Buhaha! The chapter of said doom! Don't worry, not too much mushy stuff, just pretty dresses and 100-word dances, yay! So You can read, but be noted that this is the DO NOT READ chapter, but if you don't read, you miss quite alot. Anywhom, i'm rather sorry to say that I feel like nobody is replying to my chapters, so, we go into reiew restriction thinger (i know it's mean) Anywho, I need at least 5 reviews before I post up my next chapter. Now that that is over with,

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Sonic was one of the first people to arrive at the dance, by choice. He was quickly followed by Mikey and Mighty, both of whom had nobody to wait for. The trio sat at one of the tables as the humans rushed around, trying to set up before the rest of the guests arrived. Sonic was staring intensely at the door for two reasons. One was because Canon had told him he had already been invited. But questions rang in his head. Who invited him? Why? Who was coming with him? He scratched his head and yawned as the grandfather clock on the other side of the room struck seven o'clock, the expected arrival time of the guests. His other reason was Amy. Who had she met that had caught her attention more than he did? He was so deep in thought; he didn't hear Mighty calling him.

"Sonic…Sonic…SONIC!" Mighty yelled. Sonic flinched and looked up

"What? Sorry, I was kinda on a snooze cruise there." He said. Mighty looked suspiciously at Sonic, before remembering why he'd called the hedgehog.

"It's okay; I was going to ask if you knew who Amy is going with?" He asked, scratching his head as he looked towards the door. Sonic smirked and shook his head. Mighty sighed. All the while Mikey was twiddling his thumbs. Like Mighty and Sonic, he'd been fitted into a tuxedo that looked a tad bit too big for him, but he didn't care. As the older pair spoke, he yawned and began to thumb wrestle himself, earning a glance of confusion from Mighty before Humans began to pour through the doors, rushing over to Sonic to get his autograph or something, but security guards shooed them away, reminding them that they were here for business matters only. At about seven thirty Tails walked through the door with Blaze at his side. The young two-tailed fox was using one of Sonic's older tuxedos, as he hadn't had one of his own. It looked quite big on him, but the over-sized tuxedo made him look overly cute to Blaze. Blaze was wearing a white dress with glittery silver stars rimming the bottom which flared out. She had elbow-high white gloves and knee-high white boots. She blushed heavily when Tails walked towards Sonic and Mighty, looking rather excited about the government dance.

"Hi, Sonic!" He said. Sonic raised an eyebrow playfully and smiled.

"Hey, little bro." the hedgehog replied, looking at the couple with a grin. Tails sat down at the table and sighed.

"That security guard out there is awfully strict, he had to check and re-check my invitation to make sure it was real!" Tails complained, shaking his head. Mikey pointed to the door as another pair walked in.

"Who're they?" he asked. Cream the Rabbit skipped into the room and did a ballet dance number before skipping over to Sonic's reserved table. Espio the Chameleon followed shortly after, walking slightly more slowly and stiff than Cream had. Cream was in a rather puffy light pink dress that had a big white bow tied to her back. She had two white bows clipped to her ears and white ballet shoes to top it all off. Sonic laughed at Espio's attire.

"Hey Espio, you're supposed to wear pants!" But being a male Mobian he didn't need to, and he looked rather smashing without them. Sonic had only teased the chameleon because he believed he looked better than Sonic did. Espio coldly ignored him and sat down at the table. Sonic suddenly blinked as Mighty gasped in surprise.

"Aren't you supposed to be dead…?" The armadillo asked. Sonic blinked and remembered Tails telling him about Espio's death. He flicked his gaze to Tails, noticing that he looked equally shocked. The chameleon was calm and collected when he'd walked in, but as soon as he caught sight of Mighty his stood up, knocking his chair back.

"You traitor, what're you doing here? You tried to kill me!" Espio hissed quietly, as not to alert the guests. Mighty frowned

"I had no choice." Sonic flicked an ear, hadn't Canon said the exact same thing? Mighty went on. "Eggman had placed a control chip in my ear; he was controlling my every move." Mighty said, ashamed of what he'd done. Espio glared at the armadillo for a moment longer before his gaze softened.

"I see." He said quietly "It's good to have you back." Mighty nodded

"You too...loser."

"Jerk." At Espio's remark, Cream spoke up.

"I found Espio by a ruined building. The white coat-people patched him up and he's all better now!" she said gleefully, skipping around so that the tail of her long white ribbon followed behind her. Espio was suddenly whacked on the side of the head with a water bottle.

"You ever die on me again, and I kill you." With everyone's eyes on Espio, nobody had seen Spike and Kylo enter and eavesdrop on the table. Kylo had whacked Espio on the head with her water bottle. She was in a long glittery black dress that split on the right side, with ball-room style black gloves and knee-high black boots. Spike wore a tuxedo, and it seemed to be all the rage, as he had no pants either. Kylo and Spike seated themselves between Tails and Mighty. Istas arrived shortly after, wearing a short black skirt and a green dress-shirt. She picked the seat closest to her, the one beside Espio, and sat down. Espio looked funnily at Istas, then shrugged and turned his attention back to the table. Stacey and the Chaotix arrived next. Charmy fit into a tiny tuxedo, but Vector didn't bother to dress formally at all. Stacey was in a pair of black jeans and a silver spaghetti-strap top. Vector heartily greeted Espio.

