Chapter 3: What Happened to Amy

Sonic was having fun creating violent windstorms, watching frog bones twirl around in the air. "Kind of destructive, but could come in handy" But his thought was interrupted by a familiar sound. Eggman's Eggmobile… Sonic gave that fat old man who was the real cause of everything wrong in everyone's life a death stare. Eggman just sneered back.

"I see you found a Sol Emerald before the creature did! Could you please be so kind as to bring it with you to my base? I want to show you something!"

"Heh, actually it's the second one I have found! I'm just that cool! And are you kidding Eggjerk? Let's see what a nice windstorm would do-"

Sonic stopped in mid-sentence. A white robot appeared beside Eggman holding a capsule that clearly contained Amy!

"I found your little girlfriend a month ago trying to fight the Flame herself. She had third degree burns over seventy percent of her body. But this healing capsule which I used on Shadow after his little fall does wonders, no? She's not completely healed yet, Shadow's much tougher than she and the process is taking quite a while. But if you want her back, I would suggest you hand me the Sol Emerald! I could easily drop her, you know. But truthfully all I am trying to do is help you, but I knew you wouldn't believe me."

Sonic gave Eggman a look of pure evil, then he started to follow Eggman back to his base. He was curious what Eggman was talking about, but now he would of course get to see where Eggman's base was. But Eggman thought of that.

"Sonic, I want you to put on this blindfold, and let one of my robots escort you."

Sonic sneered at Eggman again, but put the blindfold on. After what seemed like hours but was really only 15 minutes, the robot finally put Sonic down. Sonic took the blindfold off his eyes and he could tell he was in a very typical Eggman base. Various machines, robot maintenance, various capsules, etc. Amy's capsule was now situated in the middle of the room. Amy didn't look too bad at all, that capsule at this point had almost restored Amy to her former looks. She looked like she was just resting peacefully, with a few red places here and there. He wondered why Amy had done what she did, he had told her so many times she didn't stand a chance against the Flame on her own.

Eggman pointed to a small metal platform. "Set the Sol Emerald in there, please."

Sonic narrowed his eyes, but did what Eggman said. A small glass shield surrounded the Emerald. Eggman seemed to fiddle with the settings on the device, and a strange blue electric field surrounded the Emerald.

"Watch what happens Sonic when I reverse it's charge!"

The change in field caused an immediate reaction to the Emerald. The green light from the Emerald almost blinded Sonic. Then Eggman switched the machine off. Sonic just stared at the Emerald in amazement. What was once the Green Sol Emerald now looked like the Green Chaos Emerald!

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Meanwhile back in Shadow's and Rouge's base, Rouge was still rubbing Shadow's back. She almost jumped out of her skin when Shadow very suddenly opened his eyes. She thought she was in trouble! But the truth was Shadow with his super-sharp senses had picked up the sound of an intruder at the door of their base.

"Rouge, grab the Sol Emerald and wait here, I hear something outside."

In fact, Rouge could now hear it too with her sharp bat hearing, she was just too distracted earlier. Shadow was relieved when he saw it was just Omega. Omega was serving as a double agent. He was still working for GUN, but secretly gave information to Rouge and Shadow on the side. Shadow opened the door to the base… only to be shocked when their friend suddenly shot him in the arm!