Thanks to all that are still reading. We're getting close to the end so stay put. :3
Location: Station Square
Year: 2014
"Here's the stop gentlemen," The brown fox said as he landed his plane. "Station Square." The two got off the plane and looked around. It was starting to get dark.
"Thanks for the ride," Espio told him. "Sure beats hanging around that forest." He looked at Shadow, whom by the look on his face was in deep thought. "Shadow? Shadow you okay?"
"Hm? Yeah, yeah," He said. "I'm fine." He crossed his arms and hesitated for a moment. "Say um...why don't you get going for the night? I might be here for a while."
"Why?" Espio asked him. Shadow closed his eyes.
"I just have some things I need to do first." He then looked at him. "I'll catch up with you in a bit, and if not, tomorrow." Espio didn't seem too convinced, but he didn't bother to argue back.
"Alright then," He finally said. "I'll be at the Chaotix Agency if you need me. Goodbye Shadow. Bye...um...who are you again?"
"Don't worry about it," The brown fox said. "You have a good night."
"Thanks. You too." The chameleon then ran off, leaving Shadow and the brown fox alone. Shadow looked at him.
"Who are you?" He asked. The fox glared.
"I said don't worry about it," He snapped. Shadow moved closer to his face to look him straight in the eyes.
"I KNOW you are from the future," He began. "You're already caught kid. Who are you and what are you doing here?" The fox sighed.
"My name is Hurricane," He said, before looking around and said quietly, "Please don't blow my cover. Nobody is supposed to know who I am or where I come from. It can really alter the future."
"Believe me kid," Shadow said with sigh. "You are not the first traveler I've dealt with today." He looked up at him. "Besides, if there's anyone better to find out about a traveler, it would be me."
"Hmm...I suppose," Hurricane replied. He put his hands on the wheel. "Is that all you want to know?"
"Well you still didn't answer my other question," Shadow said. "What are you doing here?" Hurricane sighed and looked away.
"It's rather silly to say," He started to blush, but Shadow ignored his discomfort on the subject and wanted to hear what he had to say.
"Go on. Say it."
"Well," He looked at him. "I'm here to play matchmaker." Shadow raised a brow.
"E-Excuse me?" He took a step back. "Matchmaker for whom? And why?"
"Well since you're already familiar with time travel and what not, I guess it would be best to tell you that there's been a time distortion that messed up my parents chances of ever meeting." He sighed. "Once you change the past, you change the future. I mean, I know Silver, Blaze, and Chase meant well because of the events that occurred, but now that their portion of the future had been restored, mine was then messed up."
"You know them?" Shadow asked. Hurricane nodded.
"We all work together as a team in the future," He said. "Their mistake of travelling too far back caused my parents to never meet. From what I can remember, Blaze still existed in her dimension, but a major catastrophe occurred to the point she used the sol emeralds to escape along with Marine and the rest of her citizens to be reborn into this world.
We no longer look for the chaos emeralds in the future anymore because the chaos emeralds reside in a safe place from where they originally came from, but our job is to search for the Sol Emeralds and protect them, just like Blaze once had to do in her world. Since that event occurred, Blaze and Marine never met, meaning Tails never met Marine either."
"I see," Shadow said. "So how do you plan to make Tails and Marine meet?"
"Well I was thinking of making a fake flyer for a competition to fly around the world in a day, because I know that's something Tails had always wanted to do. Then again, I thought it would be best if I made a distress phone call to him from 'Sonic,' and tell him to pick me up in Adabat."
"So let me get this straight," Shadow began. "You're going to pretend to be Sonic on the phone and have Tails meet you in Adabat. Have you already developed some sort of device to match Sonic's voice, because you sound nothing him."
"Look," Hurricane began. "I have this all thought out. By changing the voice input on my communicator, I will sound like Sonic on the other end. Knowing my dad, he's pretty careful, so odds are he's going to try tracking Sonic to pinpoint his exact location on a radar. With my intelligence in machinery and hacking, I'll counter his ability to track my call so that the radar marks the communicator from 'Sonic's' location." Shadow glared at him.
"Honestly, there's gotta be something else you can do. You can't just assume this is going to work out." Hurricane rolled his eyes.
"Well do you have any better ideas? I'm a mechanic, not a love expert."
"Do I look like a love expert to you?" Shadow then let out a sigh. "Just please be careful. And for Chaos sake, whoever else you're working with; please tell them to STAY in the year they belong before you guys actually screw up the timeline. Time travel should only be done when necessary. It's a serious risk."
"Yeah yeah, I've heard this lecture before." Hurricane started the plane. "I've gotta get going if I want everything to go just as I planned. Just don't tell anyone about me or anything alright?"
"I won't," Shadow reassured. "Good luck with the whole matchmaker thing." Hurricane pulled the glass cover over him.
"Yeah I'm gonna need it." He then drove off and flew into the air. Shadow watched him from a distance until he disappeared from the sky. He ran off when Hurricane was no longer in sight.
Location: Shamar
Year: 2014
The hours had gone by slowly and the night had gotten cooler. Sonic, Amy, and the light blue flicky surrounded the camp fire for warmth. They were all falling asleep slowly.
