Disclaimer: See previous chapters.

Hey again, twenty fourth chapter, and probably over more to go. I can't say when it will end, though, but it's a habit that I am a slow once or twice per week updater, but oh well. That's me, and I like my pace. Not too fast, not too slow. Heh. But As I said in a way previous chapter; this is not an Anti-Amy fic. I consider Amy to be a great character. But as far as I'm concerned, I will never kill her. Period. End of Story.

Broken Hope

The first thing that happened… was a slug to the side, almost like taking iron to a poor defenseless gelatin mold, knocking Amy to the side frantically. She cried out in pain, tears not having begun to truly fly out yet from their place in the bottom eyelid. Jeeze, she was in the hospital, and now this was happening. Fucked-up old fart telling Blizzard to beat her senseless as a test of her power… and with no time allowed, she would probably get a bruise right where her fist connected. It was useless to try and free herself, wasn't it?

"Huh? You didn't like that? Want more, do we? Okay." That sadistic grin would kill anyone.

[In a trail of thoughts. Blizzard's POV]

Ugh… where… where am I?

What happened?

All I remembered was blacking out during the pain. But now, now it feels like I'm…. caged… somehow. And there is something else in my mind. I can't quite put it what it is though, so no biggie there. But the main problem is, I can see every thing going on the outside. I can still see the outside. But... Wait. There it is… that dark presence. I can see it. But, this can't be… that is not Shadow. It's a silhouette of his figure.. Just standing there, laughing like a maniac.

But what I see is something different; something I would never do in my whole fucked life. This monster silhouette is beating Amy. Oh god, oh dear god… I struggle to free myself, and end this madness. I find I… cannot move. I'm almost in a mental barrier, I just can't… move… I can think, and speak within here, but… my body is not in my control anymore. I'm a prisoner of my own body, aren't I?

I cringe… Blood is flying from Amy's mouth everytime a hit is scored to her face. Her ear-piercing screaming is hurting me. I want to break free and choke that …that THING! Whatever this is, though, I cannot fight it; it's like taking super glue to a tanker truck and sticking me onto it, then forced to fight my way off of it. I am trapped. I'm hopeless, and caged up like a poor domestic bird. Every time I.. Well, not I; that thing indulges on inflicting pain to her,

I cry.

I scream.

I shout.

I panic.

I protest.

I beg.

I fuss.

I whine.

I throw a temper.

I glare.

I threaten.

Nothing works, nothing at all. I am hopeless after all. There is no strength, or support for me to break free; I'm powerless. There is no light, no companionship. My telekinesis bonding I share with my own brother… dead. Gone forever. You think this hasn't affected you? Or do you even care? I bet you don't, or you do. Either way it does not matter.

Put it this way; you think you're so tough, nothing will ever happen to you. That was my mistake. My weakness.

I have to erase that weakness, and gain my real identity back… before every thing has come to naught; my friendship with these friends of my sibling… Hell, he knew them before I did, so go figure. You ever wonder how you would be able to get out of all this mess? Sometimes you think you can get out of it, but… there's really no way of doing that, unless you're so suicidal. But then again, there's that tiny sliver of that chance you'd be able to get out of it. And I didn't hit that sliver.

I… can't stand anymore… she's being brutally tossed everywhere, bits of blood spattering on the floor, and the rapid shaking of her body gave me the signal to stress on sight. I beg for Amy's well being that the thing stop whatever it is doing, and leave that girl alone, now. There is a dim light shining on the thing from out of nowhere, and it turns it's head, completely facing me. My heart stops, or it would have. That thing, is me… only, it looks like Shadow's outline… fuck…

Now I know how it feels for Shadow and Sonic to call each other the fakers. And there's this one that looks exactly like me, but different. More like Shadow, but I look like I'm Sonic. Jesus, this is already scaring the daylights out of me.

[End POV.]

"That is enough! Please Master, spare her life…" An outburst from the opposite side of the room echoed throughout the area, catching Eggman's attention, and also Blizzard's, snapping her sadistic face to the opposing voice.

It was Katai, gritting his teeth in anguish for her. It wasn't right for one to suffer at the hands of some other being that was once innocent, and pure-hearted. It just wasn't…

"Hmm? What's this, Katai… my own dear faithful servant… speaking up against the torture of little Amy Rose?"

"…N-no, master… I… I'm suggesting that you pit this Blizzard against me… I am more of a worthy opponent to put up a fight."

"Hum… possible. Oh… go ahead Blizzard, put her back in her cage for me. And then go test yourself on Katai… this should prove something more interesting than the last!" Eggman was only slightly intrigued by Katai's sudden outburst, though; he may have to test his loyalty sometime or another. The insane female hedgehog paused for a moment, pouting at the doctor for ruining her fun.. Then to Katai, who started it. Well, hey, he's the new beat-me-up toy, so what the hey. As long as she has someone to beat up, then that's just dandy fine with her. Nabbing the trembling Amy by her arm, she dragged the nearly beaten body back to the cage, the pink hedgehog babbling randomly because of her physical condition.

/ If… I hadn't done that earlier, she may have lost consciousness, and possibly died from being beat too much… / Katai was thinking to himself, standing there, keeping an eye on Blizzard, and the dragged Amy.

