So sorry for the long wait! I'm kind of moving right now and I haven't had much time to write the story! I've been busy packing and stuff, anywho to the story!

"Amy are you okay?" the scared pink hedgehog heard someone say. It sounded as if the voice belonged to a child. Her emerald eyes searched the room until she came across a little light blue hedgehog looking out from a corner where he was hidden. His violet eyes showed as much fear as her own.

"Sky? Oh my...how did you get here?" Amy asked, still trembling. Skylar hesitantly came out and quickly ran toward the trapped female hedgehog, as if seeking protection from any kind of danger, even if she couldn't help him.

"I...don't know. at first I was with daddy, then I saw that meanie grab Mawia and you followed and so did I." He replied as best as a toddler could. Amy looked around her, searching for the control panels that would set her and her daughter free. She glanced at Maria's pod and noticed two switches around the lower area of her daughter's prison.

"Sky, do you see those two little levers over there?" the nervous little male hedgehog looked to where she pointed and nodded.

"Ok, go over there and pull the switches." He listened to her instructions and went over to the levers. He looked at them, wondering wich one to pull first.

"Which one?" Skylar called out. Amy looked at the buttons again, not really sure about it either.

"Uhh...the right one." The pink mother said nervously, afraid that it would trigger something else aside from letting Maria go. She tensed as Sky bent to push the button. To her utter relief, the glass surrounding her frightened little baby pull upwards allowing Sky to grab hold of her and take her out of the pod.

Little Maria clung to Sky, very frightened. The little Sky, barely any larger than Maria, tried his best to keep himself from under the extra weight. He looked at Amy, questioning with his eyes on what to do next.

"Okay, Sky, now come pre-"

"Intruder alert, seize intruder." Both hedgehogs gasped as they turned to the loud monotone voice. There stood some sort of robot, obviously a creation of Eggman.

Skylar backed up slightly as the mechanical machine took a step toward him. He looked at Amy then at tiny Maria, who seemed more scared than anyone in the room. The robot was three or four times Skylar's size, an easily deafeatable foe by Amy's standards, but to the young light blue hedgehog...he could easily be brought down.

"Sky! Run!" The female hedgehog yelled. But young Sky stood petrified, too startled to move. The robot came closer, step by step until it loomed over the two little hedgehogs.

"Capture intruder." It repeated.

"Sky! Get out of here!!" Amy screamed, beating on the glass that wouldn't break. Maria began to cry again, causing Sky to come to his senses and run. The robot turned to pursue the two children as the furious Amy continued trying to break her way out.

"Daddy!" Sky called, hoping his father would come. Of course, no one came and that only worried the hedgehog cross even more. He felt the little black hedgehog in his arms tighten her grip on him as she watched the pursuer quickly gain on them. His purple eyes looked behind them to see how quickly the robot was coming. Fast enough to catch them in a few seconds...

Then glass shattered and flew in many directions. Before anyone knew what happened, the sound of metal being crushed and destroyed echoed through the room. Sky turned around to see Amy, piko piko hammer in hand, standing a few feet from the remains of the robot. She had a few cuts on her hands from breaking the glass other than that, she was fine.

"No one threatens to hurt anyone when I'm around." Amy said, quite satisfied with herself, "Come on Sky, bring Maria over here and lets get out of here."

"Not on my watch." Amy froze when she heard the voice. She looked behind her at the corner her eyes to see none other than Hatu. It was not just the gay hedgehog's voice that caught her attention. She heard two pairs of feet running down the long hall from where she came from.

"Shadow?! Sonic?!" The almost relieved hedgehog called. Then Hatu's hand clamped over her mouth again. She pulled her head away for a second before the hand came back. This time though, when she tried to move, she couldn't. Her energy seemed to be draining from her. Her body fell limp and she couldn't stop it. She felt light headed and weak.

"Amy!!" She heard someone call, but couldn't make out who it was. Her head rolled to the side as she fell to her knees, the only thing holding her up was Hatu holding her arms. The next thing she knew was that she was placed in the unbroken pod and left to fall to her side.

"That should do it." The blue-tinted hedgehog said as he walked over to the computer and began to type again.

