Living In Oblivion
Chapter 10
"Would you just shut up?! She's not here!"
"She has to be. There weren't any bones in the water when Tails checked!"
Amy heard people arguing. Where was it coming from? She tried to open her eyes but she felt too tired.
"If she was here we would have found her!" Amy recognized the voices but was too out of it to put a finger on it.
"Would you stop feeling sorry for yourself? It's getting really old!" They were getting closer. Maybe if she just-
"Would you two stop?! We've got enough of a problem on our hands without you two fighting!" a third voice yelled.
Suddenly, the voices seemed to be getting further away. She groaned and unearthly sounding groan. It sounded like someone was dying. "Hello?" the first voice said.
Amy didn't have the strength to do anything but let out another groan. This one didn't sound as horrible. She heard bushes being moved and pushed aside. Amy glanced up into the darkness. Her back was on the ground but her right leg was still stuck because of a branch that was stuck in her jeans. Her left leg was crossed over her right in a very awkward and uncomfortable position. Her right leg had fallen asleep and the back of her head was sore.
She blinked because suddenly someone was hovering over her. "What the- Amy!" a happy voice exclaimed. He crouched down beside her. It was none other than Sonic. Tails and Knuckles were standing over her looking down at her.
"Told you she wasn't dead," Knuckles said.
"Would you shut up already?" Sonic snapped as he worked to get Amy's pant leg loose. "Are you ok?" he asked her.
"My head hurts," she mumbled. Sonic grabbed her leg and pulled it away from the branch in a lightning quick motion. Amy heard a rip. Aw man. Now I'm definitely going to have to buy a new pair of jeans. Not that she was planning on wearing these ever again anyway.
Sonic gently set her leg on the ground. "Can you get up?" he asked.
Amy tried to sit up and found herself dizzy. Sonic grabbed Amy's hand and helped her up. When she nearly fell over he grabbed her upper arm to steady her. She looked at him. He noticed this time there was something different about the way she was looking at him. There was more emotion. She smiled. "Thanks," she said weakly. She was considering kissing him when she felt an intense pain in the back of her head.
She put her hand behind her head and felt fresh blood. Sonic reached out and moved her hand and put his in its place. He felt the warm blood. "We need to clean that up," he said. He glanced at Knuckles and Tails. They shrugged.
"What do you want us to do? It's not like we have a first aid kit here," Tails said.
"Maybe in the boat," Sonic suggested.
Tails moved so he could see the wound. "It doesn't look that bad. Just grab a leaf and apply some pressure."
Sonic looked around and grabbed a large leaf. It would have to do for now. He took the leaf and dabbed it to her head. "I'm sorry if this hurts," he said. Amy gasped at the pain, but then it started to fade. He wiped up the blood and applied pressure to it just as Tails had said.
"I can hold it," Amy offered.
"Sorry," Sonic said quickly. She noticed the affectionate way he was looking at her. Amy put her hand to the back of her head, and Sonic moved his hand. She held the leaf to her head. It was really awkward with Knuckles and Tails standing there. They seemed to think so too.
"We'll meet you over there," Knuckles said after he cleared his throat.
Tails and Knuckles walked to the spot where he had pointed to. Sonic looked at Amy. "What happened?" he asked.
Amy turned and looked at what looked like a rock with vines crawling up its surface, "It's a long story."
Amy had waited all her life for Sonic to feel this way about her. Her insides were singing praises. There was a mixture of concern and desire in his eyes. Both emotions seemed to be fighting each other. Amy suddenly grabbed his shoulders and pulled him to her. She kissed him almost desperately. She had wanted to do this for so long. At first he didn't do anything. The surprise faded and he kissed her back. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her to him.
Amy felt like fireworks were going off and she tingled all over her body. She'd waited her whole life for this moment. And now that her memories were back it made the kiss better than the one of the beach. He kissed her harder and deeper and then pulled away. He leaned his forehead against hers. "You remember," he whispered. It wasn't a question.
She nodded slightly so she didn't knock her head against his. "Can we hurry it up guys? We don't have all day. Or in this case night," they heard Tails say. Amy let go of Sonic and backed up. He grabbed hold of her hand and pulled her to him for one more kiss. This one wasn't nearly as long as the first one but it contained the same amount of passion.
