Chapter Eleven: Separated/Twinkle Park Triple Trouble

And so it begins, the addition of new characters is starting to come around as well. The latest one shall be E-102 gamma, as he was one of the latest in the game. Stay tuned...my writing is going to become gradually finished here.

PS: I'm going to write an official clothing thing for the characters so that, when I go away, those images are fresh in my memory. This starts here, so if any of the clothes have accidentally changed somehow, I apologize…I'm trying. I honestly am. :(

Sonic fell for what felt like forever. How he was falling so far and so far away, he had relatively little idea. The last thing he remembered before briefly blacking out was another blast destroying the plane entirely and sending him and Tails apart from each other. Were they apart? He couldn't remember. He then looked and noticed the ground of a beach was coming straight towards him. Instinctively, he tucked into a ball and slammed into the ground with extreme force, making a crater about ten feet in diameter where he landed. He then rolled out of his ball form, every part of his body hurting from the impact.

"Oh…man…" he groaned, starting to slowly stand up. He was aching everywhere now. He was sure that no bones were broken, but then he could also be wrong about that and most of his bones could be. But then, why didn't it hurt even more to move? That cancelled that thought of broken bones out.

"Sonic?" he heard a very familiar, feminine voice ask. No, it was not Tails. He opened his eyes and saw a bright flash of natural pink hair. Green eyes were staring at him in concern. It was a hedgehog girl wearing a bright, white t-shirt and jean shorts. She also wore tennis shoes that were white on the top with white laces and had red outlines and soles.

"Amy?" he asked, standing up in surprise. "Sis? Is that really you?" he asked the pink hedgehog, who gave a squeal of delight.

"Sonic! You're back!" she cried, leaping forward and grabbing him in a tight hug. The blue hedgehog gave a grunt as he was very nearly tackled over by his sister, whom he had not seen in a very long time. Amy let go and she said, "I've missed you! Where have you been?"

The blue hedgehog stepped back a bit and he said, "I've been in the city for a little while. I was trying to stop Eggman."

This confused Amy. "Wait, how is he alive? You killed him in space up above Mobius," she asked, vividly remembering Sonic's description of what happened.

"That one is not alive anymore. This is a brand new guy, someone that we haven't seen before," he said, looking up into the sky. "Though he is still Eggman. He's just…he said he was from a different dimension."

The pink hedgehog looked around a bit and then she asked, "A different dimension? You mean that he came from a world similar to ours?"

"Apparently, he killed us all from that world," Sonic said, dusting off his dark green jacket before stepping out of the crater that he had formed from his fall. It was evening in the city, with the sun slowly slipping down beyond the horizon.

Amy stepped out of the crater as well and she began to look around before she noticed something on the beach behind them. She gasped and said, "Sonic, behind us!"

The blue hedgehog spun around and he fixed his gaze on an Eggman robot. This one was far different from any others that he had seen up to this point. It was painted a dark green, had a bucket shaped head as well as very rounded arms. It was hovering in the air and it looked specifically meant to intimidate and capture. He grinned and he said, "No problem…I can-" he stopped, noticing that Amy was no longer there. She was running back to the hotel that was connected to the beach. "AMY!" he shouted back before turning and darting after her. The robot proceeded to follow both of them, more intent on Amy than it was Sonic.

The blue hedgehog then noticed something. There was a blue bird that was hovering by Amy's head. He recognized it as a Flicky…then he thought about how strange it was that the bird was here. The Flickies lived on their own island far out to sea in Mobius. One of the Eggman robots that was meant to impersonate the original had been there trying to capture them all and use them for some diabolical purpose. The seven Chaos emeralds had, again, saved Sonic in that instance.

He did not have time to question it, for it seemed that his sister had grown quite a bit faster since he last saw her. She was running at about half his speed, which was still a good deal over a normal person's speed. He ran alongside her and he asked, "Amy, what's the bird doing around your head?"

Amy looked at it and then she replied, "It's a bird that came falling from a giant, metal cruiser. I have never seen anything like it…a giant metal ship that could fly. At least, not like that thing. The last thing that I saw that could fly was a giant floating egg…"

Sonic nodded and then he said, "It does not surprise me too much. I've seen an airship before, but never quite like the one that Eggman has. It's a flying battle fortress."

Then, Amy saw something in the distance. "Sonic, we're going to have to hide from the robot!"

"I can take it out, Amy. It isn't that big of a-" Sonic started but was again interrupted because Amy was in too much of a hurry to get going with her plan.

She said, "There is an amusement park, named Twinkle Park, up ahead! We can go in there and hide, and since we appear as a cute couple, we can get in free and not have to worry about anything!"

Sonic groaned and he said, "Amy, if you would just listen, I can take out that robot."

She frowned and she said, "I don't care! You're doing what I have said, whether you like it or not! And even if you don't come with me, I am still going in there!" that was just the way Amy was. If she was dead set on an opinion, she would go for it no matter what. She would even come up with some lame excuses just so that she could stick to her plan. Unless it was completely proven wrong, there was no way to talk her out of it.

Sonic had no choice. Amy was going to go into Twinkle Park to hide from the robot that Sonic could easily destroy in a matter of seconds. She was not going to take "no" for an answer. She also was going to put herself in danger if Sonic did not follow her into the park, which was something he would not tolerate himself to let happen. He sighed as he stuck with her until they reached a fancy looking entrance lit by noble gas lights of all various colors. There was an elevator that led up inside of a glass hall which would then take them into the amusement park.

