Umm, nothing to say here! Really…

Team Sonic (Ha-ha! The coolest thingy ever! Joke…):

Sonic: Let's blast through with Sonic Speed!

Tails: Okay!

Knuckles: Alright!

Team Dark:

Rouge: I'm counting on you guys!

Shadow: Hmph!

Omega, I think: Affirmative.

OMG! SO ANOYYING… lol anyways…

I forgot to put up the ages! Sorry! Everyone is 1 year older.

Amy: 13

Sonic: 16

Knuckles: 17

Rouge: 18

Shadow: 16?

So on so forth!

To the story!

Chapter 4: Entering a different darkness

Amy walked down the sidewalk in the Mobius city, slouching in her new attitude. Her new outfit consisted of a black hair band with a large red triangle looking-pattern on the center (like Shadows'!), and wore black boot-cut jeans with a single red slash going diagonally, she also wore a dull red tank top with black gloves and red shoes almost like Sonic's only with a black stripe instead of white.

For her makeup she wore black eye shadow and mascara, red lip gloss with a scent of cherry. Her quills were still the same, but were tipped with black and so was her tail, but her ears were tipped with a dark red.

She was about to smile as she trudged along the path, thinking about what her friends would say if they saw her, but she remembered to be sulky with her new attitude so she wouldn't have to look like some preppy psycho. She tried to be just a little darker, but her girly instincts were still there.

When she saw a familiar blue hedgehog running up the sidewalk she had a sudden urge to call his name and crush him with her trademark hugs, but she didn't want to be that way. So what Amy did to physically get his attention was that she stood still in his way so he would stop. She was pretty sure that Sonikku wouldn't run her over. Bad publicity…

She could tell her plan worked when Sonikku slowed to a screeching stop only 3 feet away from Amy. Amy just kept her ground steady and her blank face, pretending to look right through him.

"Amy? Crap! Wow, you really changed!" Sonikku gasped in awe. "You look pretty nice, too!" Amy just continued to pretend he wasn't there. 'If he wanted me to be something new, then I might as well act new!'

"Hello? Amy?" Sonikku waved his gloved hand right in Amy's face. Amy continued her ways. Only Sonikku took it differently.

"Holy shit! Eggman must've zapped your brain and completely wiped out your memory!" And with that Sonikku sped away, probably to kick Eggman's ass for the fun of it, not for Amy.

Amy sighed and resumed being her old self, she decided, when Sonikku isn't around. Although she continued to slouch depressingly she stepped around a corner only to see another familiar hedgehog leaning on a city tree (odd, but there is such thing). She could not have known any better about who it was.

With his ebony and crimson fur with his creative streaks that ran throughout his body, his eyes closed and leaning against the tree, his quills softly moving against the breeze. Amy could've sworn that he looked handsome for more than a minute! Her heart skipped a beat and she didn't know why, but it hurt like hell. She shyly half skipped up to the black hedgehog that seemed to be in more thought than to recognize her stepping closer.

She poked him gently on the side of his torso in pure curiosity like as if he were a poking toy, but she wanted to get his attention without startling him, even if that wouldn't be a Shadow thing to do. Shadow slowly opened his eyes and looked down at the wide-eyed now ebony-pink hedgehog. Amy cocked her head to the side as if in question.

Shadow only scoffed and closed his eyes again.

Okay! Shadow POV:

Hmph, that pink hedgehog has changed. In fact she looks a bit nicer in that new outfit instead of that immature red dress. And I'm not even going to decline it! What is there to decline if I already think so? Of course, this was to conclude that fucking faker who probably did something to upset her. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes once again only to see the same ebony-pink hedgehog. She was still staring at him curiously. 'I wonder why she keeps staring at me!' I thought annoyed. I gave her a quick glare and turned around to walk away when Amy called out to me.

"Shadow, wait. Could I talk to you?" She sounded almost desperate.

I couldn't decline; her innocence was enough to drive Black Doom into mercy and not torture! I huffed arrogantly and stepped up to her. I raised my eyebrow to give her a hint that she had my attention.

"Care to have lunch with me?" Her tone seemed sulky which only gave me pity. The least thing I could do was give sympathy. I just rolled my eyes and crossed my arms tapping my foot irritated, my way of saying "okay". When she didn't get the signal of the way I agree, I decided to give her a clue.

"Well?" I said hoarsely, but bit my lip unvoluntaringly as I saw her lower her head and her shoulders droop. I then realized how rude I was and sighed again.

"Sure, Amy Rose." I said sympathetically.

She squealed a bit in happiness and dragged me along to a restaurant that I was already familiar with.

Normal POV

"I'm really glad you agreed to come, Shadow! I mean, Sonikku wouldn't even come…" Amy's voice trailed off a bit.

Shadow was listening, but he was still spacing out about trying to figure out why this new ebony-pink hedgehog had picked to be with him. He didn't say anything, so neither did the two have a conversation for a short period of time.

"Sonikku would never come…" Amy repeated breaking the silence, sighing and absent-mindedly stirred her glass of coke with her straw. Shadow could tell something was far beyond Amy's usual depression when Sonic did this to her. Shadow couldn't help, but listen in curiosity.

"Continue…" Shadow said firmly.

Amy was pretty taken back by Shadow's sudden firmness and that he was actually listening to her, but she continued otherwise.

"Well, I guess he got a bit tired of me and told me to be different. So that's why I've changed to black and pink. When I tried to act different he thought it was something else that Eggman did and ran off to get him, but not for me. I know that… He probably… hates me…" Amy said those last few words with choked tears.

Read and Review please! Thanks! This chapter was so fricken long, sorry, but I had to break it or else it would be almost 7,000 words! Okay!