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12: According to Plan
Pain. That was all Amy could feel. Every inch of her body was throbbing and aching as her eyes gently fluttered open. All she could see was darkness and she was beginning to wonder if she was dead. She could feel a solid metal ground beneath and noises began drifting closer to her…footsteps?
A heavy metal door that sounded like it hadn't been used in a while opened and a light flickered on, illuminating the small room around Amy. It was a prison cell.
She remained lying still on the ground, too weak to move and she let out a choked gasp when she noticed Eggman smirking at her from the doorway. His blue glasses were sparkling in the light as he leaned cockily against the metal framing.
"Nice to see you're finally awake. It's been no fun not having anyone to taunt." He chuckled.
Amy let out a shaky breath as she slowly pushed herself up into a sitting position. Her vision went slightly fuzzy before clearing, but the throbbing in the back of her head remained just as painful. In fact the movement may have made it worse. She reached her gloved hand around and gently pressed it against the spot that was hurting so much and pulled her hand back and gasped when she saw her hand was covered in blood. It dripped between her fingers and onto the silver floor, creating small puddles. Amy looked up at Eggman in alarm.
"That's what traitors get for double-crossing me." He sighed in mock sympathy. "I knew that you would never actually betray Sonic."
This re-awakened Amy's memories of the events prior to being locked up here. She glared at Eggman, although every small twitch of the muscles in her face made her head injury throb even more. She could feel the blood trickling down onto her shoulders and she knew that she needed to get help soon.
"I-If you k-knew all along…" Amy panted as she struggled to speak. "T-then why did y-you let me work for you?" Speaking made her feel sick and the dizziness began to return again. Her ears began ringing and she knew she was in serious trouble.
Eggman laughed, although to Amy, it sounded like he was underwater.
"Because I needed the information. You gave it to me feeling so confident that you and Shadow could stop my plans." He explained happily. "In fact, in doing what you have done, you have played right into my hands. You made this so much easier than it originally was. I couldn't believe my luck when you came to me. The world is now mine for the taking."
"N-no! I won't let you." Amy's voice broke as she attempted to yell. She tried to stand up, but just ended up falling forwards back onto the floor as she completely lost her sense of balance. This made Eggman laugh at her harder.
"Bah! You can barely even save yourself." He laughed, walking over to her and looking down at her as if she was nothing but dirt. "Ahhhhh, Sonic save me!" He squealed in a high pitched voice.
Amy whimpered.
"Sonic, I've been kidnapped again, help me! Sonic, I've caused trouble again, please clean up my mess. Sonic, sonic, sonic!" Eggman continued to mock as tears began forming in Amy's eyes, making her vision even more blurry than it already was.
"You're pathetic!" Eggman yelled. "Why can't you see that? Sonic will never want you. Why would he want such a weak girl like you? A girl whose more trouble than she's worth."
"Stop it." Amy pleaded as his words stung worse than the blows to her head. The worst part was that she knew what he was saying was true. She began sobbing at the thought.
"Awww, do you see what I mean?" Eggman sneered. "Too bad you'll never get to see what project darkness really is. I know how much you were dying to see what it was. Now you'll never know."
Amy tried to push herself up off the ground again, but just toppled over again. Her limbs refused to work correctly and the pain in the back of her skull got worse. She looked down and now realised that she had collapsed in a puddle of her own blood. She was slowly bleeding to death.
"Today will be the day I finally defeat you all." Eggman sighed dreamily. "I think I'm going to cry."
"S-Sonic will n-never let you get away with it." Amy gasped out as she struggled to keep her thoughts coherent. Shapes and colours were dancing across her vision and she still felt like she was underwater. Blood continued to ooze out of her head and onto the floor, where it soaked into Amy's fur and clothes. She was going to die. To be honest, she didn't care. She'd given up. She knew she deserved everything she got for being so stupid.
Eggman snorted. "I already have gotten away with it, dear. Now, I need to prepare for my victory. It's a shame you won't be able to see my plan in action and the downfall of your friends. I estimate that you have, oh I don't know, about a few minutes left to live? Maybe an hour if you're lucky?"
He burst into another fit of laughter and continued laughing as he left the room, closing the door behind him and locking it.
Amy groaned as the pain was unbearable. She tried to drag her body towards the door with her last amount of energy, but only managed to shuffle forward a few centimetres before she collapsed again. She needed to alert Shadow that something had gone wrong. In her last moments she needed to send out a warning that should hopefully save them. Shadow had promised her that if something was to happen to her, then he would protect Sonic from harm. She just hoped that he fulfilled his promise.
