. She walked calmly, trying not to make haste. After the fifth annoying ring, she picked up the phone and answered. Who she heard wasn't anyone she heard before. The caller said it was urgent and said it involved her husband, she became suspicious. Sally didn't like to be the one who didn't know about things, so she asked him what was the matter. After hearing the urgent matter, it made the Queen so, outraged, that out through the balcony she called her husband. "SOOONNNIIIIICCC!"
The howling scream made everyone in the castle wall cringe in fear, even Sonic. He stopped the game and saw Sally holding the phone on the balcony...with a scornful face. In that moment of silence, he knew what was up and why she was so scornful, but didn't tell the kids...Amy.
Meanwhile on the other side side of town, the lucky bat Rouge was sorting out some bills in one of her many clubs, "Deluxe Rouge". After the healing Flame left and would come back whenever she wanted him, but in her club, she could handle place by herself; since the place wasn't open until 7 P.M. was almost done paying for the damages, but then she heard something crash in the bar outside her office. She got up slowly, trying not to break her back, and walked out to see that there was someone sitting on a bar stool at the poorly lit counter.
"Hey! Hey you!" She said at the intruder, their face was face down at the counter covered by their arms so she couldn't see who it was, "I don't know how you got in here, but we don't open til' seven. So get out of here." The intruder said nothing, so she got up and close to make herself clear to he/she. "Did you hear me? I said get the-" The the intruder rose their head and it was Tina the Hedgehog, looking depressed as ever. Rouge was surprised and couldn't believe what she was wearing. It was like her cloths weren't washed or cleaned for days, it was the same dark green suit she had worn since Amy was defeated. And it reeked. "T-Tina? Is that you?"
"...hi Rouge," Tina said in a raspy tone, she looked at her with the right side of her face, not showing the other side, "Heard you and the guys stopped Amy. Right?"
"Well, you can say we did," Rouge said. Tina then took a martini glass half full of liquor she took from the counter and shook it a little, "But, are you alright? You look kinda dead."
"...oh yeah?" She said as she turned to her face to face, exposing the hideous side of her body, "...try half..." She then drunk it all in one swallow, but some dripped off the left side of her mouth. The left side of her face torn and full of black and red scars. The marks were so deep that her left eyelid was shredded off, unable to blink the left eye. The left side of her mouth was cut off too, exposing her left cheek muscles and teeth. Even her left ear, green quills and part of her nose, gone. The sight of her just blew Rouge's mind, she even gagged in her mouth a little. To make sure her image was right, the left side of Tina's dirty cloths were torn and shredded, matching her two-faced head.
"UGHHH! What happened to you Tina?" Rouged said, "Who did this to you?" Then tina put the drink down on the counter and looked at the bat, menacingly.
"...that all depends, how much are you willing to know?" She said as she pulled out a magnum laser gun from her coat and pointed it at the bat.
"Wha- Hey! What are you doing?" Rouge said stepping back.
"I don't want to hurt you girl and I know you have enough leg in you to knock this out of my hand, but your back isn't fully healed," she said still pointing the gun, "So be quiet. All I want is some info. You were there when Amy was stopped, so where exactly did you guys take her? Huh?"
"Tina...I don't know what you are talking about," she said, "I didn't see everything through, I don't even know what happened to Amy, she could be dead for all I-"
"SHUT UP!" She yelled as she pounded her fist at the counter, "She's not dead! I know she's still alive! A woman like her can't be killed unless it's by MY HAND!"
"Tina I don't know where she is ok!" Rouge yelled back, "I don't know what they did to her!" That made Tina smirk with her right face. She knew what she had to. She got out a gold coin, the only currency she had to her name since she lost everything. On one side, it was as clean as any other coin, but on the other side, it was scrapped by the key, just like the left side of her face.
"Really? Cause I don't know what's going to happen to you," she was then about to turn the coin on the counter, "But I'm going to give you a fair chance. Tell me where she is and I won't spin the coin. Cause you see, I've been wrong about things in my life, like if a person should live or not. The only way to decided now, is by fair chance. So if it lands on heads, I'll leave and let you live, but if tails, your brains will paint this place."
"Tina," Rouge getting ready to kick, "Don't do this. You're better than this."
"I know, but it's stupid people in the world that makes me do this to myself. So..." *Kink* She spun the coin on the counter, making it spin around and around. Rouge wasn't going to take this, so she let out a powerful kick to the hedgehog, but missed as the hedgehog rolled out the seat just in time. That false move caused Rouge to crack her fragile back and fell on the floor.
"AAHHhhhh!" She cried in pain. Tina got up but didn't do a thing to her, then the coin stopped on the table. What it was to her, it landed on heads.
"...hmph," she said snatching the coin off the table and putting it in her right pocket. She was about to leave but looked at the pathetic bat on the floor, "Looks like you get to fly in the freedom batty." *Bam*! She kicked the bat in the ribs causing her to roll over. While Rouge still cried on the floor, Tina left the building and headed for her partner, Flame.
