"… And thusly," Amy said, "Sonic learned not to make Amy mad. Otherwise hammer meets face."
Amy's hammer swung once again, Sonic narrowly rolling out of the way. Sonic was hesitant for a moment, he knew he'd have to get the emerald from Amy regardless of what it took, but at the same time he didn't want to hurt her, regardless of how much of a pain she was.
Amy's hammer swung down on the ground with a very loud thud. Once again Sonic's quick reflexes were the only thing that stopped him from becoming Sonic the pancake. Sonic revved into a spin dash, and slid quickly forward into Amy, knocking her backwards.
"I don't have time for this Amy," Sonic reasoned, "I need the emerald. There's still several others left to get, and every second I waste here is," Sonic paused, jumping over Amy as she threw the hammer to the ground again, "… is another moment to Robotnik's advantage," he finished.
"I, don't, care!" Amy panted, between hammer swings, "You said I could have a date with you."
Amy's hammer throwing became more erratic. Sonic ducked the first swing, and then narrowly jumped over the second. Sonic had no clue when Amy became this competent with a hammer that was probably at least half her weight, but as he landed atop her hammer and was flung upwards. He instinctively curled as he jumped, and aimed himself carefully to land on top of Amy. She fell down, dropping both the hammer and the yellow Chaos Emerald. While Amy reached to grab her hammer, Sonic quickly grabbed and hid the yellow emerald.
Sonic got up quickly, and worked his way to the hologram terminal to disable it, and escape, when Amy's hammer swung once more. Sonic only knew this by her enraged scream, and ducked to the left as a reflex. The hammer made contact with the terminal, causing the Egyptian carpet ride they had been on to flicker off briefly. When it returned the ride was noticeable bumpier, something which Sonic could tell didn't agree with Amy.
An idea grew in Sonic's head, "Listen, Amy," Sonic tried his best to stay calm with the enraged hedgehog, "I know you want a date with me, and I know I said I'd give you a date, but…"
"But what?" Amy asked, hammer still held firmly over her head."
"But how's about I go on three dates with you, later on, when the worlds not in immediate danger?" Sonic answered.
Amy thought for a moment, "okay, but if you don't go on those you're going to suffer Sonic."
Sonic decided it was for the best not to make a comment about how much he'd suffer during those dates. He looked to the terminal again, and found the emergency off button. With a flicker the pyramids disappeared, being replaced with an empty grey chamber.
"Well, while you're out saving the world, I'm going to go buy a more stylish wardrobe," Amy said glaring at Sonic. Sonic glanced back, realising he probably would suffer for his comment about her fashion sense, "Maybe a pink dress, and some nice boots, and a new haircut. Yeah a makeover, a total makeover! What do you think Sonic?"
"Yeah, new… stuff, sounds great," Sonic said dryly. He had stopped listening around the time Amy started going on about clothes.
"Hey wait," Amy said as Sonic pulled the door open, "Don't you want that emerald?"
"You mean this one?" Sonic grinned, flashing the emerald in his paw. Sonic saw Amy become enraged, and sped out the building as fast as he possibly could. As he ran Sonic could hear Amy fuming, and Sonic decided it might be for the best to avoid her entirely for a while.
Sonic ran back to Tails' workshop as fast as he could, partially to beat Tails there, mostly to put some distance between him and Amy. Sonic opened the door just in time to see Tails land next to him.
"What took you?" Sonic asked nonchalantly.
"I saw you arrive, Sonic, you've been here the same time I have," the fox replied, before changing the subject. "Did you get your emerald?"
"Yep, though I owe Amy three dates."
"Ouch, what are you gonna do about that?"
"Figured I'd find her the fruit as I agreed," Sonic grinned, "Did you get yours?"
"Yes actually. It was surprisingly easy. This cat in a red dress, think she said her name was 'Honey', had it, and she willingly handed it to me, so long as Honey got a mention to you. I'm not sure why that's such a big deal, but if that's what got me a Chaos Emerald from Honey, and then I guess I should mention that I met Honey the Cat to you, Sonic." Tails answered.
"So her name was 'Harry' then?" Sonic joked.
Tails didn't answer. "That leaves just four emeralds then."
Sonic nodded. "Scanner says ones in the arctic, then there's one in the sea itself. The other two seem to be moving."
"Then those ones are being carried by someone." Tails answered
"Or something," Sonic said, reminding Tails of all the robots Robotnik probably had scouring the planet for emeralds," Sonic had a think for a moment, "Hey Tails, about that one in the water, uh, do you still own your submarine?"
Tails nodded, "I'll go grab hold of that one then, but you get to fly the Tornado to the Arctic Circle and find the Emerald hidden up there."
Sonic nodded, and leapt into the bi-plane. Within minutes he was flying north, towards one of the coldest parts of the planet. He watched Tails launch the submarine from a dock, before the Sea Fox descended into the blue depths, and out of view.
"Good, so we know where the hedgehog is heading now. Excellent work getting the microphone onto the fox, Honey. You'll get your reward in the usual way. As for the hedgehog, well he won't be gathering those gems for much longer."
