Disclaimer: Now if I had owned Sonic… don't ya think I'd be rich by now? (In that case, I DON'T OWN IT!)
Yet again, I fix this to remove the ooc humor. I guess I am putting too much of ooc in this, so I'm replacing and fixing all of my chapters except for my most recent one.
Broken Hope
Downtown Los AngelesDashing away at a fast pace, Sonic looked like a bluish blur to any passer-bys. Tails was hovering, and following Sonic, keeping up with him. Soon, sonic stopped for a moment to catch a little breath. He felt so bad now, shouting at Amy, but he had to… She was annoying. Yet tails was right, earlier. He shouldn't be yelling at Amy, or else he'd soon yell at his 'fans'. He guessed being a Hero only attracted a lot of fans, but Amy didn't want that. She said to him that he was funny… and sweet. Taking in a deep breath, he let loose a shout, so about five to six blocks could hear him from that far, even at a longer distance.
"Amy! Ammmmy!! Where'd you go?!"
"Sonic, she's not gonna answer you if you call out her name. She'll just think you're gonna do the same thing and hurt her more."
Sonic gave out a soft sigh. Man, he felt like there was about a ton of guiltiness upon his shoulders, and for that, he acted like he was real slow; something unusual for Sonic to be doing. Well, of course, he's in a slumped mood.
"Well, I can use myself to find her in the air, but that's gonna take awhile and Amy might be gone by then."
"Gone where?" Inquired Sonic.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I'm sure we'll find her, and you are going to apologize to her."
"Tails, I know. Why do you think I'm not in a really good 'positive' mood now?" He managed to throw a look at Tails, who reminded him repeatedly, as if Sonic were to forget he was going to apologize to Amy.
"Sorry, Sonic. I guess I'm too worried about Amy that I forgot to stop reminding you to apologize to her."
"Don't worry about it. First thing is first; we have to find Amy before she decides to never come back to see me at all." Sonic stood still for a moment, dulling out of his consciousness, and into somewhere else for the few seconds that he could.
/ Personally, I didn't even want her to leave… Amy, if you can hear me, even though you can't, I'm sorry. Really. I didn't mean to, but you were annoying as hell. You always want me to date you, or worse, marry me! … There I go again. What a 'Hero' I turned out to be. I shout at one of my friends who had helped me before, and I drive her off, maybe for good. But I do not want her to go. Actually… I guess I lost it when she annoyed me this last time… /
Faint echoes of her last words towards Sonic rang in his head; something he would have never heard from Amy if he hadn't shouted at her.
"I…… I…… I hate you, Sonic the Hedgehog!!"
Tails was already busy waving his hand at the idle Sonic's face. "Sonic? Are you okay?"
He wasn't answering, as he still continued to think. Why did he put up with Amy? Why didn't he just diss her before, when she was driving him nuts? Swearing he hadn't a clue, to himself, Sonic snapped out of it before Tails was about to knock on his idling forehead. Sonic reached and stopped tails' hand before he could try.
"Erm… sorry about that. I was thinking…. About where Amy might be."
"Ah, okay. I was wondering why you looked dull."
"I am not dull."
"You looked like it."
"Come on, we're wasting time. Tails, go up and find her like you said earlier. I'll just go running around the city to catch her before she can get anywhere."
"Right!" The both of them split up the instant Tails says 'right!'. Sonic then used his speed to drive himself off into the distance, as tails uplifted himself off the ground using his two tails. "I'll have to use the Cyclone if Amy has gone out of reach!" He said this to no one, before taking flight to the skies above the buildings.
Pacific OceanUnidentified Object nearing the shoreline the California (Approaching the Area: San Francisco)
Something, rather, someone was fast approaching the Bay at a speed almost faster than Sonic's. The radar at the base could not tell what it was, because it wasn't an airplane, or a seaward ship. The object was too small to be anything of that size unless it had to have been some many choices… it could be a Water skier, dolphin, or some small mammal. But clearly it wasn't the first two choices. No dolphin can go that fast, over the water, especially. And there wasn't a boat tugging the suggested water skier. Obviously it had to be something else because the G.U.N. forces were settled in San Francisco after the defeat of the Bio-lizard. They thought they had escaped the madness of the project known as "Shadow"; little they know that the object gliding along the surface at the water upon what seem to be air-hovering shoes, was none other than Shadow himself. His shoes were re-modified to let him glide over water with no problem, as if he were running on solid ground, too.
