AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ya… it took me a while to finish this because I was going through this huge writer's block faze for a week or so and whenever I sat down to write, I just wasn't in the mood. I'm back now though and I hope you like the rest of this story!
REMEMBER: Shadow, Amy, Eggman, Rouge etc-none of it belongs to me but to SEGA!
CHAPTER TWO: The Perfect Honeymoon
-ZOEGIRL: Upside Down-
"Oh, Shadow! This is so ultra-romantic! Why didn't you tell me this place was this cool? This is just the best place ever to have a honeymoon! You're so romantic Shadow, I love you!"
"Well, I'm glad you appreciate it." Shadow gasped from Amy's death grip hug. "And I love you to, but I was hoping we could go to the beach tomorrow morning and to a five-star restaurant this evening."
"Anything you want, honey!"
He scratched one of his ears, watching her glide around the fancy hotel suite in la-la land. First, she inspected the wide-screen (flat as well) digital TV, sitting against the wall across the bed, then she jumped all over the bed, tested the hot tub, room service, clap-lights, and candy cupboard. Once that was over, he pulled out a real tuxedo, but Amy started rambling on about how this certain object was really rare and that must have cost 2,000 or more and the table this and the chandelier that.
"It's getting late, Amy, please come put your gown on." The tuxedo he was now adjusting was nothing like that horrible costume he had choked through the previous day. This suit was pure cotton, warm and loose, with a bowtie and satin sash around his waste. He tied the shiny shoes on his feet and flexed his gloved hands.
"If you insist, Shadow, darling!" His wife slammed the bathroom door and Shadow sighed. Shadow slung a coat around his shoulders and buttoned it slowly. Amy came out a few minutes later in a pale pink formal gown that gripped her hips tightly. The material was scrunched around her right hip and the dress itself curled around her feet. She pulled a pair of white gloves over her arms and fastened a necklace around her neck.
"Do I look ok?"
"Angelic," Her husband cuddled her as she applied her makeup.
"Don't move or you might mess me up." He shifted purposefully and a long line of black eyeliner streaked across her cheek. "Ha, ha. Very funny, cutie."
"Anything for you, my dear."
"Don't get smart with me, Shadow. I remember how you looked at me the first time we met on Prison Island."
"I know. I relish that memory. I still can't believe you mistook me for Sonic. Our fur are totally different colors."
"Don't remind me." Her cheeks reddened and caused her to ripen like a tomato.
"My wife is so adorable when she's embarrassed."
"How would you like some foundation?" Amy dabbed a cotton ball, heavily full of pink liquid, on his cheek and smiled. "Or some lipstick?" She started the tube towards his mouth but Shadow jumped back and grumbled something inaudible. The rest of the time, he left her alone to her girlish ways, watching random sitcoms and soaps on TV.
He was plotting, for when he wasn't plotting, he was plotting to plot and when he was commencing a plot, he was impatiently waiting or this one to end so he could start a new plot. Yes, plots were the only way to go in life and Eggman Ivo Robotnik loved, drowned in the pleasures of evil plots and schemes! Plotting was a hobby, a skill, an addiction that Eggman didn't need any cure for it because there was and never would be a cure for his problem.
He didn't care.
At the present, Eggman was bribing the bell boy not to assist Shadow and Amy, paying the hotel to kick them out, and stealing their suntan lotion so they would scorch the next day at the beach. He had also drained their bank account.
When their happy voices came into earshot, Eggman jumped head-first into the laundry shoot with the lotion and extra spending money.
Amy came laughing into the room with Shadow, in maroon swim shorts, trailing behind. He was openly in an engaging mood. Today they were going to go to the beach and have the time of their lives surfing! There were to spend the day as happy newly weds enjoying each other's company, sharing kisses and laughs and just enjoying the sun.
Shadow grabbed their beach bag, smirking in that famous way of his when his brow lowers, and ran after his wife.
"To the beach, driver." They slid into the limo and Shadow closed the door. Other happy couples and tourists skimmed by their window and even a robot that favored Omega's appearance heavily. The robot was selling chilidogs.
"Did you see that?" Amy pointed to a building as they drove by, "We'll have to check it out later!"
Great, Twinkle Park exists even out here. I thought it was just a Metropolis curse.
