Every Rose Has Its Thorns

Disclaimer: I don't own them and you know this mane!

Note: Someone personally e-mailed me and asked if Cosmo will be in this or any of my other stories. Tell you truth I'm not sure, a lot of my stories were written before her introduction and adding her now could mess up my story(s).

I could add her and there is always that possibility; her romance with Tails but the thing is I don't know much about her except she likes Tails and is a plant. But I'll keep it in mind don't worry.


Chapter 5 – Was it really CPR?


Next Day: With Sonic, Tails and Shadow; late night.

"C'mon Shadow, we've been at it all night! I know you want to find her but we have limits!" The fox was sore from an entire day of searching; they took up their hint on the possibility of Eggman. That meant, more land to cover and new areas to look up.

"I can't! What if she's hurt? I have to find her!" Sonic was concerned but not as much as Shadow was. Sure Sonic wanted to find Amy, but he didn't worry that much for her. Shadow on the other hand was basically searching under every rock to find her.

"Shadow look at me!" Sonic said grabbing Shadow's shoulders and shaking him. What love does to a person, Sonic cool and calm, Shadow panicking and about to lose it.

They were complete opposites right now, "Breathe…that's right…breathe, now listen to me. I know Amy better than anyone else! She'll be fine, she a big girl. We'll find her don't worry."

"But—"

"Do I have to smack you?"

"What?"

"She'll be fine!"

"But what if—" Sonic smacked Shadow leaving a red spot on his face, "What the fuck was that for?" Shadow said in quiet voice.

"See? Your calm now, go home and get some rest…I'll get everyone on this tomorrow okay?" Sonic waved Shadow off. Shadow sighed and walked away, he was listening to Sonic for the first time in his life, which was very strange.

With Shadow gone, Sonic began to stretch and yawn, "Tails, you still think this is my fault?"

"Yep." The fox nodded.

"Man this sucks…everyone blames me for this when it's not my fault!"

"Well it was you that got her upset."

"But how does that lead to her getting captured huh?" Sonic began to walk towards their home. Tails walked, he was too tired to fly. Tails realized Sonic had a point, he got her upset but that didn't lead to her capture.

"Where you think she is?" Tails asked with a yawn.

"I have no clue, just hope she's okay…"


With Amy & Espio; same time

"Wait…this isn't gonna work! I don't have super hearing!" Amy yelled as she saw nothing but darkness through the blindfold. All she had was her hearing and her sword. "Are you gonna help me?"

"Are you nuts? That thing will kill me! Good luck though!" Espio yelled as he ran off giving a thumb up to the robotic servant that pushed a button on the hanger wall. A loud buzzer rang.

Amy took a deep breath and tried not to panic, no good. When the ground shook violently with each step she dropped the sword and ran off blindly. She finally ran into a figure and fell as she pulled off the blindfold she saw Espio shaking his had.

"What?"

"Look…" He pointed behind her. When she turned around, she had never felt so stupid…

In the middle of the hanger, was a large round object with legs, that's it…oh and it was about three feet tall.

"Well you made it sound dangerous and the fact it cause an earthquake each time it took a step didn't help either!"

"So does Eggman, but I don't see you running from him!" Amy huffed as she crossed her arms. "This is such a waste of my time, no way dumb school girl like you could ever be anything ninja like! Go back home and get over it, don't waste my time." Well as Espio turned around an infuriated Amy picked up her sword…

Espio didn't even hear a step, but before he knew it there was a long silver blade touching his neck and Amy had had his leg locked with hers;

"How the hell…" He turned to see Amy with both eyes red and pissed.

"You wanna call me a dumb school girl again?" She said quietly, Espio remembered what Eggman said about the smallest things setting her off. He gulped as she pressed the blade closer.

"Amy…Amy, c'mon we're friends right, so how about you calm down and oh let's see…not kill me?" Amy moved her hand and freed his leg and kicked him in the back sending him forward sliding. Espio growled as he got up and reached into his shoe.

He pulled out a small blade attached to a thin chain. Somehow he kept pulling out more and more of the chain. He was mad now too, he whipped it forward spiking a hole in the ground making Amy back up. She growled back and leapt forward. Espio disappeared in mid-air turning invisible.

