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Chapter 10: Three On Three
"Oh Sonic sweety!" Sonic heard Amy's voice ring out through the forest with a faux sweet tone to her voice.
Hearing her like that was killing him. What he wouldn't give to go back to much earlier when she was looking for him without the intent to kill him. As much as he had been dreading it at the time, it was definitely more welcome than the current situation.
"Found you!" he heard the pink hedgehog's voice from right beside him.
He managed to just barely leap away as the Piko Piko Hammer came crashing down where he had been standing just a moment ago. Sonic let out a deep breath realizing he had cut that one just a little too close.
"Ames, please stop this," the blue hero pleaded.
"No Sonic! All of this is your fault and you deserve what's coming to you!" Amy shouted leaping for him again.
This time Sonic stood his ground and when Amy brought her hammer down the Blue Blur instead caught it. Of all times he wished right now for once he had Knuckles' raw strength because the hammer felt like it weighed a ton. This made Sonic wonder just how the pink hedgehog managed to lift and swing it effortlessly.
"Just give it up Sonic and accept your fate," Amy Rose grunted out putting more force and power into the hammer to break through Sonic's grip on it.
Outside the forest Knuckles and Tails were having about as much luck as Sonic was. The two tailed genius still hadn't recovered from his crash into the ground and the guardian was having to divide his focus between keeping his cool and keeping guard up. Cream now stood over Tails who had only just started to stir about once more. Before the fox could really come to Cream brought her leg back and kicked Tails hard in the side sending him rolling across the ground. This managed to stir Tails around enough to remind him what was going on. Now that his mind was back in the fight the young fox struggled and forced himself back to his feet, staring at the approaching Cream, who was walking to him with a confident stride.
"Do you have any idea Mr. Tails what it's like to be treated like a little kid when you can do just as much, if not more than everyone else?" Cream asked in a demanding tone.
"Actually Cream... I do," Tails replied weakly.
This caused the young rabbit to actually stop in her tracks, which also caught the attention of Eggman.
"It wasn't until I met... S-Sonic I started to get treated like I was valuable. He treated me as a... F-friend who was capable of helping and doing what I... set my mind to, the same he has... Always t-treated you a-and everyone... Else," the fox explained thinking back fondly to when he had first met Sonic, his voice still sounding weak.
For a brief moment the genius could swear he saw just a brief flash of the real Cream breaking through Eggman's vile mind control.
"That's very touching and all but you have a job to complete Cream, now get to it!" Dr. Eggman shouted out to her realizing the lapse himself.
With Eggman's command Tails noticed that the young rabbit went back to her full mind controlled state.
"Damn it," Tails cursed gritting his teeth and clenching his fists.
With a dark grin Cream pointed at Tails and Cheese came charging toward him head first at full speed. Unfortunately, the crash earlier had left him unable to move quickly at the moment and he could only stand there, unable to dodge forcing him to brace for impact as the chao crashed right into his chest with enough force to slam him into the nearest tree. The young fox let off a weak groan and slid down the tree, slumping against it as he hit the ground. Knuckles could only watch as his friend got thrashed around but there was nothing he could do to help, wondering where Sonic had gotten off to and how it was going with his personal battle against Amy.
"What's the matter Knuckie, powerless as always to do anything?" Rouge taunted noticing his attention had become even more divided.
"Shut it you no good jewel stealing bat! No one asked you!" Knuckles said with a low threatening growl.
"Or what, you're going to try and talk some sense into me like Blue ordered you to do," Rouge sneered.
This actually managed to get to Knuckles and he dropped his guard for a moment giving the bat thief her opportunity. Leaping into the air the sultry bat came around with a spin her leg extended and the guardian in the side of the head with her heel sending him sprawling across the ground. With a snarl Knuckles slammed his fist into the ground hard causing a slight shock wave and leaped up.
"Fine, you want this fight?! Forget what Sonic said!" Knuckles raged unable to contain himself any longer.
He leaped at Rouge with a fury that actually took her by surprise and the guardian slammed his fist hard into her face which sent her flying backwards with such a force when she hit the ground she actually left a deep groove in the ground from where she landed to where she stopped. Knuckles, still huffing turned and glared up at Eggman.
"You only have yourself to blame for this!" the guardian roared at the doctor.
The fierce and harsh tone coming from Knuckles actually made him cringe and he felt himself get a little sweaty. The echidna leaped up toward the mustached genius with his fist drawn back. At this rate if he made full impact it was no telling how far he would send Eggman flying that's if the guardian didn't just kill him out right. Thankfully for the rotund doctor though just before impact Cheese came slamming into him hard, forcing the wind out of his lungs and forcing him into a free fall.
"Good job Cream!" Eggman praised as the guardian impacted into the ground with such force it left an impact crater and Knuckles, like Tails, out of it.
The doctor while wiping away his sweat and trying to calm his nerves from his near assault from the guardian, surveyed the scene content with the results despite the close call he just had. Right now it was his side winning. Tails and Knuckles were out for Team Sonic and only Rouge was out for Team Rose. This put Sonic in a two on one disadvantage against Amy Rose and Cream, if the pink hedgehog would even need her friends help from the way it looked to be going. Cream seemed to be thinking along the same lines as he remained just on the outskirts of the forest near Tails' unconscious body ready to leap in there if Amy called for her. Either way it would be soon that annoying hedgehog would be put in his place like his two friends. It wouldn't be much longer now and the Master Emerald would be his and he would be able to deal with Mujorah and put him in his proper place. In the air above them all, unnoticed by anyone because of the intense battle raging below was a brilliant white light studying and surveying the scene similar to how Eggman was.
"Amy please, put the hammer away and let's just talk about this," Sonic continued trying to plead with the pink hedgehog.
"There is nothing left to talk about Sonic, face it. If you hadn't spurned me for so long, ignored me and abandoned me and my feelings!" Amy said her tone getting sharper as, surprisingly to Sonic tears appeared in her eyes and started to flow down her face.
With that she finally managed to put enough force into the hammer that the Blue Blur could no longer keep it at bay and it came crashing down into him hard leaving him laying face down on the ground. It wasn't working, he couldn't break through to her. He really wished he could think of something, anything to bring her back to normal. He was also worried about how Tails and Knuckles were doing cause when he got sent flying into the forest they didn't seem like they were holding up so well themselves. Was his planned flawed, should he not have given the order to not fight them? Of course it wasn't, it was Eggman's fault, not theirs that Team Rose were turned against them and they shouldn't have to suffer and pay for what they couldn't control.
"That's right Amy, finish him off! Put that miserable hedgehog out of both of our miseries for good!" Eggman ordered.
"Yes doctor," the hammer user said raising her hammer high above her head.
"This ends now Sonic, I loved you and I want you to remember that at the very least! But now you will never again be able to break my heart or interfere in Eggman's plans!" Amy shouted.
"Ames," was the last thing Sonic managed to get out as he braced for the impact of the hammer, what felt like a million thoughts swarming through his mind.
~AN~
Here ya go, chapter 10. This one I actually had a lot of trouble managing to get through for some reason so my apologies for it being short and if it feels too slow, disjointed, or not that good with the narrative. Nonetheless I hope what is there is at the least enjoyable and some fun to read. As always R&R no matter what you have to say, good or bad it all helps. Till next time my peeps!