2.

And I've got nothing to say

I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face

(I was confused)

Looking everywhere only to find

That it's not the way I had imagined it all in my mind

(So what am I)

What do I have but negativity

'Cause I can't justify the way, everyone is looking at me

(Nothing to lose)

Nothing to gain/ hollow and alone

And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

Awkwardness seemed to be the key word for the young Seedrian… Especially since everybody's gaze was on him and his other two acquaintances.

The city of Station Square used to be some kind of modern and technological utopia… Or, in Void's point of view, a gigantic show-off of worthless high tech cars and latest fashion dressed people… And, to his dismay, all of them were humans.

For obvious reasons, he didn't feel really at ease with those Overlanders.

"I wish they would stop staring at us." He whispered.

The two-tailed vulpine besides him just sighed.

"You'll get used to it, eventually…"

It was a lie. To tell the truth… Tails did never get used to other people's curiosity. Amy Rose, on the other hand, was too absorbed in her own girlish thoughts to notice it.

She hadn't stopped blabbering since the three of them left the secluding security of the Mystic Ruins to come to the big city.

In order to avoid any possible detection, Void had to bring some further camouflage items other than his despised white tracksuit.

He had a red / white beret on his head covering his suspicious green pointed bushy hair and a couple of cool looking sunglasses on his black eyes (which happened to be his most recognizable details) and, finally, he wore white gloves on his gruesome hands… Thanks to Tails's scientific know-how, this gloves resembled perfectly normal five-fingered hands…

A fact that made the Seedrian wonder if that was the real reason of why his foxy host and all of his Anthro friends seemed to wear those gloves… Were they ashamed of their appendages too? Did they have horrible clawed paws instead of normal hands? For a few moments he entertained the idea of actually asking them… But then he thought otherwise.

There were things in this world, or in any other world for that matter, that needed to remain untold.

Tails gave a good look at him, showing a rather sore expression.

"What?" Asked Void, clearly bothered by that.

"We need to find you some new clothes… You look like a gangsta rapper!"

Even though he had no earthly idea of what a gangsta rapper was… One could easily tell he didn't like that comment.

"You were the one who gave me this blasted outfit, in the first place!" He retorted, irritation visible in his partially covered facial features.

Before any of them could start a deceptive argument about good taste and stuff like that… The un-mistakable obnoxious voice of their female companion became the impending signal of Male's Greatest Menace…

"WE REACHED THE MALL!!! IT'S SHOPPING TIME!!!"

A frowning, well, frown was now printed on the guys' gaze…. Guys' gaze, that sounded cool.

After a few painful hours of forced "hold my baggage" and "how do I look" sessions… The trio finally found a minute of pause from the mall frenzy.

They were currently sitting on a table of a fast food restaurant inside that very large building… A humongous pile of baggage stood right behind the now more unnerved than ever Seedrian… He had the sincere fear that those mountain of dresses would very well devour his soul if given of the proper chance.

"Why don't you try in relax a bit, Void? You've been on edge the whole morning!" Tried the Kitsune who was sitting on the boy's left side.

Void was NOT having a good day… As a matter of fact, to say that he felt awkward with all these foreign and taller people around… Would have been an utter euphemistical understatement.

He was actually shaking and trembling like a leaf during autumn… A poetic pun, isn't it?

He was also sweating cold sweat and on the verge of crying… This was too much for him.

Too many people observing him. Staring at him. Judging him. Too many people at all.

Paranoia didn't late to arrive.

"They… Know." He said, starting to panic.

"What?" Tails asked back.

"They recognized me… They know who I am… They want to kill me… And I deserve it!" Void was having some difficulties in breathing.

The kit besides him felt utterly bad for him… Anf for himself too. He promised he would have done anything un-humanly possible to help him yet, he apparently wasn't doing a very good job.

Amy noticed the plant boy's discomfort too and felt bad as well. Her ever so happy gaze suddenly turned into a caring, pitying one.

Without saying anything, she rose from her seat and darted towards the Seedrian… Hugging him tightly, like a loving mother would do with her child.

He was still trembling like a lost kid in a dark wood.

"Sssssh… It's ok, no one is going to hurt you… Super Amy will protect you." She said while caressing the back of his head… That seemed to calm him a little.

He returned the hug.

Tails was speechless and eyes widen.

Wow… Amy is a natural born mother. He thought.

He then slowly turned his head towards the other customers of the restaurant which they were all staring at the scene in amazement.

Tails scratched the back of his head in the traditional shy manner.

"Ehrrrr… He just had a raving shopping session with Amy." He justified.

The humans were instantly convinced and returned to their own matters.

In the meantime, Void finally managed to pull himself together.

He took a deep breath and spoke.

"Super… Amy? Do I look like a 6 years old?" He lamented.

She just smiled her sweetest smile.

"Well… You're wearing a 10 years old kid outfit…"

He hmpfed, crossed his arms in a very childish manner… Then looked the pink hedgehog in her emerald eyes.

"… Thank you." He frantically muttered.

She smiled again, clearly pleased by his appreciation.

Tails looked relieved too… Having Amy around wasn't just a burden as he first feared when he phone called her, almost a month ago.

"Hello? Who's there? Sonic?"

"Ehm… No. It's me, Amy."

"Oh… Hi Tails. What can I do for you?"