"So you wanna play ruff? Here let me show you how I learned what I do for a living." He voice echoed through the hanger. Amy searched the ceiling for him; he appeared right next to her. Whipping the chain he wrapped her in before she could react. He held on end by a handle and the carefully by the blade.

She struggled as she tried to push the chain apart, nothing. He tightened it around her making her grunt a little. He loosened it and kicked her in her hip send her skidding forwards a few yards. She growled as she stood up again, Espio stood there not moving. Suddenly caught off guard staring at Espio in confusion, he appeared behind her and had the blade to her neck and locked both her legs with both of his.

"Let go!" She growled. A few seconds passed and then she managed to move her left leg and trip him with his left. Moving smoothly she avoided the blade and grabbed his hand. She threw him over her head and slammed him into the ground making it sink in about four inches deep.

He groaned as he held his head from the momentary pause she gave him. She stomped on his stomach and did it again. She slid her foot under his back and turned him slightly and kicked him sending him sliding across into a steel pillar. Espio slowly stood up and held his right rib area; the chain was attached to his wrist and followed him everywhere.

She then disappeared in mid-air as he did before. He looked around but he didn't see her, suddenly something cupped his mouth and pulled him back. Amy locked one of his arms with hers as he tried to swing her off. He grunted as he tried to break free, but she wasn't letting go, not this time.


With Knuckles on Angel Island; also the same time

Knuckles stood in his living room looking around blankly, as usual it was empty. All he really has in house was three bedrooms up stairs, two bathrooms; one on the lower floor and the other on the top level and there was a large living room that was in union with the kitchen/dining room. The living room had a large T.V. long couch that went from the one wall two another. Bedrooms were basic except for his; they all had a bed, two furniture pieces and a closet. His room had another large T.V., a small couch and huge bed. There were four windows on the bottom floor; two on the living room wall(s), one above the stove in the kitchen and one in the bottom floor bathroom. Each room, including the bathrooms had at least one window. The floor was carpet, bathroom floors were tiled.

It was a simple house, he didn't need much and he never had many visitors, thanks to Tails; he has electronics and a satellite hook up, one that the company doesn't know about.

(In other words…bootleg satellite.)

He looked down into his orange soda inside a glass cup and shook it slightly making fizz. He sighed and remembered what she said;

'All I ever did was, try to be nice to you and what do you do? You publicly call me a bitch and tell me to leave you alone…well guess what? Fine then, you won't see this 'bitch' ever again'

With that she left, he stood stunned. He kept thinking about her, well he got what he wanted or did he? She wasn't physically bothering him but mentally her memory was torturing him. Looking up he began into the window across from him, he began to grip the glass cup; he didn't hear the first crack.

Before he knew it when he looked down and saw his glove turning red in some places, it didn't hurt him, either that or he was ignoring the pain. He sighed and went for the sink nearby in the kitchen. He began to wash the wounds flushing out the glass. As he finished he took a napkin and wiped the red colored water still on his hands. He used the same napkin to pick up the pieces of the glass cup on carpet.

Instead of throwing away the glass, he laid it out on the dining room table. He took a seat and stared at glass then at his couch, looking at some clothing he had laid there a few days ago. He began to ponder why he even had those, he rarely ever wore them.

Male animals had the option of wearing clothing; they didn't have to wear clothing so long as the kept it in between the legs, hidden in public of course. He usually just wore a coat when there was harsh winter weather but other than that he never wore anything besides his shoes and gloves. After thinking for the longest amount he ever did, which was two minutes and one second, snapped out of his deep pointless, useless thoughts.

He looked at the pieces of glass once more. For some stupid reason looking at the broken glass help this moron realized what he was supposed to do.

"I have to fix this…"


With Amy & Espio

Espio currently was face to face with Amy, fingers laced in one hand. Espio restrained Amy's other hand that held the blade. She growled again and pushed trying to break his grip.

He started moving his foot into a position that would let him trip her. She kept avoiding it, he decided to psyche her; moving slighting to left then quickly spiked it to the side of her ankle he tripped her face first. Jump backwards giving him space, she looked up and threw the sword off to the side.

She was standing up, ready to fight again; panting and tired she began to feel very weak. Espio noticed but didn't pay much attention to it.