Later that day, The King and Queen were brought to the hospital where Amy resided and were asked to come quietly come to the back of the building. Of course Sonic had to carry Sally all the way there since speed is the quickest way to travel. In the back Dr. Simmon stood waiting for them near a small parking garage where they couldn't be seen. They entered the white garage and once they were in, Simmon quickly locked the doors shut, preventing intruders.
"Ah the King and Queen," he said bowing his head in honor, "I'm glad that the both of you could come, in such a hurry." They looked around at the room and it was indeed empty, nothing but white walls and tiles and it wasn't big enough to fit ten people.
"Ok enough!" Sally said being impatient, "Where is she? Show us where she is."
"Yes yes, sure, sorry!" Simmon said being scared of the Queen's outburst as he searched the floor tiles, "Just uh, give me a moment to find, uh...ah ha!" He opened one of the floor tiles in the left corner. Underneath it was a password module and he then entered the top secret code, for the secret entrance. Once finished, an underground stairway opened in the floor. "Voila! The entrance to my lab!" He said letting down the tile and walked to the two, "The location isn't really convenient, I wanted it in the basement of the hospital, but for security purposes, I had to move to a less conspicuous area. I even wanted a teleportor, but again-"
"Simmon, please, we need to see Amy," Sonic pleaded.
"...ok, sorry, that's the real reason you guys are here," Simmon said, "Please, right this way." So the King and Queen entered the steel stairway as Simmon followed. I was dark and chilly as they went on through. He closed the door to floor behind them and as soon as it was automatically locked, teal neon lights lit the way to the lab. It didn't take long for them to reach the lab, it only took several seconds before they could step foot in it. The lab was amazing, it was 20x bigger than the garage upstairs. Large capsules, various fluids in bottles and wires covering the floor bellow them. It was amazing to see all that equipment for one man, but it wasn't important to them as Simmon suspected, but somethings have caught their eyes. In the room, they saw the robotic, Vector the Crocodile and the rest of the men and women who were crushed by the C.H.P. building.
"Vector? Is that you?" Sonic with a shock. Vector's bigger torso and arms were all robotic, making him more stronger and lively. His other partners were like him but with different robotic parts
"Sonic! Sally! I haven't seen you guys in weeks!" He said in joy as the others welcomed them.
"What, happened to you guys?" Sally said.
"Well I couldn't let good offerers of the law die by some collapsing building can I?" Simmon smirked, "I'm a genius! I revived most of them with my supreme intellect on robotics. Their injuries were great yes, but they just lost a few limbs for those who survived. So, I made them as cyborgs. Im a genius!"
"Are you crazy?" Sally said in a outburst, "We don't need Dr, Eggman's teachings going around like this! For all we know you could be one of his handiwork!"
"My queen, I can't believe you'll tell such lies!" He said being innocent, "I-I hate him as much as the next mammal."
"Sally! Calm down!" Vecotor said, "It's not all bad, we're alive and are still the freedom Fighters. He helped us out and in return we helped him with Amy."
"...you what?" Sally and Sonic questioned.
"Yes, they were the help. It was the least they could for bringing them back to life, which brings me to the reason I called you guys here," Simmon said. He led them to a door on the right and went into the steel room. The room that was actually solid white clean from the main room, The room that concealed Amy in a huge, solid glass dome prison. It wasn't small, but was like her own private room, with a bed, toilet, and some toys laying on the carpet floor. There she slept on the bed wearing a grey jumpsuit, not knowing of their presence.
"Amy Rose.." Sally said with a mean look, she was just disgusted by the sight. She looked completely different last time they saw her. Her fur was restored to it's pink color, had less make-up on, and most importantly, the scars on her muzzle were cleared for good!
"Yes," Simmon said, "Amy Rose and all her glory...sleeping. Well as you can see Sonic, me and the boys did a fine job nursing her. Bones straightened, scares removed, shuriken removed yes, and green fur back to pink huh? I enjoyed the quick work so much, that I had to let the guys stay longer!" Surprisingly as it may have seemed, Sonic was happier than ever, which really concerned Sally.
"Wow! You really did a great job Simmon! I really appreciate it. I'm glad she's ok," Sonic said gratefully looking closer at her through the glass. He even touched the glass in relief, but Simmon didn't like that.
"Hey, hey hey hey, do not touch the glass!" Simmon ordered, "I don't want those gloves dirtying up this glass!"
"Ok sorry!" Sonic taking his hands off the glass, the doctor's anger shocked the hedgehog, but then he cooled down.
"...so sorry your majesty," Simmon sighed, "When people touch my valuables, I get a bit touchy. Anywho, the real reason I called you over here is that during her recovery, I discovered something unexpected. After we filled the hole in the head from the shuriken, her brain waves changed. When I called her by her name during the communication, she didn't answer. We thought it was her way of spiting us, but the truth was, she didn't know she was Amy. She didn't even know what we were saying. What I'm saying is, she lost her memory from the strike on the noggin." They couldn't believe what he said, they thought it was a lie. No one could have lost their memory from a strike on the head like that.
