Chapter 2

A Large Love Problem

Lily looked on into space. She was wondering about why she still had a bad feeling. When she gets bad feelings, bad things happen. She just wanted to know what it was going to be.

Meanwhile, the metarex were having a group meeting. They wanted to know how to deal with Sonic and their new crew members.

"I suggest that we attack their ship!" one of them said.

"We've tried that plan twenty times and every time we failed! We need a fresh new plan! It has to be something that we haven't tried before. Something that will work, but what?!" another one said.

"I think that I can figure out a plan, Black Maple. We have been successful in rounding up an ally that can do many things said to be impossible. Listen to us and victory will fall into our hands," said a mysterious robot thing that wasn't a metarex, but not completely a robot. The metarex had never seen anything so much like them. They started chanting for their leader Black Maple to listen to the robot thing.

"…We will trust you for now, but if anything goes wrong, I'll stop working with you. Plus, you must want something in return. Am I correct?" asked Black Maple.

"Why yes. All that you need to do is join our army and do as we say. If you disagree, you will just have to live the rest of your unimportant lives as losers. What do you say to that?" asked the robot thing.

The rest of the metarex began to growl at the robot for calling them unimportant and losers. They wanted Black Maple to agree just to show the unexpected visitor how strong they were. Black Maple seemed shaken up by the insults as well.

"Fine! We'll join your army! Just to tell you, we are not unimportant and we are not losers! You will see. Just two questions. Who are you and do you have a plan? Can you answer me those questions?!" snapped Black Maple.

"You don't need to know my name, but all of us metaltrons do have a plan thanks to our leader. She has a mission for one of your metarex. It has to be very quiet, cunning, sneaky, and it can easily act invisible for this mission. Have any that can be like that?" asked the metaltron.

"Metaltrons? She? Who's she and what is the mission?" asked Black Maple.

"The mission is only for the metarex to choose. Only that metarex will meet our leader so soon. Now give me the one up for the job!" demanded the metaltron impatiently.

Black Maple chose the metarex that would be perfect for the challenge and turned back to the metaltron.

"What about us? What do we do?" asked Black Maple.

"Nothing for now," replied the metaltron as it left the presence of Black Maple with the selected metarex.

Back on Sonic's ship, Tails was looking over the ship and felt as if he needed a rest. He was just about to go to his soft bed when he saw Rabby. Tails felt perfectly normal until he walked past her. Right as he did that, he felt the sudden urge to flip around and hug Rabby. He suddenly discovered that he wasn't tired anymore and turned around to see that Rabby did the exact same thing he did. They instantly ran up and started hugging each other! They probably stood that way for hours!

A little later, Sonic was doing his normal laps around the ship when he ran past Lily. With Amy present, he told Lily how much he liked her, but Lily didn't have the same response that Rabby did with Tails. She was confused. One day Sonic chases her because he thinks she's a metarex spy, then the next he wants to go out on a date with her. She knew that something was up and she had to figure out what. She also had to do it before Amy blew up with madness.

For Amy, one look at Sonic and Lily and she left. She could see it in his eyes that he had something for Lily. Amy just hoped that Sonic would snap out of it and see that she is the one he needs to pay attention to.

"Sonic! Sonic! Sonic! You won't believe what has just happened! She's back! I tell you she's back!" Tails shouted joyfully as he ran up to him.

"Who is back?" asked Sonic drawing his attention to Tails.

"Cosmo! She's back! She's amazing, but not as much as Rabby, but she's back!" Tails explained.

"Wait! Did you say not as amazing as Rabby? You like Rabby?! Is there anyone else new here?" asked Lily now sure that there was something wrong. Sonic likes her, Tails likes Rabby, and she's fairly certain now that Rabby likes Tails. There was something really wrong going on.

"Yes, but how did Cosmo come back? Wasn't she… a little… dead?" asked Sonic.

"Remember the seed that you gave me? Well, I planted it and then when it was fully grown it turned out to be Cosmo! Isn't that awesome?!" asked Tails with great excitement.

"I'd like to see them! I've never met them and I think that they will be very nice. Does Rabby know? I can go retrieve her if you need me to," said Lily.

"You don't have to because she's already met them. She became friends with them very fast and couldn't have been nicer," Tails replied.

"That's Rabby for you. I'll get everyone together and have you take us to them. I already know everyone on the ship, so I think that I can handle myself," said Lily before leaving Tails and Sonic.

After meeting Cosmo, Lily decided to attempt to figure out what was going on. She also noticed Sonic writing something on a piece of paper. A love letter was her guess, but what happened next confirmed her guess. Amy walked into the room and glanced over at what Sonic was writing. She immediately freaked out and got out her giant hammer! She was aimed right at Sonic's head!

"Maybe this will teach you a lesson!" yelled Amy as she swung the hammer. Sonic dodged quickly.

Amy was so wound up that she was swinging her hammer everywhere just to get Sonic, but she was unaware of all the racket she was making. She was so loud that Dr. Eggman could hear her!