Her breathing grew deeper, he watched. Suddenly she moaned and fell to her knees and then flat on the ground. Her eyes slowly closed…


Control Room

"The nanos drained her energy…" A robot reported as it continued typing and pushing.

"Whats the progress on the imbalance?" Eggman asked walking towards the large monitoring screen.

"Well, it's more than before but scanners can't tell completely." It replied

"How long is estimated endurance?"

"Well under these specific circumstances it was only two hours but under the implied circumstances for the objective; she would be able to last a whole day."

"I see…how are the observation sensors doing?"

"Very well, they've copied all martial arts seen by Espio."

"I wasn't watching them before, how did the whole thing start?"

"Espio called her a 'dumb school girl' and said 'get over it' or something to that extent."

"I warned him…well whats her vital status?" Eggman sighed as he scratched his head.

"She's out, can't tell how long, she'll be back to her old self when gets up again though; the rage nanos in her blood are slowly regaining energy."

"Okay, that is all." Eggman left the room, thinking of a way to get these two to work together.


With Espio & Amy

He panted as minutes passed by and she did not get up;

'What happened? Is she alright? Should I go see?'

Espio held his rib area again and slowly and I mean slowly walked towards her. He grunted as he fell to his knees and began to crawl just a few feet from her. Cautiously he came closer to her, turning her around, he couldn't tell if she was breathing.

"Shit…is she still breathing? Fuck, I can't tell…better not take any chances, otherwise Eggman is gonna cancel those checks…and I still haven't paid off that one hooker yet…" He took a deep breath and removed her head gear. His lip twitched as he leaned forward and came closer. He closed his eyes as he came even closer to her lips.

Amy's eyes fluttered open when she felt something warm on her lips. She opened her eyes and saw purple…

'What the, Espio! Is he kissing me?'

He had not even started CPR; he only made lip contact when heard and felt some lip movement;

"Umm…" He looked up and saw two confused green eyes.

He jumped back and made a blocking gesture with his arm, Amy sat up and held touched her lip with her fingers and stared at him.

"Were you?—"

"No! I wasn't" He cut her off.

"Yes you were!" She continued to accuse.

"No I wasn't!" A small blush came across his cheeks, she noticed and smirked. Well there was no memory or physical sign that she remembered the fight.

"Espio…" She smiled evilly; she was playing around with him.

"I was not!" He kept defending himself, she continued to smile. He got up and turned invisible, she watched as dust kicked up from where he had hopped from.

"Spot being such a bitch about it and admit it!" She shouted as she slowly got up and looked around for him.

Espio stood on that steel beam again, looking down on her. He watched Amy cross her arms and groaned. Time pass by…about three minutes later she sat down as she lost interest. He hopped down, thinking she didn't care about it anymore.

"You're such a wuss!" Well he was an idiot for thinking that.

"I'll be back…I have to go to the med bay."

"Why?"

Espio lifted his arm and showed the rib injury. It was discolored and cut up.

"What happened to you?"

Espio's eyelids drooped halfway down. She still doesn't remember anything after a rage release.

"You don't remember anything do you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You nearly killed me—arrgh never mind I give up on that…"

"I just woke up and you were kissing me—hey what else did you do to me while I was out?" She yelled accusing again.

Espio blushed heavily, "I was not kissing you! It was CPR and I would do anything else even if my life depended on it!" he smack his face as he realized what he said, hopefully she didn't catch it.

Amy stared at him in shock;

"Say what?"


Eggman's personal quarters (No not the coins…morons)

Eggman read the stats of the suit and Amy's vital stats on a small computer screen in front of him. He rubbed his chin and then twirled his mustache and hummed.

He looked to his side and re-winded the surveillance video again. He continued to play with his mustache, he noticed she could him easily, if Espio had not fought back she would have killed him. He hummed once more thinking if she was ready or not.

Only in her anger could she attack. And she wasn't angry all the time, but that wasn't the problem. He could easily find way to control her in her anger and then he could keep her like that constantly.

She could certainly take them, but problem was she had some restraint and if she passed out from the rage nanos energy drain, she would have her original consciousness.