"What?" Sally said, " There's no way she lost her memory like that! She's just playing with you Simmon. She knows if she plays dumb, then she'll think we'll have mercy on her crazed head."
"No, no it's pretty much the truth my queen," he said, "She lost everything. From walking and eating to saying 'Dada and Momma'. Of course we had to teach her words since she forgot how to speak english. That's why it took so long for me to fix her." Sally and Sonic didn't look like they were buying the story for one second, so it was time for Simmon to make them watch. He faced the dome and pushed the alarm button for her to wake up. "Right Amy. Up up! Nap time's over!" She heard the noises and got up from her bed. The alarm was shut off from her standing.
"Ehhh, what time is it?" Those were the first words Sonic and Sally heard from her in weeks.
"It's wakey time Amy," Simmon said, "Now come here and meet my, friends." Amy slowly walked up to the front glass walls and smiled at the two strangers. It wasn't much a sinister smile, but the friendly smile Amy was famous for.
"Hi," she said shyly, "Um, my name's Amy..."
"She's shy like," Simmon whispered, "Now Amy, do you know these people? The ones in blue and brown hm?" She looked at the two strangers really close through the class, it was clear enough for her to see through. It was hard for her to recognize them, so she came up with one conclusion, "Mom? Dad?" It made Simmon smirked some more.
"Heh, no Amy, your 'parents' are on 'vacation'. Didn't tell where but are enjoying themselves and wishes you a happy life. But, how does this blue person, make you feel?"
"...you mean this blue porcupine with the crown?"
"Not porcupine, hedgehog."
"Oh sorry...I, don't really know how I feel. I don't even know him. But the crown is royalty right? Like a king?"
"You can say that."
"...you know darn well who he is Amy," Sally said at the confused hedgehog.
"But miss, I don't," she said, "I don't know who you are either. You guys are strangers and Simmon says strangers are bad people."
"YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE!" She yelled putting her hands on the glass shouting at the hedgehog. It scared Amy so much she fell on the carpet floor.
"My glass!" Simmon tried to make make her take her palms off the glass, but Sally's glare made him back away.
"Amy I know your plan, I know your scheme, you don't have amnesia, you're just playing with us!" Sally said, "So don't think for a second you'll get away with your murderous crimes!" Simmon then quickly hit the sound button on the dome, making sounds inside and out of the chamber none existent. He didn't want her hearing any of that.
"Hehe, my queen, have you gone mad?" Simmon sweating, "I know your suspicion, but it's really and I mean really important that she cannot know what she did. Otherwise she'll turn back to the crazy, psychotic clown we all hate you know?" Amy saw them talking in silent. She didn't know what they were talking about, so she decided to play with her toy tractor on the floor.
"Oh, and calling her by her name won't make her remember at all huh?" She said scorning the doctor.
"It will not make her remember," he said, " It's just her name, it's the key factors of her actions that are what important...If you want, I could keep her here with me for life. Yes! She'll be my little assistant."
"...no," she said looking at the grown up hedgehog playing with a toy tractor, "This place won't hold her. She can find a way to escape, she'll come after us, and then this whole thing will start again. The only way to make sure she never comes back to this city, is to lock her in the depths of the Ice Cap Mines."
"You, you don't mean- " the doctor shook with fear.
"Yes, a place much stronger than the C.H.P.," she said, "The Mobius Asylum. It's surrounded by hundreds of impenetrable diamond walls. Nothing or no one can break in or out of it. She'll spend the rest of her days rotting in that prison. But first, her trial must take place, before the move."
"Hmm, can't argue with that," he said, "But what amongst the lines of, death? I'm mean she did kill a lot of people."
"Because we'll be no better than her," Sonic said still looking at Amy, play so innocently, "We can't kill her. Not while she's like this, when she has no idea what she's done.."
"...Sonic. Sonic don't. Please tell me you're not falling for this," Sally said at her husband, "It's a trick! Nothing but a sneaky old trick! I know we can't kill her, but it's not because she's playing dumb, but because we're not like that Simmon."
"Can't argue with that either," Simmon shrugged.
"I know it's a little farfetched, I don't really know if she is playing a trick, but look at her, "Sonic continued, "She's like a child. A child with no memories at all. It's like...having the old Amy Rose back..." At that moment, Sally saw the look on Sonic's face. He had sympathy for her and didn't want anything bad to happen to her, but Sally made up her mind.
"...Sonic, we are putting her on trial and sending her to the Asylum this week," she said pointing her finger at him, "And that's final."
"The Asylum won't work either," he objected. Sally didn't what he was talking about that time. "Simmon is right. Her name won't bring the memories back, but the way they occurred will. If we lock her in the Asylum, it'll just bring back the memories of her childhood. That's how it all started. Being confined in one place all her life will make her go mad and the painful memories will come back for sure. Then it 'will' start all over again. The only sensible way, is to banish her, to the world."