"You fucking bastard! Let Amy go! And where's my daughter?!" Hatu turned around to face a furious black hedgehog with an equally angry blue hedgehog, standing a good distance away. Hatu typed a few more things in before stepping away from the computer. His steps were slow, as if he was'nt in a rush. Shadow hated the way Hatu was taunting them. They didn't run all the way here to just play around.

"Are we going to fight or what?!" Shadow yelled.

"My aren't we impatient. You should be more like your friend here, nice and quiet." Sonic sneered as the words came from Hatu's lips. The Blue Blur's own anger was reaching it's limit with the male hedgehog.

"Ok, I'm getting pretty sick of you! Now let Amy go and where's my son and Maria?!" The blue hero questioned.

"I'm not interested in your and Shadow's constant pestering on freeing this pathetic lifeform, and as for the children, I could care less where they are." Hatu replied, boredom obviously in his voice.

"Daddy!" All the hedgehogs turned to the voice and watched little Sky with Maria in his arms, quickly run out of his hiding place to the safety of his father's arms.

"Sky! You're okay! And you have Maria!" Sonic exclaimed as he picked up his son and Maria. Sonic hugged Sky tightly, thrilled that he was okay. He then allowed the relieved Shadow to grab hold of the tiny little black hedgehog. Maria eagerly latched onto her father in a light hug as he, in turn, did the same. But this little moment had to end as Shadow and Sonic's attention was brought back to Hatu.

"Oh, what a great big happy family. Let's cut to the chase shall we?" The gray-blue hedgehog said aloud, rolling his eyes.

"Shadow, what about the kids?" Sonic whispered to Shadow. The black hedgehog looked to the floor as he thought. He looked at Hatu, who had his arms crossed, and to the exit of the room.

"We can't let the children go alone. But we can't leave one of us to fight Hatu alone." Shadow answered looking at the still weakened Amy and the long hallway to that lead to their escape.

"You're right, but we can't let the kids be here either. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, but we need to think quickly!" Shadow replied, worry shined in his blood red eyes. Then the sound of machineery roared throughout the room as hard, steel doors were slowly coming down to seal the exit. Shadow and Sonic just watched in shock as there only chance of escape was slowly being demolished right in front of them. They heard Hatu laughing and immdeiantly knew that they fell straight into a trap.

"Do you think escape will be that easy? Welcome to your death chamber." That evil glint was, again, in his golden eyes.

"Damn it. If we don't get the children out now, they could get killed ,but we have to save Amy and it takes more than one person to take Hatu down..." Shadow said, frantically.The two fathers were not sure what to do and the chance for their children to get to safety was slowly dwindling away.

Although the rather hesitant father,Sonic, set his terrified son on the ground and took Maria from Shadow's grasp and gave her to Sky. The black hedgehog looked at him, confused at what he was doing.

"Sky, do you remember when you told me that you wish you could run as fast as me?" The Blue Blur asked the young little Sky.

"Y-yes." Skylar stuttered out of fear.

"Here's your chance to see if you can. Just keep pushing yourself and you'll run as fast as me." The lightblue hedgehog nodded his head, taking in his father's words.

"Are you going to be allright,daddy?" Sonic chuckled slightly, not even sure if he was going to be.

"Yeah, don't worry about me kid, just run and keep running. Now go before those doors shut!" Sky did as he was told and made it past the doors before they shut completely.

"What the hell!? You just trusted your son with my daughter to go alone! What are you thinking?!" Sonic turned to his dark counter part, smiling as if everything was all right.

"Don't worry, they have a better chance of living if they went now. We have other things to worry about like taking this son of a bitch down and saving Ames." Shadow hated to admit it, but Sonic was right. Shadow nodded, putting his concern for his daughter behind him and focused on rescuing the trapped Amy Rose...

Well, how should I put this...umm...I hate this chapter...yeah. I was going to write this whole scene with Shadow and Sonic chasing Hatu but I had my friend read it and told me what she thought about it and the beggining was very dull and boring. The begining was the chase scene and I don't blame her for not liking it, I even thought so! I tried so many times to get it just right...never could get it right so I just eventually gave up on it. XD Well I hope you guys still enjoyed the chapter.