And what then? In her rage she is blind and has no judgment. But if she passed out, she would see the damage caused when woke up and then…he had so many complications now;

'Arrgh, the emotional unbalance was supposed to take care of this!'

He looked at the small screen with the vital stats on it. He massaged his forehead as he thought of a way to solve the problems. His massaging turned into tapping; he began to think more and more. His thoughts racing back and forth.

He sat there in silence. Then finally, it came to him. He pushed a button and spoke into a screen to a robotic worker;

"You! Send for Espio—" He continued to explain clearly his orders.


Three days later (Dawn time): Day at Tails's home; Tails & Sonic

Tails was asleep at his computer.

He was scanning one area at a time on the computer. The U.S. satellite computer was the easiest thing he had ever hacked into. The technology was very good and he was surprised he didn't think of it before. He didn't worry about sleeping while searching because he had been at it since early and nothing had detected him so far.

He was using a pink quill that he found on the sofa from a few weeks ago. It would take awhile but it's better than searching blindly around the world.

His computer beep as it finished searching a patch of land, snow covered. It moved on to a small section of a moderate sized village area. It zoomed in a bit closer and scanned. It zoomed out and did the same again but on a different section of the village. It did it once more and no results.

Then his lab door slammed open, it was kicked in;

"Wha, what! I'm awake!" Tails wiped the drool from his mouth;

"That's it boy! It's been three damn days! Have you had any luck or not?" It was Sonic.

Tails rubbed his eyes and blinked showing his red tinted eyes. The fox had been doing all he could to help Shadow and Sonic who was just now losing it.

He was calm at first but a person starts growing very worried or insane in Shadow and Sonic's case, after three days.

"Well?" Sonic asked yelling.

The fox continued to rub his burning eyes. He looked in the direction of the yelling and saw a blurry figure, it was blue.

"Sonic? What time is it?" He groaned and felt a huge pain in his back. He had fallen asleep sitting down, leaning forward.

"Any progress?" He wasn't yelling anymore. His tone was softer as he thought of Amy. He sat down as he held his head.

"No…nothing." Tails looked at his friend, what a change. It occurred in less than a day, he went from calm and cool to basically like Shadow.

"What now…what now? We've done everything! Fucking fattass is covering his tracks good this time!" Tails saw his friend's body tense up.

"We'll find her…don't worry—" Tails looked at the computer as it beeped several times.

At was locked on the left middle area of a mountain side. Tails examined the information scrolling down the side of the monitor.

"What is it?" Sonic said jumping up.

"Well…good news and bad news. Good news we've got a lock on a signature—"

"Yes! That's good right? You mean Amy right?" Tails nodded as he turned to face Sonic.

He turned around and tapped on the metal surface of the side of the key board. He looked at the scrolling data, he didn't seem too excited.

"Bad news…its not a 100 percent sure that's it's her." Sonic watched the screen with the area of land surrounded by a red border of a square shrink and move to a corner. Another square move around on a bigger map continued to move and scan more areas.

"What do you mean?" Sonic asked appoarching his friend.

"It's only a vague signature, it could be her or it could be nothing." Tails pressed more keys on the keyboard in front of him.

"We have to check it out, we can't take any chances!" Sonic stood next to Tails now.

Yawning, the fox nodded in agreement, "Yea…but we can't send everyone on a rescue and have it turn into a false thing."

"Well can you zoom in any more and a get a better look?"

"I can try." Tails press several keys and looked at the screen. He used to mouse and clicked on the minimized map, he typed in a bunch of keys and the map grew bigger.

"Well? Any luck?" Sonic looked at the screen and couldn't figure out what he was looking at.

"Let me try something else, the normal camera can't give me a clear picture see?" Tails pointed to a very blocky/digital picture.

The picture zoomed out and a green line passed the entire area. As the line passed the area, the screen was mixture of yellow, red, blue, deep dark blue and orange.

"What'd you do?"

"Thermal imagining, it's to see if anything is active down their and we got a lot of activity. But the thing is, look at the deep blue around the bright colors; that means the air and temperature are below freezing points. Why is someone running a plant in these conditions is weird, and the fact that they keep it going is even weirder!" Tails scratched his head in confusion, this the most confusing thing he had ever seen.

"Where is this place?" Sonic asked trying to get a better look at the picture.