"What?" She said. Sally couldn't believe it! Sonic wanted to set her free to world! "Are you carzy? You're just gonna let her go?"
"If we do, then she'll be free," he said, "No inclosed spaces, no one telling her what to do, she'll be free and happy." She believed he was crazy. Not long ago, he wanted beat the living day lights out of her for what she did and now he wants to set her free? It made no sense at all. To Sonic, if the child-like Amy was set free into the world and away from the city, everyone will be happy and no one would have to see more crimes from the clowned woman long ago. It still made no sense to her. Sally looked at Simmon in confusion, but Simmon decided to mind his own business, whistle, and turn away from the couldn't take any more foolishness. She looked Sonic right in the eyes with seriousness generating from the two.
"...she endangered too many lives Sonic. She will be put on trial and be sent to the Asylum, rather you like it or not," she said to his face, then began to leave the room, "Dr. Simmon, keep her locked here until my team comes to pick her up."
Yes your highness," Simmon bowed, "I'd take it you two don't wish to stay longer. I'll escort ya'll upstairs yes?"
"Yes," Sally said leaving the room, "Come on Sonic." But he didn't listened, he just stayed in the room. "Sonic?"
"I'll be right with you Sal," Sonic said back, "Just give me a sec." He was still looking at Amy through the glass. Sally didn't say nothing to him from that response, she just stormed near the stairs. Simmon was right behind her, but then he went back what Sonic was doing. Sonic was just seeing Amy dancing around the room smiling at him while he smiled at her. Just like children.
"Your majesty, I think you should go with the Queen now, otherwise she'll wreck my place," said Simmon.
"...Dr. Simmon," he said turning to him, "You think this Asylum is really best for her?"
"Pfft, are you kidding? They'll eat her alive before she even sits on the toilet and I'm not talking about the prisoners all together," he said, "Why did you think I suggested death with her? I don't know what to do with a woman like this...I just don't know." Sonic didn't know what to do either. All he could do then, was just leave her in this room. Before he left, he waved goodbye to her. She saw it, smiled happily, and waved back. The the doctor locked the door behind.
A couple hours later in the harbor, near sunset, Flame's helicopter was about to take off. Flame's bike and ammunition was already on board, all he had to do then was say his goodbyes to the workers of the harbor. He was glad his job was finished and Rouge was ok, but couldn't muster up the fact he did it all for free. It was pain to him as he walked on. He went to the passenger's seat, closed the door, put on his seat belt and waited for the pilot to take off. Before he took off, Flame noticed not right, there was a woman sitting beside him to his left side. He never seen her before, but he knew she wasn't the co-pilot.
"Um, are you the co-pilot?" He asked the stranger, "Cause the cockpit's up there." The strange woman didn't look at him yet, just the floor.
"No, I'm not," she said, "But I know you. You were there when Amy was taken down. Right, Flame the Cat?" She turned her face to him and it was Tina and all her scar like glory, wanting to keep Flame in the helicopter. The first sight of her made Flame cringe with fear! He went for his shotgun beside his seat while she pulled out her laser gun from her coat. There, they pointed their weapons at each other, not making a move yet. Not a word spoken. Who was going to fire first? Not long after Tina looked confident in the face, Flame pulled the trigger on her, but nothing came out of the gun other than a clicking sound. He was out of ammo. How could this be? He thought he loaded some in earlier. Tina smirked and got somethings from her right pocket and show them to the cat, his bullets in her hand. "...you think I'm stupid Flame? Bullets are out of date, hot plasma is the way to go...piolt, take us up." She ordered the pilot to take them up in the air, and he did. Flame didn't understand why he was taking orders from her, but her gun quickly drew the answer. They left the harbor, but stayed 70 feet above the sea.
"Ok babe, what do you want and how much will it cost?" He said to the hedgehog.
"I don't want anything," she said, "I don't even want to hurt you. All I want to know is what you've done with Amy, that's all."
"Then way are you holding a gun at me?"
"I could ask that maniac the same question. But the answer's force. She got most of this city's money by force. I tried to calm her down without force, logical in fact...and now look at me."
"She made you into, this?"
"No, I did this to myself, forced by all of you into doing so...I can see you're going home to your family. You must love to see them from time to time after your work. Going to have a hot night tonight where you? I was going to go home to my family too, but because of all of you, they were crushed by the descending. Now, I have no one and no where to go to. Now, I want the woman responsible and you're going to tell me where you guys put her." If it was Amy she wanted, Flame was happy enough to tell her who was keeping her, but-
"If I tell you, will you leave my copter and let us live?"
"...can't hurt your chances."
"Well...there's this doctor in the central hospital. He's keeping her and nursing her. He didn't find her on his own, King Sonic brought her to him after he saved her. That's right and the Doc's name is Dr. Simmon. Ok?"
