DISCLAIMER: I do not own Sonic or any of his buds. I just like to torture them. Please don't sue.

Authoress's notes: This falls in continuity with both the Sonic the Hedgehog comic books and the Sonic Adventure game for the Dreamcast. Sorry to all the cartoon fans.


"Just watch! I'll make that Sonic respect me!" Amy Rose shouted from the lower deck of the half-sunken Egg Carrier. "And by that time, it's gonna be too late!" She jumped up excitedly and impulsively blew a kiss to the wind.
She was feeling pretty happy at that moment. She had found her new friend Birdie's family for him and they were fleeing the Egg Carrier that very instant.
Amy looked over her shoulder to watch the Flickie Bird trio flying off into the distance. She noticed that the white one--Birdie's father--lingered a moment, hovering over the place where she had just defeated Zero, the robot who had been after Birdie.
hen Birdie's father quickly darted off to join his brood.
"Huh?" Amy frowned. "Something's up, and I wanna know what!"
She ran to the cart that conveyed people between the upper and lower decks of the massive vessel. The short ride seemed agonizingly slow this time. When she reached the top, she turned and ran toward the part of the vessel with the motor, which was inside green glass casing. It was on the roof of this case where she had defeated Zero.
Now as she looked about to see what Birdie's father had seen, she could only make out some metal glinting in the bright sun. She jumped from the bridge to the top of the glassed-in mechanism and ran to whatever it was she'd seen.
She got about four feet away from it, then halted in her tracks.
"Mr. Robot!" she screamed.
It was, indeed, the robot that had released her from Robotnik, when she refused to let him take Birdie. The things she had said to him had made him override his own programming and release her. She thought he had escaped from Robotnik, but apparently something had happened.
"Mr. Robot? Please answer me!" She came to his side and knelt, looking to see if she could find out what had happened to him. His back was to her, so she carefully rolled him over onto her lap and came across a grisly sight--two large holes burnt into his chest. She gasped. "Who did this to you?" she cried aloud.
No answer.
Amy frowned at the robot. Something had happened, she didn't know what, but she knew something was wrong with him. Robots don't die, she knew that, but what happened to them when they were--"fatally"--injured? "I don't even know your name, Mr. Robot," she said, "But I feel sorry for you just like I did Birdie. Even though I don't know what the problem is, or how to fix it, I'll try my best to save you."
Amy's thoughts whirled quickly about in her head. "Sonic and the others are back in Station Square," she said. "They won't leave until I'm back, because otherwise I'll have no way home. Mr. Morgan is with them, and he might be able to fix Mr. Robot! I guess I'll just have to take Mr. Robot back to Station Square with me."
Amy looked around her, and spotted a small motor/lifeboat floating without a care beside the Egg Carrier. "All right!" she cried. "Getting to Station Square will be easy!" She would have hated to return to Station Square the way she came--walking through the Mystic Ruins jungle--with the robot.
She lifted him--he was much lighter than he looked--and decided that with his bulky frame the easiest way to carry him was on her back, holding his "arms" in front of her.
She jumped off the glass case (with robot in tow) and walked to the boat. She set the robot up in the back and took the wheel.



So what's going to happen to Amy's robot buddy? Stay tuned!