"Well… There is this friend of mine… He's not having a very good period lately and I'm seriously worried about his wellbeing… And I thought you could help me in, let's say, cheering him up?"

Although Tails couldn't see it, from the other side of the line, Amy's face brightened… Someone was actually asking her help…

Her help!

"I'll be glad to help you, Tails! Who's he?"

"You don't know him… He's an inter-dimensional alien who's hiding from the government."

"I see, that's terrible and all… HE'S A WHAT!!!?"

For obvious reasons, when he told Amy about this gruesome situation, he cleverly omitted the part in which the alien accidentally killed two persons in that cursed hospital in Spagonia.

"So… Void. That's a sad name, you know?" She advanced.

"It's one of the few things I remembered of my former self… And by the way, I'm certainly not an happy person." Void countered, lowering his head and looking at his red / white Tails like sneakers.

The trio was now having a relaxing walk in the city's central park… Or better, the pink hedgehog and the Seedrian were having a relaxing walk… Tails was cursing under his breath while being forced to drag Amy's dresses around, therefore he's been left behind by the two of them.

"Don't be sad, Voiddu-Chan… You're not alone!" She cheered.

"Voiddu-Chan!?" Bewilderment was showed in Void's gaze.

"Yeah… It's your new nickname, don't you like it? I gave one even to my dear Sonic…"

"And what would that be?"

"Sonikku!!!"

Voiddu-Chan just rolled his inexistent pupils under his sunglasses. Apparently, this world's Amy Rose had a serious thing towards this Sonic character… Or better, she was crazily obsessed about him like a certain cartoon like bear over picnic baskets… To say the very least.

"He's my hero and the love of my life… Did you know that he saved me from his evil metallic clone?"

Voiddu-Chan (I must stop calling him like that) nodded.

"He saved our world so many times I can't count, even when he was turned into a werehog, he…"

"HE WAS TURNED INTO WHAT!!?" A sudden panicked Seedrian abruptly interrupted the hedgehog's daydreaming…

He had some heavy difficulties in accepting the fact that a humongous Godlike monster was asleep under the soil, although he occasionally tiptoed as if in fear of accidentally causing his premature awakening, but this was a whole another shocker to deal with.

Amy tilted her head.

"Didn't Tails tell you about it? Sonic's been like that for all the Dark Gaia Crisis period."

Void turned his head over the now slightly worried kit behind him.

"Eh eh eh… Sorry, it must have slipped from my mind… Besides, I didn't want to spoil the game, too much." He said.

"The game?"

"Never mind that…" He replied.

Suddenly, it happened.

Void stood still on his spot. Immobile like a statue.

Something wasn't quite right… Someone was observing him… No… Someone was doing something to him.

He started breathing asthmatically… He put his fake gloved hand on his heart… He was also sweating…

He was having a panic attack.

"Void? VOID! WHAT'S WRONG!!?" The Kitsune yelled while dropping the baggage and rushing towards his side.

"Voiddu-Chan?" Amy, who was the closest to him, tried to calm him down… But to no avail.

He looked desperate, on the verge of tears, terrified… His mind and body were experiencing an atrocious pain…

The physical manifestation of his internal sorrows was slowly but eagerly devouring his own being… He fell on his knees, dropping his sunglasses and beret in the process.

His face was twisted and contorted by the pain and the forgotten memories who desperately tried to re-enter the Seedrian's consciousness.

Both Tails and Amy were panicking as well, obviously unable to help him… And then, the young frightened girl felt something on her hand… Something warm and liquid…

To her dismay, it was the Seedrian's green vital fluid.

He started coughing out his own blood all over Amy's dress and Tails's fur…

"HELP!!! PLEASE, SOMEBODY HELP HIM!!!" Tails cried to the people around in the park.

Unfortunately for them, now that Void's camouflage was lost… Someone did recognize the suffering plant boy as the infamous "Black Eyed Monster" who caused all that mess in Spagonia.

Someone screamed.

Someone else ran away.

And everything turned into a total disaster.

"T-they k-know…" Void said while finally stopping his bloody cough. "It's too late, now."

"Voiddu-Chan?" Amy tried.

"My name… IS VOID!!! STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!" He cried.

In a sudden outburst of feral instincts, the "Black Eyed Monster" removed his gloves and attacked Amy with his lethal claws…

When he realized his mistake, it was already too late… Amy Rose lay on the ground with a nasty looking wound on her left hip side.

Void's expression was unreadable and unbearable… The portrait of immense guilt.

Tails was quick on Amy's side… His big, sad blue eyes fixed themselves on the Seedrian.

No words were shared between the two of them… Their facial features spoke for them.

He did it again… He attacked an innocent being… He felt her own blood on his disfiguring appendage. He was a monster, all in all… And he didn't deserve to live with others… He didn't deserve company… He didn't deserve…

Love.

He was a cursed being… And his condemn had a name…

Solitude.

Tears descended from his black orbits while he darted away from his latest victim… And his would be friend… From his only links to this world.

The namesake emptiness inside his own soul, just grew bigger thanks to the erosive doing of his despair… It was now a deep, cold cliff.

And the suffering cliffhanger disappeared into the gunning jaws of the great city… His True Hell has just begun.

And so, the sickness just became… A cancer.

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real

I wanna let go of the pain I've held so long

(Erase all the pain till it's gone)

I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real

I wanna find something I've wanted all along

Somewhere I belong