"...Ok," Tina then charged her laser and was ready to fire at the cat.
"Hey you said-!"
"I said it couldn't hurt your chances," she then got out her coin from her right pocket and went on with deciding his fate. She flicked it in the air and landed on her palm. To make it precise, she quickly planted it on top her other back hand which held the gun. Turned out, it was heads. Flame was relieved. "Hmm, you're a lucky cat," Suddenly she flicked it and planted it again for some odd reason. This time, it was the dreaded tails. "...but he's not."
"W-who?"
Before she could answer, she kicked her side of the door open and was about to jump out the copter. She gave him an answer anyway, "...your pilot..." *Bimm*! She shot the pilot in the back of the head and jumped out the window! The copter lost control and was spiraling into the sea! Round and round it went, nearly crashing in the harbor. Flame finally unhooked his seat belt and fell out the copter, hoping he'll land in the water, but instead, he landed on the hard concretes of the harbor. He survived and got up in a daze seconds later. He found that the helicopter landed into the the sea and sunk everything he had on it, included the dead pilot. He looked around to see what had become of the green hedgehog, but no trace of her...no where.
Meanwhile, back at the castle, The kids were outback playing some more catch, with a few guards watching them for protection. Queen Sally just informed the freedom fighters about the situation by phone. She told them to come by the hospital and have Amy prepared for the trial tomorrow. After the conversation, she hung up the phone and went into the living room. There, she found Sonic laid down on the couch, looking at the white ceiling, still thinking. But no matter how bad he felt, Sally was going to put her away for good.
"Sonic, I just called the guys," she said, "They will will be over there tomorrow morning to pick her up. We'll be there to make sure nothing happens, like Amy trying to pull a fast one." Sonic didn't respond, he was still off thinking about Amy's situation. "Sonic?"
"I, just don't know Sal," he said looking at the ceiling, "I don't know what to do with her...we can't lock her or let her run free as dangerous as you said. I just don't know." Why was he suddenly worried about her? Sally kept pondering that in the room, even on the the way home.
"Sonic..why are you worried about her anyway?" She said walking over to the couch, "About a crazed woman like her? Did you forget what she did to those kids on that bus? The boat? The city? Tails? Knuckles? Did you even forget what she tried to do to me and our kids?" Sonic knew what she tried to do. An amount of hatred was still in his eyes, but punishing someone that didn't know what they did didn't seem right to him. Sally mustard up the facts and came to a sudden realization that, Sonic still cared for her. It brought Sally to silence...she walked over to Sonic's side of the couch and held his hand softly in hers. She looked him right in the eyes and wanted an answer. "Sonic, you still have feelings for her don't you? Now that she's back to herself."
"Sally, she was our friend. You know that."
"All I'm saying is that, if you have to come across a decision...just make sure it's the right choice. Cause I may not always be with you every single step."
"Sally, I love you, ok? Somewhere along the line, the real Amy would've understood too." Before they could talk more, they heard a rush of foot steps coming from the hall. Sonic got up from the couch while Sally went to see what was coming, but the footsteps were already in the room. It was guards rushing into the room with critical news. Behind them, Rouge the Bat was the one who with the news, she came to warn them about an important matter. "Rouge?"
"I, I came as fast I could," she said worn out of flying to the castle, even flying was difficult with her damaged back, "You guys, I have to know where Amy is."
"Amy?" Sally asked, "What about her?" Rouge leaned against a nearby wall to catch her breath.
"Egh, I just need to know because, Tina is looking for her. She is going to kill her!"
"Kill her? Why does she want to kill her?" Sonic in shock, "I thought she was her only friend!"
"No, not anymore," Rouge replied, "She's gone crazy, Flame told me. The descending of the city crushed her house and family. She tried to kill me, Flame, and now she wants to kill the person responsible, Amy!"
"What! Didn't Flame tell you where Amy was when he told you all that?" Sally said.
"He didn't tell me!" She said, "He told me to come to you guys while he searched the city for Tina! You need to do something Sonic!" They all knew Sonic was their fastest chance in finding Tina before she got to Amy. When everyone turned to Sonic, he was already gone out the open window without a trace.
"Sonic...," Sally said to the blowing air, but then in that moment, another question came to her mind, "Wait a minute Rouge, why didn't you call us in the first place? The city's lines are back up you know?"
"I tried," she said, "Believe me I did, but your connection is gone."
"Nonsense," she said reaching for the phone. She planned to call Simmon back and warn him that Tina was coming. While she put the phone to her ear and dialed the number, nothing happened. It was just an endless sound of a long beep. Even when she tried as many numbers she could think of, the long beep was still there. "...something's wrong, the line's not getting through!" There was only one person that was smart enough to cut off their communication's, Tina.