Then he let go of her and they walked through the bushes toward their friends. "Eggman's base is right over there," Amy said and pointed. "Shadow and Rouge are inside. We have to save them."
"But Shadow tried to kill you!" Sonic shouted.
"He was under mind control. Eggman had control over everything he did. It wasn't his fault. But he's back to normal now."
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails all exchanged glances. "Let's save them. We can't just leave them," Tails said.
"You're right," Sonic said. "You guys ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be," Knuckles said in a low tone.
The four of them headed for the side of the base. "How are we supposed to get in?" Tails asked noticing a camera up on top of the building.
Sonic pointed to a window up near the roof. Black bars covered the window so no one could get in. Not that that was going to stop them. "Knuckles, would you do the honors?" Sonic asked.
Knuckles took the opportunity to show off and dug his knuckles into the side of the building. He climbed up to the window and grabbed hold of the bars. He was hanging off the side of the building and started to pry the bars apart. Slowly, but surely the bars moved apart. Finally, there was a gap big enough for someone to fit through. Then he slid the pane of glass out of the window and dropped it on the ground. It shattered. "What are you trying to do? Get us caught?!" Sonic snapped.
Knuckles hushed him and slid inside the window. Before anyone else entered Sonic kissed Amy lightly on the lips. Tails gagged and turned away. "Let me know before you guys do any of that gross kissy stuff ok?" he said.
They broke apart and Tails flew Amy up to the window. She slid in and landed on the hard floor. Then Tails flew Sonic up to the window and he slid inside also. Somehow they had gone undetected. Sonic lead the way down the hall even though he had no idea where they were going. "Turn left right there," Amy said and pointed.
Sonic turned and so did the trio behind him. Down that hall there was a door on the left that Amy recognized as the dungeon room. "Right there," she said.
He glanced at her and opened the door. She was right. There was the same hallway that she had been in earlier. They started down the hall and looked in all of the cells. They were all empty. "Where are they?" Tails asked looking around again.
"This is the room we were in earlier. We found Rouge in here. He must have moved them," she said.
"What if they escaped?" Sonic asked.
Amy hadn't considered that. "Then Shadow would have come looking for me," she said.
"After what he did to you? I doubt it," he said.
"I already told you he was under mind control!"
"Let's just find them ok? I don't want to argue with you."
The four of them all turned back and headed out the door. "This place is huge, let's split up," Sonic said. "Knuckles, you go with Tails. I'll stay with Amy," he said.
Knuckles looked like he was about to make a comment about Sonic and Amy, but he didn't. Knuckles and Tails headed in the other direction than Sonic and Amy. She followed Sonic down the hall. After about five minutes of walking down the same hall they turned. When they came to a door they always checked it. Most of the time they were locked but the ones that were open didn't give them any clue as to where Rouge and Shadow could be.
Ten minutes of searching, and they finally came across a door that was different from all the others. It had two sliding, metal doors. Sonic looked at the key pad. He had no idea what the password could be. "Move aside Amy," he said and gently moved her away. She watched him start spinning, and he flew violently and quickly into the door. Surprisingly, it broke open and he was inside. Amy followed him in. Rouge was in there. She was tied to a chair. But she was also unconscious.
They surveyed the room and realized that Shadow was shackled to the wall. "Shadow!" Amy cried.
"Amy. Stay away from him," Sonic said. Good thing he held her back too. Because at that moment she noticed Metal Shadow hiding in the shadows like an animal waiting for its prey. There was something about Sonic that seemed uneasy. Usually he was so confident. Maybe it was the fact that this thing had actually managed to catch Shadow. "Amy, go get Knuckles and Tails. Don't stop for anything. Go!" he commanded.
Without question she obeyed and took off out of the room. She didn't know if the robot would follow or not. Sonic wouldn't let it as long as he could. She was sprinting down the hall at high speeds. Not quite as fast as Sonic, but she was still pretty fast. She wasn't even sure where to start looking. She headed in the direction she had seen her two friends take off. Nervously, she glanced around as she ran.
