"Sonic you okay?"
"My head hurts a lot, but I'll survive it. Now what on Mobius is going on?" the hedgehog answered, unable to see anything but blackness.
"Let me take that off you," a female voice replied, Sonic recognized it as Amy's. As the female hedgehog removed the helmet, Sonic could see he was in a dark and dingy laboratory. A couple of now broken robots littered the floor of the Lab, and Sonic had guessed he hadn't exactly volunteered for whatever was going on."
"What do you remember?" Amy asked him, a look of eagerness all over her face.
"Me and Tails were in the Emerald Hill Zone, when he stopped, and became see-through before everything broke apart."
"Before that," Amy snapped, "We need to know what happened before you were put in that machine," she yelled, pointing at the contraption Sonic had only just walked out of.
Sonic looked to the machine, "I can't remember," he relented, "Last thing I remember reality started to fall apart, then me and Dawn were ..."
"Dawn?" Amy interrupted, "Who's Dawn?" the pink hedgehog asked, her crossbow's trigger finger getting ever so slightly twitchy.
"I guess that wasn't real then," Sonic sighed. He tried his best to stop sounding so disheartened, not wanting to admit to Amy precisely what he was thinking.
Two more robots barged in through a hastily assembled barricade, sending a large metal desk flying into the room. Both Sonic and Amy instinctively ducked as the table sailed overhead, crashing into the wall at the back.
"We can sort this later," Amy shouted, "Right now lets get out of here!"
Sonic agreed and leapt up for the first robot. It was another one of Robotnik's simple creations, next to no armour, and limited self preservation instincts. It blindly stood there, trying to fire it's feeble weapon at the hedgehog as Sonic tore his spikes straight through the robots metal covers, and into the electrical circuitry inside, breaking it cleanly in two, causing the robot to collapse to the floor harmlessly. Sonic didn't stop, aiming his jump for the second robot, landing cleanly atop what Sonic would've called it's head. It too fell to a crumpled mess, laying in the doorway. Sonic motioned to Amy, and the pair eagerly left the room into a large two directional corridor.
"So how long have I been inside those machines?" Sonic asked, considering everything weird that had happened to him recently.
"We don't know," Amy replied, "You've been A.W.O.L for the better part of six months, but rumors of sightings have been circulating up until last week. That's why we need to know what the last real thing you remember is."
"That's the problem!" Sonic yelled, "I've no freaking idea what's going on. My furthest back memory apparently isn't even real, and every time I think 'This isn't real,' the definition of real gets changed again! So you tell me Amy, where are we, what's going on and am I finally in reality?"
Amy was stunned by the hedgehog;s outburst. As far as she was concerned Sonic had always been a bit rude, but she had certainly never seen him snap quite that violently towards her, especially when she was the one saving him."This is real Sonic," she eventually replied, "Now lets just get out of here."
"Prove it."
"How on Mobius do you expect me to do that, want me to pinch you and show you you're not dreaming?"
Sonic didn't answer but he was still annoyed. As far as he was concerned, this couldn't be real, there was someone very important missing. He didn't say anything though as he knew his immediate survival depended on getting out in one piece. Carefully he followed Amy out, noticing the occasional smashed robot, often with a couple of arrows in it's head. The blue and pink hedgehog's were tracing Amy's exact route. This felt like a silly idea to Sonic, but he wasn't in a good enough mood to mention it.
They entered another chamber, a large empty room, with grey walls on all sides, and a door either end, "Not too far now Sonic, lets go."
"Hold on a sec Amy," Sonic said, "Why haven't we ran into any robots since you freed me? Surely Eggman would've sent his troops after me, or even come after me directly?"
"Curse you hedgehog," Robotnik's voice rang out, "You've spoiled my surprise entrance," he bellowed as his craft descended from a vertical shaft in the ceiling. It was yet another incarnation of the Egg-O-Matic, covered from head to toe in spikes."
"What's your plan this time then eggy?" Sonic mocked sarcastically, "Lemme guess, you're going to bounce around this room, trying to hit me until you get stuck, then I bounce on your head a few times and you fly off?"
"Not exactly," Robotnik answered. Sonic heard a clunk as a large valve opened from where Robotnik had descended. Robotnik swerved his craft out of the way, as a second, louder clunk released a lot of water straight into the room. It splashed hard on the ground, and the room quickly filled up. Sonic began to panic, water had never been something he had been a fan of, and yet the room was flooding fast.
All the spikes on Robotnik's craft shot outwards as Robotnik hovered above the water. The room had now flooded, and Sonic was desperately holding his breath looking for some air, or more importantly a way out of the water. In his mind alarm bells were racing, and he could slowly feel the pressure increasing in his lungs as his time ran down. Robotnik cackled gleefully, continuously sending spikes inwards and outwards at the hedgehog.
Sonic narrowly backed into a corner, dodging the spikes once again. As he began to black out, his very last thought was "Where did Amy go?" before his body went limp in the water.