Every Rose Has It's Thorns
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
A/N: First of all, thanks for the reviews, that does include that flame I received; Okay I'm sorry for this misunderstanding, those lines, I guess I forgot to correct, I meant for Rouge to say it, my bad on that, I'll get around to it one day, apart from that, Espio was a random character I chose as mercenary, I would have chosen another but he seems like that type. And I began this story a long-ass time ago, the first chapter wasn't posted about a year after I wrote it. So yeah I did start it in that type of situation, but I don't do sex scenes; so this won't lead straight into a love thing; just so you know, you'll see what I mean in later chapters and if your still not happy: well that's all I can do man.
Chapter 3
Eggman's Lair – Also Unknown
Amy woke up with a huge headache; she let out a soft grunt as she opened her eyes, she was in a dimly lit room, it was cold and her short skirt wasn't much help with warmth. She crossed her legs and arms trying to share the heat of her furry skin with the rest of her body, she could see her breath in the air.
She looked around, it looked like a big empty hanger, "Hel-hello!" She said with her voice shaking, "Your awake…that's a pretty fast recovery for such a little girl." Eggman said coming out of the shadows, "Eggman! What do you want with me?" She said her voice still shaky (I'm just too lazy to write it like before.) Eggman walked towards her, she slid her body away from him.
"Now correct me if I'm wrong, you hate Sonic, according to my sources…" She grew an angry face when he mentioned 'his' name, but was listening till something struck her on the arm, she looked and saw a small dart… "What are you do-doing?" She said, her eyelids slowly closed, before she passed out again.
"Why did we need her awake, just to knock her out again?" Espio said with a smart tone, "Because my short friend the fluid will circulate better in these harsh conditions if her body was more active, therefore it works faster…tell me when she wakes up again." He said walking away, back into the shadows. "She was only awake for fifty seconds!" Espio yelled sarcastically
Espio only stared at Amy…a small voice said 'No!' in the back of his head, his vision went fuzzy and back to normal "What the fuck?" He said quietly, he ignored it and did as told.
Amy's House
Shadow was outside Amy's home, something in his heart wouldn't give up on her; he wanted to help her, "Amy!" He yelled looking at the shut windows; he knocked on the door till he began to scrape paint off it.
"Answer me!" He yelled, he tried to peak through the windows, a few neighbors began to stare at him like if he was a stalker, "Fuck off! This is important." He yelled at one lady who told him to leave Amy's house alone.
"Shadow common, you're embarrassing yourself." Tails's said floating down from the air.
"Let's just call it a day, it's the second day man, give her some space." He said jumping down from the tree he was sitting on. "Maybe your right…" Shadow said looking down, "I'ma call her later and see if she'll talk to me then.
Later that day with Eggman; entering next day (Late night in other words)
Amy moaned softly as she awoke again, "What happened?" She held her head with one arm, the area were she had been shot with the dart, it had become sore, "Ow!" She looked at it, she remembers what happened, for some reason she didn't feel cold anymore. She gasped and began to look for Eggman.
From up above Espio radioed in before that she woke up, Eggman slowly appeared from the shadows again, "Hello there, how do you feel?" He said with a soft evil voice, Amy got up and began to back away from him; she bumped into something, "Ahh! Espio! What are you doing here?" Espio didn't answer her, he only pointed to Eggman.
"My dear Amy, I don't wish to hurt you, I wish to aid you…" Amy looked at him with an eyebrow raised "Aid me? Why? In what?" She said beginning to trembling, "To get back at someone; someone who you don't seem to like very much, someone who I think had no right to hurt you…Sonic…" He said his name with a sinister voice.
Something triggered in Amy, something not natural, something that said "I'm listening." Her voice was dark, Espio only watched, his vision went fuzzy again, for longer this time, once again he ignored it.
Amy's House; With Shadow; 8:30 am
Shadow made his way around the back of the house, he couldn't stand it anymore; he had to talk to her.
He didn't sleep at all the night before; he couldn't stop thinking about Amy, his thoughts were so jumbled up; he hit the glass in the back of the house door, he ignored the cuts he got searching for the door knob blindly.
When he found it, he opened the door and began to yelled her name hoping for a response. He began to panic when he couldn't find her anywhere in her home…
He flew out the door, he went for Angel Island first; Knuckles would be more help than Sonic would be…
Angel Island – Shrine
"Common, just once, give it a try…" Rouge said to Knuckles in a soft, sexy voice in his ear; she put her hand on his thigh, "Umm…can I have some breathing room?" He said scooting away from her, she kept pushing on him, she pushed more and more until; she cause him to fall off the shrine's steps; she came down with him.
