Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic –singsong voice-.
You people sure want me to update more often. Geeze, I never knew my story be this popular… a bit. Well. I should tell that I'm only available on the computer for Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Rarely Sundays. Thursdays aren't going to be explained.
Broken Hope"Whoa, there, missy. I can't just step on the gas, or I'd run out of gas soon enough when we're in San Francisco already." Complained the driver.
"But, it's an emergency! Please, if you don't speed up, who knows what might happen to Shadow!"
Silence drew upon the bus' passengers and driver alike. Did Amy Rose just say 'Shadow'?… She did, indeed. Amy looked around at the people who were staring at her like she was crazy or something because Project Shadow was terminated in outer space versus the bio-lizard. And only Sonic managed to survive. Amy didn't know what else to do, but she practically begged the driver the immediate moment she was stared at, again. The driver sat there thinking, before he saw that they were coming upon a small bus station, and with a small-looking garage.
It gave him an idea since he was last here.
"Well, tell you what. I don't believe you, but you look serious." Mentioned the driver, as the bus slowed down upon the station. Handing her a small key, Amy caught the key, and became clueless.
"Go to the garage, and open the door. You'll find what will get you to San Francisco faster than this old doohickey. And it's yours if you want it."
"Um, okay. Uh… thanks, mister." Amy says as she departs the bus with her mallet, and watches it take a detour route to the city, instead of the normal way… because a few miles, even Amy could see the roadblock created by the police, and some G.U.N. forces. She had to think about this one, as Amy looked to the key. It wasn't old; it looked new, and she wondered why.
Heading towards the garage, she managed to open the door, pulling up the entire front door, as it slid into its compartment below the roof. There, Amy gasped aloud, because there were only a few people, and they were all inside. She was shocked to see why the man had given her the keys, because in there, on its stand, was a black and red motorbike. The vehicle looked brand new, and it obviously wasn't in use at all because of the small cobwebs on it.. Kinda big for Amy, but still, she could ride it.. If she knew how to, that is.
"Oh shoot! I don't know how to run one of these things. But I'll give it a test run, then take off…" Sighed Amy, before she looked around, clutching the key within her right hand. On a nearby shelf, there was a black helmet, with bluish-silvery streaks running from the front sides, to the back in lightning bolt patterns. She thought that looked cool, and so she just snagged it off the shelf, and put it on. The visor was clear, and Amy put the visor over her sight, all that could be seen of her head was her eyes, and some of her bangs that were sticking downwards from the helmet squashing them down.
Walking back over to the bike, and looking out into the open, she managed to climb up and on the motorbike, placing herself upon the seat, and looking for the keyhole to place the key into it. She found it, sliding the ket to insert it, and then she twisted the key to start the bike, which alerted the few people inside. One man came out, and became surprised that the garage door was open, and that there was a motor sound coming from the inside. Before Amy knew it, she had gripped the handles, and accidentally pressed on the gas, causing her, and the bike, to rocket outwards, with Amy wildly trying to control it. "Waaah!! How do you handle this thiiiiing!!?" Amy screamed in the distance, but not crashing into anything. She held on tight, mallet hidden away in her .. 'huge' pocket.
"Um…. Sir, there seems to be another vehicle heading this way, and it doesn't look like it's going to stop." An officer mentioned to a G.U.N. soldier.
"Well, we'll have to stop it, and probably arrest the idiot."
Amy found some way to control it slightly, but not enough as she zoomed into the darkness, one front light the only hope of ever finding her way through the night roads. Blinking beneath the clear visor, she could see the roadblock with orange-and-white diagonal striped carts, and some police cars, and…. Oh shoot! Two beetles!! This wasn't good. Looking around, one beetle was in front of the roadblock, hovering near the ground about half a foot away, and one above the cars just a little off to the left. Thinking, Amy could get through this if she pulled it off, a stunt that she would regret if she messed up. She pushed on the gas further, maximizing out her speed until the bike was tilting upwards, front wheel in the air, aimed at the low-level beetle. The police, and the soldiers began to scramble from their original positions, firing random shots at Amy. She braced herself as the frontal wheel collided with the beetle's flattop. The weight of the bike crushed the thing below, as it fell apart, and gave the bike, and Amy a boost into the air, soaring like a stunt biker. There, she collided with the next beetle, since she was higher than that beetle, and crushed it as well. Flying directly past the roadblock, and nearly bouncing off the seat when she landed, Amy looked back, and sped off, as both beetles exploded.
"No time for chitchat! I gotta go! See ya!" Amy waved bye-bye to the stunned people.
She was finally on her way to San Francisco without any worries of any type, except how Shadow was alive, and managed to end up in the city she was heading to. And as soon as she found out about the incident recently, too, that was becoming currently passed about the western end of the United States. Soon, she would arrive in the said destination in approximately five minutes now, if she weren't too late.
