Author's note: Just to let you know, the gruesomeness is going to continue into this chapter.

Chapter 3: The Second Impact

Sonic and the truck driver are working frantically to pry Amy out of her car. She was bleeding badly out of her mouth, possibly from losing her teeth. While the truck driver was trying to find his pocketknife, Sonic decided to ask a few questions. "Hey, what's your name?"

The truck driver replied, "well, you called me 'slowpoke' didn't you? Just kidding, it's Ken." (Not from Street Fighter, mind you!) "There it is," Ken finally found his pocketknife, now he just has to open it! "It's kind of stuck, so I'll have to mess with it a little to get the blade out."

Sonic is now starting to get annoyed, but he's mostly worried about Amy's condition. He also wanted Ken to jump back into his truck and get it out of the way before a pile-up occurs. He asked Ken another question to temporarily get his mind off his worries. He noticed that the fog was still very thick.

"Ken, tell me what happened after you hit that car," Sonic asked with a nervous tone.

Ken was still trying to get the blade out, "I was doing about 35 mph, the legal speed limit for this kind of weather. What's the matter with this knife? Anyways, after I saw the car, I slammed on my brake. Controlling this truck with a 25 ton trailer is no easy task, especially in this fog. Slamming the brake causes a huge loss in control of my truck and the trailer, and it's very hard to regain control. I'm surprised that I didn't tip over or drive off the highway."

"Okay," Sonic said, "if your truck hit the car from BEHIND, how did you end up further down the road than the car? Do you need help with that?" Sonic pointed at the pocketknife.

"That's all right, I've almost got it," Ken said as politely as his nervous self could, "as for the car, as soon as I hit it, I completely lost control of my truck and I was continuously swerving back and forth to regain control. While doing this, I saw the car slip loose from the front of my truck and ended up where you see it now. As for me, I continued down the road and managed to stop completely. But since I have no control of my truck, it stopped in the position that you now see. My truck is now an illegal roadblock!" Ken finally pulled out the knife, "all right! I got it!"

"Hurry up, before something else happens." Sonic was looking around very nervously, trying to see anything else through the thick fog. He was very afraid of what could come out next. Unfortunately, his fears are about to come true very soon.

Amy gave a loud moan and started stirring. "S-Sonic, where are you?"

Sonic went to her side, "Amy, please don't move. Your badly injured and I don't want you moving around too much." His concern for her was so great that he no longer noticed his headache (it's still there though).

Amy gave a weak and bloody smile, "I guess I should have bought a car with a passenger air bag and a stronger safety belt. When I recover, I'm gonna sue the car company. He he." She gave a short laugh and started wincing from the pain, especially from her face.

While Sonic was comforting Amy, Ken finally cut of her safety belt. "All right, it's done. I'll go run to my truck and call an ambulance." Sonic immediately tried to pull Amy out, but her leg was caught on something.

"Amy," Sonic said, trying to say calm, "I'm going to pull your leg free, so try not to move around, okay?"

Ken barely took two steps when they all heard another loud engine noise coming from the fog, and then some headlights. They were all terrified when another 18-wheeler truck came rushing out of the fog, going faster than the first truck, and was coming right at them! This driver didn't see the car because the idiot was drinking a large cup of coffee that covered his face! They just stared and they were all petrified. Sonic snapped out of it and tried to pull Amy out, but he was just a split second too late. Ken also snapped out of his terrified trance and just barely jumped out of the way.

The 18-wheeler smashed into the FRONT of the car at full force, and the truck's brakes weren't hit this time. (Remember, the car is now pointing the opposite way from the first impact, and this time Amy no longer has her safety belt!) Once again, the car is being carried down the road. The force of the impact threw Sonic out of the car, but Amy is still inside! (Sonic was only halfway inside the car, so he got flung out). He managed to land on his feet, but he sprained his ankle. He looked towards the car and was completely horrified by what he's seeing.

The second truck was carrying the car towards the other 18-wheeler. The car is about to be smashed between two big 18-wheeler trucks and Amy's still in the car! The second truck's brakes were squealing loudly to avoid the impact, but it was far too late. Sonic sprung up to at least try to save her, but he quickly fell over from his twisted ankle.

He then screamed with horror, "AMY, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Amy noticed the truck coming behind her and realized that she's about to get crushed. "SONIC, AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!"