"I'll race ya to the water, Shadow!" An enthusiastic Amy shoved the black hedgehog aside and bolted for the beach. She laughed until Shadow appeared in front of her and her smile turned to a frown. "No fair! You cheated! Using Chaos Control to win a race isn't fair! Cheaters finish last."
"But I thought I just finished first."
"Only because you cheated."
"So cheaters do finish first then."
"No they don't! You only won because I was almost to the water and so you used Chaos Control to warp there before me! In reality, I would have won. So there."
"But you didn't." He smirked devilishly at her anger and suspense then turned towards the foaming surf. "This reminds me of home."
"Ya… it does." Amy thought of her apartment in Metropolis, happily situated by a miniature beach. It was where Shadow had first poured out his heart to her and she would never forget the place as long as she lived.
"I bet I can surf better than you!" A sassy voice broke her small trip down memory lane and it was Shadow holding up a surf board in ankle-deep water."
"No, you can't!" And DON'T cheat with this, got it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"How out of character of you, Shadow! I don't love this you as much as the other one."
"Which other one?"
The couple ran out into the water and laid out chest-wise on their boards, paddling into deeper, darker territory. A huge wave was hurtling their way so, Shadow first, the two stood on their boards and rode the swelling lump easily.
"Fifty bucks on whoever falls first!"
"You know you'll just be using that money on me anyways since I'm so perfect!"
"Ha! We'll see!" An evil spark burned on Shadow's eye. The wind picked up, a monstrous wave rose above the specks but he was unfazed. Amy looked a little wary but his competitive side blinded him to her fear. It rose and smashed them hard. Shadow's body was ripped from his board but his cable caught and he easily swam to the surface.
"Was that a great wave or what? I know no one won that bet!" No one replied and Shadow glanced around. Amy's board was floating a little distance away but no Amy was in sight. "Amy?" He paddled over to the board and gripped the empty cable. It hadn't been torn but it was unbuckled. "Amy!" Don't let her be dead… please…
Tossing the Chaos Emerald he always kept, Shadow absorbed it's power to scan the area but no trace of Amy did he find-and he couldn't just warp to her destination if he didn't know where that was! "Amy, where are you!" She wasn't at the bottom of the ocean floor dead because the scan came up negative within a five mile radius in every direction.
He had to find her. Eggman must be behind this. The fat egg hulk had tried to ruin their wedding and Shadow's insight, having previously worked with the schemer, told him that he had kidnapped Amy for personal vengeance. How could Eggman be so immature and jealous?
With a mission and a sense of murderous determination, Shadow shook himself off once out of the water, picked up the beach bag (without suntan lotion) and transported back to the hotel for his plan.
"You're such a fool Eggman and it's my pleasure to tell you so. Shadow will come for me and he'll kick your mutated butt!"
"Aren't you just a daisy?" Eggman scratched his bald head egotistically, "Shadow will never find my genius base, built by a genius and hidden in a genius location! It's hopeless and all because you didn't invite me to your wedding. Why didn't you, Miss Shadow? Hmm?"
"Gah, you're such a nerd!"
"I always was," said he, stroking the tips of his starched mustache, "But I find it something to esteem to! With my nerdiness, I have become the smartest man in the world and the little people, who are cool, are without brains of any kind!"
Amy folded her arms. The room was cold and the only thing she could see outside the thick glass walls were water, fish, and seaweed. "What are you going to do to me, anyways, Eggman? It was one wedding-and by hedgehogs you resent. You can't think that's enough for any major revenge."
"Of course not! I just plan to ruin your honeymoon is all!"
She gasped, "I know you were evil and this proves it! How could you even think to do such a thing so horrible and bad? Let me out of this place right now! Let me go, let me go!"
"Persistent little brat…"
"How do you think keeping me here will ruin my honeymoon anyways? When I get out, Shadow and I will pick up where we left off!"
"Not if your bank accounts are mysteriously depleted! You will have no money for this lavish lifestyle, no money for food, clothes, not to mention makeup and personal hygiene products for your pretty little self!'
"You-you!" But nothing came out. Amy twisted the metal seaweed wrapped around her arms desperately. The stuff was cold, slimy, and it stung her arms every time she shifted it. Finally, she gave up and fell to the glass floor on her knees. Eggman's newest lair was impressive, she mentally credited him, but still, she could never be amazed by anything Eggman managed to create. It was all for personal glory and gain.