"The area is the Cold Winter Mountains…"

"The cold…great…I hate the cold. How far is it? I haven't heard about this place before."

"Not far if we fly…but thing is, who goes?"

Sonic closed is eye and tried to think, "You have to stay, and we need you to keep looking for and make sure of it. I can't reach Knux yet, something's up with him. I guess I go with Shadow."

Tail scratched his head in thought. The plan was a little too vague, they needed more time but this wasn't going to last forever. Eggman is twisted and who knows what he could be doing.

"Sonic, are you sure about Shadow? I mean he's not exactly himself. Something happened to him as soon Amy went into that depression period thing. Taking him with you while he's kinda edgy might not be a good idea…"


With Shadow; city area: rooftop

He ran through his thoughts, everything came at him so fast. His feelings for Amy where just thrown at him. He had always admired her silently. He watched with his eyes every event the happened between her and Sonic. He was friends with Sonic, sure but he hated him when he treated any girl like he treated her, especially her. She was nothing but nice to anyone, why she chased after him, he had no clue. She was polite and he shunned it, she did a good deed for him, he ignored it. Sonic was an ass naturally, but to be like that with someone like Amy has to be a sin.

In that very moment he end the relationship with Rouge, he head was flooded with thoughts. Each one had to do with her, every single one, it gave him a headache. The very second he found out about what happened with her, he was pissed off at Sonic.

Then she disappears…out of no where. And he had just figured out what to do, what he really felt. Every emotion and thought was falling into place. He left to see her, and she was gone. Not a trace, unbelievable…it couldn't be. No one could be that skillful as to not leave even a single trace…well one person.

The thought stayed in his head as an 'it couldn't be' thought. But the group did break up, Vector went his way and Charmy left for some place. No knew how it happened but then just one day the three were enemies. Espio gained a reputation for a mercenary, doing quick jobs for anyone, from the government to mafia style groups to even big time gangs. But now the latest suspicion was shaking him cold. Would he really work for Eggman? Everything, every friend he had, would he sell them out for money?

He sighed, flicking the blunt off the roof. Weed; something rare for him to smoke. It gave him time for his thoughts though. Knuckles was the one who showed him it, why or how the echidna had it was weird but all he knew was it cleared his thoughts.

"Espio…" He slowly blew the last of the smoke he held in, "Fucking traitor…" He began to think of Amy and whisper more to himself;

"You better pray I don't—" His cell phone rang interrupting his threat.

He whipped it open and read the I.D.; Sonic;

"Anything on her?" He asked answering it immediately.

Sonic gave an uneasy sigh, "Well come over, I can't really say."

He didn't even say bye, he just closed it. He wasn't on best terms with Sonic at this moment. He blamed him for all of it. Her unstable condition, her capture, everything.


With Amy, Espio & Eggman

'I don't feel so good about this…'

Espio watched Amy from the observation room.

A new injection led to a whole new change. Two red eyes that so far for a day and half have not faded. Her skills rapidly changed and improved. Her strength greatly different with the suits help.

Six seeker bots lay before her; some in pieces, and others with tore coils and broken armor. He watched still, so very curious as to how one single injection changed her completely. Why didn't he do it before, why now, why so suddenly?

He felt his stomach twist as Eggman gave orders to servant robots to prep transportation. It wasn't even six days and he was sending her out. He didn't feel right doing this at all…not one bit. But something kept pushing him, an urge, a voice, a mind set he had developed when the group broke up.

But lately…just being around Amy made him feel a bit weird. Surviving her rage outbreaks he found out more about her. Deeper thoughts and deeper ideas and the newest feeling for revenge.

He leaned back all the way. Remaining calm and cool, he held a small arrow head in his fingers. It was pretty large for an arrow head; it was just shaped that way. He didn't show in his face his deep thoughts.

She walked in, not even the least bit tire but still on the edgy side. He had spent full days with her, doing what was supposed to be training, and when she wasn't on a rampage she manage to get him involved a conversation. He stared at her, examining her face. She wasn't the little fan girl she used to be, she was very beautiful as she had always been. He never ignored this fact, but he could never bring himself to say it or now as he was hinting him self he was becoming more attracted to her. It is a possibility, sure but he didn't consider it, never would he: he blamed it on being alone for so long.

