DON'T KILL ME!

-Hides behind lamp-

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-Slowly creeps out when there's no tomato throwing- Oh good. Look I know I said I'd update.. Woah.. wow. That was long ago. You have every right to be angry. But I'm doing it now. Sorry about it. I was going to make it up to you and re-write and re-vamp the whole story. But I saw the review count on this baby and couldn't bring myself to post another one! So I thought I'll update a (hopefully good) chapter to make up for it. Kay? Kay.

So here it is?

Oh Oh! And this chapter is darker than the others. So, kids, be warned.

Disclaimer: Anything you recognize is not mine. I only own Diamond and Lilly.

Italics are Thoughts

A Rose's Revenge – Chapter 8

Dark Matters

Amy Rose stared at the cream coloured wall in front of her, her brilliant new red ballet shoes touched the gentle pastel pink carpet delicately. Amy had been in this position for a good two hours. Shadows of tear stains on her cheeks from a while ago. She'd stopped crying now, because of… Her emerald eyes wide open as her thoughts rapidly span around in her troubled mind. Every had fallen apart, and as quick as it fell apart it was brought back together. Not the same, of course not. Amy had decided she would never become that way about Sonic again, and now she had helped and stolen the emeralds.

In fact she had been on the news, not a few days ago. Now she was public enemy number one, it seemed. Yet. She didn't care, Amy didn't care at all what people thought of her. This made her proud, Amy had never been able to lift herself other people's opinions, now she could. Amy Rose smiled confidently and wiped the tears stains from her cheeks, words echoing through her now un-troubled mind.

"Roses are too pretty to cry Amy."

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The clicking of Diamond's shoes echoed in the deathly silent room of Lilly's computer, of course, the beeping and buzzing from the apparatus begged to differ; there was no silence here. But the air, the air surrounding a vicious, evil hedgehog made any noise quiet.

"INCOMPETENCE!" The roar of the angry voice made Lilly jump and gasp, shaking in dear beyond words. Diamond panted in fury as a she rose a computer monitor, her eyes red in anger. She growled once again, and flung her hand with force, the telepathic connection holding the monitor broke as she threw it mercilessly across the room straight at Lilly.

Lilly gasped in horror and just jumped out of the way, falling against a desk in horror. The monitor hit the wall in so much force it exploded into pieces that flew in directions – denting whatever they met. Diamond charged up to the fox and grabbed her tank top, then held her against the wall, Lilly's feet hovered above the ground. Diamond bore her eyes into the fox's, they were now a deep, roaring pink.

"How could you let them notice?! You did it on purpose! Traitor!" Diamond screamed, beginning to infiltrate Lilly's mind and corrupt it. Lilly screamed and squirmed in her grasp, the mental pain making itself present.

"Sorry.." The fox stuttered, shaking violently in the grasp. She closed her icy blue eyes that were coated in tears. Diamond brought her face close to the fox's before letting Lilly drop to the floor, sobbing and whimpering.

"Useless." Diamond hissed, before charging to a computer and sitting in front of it. "How DARE you." She shouted, as Lily got up to try and get out while Diamond's anger was low enough so nobody got hurt.. Or worse.

Lilly gulped and sat back down, sitting there, too scared to dare to move. Lilly had prepared herself for this, she was hacking into the military system. But Diamond, with that access to that information? She hadn't agreed with this from the start, and let the forces knew of her plans. Now they were all on them, the whole force were coming to the mountain. To get all of them, and thrash Diamond's plans.

After a few terrifying minutes Diamond yelled in anger and crushed the computer with a telepathic force, then jumped up and held her hand towards Lilly, she held the hand out before closing it tight. Lilly suddenly gasped for breath, clawing at her throat. The smirk and glint in Diamond's eye saw something beyond evil. Just as Lilly went limp from lack of oxygen and stopped fighting, Diamond let go and allowed breath.

Lilly sat for a moment, terror pulsating through her as she got her air slowly back. She would have to warn the others.

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"Get up, get out!" Diamond screamed through the halls, banging on each person's quarters, she made a snarl when Lilly ran to the hanger cradling the still sick Cream with Cheese in hot pursuit.

Shadow slowly raised an eyebrow hearing the screams, and lifted himself from the bed. He felt.. recovered.. from the last incident. He pulled on his shoes and glided out the room, staring at Diamond expectantly, waiting for her to speak. No sooner had the purple hedgehog opened her mouth to form words when Rouge flew over head, sitting down on a metal beam. Amy followed shortly behind, Diamond rolled her eyes angrily.

"They know we're here. Get onto the plane, get out." Diamond watched Amy open her mouth and flicked her hand at her cousins, making her quiet. "Cream's already on board. On." Diamond commanded, then turned around and ran onto the plane herself.

Amy looked worriedly over at Shadow. "Are you okay?" She asked quietly, feebly as Shadow began to walked with the other two.

"Yeah." Shadow nodded, a trace of a smile on his lips. Rouge looked horrified, and frantically twitched her ears in all directions.

"Where are we going?" The bat questioned when they hurriedly strapped themselves into the seats, no sooner had Lilly took off.

"We have no where to go." Diamond admitted, snarling. "So we're going straight to the last emerald. Then we'll end this." None of them really knew what they were ending, they all had a separate purpose for this. Two of them fulfilled. Rouge had Knuckled, which she wanted all along, and Amy had her revenge. Sonic wanted her back, and she wasn't going to. Shadow would get the emerald's after Diamond, right? But. What did they want?

Amy unstrapped herself and knelt beside the bed/chair that Cream was strapped into, she stroked the feverish bunny's ears sighing. Cheese called out sadly and fluttered by Cream stroking the girl's cheek. They both wanted her to be better.

"Diamond.." Amy said feebly, still stroking the girl's head.

"What!" The angered hedgehog snapped, looking back.

"Can we take Cream back before we do this? It's not safe." Amy looked down as the rabbit rested, but looked like she was suffering in her sleep.

"No." The response made every person on board snap up in surprise. "She'll die for all I care." The telepath growled and leaned against the side of the plane chair. "No-one is going to mess this up again."

Amy didn't know what happened, but before anyone could do anything Amy had tackled Diamond clean off the the chair and had her against the dash board, earning a squeak of protest from Lilly. "How dare you!" Amy yelled, fury in her eyes. "She's only a child! She's only small, she didn't ask for this! Not for any of it! She wanted to help us, not be a burden! And you cast her away like that?!" The emotion in Amy's voice turned from pure rage, into sadness, until it cracked and tears welled up.

"Get off me." The threat sent shivers down Shadow's spine. He jumped up and gently picked Amy from Diamond, and held her softly trying to console her. The atmosphere quickly changed, the air laced with a sense of hopelessness and disgust.

It seemed it was years before the plane landed, a few miles from the G.U.N base where the last chaos emerald was being kept 'safe'. The others stepped out into the stone ground, the base's gate in view. Robots were on heavy duty patrol. Amy let out a heaving sigh, her hand was being held tightly by Shadow who had refused to let her go after the out burst. This didn't go un-noticed by Rouge. If they were all to be honest to each other, they wanted to all to end, and for Diamond to be out of their lives.

They knew, however, life wouldn't be the same. Something nagged the back of their minds, something was going to happen for the worst. It was this thought that was making Amy Rose's heart hammer loudly as they ran towards the G.U.N base, waiting for the inevitable.

So…. What do you think?

Hope it wasn't too bad. XD

If I'll be perfectly honest, I would have liked to delete this story, but people seem to like it! So, yay for you guys. Tell me what you though, oh and excuse the mistakes. I'm working on my brother anti-spell and grammar check word. -.-; Tarra!

- Emz