I'm sorry I didn't update. I was really, really, really busy. I'm changing the update day to Saturday so it's easier to update.
Disclaimer: All characers belong to someone or something, usually an owner.
Chapter 11: Eclipse Cannon, Fired Again
This time it was Amy's turn to wake up alone with a note. She looked over at it. It read:
Dear Amy.
I went to go get the supplies I was supposed to get earlier. Will be back before noon. Do not, under any circumstances, leave the warehouse.
-Shadow
Amy checked her watch. 11:30. She sighed and layed back on a nearby wall. This gave her some time to sort things out. 'Ok, so Sonic has no feelings for me, whatsoever. Why aren't I crushed? Am I happy doesn't like me as anything more than a friend? Yes. Do I love Shadow? Maybe." She began to simply try to separate the truth about her feelings from what was not.
Shadow was about a mile away. He had honestly paid the grocer for everything he had bought, however he had to give about a hundred extra dollars so he could... disappear, from the cashier's memory. Not that it mattered. He had found Gerald's bank account and that had millions in it. Shadow was now running though the city. He used this time to also piece together what was going on between him and Amy. Suddenly something caught his eye. He stopped instantly and was now looking in a window of the jewelers. There was a gold ring there with a ruby the had been carved to look like a rosebud on it. He considered buying it for Amy, but then turned and left. He wasn't sure why it had even caught his eye in the first place.
It was about 11:50 when Shadow stepped inside the warehouse, carrying many bags filled with food. Amy came out of her thoughts when he walked in. "Hey Shadow." The pink hedgehog said.
Shadow greeted his usual way, with a small nod. He sighed, already charging up his energy. "Ok, now. I just need to teleport us all back to the ARK." he grabbed Amy by the hand, making her blush slightly, and touched the bags of food with his other arm. "Chaos..." they all glowed blue. "Control!" In a second they were in the docking bay. Shadow let go of Amy's hand, forcing back a small blush himself. Ivo and Tails were tinkering with an old Excalibur class rocket on the ARK, so they were right there when the appeared.
"Hey, good to see you're not dead." Ivo said, looking.
Tails smiled at them. "So did my device work? Were you limited in your chaos abilities?" Tails was bombarding Shadow with questions and it took a great deal of self control to simply plop the device down in front of the fox, rather than strangle the yellow annoyance. Shadow walked past Tails, who was now messing with his device like a new Christmas toy. Amy followed after Shadow.
They walked into the main control room the see Sonic sitting on the couch they had moved in. Blaze was beside him. They both smiled as Shadow and Amy walked by. "Well, look what the cat dragged in," Sonic remarked, then quickly turned to Blaze. "No offense."
"None taken." Blaze said with a smile. She turned back to the pair of hedgehogs. "So, I assume you got the supplies." She said. Shadow vaguely nodded, heading off to his room. Amy left for her room as well.
She had a little cleaning to do. After a while, She had deleted almost every Sonic photo off of he laptop and removed the section she she had devoted to just him in her photo album. 'Man, was I really that obsessed?' She thought to herself. She picked up the framed photo of Sonic on her desk and swapped it for one of her photo album pictures of Shadow. She smiled. It felt good to remove all those extra pictures of Sonic.
Knuckles and Rouge were both sitting on opposite sides of the master emerald, talking and laughing. Over the past couple days they had become closer, realizing they had quite a bit in common. Knuckles was looking out the window into space and saw what looked like a large, silver pyramid turned on it's side flying towards ARK. He stood up to get a better look. Rouge stood up beside him. "What is that thing?" She asked.
"No idea. Go get Shadow." Knuckles said, not breaking eye contact with the ship.
Rouge turned and left, soon coming back with Shadow who also stared at the ship. "Whatever it is, I doubt it's friendly." Shadow said as he noticed the word 'GUN' emblazoned on the side. The three of them ran to the control room, where Sonic was still sitting. Blaze had gone to her room. Shadow began powering up the eclipse cannon while the defense systems bombarded the pyramid ship with miniature missiles.
"Whoa! Where's the fire?" Sonic asked, walking in. Knuckles turned his rival's head so Sonic could see the big pyramid.
Shadow smirked. 'Professor Gerald's still working wonders, even in death.' Shadow thought as the eclipse cannon becgan to charge. ARK began to slowly but surely turned until it was in line with the ship. The cannon opened up as the charging had finished. There was a flash of green light and the beam hit the pyramid-ship. But, nothing happened. The group stared in shock. The pyramid ship was still coming towards ARK, arming a huge missile.
When the eclipse cannon doesn't do anything, you're in bad shape.