"What is that eternal noise?! I can't take all of these bangs, crashes, and whaps! It doesn't stop! I can't think up brilliantly evil plans with all this noise! Shadow, go and stop it please!" cried Eggman.

Shadow rolled his eyes, but then nodded and ran away. He mega-jumped to the Blue Typhoon and zipped inside. A giant mess met his eyes, but the other thing he saw made the mess look unimportant. He saw an enraged Amy and could almost literally see the burning fire of rage around her!

"You'll never leave me again Sonic the hedgehog!" Amy yelled before swinging about twenty hammers in his direction. Sonic was so bewildered that he didn't move!

Shadow then decided that he would help even though he usually didn't care much for helping out Sonic. Shadow managed to keep Sonic from getting hit, but it was really difficult because of the twenty hammers and only one of him. He did it somehow. Shadow will never cease to amaze…

Amy stopped at the sight of Shadow coming out of nowhere and looked around. Everything was devastated. Furniture broken, hammers lying around on the ground all over the place, and Sonic exhausted from all the shock. Amy felt very embarrassed and scared about it.

"What do you have to say for yourself!?" asked Shadow turning to Amy. He wasn't exactly cheerful about what had happened.

"I-I d-didn't know that I-I'd do so much damage!" was Amy's reply. She couldn't explain how she got so mad Sonic. It just simply happened.

"Well, you did and almost killed both me and Sonic!" Shadow shot back.

"It's my fault. I just got a sudden urge to like Lily and Amy noticed. I wasn't in love with her when I first met her, or this morning. I think that there's something really wrong going on around here.

"You can figure that out yourselves. I'm heading back to Eggman's ship before something else weird happens. All I want to see is you later," Shadow said as he turned away from them.

"Wait! Are you telling us that Eggman was following us? Has he been spying on us?! Another thing, why are you here?! How'd you know?" asked Amy.

"You don't need to know!" snapped Shadow

"Please tell us Shadow! We really want to know! It would mean a lot to us!" pleaded Amy.

"… Hmph! Pathetic! You are all begging for me to tell you classified information! You are both fools to persist!" Shadow said.

"I was just curious. You want to know too right Sonic?" asked Amy as she glanced over at Sonic.

"I guess, but I also don't want to get clobbered by Shadow! Knowing him he'd probably like beating me up!" Sonic replied.

"Correction, I'd love to kill you, Sonic the hedgehog," Shadow said.

"Hm… Good point Sonic… Could you at least tell us how you were able to return? When we last saw you blew up!" said Amy.

"… Eggman is following you and he also revived me. Now that you know, I'll leave. I don't exactly have all day!" he snapped.

"You snap more than a crab Shadow! Why are you so angry all the time?!" Amy asked.

"I don't find acting like myself wrong. It was the personality of when she was alive and when she was dead… I am who I am…" Shadow muttered darkly.

"Um… Could you tell us what you are talking about?" asked Amy.

"You'll never get it! You'd better not get in my way in leaving or in anything I do or else you will suffer the consequences!" Shadow retorted bitterly before turning his back on them and storming away.

"Wow… I never expected for that to happen… He seemed so… upset about something… Hold on! The whole reason that Shadow helped you to save the world was because Chris managed to get through to him! They spoke about a girl named Maria Robotnik," Amy said quietly.

"Maria Robotnik was who Shadow was talking about?! I always knew that Shadow was created to avenge Maria's death, but I never knew that Shadow knew about her! I always assumed that it was all just a coincidence…, but now it all makes more sense… If I were you, I'd not say anything more about this conversation. If we brought this up again, Shadow wouldn't be happy," Sonic replied.

Shadow was gone and now Sonic and Amy were the only ones in the room. Sonic stared at Amy and she stared back at him. Then they glanced around the room to see the destroyed furniture and hammers were lying everywhere. The walls needed to be painted and part of the floor was torn up. The roof had holes in it and they could see the room above them! The floor needed swept and dusted and the windows were cracked. This would take Amy about a week to clean. She didn't know how she'd do it without her usual cheerfulness to keep her going.

"Well, I guess that I'll get started on this disaster…," Amy said glumly and sadly. Sonic felt sympathy for her.

"Are you going to do this all by yourself? If you do that then it'll take days," said Sonic.

"Yep"

"You must want some help," Sonic told Amy.

"Nope"

"I don't care about what you think on that topic. I'm going to find a few people to help you out. I don't want you to work yourself to death and who wants that? I can't think of anyone who would want that except for you that is," Sonic said before running off. Amy couldn't argue with Sonic because he was too fast and he'd run away before she could.

Sonic ran around the Blue Typhoon trying to find someone to help Amy, but he couldn't find anyone. He searched the bridge, the main deck, the hallways, the kitchen, the outside of the ship, inside the sonic power cannon, and even in the bathrooms, but he didn't find anyone! Not a single soul. Not even Eggman. Sonic raced back to the room Amy was at, but before he got there, he heard a noise that sounded like inhaling! It wasn't Amy he knew, but someone else, but who?