Author's note: And….we're off into the final chapter! Wow, huh? I mean, it's such a great story! (sobs) okay, so I'm over dramatizing, but I'm really glad to have gotten THIS FAR, you know?
File 10 This Is Where It All Ends
Entry 1 With No Proof Anyone Could Hear
Amy whimpered as the guards surrounded her. She couldn't remember them, but they obviously remembered HER. She looked up, and Miserie was staring back at her, her green eyes wide, searching for a trace of Amy anywhere.
"…Mis…" Amy murmured, smiling. Then she remembered she was being attacked. Where was Talon? Had he run away?
"Got her!" One guard had wrapped his tails firmly around her waist and legs.
"LEMME GO!" Amy screamed. "LEMME GO OR YOU'LL REGRET IT!"
The guard smirked. "Yeah, whatcha gonna do?" He asked, nonchalantly. He flicked Amy's nose. "You're a trapped hedgehog."
"Yeah, trapped," Said one of his lackeys.
"We'll find those other hedgehogs and knock 'em off too." Said a third guard.
"You won't!" Amy said. "They're too smart for you!"
"Hedgehogs? Smarter than US? Ha! We're the elite!" The first guard said.
"The Elite!" The other guard repeated.
"No STUPID hedgehog could beat US, right Sienna?"
The guard that was slowly squeezing Amy nodded. "I mean, look at you." He said. "You don't even know you're stupid."
Amy was boiling. HER stupid? She'd show them…if she could reach her hammer. "Ha!" she scoffed. "You don't even know when you've walked into a trap!"
"Oh yeah?" Sienna asked.
"Oh yeah?" His little repeating lackey said.
"Prove it. I love a challenge, hedgehog."
"Alright, good. 'Cause you're about to get a BIG one!" Amy recognized Sonic's confident voice.
"Sonic!" She said, craning her neck. Sienna tightened his tails.
"Another hedgehog? You guys ARE idiots." HE said. "Get him!"
Sonic danced past the two guards attempts to catch him and landed with a flourish by Sienna. "Hey buddy." He said, suddenly serious. "What kinda tough guy holds a GIRL as a hostage? I mean, look at her."
"What did you say!" Amy asked angrily.
"You could do better than THAT." Sonic said.
"OH YEAH!" Amy yelled. She forcefully pushed Sienna's tails off of her. "We'll see about THAT, SONIC!"
He grinned and stepped in front of Sienna. "You won't do anything." He teased.
Amy gripped her hammer. "Then take this!" She yelled, and she swung her hammer. Two seconds later, she realized she wasn't held by Sienna anymore, that he was lying on the ground with most of his teeth scattered about, and that the other two guards had run away. She turned to Sonic. "…What happened?"
"You scared them off. Nice job." He said, grinning. "Sorry about what I said. I didn't mean it, you know. You're just super strong when you're angry."
Amy blushed. "Well…I do get a lot of practice in…"
Shadow appeared from some bushes. "…It looks like there are more guards coming."
"So now what?" Amy asked.
"Where's Talon?" Sonic asked.
Shadow narrowed his eyes. "Something about that kid pisses me off."
Amy looked at Shadow. She looked back at Sonic. "We can't look for him now."
"Right. Let's find Knuckles." Sonic said. "Shadow, can you go ahead? You're better at stealth than I am!"
"Yeah, whatever." Shadow disappeared into the bushes.
"….Amy, you be careful, okay?" Sonic asked. Amy blinked and blushed.
"Okay." She said. Sonic grinned and sped off after Shadow.
In a lovestruck daze, Amy followed. Wow, was Sonic nice? He had saved her life again! Jeez, if Sonic hadn't showed up, his black and red quilled self, she'd have been…
"WHOA!" She yelped, screeching to a stop and tripping over a tree root. Did she just refer to SHADOW?
But she didn't like Shadow, did she? He was evil! Evil bad, Evil REAL bad…
Then she heard an alarm. "Oh-oh…" She murmured. Guards were filing in from everywhere. This time…
Maybe just Sonic wouldn't be able to save her…
Shadow dashed along, noticing that there were fewer guards than before. He skidded when he saw a flash of red. He gripped the Chaos Emerald that Sonic had pushed into his hand.
Sonic slammed into him at mach force. Shadow fell onto a tree root and opened his mouth to yell at Sonic when he heard an alarm. He looked down at the tree root and realized it was silver.
"Oh CRAP." He said to Sonic, who was busy backing up towards Shadow.
"You're tellin' me!" Sonic said.
Shadow looked up. They were surrounded by Guards!
"Get 'em!" One burly guard yelped, and suddenly, foxes were diving out of nowhere to kill the two hedgehog heroes.
"Whadda we do?" Sonic asked, as he kicked away the closest guard.
"…" Shadow grimaced as he got hit. "DISAPPEAR!" He finally yelled, and white spears of energy struck down a third of the fox army. Some got up, other lay there looking for all the world like dead.
"Good idea." Sonic said, and he paused. "Wait, not good idea!" He pointed.
The army had doubled, seeing that attack. If they didn't find a way to stop them from coming, the hedgehogs would be goners!
"Crimson lighting!" Came Knuckles voice. Sonic turned quickly and cried:
"Sonic Wind!"
Both attacks knocked out half the army together. Still, foxes were getting up. Those who were hit full on, however, didn't get up.
