Chapter twelve! :O I'M GOING TO FINISH THIS STORY IF IT KILLS ME!... o.o sorry, hope i didn't freak someone out XD doubt it... anyways, sorry it's so late! I normally update sooner than this :( oh well. Regardless, I'm pretty proud with how the whole layout of this fic is turning out. My biggest fear is that while writing, I'm gonna run into writers block somewhere along the way. I've over come it before, but I'm scared that I'm gonna run into the BIG one some how. If I do, I can't be discouraged though. That's why I'm gonna give this my all and overcome those nasty writers blocks! Huzzah! lol now for the chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog or any of its characters.
Amy opened her eyes as she woke up in the spare bedroom of Tails' Workshop. She sat up and smiled as she pulled up the blinds on the window to let the warm morning sun shine through.
"What a beautiful morning!" Amy said happily to herself. She took off the T-shirt she wore the night before and began dressing in her own clothes when she heard someone open the door. Sonic was coming in.
"Morning, Amy. Are you-" Sonic stopped mid-sentence as Amy yelped. His eyes became wide when he realized Amy was still dressing.
"Aah!" Amy gasped as she held up her dress to hide herself behind it. "Sonic! Knock, please!" she shouted. Sonic scrambled to look away.
"Wah! I'm-I'm sorry!" Sonic exclaimed as he quickly left the room, slamming the door behind him. He leaned his back against the door with his eyes still wide. He clenched his nose tight to prevent the oncoming nose-bleed. He saw Amy in her underwear, just like in the dream...
"Snap out of it, hedgehog! What's gotten into you?!" Sonic said to himself as he began slapping himself in the face.
"Who are you talking to?" said Tails from the hallway. Sonic jumped in suprise.
"Gah! N-no one. Uhh... hehehe..." Sonic laughed nervously, trying to hide his embarrasment. He walked past Tails and quickly entered the kitchen to avoid further questioning. Tails watched him curiously with his eyebrow raised.
"What's wrong with him? I've never seen Sonic act that way before." Tails said. Then he heard the door open behind him and turned to see Amy had woken up and was now ready for the day.
"Good morning Amy. How did you sleep?" Tails asked with a smile.
"Great, thanks again Tails. Where's Sonic?" Amy asked.
"He went into the kitchen."
"Good. I need to have a word with him." Amy said sternly as she stomped off into the kitchen. Tails watched her with a confused expression.
"Geez, what did I miss?" Tails wondered before he walked away and entered his garage. As Amy walked into the kitchen, she saw Sonic sitting at the kitchen table with his hand on his head. His cheeks were bright pink.
"Sonic?" Amy said. Sonic looked at her and jumped up fearfully.
"A-Amy!" Sonic said as he backed away from her.
"Look, Sonic. I just wanna talk. I'm not gonna hit you or anything." Amy said. Sonic relaxed a bit. "You seriously should knock before you enter a room, though! What were you thinking?" Amy said irritatedly.
"I-I'm sorry, Amy. Really!" Sonic exclaimed nervously. Sonic clenched his eyes shut and kept his face turned away from her to hide his pure red cheeks. Then he heard Amy giggle.
"It's okay, Sonic. I'm just giving you a hard time." said Amy as she smiled at him. Then her face became serious again. "But umm... you didn't see anything, did you?" Amy asked timidly.
"N-no I didn't." Sonic replied. 'Yes you did liar. You saw her in her panties!' he thought as he blushed again. Amy stared at him curiously for a moment, then shrugged her shoulders.
"I guess it's really no big deal then." Amy said as she smiled before she took a seat at the kitchen table. Sonic let out a heavy sigh.
'Phew. That was close.' Sonic thought as he sat down next to her.
"So, where did you sleep last night? Was it on the roof?" Amy said teasingly. Sonic chuckled.
"Nope. Didn't feel like freezing to death, or falling again." Sonic remarked, laughing more. Amy smiled. They sat there quietly for a moment, then Amy averted her eyes to the table and huffed.
"Something wrong?" Sonic inquired.
"Oh, it's nothing. I was just thinking." Amy replied as she fiddled with the end of her dress.
"What about?"
"Well... mostly about everything that's been going on these past couple of days." Amy replied in a melancholy tone. She sat there staring at the surface of the kitchen table in silence. Sonic watched her with pity.
