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Tails sat down in a chair and wiped the sweat off his forehead he was finally done with the X tornado, just then Sonic walked in. "Hey Sonic did ya find out where those police cars were headed?"

"I followed um and it turned out to be another chaos emerald theft, and Amy was there." Sonic leaned on a wall looking like he was deep in thought.

"What was she doing there?" Tails got up and walked to a small refrigerator and opened it, pulling out a bottle of water.

"I'm not sure, but I do know there's something she's not telling me." Sonic raised his head to look at Tails.

"About what; you mean why she was there?" He took a swig from the bottle.

"No, about what she saw I think she saw the thief and isn't telling anyone."

"She has her reasons." Tails replied finishing another gulp of the water.

"What reasons could she possibly have to keep something like this in the dark?" Sonic asked a little irritated that Tails didn't agree with him.

"All I'm saying is that Amy's not stupid, she's 16 Sonic I think she's old enough to know what she's doing."

"Tails what if she's making a mistake in doing this I can't stand by and let her get into trouble." He looked away from the fox.

"Well if she is doing something wrong, she's probably ready to face the consequences."

Amy's eyes cracked open as she saw the morning sun pouring in through her window. She smiled as she sat up and yawned and looked at her digital clock the red numbers read 1:35. She suddenly remembered all she had to do today, and snapped to attention as she jumped out of the bed running for her closet. She put on her close and picked up a brush and was running it through her quills as fast as she could. She then smiled at her reflection as she turned and ran down the stairs. She was met by a hungry cat sitting at the foot of the stairs. "Ok ok, I'll get your breakfast, but then I'm outta here the mall awaits." The cat looked at her as he tilled his head as if to say 'I'm confused.'

"Come on Patch you and I aren't the only ones who saw that security tape of me running from the crime scene of a major jewel theft someone is bound to see the resemblance, I'm not taking any chances…and it gives me an excuse to get a new outfit."

She ran to the kitchen and poured some cat food into Patch's bowl and sprinted toward the door. "I'll see ya later Patch be good." Amy yelled as she closed the door and locked it.

Patch glanced up from the bowl and looked around the room. Then he walked over to a window and jumped up into it and began playing with the lock. Finally he got it undone then he looked up at the string from the blinds he grabbed it in his mouth and twist it around the lock and he hopped out of the window causing it to open. He backed up and started to purr as he gazed at the beautiful black and white female short haired cat that was now sitting in the windowsill cleaning her face. (Kitty love )

Amy was turning left on Station Square Ave. she saw the mall standing in front of her in all its splendor. She walked toward it, and in through the front door. "Now I think I'll try Tommy Hill Figure first." She walked over to the elevator that she had spotted. She pressed the up button again as she stood there waiting a little impatiently. Finally the doors slip open and she stepped inside. She pushed the 2nd floor button as she leaned against the back wall of the elevator, listening to the annoying music as she sighed with irritation. At last it stopped and the doors slide open once more and she headed down the isle toward the store. When she reached it she wasted no time, she grabbed an arm full of clothes and locked herself into a dressing room. "Lets see." She looked at her reflection she was wearing a blue jean miniskirt with ruffles around the edges, and a yellow short sleeved top. "Humm, I love the skirt but this top is so wrong." She took off the top and threw it aside. She picked up a red top that had thin red straps instead of sleeves, and it had a blue navy star in the center. She put it on and admired herself in the mirror. "I like." She did a full circle. "But it needs one more thing." She threw a few other peaces of clothing out of the way as she picked up a jacket that was just like her old one only it was blue jean instead of pink. She put it on and did another circle "ok this is the one." She walked to the cashier and handed the girl her credit card.

"Thank you mama; have a nice day." The clerk handed Amy her bag.

Amy walked out of the store, and was just strolling down the walk when she stopped, she looked upward almost as if she was watching something so amazing she could barley breathe as she starred at it. She sighed in a happy sort of way. "ahhh heaven on Earth." She walked into the shoe store. The first thing she tried on was a pair of light tan leather boots. "Umm…who else could fine the perfect shoes in the fist pair they try on?" She smiled as she bought the shoes. Amy stopped on her way out of the mall at the bathroom. When she came out she was wearing her new outfit and boots. She past a trashcan on the way out and stuffed her old clothes in it. She strolled down the street, hearing the occasional wolf whistle from some bum stopping at a stoplight and staring. Amy only rolled her eyes and continued on her way towards the museum.