It was starting to get closer to night time as the sun was about fall further from the surface of the land. There was some light in the skies for people could see well without the street lamps lit the streets, even those outside the city. Outside of the city's defense wall, now rid of the doctor's force field, there were two figures sneaky away near the woods. These two figures would be the last to see sneaking out together. Dr. K. Simmon was out leading Amy into the woods. Both were wearing black hooded clothing to blend into the darkness, undetected by guards. Truth was, he did feel kind of sorry for that woman with no memory once so ever. Fearing to leave her locked up in an asylum, he heeded Sonic's idea to set her free. He couldn't believe was was doing her a favor, he knew if anyone found out, he'll be the one to pay. It was risky, but so was the cursed asylum. Once they were out of sight, they hid behind a group of tall trees to say their farewells, but Amy didn't know it was a farewell.
"Ah good, they didn't see us," Simmon thought looking at the city from a long distance, "Those dogs would've gutted us for sure."
"Um, Mr. Simmon, you sure this is how hide and seek works?" She said taking off the hood being confused, "Who's doing the seeking?"
"Eh yes, about that, this is not a game," he said to the hedgehog, "This ehhh, probably the last time we'll see each other my dear Amy."
"What? Why"?" She said, "Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry I left those toys out after bedtime!"
"No no no no! It's not that, it's just...," Simmon didn't want to tell her why he wanted to say farewell or for what she did, so he came up with another lie, "It's just that, this city, yes! This city is a very bad place, the worst on the planet actually. You see, the people beyond those walls, hate pink hedgehogs because they are too pink and too bright to see. The only place they are allowed there is in a sewer. Instead of putting you in a sewer, they were coming to paint you brown, but I said nope! Now they are looking for us. That's why I brought you here, to set you free to the nice world, where pink hedgehogs are accepted everywhere." What an awful lie he told, but it was an act of protecting her from the truth.
Amy then believed the city was a really terrible place. A sewer was no place for her and brown wasn't her color of choice either. She believed the doctor and gave him a big hug for protecting her. "Oh Simmon, I had no idea!" she said crying, "You're so brave! But, I can't go out there alone, I don't know if there are more pink hating people out there."
"Amy," he said hugging her back, but then he had to break it up, "The world isn't full of those bad people, it's filled with kind people that you don't know yet. It will be fine, your grown and I taught you all I know. It will be alright...Now go, before someone sees us."
"Too late."
*Wham*! Tina came from behind a tree with the gun and smack the doctor down with it!
"Simmon!" Amy said in shock as he got knocked to the ground.
"Amy run!" He yelled and she did. She fled at the sight of the half hedgehog, but she didn't go far. Tina dashed towards her, grabbed her by the quills, and slammed her face to the ground. "Amy!" Tina wasn't done yet with her caught. Once Amy was down and struggled to get up, Tina slammed her head to the ground again and again, punched her in the jaw again and again, and kicked her gut again and again, and again. Simmon wanted to get up and save her, but Tina held the gun at him the whole time. Through the beating, Amy cried for her two stop many times, but she didn't listen. She continued to thrash her, until she was worn out. Tina was tired and Amy was crying with bruises on her body, unable to get up from the ground. After that, Tina put her right foot on Amy's head while she still held the gun at him from a distance. Panting and crying were the only things the two hedgehogs could, but then Tina spoke.
"Hehh, hehh, does that feel good Amy? DOES IT?" Tina said at the crying woman, "Yeah it does feel good, but not as much as my enjoyment to your crying." Simmon took a good look at the two-faced hedgehog. He recognized her a Tina the Hedgehog. Tina even looked closer at Amy, she was completely different, her scars and make-up were gone.
"Tina? Tina Hedgehog? What happened to you? And what are you doing!" He said still on the ground.
"...no, what did you do to her?" She said back, "That's what I want to know. What did you do to her?"
"I-I fixed her up. All scars gone and such..."
"Funny. Her filthy scars are gone, but now I have scares of my own...you miserable cretin. You were going to let her go weren't you? After all she's done?"
"I had to! She doesn't know any better. They were going to...do stuff to her."
"What are you talking about, doesn't know any better?" Right then Simmon had to come clean to Tina or else she would do something twisted, he had to tell her the truth.
"Well, she, was struck on the head and well, forgot what she has done. She doesn't know what she has done..."
"...don't play with me you weasle."
"It's the truth! She has amnesia! She doesn't deserve to be punished if she has no recollection of her actions ok?" Tina still didn't buy his story, but it was easy to check out. She looked down at the weeping hedgehog and held the gun near her head. She started with a snarl and a scorn.
"Amnesia? So that's your plan Amy...lets see if this will jog your memory." She held the gun away from her head and was about to wail it across her head, but then someone's voice stopped her as the person appeared.
"Put down the gun Tina," Sonic said as he came up next to the doctor, "Killing her isn't going to bring back your family."
"Ah! Your majesty! Thank goodness you're here!" Simmon said being grateful he showed up in the nick of time. Amy was happy to see him to, but not Tina, she was rather surprised he was there.