Pulling her wrist up in front of her face, Amy inspected the golden ring to see where Shadow had placed her distress signal. If there was any time to use it, it was definitely now. She felt the inside of it and smiled with relief when she felt a small switch under her finger. She flicked it with her last ounce of strength before she finally gave in and collapsed into the pool of her own blood.
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"Come to mama." Rouge smiled greedily as she pressed her hands and face against the glass prison containing her precious emerald.
"Stand back." Shadow ordered and Rouge did as she was told. "Chaos spear!" Shadow yelled, shooting the yellow energy from his hands, creating a perfect slice at the top of the glass container. An alarm immediately began blaring.
Guards came running in and had them surrounded in an instant. Steel shutters sealed the doors behind them and the human guards pointed their guns at the black hedgehog and white bat. They didn't even seem fazed as the guards glared at them.
"That is private property you are currently stealing." One of the guards yelled. "I order you to lave it alone and turn yourselves in without resistance."
"Private property?" Rouge gasped, looking offended. "I am merely claiming what is rightfully mine. All of the world's precious gems are mine so how can it be stealing?"
Shadow smirked as he grabbed hold of the red chaos emerald and held it tightly in his hands in front of him. The guards gasped and aimed their guns at him.
"I order you to freeze!" The same guard yelled.
Shadow grabbed hold of Rouge's wrist and concentrated hard. "Chaos control!" He yelled as time and space warped around them. The guards gasped and shielded their eyes as Shadow and Rouge disappeared in a bright burst of red light.
Rouge gasped and staggered dizzily as she felt her feet land on solid ground again and Shadow released her wrist and stared at the emerald in his hand.
"Those creeps, think they could keep my emerald." Rouge spat. "Who do they think they are?"
Shadow ignored her and was soon distracting by a beeping noise coming from his wrist. Only it wasn't the commander calling him, it was a distress signal. His red eyes widened as he pressed buttons on his communicator, displaying the location of Amy Rose.
"What is it?" Rouge asked, slightly concerned as she took in the look on Shadow's face.
"It's Amy."
"Amy? Is she ok?"
"I don't think so." Shadow mumbled. "Her distress signal has been activated and she's currently in Eggman's base. Her cover has been blown."
Rouge's eyes widened. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go! Now that we have the final emerald. We can take on Eggman. I'll call for reinforcements to meet us there."
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All Sonic could see was red as he stood on top of a hill overlooking the volcano where he had finally discovered Eggman's base. It had taken him hours, but he found it. He knew it would've had to have been in a place where there was a lot of energy. This active volcano was perfect. Sonic could see the glow of the lava reflecting off the metal walls even through the smoke and ash.
"Alright Amy." Sonic glared straight ahead. "No more games."
He pushed his legs forward, creating a sonic boom as he ran as fast as he could towards the base, arriving in seconds. He paused a few yards away from the door as he saw a black blur in the distance. Shadow and Rouge were lurking near the door. Why was he not surprised? Those two had to be involved somehow.
Before Sonic could even register his actions, he was over at Shadow's location in a flash and had his hand clenched around his prey's neck.
Shadow's eyes widened in the sudden shock of the unexpected attack before he kicked Sonic off him, sending him crashing into a rock. Sonic managed to stable himself, preventing himself from falling into the lake of lava and charged towards Shadow again, punching him square in the face.
Shadow grunted, covering his nose in pain before his red eyes seemed to set on fire as they burned into Sonic's cold green ones.
"Faker." He acknowledged with a sneer before he removed his hand and spat out blood. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"
Sonic just growled menacingly at him, his quills standing on end in irritation as he stood poised, ready to fight. "I don't have time for formalities."
Sonic charged forwards, swinging his right leg around to land a kick in Shadow's stomach but the black hedgehog stopped him. He grabbed hold of Sonic's leg in a tight grip and flipped his blue doppelganger over his head, slamming Sonic against the rocky ground. Sonic snatched his leg out of Shadow's grip and kicked him in the chest with his other leg. Shadow staggered backwards and his hands charged up with chaos energy before Rouge's impatient voice interrupted them.
"Cool it guys!" She yelled as she hovered over them, her wings flapping gently as her white fur had an orange hue in the hot glow of the lava. "We have a mission, remember Shadow?"
"Yeah, a mission to turn Amy to the dark side." Sonic muttered sarcastically as he coughed out ash and dirt and got up off the ground.
"What?" Rouge shot him a confused look.
"What are you doing here anyway faker?" Shadow questioned him.
"I'm here to get Amy, with your permission." Sonic snarled at him giving Shadow a look of pure loathing. "After all, you seem to enjoy making innocent girls do your dirty work and turning them evil."
Shadow remained expressionless until Sonic turned and spin dashed into the main entrance, disappearing in a blue blur.
