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Chapter 6

The two hedgehogs sat on the floor without letting go of their embrace. Amy was still sobbing while her face was in Shadow's chest.

"Why are you still crying?" Shadow asked her.

"I'm just happy." replied Amy. "Someone cares about me just as much as I care about them." Shadow smiled and only hugged her tighter. Amy lifter her head and looked at Shadow. "And you're saving me because of that and not because I was just on the way to your destination." Shadow stared into her emerald green eyes and sighed. He cradled her cheek in his hand and Amy closed her eyes.

"We still need to worry about the problem at hand." he said. "As much as I don't want this to end we have to get out of here and find everyone else." Amy nodded and jumped when Shadow's comlink crackled to life.

"Sh-Shadow? Where are you?" Sonic's voice managed to say.

"Sonic, glad to know you are alive." Shadow said. "But the question is where are YOU?"

"I asked you first!" Sonic joked. Shadow just shook his head.

"I'm in some sort of storage room. It's really bright and Amy's here with me."

"That's great! Is she ok?"

"Yes. She's fine now." Shadow mumbled. "Now we need to know how we can get out of here. Where are you?"

"I'm in some type of computer room. This stupid beeping thing keeps..beeping. It's really annoying."

"Sonic, if you are in a computer room then there has to be a way that you can let us out of here." Shadow stood up and was joined by Amy who stood behind him.

"Well, I'm looking at what looks like a video screen. It looks like I have a camera looking at me. Look around. Is there a camera anywhere near you?" Shadow and Amy looked around for a video camera but saw nothing. Amy walked over to the tank that she used to be in.

"Doesn't look like it, Sonic." Shadow said.

"Wait!" squeaked Amy. "Look, Shadow!" Shadow walked over to Amy and noticed a small camera at the very corner of the top of the tank. It seemed to be looking right at them and they saw a red flashing light.

"Sonic, we found one. So if you are in some sort of control room try to find this camera."

"Alright! I'll let you know what I find." Sonic's voice faded.

"Well I guess all we have to do is wait." Amy said. "Sit with me." She sat down next to the tank away from the cold fluid on the floor.

"Ugh, I hate waiting." Shadow muttered.

"It's all we can really do right now." Shadow stepped next to Amy and sat down.

"Can I ask you something?" Shadow whispered.

"Of course, Shadow." Amy smiled.

"Well, you see, I have never felt this close to someone before. It's just like, you know really nothing about me but you want to be with me. I'm not a hero, Amy. I'm not much of anything." Amy moved in front of Shadow and looked at him.

"You're right, I don't know much about you. But neither do you know a lot about me. I don't know the kind of things that you have been through. I don't know you're past and you don't know mine. What matters, Shadow, is who you are now, not what you were then." Amy put her hand on Shadow's cheek and continued to speak ever so softly. "I don't want you to be a hero. I want you to be yourself." Shadow smiled and grabbed Amy's arms, pulling her closer to him. Their faces were almost touching and Shadow looked down at the pink hedgehog. His ruby red eyes pierced her look and she leaned closer to him. They could feel each other's breath on their fur. As they leaned in even closer Sonic's voice came over the comlink.

"Shadow! I've found a control box." Amy's ears flicked and she drew herself away from Shadow. "Damnit, Sonic!" thought Shadow.

"That's good news." Shadow replied relunctantly over the communicator. "Does it have any clues to where we might be? Like a storage room door button, anything like that? It may be that obvious, it may not."

"Uhm there are a whole bunch of buttons. There's one that says 'Mech Room 003'. Want me to try?"

"Just try anything until we find something to work with." In the other room Sonic punched a series of buttons and nothing happened.

"There is a lever on the side of the box. Should I try that too?" Sonic asked.

"Why do you ask when you know I'll say do it?"

"Sor-ry." Sonic said sarcastically. A moment later the wall that Shadow had bashed himself into earlier was lifting into the ceiling, revealing a pitch black hallway.

"It worked. A door opened." Shadow muttered to Sonic.

