I'm sorry about not updating sooner. This chapter was so hard for me to write...I had writer's block...plus I've been busy. So I have this now. Special thanks to Kat because without her, I would never have gotten this up today.

Knuckles picked up a piece of rubble at the scene where Rouge said Sonic had destroyed a building. "No way," Knuckles denied. "Sonic wouldn't have done this."

"Why? Wouldn't you?" Rouge said smiling. "You've always seemed violent."

Knuckles gritted his teeth. "So what? We're not talking about me right now. We're talking about Sonic. And he wouldn't have done this."

"We've got proof," Shadow replied evenly.

The building was completely destroyed, leaving nothing intact. What would have made Sonic do such a thing? "You don't know why he did it though," Knuckles pointed out.

Rouge rolled her eyes. "That's not our job. We're just supposed to find him, not find out why he did things…although I must admit I'm curious."

Knuckles noticed the look in Rouge's eye and knew that she planned to find out. "So where are we going to next?" he asked.

Rouge looked at Knuckles. "That would be why you're here, pretty boy. You're the one who tells us where he is."

"Like I would know?" Knuckles shouted. "And who are you calling pretty?"

Shadow looked exasperated. "You would know, echidna, and you're aware of that just as much as we are. Now speak up."

"I don't know!" Knuckles insisted.

Knuckles looked up at the sky and breathed out heavily, making it sound quite like a growl. Sonic was unpredictable. There was no way he would know where he would have gone.

"A guess would be great," Rouge suggested, becoming impatient.

Knuckles shot her a look before closing his eyes to think. Sonic was random; he never really had a set path in mind. He was reckless and crazy and idiotic. When he opened his eyes again, Knuckles figured it out. "We follow the path," he said.

Knuckles pointed out the path he was talking about. A path of destruction led down the street and continued on out of sight. Rouge commented, "Well, he sure isn't subtle."

Sonic paid little attention to the destruction he left in his wake. He felt rubble run against his skin as thoughts clouded his head. Amy had left no note here, and Sonic was clueless on where to go next. He felt tears running down his face although he couldn't understand why since he could feel nothing inside.

Pain spiked in his body, begging him to stop or at least slow down. But Sonic couldn't bear the thought. He needed to find the killer before another murder was performed.

Amy said that the next note would be close to home, but where? As impatience dragged him further and further away, he realized he couldn't go back home. There was no time. He had to find the killer, and he didn't have time to turn around and get the next clue. He would have to happen upon the clue after that.

Until then, nothing would stand in his way. Sonic's brain focused all its energy on fury and determination. There was no time to waste.

Shadow took the lead of the team, being the fastest and the only one with any chance of keeping up with Sonic. His hover shoes glided him just above the ground through the rubble Sonic had left in his wake.

Shadow himself failed to believe Sonic would have done such damage if he was remotely in his right mind. If there was one thing he knew about that reckless hedgehog was that he did not believe in needless destruction.

But looking around him, Shadow was sure this destruction had been needless. What had Amy truly done to Sonic…?

Amy wore a scowl as she looked at Shadow. "You don't know anything about Sonic! He would never do something so wrong!"

Shadow glared at her. "He was the only one here recently."

"He wouldn't do anything without a good reason! I know that because I'm his girlfriend!"

Shadow couldn't help rolling his eyes. Amy gritted her teeth. "I know that the only reason he would have done this would be to stop Eggman! The only way!"

Amy acted like she knew Sonic so well, but even with his lack of a memory Shadow could understand that she didn't. But hours later when he saw Sonic facing down Dr. Eggman, Shadow began to rethink Amy's take on Sonic.

She did know Sonic…maybe Sonic really knew her too.

Shadow shook the memory from his mind and concentrated on weaving through the rubble. Memories betrayed him. And now it seemed like Sonic's memories of Amy were betraying Sonic. Shadow and Sonic weren't so different after all.

How far has he run? Shadow wondered.

Everything around him appeared destroyed. That hedgehog was being more reckless than usual. It wasn't like him at all.

The image of Amy from that one memory before revisited Shadow for the second time in minutes. Something inside told him that Sonic wasn't attacking Dr. Eggman. That this was all Sonic. Remembering Amy's words, Shadow decided on his view of Sonic's current situation.

Sonic had cracked.