Longest Chapter yet. I own nothing! Enjoy!

Later that night, after hearing about the fight and not being able to find the team, Sonic went in search for everyone. He checked the trailer, walking inside and to the back. "Amy?Amy."

Then he heard her voice. "And now I am asking you not to go."

She and Shadow were out by the cars, Blaze, Silver, and Knuckles standing off to the side. "Amy, I am doing this for both of us," Shadow said, holding out his hands "No, don't give me that crap. You're doing this for you. Why are you insisting on doing this? Shadow, please. Just don't," she begged. But Shadow did not listen, just moved towards the cars and then drove away.

Sonic stepped out of the trailer and jogged over to where Amy still stood. When she saw him, she shook her head and began walking away. "Amy, what's going on?"

"What?"

He grabbed her arm. "You know what I'm talking about."

"No, I don't, Maurice."

"Oh, so what? You always have tears in your eyes when Shadow drives away?"

She pushed past him. "What is the matter with you?"

"Come on. What's your brother racing off in the middle of the night for? I'm talking about the trucks, you know about the trucks?

"No, Maurice! What trucks? Chaos!" He grabbed her arm again and forced her to look at him. "What!"

"Listen to me. Amy, I'm a cop."

She sighed. "What are you talking about, Maurice? What is this?"

"Ever since the first time I've met you, I've been undercover. I'm a cop." With each statement, her eyes grew wider.

"Oh, you bastard. You bastard." Amy spat through clenched teeth. A cop? She pushed him again, walking away.

"Amy!" Once more he grabbed her arm.

"Get off of me, Maurice!"

"Amy! Listen to me! Everything I ever said I felt about you was real. I swear to Chaos. You have to believe me, Amy. But right now this isn't about you and me. Your half brother's out there. He's about to pull a job, and we're running out of time. Those trucker's, they're not laying down anymore. Maybe they'll make it through tonight, but every single law enforcement agency in Station Square coming down on 'em. If you don't want anything to happen to Shadow, to Blaze, to Silver, to Knuckles, you have to just get in that car with me right now. You have to help me. Amy, you are the only person that can help me right now. Please, Amy. Please help me."

It was almost dawn when they made it out onto the road. "Civics are stashed somewhere outside of Thermal," Amy told him, looking over a map.

"And they wouldn't double back." Sonic took the map from her and glanced at it while watching the road. "And highway 10's just way too well patrolled. So what does that leave us with then?"

She leaned over and pointed: "That leaves us with all this."

With a nod, Sonic took out his cell phone and hit zero. "Nextel," the operator answered.

"Yeah, this is officer Sonic Hedgehog. Serial number three four seven six two. I need a cell phone trace."

"Okay. What's the cell number?"

"Amy, what's the cell phone number?" Beside him, Amy's jaw dropped, her bottom lip quivering. "Come on, Ames, She needs Shadow's cell phone number now."

Determination in her eyes, she grabbed the cell phone and placed it to her ear. "Three two three, five five five, six four three nine." Then she handed the phone back over to him.

"Thank you. Yeah, you get that?"

Outside of Thermal, Shadow and the team pulled up behind three covered cars. "All right," he said, as he began uncovering the Civics, "We're one man short. Blaze, I need you on the left side."

Silver stepped out of his Skyline, grabbing the spear guns. He walked over to the front Civic and placed them inside. "Amy is right about this one. This don't feel good."

"Don't do that."

"Something's wrong." Blaze said, slipping out of her jacket.

"Stop."

"We shouldn't be doing this without Tails."

"Look, this is the mother load. We've been on this for three months. After this it's a long vacation for everyone. Let's go."

Opening the door to the last Civic, Silver added: "I hope so."

"Let's make this happen. Silver, keep on those scanners."

"Copy that," the other man responded.

"All right, Let's go." With that everyone got into their cars, Knuckles sitting in with Shadow, and drove off.

Back in the Supra, Sonic's cell phone rang. "Yeah?"

