Chapter 21: Unexpected Turns.
Amy slowly opened her eyes. First she couldn't see or hear anything. She screw up her eyes. Then finally the picture and the sounds were getting better. She could see a shadow leaning over her.
"Amy?"
Amy let her hand up to her head as she felt a strange pain coming from the back of her head. Now she could recognize the person leaning over her.
"Sally?" Amy asked with a little confuse in her voice.
Suddenly she could hear a lot of voices around her. She could see and hear clearly now. She sat up, but a little too fast. She got dizzy. She looked at the hand she just held up to her head. It was bloody.
"Are you okay?" Sally asked and looked at her friend.
Amy nodded slowly, so she wouldn't get dizzy again. She took a look around her. Bunnie was sitting on the other side of Amy and Shadow was knelling beside Sally.
"For a short moment we thought we lost you there" He said with a twist of worry in his voice. Amy tried to smile. Rouge mom and dad was sitting a little away from the friends. As Amy's mind started to get clear she looked around to find out they all were locked up in a cell of some kind. It looked a lot like a prison cell.
"Where are we?" She asked and looked from Sally to Shadow.
"Eggman locked us up" Bunnie sighed.
"What? Where?" Amy said and stood up
"In his secret base, I think we're in his basement or something". Bunnie replied and got up too.
"Where are Sonic, Tails, Rouge and Knuckles?" Amy asked as she could see they wasn't in the cell.
"Well Sonic is probably out to find Knuckles and Tails, so he can bring them back to his new best friend" Shadow replied with a dark sarcasm in his voice.
"What?" Amy asked in a confused tone.
"Eggman did something too him, he can control his brain or something" Sally sighed and shook her head a little.
"But what about Rouge?" Amy wanted to know
"Yep, Egghead did the same thing to her" Richard mumbled from the corner of the cell.
"Well we have to get out and help them then" Amy said with a sudden voice
"We can't, we'd tried to get out of here ever since we came in" Shadow mumbled
"But there must be something we can do!" Amy insisted and crossed her arms.
Just then they herd steps coming closer. They could all hear that it came from a robot. They looked up. A big robot was standing in front the cell. It each hand it was holding Rouge and Knuckles. Knuckles were, like always, shouting like a maniac. Rouge looked extremely tired.
The robot throw them both inside the cell. Shadow grasp Rouge before she landed on the ground.
"Got you" Shadow said and looked at her
"My hero" Rouge said with a tiny smile on her face and a sarcasm in her voice.
Knuckles who landed on his head, got up and almost ripped Rouge out of Shadows hands.
"Don't worry red, you can have her" he said with a grin of the strange situation.
Sally and Amy smiled.
Rouges parents were already all over Rouge asking her how she was feeling, what happened to her and all that kind of stuff. After assuring her parents that both she and Knuckles were fine, she and Knuckles gave a short summary of what happened out in the cave.
"So Tails is our only hope? We're doomed!" Knuckles exclaimed and sat down on the floor. "No offence but there's no way Tails can defeat Sonic, I was sure you guys wasn't captured". He looked at Sally, Bunnie and Shadow.
"Don't worry Tails will get us out of here" Sally said with a sudden voice, everyone in the cell looked at her with a not-convinced look at their face. But Amy decided to help Sally out.
"Yeah, Tails is a smart kid, he'll make it". She said and nodded
For a moment the silent rolled over them but then Knuckles came up with a fake cough. Amy sent him a hard look and was about to say something, but then Eggman entered the room together with Sonic. They both stood on the other side of the bars. Sonic was just staring out in the blue, as if he didn't noticed anything around him. Eggman smiled at them.
"Well now where no one cane stop me, I'll start to take over this world, so I'm gonna be gone for a while, leading my robots to victory" he said and smiled in the usually evil way. "Of cause I can't let all of you be here alone, who knows, maybe you'd get out or something, anyway I decided to let Sonic look after you while I'm gone, I hope you get some quality time". Eggman laughed and walked out the door. Just befor he despaired out of the door he looked at Sonic. "Oh and Sonic if they try anything, KILL THEM"
"As you whish master" Sonic replied and nodded.
For a while nobody said anything. But then Rouge broke the silence.
"What happened to you Amy? What did Sonic do to you?"
Amy thought for a short moment….
FLASH BACK
"Sonic are you sure it's this way?"
"Of cause Amy"
Amy noticed they were walking in circles around the secret base.
"Sonic what's wrong with you? You act really strange". She said in the most gently tone she could.
"No I'm not, now you're foolish!" Sonic shouted in a hard tone
Amy gasped in surprise by the hard tone.
For a while none of them talked, but then they could her voices. Amy and Sonic followed the voices. As they got closer they could clearly recognized the voices.
"We have to try getting lose"
"Sally stop, if you caring on doing that we'll end up like cat-food"
"Would someone please step aside from my foot?"
"Oh sorry Shad, that was me"
"Thanks, and please stop calling me that! That faker knew there was a trap here I'm sure of that! Why did I believe him?"
Amy was just about to run over to help her friends but then a strong hand grapped her arm and started to pull her the other way.
"What are you doing Sonic? We have to help them!"
"No we're not!"
"What are you talking about? Let go of me!" Amy got loose from Sonics grip. She looked at him in anger "What's wrong with you? We gotta help them!" She started to walk over towards the spot where Shadow, Sally and Bunnie was but Sonic got in the way.
"I'm sorry Amy I can't let you do that". He said in a toneless voice and took up a bough. Before Amy had any chance to escape Sonic pounded Amy hard in the back of her head, everything turned black as Amy fainted.
END OF FLASH BACK
Amy finished telling and sighed. She looked up on some screens on the other side of the bars. It was monitoring of the whole base. Suddenly something on one of the screens caught her attention. A little twotailed fox was on his way inside Eggmans base, and Sonic didn't seem to have noticed yet….