Where are you, Shadow?
There it was! Chaos Energy never failed to find other Chaos Energy. Shadow's eyes were closed. He was standing on the top of a high hill, holding his white Chaos Emerald in a trance. The emerald and he were one and it had been scanning in every direction for other Chaos Energy. The nearest emerald was at the Mystic Ruins, it had found, and so Shadow figured that's where Eggman's base must be. It had to be the right one-he must find Amy!
"Chaos Control!" He whispered venomously and in a flash of white rings, disappeared only to reappear in a strange, glassy base, pumping water through long, fat tubes to extract pure oxygen from it. "What in the…" A band of robots passed and Shadow pressed his body against a wall.
He scanned the area for Amy and picked up her life sign very close by. "She's in the next room." Shadow broke the seal to the door and it slid open for entrance. Inside, he found what appeared to be a private quarters area. There was a smooth, curved counter on the right side of the room, a few large chairs on the left, a table, and a huge window.
Something wasn't right though. Silence was the only sound he heard and as he stepped forward, the door behind him closed and locked automatically. "Who's in here?" He boldly challenged the empty room.
"Shadow!" A female's voice spoke up by the window and instantly Amy hopped up from behind one of the chairs.
"Amy!" She ran to him and flung herself into his arms.
"Eggman kidnapped me when we were surfing and locked me in this room! I heard someone enter but I thought it was Eggman so I hid until I heard your voice. I missed your voice, Shadow. It's so soothing. I knew you'd come for me! I love you, Shadow! I love you!"
Anger was the dominating emotion for Shadow. His love was scared to death because of Eggman and the doctor's selfish desires. He would pay!
"So glad of you to join us, Shadow." The lights dimmed and a silhouette figure moved forward to the counter. "Hand over your Chaos Emerald and I'll let you live."
"I cannot die. You won't have it."
"I always admired your head-strong will, Shadow, but this time it doesn't favor you!" Eggman stepped completely out into view. "Did you think I would let you come in here and save the damsel in distress so easily? That wouldn't fit my character! You must know that, after all these years of perfect plans, how I always put up a challenge for Sonic!"
"What do you really want, Eggman? It's my Chaos Emerald, isn't it?"
"As always. I need all seven for my next plan to conquer the world!" He sipped lemonade in smooth mockery, but spoke up again. "Though I admit… I can't let your honey moon last."
"He's taken all our money, given our hotel suite away, and stole even our own sun block, Shadow!"
"What! You would have left us to slowly roast under the open sun! That's so evil it's unrealistic! I can't believe you'd do such a thing!"
"Thank you! I flatter myself." The sun lotion bottle rolled across the counter and Eggman's arm extended robotically, clutching the small bottle protectively in his ugly hand. "Now, enough play! GIVE me the Chaos Emerald and I'll allow you to go free!"
"Never!" Shadow grabbed Amy to his side still holding the sparkling gem but a sinister thought came to him. "I'm the one with the emerald, doctor. What are you going to do to stop me?"
Eggman's mustache drooped slowly. The three glared at each other, Shadow smirking, Amy uncertainly, and Eggman heavily worried. "Shadow-Shadow don't you run off like a coward! Face this like a man!"
"Chaos Control!"
"I can't believe this!" Eggman screamed like a girl as the tube of sun lotion came alive and started coiling around him like a snake circling its prey. "Shadow, come back here and get this away from me!" The lotion snake completely circled its target and struck by engulfing him in sun lotion. "ARRRRRRRRG!"
"We won't be hearing anymore from Eggman for a while now." Different colored gems glittered in Shadow's arms. The sun was slowly sinking into the ocean's rim, shoving lovely, faded shades of mixed purple, pink, and orange against the streaks of leftover clouds in the sky. Only a few people were left on the beach so it was mostly peaceful.
"Shadow!" Amy's eyes widened as she picked up the pink Chaos Emerald.
"Yes, I rescued the other three Chaos Emeralds from Eggman's underwater lair. I also got our money back. The present I left him will destroy his base and so he'll have to start all over. We should warn Sonic and the Freedom Fighters-after our honeymoon. "
"Good idea." She put it back into Shadow's arms and started giggling. "Shadow… Your shorts are ripped."