Shadow stopped right at the shrine, "Am I interrupting something?" He said looking at Rouge sitting on top of Knuckles with her legs spread at his sides, she was holding his arms down, "Well, I see you have your clothes on so I guess not, Rouge back down off of him for a little bit, I need his help, it's an emergency!" He said in a frustrated, Rouge got up and stat back down at the shrine's steps, she pouted "Almost had a date too, why do you always have to ruin everything?" She said in an annoyed tone, Knuckles got up his face kind of red, he walked away with Shadow.
Another area of Angel Island
"Where could she be?" Knuckles asked causally, "If I knew do think I'd be here right now?" Shadow said quietly, there was a long moment of silence as they both looked at the wide open blue ocean below them.
Shadow wanted to lighten the mood slightly, "So did you enjoy it?" He said with a small laugh, "Enjoy what?" Knuckles asked stupidly, Shadow looked at him, "Oh come on you can't be that stupid! I'm talking about you and her, what else would I be talking about."
"Still don't know what you're talking about. Nothing happened she was just trying to get a date out of me." He said with a straight face, Shadow left it alone for now, "(Sighs) what are we gonna do? Where could she be?"
"Man, the only time we need Espio's detective team…" Knuckles said shaking his head slowly. "Yeah, motherfucker just had to get greedy, calls himself a ninja. More like a hoe." Shadow said with an aggravated tone.
"Maybe we should just check on some of her usual spots." Shadow said walking towards the side of the island that was closest to the main land.
"Where first?" Knuckles asked following him, Shadow stopped him and pointed towards shrine, "Don't you think you're girlfriend is gonna ge—" Knuckles cut him off by grabbing him in a choke hold limiting his breathing, "Oh you wanna start huh? Motherfucker; say it one more time and I'll shove your face in the lake till the bubbles stop!" He growled, Shadow was wheezing, he started begging when the breathing became harder, "Okay! I'll stop! Common man!" He said trying to prying Knuckles's arm off.
Knuckles let go, Shadow slid down and waited for his breathing to come back, "Man you got anger issues!" Shadow said rubbing his hurt neck. They headed for the mainland; completely forgetting about Rouge…
With Sonic and Tails; Outside Tails's home
Sonic sat on the front steps of Tails's home, he tried to figure why everyone was making a big deal out of this one fight they had, it happened a lot, he gets mad at her, she runs off and cries for a few days; then she comes back, whats so different this time?
He couldn't come up with anything, as far as he was concerned, this will blow over in a day or two, "She'll get over it…" He whispered to himself.
Eggman's Lair – Amy & Espio
"What do you think?" He asked with no emotion as he surveyed her in a black outfit, it was tight fit to her body, it covered everywhere but her head.
Amy viewed her body, she held up hand and looked at her fingers; it was a snug fit, everywhere from her arms to her toes.
Espio kept staring at her, this caught Amy's attention, "Can I help you?" She said leaning forward 'playfully' snapping him back to reality, Espio tried to play it off, "Common, I have to give you a head cover." He walked in the shadows, like nothing happened "Men…" She said crossing her arms.
With Eggman
"I want her on 24-hour monitoring, we can't slip up at all, make sure the signal doesn't fade, how are the nanos in her systems doing?" Eggman asked a robot working a computer, "Everything is in check, the nanobot transfer was complete success." It said.
"Yeah I kinda figured that when she said yes to my offer, I meant how are they doing with the emotion unbalancing? Stupid machine…" Eggman said crossing his arms, the robot began his work and start reading feedback the computer received, "All nanobots have began the process it's about 65 percent done, once they completely unbalance her, well it's your plan, you know that rest." It said, Eggman only chuckled, "I think I've out done myself this time, there's no way Sonic will be able to defeat me this time…" He began to laugh sinisterly.
Amy & Espio
"Eggman said this suit has neuro-circuitry that will increase your movements and agility and other crap. Now let's see if it's true, jump from here to that bar." He point to the ceiling; to a long rusty support beam, "Wait that's like 30 feet! There's no way I can do that!" Amy protested, Espio only shook his head, "If fattass over there is right, then you can do more than that…besides you wanna get back at Sonic don't you?" Amy gritted her teeth, something again triggered, she crouched; looked up and jumped holding her hands up; she soared in the air.
She grabbed the ruff edge of the beam, she looked down and began to panic, "How do I get down from here?" Espio shook his head in disappointment, "Figure it out!" He yelled; Amy began to shake her legs in aggravation, "Listen up, you got up there, you can get down, you can't be training like this through out the entire time! Get over it! Let go!" He yelled; he went for the wall, he began to scale it with such ease that pissed Amy off.
He was walking on the wall sideways, he made his way towards her, he was standing upside down, in front of her, he crossed his arms and yawned as if to taunt her, she grew angry again, her face changed from fear to a cold straight face.