San Francisco: On a bridgeShadow couldn't believe the numerous attempts these pathetic beetles were doing to try and catch him. They were poorly done, and their speed was slow as dang humans. He was already at the base of a bridge cable, and he forced his way up on grinding on his shoes. He leapt up, and landed on the suspension piece that was on the bridge itself. All he could see is that the beetles were trying their hardest to capture Shadow, yet they would never be able to catch him. Tensing himself up, Shadow was able to leap up from the suspension wire atop the bridge, and swiftly curl up into a fast black ball with orangey shades beginning to emit as he flew at the closest laser-toting beetle. Smashing that thing to pieces before it could fire its laser, he went on to the next beetle behind, which stupidly followed the one he smashed. This kept on repeating until he has destroyed eighteen beetles in a row, which reduced the number of beetles by now. In that, he took out three weaponless beetles, and fifteen laser-carrying beetles, all in one homing-attack sequence. One jetfighter, passed by overhead, and almost knocked Shadow off balance with a bomb at him as he managed to take a hold of one of the cables, and slide down it to the main road crossing the bridge.
"Pathetic fools! I haven't got the time for the likes of all of you for attacking me without provoking you!" Shadow shouted at the jets, yet none of them heard Shadow.
He was getting ticked off, wanting to grab the Chaos Emerald by now, use it and clearly make his point across with his ability. But he knew the other six were scattered about the world, and he had no interest in giving up the fight that G.U.N. started with him in the first place. There were the invisible hunter beetles to deal with, but he had not a clue where they were. One weaponless beetle, and nine laser beetles remained, after Shadow had gone a bit destructive for the past few minutes. Folding his arms slowly, he watched as the jets had taken off, yet they weren't about to give up as they left three invisible hunter beetles to try and knock him out, following that the ten remaining visible beetles had retreated with the jets, in trying to trick Shadow they gave up.
Shadow, however, was not very much tricked.
Nor did he like what was going to happen to him now, as a sudden infliction of pain upon his back ensued as a now-visible golden hunter beetle emerged from hiding, thus knocking Shadow to the ground, and skidding quite a ways. The other two beetles were hiding somewhere, getting ready to surprise the black hedgehog, and capture him while he is down. Quickly back flipping up, and onto his feet, the visible beetle went invisible, again, since Shadow was being relentlessly stubborn to stay down. Mind them, which this is no ordinary hedgehog that they were dealing with. Thinking that they became visible when he was down, Shadow quickly fell, again, purposely, closing his eyes, yet peeping on occasion. The other two beetles became visible, and the third was visible, too. They hovered near Shadow, almost going to grab him and take him away, until Shadow pushed himself up and jumped, forming himself into a ball again, and bounce-smash two of the ones that were hiding, eliminating them instantly. The third retreated in invisible mode, but not before faking the retreat, and began to pester Shadow by tackling him down numerous times.
A distant motor sound was coming towards the bridge, and Shadow had his back towards the sound, looking around and more persistently aware of the beetle rather than the motorbike sound in the background. The beetle was right in front of him, and Shadow turned around, thinking it was behind him… Till Shadow saw what was also coming at him from behind.
Not a beetle, but a motorbike and an all-too-familiar rider riding it. The invisible hunter beetle scooted sideways, to get a good lock-on upon tackling Shadow again, until the motorbike sped past Shadow, and putting a wrench in its calculations as the bike actually, and accidentally collides into the beetle while invisible, damaging the cloaking device and the beetle itself, and thus exploding to pieces, while sending the bike that crashed into it, and its driver, away quite a bit before the driver flew off the bike upon impact to the ground, skidding, then rolling to a slow stop in a heap of some scratches, and what sounded like a cracked sound when the cyclist collided with the ground.
Shadow hadn't expected something like this to happen. Merely pure luck happened by the moment, but then again, whoever it was, was unlucky enough to crash into the beetle that was about to attack him. Slowly air-skating to the victim of the explosion that followed the damaged beetle, he looked down upon the body…
/ This… person looks so familiar. I cannot quite point out who it is yet… wait… / He halted his private thought, because the body was moving, the red dress was somewhat torn, and the person managed to sit up, but wince in pain, as Shadow looked on, because the person had its back to him.
"Who are you?" Shadow asked immediately.
This surprised the person, who turned around, but could not stand for some reason. Slowly, the person tugged off the helmet, and instantly Shadow stepped back once the helmet was placed upon the ground.
/ Amy…??? /
"Shadow? Is that you, or am I seeing things?"
"I'm as plain real as you see, Amy."
"Oh my gosh! I don't believe it!! Shadow! How did you….? I thought… you were …dead??"
"I have my ways."
"But why are you causing a ruckus here? Don't you know the police will be here any minute now because of me 'flying' past their roadblock to this city?"
"This isn't your business to know why I'm here."