Sonic and Tails were all the way on the other side of the city at Tail's house. "Hey Sonic I've been doing a little research on the resent jewel thefts and I have some bad news."

Sonic sat up from the couch he was laying on and looked at Tails. "What's wrong?"

"I think I know who the thief is." Tails looked down at the floor.

"How's that bad news?" Sonic asked as he smiled at Tails.

"Follow me." Tails motioned for Sonic to come, as he walked up some stairs toward his room.

Sonic got up and went after him, a confused look on his face.

Tails open the door to his room; it was filled with computers, scanners, CPUs, processors and tunes of other technical things. Tails sat down at the computer that seemed to be the base of the entire set up. "Sonic take a look at this." Tails was doing a few clicks with his mouse as Sonic walked up behind him.

He looked at the computer screen from behind Tails. "What it's just that tape of whoever stole the chaos emerald, you can't see who it is."

"Wrong, I digitally enhanced it and added light." He clicked a few buttons and Sonic starred at the screen his mouth hung open. "Amy…"

"That's not all, after I found this out I went looking around for more proof and I found out she was doing some kind of research down at the library, I checked her net log, all her searches were for emeralds and the last one she found was a page on the jewelry store that was just robbed last night, and according to the times on the internet she did the search just before the store was robbed." Tails began pressing buttons on his keyboard bring up the webpage that Amy had looked at.

"That explains why I saw Amy at the crime scene last night and why she wasn't telling me the whole story." "But Why would Amy do this, she's never stolen anything before."

"I don't know Sonic, I don't wanna believe it, but all the peaces fit together perfectly… accept for the motive." "I do know one way to find out for sure, I did some more research and the last emerald in this city resigns in a museum on the west side of the city." "I figure if we hurry and get there maybe we can see for ourselves just who the thief really is."

"Ok lets go." Sonic turned and walked out of the room and down the stairs.

Tails starred at the computer screen for moment before getting up. "Please let me be wrong."

It was about 6:00 when Amy finally came to the entrance of the museum she saw that it was getting ready to close. She quickly ran inside and walked down the hallways, where she finally saw the green chaos emerald sitting at the left of a room filled with other ancient jewels. She walked over to the emerald and sat down behind it. "All I have to do now is wait." Amy could hear the loud sound of the huge lights shutting down. She closed her eyes thinking about what she would do if she did find Shadow here.

Amy began to think she should go home but that's when she saw a bright light shimmer on the wall for a split second. 'He's here.' She could hear his foot steps coming in her direction, and then the steps hushed. That's when she made her move. She stood up and came out form behind the case; her heart was beating so fast she didn't know what to do. Standing before her was the dark hedgehog she had been seeking for the last three days. "Shadow." Amy said his name in a sweet yet scared voice.

Shadow didn't answer he only starred for a moment before pushing past her and towards the emerald. Amy stepped aside as she turned to watch the hedgehog at work. Shadow smashed the glass covering and took the emerald. Security sirens began to sound, but Amy only watched the hedgehog in front of her as if nothing had happened. Shadow returned the stare again he was a little confused by her presence here. Shadow held up the green emerald ready to commence chaos control. Amy ran to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered something in his ear. "Take me with you."

Shadow couldn't believe this, she wanted to go with him, and ironically at that very moment Sonic turned the corner and saw Amy with her arms wrapped around Shadow's neck and he couldn't stand it. "AMY!" Sonic yelled her name.

Shadow wrapped his hand around Amy's waist and pulled her close. "Chaos control." The two disappeared.

Sonic ran for the flash of green light but it was too late. He went to his knees and hit the floor. "Amy…"

Tails had just walked into the room and saw Sonic on the floor. He ran to his side admittedly. "Sonic what happened?"

Sonic just starred at the floor. "She's gone."

"Whose gone…Amy? Gone where?" Tails asked confused.

"With Shadow." Was Sonic's only answer.