A smack knocked him out of his stare and deep thoughts. He growled turning his face to look at her. He looked her in the eyes and was about to speak when;

"Will you stop staring at my ass?" Amy yelled smacking him again.

Espio didn't even notice he had been staring in that direction, "What the fuck are you talking about? You must be out your damn mind to think that I would be doing that."

"Yeah right, just like when you kissed me!" Eggman stared at them weirdly.

"You kissed her?" Eggman raised an eyebrow;

'Damn, what else happened went I went to the bathroom or sleep?'

"I did not kiss her, let's drop it! Shit man, it was CPR, I thought she wasn't breathing!" Espio crossed his arms and blushed a little.

"How could you not tell? The stomach goes up and down if they are and if stays still if not!" Amy yelled not accepting that pitiful excuse again.

"Alright, drop it. Back to the matter at hand! Espio, there's a chopper on the rooftop waiting for you two."

"Both of us? I thought this was her thing?" Espio was now paying full attention, "Why do I have to go?"

"I need you to watch her—"

"Hey! I'm not some little kid, I can do this myself!" Amy yelled cutting in.

"He's there incase anything happens. That's all; now listen up," Eggman took a breath as he continued, "The chopper is going to drop you in the outskirts of the forest. Make your way into the city on foot. Espio you stay with her," Eggman pause for a second;

"Okay before you do your thing, I need you to do one thing…"

'What are you planning?' Espio eyed the fat guy suspiciously.


In the air; Tails newly built plane: Black Wing Jet (Wing Jet for short)

Solid black with a faded yellow stripe on each of the jets front edges of the wings. It was silent, and quick, it was his most recent thing built. He just decided one day to rebuild his plane and modify it. The black and yellow color came randomly into his mind and he was pleased with the final look. He went with F-22 similar style, except he added a few more seats; they were singles, one after the other in a row. He also added moving jet thrusters so he could have it hover down slowly, instead of having to land on a road strip.

Sonic and Shadow were flying in it. They both had been quiet throughout the whole time unless Tails radioed in. The jet was on auto-pilot, none of the hedgehogs had enough brains to be able to fly it. They were wearing the oxygen masks, not only were they high up, they were flying pretty fast. The masks covered their mouths and had a connection to the ears for the radio.

Static sound in through the radio, "Sonic, you're near the landing sight. Check the radar right now and tell me what you see. My signal isn't good, so I can't tell what's over there."

"Yeeaa…I see lots of tiny green circles that are bleeping and I see a bunch of boxes." Shadow rolled his eyes.

"Tails, from what I can tell there are six large buildings. The little circles have to mobile units, if there are ground troops, its Eggman then." Shadow answered over the radio.

Tails radioed back in, "That could be true, or it could be a military base, the ground troops could be Winter Soldiers."

"Hold up! You never said anything about a military possibility or any thing about Winter Soldiers; besides, I thought that they were only rumors." Sonic was getting a bit worried now.

Winter Soldiers, amazingly skilled soldiers. The name "Winter Soldier" came from their origin in Russia. They were the first to develop the new breed. Each soldier is cable of holding their own against a small army easily. They use the newest armor, light weight and the most durable. There many types, snipers, assault, general infantry and specialists. The specialist were most common, second most common were snipers.

Sniper Winter Soldiers would be placed on watch out position with a specialized rifle that could shoot further than any other. Specialist are given sub-machine guns, varying in sizes, they are used like general infantry; on posts, guards, whatever. But they were so much more experience and experts with what they do. Cybernetic enhancements give each a deadly advantage. They are usually place in very cold spots around the world, though they are used in regular battles anywhere. The research expanded and many other countries developed their own. But all are kept covert; it was so low on the radar that some even doubted if was true, it could have just some crazy guy's imagination.

Tails radio signal was getting more disrupted, "No, they're real man. Watch yourself; don't leave yourself open."

"Time the fuck out! You mean you sent me out here, unarmed, without armor and expect me to dodge some super soldier known for being ruthless?" Sonic was so scared about that idea.

