Back again. I'm trying to update this story every other day from now to the end. Not too fast, not too slow, right? I'm doing two stories at once now (the other's a Megaman X fic, suprisingly). Summer is supposed to be sunny, right? Then can somebody tell me why the heck it's raining? Maybe it's just here...be thankful for sun people. Do a little dance, and then read this. Wippee.

Amy looked around her. Aurum was nowhere in sight, and Sonic was asleep. Perfect. The pink hedgehog started moving, looking for the portal to Sonic's memories. Amy looked around. Problem was, which portal? Amy wandered for a while, her mind racing whenever she passed a gateway. But none of them were the right one, she could tell by the color. An hour passed (or at least it felt like an hour, Amy couldn't tell), and still, no luck.

"Wait a minute," Amy said. There was a bright light ahead of her, a blueish light. It looked familiar. Was that it? Amy rushed forward, jumping inside.

Amy had no clue where she was. Amy was in a gigantic hall, the only colors were grays. It looked a lot like Eggman's bases, except this was unusually empty. No one was in sight, so our heroine began to walk down the corridor. She eventually came to a large room. Sonic was inside, along with another man, which Amy recognized as Eggman's father. She had met him once, before he was killed by Sonic.

"You see this, Sonic?" The professor asked. "You're the one who landed them in here. And now, I can rid of them. I thank you Sonic." Amy could not see who he was talking about, since she was behind the doctor. All she could make out was the edge of a cage.

"I'll get them out! You'll see!" Amy knew that was Sonic speaking, though she noted a hint of uncertainty in his voice. Who was it he was wanting to save? Amy wondered if this was a memory or not. If it was, the people were probably Scorge and Beau, Sonic's son and now late-girlfriend. Amy remembered hearing that they had been captured by Eggman's father, who had then holed up in his base. After that, Sonic had begun to fight Eggman, to make sure no one else got hurt.

"You brought this on yourself," The doctor's form changed in front of their eyes. It was now another Sonic standing there, except this one had an evil glint in his eye. He seemed to be enjoying torturing Sonic. Amy realized this was not a memory, but a dream. Scratch that, this was a nightmare.

"You won't do a thing to them," Sonic said.

"Oh, I won't, but you already have," said the other one. "You have slowly been dissolving them, tearing them apart. Soon, they won't be real to anyone but you.

"Shut up!" Sonic cried, throwing a punch at his dream-self. At that moment, Amy saw who was in the cage. It was her and Aurum, bound and gagged.

"SONIC!" The real Amy cried. Suddenly, everything disappeared except for her and Sonic (the real one, not the dream one).

"Amy, what are you doing here?" Sonic asked.

"It was an accident, I swear," Amy said. "Are you okay?" Sonic turned away from her.

"I don't need you in my thoughts like that," Sonic replied coldly. "My dreams are private. Know the word? P-R-I-V-A-T-E. Private."

"Well, sorry," Amy said. "If I had known that's what it was, I wouldn't of entered."

"Then why did you jump in the portal in the first place?" Sonic yelled.

"I was looking for something," Amy said, her voice starting to rise. Sonic's eyebrows raised, an angry look coming across his face.

"You were going to try for my memories again, weren't you?" Sonic whipped around, facing Amy. "I told you not to go in there! How would you like it if I was going into your memories?"

"I wouldn't give a care," Amy yelled, "because maybe you would finally realize that I care for you!" Amy's voice lowered. "You can't keep things locked up forever Sonic. It's just going to hurt you more. I am going to find out, whether you like it or not." Amy turned and began to leave, when Aurum came in.

"What's going on in here?" Aurum asked. The hologram of Sonic faded quickly, but Amy kept moving.

"Out of the way Aurum," she said, trying to push him away.

"You're up to something again," Aurum noted, holding her back. "I know that's not good. Come on. I'll let you out of here, but no funny business, okay?"

"Nothing funny about this," Amy said. She had had it. She was sick of the boys telling her where to and where not to go. In her anger, she kicked Aurum between the legs, running past him as he fell to the ground in pain.

"What the?" Aurum groaned.

"Sorry Aurum," Amy said, "No time to explain. Later." Amy ran out, back to the familier darkness. But now, it was red. Amy realized this must be becaue Sonic was really angry at the moment. Amy began to move again, searching for the ever-elusive memory portal.

"Going somewhere?" Sonic's voice echoed. The blaring crimson wrapped itself around her.

"Let me go Sonic!" Amy said. "I need to do this for your own good." amy wrenched herself out of the red grip, jumping into the nearest portal. Amy instantly recognized it as the control room. She walked over to the computer, looking at a button.

"Sorry Sonic, but I can't have you interrupt me." Amy remembered Aurum's explanation of the buttons, pressing what she thought was the sleep button. It seemed to work, as Amy noticed the vision screen going black. Amy walked out of the room, and the darkness was once agaon black.

Little did Amy know, she had pressed the wrong button. Yes, Sonic was unconscious, but his pulse was also slowing. His mouth was closed, no air coming in. Amy had unknowingly cut off Sonic's breathing.

Oh no! Amy, how could you? Well, she didn't know, but still! Is Sonic going to be okay? What about Amy? Anyway, review please. Maybe, the clouds will go away with lots of reviews! Rain, rain, go away, come again some winter day...