Here's the next chapter for u guys! I'm glad u liked the last chapter! There's some cool stuff coming up! I'm getting kinda excited! lol anyways enjoy!
Chapter 24
Shadow ran as quickly as he could and very soon reached Tails' workshop. He was shocked by what he saw of it though. Part of the front wall, just by the door, was completely gone, its remains lying in rubble on the ground. It looked rather unstable. (He'd managed to get there before Tails and Knuckles.)
Then Shadow noticed Amy, sitting in the middle of the grass just by the workshop. She was clutching her head, crying uncontrollably. Shadow ran to her, still carrying the unconscious Sonic.
"Amy?" he said softly, looking down at her.
Amy gasped and looked around at Shadow, tears falling from her eyes. She suddenly grabbed Shadow's legs, as if she were a child not wanting her father to leave her.
"Oh Shadow I'm sorry! I'm so so sorry! I don't know what happened! It was so scary..." she sobbed, almost hyperventilating. Shadow managed to, carefully, put Sonic down on the grass, just next to him, then knelt down and embraced Amy.
"Calm down. Just take deep breaths." Shadow said. She did so.
"Now, tell me what happened here?" he asked, in a soft caring tone.
Amy explained, amongst her tears; about how she just went outside to sunbathe then saw the "DX thingy" in the distance.
"..And so I ran at him, with my hammer, but he hit me and everything went black. I woke up a few minutes ago and saw..." she swallowed and gasped for breath "...I saw…what he'd done!" she pointed at Tails' workshop.
"He's got your emeralds because of me! I'm really sorry Shadow!" she cried and buried her face into his chest, sobbing madly.
Shadow sighed and looked at the workshop.
Just then, Tails appeared from the sky, carrying Knuckles. They landed carefully just by Shadow. Tails saw his workshop and was in utter shock. He ran to the crushed wall; seemidly obliviously to Shadow and Amy. He fell to his knees and was on the verge of tears. But the greater shock came to him when he looked inside.
All of his things had been trashed, blown about and broken. Most of the inventions, which he had put on display, lay shattered on the ground. Luckily no more walls had been broken but the place had been made intoa dump.
"I don't believe it!" Tails gasped, "It's completely wrecked my home!" He began to cry a little. Amy brought her head away from Shadow's chest briefly.
"Tails I'm really sorry…" she said quietly.
"Amy, it's ok. You tried your best to stop him" Shadow said to her, reassuringly "It's not your fault."
Tails, rather sadly, walked back to Shadow and Amy.
"He's right" he said bravely "You did your best." He smiled at her. Amy smiled back.
"Thanks Tails."
Just then Amy noticed Sonic. (A/N: FINALLY! Lol)
"Oh my gosh!" she cried "Is Sonic alright?"
"He took a nasty knock to the head" Shadow replied. He then looked at Knuckles.
"How about you Knuckles?" he asked
"It still hurts but I'll live." Knuckles said.
"I guess what the worst thing is, is that now the DX 100 has 6 emeralds (2 already inside it) and we have no way of finding where the last emerald is, without the X Tornado's navigation system!" Tails said sadly.
"Yes but Sonic and Knuckles are the priority here, I think." Shadow said, standing up. "I think the best thing to do is split up. I'll go and search for the last emerald; you call an ambulance and get these two to hospital ok? I can meet up with you later" h
Tails wasn't sure about splitting up, especially in this situation, but he also knew that Shadow has had a lot of experience using chaos control, and such, and so he probably had a better clue of where the emeralds could be than any of them.
"Ok Shadow! Good luck." Tails replied. Shadow nodded. He then went to Amy, who was still kneeling on the ground. He knelt in front of her.
"Don't worry Amy everything will be ok." He said and kissed her, quietly, on the cheek. Amy smiled and blushed a little bit.
Shadow stood up and zoomed away toward the city, in a last hope to get the final chaos emerald.