The little 1-ton car was immediately crushed between the two 30-ton trucks. Shards of glass and metal were flying all over the place. Sonic couldn't see the actual crash through the thick fog, but everyone within several miles could hear the impact, especially Sonic. He quickly got back up and limped over to the crash scene as fast as his twisted-ankle leg could take him.

When he finally arrived, the scene was nothing short of a total nightmare. He could see that the second truck had crashed into the side of Ken's truck. However, he couldn't find Amy's car anywhere! He decided to check between the truck for any sign of Amy. He ran over as fast he could, trying his best to ignore the pain shooting up his ankle.

Warning: This part is more graphic than the last chapter. You've been warned!

Sonic looked between the two wrecked trucks, and indeed he found her car. Luckily, her door had completely broken off. However, what he saw will haunt him forever. He got a good look at Amy and nearly threw up from what he saw. Her WHOLE body was very bloody, in fact there was hardly any pink color anywhere on her. It was as if she just dove into a pool of red paint, even her gloves and boots were bloody. Her whole body was crushed between her seat and the dashboard, now there's almost no way to pull her out.

Miraculously, she was still breathing, but she had a very shocked and dazed look on her face. Sonic also noticed that her hand was covering the right side of her head. He moved her hand away and saw something stuck to the side of her head.

Amy then turned her head to look at him, "S-Soooonniiiiic," she struggled to speak in a whispering tone.

Sonic almost jumped out of his shoes from what he saw, "this...this can't be real!"

He had a good view of Amy's head, and he was sure that he'll have nightmares. A long shard of metal about a foot long and less than an inch wide had completely impaled her head. It stabbed into her right temple and was sticking out the top of her head! Somehow she was still alive and barely conscious.

Just when Sonic thought the situation couldn't get any worse, it did. A few seconds later, Amy tensed up like a wooden board and quickly clutched her throat, as if she was choking or drowning underwater. Then to Sonic's horror, she started vomiting blood very violently! Blood was even squirting out of her nose, and the blood splattered all over the dashboard and the smashed windshield! Some of her blood nearly splattered on Sonic!

After a few seconds of this, she started going into violent twitches and spasms, she's obviously going into shock! Sonic was in a total panic, he absolutely didn't know what to do. He looked around and saw Ken was in his truck, finally calling an ambulance, despite his truck getting damaged. Sonic looked at the driver of the other truck and noticed that he too was calling an ambulance.

He looked back at Amy and noticed that she was no longer shaking around, but she was going limp! "Amy! No! Don't do this, don't you dare do this! Amy, look at me, LOOK AT ME!!" He yelled to get her attention and it worked. "Good. Now Amy, squeeze my hand. Come on, I know you can do it. I don't care if you break my hand, just squeeze it and don't let go!" Sonic's panic was almost uncontrollable. She squeezed his hand weakly, "now Amy, don't look around, just look at my face. Concentrate only on my face and keep holding my hand. Now don't give up, I know and you know that we will survive this, okay? OKAY!?

He noticed that Amy still had a constant trickle of blood flowing out of her nose and mouth. She then she stopped breathing and the life in her eyes were fading away fast. "Amy, please breathe! Cough out any more blood in your lungs and try to breathe!" She couldn't do it unfortunately, she lost too much blood and was once again going onto shock.

"Amy! Please don't do this, DON'T DO THIS AMY!!" He was afraid to shake, he could injure her even further.

Finally, her body relaxed completely. Her grip on Sonic's had completely loosened, and the life in her eyes disappeared almost immediately. Her face had a very calm and peaceful look, as opposed to her face being full of terror and agony like earlier. Sonic slowly released her limp hand, noticing that Amy was still "staring" at him with lifeless eyes.

At that moment, Sonic's sanity completely left his body. He started laughing maniacally and babbling unintelligibly while limping around the crash scene. He then heard a few more crashing sounds and many horns blaring, but he absolutely didn't care. He clumsily slipped on a small puddle of blood and fell over, hitting his head hard on the concrete.

He quickly got up and started feeling very dizzy. The world around him started spinning and going dark. He then fell over again, this time on his side, and dislocated his shoulder. He didn't seem to feel any pain though. The last thing he saw was Amy's limp hand hanging out of her car. The last thing he heard before blacking out was the wailing of emergency sirens. "I hope that they're not too late," Sonic thought, then blacked out. This has been one very stressful day.

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In case you want to know, the graphicness doesn't quite stop here. But this fic is far from over. When I add the next chapter, you'll see what I mean.