Fierce

Chapter 9: Never Assume

"I...I didn't say anything!"

"You're a bad liar, Sonic the hedgehog."

With a hand on her hip and a firm frown right on the middle of her peach muzzle, Amy was anything but peachy. Sonic had been keeping something from her, something that would have made her incredibly angry at him...or so Tails had said.

"Amy listen..."

"No, you listen hedgehog!" A deep male's voice suddenly filled up the room, distracting the hedgehogs from the situation at hand as they gazed all around themselves, searching for the source. Their search was answered with a gaping hole in the ceiling, right above the two.

"Eggman," Sonic growled, feeling the rain pour into the now destroyed roof and fall down his quills. "Why now? Can't ya wait until the weather clears up or something?" Smirking, the cocky hedgehog was actually grateful for the arrival of his arch enemy; he had saved him from Amy's rage...or having to break her heart.

"What are you doing here, Egghead?!" Amy shouted up at the evil genius, clearly incredibly enraged that he interrupted an important conversation between her and her hero.

Or being honest that Tails was pushing me and I didn't mean it...

"Well my dear, I did tell you I'd be back! Ohoho!"

I mean, I don't like her like that...so if I tell her I didn't mean it will she get the wrong idea?

"Pick a better time," Amy growled, summoning her hammer beside her as she took up a battle stance. Sonic, on the other hand, remained trapped in his own overwhelming thoughts.

What should I say to her?

"Sonic!"

Before he knew it, Eggman suddenly had Sonic trapped in the claw of his usual hovercraft. "Might want to stop letting those thoughts slow you down," Eggman chuckled, feeling successful for the first time in a long time.

But of course, Sonic being Sonic managed to quickly escape the hold of the claw, bending one of the metal claws outwards to set himself free. "Is that all, Eggbutt?" Sonic chuckled while Amy growled at the Doctor. How dare he try to capture her Sonic, now of all times? Her anger grew and grew, until she couldn't contain herself anymore.

"That's it Eggman! I'm tired of your stupid games!"

"Amy?" Sonic could barely whisper her name before she had leaped up and smashed his hovercraft, using no mercy as Eggman grunted from the sudden movement from below him. Eggman's vehicle gained a rather large dent, and he nearly fell out of his chair from the strong hit. Amy had definitely gotten stronger from all of the training.

Perhaps too strong, however, because the recoil from the hit sent Amy spiraling downwards into her own floor. As Amy attempted to lift herself back onto her feet, the doctor used this moment to his advantage to strike out at the pink hedgehog, no longer focused on Sonic.

Sonic, meanwhile, found himself having a difficult time moving after escaping the claws. There was a strange sensation filling his muscles, as if they had been stopped up with some kind of glue. He reached a hand out desperately towards Amy, his body unable to do anything, and his mouth dry and unable to move.

Helpless, Sonic could only watch as he was too slow to see it coming; he hadn't expected Eggman to change his target to Amy. "Amy!" Sonic shouted as almost a reflex, but it was no use. His words did not carry the power to stop the attack as one of the claws from the hovercraft shot out rapidly towards the pink hedgehog as she finally turned, with wide eyes, to see the attack head on.

It struck her hard right on the top of her head, knocking her signature red headband with a brutal force onto the ground. The red headband was soon replaced with more red, however.

'Blood?'

Surely enough, her once pure pink hair was defiled by the murky red fluids streaming down Amy's head. Grunting, she took a hold of her aching head in one hand, and with the other reached to attempt to summon her Piko-Piko hammer. "I'm not going down yet," she mumbled as Sonic forced his muscles to move towards Amy as much as it pained him to do so.

"Oh? Still feisty, eh?" Eggman smirked at the anger in Amy's eyes, now noticing the blue hedgehog beside her. Completely absorbed in her injuries, Sonic had no idea what was coming to him.

"I can fight, Sonic," she mumbled with certainty, failing to even get off of the ground. "I need to prove myself...to you..."

"You've proven you can take one hell of a hit," Sonic replied, sighing at her recklessness, yet still cracking a smile. Amy was being just like Sonic; never giving up, always reckless. He cringed through his smile though, feeling the pain stabbing at his arms and legs as he fretted over Amy's wound. She noticed his jerky movements and pained expression and frowned.

Speaking of reckless, Sonic had totally forgotten about the Doctor's presence until he felt a sudden sting in the back, a very strong and harsh sensation that seemed to overpower his entire body. The blue hedgehog fell to the ground with a sickening thud, evoking a sharp scream from Amy's throat as she could only watch as he was captured right before her eyes.

"I told you I'd get you back," Eggman smirked, standing up in his hovercraft now with Sonic knocked out in a net. "Who's the best? I am!" Eggman proceeded to mock Amy from up in his vehicle, dancing and shouting various catchphrases, along with the fact that he had 'finally won'.

'Ew...is he dancing...? Wait, that's not important...Sonic...'

'Give back Sonic' is what she tried to say, but instead no words left her throat; only blood. And with an equally as repulsive thud, Amy Rose had also fallen to the ground, doomed to bleed out until saved.

"I'm such an idiot," Tails groaned, falling backwards onto his sofa. After getting off of the phone with Amy, immense guilt began to flood Tails's mind as he worried about what Sonic would have to say to him after this whole ordeal.

"What if Amy's mad at him Knuckles? What if she hates him all because I pushed him?"

"Amy? Hate Sonic? Alright, now you're just trying to be funny," Knuckles smirked, putting his feet up on the coffee table in Tails's living room. "Amy would never hate Sonic, she freaking loves him. So stop worrying so much. Besides, do you seriously think Sonic told her the truth?"

"Of course not...he's Sonic. He never talks about stuff like that," Tails sighed. "But I just made it worse. I assumed something and I called up Amy and I-"

"Enough. Worrying about it won't make it better," Knuckles reassured the fox, then offered him a small, genuine smile that many would never get to see from the usually hard headed echidna. He always knew to be serious in the right times though, although sometimes what Knuckles thought to be the 'right time' as opposed to what someone else may see to be the right time are very different things.

"Anyway, you're young Tails. It's alright to make mistakes like this...plus now you won't be assuming." His statements were curt but comforting as Knuckles avoided making eye contact with the young fox. Like Sonic, Knuckles was never one to be very open about his own feelings, or the feelings of anyone else.

"I think that Sonic and Amy both know that you did what you did because you care about both of them...well I mean Sonic you kind of did just get curious...then you kind of just wanted to hear him spit it out...then you kind of-"

"Alright, I get it, I feel bad enough already Knuckles," Tails sighed once more, this time a much more drawn out and stressed sigh. He meant well, but Knuckles was never very good at these types of things. Despite the accusatory remarks, the red echidna had managed to make Tails feel considerably better, and that was enough for him.

"I think...I mean...I shouldn't meddle, but I'm going to go check up on them at Amy's house..."

"Not a bad idea Tails...I think I'll join you just in case things got physical."

"As long as there isn't a blood bath in Amy's house or anything!"

The two friends laughed at the thought, completely unaware of the true scene that lay waiting for them at Amy's home.

I'M SEVENTEEN.

My birthday was the other day :P

So anyway, thanks for reading, and remember to leave a review!

This A/N is mostly for this reason: I know this was a slow update, but they shouldn't be this slow anymore. I had a lot going on, and I'm currently in the middle of several one-shots, including one request (I'm getting around to it you know who I'm talking to :P) and some I didn't finish that I had written half of already. Look forward to more updates!