Simply tossing in the carcass into the cage, she turns her back, carelessly smirking that she actually enjoyed that little fiasco she implied on to Amy. Furthermore, it felt a lot better than rather having to stand around like a statue, and gag around the stupid area like a damn nimrod not even knowing a piece of shit what to do now.

"Good, good, keep yourselves occupied, and do not wreck this entire laboratory, you idiots. I will be away for a moment or two to… check, on a simple project I have been working on for the past year and a half. I will be back." The doctor was serious about Katai and Blizzard not literally obliterating his lab base in the middle of their fight. For one thing, it was to keep them pre-occupied. For another, this 'project' was not small. Indeed it was large, but working with his knowledge of robots, circuitry, and studying living strands that could make living sheets of metal with the combination of splicing the DNA… this was precisely his greatest work, with Blizzard, Katai, and Metal Sonic II to keep it up as his strong servants. Technically, he was not into bioengineering, but hell, anyone could try.

He left the main lab, strolling down the hallway corridor. He manages almost everything through a central computer within this base only, and those fools always thought they destroyed his 'other' bases. Those were merely small outpost bases that he distracts them with. Passing another corridor hall, he begins to remember how he could have blown up the island that Blizzard was on… since that pesky-side decided that she would rather much call him names, and fight against him… Now she looks like a mix of Sonic, and Shadow put together. Heheh. That wonderful machine did the trick, but it will need repairing the meanwhile. Eggman knows he still has to deal with the other pests, but their time will come when they face Blizzard and Katai. Oh… how he could imagine the shocked looks on everyone's faces at how Blizzard is his personal fighter, and Amy is nothing more than a mere prisoner at his side. All he had to do was to threaten Shadow with her, and possibly… he could bring Shadow back onto his side again. As long as Blizzard and Amy are under his grasps, nothing, not even Sonic, will stop him from actually… and finally taking over this world once and for all. Hah!

He spies he is near where the central computer room is. Using a motion-sensor device, the doctor calmly walked to the shutter door, and detecting his movement toward it, they open as if it were magic. The entire room was dark, except for the brightly lit screen in front of him, which would have made a wide screen movie theatre seem like a small TV. Sighing, he coughs a tiny bit, before he eyes the screen itself.

"Give me the status reports, conditions, reconstruction times, and thorough development on Bzd II-X0781655, now. And also tell me on how my current living metal tissue development is going along. I need it done just in case… Snow, Red, and II fail on my behalf."

The computer recognizes his voice command, and instantly as he barked at the screen, this mega computer scrambles to find all the data analysis the doctor has requested. Spitting out the first commands, they show the current status, conditions, and the time to replicate to life of Bzd II. The tissue comes second, showing an improving quality, that it is truly at an acceptable usage with living tissue, acting as if it were part of the skin itself without problems of being a foreign body to the cells of that organic subject.

"Perfect. As scheduled. Give me the onscreen display of Bzd II. How is it fairing as of now?"

Spitting out a screen, the computer displays a large moving picture, with something in the background. Whatever it was, it was unnecessarily huge in the screen, almost going out of the edges. This thing, in addition, was moving around in a den-like containment, tubes pouring in and out of the body, head, and any other limbs. Especially its back. There was a green hue coming from those tubes, and several robots in the background working at a reasonable pace inside a room protected by a glass 'window'. The screen also shows a dialogue saying ' Status is Okay. Results of problems are not to be found, thus no indication of any warnings are apparent, doctor. '

"Excellent. If everything goes according to plan, it will be complete. Then, Bzd II-X0781655 will be of emergency use only. Surely, this time, it will succeed in ridding myself of those pests by killing them off!"

Chuckling, he almost forgot the special ingredient necessary just in case his 'small project' was defeated somehow, which is highly unlikely of those pests that could possibly perform this impossible feat. VERY unlikely. Taking a deep breath, he exhales as he talks again, to the digital screen.

"One more check-up before I leave; is the Pu I have 'collected' ready to be deposited into the project?"

' Yes, sir, about 90% of it can be inserted into the biomachine. 10% of it has already decomposed. Any longer wait and the supply will be down to 70%. '

"Hmm."

[Hospital.]

"Okay, so you can sense pain… and she's gone. What about Amy?"

"I can't sense her, you fool. She doesn't have any sort of connection with me."

"Yes huh… lover boy," Sneered Sonic.

That took only one second to click into Shadow's mind. Growling, he lunged at Sonic the moment her sneered aloud. This resulted in Sonic falling down, pinned by Shadow, who was furiously trying to beat him senselessly with his good fist. Wham! Fist to the eye. Wham! Another fist to the mouth, piercing skin, and making Sonic bleed a little out of his lips, trickling down his cheek. Sock! Another to the face. Pow! One to the forehead. Repeatedly. Everyone became shocked as a reaction to the little event. Rouge, and Tails helped pry Shadow away from Sonic, who was held back by Knuckles firmly.

"Stop fighting! Jesus. We don't need this bullshit at a time like this!"

"Why not? That fucked up blue boy started it all. Put your nose where it belongs, preferably up your ass, Sonic."

"You goddamn mother fucker! So it is true that you like Amy, better off you than me!"

"Fuck off."

"Same to you."