"You've been gone for a while Espio, we were starting to get worried!" Espio chuckled and said nothing, but pulled out a chair for his 'boss' to sit in. Once everyone had settled down, Sonic ran his eyes over everyone. Five chairs were still empty. He knew two belonged to Amy and her date, and one probably belonged to Canon. The other two…he didn't recall anyone he knew. Finally, those two mystery chairs were filled with Niomie and another newbie, but Sonic couldn't see his face as he kept the hood on his black coat up. Niomie was the second kitty to arrive in jeans. Dark-washed this time with a simple purple tank-top on. All the while, while people around the table chatted, Sonic's eyes were fixed on the door, he expected a pink hedgehog to emerge with nobody, but instead he heard Kylo stand up and whisper in his ear.

"Your friend is here." She said, before sitting down again. Sonic stood up rapidly and made his way to the door, as he neared the door, he heard a strong masculine voice hiss at the guard.

"Primitive human, I have a reservation to this party." But the human guard was not giving in.

"You were to dress formally. As you aren't, you are not to enter." There was a snarl and the charge on a gun. Sonic broke into a run, only to see Canon pointing his gun at the guard. Sonic rolled his eyes and took Canon's wrist, pulling him through the door and into the party.

"He's not lying, he does have a reservation." Sonic said.

"Yes, Mr. Sonic, my apologies," the guard said solemnly while glaring at Canon. My look-alike turned to me and hissed as we walked towards the table.

Sonic's POV

"I did not require assistance, hedgehog." Canon snarled. I rolled my eyes again and stopped by the table.

"Sure, but you would've. I don't think the other guards would be so fond of you if you shot one of their co-worker's head off." I sneered in reply. I dragged one of the three empty chairs over to my seat. He reluctantly sat down, only to find everyone but Cream staring at him in confusion.

"Yay, you're here!" Cream said gleefully, running to Canon and hugging him tightly. Canon smiled slightly, but looked ahead. I noticed that now Cream had openly said that she'd invited him, everyone was beginning to talk to one another again. Everyone that is, except for Espio. The chameleon was staring at the Hedgehog sitting beside him with a puzzled expression. But the puzzled look turned to anger in a flash.

"Metal," he snarled. I looked at him.

"Metal? Yeah, I guess he's wearing something metal, but what that's got to do with Canon?" I asked, thoroughly puzzled by Espio's behavior.

"No Sonic, you don't understand. 'Canon' is only his new name, isn't it?" He sneered, partly talking to me, but also to my look-alike. I frowned.

"Okay, you lost me there." I confessed.

"Sonic, Canon was not a human five days ago."

"What?" I asked. Canon cringed; I glared at him, as he looked about ready to bolt for the door.

"Canon is Metal Sonic." Espio concluded his mystery speech with a sneer. Canon grumbled something, staring at his boots. I laughed. I laughed and laughed until my sides hurt and everyone had fallen silent to watch me humiliate myself.

"Oh! That was a good one, man, I never would've thought this was a joke, you're usually so serious Espio! I'll never forget that!" I wiped away the tears that had formed in the corner of my eyes from laughing so hard. Espio didn't laugh, He glared at Canon, who rolled his eyes and looked away.

"Pitiful Mobian. Yes, I was once Metal Sonic." I suddenly realized they were telling the truth. That's why I'd recognized Canon's battle style so much…it was Metal Sonic.

"And you are now fleshie…Why?" I asked slowly, feeling rather confused and stupid. Canon grinned.

"I stumbled across a Chaos Emerald and ended up like this." He refused to say more, but it didn't matter I'd become distracted as my eyes landed on the door. It was Amy; she was facing outside and trying to pull someone through. She looked stunning; he had a red dress on that flared outwards. She had mesh cotton from her shoulders to her elbow, and then the mesh melted into red sleeves. She wore black laced boots and a black hair band. She came without gloves and had actually put on mascara. I stared in disbelief as she actually managed to pull her date through the door. Standing there, with Amy holding his hand tightly, was a black hedgehog that had raised quills streaked with red. His crimson eyes were emotionless and he practically stood out from the crowd. He wore dark burgundy boots and pants; he had a lighter burgundy long-sleeved shirt and a darker ragged red cape. Envy ate inside me. Not only did the hedgehog look good with his flashy outfit, but the hedgehog was none other than Shadow the Hedgehog, who died after taking the fall to earth.

Quarma was standing on the other side of the crowd, watching the 'Sonic Table' with hatred. He spoke into the communicator on his sleeve.

"Shmeeko, hurry up with those detonators!" he hissed. Shmeeko was currently climbing around the rafters, setting detonators along the support beams. Migro and Claire were perched in the rafters with her. Migro was pointing out where to place the explosives, and Claire was keeping watch. Quarma looked up to see the lemur scuttle along the rafters and place another detonator.

