Hello! I'm back. My new year's resolution was to finish all of my old stories so I could finally start some new ones. I'm going to try to finish this one first. So the story will hopefully be updated weekly.

Also, if anyone has any requests as to what they think should happen in this story, I will gladly take them under consideration.

If I owned this, Blaze wouldn't have left in the first place.

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Sonic and Shadow where astounded when they found the source of the stench. Tails was just as shocked when he caught up.

"Is that?" Tails said, pointing at the limp cat that lay in frost of them as he landed.

"I believe it is," Shadow said kneeling down to press to fingers to the girl's neck.

"But… how? Last we knew of her, she was gone. Off to contain the Iblis, you know, the whole 'assumed dead' thing?" Sonic said, turning to Shadow. "And what are you doing?"

"Checking for a pulse," Shadow said, tilting his hand ever so slightly. He glanced at the rest of her as he found it; a weak pulsing could be felt under her skin. "She's alive, but hurt,"

"No really? I couldn't tell from all this blood pooling around here," Sonic retorted.

"Put a sock in it faker, she needs help," Shadow said, glowering at the blue hedgehog. "Now,"

Tails stepped forward, examining one of the larger cuts on the girl's torso. "The nearest house is Vanilla and Cream's. Think we could make it?"

"Of course we can, Tails! After all, we've been through worse situations than this before," Sonic said, smiling. He zipped forward, gathering the girl in his arms, "Besides, she does have the best medical treatment there,"

Before either of the other two could respond, Sonic was off racing towards the house of the two rabbits. He gently cradled the purple princess in his arms, trying to make his steps light so he wouldn't jostle her.

"Hang in there Blaze,"

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After gently depositing Blaze in the spare room of the rabbit's house and explaining the situation to them, Sonic raced off to find Amy. Though she was someone he would rather avoid, he knew she was good with this kind of thing.

"Amy!" The boy called as he raced into her house. He didn't wait for a response from the surprised girl before he swooped her up and returned to the rabbit's home.

"Sonic!" Amy called against the wind as they raced across the hills. "What on earth is going on?"

Sonic quickly explain in the simplest way he could what was going on. When he finished, he glanced at the stunned pinkette in his arms. She was wide eyed and her hair was whipping against her face. He gave her one of his signature smirks. "And you're one of the best people to help Vanilla treat her,"

Amy blushed as they arrived back at the house. Sonic put the girl down as he opened the door. Shadow, Tails, and Knuckles where there now, too.

"How is she?" Sonic asked as the mother rabbit excited the guest room, closing the door gently behind her.

"Not good," Vanilla responded, glancing around the room. "Amy, could you go in and help cream while I grab some tools?"

"Of course," Replied Amy as she speed walked for the door.

"Is there anything we could do to help?" Asked tails as Vanilla grabbed some extra bandages from the closet.

"I'm afraid not my boy," Vanilla said, smiling softly. "The best you can do is hope and pray that she'll be okay,"

The boys nodded and remained in the small living room as the woman returned to the room. Shadow leaned against one of the far walls coolly, glaring out the front window into the garden. Tails and Knuckles sat on the couch, Tails fiddling with his hands and Knuckles with his arms crossed. Sonic had sat down for a moment before jumping up to speedily pace the room and steal food from the fridge.

"Would you stop that!" Knuckles snapped as Sonic passed by him for the umpteenth time.

"Whut?" Sonic asked through a mouth full of food. "I'm a newvas eata,"

"I don't care if your nervousness makes you grow feathers and fly, just stop that pacing!" The echidna retorted, standing up to his full height. He raised one of his fists menacingly. "Now sit,"

"Fine mister grumpy dreads," Sonic said, scarffing down what was left in the kitchen before returning to one of the plush chairs in the living room.

Over half of an agonizing hour passed before the three ladies excited the small room. The second the door closed behind them, all four of the boys were on their feet.

"How is she?" Asked Tails.

Vanilla sighed, but a small smile played on her lips. "She's going to be fine, she just needs rest,"

"So in other words," Amy said, placing her hands on her hips. "Get out!"

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When next Blaze awoke she was no longer on the damp ground. In fact, she felt like she was on a cloud. A light, fluffy cloud that was comfortably warm. Not scorching hot like she was used to.

At first, Blaze thought she had died and gone to heaven. But heaven would not have that annoying beeping sound that continuously pulsed beside her. Honestly, it was driving her insane. Reluctantly, she opened one eye.

She was not on a cloud, that much was obvious. But she was not back with Iblis either. She was in a bed, a rather small one at that. The room that this bed was in was also small, but it was not cramped. A small dresser stood beside the bed with a lamp on it, a full body mirror stood opposite the bed, and the door was adjacent to the bed, on the opposite wall. There was only one other thing in the room that Blaze noticed, and it was the device that was causing the ominous beeping.

Blaze glared at the thing, and then noticed that it had a number of wires and a clear bag hanging from it. Several of these wires were connected to the young cat, who scowled at them. She glanced back at the towering object. The screen on it flashed with green lines every time it beeped. Blaze had seen something like this before, but her still drowsy mind could not register what it was.

The cat was about to grab onto one of the tubes that connected to her arm when she felt a wave of drowsiness was over her. Within minutes she was asleep again.

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Tada! Well? What do you think? I wanted to add more into this chapter, but I just couldn't think of a way to tie some of the things in. Reviewing get you more chapters people!