Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles or Amy Rose. They are the property of Sega and I make no money from this what so ever. 

Summery: Something has happened to Amy, something that will change her life forever. 

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A tragic accident

Part I

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Blinking her eyes, Amy looked around the room as she woke up. The bed she found herself in was much more comfortable then the one she woken up in the day before. As she lay in the bed, her memories of the night before began to return. "No." Feeling a pit of ice form in her stomach, she lifted her arm, dreading what she was going to see, the light reflected of the cold metal and into her eyes and onto the wall. Lifting her other hand she ran a finger over the length of it.

"Oh, your awake?"

Turning her head, Amy found the Dr. Quack standing in the doorway holding a notepad in his left hand. "Don't panic miss Rose. Calm down and I'll tell you what I know." Walking slowly towards the bed as he spoke, he flipped a few pieces of paper over the top of the pad. "Now. Sometime last night around 9pm. Sonic brought you in. You had suffered a mild electric shook and were out cold. From what I could understand from him, you had gone into Robotropolis on your own." Lifting her right arm, he pulled out a rubber ring and snapped it around her upper arm. Pumping it up, he looked at the pump he held and nodded. "Blood flow is normal. Being partially robotiziced hasn't given you any problems at all."

Amy's head shot up at the last words and her eyes looked straight into the sorrow filled ones of dr. Quack. "Partially robotiziced. What do you mean?" Panicking, she jumped out of the bed and grabbed the poor doctor. Blinking, she looked at him with wide eyes, as she held the doctor up over the floor in front of her. "What? How did this happen?"     

Looking calmly down at her. Dr. Quack tapped her right arm. "If you would be as kind as to lower me down." Blushing, Amy did that. "Now sit down miss Rose, and I'll help you with your questions." Picking up his notepad he looked at her. "Why don't you start with telling me what you can remember?"

Amy closed her eyes and huddled into a small ball borrowing her head into the protection of her arms as she tried to remember the day before. "I remember arguing with Sonic over why I couldn't be a freedom fighter. I went into Robotropolis, to prove to him, that I was good enough to be a freedom fighter. I was… I was…" Freezing, she dropped her voice, as she tried to remember what had happened after that. As she looked up, she tried to avoid the calm gaze of dr. Quack as he waited for to continue. "I… I… There was… I…"

Looking at the pink hedgehog for a while. Dr. Quack scribbled down a few notes on the paper and stood up. "Well it is very commend for the mind to suppress traumatic events by blocking them out." Putting the notepad down he picked up a small flashlight. "Now, just to complete the last part of this examination. Turn your head towards me." Checking the pupils for any problems, he scribbled down a few notes. "Okay Amy, if I may call you that? I'll tell what I could get out of Sonic last night. Sonic had entered the city, when Robotnic confronted him. He had captured you and was going to robotizice you in front of him.   When Sonic took down the last robot, the process had already begun. The outcome was..." Pulling Amy up from the bed, he lifted her left arm. "… Well, the damage from it was quite extensive as you can see. Your left arm and both legs are completely robotiziced as well as your left eye." Dr. Quack stopped talking as he felt Amy tense up, Lifting his head from looking at the left hand. He gazed into a pair of shocked eyes. One filled with life, the other a mockery of the life in the first one. Huge and with a central green iris it was very out of place on the young hedgehog girl's face, and given the way the iris had narrowed to a small circle, he could clearly guess what was going through Amy's head at that very moment. Backing off he reached for the button that activated the emergency alarm in case of trouble.

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Tails looked up from where he sat in the waiting hall, as a blood-chilling scream echoed down the hallway. Seconds later Dr. Quack could be heard calling for assistance. Jumping up, Tails twirled his tails together and flew down the hallway over the head of shocked nurses and orderlies. Reaching the room where the scream had come from, he barged in with no hesitation and stopped in mid air at the sight. Standing against the wall to the left of the door, Dr. Quack was looking at the crying hedgehog girl sitting in the middle of a trashed room. "Amy?"

The pink hedgehog looked up at the sound of her name and stared at the hovering fox with great pain in her eyes. "Tails!" Grabbing the fox in death hug, she missed the frantic waves of Tails, as he could no longer breathe. "Help me!" Dropping her head down on his shoulder, she began to cry.

The door slammed open for the second time as a group of oversized orderlies barged in. Homing in on the hysteric girl sitting on the floor, doing a very good job of crushing a poor young fox boy in a death hug, they stepped into action and in perfect synch grabbed the poor hedgehog girl and pulled her away from the fox or that was the plan and it would have worked, had Amy's left arm not been robotic. Feeling someone grab her arms hard and staring to pull her away, she panicked and began to trash around to get free. Moving her left arm back, she faintly noticed, that whoever was holding it, was grunting as he fought to hold it, and then her arm moved backwards and the orderly holding her left arm was thrown over her shoulder and into the wall on the other side of the room.

