(I don't own Sonic and the gang, they are owned by SEGA and Sonic Team.)

"Crap."

I said and the whole room fell silent.

"Hey Guys! Whatcha… doin?"

Johnny entered the room and he got quieter with every word he said.

All of us were silent and more than half of our jaws dropped.

I went back over to my seat and held my head.

I was developing the headache of the century and I was sure it wasn't going to go away anytime soon.

Shadow blinked.

"So, you mean to tell me, that Seduction Aurora, the Seduction Aurora that we went to way back when I was dating Rouge and Knux was nice, the one with lush green jungles and forests, and all the crazy selkie mermaid people things, and probably the most hostile environment you'll ever get without making Maria angry, that Seduction Aurora, was taken over by him?"

"Yup, that's what she said."

I had both my hands on my head now, the pain was growing worse.

Shadow laughed his "giving up now" laugh.

"That's just great, just freakin' great."

He said pushing his bangs back.

"Best say goodbye to Darren, Amy, cuz this is gonna be like taming a chimera."

Shadow leaned back in his seat.

"Don't say that, it'll something more of a dragon, rather than a chimera. Ssth!"

I hissed in pain.

"You okay?"

Shadow stopped mourning and leaned over to see my face.

"I'm fine, I just need some aspirin."

I said rubbing my forehead.

"Here."

He pulled some out of his pocket.

"Cures writer's block, ya know?"

He handed me the box.

I took two without a drink.

Then went back to my forehead rubbing.

We sat there for hours.

Tails couldn't find a way to get a map of the earth that was detailed enough to find out where Alpha's base was.

We tried messing around with some Ideas.

But it seemed impossible without Internet or Radio frequency.

"If only there was some way to track his radio frequency to its origin. Then we could just blow the thing up and we'd be able to find his base."

I said; the aspirin didn't seem to have worked.

I was still rubbing my forehead.

Tails smacked himself in the head.

"Duh!"

He yelled.

"Please don't yell."

I groaned feeling sure that my headache was turning into a full fledged migraine as we spoke.

"If the radio frequency is stretching all over the earth than he has to have more than one. If I can just. AH HA! Found 'em! There are six of them. I expect you to leave as soon as possible. Maria, Shadow, Stella, there's one in Japan. Sonic, Amy there's one in South Africa. Tikal, Knux, there's one in Brazil. Breeze, Xipho, take the one in Cuba. Jwan, Carlos, would you be so kind as to take the one in London, and Cream and I will take the one in Sydney. Everyone good with that?"

He looked around everyone nodded, except Shadow.

"Um, can Maria and I go tomorrow? Maria doesn't feel good."

He felt my head, winced, and pulled back his hand immediately.

"Sorry, my headaches have fiery tempers."

I smiled but flinched directly afterwards.

"Could I have some Mountain Dew?"

I asked.

"No prob."

Shadow left the room.

"Very good, you've gotten Shadow to become your slave."

Sonic said looking at the door.

"This hurts really bad Sonic. I'm not kidding."

I looked up at him.

Shadow came back a few minutes later with a mountain dew.

"Here."

Handed it to me and sat down next to me on the floor.

"Thanks, Shadow."

I smiled at him wholeheartedly.

He smiled back.

I didn't talk for about a half hour after that but Shadow didn't seem to mind just sitting there staring at me.

"I think I'm feeling better now."

I said trying to get up.

"Do you need some help?"

Shadow asked already on his feet.

"No, I'm fine."

It was true my headache had gone away but now I was a bit queasy.

I walked out of the room.

"Do you need to sit down?"

He held me up cuz my legs were shaking.

"Uh, yeah, let's go to your room. It's got a brighter atmosphere."

I took another sip of my mountain dew.

"It's got flames on the walls."

He raised an eyebrow.

"Exactly."

I laughed and then coughed.

He sat me down on the bed.

"I'll be right back."

He said looking into my eyes.

He left.

I looked around.

There were pictures lying all over his bed.

They all had dates on them.

I found one of them from three years ago when we were at my pool.

It was of me, in my bikini.

I was never exactly proud of that one.

It was a little bit more revealing than a bikini should be.

Shadow apparently had no problem with that.

I found a picture of a model he had ripped out of a magazine.

'Boys'

I saw something stapled to it.

I flipped it over to find a picture of me in the exact same pose.

It looked awesome.

It wasn't a pose you'd find me in anytime soon, but I still looked good.

There were billions of pictures of me all over the bed.

One of them was of him and me.

Of the beach ball incident.

I picked it up.

It looked so much more wrong than I remember it feeling.

I found another pic

This one was of Stella and me.

We looked so happy.

Shadow handed me some steak sauce.

"What's this for?"

I looked it over.

"What isn't it for?"

He smiled.

I laughed.

I was thirsty as heck so I shook the bottle, opened it up and drank like the wind.

I finished it in one gulp.

Shadow looked at me.

"How'd you do that? I love that stuff and it at least takes me three."

He said wide eyed.

"I'm thirsty as heck."

I licked some sauce off my lips.

"Got some more?"

I asked.

"Uh, yeah. But I don't recommend more than one within the same hour. That stuff gets ya high, ya know?"

He took the bottle away when I looked in it to see if there was any left.

"Here, another mountain dew."

He threw me a mountain dew that he got out of his mini fridge.

I just barely caught it.

I felt dizzy; I didn't tell Shadow cuz he told me the steak sauce might've had that effect.

I had so but I felt a sharp pain in my side.

I dropped the soda and passed out.

"…Maria!"

That was all I heard before I faded into my own world.

I couldn't feel.

It was all black.

I was enclosed within something.

Everything shined.

Suddenly a beam of light seemed to go through me making a rainbow reflect behind me.

I awoke.

"Hm?"

I rubbed my head.

I looked at Shadow.

I hadn't yet noticed anyone else was there.

"Are you okay?"

He seemed panicked.

"I'm fine. How long have I been asleep?"

I looked around to find I had been moved to Breeze's room.

There wasn't a clock in sight.

"Four hours."

He looked in my eyes and I wondered what he saw in them.

"Don't look at my sister like that."

I turned and saw Sonic.

But it wasn't just Sonic.

It was Breeze, Jwan, Stella, and Sonic.

Ogwa stepped in holding what seemed to be a milkshake.

"Oh, you're up."

She said handing the shake.

"Shadow told me you liked those so I decided to make one for you."

I smiled.

It tasted great.

She could be a chef.

"Thanks!"

I gave her the biggest fanged smile I'd ever given in my life.

"Do you have any idea why you fainted?"

Breeze asked pushing Sonic out of her way.

"Steak sauce."

I said.

"Nah. Steak sauce wouldn't have done that."

Shadow scratched his head in thought.