"Shmee is going as fast as she can, she is!" Quarma heard the reply come from his communicator. The panther rolled his eyes and sighed. Grumbling to himself, Quarma looked down as people began to spread out on the dance floor. Soft music began to play several people stepped onto the floor and began to dance. Few of them Mobians. Blaze and Tails were out there, as was two other hedgehogs he did not recognize, one black and one pink. He looked up as Shmeeko muttered down to him, "The detonators are ready, they are!" she hissed, and then vanished into the shadows of the rafters.

"Detonators?" A puzzled voice sounded behind the Panther, and he spun around in an instant. Standing there was a gray wildcat, one hand on her hip, dressed rather casually for a formal dance. "What's going on here?

Shadow's POV

As couples began to dance on the floor, I could just vaguely hear Amy babbling about everyone she saw.

"Look, there's Kylo and Spike! Tails and Blaze, they're sooo cute together!" As she admired every couple she knew, I was half asleep. Amy and I were dancing, and I was aware of this, but I was not really paying attention to what I was doing as I swayed along the floor with Amy. Although my eyes were half-closed and my mind was foggy, I was keeping my eyes peeled for the girl I'd seen a few weeks before. Eventually, someone spoke to Amy, but I wasn't really listening to what she was saying back, until Amy started to cry quietly.

"Amy…I'm…Sorry…" I flicked my attention to who Amy was crying over and the reason why we'd stopped spinning. Sonic was standing there, a hand on Amy's shoulder, trying to get her to listen to him. I smirked. Amy turned away and ran

"I can't believe you called me that!" I realized I wasn't necessarily sure about what Sonic had said. I shook my head and tried to recall the conversation they'd had while I was being a space cadet.

"Amy!" Amy turned her head, only to frown uncomfortably at Sonic. "Amy and Shadow! What on earth!" The hedgehog exclaimed. "How'd you survive the fall Shadow?"

"Magic," I'd said sarcastically, unaware that I'd said anything at all. Sonic frowned at me and turned to Amy

"Amy…Um about that day in the city…" Sonic began, but he was cut off by Amy

"Don't dramatize things Sonic, I know you're jealous, but would it really kill you to drop your cockiness and your big ego for long enough to actually listen to me!" Amy said, raising her voice in anger "Ever since…well...ever, you've been treating me like dirt and ignoring me! I hate it Sonic. And now that you see me with someone else you just can't bear to see me leave. What's your problem, Sonic?" Amy said, glaring at Sonic with hatred, a few bangs fell into her face. Sonic was shocked for a moment, but then his look of surprise turned to anger

"Amy, my god, I only wanted to apologize. You think I dramatize, you follow me around all day and bug me, sometimes Amy you're such a bitch!" Amy looked as if she was slapped across the face. Tears began to fall from her eyes

"Sonic!"

"Oh my god, I can't believe I said that. Amy…I'm…Sorry." The pink hedgehog turned and ran.

As I watched her run away, I turned to Sonic and smirked again

"Smooth," I said mockingly. I received a glare from the hedgehog before he sighed and walked back towards the table. The dancers clearing away from him in disgust, their argument was not a secret. I was about to go find Amy and see if she was alright, but I caught sight of one of the bystanders and blinked. It was the girl again, in a light-blue dress, her hair curled again, but pulled back into a ponytail. She smiled sympathetically to me. I stepped forward to talk to her, but the building began to rumble. People began to scream as rocks fell from the ceiling, I flinched as one crashed directly on top of the girl. A woman screamed.

"The building is collapsing!" More screams came from the humans around me. I gaped at the spot where the Maria-look-alike had vanished, before shaking away the sudden sadness and turning around

'I've got to find Amy!'

"SHMEEKO!" Quarma hollered as rocks crashed to the ground. "I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO SET THEM OFF!" Shmeeko frowned, but Migro's voice echoed from the communicator.

"Shmeeko hasn't set the detonators off, someone from outside is doing this. If the lemur had detonated the devices, she would be dead now." More rocks plummeted to the ground. Quarma hissed and acted on impulse.

"Let's just get out of here!" He noted the wildcat and frowned, she'd stumbled on their plan and the panther just couldn't leave her to die now. He sighed and grabbed her wrist, then escaping through one of the emergency exits.

"Migro!" As soon as Quarma had exited the building, Sonic's voice rang over the screams of the humans. "You! You caused this, didn't you?" The hedgehog said, pointing to the bat with hatred. Migro grinned.

"As much as I'd like to say yes, hedgehog, I must assure you that this was not me." He said, before flapping his wings and taking off out the door after Claire. Shmeeko swung from the rafters, heading for the door. But she was having quite a few difficulties, the rafters continued to crumble and debris was falling everywhere. The little lemur panicked as she leapt through the air, eventually, she was forced to find a ground escape route. Gray was everywhere, rocks continued to fall and the ground shook. The tired and frightened lemur finally saw the light of a door. She raced for it, but her long tail dragged behind her and she screamed in pain as a particularly large piece of debris squished it. She pulled her tail as parts of the ceiling began to crumble. She looked up, having no luck in pulling her tail free, and noted a large piece of debris crumble and fall right above her!