"I see..." Sonic said. Amy continued to keep her gaze turned away from him. Sonic wasn't used to seeing Amy act so silent and solemn. Something was definately wrong with her and he wanted to know what. Sonic knew Eggman must be involved, but he was afraid it could also be his fault. Sonic felt sincerely bad for Amy, and many other conflicting feelings began stirring in him as he continued staring at the pink girl. Sonic couldn't handle the sad silence anymore and spoke up, bringing Amy out of her trance.
"It's alright, Amy. I got your back on this. We all do, you know that don't ya?" said Sonic. Amy looked up at him with hopeful eyes. She smiled as she nodded her head in response.
"Sure I do! You're my hero after all, Sonic." Amy said as she smiled. At that moment she wanted very badly to jump up and pull Sonic into a hug. But she feared doing so would ruin the moment, so for once, she resisted the urge.
"That's the spirit." Sonic said as he smiled. For the next several minutes they sat and held friendly conversation when they heard a knock on the front door. Tails ran out of the garage to answer it.
"Hey Knuckles. Come in." Tails said politely.
"Morning Tails." said Knuckles as he entered. Sonic got up from the table to go greet him.
"Yo, Knux. What's up?" Sonic asked.
"Nothin'. Just thought I'd come over to see what's going on. Have you heard back from Rouge or Shadow?" Knuckles said.
"Not yet. Rouge said she'd let us know if anything new comes up." said Tails.
"Okay then. Mind if I hang out for a while?" Knuckles asked.
"Not at all. Make yourself at home." Tails replied.
"Thanks." Knuckles said as he took a seat on the couch in the living room.
"So when do you think you'll be hearing from them?" Amy inquired.
"Not sure. It all depends on when the commander finds out anything, which may take a while." Tails replied.
"So I'm guessing they'll call as soon as the commander contacts them?" Amy asked. Tails' eyes suddenly widened in realization.
"What's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"I forgot to give them my phone number!" Tails said as he sighed shamefully.
"Aww, shoot. We probably should have done that, huh?" Sonic said. Tails nodded.
"It would definately make it easier for them to get a hold of us when the time comes. Hmm... Oh yeah!" Tails said. "Knuckles, you got Rouge's number yesterday, didn't you? Why don't you give her a call?"
"What? No way, I'm not doin' that." Knuckles said defiantly.
"Come on, man. Just do it. It won't kill ya." Sonic said.
"But what if the commander hasn't even found anything yet? I'd be calling for no reason!"
"It wouldn't hurt to check." Tails said. Knuckles sighed in irritation.
"Fine." Knuckles said. He picked up Tails' phone and pulled out the slip of paper with Rouge's number. He dialed her number then held the phone up to his ear anxiously. Rouge answered.
"Greetings. Who am I speaking to?" Rouge said cheerfully. Knuckles froze nervously. "Hello? I'm hangin' up if you don't speak."
"I-it's Knuckles." Knuckles finally said.
"Knuckie! Hi there! What can I do for you?" Rouge said.
"I told you not to call me that." Knuckles said angrily.
"Whatever. Whaddya need?"
"Has the commander said anything about Project R yet?"
"Nope, nothing yet. He's still going through the information. Is that really the only reason you're calling me?" Rouge asked.
"No. I'm also calling so you can have the number to Tails' Workshop. I'm using his phone right now, so when the commander finds out anything, you can call this number." Knuckles said.
"Great! I have his number on caller ID. I can save it into my contacts. Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"Aww." Rouge said disappointedly. "Are you sure you didn't call me for something else as well?"
"I'm positive." Knuckles said through gritted teeth. Rouge sighed disappointedly.
"Alright fine. But if you ever wanna talk to me for any reason, feel free to call me anytime, sweetums. Until then, toodles!" Rouge said as she hung up. Knuckles put the phone back on the hanger and shook his head with embarrassment.
"So what did Rouge say?" Tails asked.
"They got nothing, yet. They're still waiting on the commander." Knuckles replied.
"Well, at least now she has your number Tails." said Sonic.
"Yep, so now we just wait." Tails said.
"Why do you guys have to wait? Why don't you just go and stop Eggman yourselves, like you always do?" Amy said. "We still need to find out what he's up to with me anyway, so why do we need to wait for the commander to take action?"
"Well, I guess we could confront him about the robots coming into Station Square yesterday while we wait." said Tails.
"You make a good point, Amy. I don't wanna wait anyway." Sonic said. "Let's just go after Eggman ourselves!"
"Hold on. We can't let him know that we know anything about Project R. Otherwise he'll know we're on to him." Tails said. "He could destroy the evidence and then we may never be able to find out what it is or how to destroy it before it's too late. G.U.N. wouldn't be very happy with us if that happened."