"...revenge? No. It's not about revenge," she said pointing the gun at Amy's pink head, "It's about what's FAIR! You and your talk about doing things peacefully, when you know darn well we can't all be peaceful people in an unpeaceful time, when even your friends are out for you! This, this, thing, deserves to die! She killed dozens and dozens of Mobians even the great heroes to this planet and you guys are just gonna let her go free! Killing her will be the greatest justice I'll ever do. But now, since everyone lost their minds, justice doesn't exist anymore, only chance." She got out her coin and showed it at all of them. "Unbiased, unprejudiced, fair. She has the same chance as my family had, 50 50."
"Eh, I don't know what you are talking about!" Amy still crying.
"SHUT UP!" Tina yelled forcing her foot more to her head.
"What happened to your family wasn't chance Tina," Sonic said, "Everyone decided to act. Everyone. We didn't know they were down there and if we did, we would've shifted."
"But ya'll didn't did you? No!" She said back, "Which draws another question. Out of all the people she wanted last, out of everyone she despised in the beginning, why was it ME she wanted to torture?"
"Because she wanted to prove a point to everyone!" Sonic continued, "That's what she did all along. She wanted to prove that even a good person like you, who wanted nothing else but to help her friends, could fall."
"And she was right...look at me, I'm a freak. Because you just had to leave her for SALLY!"
"...so it's like that huh? You're going to take back everything you said? About how none of this is my fault? Well you're pointing the gun Tina, so point it at the one responsible for the way you are." A smirk came to Tina's face. She knew what Sonic wanted her to do. She was well ready to flip the coin on the one who triggered Amy's madness.
"Fair enough," she said pointing the gun at him, "You first your majesty." She flipped the coin in the air. While it was up, Sonic dashed to tackle her down! Tina quickly saw him coming and brought out her sheild to protect her from harm, Amy. She held her up in front of her, stopping Sonic in his tracks, preventing any harm to Amy. He could've ran behind her, but it was too late...the coin landed in her hand and showed of tails. *Bimm*!
"AHhhh!" The large laser beam shot the king in his right rib! He fell on the ground and cried in extreme pain as most of his burning blood was letting out. It was horrible. Amy had to close her eyes over the cruelty she never seen before. Tina didn't have any feelings at all. He wanted it and his chances were 50 50.
"Ah! Oh no no! Sonic!" Simmon said being terrified, "You don't have to do this you creep!" Tina knew he was talking to her, so she pointed the gun at him next. The one who healed her and tried to let her escape.
"Your turn," she said as she flipped the coin again. Simmon was in a panic, he didn't know what to do but wait for the outcome. The coin came down and landed in her hand, it turned out heads. She sighed in disappointment and gave the weasel a sign that he lived. With those two done, there was only one more being left to pass judgement on, Amy. Tina held her by the neck tightly in front so she wouldn't escape and so that the weasel could witness her death. Her left arm with the gun in hand and the left holding the the coin. "Now for the moment we've all been waiting for." Amy pleaded with her whines to let her go, but it wasn't going to work for Tina at all. Before she flicked the coin to the air, someone's weak voice spoke out to her.
"TINA!" Sonic shouted couching up more blood, "You- Eggh! ...you're right ok? All this is my fault. I'm the one who made her go c-crazy! She had nothing to do with this. I'm sorry...for everything! Ok? Just, let her go and finish me."
"...I'm about to," Tina said rubbing the gun under Amy's chin, her whines were music to her one ear, "...go ahead Sonic. Tell your sweetheart it's going to be alright...lie, like I lie."
Sonic and Amy looked at each other from a short distance. Near towards the end, Sonic could only say what he had to say, "It's, going t-to be alright, Amy..." No one had anything else to say. It was time. Tina flicked the coin in the air. *Kink* It was turning and turning upwards in the air, hoping that Amy would get her wish that it would land on heads. It spun, spun, and spun, only too much. There was a problem. Unbelievable as it seemed to everyone in that area...the coin stayed in the air, levitating while spinning. "...what? What's going on here? It's not coming down!" Everyone looked up and saw it spinning faster and faster in the same spot. They wondered what was causing that, then someone answered the question.
"Hehe, isn't this low for a woman of your intellect? So smart and yet can't decide a person's fate, so you have to use a simple coin to decide. Funny," that someone came out of nowhere and appeared on the scene. The last person Sonic or anyone could expect to come to their aid. There stood the great Mammoth Mogul holding out his right hand, levitating the coin with his great powers. Everyone was in shock by his arrival! But there was no time for him to let them acknowledge him, for he had to do what he had to do right then. *Boom* He turned the gold coin into golden dust, preventing the judgement.
"M-MY COIN!" Tina yelled in anger, but that was not all Mogul had in store for her. Using more of his green, mystic powers, he caused Tina to move her own body. He then had complete control over her. He moved her arm and made her release Amy. Even out of sympathy, he looked at the injured king and healed the hole in his side by using the powers of his mystic cane. The quick heal that filled in the hole and restored him back to health. No one could believe what he was doing. "N-noooo! What are you doing? Why are you helping them Mogul? WHY! WHY!" She demanded an explanation from the big oath. She yelled more why he came to rescue them. He walked up to the paralyzed green hedgehog and looked at her all the way down from his height. She looked at the oath with anger and he looked at her with discontent.