"You okay?" Knuckles asked. He had landed behind Shadow during all the confusion.
"Been better." Sonic said.
"Hn." Shadow replied, and he looked around. "If we don't hurry up, we'll be gone."
"Wait, where's Amy?" Sonic said.
Knuckles shrugged. "I don't know. Was she with you?"
"Why else would he be ASKING about her? Knuckles, you find Amy. Sonic, you stick around here and fight off half of the army. I'll stay here too. Knuckles, you bring Amy here, then we'll move on."
"Right."
"Let's go!"
Tails worried nonstop about Miserie. He watched as the guards circled him, and he was about to attack when…
"Chaos…. Sphere!"
Tails looked up. "Miserie!" He said, as she fell. She looked totally calm, for a free faller who was about to meet her end. Her index fingers met and so did her thumbs, making a perfect 'O'. What had she done? Tails caught her, back in one arm, legs in the other, and she looked at him, her green eyes looking bright.
"…Are you okay?" She asked, finally. She sounded tired.
"I'm fine. What happened? What did you do?"
"…I helped you, right? You're not hurt?" Miserie looked worried.
"I'm fine. I swear."
"…" She closed her eyes. "That's how we'll break in. Using Chaos Sphere."
Tails put Miserie down on her feet. "…Chaos Sphere?"
"I…" She paused. "I made up a move to help you. It's like a fast bullet, made with energy. It changed shape. Didn't you see it?" She was breathing heavily. He wasn't sure if she was alright.
"No."
"Oh." She looked sad. "You missed it. I'm sorry." Tails smiled.
"I'll see it the next time. Let's get the Emerald." He soothed. Miserie nodded.
"…Alright." She aligned her fingers again. "…Chaos Sphere!"
Her whole body was jerked back, but Tails saw it now, a glowing ball of energy that burst out of her fingers. It was moving so fast he lost track of it in an instant. However, the root's metal covering was broken.
"Let's go!" Tails took Miserie's hand.
"Okay!" She said. With that, both of them disappeared into the root.
"Dey Nocked Ouf Mah Teef!"
"Whaaat?"
"DEY NOCKED OUF MAH TEEF!"
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"
"DEY NOCKED OUF MAH TEEF!"
Amy whirled around from where she was pounding ferociously with her hammer to see Sienna pointing at Amy and waving at his bleeding mouth. The fox with him had his head in his hands.
"MAH TEEF!"
"Speak English! You sound ridiculous! I'm ashamed to call you Captain!"
"DO OO NOF SEA MAH TEEF!"
Amy wanted to laugh, but she was worried out of her mind. How would she escape?
"Amy!" Her ears perked up when she heard Knuckles voice. She looked around and there Knuckles was, perched in a tree, waving at her to come.
"AH SAYED DEY NOCKED OUF MAH TEEF! WAT PAR O DIS DO OO NOF UDDERSTAN?"
"What did he say?
The army around Amy all looked from Amy to their captain, murmuring, "He's gone mad. I knew he would." And "I can't believe this. I seriously can't believe this."
Amy blinked. The army wasn't attacking? Was this lucky, or was she dreaming?
"AMY!" Knuckles hissed again, and she glared at him.
"I KNOW!" she mouthed.
"Then get OVER here." Knuckles hissed.
"WAIT." She mouthed again.
He sighed.
Amy looked at the captain who was frantically pointing at his broken teeth. She looked at the army, who weren't paying attention to her. Then she took two steps back.
"YAH!" She cried, using her hammer to slam her into the air. The army looked up.
"WAT R OO DOING? GET HER!" The captian yelled.
Knuckles grabbed her leg and started jumping through trees.
"Get off of my leg!" Amy screamed at him.
"No way!" Knuckles said. "I have to get you back to the group. Where's Talon?"
"I don't know, but if you don't stop, I'll hurt you!"
"You will not!"
"Will so!"
"Will" Knuckles turned to look back and Amy swung her hammer and hit him.
"PERVERT!" She screeched, pushing down her dress.
"oooooo…" Knuckles groaned. Amy sighed.
"Let's get out of here, Knuckles," She said, grabbing his arm.
Miserie looked at the violet bubbles and said, "Tails, I think we're closer!"
"Hm." Tails was inspecting a wall. "I don't think they could have engineered this?"
"Why not?" Miserie asked.
"It would take a genius to infuse these reactors into here."
"But maybe they have geniuses?"
"No, a genius with a whole lot of precision. And it would take years to do something like this unless you have a robot army." Tails said. He stopped walking. "Wait."
"Why?"
"Robot army?" He said, slowly. "Is Eggman behind this?"
Miserie looked at Tails and finally she shrugged. "Beats me. Let's get the emerald and get out of here."
"…" Tails nodded. Miserie smiled.
"…Tails." She said, suddenly. He looked at her. She shyly looked at her feet. "…I never got to tell you…I…Uhm…Ashiteru, Tails."
He blinked. "Ashiteru?" He asked. She nodded. He smiled, reach out to touch her, but she danced away.
"…I'm…uhm…I'm gonna go up ahead!" She murmured. She hurriedly rushed forward. Tails took a second to rethink what happened, and then he followed her.
"Miserie, wait up!" He called. She turned around to face him, waved for him to follow, and kept dashing along. He smiled.
...No wonder she worried so much...