Lightning-Dono: Chapter 6! I know it's been super long since I last updated, but...I was going through a harsh period of Writers Block. Gomen! Gomen! Oh, and I lost track of which reviews I've replied to, so I'll only reply to those that reviewed chapter 5. Sorry!

The quote at the beginning is just something I made up on the spot, so it's not that great.

AND this chapter is VERY lack luster.

Answers to the Reviews

Shadowcrazy46 – Thanks! Shadow isn't going to be coming in anytime soon, I'm afraid, since he doesn't hold a very important part in the plot...I'm not that big a Shadow fan. Sorry! –bow-

Shadow's Dark Angel – I didn't update too soon, but I hope this works. xD

ChrissieGirl – You'll see! Sonic and Amy will go through some drastic changes as of NOW...

sonamy-lover – No, Sonic and Amy are going to suffer before they get together. :P Why? Because they need to learn...a lot. Sorry if this is so short and blunt, but I'm really hungry and I want to get myself something to eat.

RemedytheThief – I'm glad you feel so much for this story! I don't mind having you as a reviewer as long as you don't appear at my house one day or something, because that would plain freak me out.

ShadowIsCool – Thank you! I'm glad I inspired such a nice skit and comic...thing. :D

Inferno-Hero – I understand...I have a project worth 550 points due in Science close to the end of the year, tons of homework...How am I going to survive the rest of the year? Forget that, how will I survive HIGH SCHOOL? –faints-

Sky the Hedgehog – I don't know, but if you saw as much pink as I have, I don't think you'd like it either. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the color, but it makes me sick sometimes. O.o

Sofia – Thank you, THANK YOU! –happy-

inuhinamoongirl – Yes...this is very much a "Dun dun DUN" situation.

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In life

You live for what you get to have

And not having what you need to live

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Amy felt like someone had reached deep down her throat and gouged out all her innards in one scoop. Her heart felt oddly out of place and her stomach was doing something short of sickening flips around her abdomen. All in all, she was about ready to keel over infront of the robot and allow herself to be carted away to a hospital. Instead, she dropped weakly to her knees and let her mind race, hoping for an idea to enter. The thing was, she couldn't think of anything that could save her now. Everything had become a blur, and the only thing that was occupying her mind was the fact that she was such an ill-fated girl who had decided to leave her most precious weapon at home when she most needed it.

"What was I thinking?" She whispered, a hint of frustration enveloped in her voice that only she could hear. "Letting Tails go like that...Letting him..."

"You're next," growled a voice enhanced mechanically to sound somewhat human. There was a slight crackle as static took over. Even so, it broke through her reverie like an arrow piercing a thin board of oak.

Strength gathered into her wobbly legs – her will to live allowing her to streak away in the opposite direction, paying no mind to the chaos ensuing behind her as the colossal metal monster tore after her. The soles of her boots pounding hard on the gravel that sprayed left and right as her heels came down, the echoing of it was hardly comparable to the reverberating of the racket behind her. In an instant, the world went inverse and a hill rose into her range of vision.

"Oh my God," Amy whispered, her voice dying with her rapidly diminishing hope. "I don't think I can make it..."

Amy turned, only to stare into face of doom as it loomed over her with an astonishing amount of authority. Suddenly, bursting from the speaker system, came Eggman's curt statement.

"At last." She could just imagine his lips curling with satisfaction as he operated behind a shield of fiberglass. As though it had a mind of it's own, the robot extended it's metal arm as fast as Sonic could run. Grasping it's elongated fingers around Amy's fragile figure, it squeezed with the complacency of a vandal that had recently smuggled millions of Rings and had gone uncaught. There was a brief moment where the robot held Amy suspended in thin air, daring her to scream.

"SONIC!" Cried the voice of one forlorn angel.

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A meadow stretched before him, a premonition of danger ringing through the air. From behind long, blades of grass, the offender made her appearance, racing out to greet him joyously.

"Sonic!" Came a voice filled with levity fueled by love. "Sonic, wait up!" The pink female hedgehog with barbs cropped short had her arm outstretched infront of her, fingers seemingly grasping at the air infront of her. She was making such as effort to catch up to him...but he couldn't let her get him...he couldn't...Not after all the things they had been through. Never again did he want to discuss matters that this lady wouldn't put to rest.

"Catch me if you can!" He taunted wholeheartedly, legs propelled by nothing but a false idea that if he got away, she would disappear from his life. "Come and get me!" Sonic followed up with a laugh that rang through the air like a thousand church bells.

In a matter of a few seconds of this wild chase, Amy's face was filled with a look of pure horror as a snake of large proportions coiled around her leg, inching it's way up her body. It's mouth opened with malicious pleasure, it's forest green scales rustling ever so slightly as it's beady eyes inspected its prey. Amy's complexion went from tan to the equivalent color of an orange shirt that had been bleached multiple times.

"Please don't bite me..." Came the frightened murmur that brought Sonic to his senses.

"Hey," he said in an oddly calm voice that signified his uncaring nature. "Let her go."

But this slimy reptilian creature couldn't seem to resist. It's peppery-red tongue flickered out once, nostrils flaring in preparation to take in this girl...one piece at a time. It flexed the muscles in it's jaw once before leaning back, poised to strike relentlessly.

"HELP ME, SONIC!" As she let out her final desperate wail, the snake sank its fangs deep into her flesh, warm blood gushing from the young woman's arm and trickling down towards her elbow in a sickeningly wide stream...

Sonic woke up in a cold sweat, his blankets thrown aside with one leg resting on the top of the couch, the other leg on a cushion, and his head tilting off the couch itself. His pale skin was ringed with droplets of sweat that had formed in his sleep during his unconscious struggle to escape from an obsessive woman. One inch further and he would've fallen clear off of the couch and slammed into his coffee table.

"What could've made me have such a horrible dream?" Sonic muttered, eyes fixed on the ceiling, as though the answers were patterned somewhere on the milky white cover of his house. I can't just ignore it. Amy might be in trouble...What am I talking about? I'm not supposed to care about her. Nothing I can do can change her mind, anyway. Just because she wants me to do her will doesn't mean I'm forced to fall to obey her every command...As much as Sonic attempted to deny this, he believed strongly in the practice of chivalry. He couldn't just simply ignore the impending danger of a former friend of his, even if he still had his mind set on holding a grudge.

But there's nothing I can do in my condition...nothing. But I can try.

Attempting to get up, Sonic planted his hands firmly on the floor and expected his powerful leg muscles to pump him back up into his regular standing position. Instead, his head tilted backwards loosely, like it was seeking moral support from the cushions.

Damn, it's no use! I can't even stand up...I can't help my friends...