Chapter 5-Questions
As Shadow approached the lonely picture of a house, with no lights, covered in dust, and eerie, he wondered how any woman could live there. It was dark out, and rainy, but even still the dust stuck there like bubble gum to the bottom of a shoe.
When he rang the bell, the entire house must have shaken, for the noise that had come as a result had shaken the entire block.
But as it did, the door slowly creaked open. Shadow almost thought that he was making a grave mistake. Inside is what he didn't expect.
The entire place was full of rusty disco balls, record players, and old dance music records. It used to be a disco hall.
"W-who are you?", said a lone voice from within.
"The question is, who are you?", said Shadow.
"I'm Amy Rose, and you are…?"
"My name is Shadow…"
As the young girl approached him, she said, "Sorry. I didn't think you were who you were."
She was a pink hedgehog, wearing a red skirt and a hairpin. Quite contrary to the cloaked girl, she had a high, rather squeaky voice, and green eyes. She held in her hand a huge hammer. Her eyes made her look scared, as if she'd seen a ghost.
"I was told that you're a useful contact by someone… but I didn't think that I already knew her."
"Well? Surprised?" A smile lit up on her face.
"More than you are."
Suddenly, there was a loud crash outside. When Shadow went to investigate, there was a squadron of robots, with weapons at the ready. A robot spotted him and opened fire. The shot almost took Shadow's ear off. As he ran, he grabbed Amy by the hand, and busted right through the wall.
Shadow landed in an alleyway. The alleyway looked safe, but it was uncertain.
"Sorry about that. Those stupid robots almost killed us both. This'll be over soon, but until it is, you're going to have to keep up with me." Shadow let go of her and rocketed off.
The robots had spotted Amy, and were about to fire when she started running. Because she did, they missed. When she approached the other side of the alley, there was a huge robot standing there, with a huge hammer that was three times the size of her.
"Leave this to me!" Shadow catapulted from the back of a building, and went right through the robot. The explosion resulted in flying pieces of robot carnage, and one of them hit Shadow.
Shadow fell to the floor, hurt. He got up, and stumbled.
By then, the robots got to them. Amy took her hammer and whacked them. Shadow started limping toward the old disco hall, and when he got there, the house was a mess.
The robots tore right through the things that the young girl held dear. The place had originally been her home, but now it was nothing but a messy old shack with a hole in the wall. Oddly enough, one of the bricks was hollowed out and had a bag of cocaine in it with a label, "To Bush".
Shadow, feeling bad about what had just happened, said, "I'm sorry, but you probably want me to leave now, right?"
Amy said, "Yeah. But you wanted to know where the article is, right? Well, I'll tell you. The next article is in the National Historic Museum, over by the library."
Shadow just said a simple "Thanks", and headed off.
The robots were common around that area, and were pretty powerful, not to mention evil. Eggman created them, and they were made for the specific use of taking out Shadow.
Suddenly, a voice from behind Shadow said, "Wait! I'm coming with you!"
It was Amy, and she was running faster than before. She almost kept up with Shadow. When she got there, he just bowed his head and closed his eyes.
After a moment, a robot approached from behind, and tried to hit Shadow. In a quick flash of moves, Shadow threw the robot over his shoulder and ripped off its arm.
Amy was seemingly hoping for revenge. She wanted to take her anger out on the machines that the evil genius built to destroy Shadow, and in the process, destroyed everything else.
Shadow opened his eyes and said, "Let's go, then!" He started a slow dash, to let Amy keep up with him.