"Okay, we traced the number to the northbound eighty-six. Mile marker one fourteen outside Cochlea. We'll keep the trace open Officer," the operator said.

Again he took the map from Amy, glancing between the road and the map. "Let me see this. All right, I think we're about forty miles away."

"What are you gonna do?" she asked, but when he didn't answer, she tried again: "What are you gonna do?"

At sunrise, the truck came into view and Shadow's adrenaline was pumping. "Okay! Go time!"

"We're all good, man. I got nothing on the scanners," Silver said, giving the go ahead.

Knuckles stood through the open sunroof, firing the first spear gun. The first shut took out the windshield, and the second one - which Shadow had handed to him - stuck into the passenger seat of the truck. As It was when Vince climbed out of the car that Shadow noticed that the driver was packing.

"Knuckles! Knuckles, don't! Get back in! Knuckles!" He pulled out his two-way. "He's got a damn shotgun! Silver! "

"Back off! Back off! Get him off there!"

Without hearing any of the conversation, Knuckles jumped from the back of Shadow's Civic, onto the engine of the truck. He began pulling himself up, only to see the barrel of a shotgun pointed at his head.

"Oh shit!" Shadow yelled as the man fired.

Luckily, he missed, and Knuckles quickly discarded his helmet, motioning for his friend to pull up next to him. "Get me off this thing! Pull up! Pull up, I'll jump!" It was then, when Shadow was close enough, that the driver slammed on his brakes, sending Knuckles to the side of the truck.

"Un...unhook...unhook yourself. Do it! Do it!"

His arm was caught in the wire that was supposed to hold him to the truck. Unfortunately, it was doing its job. "I can't get-"

"You can do it! Come on, Knux!"

On the truck's left, the driver's side, Blaze didn't know what was happening, but she knew she could help. "Shadow! I'm pulling up to distract him!" She stepped on the gas, pulling up in front of the eighteen wheeler. "Come on boy! Shot doesn't get better than this." However, she never really expected him to shoot at her. "Son of a bitch!"

On the other side of the truck, Knuckles was reaching out to the Civic next to him. "Take me off here or I'm gonna unhook the wire!"

"Try it again. One, two, three!" Shadow called, pulling closer to the truck. When Knuckles failed to jump he panicked. "Unhook yourself!"

"I can't get my arm free! My arm!"

Shadow held his hand out, trying to grab hold of his friend's outstretched arm. "Knuckles, grab my hand!"

"My arm!"

"Listen, give me your hand. I'm gonna pull you off the rig! Knuckles!"

"Shadow! Hold on!" They got a hold of each other for a few seconds before the trucker swerved towards the Civic, making Shadow lose his grip.

"Give me your hand! Listen to me!"

"Shadow! Shadow! Shadow!"

He got closer again, only this time, the trucker used his shotgun to blow out the front tire, sending Shadow swerving across his lane. "Shit!"

"Shadow!"

"Hang on!"

From her position on the other side, Blaze surveyed the height of the truck. "Shadow! Move out of the way. I'm coming to get him." Before waiting for a reply, she pulled to the left and quickly jerked the wheel to her right, sliding right under the truck and in front of Shadow's Civic.

As she pulled closer, to line her own car up with Knuckles, the trucker sent the front wheel of the truck into her car, clipping the bumper. Blaze herself lose control as the car swerved first, then ran off the road, hitting a ditch. Then she flipped. Not once, not twice. But three maybe four times, leaving her car bottom up.

"Blaze!" Shadow screamed as they passed by. "Silver," he called into his two-way.

"Yo!"

"Pull back for Blaze. Get her out of there!"

"I'm on it! Go! I've got her! You get Knuckles off that truck." The other man pulled up his emergency brake and twisted his civic around, heading towards the spot where Blaze went off the road. Once there, Silver jumped out of his car and ran to his fallen friend. She was just crawling out of her car when he ran down the hill. "Blaze! Come on, Blaze! You okay? Oh, shit. Come on, girl, you all right? Come on, let me look at you. Come on. We got to go. Let's go." He was so scared, he wasn't even sure he knew what he was saying. All he knew was that one friend had just flipped and the other was stuck on a truck.