"Faker, wait!" Shadow pleaded in alarm.
"Ah let him go get the girl." Rouge shrugged indifferently.
"No, because Eggman needs him. He's delivered himself right into Eggman's hands!" Shadow yelled as he got ready to take off after him.
"Shouldn't we wait until the GUN reinforcements arrive?" Rouge asked.
Shadow just glared at her. "You can, but I made a promise to Amy that I intend to keep."
And with that, Shadow took off after Sonic.
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"Eggman!" Sonic yelled as he burst through the metal doors and into the main hall of his lair. Eggman was stood on an elevated platform at some sort of complex looking control panel with a white sheet covering a large object underneath him. Sonic glared murderously up at him.
"Don't you ever knock?" Eggman snapped as Sonic's sudden entrance made him jump.
"That's the whole point of a surprise attack. Now where's Amy?" Sonic demanded.
"My my, so demanding."
"I'm warning you Egghead! Have you brainwashed her?"
Eggman pretended to be offended. "How could you accuse me of such a thing? But jokes aside, Amy came to me on her own merit. I have done nothing."
Eggman's words felt like they had pierced Sonic's heart. So Amy really had betrayed him. He imagined life now. Fighting against Amy instead of alongside her. Attacking her. Defeating her. The mental images made Sonic feel sick. No matter what, he didn't feel like he could bring himself to hurt her.
"Sonic!" He heard a familiar voice yell.
He turned around to see Tails, Knuckles and Blaze all run into the room, closely followed by Shadow as he stared at his communicator before he glared up at Eggman. Wait…wasn't Shadow on Eggman's side?
"It's over Eggman. Soldiers are on their way here right to arrest you and there's no escape for we will stop you. Hand over Amy." Shadow ordered.
"Perfect; Sonic's little squad." Eggman grinned from ear to ear. "Amy will not be joining us tonight as she is trying out one of my new prison cells. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if you'll find nothing but a body."
Everyone cried out in fear at Eggman's words and Sonic had a hard time standing up straight. It had to be a bluff. If Amy was on Eggman's side, why would he try and kill her? None of this was making sense anymore.
Four huge robots suddenly appeared and marched in, grabbing hold of Sonic's friends. Tails and Knuckles squirmed around, but to no avail. Blaze tried burning her way out, but the robots seemed to be immune to her powers. Even Shadow couldn't use his chaos powers against them.
"Do you like my new pets?" Eggman chuckled as he watched them all squirm whilst Sonic stared up at them in horror. "Built with chaos energy storage tanks inside them and are pretty much invincible so I'd stop trying to escape if I were you. You'll only embarrass yourselves. Oh and by the way, thank you for being such an amazing delivery boy Shadow."
The large robot holding Shadow snatched the chaos emerald off him as he struggled and Shadow froze as it was handed to Eggman.
"If you try anything, I'll personally rip you apart!" Shadow snarled.
"I thought you were on Eggman's side?" Sonic called up to Shadow.
"No you blue idiot!"
"You'll never get away with this Eggman!" Tails yelled before choking in pain as the robot tightened its grip on the young fox.
"Let him go!" Sonic yelled in anger, not being able to stand seeing his little brother in pain.
He was about to dash to try and attack the robot before two other robots appeared and held Sonic high up in the air by his arms. He used all of his strength to try and break free, but to no avail.
"Clearly, these robots have the power to kill Sonic." Shadow spoke to Eggman. "Why not just defeat him with them?"
Eggman chuckled once before he pulled the white sheet off the large item under his control panel. The weapon towered above them and looked like a futuristic ray gun. The lights on it were a dim shade of blue until Eggman reached over and placed the red chaos emerald into a slot on top of it. He fiddled with the controls and the weapon beeped and buzzed as it came to life, aiming directly at Sonic. Sonic didn't seem too bothered about it as he watched his friends struggle, feeling weak and pathetic as he couldn't do a thing about it.
"Because I don't want to kill him." Eggman answered Shadow's question. "With this weapon and these robots, I will finally be able to rule the world, no, the universe!" He laughed evilly.
"That's impossible" Blaze yelled.
"Execute them." Eggman ordered, sounding bored. The robots began constricting their metal hands around Knuckles, Shadow, Tails and Blaze. "You can all join Amy in the next life."
"NO!" Sonic shrieked and began thrashing around furiously.
"Ruling the universe won't be impossible…if I have Sonic's help." Eggman smirked as he held his hand over the button, ready to press it. "Because he's going to join me."
Everything seemed to go in slow motion as Eggman slammed his hand down in the button. The weapon charged up with energy, the blue lights glowing brighter. A bright laser shot out of it. Screams echoed around the room as it hit Sonic directly in the chest.
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