"Well then let's just find him and force him to tell us what his robots were doing at Amy's apartment." said Knuckles.
"Yeah! I wanna know what he's up to and why he's messing around with me!" Amy exclaimed.
"Sounds good to me! What are we waitin' for?" Sonic said.
"Alright then. You up for it, Knuckles?" Tails asked.
"Obviously." Knuckles replied. Tails smiled.
"I'm coming too!" said Amy.
"No way, Amy! It's too dangerous for you to be there. You need to stay here." Sonic said.
"Well no duh it's dangerous! It's dangerous for you guys too, that's why I want to help!" Amy said.
"No, it's different with us Amy. We have more experience dealing with him than you do. Plus, if you're there with us, he'll instantly target you." said Tails.
"But he'll target all of us anyway!" Amy argued.
"Just quit being annoying and get over it! You're not coming!" Sonic said as he huffed in frustration.
"Why should I listen to you?! What makes you think I can't handle myself?! I just want to help and fight!" Amy said angrily, raising her voice.
"No, Amy. It would do no good if you were there." said Sonic.
"Why not?!" Amy exclaimed. Sonic narrowed his eyes in annoyance with the pink hedgehog's persistence. Amy glared at him as she waited for his response, and Sonic found himself distracted by her eyes. It intrigued him that her eyes sparkled even when she was angry. Sonic sighed.
"Because... you're vulnerable." Sonic replied softly. "I just don't want you getting hurt if it can be avoided. He's already done enough to you as it is. So please, just stay here where it's safe." Sonic said as he placed his hand on her arm. Amy opened her mouth to protest again, but quickly shut it. Sonic watched her with a serious expression, his gaze unwavering. Amy knew he wasn't going to back down anytime soon.
"Fine, but... be careful." Amy said.
"We will, and don't worry. We won't be gone too long." Sonic said as he patted her arm in reassurance. Then he turned to Tails and Knuckles. "Ready guys?"
"Ready." they both said. Amy watched as the three of them quickly left, leaving her alone in the workshop. She thought of the way Sonic looked at her and how serious he sounded about not wanting her to get hurt, which made her feel warm inside.
"Sonic..." Amy whispered as she hugged herself. Sonic may be a jerk at times, but he still cared about her after all...
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles ran through the Mystic Ruins forest toward Eggman's base. As they got deeper into the woods, they could see the familiar search lights coming from the Mystic Ruins Base at a distance.
"Almost there." said Sonic as he smiled. He saw something coming toward them out of the corner of his eye. "Huh?" He turned his head in that direction.
"Sonic! You're about to run into a-" Tails warned, but he was too late as Sonic's body collided with a hard object. "...tree." Tails finished. Sonic fell to the ground and held his head in pain.
"Ugh..." Sonic moaned as he pulled himself off the ground. He stumbled dizzily as he did. Just as he fully stood up, a coconut fell from the tree and landed on top of his head, causing him to fall to the ground again. Knuckles burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! And they call 'me' the Knucklehead!" Knuckles exclaimed, laughing more. "Why weren't you watching where you were going, idiot?"
"Oww... It's cause I thought I saw something over there." Sonic said as he slowly stood up again and turned his head back in that direction.
"That would be us." said Shadow as he and Rouge emerged from behind the trees.
"Hello again, boys." Rouge said as she smiled at them.
"Hey! What are you guys doing way out here in the forest?" Tails inquired.
"We were looking for you. Shadow has something he needs to show us." Rouge replied.
"How did you know we'd be out here?" Knuckles asked.
"We called the number to the workshop. Amy answered and she told us you guys were going after Eggman." Shadow answered. "Whatever you're doing with the Doctor can wait. I have something bigger for you to see."
"Okay, well what is it? Did the commander call back?" Sonic asked.
"No he hasn't. But this is just as important, you'll see. We need to get to a computer, now." Shadow said.
"Alright. I guess we'll just have to get to Eggman later." Knuckles said.
"Okay. Let's go back to my workshop. I have a computer there we can use." said Tails, and they quickly ran back where they came from in the direction of the workshop.
That's it. Chapter twelve is done! What do you guys think? let me know in a review! and be completely honest. don't be afraid to tell me exactly what you think, whether you think this is good or not. I wanna hear it all, that way I'll know if I'm actually doing a good job or not. If it's that bad, I wanna know so I can make it better! and don't worry, if you say it really sucks or could be much better i promise i won't cry too much. i might cry a little... jk :P Read and Review!