GUN Control kept a steady monitor upon the beeping dot on the large-area scanner in the control room.
"Sir! The object is closing in on the bay, and will reach the shore in less than ten minutes or less. What shall we do?"
"What else! Protect the city, and send out the fighter jets, and with beetles mounted with laser-point projectiles to try and detain the enemy object. Move out, people! MoveitmoveitmoveitMoveIt!!!" Shouted the leading 'General' of G.U.N. In the lights of his time, he had led the arrests of sonic, and he was determined to capture the blue hedgehog, but he was wrong when sonic, and another mysterious figure saved the world. That other hedgehog-look alike must have been the culprit, because he knew what attacked him before. He had been a commander then…
"Hey! He has the Chaos Emerald! Arrest him!" shouted an officer, who was older than most of the commanders. This officer aimed his blaster at the black, and red hedgehog. Beams fired out, but the black hedgehog managed to evade the shots. Glowering eyes of fierceness reigned in Shadow's eyes. "All of you will pay! For destroying my life, and Maria's!" Shadow was enraged to the point he bent forwards, and leapt at the one who attempted to hit Shadow with a pathetic weapon.
Shadow easily, and stealthily took down the officer, and glared into his eyes as he stood upon the frozen-scared man, boring a hole into his soul, like that of an angered being whose purpose was to kill everything in sight.
"You are lucky. I needn't waste my time with the likes of you. If I ever see you again, you will PERISH beneath my wrath!" Shadow merely presses his foot against the man's face, who was trembling with fear, and agony as Shadow was about to kick-smash his face when he lifted the foot. He sent it down, but the man's face moved away from the foot as it tried to come down upon the face. Although it didn't crush him, the shoe, rather, made a scorched scar with the energy within the shoes burst on.
"Tell your 'leader' that I'll deal with him when I am done handing this Emerald to my master."
Turning, Shadow uplifted the Green Chaos Emerald towards the sky, gripping it as the raw power of the emerald was showing before the terrified officer's face.
"Chaos.. Control!"
And that was it… the hedgehog disappeared within a greenish flash, leaving behind a very frozen-with-fear office, spared from destruction Shadow brought to the other unfortunate soldiers.
Shadow was only bluffing.
The General sat back, taking a deep breath after remembering such a moment. A moment like that should have never been remembered, but now he was the leader of the G.U.N forces at his disposal. This couldn't be the same black hedgehog, heading towards the bay, could it? And who was his 'master' from before? He was puzzled by this unknown black entity he had encountered two years ago. Thinking, why hadn't the hedgehog killed him when he had the chance? Was he… holding back? That Shadow couldn't kill, yet he injured dozens of other soldiers, and he only gave him a burn scar to the face… Shaking his head, General D.G. Kelvin pushed those thoughts aside. He had other important things to do other than to relive a memory that only he could relive through his dreams.
The BayThe first unit of beetles was commanded, and controlled by three jetfighters within the vicinity. They gave out the orders to seek out and attempt to disable the speeding object, and bring it back to base for examination, and detain it for further information. The frontline of beetle squadrons composed of one invisible hunter beetle, two plain beetles, and eight with laser projectile cannons per squadron, in which that three squadrons of beetles were the first to arrive on time to catch the object a little off-guard. Immediately, the three hunter beetles vanished into thin air with their cloaking devices. The 'object' swiftly noticed the beetles, and then it noticed a bridge to the far right.
Shadow hadn't any doubts that G.U.N would be here, but he believes that they were trying to find a better, suitable place so that nothing would be able to beat them. In the exceptions of those he had seen, and himself. Shadow could easily swat away all these little pests one by one. Or he could repeatedly home attack them all. Out of the corner of his eye, he had seen three of them vanish. Not really a big surprise, but those were hunter beetles, under invisible to pop up anywhere and damage him with ramming attacks. Worse were the laser cannon-toting beetles. He severely hated those with a passion. Gliding along the water as if it were normal ground itself, Shadow started to lay out a pattern upon which the beetles were coming towards him, he would have to precisely hit them with his homing attack, one squad at a time.