"Great!" Sonic exclaimed. "But Shad, I don't think whoever gassed us put me in here without thinking. Watch your back. I'm going to try and find a way out of this computer room and look for our friends. We'll meet up later."

"Ok, sounds good. Let me know if you find anything out." Shadow pushed a button and silenced the buzzing comlink. "You ready to go, Amy?"

"It's scary in there. There's no light." she quivered.

"I'll be right here with you." Shadow said while holding onto her hand with his. Amy smiled and looked at her hand then back up at Shadow. "You'll be fine."

"I won't leave your side." Shadow nodded and the two hedgehogs began walking into the dark hallway. Amy squeezed Shadow's hand in fear and buried her head in his back. They walked slowly, one step at a time, and were led through a series of turns. At this point, Shadow had lost the light from the room and was in total darkness. Amy still had her head in Shadow's back and she was shivering.

"Are we almost there?" she whispered.

"I'm not sure." Shadow answered. "Just calm down. Everything's going to be alright." Shadow continued leading on in the hallway with his free hand out to feel any object in front of him. It was a while later until they reached the end of the tunnel. Shadow could feel the icy metal wall in front of him and he grunted.

"Looks like we have reached the end." Shadow muttered.

"What!? The end!?" Amy shrieked. She stumbled to the wall and started banging on it.

"Amy, stop!" Shadow demanded. "We're going to have to either wait here or go back. We don't really have too many choices."

"You're the one who led us this way!"

"Come on, now. Don't go playing the blame game."

"I'm not. I'm stating the obvious." Shadow was slightly annoyed by her remark. Amy folded her arms and stared in Shadow's direction but couldn't see a thing.

"Well fine then!" Shadow said. "Find your own damn way out of here."

"Dont be like that." said Amy.

"You're being like that." Shadow claimed.

"Puh!" Amy puffed. "Meanie." Shadow's mouth dropped open.

"Are you kidding me? You're being such a girl." Amy reached out for Shadow but missed. Shadow noticed her motive and he stepped forward and pushed her into the wall, grabbing both of her arms.

"Shadow, stop it." Amy whimpered.

"No, you stop it! I know just as much about this place as you do. So if you want to complain go somewhere else! If you want to stay with me then accept my choices in what to do!" Shadow's head began to thump and he quickly let go of Amy. She was lightly sobbing and Shadow put his hand to his face. There was a short moment of silence.

"Shadow? Are you still there?" questioned Amy.

"Yes." Shadow said quietly.

"What's wrong?" Amy stepped towards Shadow and reached for him again, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"This pain in my head..when I'm with you..when I talk to you..it never goes away." Shadow put his other hand on the hand of Amy's that was on his shoulder. "I'm thinking that finding a way out of here is the least of our worries."

"What do you mean?"

"I have a feeling..a bad feeling." By now, Amy was content and Shadow's pain was pretty severe. It hadn't gone away for several minutes and he figured until he found the source of their situation that it wouldn't go away. "We need to get out of here. Now."

"How are we going to do that?" Amy asked. "We can't see a thing."

"Hold on." Shadow walked over towards the dead end and leaned his ear onto the metal. He knocked on it with his fist and heard an echo. He sighed with relief. "This wall is hollow."

"And that means.."

"It means that I can probably knock it down. However, I'm going to need your help."

"How can I help?" Shadow grabbed her arm and walked backwards as far as he could from the wall. Once they were as far away as possible he held onto Amy's hand and his head had a stabbing pain. He flinched but tried to ignore it. He crounched down as if he were about to pounce onto something and with his free hand he rubbed over the ground.

"I need you to run as fast as you can. Put your hands in front of you and run."

"What is that going to do?"

"Just trust me. I'm going to run right behind you.

"Are you sure?"

"Just do it." Both of them braced themselves and at the same time they bolted. Suddenly, the wall slowly started to lift open, letting light escape into the dark hallway. Amy lifted her hand over her eyes and Shadow noticed a figure standing in their way. He grabbed Amy, hugging her and he rolled into the light. They escaped the hallway and rolled right into the figure standing before them. All three bodies tumbled through the lit room until finally they stopped abruptly, hitting a giant machine. Amy squealed, Shadow grunted and the other just layed there breathing heavily.

