Chapter 3

On her way to work Amy knew she had to get in touch with Eggman. He was the only one with files on project Shadow. It was something she didn't particularly want to do, but sacrifices must be made. The only problem was that she didn't know where to find him, after the ARK incident nobody seemed to know where he was, she thought Sonic might know, but she had no idea where he was either, it had been several months since she had last seen him and when she had tried to call him in the morning, she had fond that he had moved, so she had no way of getting in contact with him till she talked to Tails when he came back from some science convention. So in the mean time she would just have to help Shadow in any way she could.

Amy got to work late, which wasn't a thing she did, so the minute she walked in the door, her friend/coworker Mina instantly said,

"So what's the guys name?"

"What are you talking about Mina?"

" Oh come on Amy, you're an hour late, there must have been a guy, was it your first time?"

"Mina! I did not sleep with Shadow!!"

"So his name is Shadow. Wait. Wasn't that the name of the guy who helped you guys save the world?"

Amy smiled a little at the thought of the fact that she and everybody else had received awards after the incident and had become overnight celebrities. For a while there had been talk of a movie, but Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, and Rouge felt that it would have tarnished Shadows memory, another reason was that the producers felt no reason to use the real Tails, but rather a look alike.

"Yeah, it's him."

"Whoa! Everybody on the planet thinks that he's dead and you've got him living in your apartment! How long has he been with you?"

"Just last night, but for some reason he has no memory of his past."

"Amnesia? That's unlucky."

"No kidding. It would be just my luck to find him without any..."

At that moment Amy's sentence was cut off because the last person in the world she thought to see in a jewelry store came in the door, and it was none other than Knuckles the Echidna!

"Knuckles! What are you doing here?"

"A-A-Amy! You work here?"

"Yep, sure do, so seriously why are you here?"

"I need to buy an engagement ring."

"Really now. Who for?"

"Ummm, Rouge."

Amy nearly squealed with delight, for the last six months Knuckles and Rouge had been dating on and off and Amy thought that they were perfect for each other, in fact she had spoken to Rouge 2 days ago and she had mentioned waiting for Knuckles to pop the question.

"Okay, so, what type of ring do you want?"

"I guess something real nice, something that will show that I truly love her."

"Maybe something with a lot of jewels? Oooh! I have the perfect thing! Mina! Have we sold The One?"

"Hahahaha! No body can afford that thing Amy."

Knuckles looked a little discouraged at this, but then thought that maybe, if he sold his air-necklace, that he might be able to afford it.

"Ummm, Amy, I have 10,000,000,000 dollars, after I cashed in all my rings from ARK."

Mina, having overheard this conversation, exclaimed:

"Holy mother of God! Knuckles, you're richer than the mayor of Station Square!"

Amy chose this moment to pick up her mouth off the floor and say,

"Jesus Knux, none of us made that much off our rings, I only got 100,000,000! Most of that is in a bank of course, but God!"

"I spent a lot of time getting rings, I didn't think that it was that much."

"You need to get out more Knux. Listen, you come by in two weeks, and I'll get The One ready for you."

"Okay Amy, but what's it look like?"

"I can't tell you, it's a secret. Bye Knux."

"Bye Amy."

Amy thought it was nice to run into one of the gang, but it was even nicer to know that Knux and Rouge where tying the knot. Huh, Amy sighed, maybe one day I'll find a guy who'll ask me The Question. 6 months ago I would've said Sonic, but not now. The rest of Amy's day was pretty uneventful, she didn't run into anybody and the only thing on her mind was Shadow. When quitting time finally came, Amy started to hurry home, with Mina yelling at her back,

"Have fun with Shadow!"

Amy was tempted to respond:

"I will!"

If just to piss off Mina, she had been in a bad relationship with some low-life named Knack. What Kind of name is Knack anyway? Mina has been in some bad relationships lately, wonder who she'll hook up with next? God I'm tired. I'll just crash when I get home. That's exactly what the pink hedgehog did too; she reached her couch and crashed. That's when Shadow came out of the bathroom, and saw her lying there. She's beautiful. Shadow thought, and then without thinking he leaned down and kissed Amy on the forehead and then lay down besides her, falling asleep.

HAHAHAHA! Do I see the beginning of a relationship? Send me your ideas and reviews; you never know I might use some of them.