Coughing and trying to get some air back into his lungs. Tails looked up from where he was on the floor and was very surprised to find Amy, in a state of panic, throw around orderlies twice to triple the size of her with no problems. One of them was holding on to her leg trying to trip her over, so they could pin her down. A second later he let go as he fist smashed neatly into his face.

"Stop it. You're scaring her!" Tails yelled as he jumped onto the back off one of the orderlies, and began to pound his fists on his back. The second orderly stumbled back up from where he had landed, and grabbed onto Tails arms. "Hey, let go." Struggling. Tails was pulled away from the orderly's back and held out in the air.

On the ground, the orderly had grabbed Amy around her waist and had pinned her down on the ground, doing his best to avoid the legs and left arm as she trashed around, trying to get free. One eye was swollen shot and turning a nice shade of red.

Breathing in heavily, Amy was in a complete panic. She didn't see a wolf holding her down or the frantic fox pounding his hands down onto the arm holding him. Instead she saw three large robots looming over her, one of them, pulling her towards a glass cylinder. Off to the side, Robotnic was grinning at someone on the floor below them. Screaming, she stuck out with her hands and tried to kick the one holding her away.

"What's going on here?"

The fight slowly stopped and three of the person's looked up at voice and turned to stare at the one who had spoken. Standing in the doorway, Sally Acorn, Sonic the Hedgehog and Bunny Rabbot looked at chaos raging in the room. Stepping further in through the door, Sally looked at the one holding down Amy. "Let her go, can't you see she's scared of you?"

Stepping into the room, Sonic swept his eyes over the crowd, and stopped when he came to Tails still being held in the orderly's hand. "Hey bro, how's it hanging?" Chuckling, he gave an amused grin at the young fox.

"Ha, ha." Tails mumbled as he glared down at the laughing hedgehog. "Tell him to let go of me." Pounding a hand onto the massive arm holding him, he winched at pain from it.

Looking from the struggling fox in his hand, to the princess who stared at up at him with a commanding glare, he finally opened his hand and dropped Tails onto the floor. "I'm sorry princess. We were following orders." Helping his friend up from the floor, the orderly left the room supporting the other. "Man she can hit. Have you seen that black eye you got?" 

"No. But I can feel it!!" Roared the orderly as he pushed the other away and stalked off. The sound of someone grinning, were heard from the hallway before the door closed behind them.

Amy had curled up into a ball and was shaking. As soon as the guy holding onto her legs had let go, she had crawled over into a corner, and pushed herself as far into it as she could get. Hiding her face in the protectiveness of her arms, low and sorrow filled sobs could be heard quiet clearly in the room.  

Dr. Quack slowly approached the group and tapped the blue hedgehog on the shoulder. Motioning for him to step over into the opposite corner from where Amy was sitting, he turned to face the hedgehog and Bunny who had gone with them. Looking briefly from the note pad to the crying hedgehog girl, he sighed. "Well. Physically She is fine. But I think it would be best to put her into the mental ward for the time being."

"What?" Sonic yelled as he looked over at the young hedgehog that had been pulled into a hug by Sally. "No way doc." Glaring at the doctor, he made a motion to show that is was not okay with him. "Hording her up with a bunch of loonies is not going to help her."

Dr. Quack looked at the blue hedgehog. "And what do you suggest them Sonic. She is clearly in a state of deep shock and could be a danger to those around her." Lowering his voice, he fixed his eyes on the two teens in front of him. "From the way she acted when I talked with her, it is clear that she is under a heavy depression and is in the need of a caretaker. And I don't think that you will be able to do that."    

Sonic growled and felt like choking the doctor right there. "It's my fault that she is that way. It was me that yelled at her, and called her a burden on the freedom fighters. If I hadn't done that, she wouldn't have tried to sneak into Robotropolis like that." Clenching his fist, Sonic looked across the room and towards the pink hedgehog. "Do you know how it felt when I broke her out of that machine." Closing his eyes, a single tear fell from it. "To see someone's life ruined in a short moment. It was hard enough when it happened to Bunny, but to see it happen again and to someone like Amy, he just used her to hurt me, that was all she was to him. A means to get to me." Walking away from the doctor stiffly, Sonic ended the conversation.

Bunny looked up at the doctor. "I think Sugar-hog is right about this. Don't worry; we'll look after Amy. And if something happens, we'll be right over with her." Bunny gave a short smile and turned to walk over to the group sitting on the floor trying to calm down the young girl. "Oh yeah. Amy's clothes, do you know where they are?" Bunny asked as she noticed what Amy was wearing. 