"Amy, come!" Shadow said while he hurriedly lifted Amy away from the figure. It was only a second when they realized it was Sonic.

"What was that about, guys?" Sonic let out.

"Sonic!" Amy said. She ran over to him and helped him up. "Are you alright?" Shadow folded his arms.

"Yeah, thanks." Sonic stood up and smiled at Amy. He then looked at Shadow who was standing opposite of him. "I'm glad you found me! I started to feel a little lonely."

"How did you get out of that control room?" Shadow asked. He eyed Amy who was still standing next to Sonic.

"Ironically a door opened shortly after I let you out of your room. It led into a dark hallway and I eventually ended up here." Shadow looked around the room and realized that it looked exactly like the one that he woke up in. Huge, bright lights formed walls around the room and giant machines wrapped with wires and metal were everywhere. The only difference was that this room was bigger.

"This whole situation is ironic." Shadow said.

"Do you suppose that these are robots?" Amy pointed out.

"They look similar to Eggman's." Sonic mentioned.

"I doubt that Eggman is smart enough to be the one behind all this." said Shadow. "And it looks like we're stuck with the same problem."

"Which is?" Sonic asked.

"Getting out." Shadow replied. All three hedgehog's seemed confused and didn't know what to do. The pain in Shadow's head didn't subside this time but he hid it very well. Amy kept standing next to Sonic but was looking at the machine behind him and Sonic just stood there.

"So, what do you guys think we should do?" Amy asked. She looked at Shadow who was staring at the neon floor. Neither the blue or black hedgehog spoke. "Hello?"

"There's nothing to do." Shadow finally said.

"Sure there is." Amt encouraged.

"Ok, if you're so sure then you tell us what to do." Shadow now lasered his look to Amy.

"Don't be so demanding, Shadow." Sonic said.

"I'm not." Shadow said. "But I'm drawing a blank. I don't know what to do."

"Well don't get mad about it." Amy said.

"Yeah, bud. We'll figure it out." Sonic reassured.

"Whatever. You two figure it out and I'll find my own way."

"Dude, stop getting defensive." Sonic exclaimed.

"Defensive!?" Shadow squawked. "You're stupid."

"You're being childish."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am not!"

"Yes, you are!" Amy stepped in-between the two hedgehogs.

"Alright! That's enough!" Amy squeaked. "You're both acting like little kids! Now why don't you guys grow up and work together! It's worked out so far obviously." Shadow and Sonic fell silent to Amy's words.

"Why are you defending him?" Shadow asked Amy.

"Shadow, please don't do this." Amy pleaded. "We need to work together to find everybody and get out of here." Shadow tilted his head down and dropped his arms.

"She's right." Sonic said. Shadow nodded.

"Ok, let's figure this out." said Shadow calmly. Amy walked back over to the machine.

"Let's think. Since there was two hallway's leading here then there has to be a third. This whole place seems like a maze." Out of nowhere another cackle was heard above them. Shadow knew it was the creature.

"Show yourself!" Shadow yelled upwards. Amy jumped and ran over to Shadow. Sonic walked over to him as well. The voice just laughed again.

"What is this?" Sonic asked.

"It's the creature responisble for all of this." Shadow answered. "Monster! You hide behind your laugh. If you think you have control of me you are mistaken." The stabbing pain in his head travelled to Amy, who fell to the floor screaming. "Stop it!"

"Agh!" Sonic yelled. He also crouched on the floor, grabbing his head and rolling back and forth.

"Stop hurting them!" Shadow boomed. "Fight me, damnit! Don't hurt them if your tiff is with me!" Suddenly, a row of lights from the right side of the room dimmed and Shadow saw a scene that almost scared him. Behind the sheet of dim light was a row of many tanks similar to the one he found Amy in. In the midst of Amy's cries and Sonic's grunts, he eyes his friends who lay lifeless in the tanks.