The blue hedgehog remembered this place now and he groaned. The last time that he had came here when he was younger, he had hated the place. He had taken the castle of illusions, which had terrified him and his sister when they were kids. He did not remember the exact date when that had occurred, but he certainly never forgot the place. Yes, the name had eluded him, but now that he saw it, all of those memories were coming back.

"Well, since I am older now, I doubt that I will have to worry much about being scared of this place again," he muttered to himself before they arrived at the reception desk.

"Hello there! Are you a new couple going to be-Oh! It's Sonic the Hedgehog!" the lady at the desk exclaimed. She was a white bat girl who was amazed that Sonic and his "girlfriend" had just wandered into Twinkle Park. "Well, never mind any kind of fee. Not only are you both cute together, but Sonic, you're a world hero! It's simply right that I let you in, free of charge!"

Sonic was surprised by the woman's reaction. As the door opened up automatically for them without Amy or Sonic having to pay even a quarter out of their pockets, Sonic actually felt good again for being a hero. It was a momentary glimpse of happiness that surged through him, but Amy interrupted it by saying, "Come on, Sonic! Let's go before that robot finds us here!"

She dashed in and left the blue hedgehog standing there for a moment before he let out a sigh of disgust as he charged in after her. From where they were, there several rooms to enter. One would lead them to a place with hover car racing, one led to a roller coaster, and two others both led to game rooms with pinball tables and some air hockey. Sonic then noticed one of the doors which led to the castle of illusion. It had been renamed as "The Castle of Mirrors". Memories came rushing back to him when he thought of the glass halls that he and Amy got stuck in for a long time.

"Amy, maybe we can lose the robot in the Mirror Castle!" Sonic said, pointing to the door. It was time to face the thing again, this time as an adult. Maybe even make a mess of it if he could. The robot was going to be there any second now and they had no time to lose. Amy immediately took charge and dashed through that door. It led to a roller coaster ride that immediately shot out into a room lit up like it was the night sky all around them. The castle entrance, with a pool right outside of it filled with fish, was lit up bright enough that it felt like daylight. However, Sonic knew that the inside was not going to be as lit.

As they arrived at a stop, Sonic saw the robot on the tracks, trying to follow them. However, it fell down, and was plummeting straight down to an area right by the lake. "Amy, we have to hurry!" he said, taking her wrist and helping her run to the castle entrance. They arrived at the open entrance just as the robot crashed onto the ground and bounced a bit, thanks to its frame. It seemed very sturdy for the falls, but it did not look terribly hard to destroy if Sonic used his speed. But this was Amy's call and he could not chance her to danger with her running off and hiding while another robot doubled around and nabbed her.

He heard no sign of the robot chasing them. That was a good sign. He looked ahead and now they found themselves running through a hallway into the main section of Twinkle Park. At this point in time, it was normal that not many people went here except at night where they were the best scared. It was only just turning to night outside when he had arrived, so it would not be the prime time yet for many people. When they arrived, they could see some people in the room, but not really a huge mass.

They dashed into the mirrors, sometimes running into them in their haste, but overall they were attempting to hide from the robot. They got into the middle of the giant and infamous room of mirrors, right where they had gotten lost among them. This time, it was not a bad thing. The mirrors proved a safe haven for them at the moment. The robot was going to crash in and not be able to find them hiding among the mirrors, or so was their hope.

The robot did crash into the room and stopped. It looked around at the mirrors, seeming confused. A holographic question mark appeared above its head as it looked around the room at all of its different reflections. Sonic resisted a chuckle, watching it through one of the mirrors. However, something happened that he did not at all anticipate.

It threw its fist at one of the mirrors and shattered it. This brought about a massive chain reaction with all of the glass mirrors beginning to break and shatter. People began to scream and run, covering their heads in hopes that the glass shards would not kill them. Sonic grabbed Amy and dashed through the hall to the other end. He had started too late, though, and he was soon buried in glass. He struggled bit by bit and just managed to get out of it. He saw the robot coming straight for him, having noticed where he was when he fell among the glass shards.

"You stupid…robot! You broke thousands of dollars, maybe even millions worth, of glass! I'm going to destroy you now!" he shouted, but then he noticed it launching its hand at him, or at his side. He smirked and stepped aside, but only too late did he realize what it was actually grabbing for.

With a shriek, Amy was pulled towards the robot and ended up its giant hand. Sonic stared in horror as his sister was held up into the air, with the robot triumphant in snatching its prey. "No!" he shouted, leaping forward to tackle the robot. However, it had turned and leaped with a rocket booster attached to its bottom half, and blasted out through the ceiling. Furious, Sonic ran towards the wall and then up along the wall and the roof until he reached the hole and swung through it. He found himself on top of the castle, right near the black and star patterned ceiling of Twinkle Park. There was another hole directly above him, leading outside. With great effort, he made the leap outside and looked around in desperation. However, he had been too slow in his efforts to stop the robot and he had made a horrible slip up when he dodged its "attack." He had lost Amy to a minion of this new Eggman…

Stay tuned for more! I plan on writing until I finish this darned thing!