Dr. Quack composed himself and shook his head. "They were thrown out. With the damage done and the amount of dirt on it. They weren't worth keeping. I'll send someone up with something for her." Holding onto his notepad, doctor Quack left the room.

Sonic stood a little way from where Amy, Sally and Tails sat on the floor. The lost and hurt look in her eyes, where almost the same as she had had on that day. But now it was even worse than then. Kneeling down in front of the pink hedgehog, he reached out a hand and tapped Amy on the shoulder. "Hey Amy. Look I'm sorry about what I said to you. Come one cheer up. We'll be leaving in a little while." As Amy didn't respond, Sonic hand fell onto the floor. "Amy, come one say something." Almost pleading, he held his gaze on the wooden boards.

A low mumble, came from Amy as her right eye lifted up to look at him briefly, before it fell back down again, to hide under her pink eyelid. As Sonic traced a finger along the white glove covering her right hand he gave a half smile. Moving back, he settled down on the floor and stared at the girl who had been a pest to him for as long as he had know her. But now, he felt like someone had stepped on something. Robotnic had fund her, but instead of throwing her into a holding cell. He had recognized her, as being someone close to him, and had therefore thrown her into that hell machine of his at once and had waited for him to show up.

Tails and Bunny watched him, as Sally led Amy over to the changing screen. An elder nurse had dropped by with a blue t-shirt and a pair of long jeans in a darker color. Bunny stared at him as he wiped a tear from his face. "Spill it sugar-hog. You rarely cry. What did she saw to you to make you do that?" Bunny asked in a motherly voice.

"Not your fault." Sonic looked down at the floor and failed to notice the blank look of the face of his two friends. "All she said was, that it was not my fault." Feeling another tear fall from his eye, Sonic didn't move it away. "She may not blame me. But if I hadn't been such a total jerk, it wouldn't have happened."  

Tails looked at Sonic and scratched his head. "What do you mean it is your fault?"

Sonic turned his best bud. "Remember when I was supposed to sneak into the city and see what I could learn about the docs plans." Tails nodded and Sonic continued. "Well. Amy wanted to come with me and I told her she was too young. She said that you and her was the same age and that you were allowed to come on missions." Taking a deep breath, Sonic tapped a finger onto a dark spot on the floor. "I said that it was not the same, and she got mad over it. Feeling tired at that point, I yelled that you at least had done something useful against old Robohead instead of getting in the way." Closing his eyes, Sonic could clearly see the angry frown on Amy's face, the one that hid the pain from his comment. "I basically called her useless and a problem. She ran off after that."    

Bunny grabbed Sonic hand and tilted his head up. "So you were a little hard on her sugar-hog. That still don't explain how it could your fault." 

Sonic grimaced. "I tried to find her later and apologized. When I entered her hut, all I found was a note saying that she was going to prove that she was worthy of being a freedom fighter." Sonic pounded his fist into the ground. "If I hadn't yelled at her and called a burden on the freedom fighters, she wouldn't have gone into that stupid city." 

"It's not your fault." The words were low and cause the trio to look up. Amy stood in front of Sally, The blue T-shirt fit perfectly but the jeans were a tad to big and they had been forced to roll up the bottom of the legs. The metal shine of her feet was very clear, as she wasn't wearing any kind of shoes or her normal red-white boots to cover them. Her metallic arm was the first thing they had noticed when they looked at her, even if Amy was trying her best to hide it. Still not wanting to look any into the eyes, she looked down onto the floor. "It is not your fault Sonic. It's mine. I'm the one who went into Robotropolis without knowing anything about it. You were right, I'm not cut out to be a freedom fighter." Voice thick with depression, Amy held her hands behind her back, and waited for the lecture, about how stupid she had been to go into the city without a more experienced person with her, about how she had brought everyone in danger by doing it.

Sally held Amy's shoulders as the hedgehog girl waited for someone to start lecturing her. "It wasn't very smart of you to do a thing like that. You could have been hurt more then you are now." Feeling Amy's shoulders shag under her, she squeezed them. "But I'm glad, you made it back." Smiling a little she gave Amy a quick hug. "But the next time you think of doing something like that. Don't do it. You don't need to prove yourself to us, we like you just the way you are." Turning the young hedgehog around, she led her towards the door. "Now come on. We're having your favorite for dinner tonight."   

Tbc.

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AN: Well here is part 1. Part 2 may take a bit longer to write. Send me your opinion and tell me what you thinks need to be improved.  I'm so tired. I think I'll grab some shuteye. Later.

Zharlight: Thanks for the fanart offer. If you get around to making some, I'll be glad to take a look at it.

Dak.