"...dear Tina hedgehog," he said with a smile, "I know your pain, she took away things that belonged to us both. She really deserves a lot of things. I would love to squash her like a pink bug too, but what's the fun in that if she doesn't remember her actions? It's like shooting an unarmed innocent man behind his back, not honorable."
"What?...WHAT!" She yelled, "SHE DESERVES TO DIE YOU STUPID OATH! SHE KILLED MOBIUS' HEROES! SHE KILLED EVERYONE! ALL OF YOU IDIOTS KILLED MY FAMILY! ALL OF YOU DESERVE TO DIE-!" And just when he couldn't bare her yelling, he snapped the tip of his finger in her paralyzation, and just like that, her brain went dead. Her vocals stopped, her movement seized, and her eyes went to the back of her head. What Mogul did to her was made her completely silent, in other words, tranced. She dropped the laser gun and was lifeless as a doll, but was still standing on two feet. He had to fix that. So Mogul gave her a slight push of the finger and made her fall on the ground and it was over.
"Not to worry Sonic," He said watching him get up from the ground, trying to ponder what happened, "She's just in a trance. It'll wear off in exactly one hour, giving you time to put her somewhere to get her mind straight."
"Mongul, why?" Sonic said walking towards the mammoth, "Why did you come here to save us?"
"Hmph, like I said before. With all the things happening now, I'm the best 'friend' you could ever have," he said smirking at the hedgehog. Sonic was suddenly glad he came to the rescue. He felt sorry for ever doubting him before. He didn't want to, but he thanked Mogul for his services, but that still didn't change their eternal feelings towards each other though. "Look, before we get all, mushy, there's still the matter of Amy though." Both of them looked at Simmon trying to get Amy to her feet after the beating. Mogul healed her wounds too with the green mist from the cane. She was okay and back on her feet. Simmon was happy they survived and wnated to give dear Amy a hug to comfort her...but she didn't want to hug. She didn't want to hug anyone. Even though her wounds were healed, she still felt pain on the inside. She stepped back from him and turned to Sonic.
"Mr. Sonic?" She said knowing his name, feeling horrible, "...I don't remember anything, right? Then everything Simmon told me was lie. All the people in that city over there hate me, because I, did all those things? Because killed people?" All eyes turned to Sonic. The truth had to come out some way or the other, but he didn't say anything. She grabbed his shoulders and pleaded. "Please tell me! I need to know!" He still said nothing to her, she started to tear up. "If, if I did I'm sorry! I promise, I won't do anything like that again! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I can change!"
Sonic whipped the tears from her cheeks with his finger, he couldn't to see her cry like that. He decided, it was best, if she didn't know what she really did. If she found out she killed his friends, she wouldn't take it with her innocent mind. There was only one thing to. Sonic looked her right in the eyes and said, "Amy...listen...some things are better off forgotten. It's just, best for you to live a free life like you did before, away from here. Just, leave this place, and this time, don't come back." Hearing that, she let go of his shoulders and starred at him, Mogul, ad her doctor Simmon, with sadness. She doesn't know what's out there, she didn't want to leave, but by the way they looked at her, she had no choice...
With a sniff of her nose, she slowly stepped back away from them and looked out from the hill and in the open fields, away from the city. She took one, last look at the three and walked closer to the field with tears still in her eyes. One drop on the ground...and she ran. Ran off to the simmering sunet out in the field. Ran far away from that place as far as she could. The three looked at her from the hill, they couldn't help but feel said for her, two of them anyway. Mogul was glad he would never see her again.
"She's gone...I can't believe this is the last I'll see her," Simmon said with a frown.
"Simmon, she'll be fine," Sonic said putting his hand on the doctor's shoulder, "Amy's resourceful like that."
"I'de give her a week tops out there," Mogul said with a smirk, but the silence from the two signified as not of the best times for him to make remarks.
"Look guys, none of this ever happened," Sonic said, "This is just going to be between us three. Simmon, get Tina some help ok?
"*Sigh*...I'll see what I can do your majesty," Simmon said at the hedgehog.
"Well...I hope the both of you feel good about yourselves releasing her to the world and banishing her from the city. All alone by herself," Mogul said, "Heh, Rather sentimental i'd bet. But...answer me this your majesty: if Amy Rose somehow regains all her memory and return to her crazed clown state, what would you do then?" he took a deep breath and answered the question.
"If it happens again, then we'll hunt her like we did before," he said as they watched Amy disappear in the dark woods, "...because she's not the Amy Rose we used to know. She's one of the reasons why Freedom Fighters were born, to stop mad people like her. If she returns, then we'll chase her, because it is right...because she's not a hero. She's a mad dog...an agent of chaos...The Joker."
The End