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Chapter 8

"Hey! I think we're here!" a happy Amy Rose exclaimed when she saw a big door marked 'Office'.

"Yeah, this HAS to be it." said Tails. "It's obvious enough.'

Rouge looked rather suspicious. "Maybe it's TOO obvious..." she said.

"Oh... yeah, it might be a trap." said Amy sadly.

They stood there for a few minutes until Knuckles broke the silence with. "We didn't come all this way to stop now." he said gently.

"Yeah, adventures are about taking risks." said Amy slowly reaching toward the doorhandle. "At least... that's what Sonic would say..." she said trailing off at the end of her sentance.

"Alright." was Rouge's reply. "Go for it Amy," she winked.

Amy nodded and felt a rush as she quickly opened the door awaiting the inevitable. But... nothing happened... then suddenly a spotlight shone on what seemed to be...

"Sonic!!" Amy was beyond relief as she ran up to hug her favorite hedgehog.

"Uh! Hi Amy..." said Sonic and hugged her back.

Rouge nudged Knuckles. "This feels..." she began.

"Too easy?" he offered.

"Yeah..." she said.

Sonic then looked at all of them and smiled innocently. Nobody but Tails noticed his eyes were somehow... different.

"Ok, you guys... I still need the antidote." began Sonic slowly.

"Oh no... what are we gonna do?" asked Tails anxiously.

"And what did they tell you?" asked Knuckles.

"I know, what to do." said Sonic. "They told me." he said with a tad of nervousness in his voice.

"Are you sure?" asked Amy. "It doesn't seem-"

"It's alright." said Sonic quickly. "But we gotta hurry, or we'll run out of time."

"Ok, lead on!" was Amy's reply. "We trust you, Sonic." she said with her usual sunny smile.

Rouge and Knuckles looked at eachother in disbelief but shrugged it off.

He smiled at them all, uneasily and led the way.

*~*~*~*~*

"Ha, this is perfect." said Shadow putting his feet up on his desk. "This way, we'll be rid of them all!"

"But Master, what if it didn't work?" asked Rebecca filing her nails.

Just then, Dr. Gerald Robotnik beamed right into the office. "Of course it worked, nobody's ever been able to resist it." he said looking directly at Shadow. "Nobody."

"Sir," bowed Rebecca and Shadow.

"How are our little friends by the way?" he asked, Rebecca pointed to a screen with the current footage.

"Proceeding as planned Sir." she replied.

"Excellent, this will all be over faster than you can say... Supersonic..." with that he gave a great laugh and beamed back to his own office.

As soon as he left Shadow got a puzzled look on his face. "Rebecca?" he asked.

"Yes, Sir?" she replied curtly.

"Are you sure I've been working here forever?" he asked.

"Uh... yes! Before I was even created!" she answered.

"Alright, then... I'll be in my office."

*~*~*~*~*

"Ok, this is it." said Sonic when they reached the room. It had green acid in large pools around the rooms. Robots stood guard near glass tubes filled with some sort of liquid.

"Are you sure?" asked Amy, surveying the situation. "It looks kinda, dangerous. Don'tcha think?"

"This is it..." he said and whispered 'sorry guys...'

Only Knuckles with his superior hearing thought he heard him. 'Sorry for what?' he wondered.

A booming loudspeaker voice answered his question. "You've all been decieved! All of you have fallen into my trap!" it said an laughed evilly.

"It's Robotnik! Quick everyone, run!" yelled Tails running toward the exit.

Sonic got a steely glare in his eyes and blocked the exit.

"What are you doing?!" asked Knuckles. "We need to get out of here!"

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." said Sonic crossing his arms indignantly.

"Wha? Why?!" asked Amy.

"Because he's with me." said a new voice. It was Shadow stepping up behind Sonic to guard the exit more effectively.

"Shadow..." growled Knuckles and without thinking he lunged toward him with a closed fist.

Shadow opened his hand and caught the punch without moving, and sent knuckles flying backward with the recoil.

Rouge quickly ran over to see if he was alright. Amy and Tails stared in fear.

"I don't remember him being this strong..." she whimpered.

Tails glanced at his hands and noticed the bands were glowing. "Amy... look!" he said. "At his wrists, they must be supplying him with power..." he whispered.

"Sonic has them too." she said.

"So all we gotta do..." he began.

Ame brandished her hammer. "Is get them off!" she finished.

"So you wanna fight?" asked Sonic smirking at her.

"Just try..." said Shadow.

"Fine!" said Amy and broke into a run.

Meanwhile...

"Hey, hon." said Rouge. "You ok?"

"Too, strong..." he gasped. "It's those rings."

"Yeah, Tails mentioned it." she said and helped him get up.

"We... gotta get them off!" he said defiantly breaking loose from her grip.

"Are you sure you're alright?" she yelled as he ran into the fray. "Don't you dare die!"

Knuckles blew her a kiss before running further.

Finally Rouge realized she should be helping and ran in there as well.

Sonic nimbly dodged Amy's hammer attack and Tails's Tail attack.

"Why are you being like this?!" she yelled. "What's wrong with you?"

"Oh, nothing." he answered calmly. "In fact... I haven't felt this good in years!"

"This isn't you!" she retorted. "And I'm not gonna give up! I'm gonna set things right!"

"Well... good luck trying!" he laughed. "But I don't think you'll live long enough for that!"

A/N: AHHH!! Evil Sonic!!! It BURNS!!!

Sonic: It's your own fault this time, babe... ^-^

Me: Aww... he called me babe,

Amy: He's my man!! *tackles*

Sonic: ^^;

Me: re...view... please... *gasp*