Sonic fought to keep his eyes open as he was only seconds away from complete slumber. That was, until he heard the loud sound of the horn from the train rushing in the distance. He immediately jumped and looked around, and he didn't hesitate to shake Amy awake.
"Amy! The train is here! We gotta hurry up!" He forced himself to his feet. "Come on! We gotta get in one of those open box carts before we miss them!" He then looked at the blue flicky. "Doesn't this train stop at all?"
"It usually stops at the station not far from here. It should be slowing down at any time now."
"Amy..." Sonic kneeled to help the waking pink hedgehog to her feet. "Sorry to wake you, but it's time for us to go home. We gotta hurry."
"Okay okay, I'm coming," She rubbed her eyes and watched as the train slowly came to a stop. Amy clung to Sonic's arm to help him walk to one of the carts. They hurried as much as they could to an open red cart. The flicky flew inside and threw himself in a pile of hay. Sonic smiled as he lifted Amy by her waist into the cart.
"We're finally going home Amy," He told her. "I'm sorry the ride there is smelly and uncomfortable though. I promise you this isn't usually how things work out."
"How do we usually go home then?" She asked. Sonic could only smile. While her amnesia may have been annoying, he found her cluelessness to be cute.
"Well when it comes to saving the day, it's either me carrying you home or flying in Tails' tornado. Either way, the ride is always a fun one." He took her hands and looked straight into her eyes.
"I know you might not remember me or anything we've been through together, but Amy, there's something I want you to know, and I'm so sorry this had to occur for me to say it." He could feel his cheeks getting warmer.
"Amy...I-"
The train started moving and broke the two's grasp from each other. Amy reached out in fear as the train drove off and accelerated.
"Sonic!" She yelled.
"Amy!" Sonic tried to run as fast he could with his twisted ankle. He was in a lot of pain, but forced himself to ignore it as he tried to catch up to the cart she was in. "Amy! I'm coming!" He tried to avoid as many obstacles as he could, and as if running with a hurt ankle wasn't painful enough, having to make turns and jump made it worse. Luckily for him, he caught up to the cart.
"Jump Sonic!" Amy told him. Sonic made a leap onto the cart, but he only made it halfway. Amy tried pulling him up.
"Ah! My ankle! I can't push myself up!" Sonic tried pulling himself onto the cart with Amy's help. "Be careful Amy!"
"Don't worry, I got you..." After a final pull, Amy managed to pull Sonic onto the cart. They both panted and looked at each other.
"Thanks Amy," Sonic said to her with a smile. He sat down and looked at his ankle. Amy kneeled as she examined it.
"You didn't bruise it some more did you?" She asked. Sonic tightly closed his eyes from the pain when she touched it.
"No...Just put too much pressure on it that's all..." He sucked his teeth. "Don't touch it. It hurts too much." He looked at her and frowned at the fear and concerned look on her face. "Hey...what's wrong?"
"I just feel like going home is way too much trouble for you to be going through," Amy said sadly. "You're hurt. I mean...do we even have to go home, wherever home might even be?"
"Uh..." Sonic thought for a moment. At this point, he didn't care whether he was home or not. "I mean...I want to take you home. You'll be safe there...and I know you'll be happy. Right now, that's my goal at this point." Amy gave a short smile.
"Thank you for doing this for me," she said. "That's really nice of you to do for some stranger like myself. I only wish I could return the favor to you somehow." Sonic scratched his head and smiled at her.
"Believe me Amy," He said quietly. "Being with you is all I could ask for." His loving gaze at her stopped when he noticed she pulled herself to sit beside him. He was wondering if she had been slowly regaining her memory.
"I know exactly what I'm gonna do for you," she said. Sonic raised a brow and smiled.
"Agree on that date?" He chuckled. Amy looked at him confused.
"What? No. Why would I do that?" She asked. Sonic let out a sigh and put on a dead face.
"It was worth a shot," He said crossing his arms.
"Well, I was going to say that since you've been looking after me and went through all this trouble to get me home, it's only fair that I stay up and look after you, and I will do that starting right now." Sonic glared at her.
"Really?"
"That's right."
About a half hour had passed, and Amy was now passed out on Sonic's lap. He put his hand on her head and smiled as he watched her sleep peacefully.
"So much for looking after me," He said. "But I guess every girl needs her beauty sleep." He watched her as she quietly snored and couldn't help but chuckle a bit.
"Aw Amy, you always try and look out for me. I just wish it never led to your harm as much as it does. I love your passion and concern over me, but I much rather prefer to be your hero instead." He rubbed her quills a little bit.
"'I'll always be there for you at your best and worst times. You can be my sweetest honey for all eternity.'" He looked up at the night sky.
"Eternity huh?" He smiled. "Sounds like a never ending adventure...which is my kind of adventure." He looked back at Amy.
"I'll do whatever it takes to get you to remember Amy. It's my fault you got into this mess, and I'm going to be the one to fix it. If I can't, I'll die trying. Even if you will never regain your memory, I'll make sure you're happy. I promise." He closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the wall as he slowly fell asleep.
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