"Sonic, you should be fine. There's no visible reason why there should be military base out here anyway." Sonic notice the small ruff range as he looked down. He looked ahead and saw a large mountain with small ones building up around it.

"Tails how do we land this thing?" Sonic looked behind his seat and gave a look at Shadow asked him the same. He shrugged; he had never even flown this jet before.

"Sonic, it's on auto-pilot, its gonna do itself. Just be careful, radio in when you get to the base or find something. I'll let you know if anything happens on this end, so far I got nothing."

"Just keep looking." Shadow simply stated looking out the window.

"Please…let me live, don't let me die, no Winter Soldiers, please!" Sonic was whimpering as he prayed.

The Wing Jet slowly down greatly, it began to rotate as it went down slowly. Above the ground it stopped and hovered. The front tip of the wings let out a small beam on each side, colored red. The lines ran through the entire area quickly, they were scanning elevation. Once data said it was okay the jet slowly touched the ground.

Sonic undid the seatbelt that came down from the shoulder rest. He opened he hit the one button he knew, it said 'Open' on it. The jet's canopy opened and Sonic and Shadow could instantly feel the freezing cold.

"Damn, why didn't I bring anything?" Sonic shouted loudly as he rubbed his arms.

"Well if you keep shouting like that, we're gonna have bigger problems besides the cold!" Shadow said raising his voice.

"Shut up and come on!" Sonic said hopping out the jet.

Shadow hopped out and looked around. The site was quite nice, considering their situation. The snow covered trees and ground was a beautiful sight.

"You got the GPS thingy?" Sonic asked shaking.

Shadow held out a small hand device with a large screen, "God damn, we got a mile and a half to get to the area, not the base, the area!"

Sonic pressed on his ear, "Tails, why the fuck are we so far from the base?"

Static covered the line, "Cause—you—right—can't tak—ances, if there—inter sold—"

Sonic stomp his foot, "Shit! There's too much static to understand him!"

Shadow sighed and looked at the GPS, "Well let's get going, let's go through the woods, we'll be less visible under their cover." Sonic sighed and nodded.

The two began walking through the deep snow; the wind blowing did not help at all. Sonic could feel some of his quills freezing.


With Amy & Espio

Espio sat on the helicopter's main area. He sat with one foot hanging out the side of the open side and rested one arm on the other leg that was inside. He did not like his new orders, not one bit at all.

He looked at the tube of bright yellow liquid he held in one hand. What was it?

'What's he up to? Why does he want this planted in a manhole in the city?' He had been having tons of thoughts like that.

He was now regretting some of the things he did. Maybe because it involved the people he was closest to? Maybe because it was over the stupidest reasons? Was he ready to see this through? Was this worth all the money in the world? None of the others would be able to take her; he could barely hold his own against her, how could they even stand a chance?

The helicopter was silent and black with a cloaking device made by Eggman. He could see the water below quickly change to sand and then forest.

"L.Z. in three," It was robot fling the helicopter, but had a human like personality. That also made Espio wonder.

Amy stood in the helicopter, relaxed and cool. Leaning back against the wall of the interior. She had her face covered, sword on her back and her eyes were full red. Espio wondered why the injection caused that, he knew it changed her attitude and made her very edgy but he didn't fully understand its impact and full effect.

Amy ran through her thoughts as well. She fully new what she was doing, and regretted nothing. Some of her thoughts were cloudy but she didn't think they were important. She had been hurt too many times to care about it anymore. All her kindness and all she got was a slap, and this was her slap back at him. Her emotions were mainly pure anger, as she saw the lights of the city in the far distance the entire scene came back to her mind. Her anger building up, some rage growing as well.

The helicopter stopped above a large patch of grass. It slowly hovered four feet above the ground. Amy hopped off, and Espio slowly slid off the edge. As soon as they were off the helicopter flew up slowly turned and disappeared behind the high mountain tops of Mystic Forest.

"This is it…" Espio quietly whispered hiding his real thoughts, "You sure about this?" Espio was still uncertain about this and didn't think Amy was fully up to it.

"Told you once before," Amy stared in the city's direction, "Sonic's mine…"


N' cut, bam, done, fin that's it for chap 5!

Damn, took me awhile, well I keep updates in my profile, not my fault if you don't read em'

I'm out, till chap 6!