Chapter 3

I couldn't believe my eyes, why did Eggman turn up here?

"Why if it isn't the blue hedgehog and his new wife," Eggman sneered.

"Well spotted," I replied sarcastically.

"What do you want?" Amy asked angrily.

"I just want to return a favour that's all," Eggman replied with a large grin.

"What do you mean by 'return a favour'?" Amy called out, her fists now stuck to her hips.

"Well every time I have one of my ingenious ideas it se-"

"Ingenious? Yeah sure," Amy interrupted sarcastically.

"Anyway, every time I have an idea YOU" he pointed at me "ruin it every time".

"Well I'm hardly going to sit back and let you continue your plans of world domination can I?" I replied. What was he up to?

"So now I am simply returning the favour, in other words, ruining your plans," Eggman finished, smirking.

My heart sank; I knew something like this was going happen as soon as Eggman arrived.

"So what are you going to do?" Amy asked, the anger in her voice seemed to be replaced by fear.

"This" Eggman replied and within a matter of seconds the bottom of Eggman's automobile opened and a large claw descended, grabbed Amy by the waist and began lifting her up.

"SONIC!" Amy called, tears falling from her eyes. I just had time to grab her shoe as Eggman went higher and higher, going further away from the hotel. Amy's head was inches from the bottom of the machine when the claw stopped and Eggman began to speed forwards. We could just see the tops of the buildings.

"Let me go!" Amy bellowed, furiously banging the vehicle with her fist.

"That hedgehog will catch up with you soon enough" Eggman laughed and he sped up.

I tried not to laugh, he didn't even know I was there, hanging on by Amy's left shoe. I suddenly noticed that Amy's shoe was hanging half of and Eggman was speeding at such a speed I couldn't grab the other one. Amy's shoe was slowly slipping off. The wind was flapping against my face. It couldn't get any worse could it?

The wind was blowing really hard against my face and I looked down to avoid it as it was hurting my eyes and found that we were no longer flying over buildings. I was so shocked at what I saw I almost let go in shock.

"Amy," I whispered trying not to get Eggman's attention

"What is it?"

"Were above w…w…w wa…water" In stammered. Water was the one thing I couldn't stand, besides Eggman.

"Hold on" Amy whispered.

"I can't, your shoe is slipping off" I called desperately. I felt really scared.

Eggman suddenly made a sharp turn and Amy's shoe finally slipped off with me still holding it. I desperately made a grab for Amy but it was too late, Eggman and Amy were disappearing into the distance as I fell downwards, heading straight for the sea far below.

I struggled to breath as I plummeted downwards, I felt scared, scared I was going to die, scared I would never see Amy again, scared that this would be the end for me, scared of the water.

The sea came into view, it was pretty calm but that didn't ease my fears. It was coming closer and closer, soon I'd hit it and that would surely be the end, it looks very deep. I became certain I would drown.

The sea became closer and closer. I was going to hit it. I was still struggling to breath. The only thing I had was the gold watch that Amy gave to me as a wedding present. I unstrapped it and held it tightly to my chest. I closed my eyes. The wind seemed to be pushing me downwards. I didn't want to open my eyes again. I was too frightened, too frightened than I ever felt before. I'm sorry I couldn't save you Amy.

I quickly opened my eyes and shut then again, I saw the water was really close. I braced myself for impact.

I suddenly hit the bottom, but it wasn't water, it was solid. I fell on my back which began to hurt and my hands accidentally smacked against my cheek, causing it to sting a bit. I felt the solid thing I landed on, it definitely wasn't water, but it didn't feel like ground either. I still didn't open my eyes because I was still getting over the shock that I didn't hit water. I breathed a sigh of relief, I wasn't going to drown.

I slowly opened my eyes. I was staring at the sky. It appeared to be moving but that couldn't be right. Then I realised that I was moving. I looked down and found myself sitting on a piece of solid blue steel, I turned round and laughed. I was on the X-Tornado.

"Just in time," Tails called from the cockpit. I approached the front and there he was, steering the X-Tornado miles above the sea, his two tails behind him.

"Thanks buddy I owe you one" I replied once I was able to catch my breath. I sat back and felt very relieved, I must have been seconds from drowning. I could have died but now I was saved. I was alive and I was going to see Amy again. I suddenly realised I still had the gold watch held tightly against my chest, so tight that when I moved it there was an imprint on my chest.

"How did you know I was here," I asked Tails, eager to know how he just happened to be there as I was inches from possible death.

"We wired up Eggman's base before you left, we didn't want anything to happen to you. I was able to hear everything going on in the base.

"Who's 'we'?" I asked.

"Me, Cream, Knuckles, Shadow, Blaze and Rouge and Cosmo," Tails replied.

"Shadow, I didn't think he's the type to help me" I said.

"He may not exactly like you Sonic but I don't think he hates you enough to want you killed" Tails grinned. "Anyway" he continued "We overheard Eggman's plans to kidnap Amy and as soon as he left I followed him. I kept my distance though, I didn't want Eggman knowing I was following him. I did lose him once but when I found him again I saw he had Amy and you were barely holding on, I tried to catch up with you but I was too far back. I saw you slip and desperately tried to save you I thought I wasn't going to make it, I barely caught you".

I could see a tear coming from Tails' eye and he hastily wiped it away.

"There's Eggman!" Tails called pointing ahead. I could just see Eggman in the distance and Amy underneath still being held by the claw.

"We need to save her!" I called and we soon was able to keep on Eggman's

trail.

"So what's been happening while I've been gone, apart from Eggman?" I asked.

"Well Blaze was somehow covered in vomit, she said it appeared from the air out of nowhere, otherwise it's been pretty quiet," Tails replied.

I couldn't help laughing. It was probably Amy's vomit in the plane that happened to land on Blaze. But I didn't tell Tails this.

"Look he's descending!" I pointed out. Eggman was going lower and lower and he was what looked like a large pyramid in the middle of nowhere. A large door at the base of the pyramid opened and Eggman went through it. Tails stopped the X-Tornado just outside.

"Alright, were going in," I whispered and we both went in to rescue Amy….