"Ooh! Why do you always have to be stubborn sometimes??"
"Why do you have to pop up when I least expect it? And why aren't you with your 'boyfriend', Sonic?"
This hurt Amy a bit, but she looked mad when he mentioned Sonic, and Shadow took note of that real quick before he decided not to ask about Sonic again.. Then again, why did Amy look so mad when he mentioned Sonic?
"Don't even say a word about him! I don't even wanna hear his name anymore!" Fussed Amy.
"Perhaps I will leave you be. For now, I must go back. Seems this isn't working out for me to be outside of my place."
"Huh? Hey! You can't just leave me here!" Amy suddenly tried to stand up, but a sickening crack sound happened again, and Amy cried out in pain. She fell down again, and held her left leg. When she crashed into the ground, Amy must have broken her leg in the course of crashing into the beetle to accidentally 'save' Shadow. Looking at her, as she did cry out in pain, hurt memories tried to haunt him, and thus, as he always didn't want to, he would have to take Amy before G.U.N. or the police could detain her for pulling a crazy stunt like that. On the other hand, she broke her leg, and it would have to take a while to heal that. Overhead, sounds of jets, and returning beetles confirmed Shadow needed to retreat this time.
"Hang on," Shadow murmured before he took Amy carefully into his arms, without trying to cause her pain with her leg. How could he escape with Amy in his arms, and G.U.N on his tail? Shadow didn't know, but he had to escape somehow or another. Looking around, he began to run at a decent speed, then his skates kicked in as he air-bladed across the bridge now. The jets flew in overhead, flying past the two hedgehogs.
One of the jets had seen the act that the pinkish hedgehog had done to destroy the last remaining invisible hunter beetle, by accident.
"This is commander of "Arrowhead" Squadron. We have a confirmation as to whom the unidentified second stranger is. A pink hedgehog had just collided with the beetle, and destroyed it, and it was probable it was no accident." Reported in the leader.
The General couldn't believe this. First Project Shadow, and now a pink hedgehog destroyed the last invisible beetle that was out there. There was more that could be sent, but that would take time as they were both trying to escape.
"Let them go."
"Sir??"
"You heard me, I said let them go, commander." The tone of voice was becoming angry, to oppose the questioning one.
"…Yes, sir. Attention all units, disregard the escaping subjects. Head back to base."
"Look! They're running away!" Pointed Amy. Shadow took notice of this, and stopped completely. Why had they broken off? / No matter, / thought Shadow. / Probably more cowards joined than brave people…/
With that said, Shadow resumed taking off, and surprisingly, was able to carry Amy as he bladed across the watery bay. He would only let Amy stay on his island for a while, and then take her back once her leg is healed. Simple and done.
Los AngelesNon-stop had the two looked all over the city. Nothing. Nada. They couldn't find Amy, and now Tails looked at Sonic, going to shame him for driving away Amy. He had no right, even if she was annoying. Tails used to be annoying when he tried to imitate Sonic back then.
"Sonic… it's late out, and we have to try tomorrow, this time, we'll use my Cyclone to find her. Let's try to get some sleep now…" Tails yawned, he was tired, and he usually didn't stay up this late, into early morning.
But Sonic disagreed. He had to find Amy. Sonic couldn't shake this feeling off that something was going on without him knowing it. Shaking his head, he just murmurs something.
"Tails, look, I don't want anything happening to Amy, so I'm not going to sleep. I'll be roaming about, and I'll call you back if I find anything." Sonic said, as he hung up the phone to a public phone booth.
Sometimes it isn't easy for him to be a Hero, and yet not try and be angry at people for trying to hover over him so much. Sitting himself on a curb just next to the phone booth, he was looking at an electronics store with one TV In the window. Scenes of some destruction upon a bridge in San Francisco got him curious, as he got up, and walked across the quiet street, to look at the screen. Sounds could be heard from the TV, but he could clearly hear everything going on.
'I'm here live at San Francisco, where the disturbances of one unidentified subject, and the other known as Amy Rose, the friend of Sonic the Hedgehog, have been reported. Due to the increasing securities of the scene, we now know that the unidentified subject appeared to be a black and red hedgehog, but it was not Sonic. Unknown military forces began to fiercely drive off the black hedgehog for no apparent reason. Then Ms. Rose arrived on the scene, crashing into what looked like an invisible robot.'
This was all on footage, as Sonic's jaw dropped to the ground.
'As we continue, they say that in these photos, the black hedgehog carried away Ms. Rose, maybe as a possible hostage. Some say that there is no hostage situation. We will continue to update on this strange incident. This is Cynthia Skiver of CNN news.'
Sonic was just in shock, when he just flew right back to the booth, and speed-dialed tails' home.
"TAILS! I think I've found Amy!! But there is something strange going on. We need to get to San Francisco, pronto!"