"Knuckles!" Shadow tried again to get to his friend.

"Shadow!"

"Knuckles!" It was starting to appear as though it was a lost cause. There was no way he was going to get his best friend of that rig. But then, out of nowhere an orange Supra came racing up the road and sped past Shadow, keeping pace with the truck.

"Here, take the wheel." Sonic said to Amy as he pulled next to the rig and popped the roof off his T-top.

She looked as him as though he were crazy. "What do you mean?"

"Take the wheel! Put your foot on the gas! I'm gonna get him. Put your foot on the gas!"

"Okay! Okay!" As she did so, he climbed from his seat to perch on the driver's side door.

"Come on. Keep it steady."

She switched from her seat over to the one that he had just vacated. "I got it!"

"All right, hold on, Knuckles!" he shouted over to the man that hated him, hoping that for just once he would trust him.

"Okay!" Amy shouted, letting Sonic know that she was in control of the car.

"Hey, he's having a hard time holding on! Get me a little closer!"

"All right!"

"Closer!"

"I'm moving in!"

"Hold it right there!"

"Go!"

Without waiting for further instructions, Sonic jumped from the Supra onto the passenger ledge of the truck, hooking his arm through the support bar. "Knuckles! You got to hang in here with me right now! We're gonna get you off this thing! Give me your arm! Knuckles, look at me! Don't let go! Come on, Knuckles! Throw this arm around me! Knuckles, don't let go!" Quickly, or a quickly as humanly possible, he unwound the wire from around Knuckles' arm, then motioned for Amy to come closer. "Come on! Come on, Amy! Get closer! Amy, get closer! Come on! Come on Knuckles. Here we go!"

Then he pushed the man into the back seat. Something told him, he wasn't sure what, but something told him to check the driver. And for a brief moment, he found himself facing the barrel of a shotgun. One of the scariest moments of his life. But, then he jumped, landing next to Knuckles in the back as Amy pulled off the road.

Shadow stopped a few meters down the road, getting out of his car and running up the Supra. It was then that he noticed it was empty and that Mia, Brian, and Vince were out on the desert floor. "Knux! Oh shit." Silver's Civic pulled up next to him and he immediately ran to the open passenger side window where Blaze sat in the back, holding her stomach. "It's gonna be okay, Blaze," he said, grabbing her chin, forcing her to look at him. "Stay safe." When she looked away he turned to Silver "Watch her."

"Yeah, I got her."

Shadow ran down to where Amy and Sonic were trying to keep Knuckles alive. "Come on, Knuckles!" Sonic shouted, panic on his face. "Hang in there! Come on! If we don't get him to an ambulance in ten minutes he's dead." Shadow nodded, understanding completely. "Hold this. Hold the pressure."

Amy sat to the side, holding Knuckles' arm in her lap. "I got it."

"Just like that. Don't let go. Hold his arm up."

She turned her worried eyes on their fallen friend. "Knuckles."

"Yeah. Yeah, this is Officer Sonic Hedgehog. I'm off duty S.S.P.D. I need a life flight roll out right away. My twenty is, uh, Highway 86, mile marker 147. I got one trauma victim, about 24 years of age. Six foot, maybe 200 pounds." He hazard a glance at Shadow who was seething quietly, his jaws working in opposition. "He's got a real deep laceration to his right arm, with arterial bleeding. And he's got a shotgun wound. Close range to his left flank. Yeah. Yeah. And he's going into shock!"

As the helicopter landed five minutes later, Shadow stood next to Silver and waited for Amy to walk away from Sonic. The two of them, Amy and Sonic helped the paramedics get Knuckles onto the copter, but Amy just stood there afterwards, looking back and forth between her brother and her boyfriend.