"So, you want a piece of me? You're going to have to get me!" Shadow shouts towards the beetles, as he does a sharp left, avoiding a volley of fuchsia laser blasts that flew into the water and sizzled it somewhat, towards the bridge connecting to the land. He was going to face off with the beetles on the bridge, as a plan. But he had to be careful for the hunters were probably going to hinder his attack plan. Skating towards the mainland, he soon reached ground shore before avoiding two ramming, laser-less beetles from the first squadron. Those two crash-landed into the ground, and began to emit smoke and fire, and those two were useless now. Turning his head to check on his pursuers, he made his way up a small hill, onto a sudden freeway with random zooming cars coming at him, not on purpose though. Some manage to swerve out of Shadow's way as he almost stood there like a clueless idiot. He wasn't acting like an idiot; Shadow merely stood there like a roadblock, not afraid of these man-made iron machines that run on simple circular shapes called tires, made of rubber, and with a metal framing inside. Soon, he then took off with a walk, then into a full running dash as he swiftly air-bladed over the bridge, the beetles following, with two jets flying overhead, dropping small bombs in Shadow's way.
"This is Commander Jason Heniker of Jet squadron 'Arrowhead'. We have reports that the beetles have caught up with the object, and it is a black hedgehog with red streaks on the spikes. Sir, this looks like Sonic!" Reported in the lead jet.
/ I knew it. He came back. Maybe he wasn't bluffing that he'd come back… /
The man was sweating with complete and utter nervousness, and fear. Did Project Shadow truly come back to kill him now?
A Bus enroute to San Francisco.
All the people heading towards San Francisco looked towards the back, where Amy sat. She looked so down, as if she was abused or something. Some didn't ask, the others wondered. A little brown haired child ran to the back of the moving transportation vehicle, and stopped near Amy, carrying a plushie. The little girl never someone this sad! "Whatsa matter, lady?" The girl chirped, clinging onto her blue plushie.
Looking up, as if she were coming out of a trance, she looked towards the little girl, and smiled a little bit. "It's nothing you shouldn't know. Besides, where's your mom? I'll take you back to her…" She took notice of the plushie, and made a face, seeing whom it was.
Sonic.
That jerk! Amy thought she could escape Sonic, but apparently he's become so popular around the world. No wonder. Shaking her head, she let out her hand to the little girl, and the girl grasped it. Walking the child back to her mother, who was one of those who wanted to question Amy's behavior, the mom nodded. "Excuse me, but I saw you back there, Miss…"
"Rose. I'm Amy Rose."
"Oh! Oh my, you are Amy Rose? It's a pleasure to meet you. Why look so down, Ms. Rose?" Apparently you could hear the secretary-tone-of-voice she had.
"I don't want to talk about it. It'd be better if I didn't talk to anyone."
"I see, well, I don't want to bother you, so it was nice meeting you. And thank you for returning my child to me."
"It was nice to meet you too. And you're welcome." Amy retreated back to her spot, with her mallet still on the seat. It was a bit better to be away from Sonic, since he lashed out at her like that for no reason. Well, of course she was annoying, but she loves Sonic… well, loved. Shaking her head a bit, she began to drift to sleep, before the radio news in the front kicked off the current song. It was static at first, and then the voice became clearer..
' Newsflash! Reports from San Francisco police say they have witnessed a G.U.N. defensive attack at an unidentified object that had made its way from the Pacific Ocean. We are not sure who or what it is, but we are sure it resembles something that of Sonic the Hedgehog. … More news! The object has now been defined as a blackish hedgehog, yet we cannot confirm if it is Sonic or not because the dead of night time darkness.'
Amy stood up in a quick rush, to hear of this. That couldn't be Sonic. And she was right when the radio told her it was a bla---…Wait one minute… a blackish hedgehog?…
Shadow???!! But it can't be…
"Put the pedal to the metal and step on it! I have to get there, and quick!" Cried Amy.