(sigh) Another week, another chapter, another crazy author talking to himself 'cuz nobody reads the author's note. More story.

It's All A Nightmare…
Chapter V
Breaking Point

Tails came back to the house to find Knuckles asleep. "Knuckles! What the hell are you doing? Where's Sonic?"

"Huh? What?" Knuckles got up and looked around the room. "Hey. Where's Sonic?"

"That's what I'm asking you! What happened?"

"Dunno. Hey, my drink." There was a little left of the drink Sonic gave Knuckles.

"Give me that drink." Knuckles handed Tails the cup. Tails took it into his lab. He came out, got a glass of water and one of the sleeping pills, and went back into his lab.

Tails let the pill dissolve in the full glass of water. He took out a pH indicator and tested both waters. A match. He came out of the lab. "Sonic put some sleeping pills in your drink.

"So THAT'S why that water tasted weird."

"We've gotta find him, fast!" Tails and Knuckles left the house in search of Sonic.

Amy was in her new apartment, trying everything she could to take her mind off Sonic, when, her cell phone rang. She quickly picked it up and answered it. "Hello?"

"Amy! Thank god you're there! Listen, we've got a big problem!" It was Tails.

"What's the matter?"

"It's Sonic. We've lost him. He's been very unstable since you left. I'm afraid he might do something to himself if we don't find him."

"I don't care about Sonic anymore!" Amy lied. "Go find him yourself!" There was no answer on the other side. Tails hung up. Amy tried to hold back some tears, until she ran out of the apartment.

Vector was leaning back in his chair, sleeping. "(snore) (snore) (SNORE) (SNORT)" Vector spun in his chair when the phone rang. Thinking it was the alarm, he reached over and hit the buttons.

"Vector, you gonna answer that?" Vector woke up.

"Huh? What?" Vector heard the phone ringing. "Why didn't you guys tell me the phone was ringing?"

"Don't know, Vector. Don't know."

"Chaotix Detective agency, how may we help you?" Vector answered.

"Vector! We need your help!"

"Hey, aren't you that girl that wanted to go on a date with me?"

"Shut up! And I didn't want to go on a date with you! We've got a problem! Sonic's in trouble!"

"Sonic? Oh yeah! He's the one that beat down Metal Sonic! Well, if it's for the girl that likes me and the guy that saves the world, I'm all there for you!"

"DAM-" Amy was cut off as Vector hung up the phone. "Alright boys! We've got a mission! We have to save Sonic! Let's go!"

Everyone scoured the streets for Sonic, and Tails and Charmy searched the rooftops. Charmy grabbed his comm. and contacted Vector. "I found him! I found him!" Charmy yelled.

"Great job, Charmy! Where is he?"

"He's on top of the roof of riboff bank!"

"Good job! We'll be there soon!" Charmy turned off his comm.

"Sonic!" He brandished a gun. He looked towards Charmy and pointed it at him. "Whoa!" Charmy stopped flying towards him. Knuckles busted through the door and Sonic pointed the gun at him.

"Back off!" He yelled.

"Take it easy, Sonic. I'm just here to help." He tried to convince him.

"Help! You idiots are treating me like a little kid, having you baby-sit me." Knuckles strafed around Sonic to get away from the door. "You think I can't make decisions on my own?" His hand started shaking. "Well, I'm old enough to make my own decisions. I'm not letting you treat me like a kid!"

"I never said you weren't able to make your own decisions, but your not able to make any rational ones at this time."

"Just shut up!" He put the barrel to his temple. "Your not making any decisions for me!"

"You've lost it completely, Sonic." Amy burst through the door, and Sonic pointed the gun at her.

"Sonic!"

'Amy…' Sonic started shaking more. "Back off, Amy!"

"Sonic…"

"Back off!" She moved away from him and the door. 'What are you doing! This is the girl you love! How can you do this!'

'She doesn't love you anymore! Who can love you after you told them off like that!'

'No! Not her! Don't shoot her!' He turned his head away. Sonic started to become really unstable now. His hand was shaking a lot now. His eyes started to water. He took the gun away from Amy and put the barrel back on his temple.

"Doctor! Take a look at this!" Bokkun yelled.

"What is it!" Eggman rolled his chair towards the monitor.

'I'm surprised that chair hasn't broken under his weight…' "It's Sonic!" Eggman looked at the visuals the Egg-satellite was transmitting. It zoomed in on Sonic.

"What? Can this be true? All these years I've tried to kill that hedgehog, and every time, I've failed, but now he's going to kill himself? Oh, this is too good! Bokkun! Get me some popcorn! I'm going to love this…"

Across the street, on a higher rooftop, Shadow stared down on Sonic. Shadow wasn't sure what to think. He was kind of glad the hedgehog would be gone, but he's the only competition he had. He wanted to become the best, the fair way, not by default. He hesitated before he pulled out his chaos emerald, but he continued. He reached into the left side of his quills with his right hand and flipped the chaos emerald in front of him. "Chaos…" he thrust his hand out and grabbed the chaos emerald. "Control!" He transported himself across the street. Upon arrival, he knocked the gun away from Sonic. He was startled by this and, by accident, shot off the gun. Sonic heard a shriek of terror and a thud. He looked over to see Amy on the ground with a pool of blood quickly forming around her. "Shit!" Shadow ran over to Amy. Sonic stood there, frozen in time.

'Oh god, no. Tell me, this is just a nightmare! Please no!' He stood there. He started shaking uncontrollably. "No…" Shadow chaos controlled her to the hospital. Knuckles ran off towards the hospital. Sonic fell to his knees, looking with horror at the pool of blood in front of him.

"Sonic!" Tails yelled. Sonic slowly looked up to him. "We've gotta go." Tails practically dragged Sonic out of there.

Heh. Sorry if my chapters aren't as long as Never Look Back.