For some reason she was expecting something to jump out at her. What was the worst that could happen? She could run into Eggman. But she could take care of him easily. But then again Metal Shadow could jump out at any moment. Maybe he got away from Sonic. Not likely but it was still possible. She had seen how fast the robot could move. Finally, she found Tails and Knuckles.
"You guys!" she cried as she ran up to them, "Sonic needs your help! Follow me!" She started running down the hall and turned at all the right places. It wasn't long until they were back at the room that Sonic had been in. The trio of friends hurried in. Sonic was fighting with Metal Shadow. As could be expected.
Metal Shadow grabbed a hold of Sonic's arm and threw him against the wall, over and over. Knuckles and Tails immediately jumped into action. Amy took the opportunity to go release Shadow. He was looking at her. "What happened? I thought you had him under control," she said to him.
A wounded look crossed Shadow's face. His pride had obviously taken a serious beating. He was the Ultimate Life Form and had been beaten by a robot. But then again the robot was designed to be just like him. Just like Metal Sonic. "Where's the key?" she asked.
"I don't know," Shadow said.
She glanced around the room. Her gaze stopped on the fight for a moment. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails had the upper hand for the moment. Amy pulled the paper clip from earlier out of her pocket again. "I'm getting really good at this. Maybe I can go pro," she said as she worked on picking the lock in the shackles. She was only trying to lighten the mood but Shadow didn't even smile. He still had a defeated expression on his face.
Amy heard the click of the first lock giving way and started on the second. As she was doing this something was hurled across the room and slammed into her. Tails. A second later she was on the ground with Tails lying next to her. "Sorry," he said and hopped back to his feet and helped her up.
"No problem," she said. She went back to Shadow's shackles. Finally, his arms were free and she worked on the ones that were locked around his ankles. A little while later he was free. Without hesitation he went to help Sonic. Four against one. They had a pretty good advantage. Right?
Amy went to Rouge and untied her. However, the bat was still unconscious. "Come on Rouge. Wake up!" she said as she shook her. If only she had some water. The bat's unconscious, limp body fell to the floor with a thud. Ouch.
Just then there was an explosion. Both her and Rouge were hurled away from the doorway and flew outside. The entire wall was gone. The whole room was probably gone. But she wouldn't be able to tell until the smoke cleared. Amy laid on the ground recovering from the shock when she noticed Rouge was bleeding. Amy whispered a swear word and rolled over onto her side.
Pain ran through her body. The blow had obviously hurt her too, but at least she wasn't bleeding. Quickly, Amy grabbed a large leaf off of a tree nearby and put it on Rouge's wound. The bleeding seemed to slow when she applied some pressure to the bat's side.
Amy turned so she could see the base and looked up at the room. The smoke had cleared. And the robot was still there, fully functioning. She couldn't see who else was there. She thought she saw Knuckles still fighting. When Rouge's side quit bleeding she hurried back to the building and ran inside the ruins of the room. Smoke lifted off the burned and singed pieces of metal and other garbage. Metal was burned and laying in piles. It really didn't smell good. She wasn't sure what had happened. A bomb must have gone off.
Amy climbed over a pile and looked to see what was going on. Knuckles and Tails were trying to single handedly take on Metal Shadow. Then she noticed Sonic and Shadow. They were both unconscious. Or even worse, dead. Amy's heart sped up and she hurried over to them. First she dragged them away from the battle. Out in the hall wasn't much better. It had been hit by the explosion also.
Shadow was still breathing thankfully. So she didn't have to check for a pulse. Amy checked for Sonic's pulse. It was there. It was very faint but it was there. He was still alive. Amy pulled him into her lap and laid his back on her thighs so she could look him over. Something hard and sharp brushed her leg. She flipped him onto his stomach and gasped. In his back was a piece of metal.
Amy gasped. Sonic was going to bleed to death. Amy was so sure.
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A/N: Things are finally heating up and getting dramatic. Hope you liked the chapter. I'm not sure how many more there are going to be. Well keep your eye out for the next chapter. I'm going to start working on it and hopefully it'll be up pretty soon. No guarantees though. I've been really busy lately. But I'll try to post soon.