She let go, her body dropped in a eased standing position; Espio sped down the wall, underneath her and held his arms out, she move out of the way and land on one foot almost tip toad, she almost lost her balance but she regained it, Espio looked at her with an annoyed face, "I don't need you to catch me!" She said bragging, "I was there just in case, you could have broken an ankle or something." He said crossing his again, "What is it with you and crossing your arms? Besides don't be jealous!" Espio coughed. "Jealous of a stupid pink fan girl?" Amy's face twisted from the smirking brag to rage filled anger, "Shut up! I'm past that now!" She roared.
Eggman came out of the shadows again, "How's the suit coming along?" He asked with evil curiosity,
"Where the hell do you keep going?" Amy asked with anger, Eggman only smirk, "No where, now how is the working for you? Good, yes?" Amy only looked at her body, "Kind of tight fit but other than that it's fine!" She had a hard tone, "Well I don't know your size so a made a tight stretchable suit, so kill me for not measuring you up." He said responding to her anger, "Espio I need to talk to you…"
Eggman escorted Espio towards a shadowed hallway, "What is it? We don't have a lot of time; if you to get her ready you can't interrupt us anymore!" Eggman held a finger in his face, "Listen up Espio, you have to watch yourself with her, that suit could help her take you out, don't provoke her too much, be very careful when getting her mad, don't worry about the specifics, help me finish this and I'll add three more zeros to that next payment." Eggman said smirk, Espio raised an eyebrow at him, 'What is he planning, that suit can't be that powerful? Can it?' He thought.
He walked towards Amy, Eggman left to do whatever he does, "What was that about?" She said crossing her arms, "Nothing now common, we have lots to cover!" He said, "That's all you do! Do this, do that! Stop ordering me around!" Espio turned around; Amy was pissed just because he told her to follow him? "Calm down!" He said, "I am calm!" She yelled, "Amy! Relax!" Espio yelled grabbing her arms on the sides.
She turned to an angry red "Get off!" She pushed him; the suit's enhancements gave her the strength to push him across the room, "Owww…" He said rubbing his head, "Note to self; don't touch her…" Amy was panting, her breaths were hard and fast, Espio got up slowly, "Wow, that asshole wasn't kidding…" He walk closer, he could tell she was still mad, "Amy, look whatever I did I'm sorry…" He said cautiously stepping closer to her, Amy took a deep breath; she began to wobble back and forth "Whoa, what happened?" She asked grabbing her head.
"Wait, what are you talking about? You just sent me across the room like a fucking dodge ball!" Amy look at him with a weird look, "I-I what? Espio what are you talking about?" Espio couldn't believe what he was hearing, "Amy, you…sent…me…flying…over…there…" He said slowly as if she was retarded, "I don't remember shit! I had a fuzzy blur out!" Espio raised an eye "A blur out?"
"Yes, my vision went fuzzy and blurred out!" Amy sat down on the cold floor, "Why do we have to stay in here?" Amy was starting to scare Espio; her anger was a dangerous thing, very dangerous thing, "If we go somewhere else, will you promise to stay calm and not try to kill me?" Amy put her hand at her sides and gave him a death look.
"Alright fine, somewhere else we go!" He said, he went for a side panel and pressed a bunch of numbers.
A small door slid to the side, "All that for a small-ass door?" Amy said sarcastically.
They stepped out, the cold winter air hit them hard, Amy looked out into a wonderland, mountain after mountain, all covered in snow.
There was a light fog at the lower parts of the mountain they were on; she felt a chill, but not much at all.
Espio was freezing his nuts off, but he tried to hide it, he rubbed his arms to keep warm, but it didn't help, 'Stupid anger driven suit, making me come out here.'
"Here I forgot to give this to you earlier." He handed her a black mask cover, and head cover, (yes I know this kinda stereo-typical of a ninja but I want her to look like that.)
She took them and put them on; her whole face was covered with the exception of her eyes and a few quills that refused to be tucked in the cover, "Why do I have to wear this?" She asked pulling the cover that was on top of her mouth down.
"Because, one; you need it to get full operation from that suit, two; so your hair and face wont freeze out here." He said breathing into his hands trying to warm them up.
Amy put the cover back on, and looked out over the ledge of the rock platform they were on, "Here! I'ma show you how to use these."
Espio said tossing a small black sack and a sword placed in a blue cover at her feet, she picked up the sword and stared at it questionably, she opened the sack and peaked in it, a small amount of small metal arrow-head like things, and a small round ruff object, it seemed to look like blade sharpener.
Espio hesitated to talk, once again his vision went fuzzy, and he heard a small voice in the back of his head, he once again…ignored it, "First things first, before we can train with any of this...you cannot be afraid to hurt…anyone…" Amy only stared at him with a straight face, unfazed.
"He hurt me…so I'm just giving him a taste of his own medicine in another way…" She said coldly, her left eye had a deep shade of red to it…
End Chapter 3
DJ: (Yawns) It's 3:00 am I'ma quit, till chapter 4, just R&R (Slumps over and begins to drool and snore)
