CHAPTER TEN

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails ran to Eggman's base but he didn't tell them that they had to go through his robots.

But to think of it, he never does tell them anything.

Sonic runs super speed trying to get to the entrance, Knuckles went through the hard way smashing everything, and Tails goes up to the sky and keeps them distracted.

Once all robots were destroyed, they went inside to give Eggman the Chaos Emerald and save Elise.

They all run together and found a open space that looked like where Eggman would be.

"You're late..." Eggman's voice startling them.

They all looked up and saw Eggman in the control room.

"Well, we had to deal with your little pets." Knuckles growled.

"Where's Elise?" Sonic growled at Eggman.

"My aren't we impatient..." Eggman moved to his side and dragged Elise off the floor, to stand up.

"Sonic!" Elise yelled.

"Let go of her!" Sonic yelled and growled at same time, he and his friends moved to get ready to fight him.

"Ah, ah. You better not move. Now the Chaos Emerald..."

Sonic looked up and moved his hands behind his back, and showed the sapphire Chaos Emerald to Eggman, to satisfy him that he brought the Chaos Emerald with him.

Eggman pointed through the window where he wanted Sonic to put the Chaos Emerald in. "Place it there." Sonic saw Elise head shake, telling him not to do it, but if it meant getting Elise out, he did it anyway.

Sonic placed the Emerald on top of the machine that went up through the floor. As it was being dragged down, Eggman laughed and pushed Elise out of the way and pressed a big red button,

"Hmph!"

"No...!" Elsie screamed and ran up to the window and hit on it a couple of times before it was too late.

A big purple force-field came down and surrounded Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails, they moved close to each other so it wouldn't hit them, Knuckles walked up to the force-field and punched it.

"It's no use. It's too powerful for you to overcome. Now allow me to introduce you to my latest creation. This is the Solaris prototype. With this machine, I'll be able to control the flow of time itself!"

Eggman walks up to the control panel and is about to pull it, until unexpected Elise shoved him away from the control panel.

Eggman couldn't believe how stupid the Princess was, 'she must truly love Sonic,' thought Eggman.

Sonic and his friends watched Eggman push Elise away from the control panel to the floor with a hard thud. Sonic ran up to the force-field, but he didn't make it, when Eggman got to the control panel and he turned it on.

"No...!" Elsie screamed.

Elise ran up to the window, put both of her hands on the window, slid down to the floor, she couldn't believe Eggman won, and got Sonic and his friends out of the way, to begin his destruction to the world, and bring back, The Flames of Disaster.

"Rest assured... They're not dead... Yet. They've just been teleported by my glorious invention to another time. Who knows where they'll end up? It could be the distant past or far future. But my machine requires some time-tuning. In fact what my machine needs in order to complete, is your power."

Elise looked up at Eggman and she didn't have power or anything, she was just a Princess.

"My power?"

"Yes I can finally complete my plans. Now that I have the Chaos Emeralds... And you... The Princess of Soleanna. That's all I need to receive the Flames of Disaster. And with its power, I'll be able to control everything in the world! So you would be wise to remain on my "good" side!" Eggman told the Princess and left out of the room.

Elise still looking at the same spot where Sonic disappeared thinking, will Sonic and his friends make it in time?

Elise stayed at the same spot for so long, she didn't remember where she was, until she snapped back to reality. She noticed there were no robots guarding her, so she took her chance and walked out of the room.

Amy is running. Running to catch up with Sonic.

After she left Silver, she went running to catch up him, somehow someway she did catch up with him.

She saw Sonic and her friends go inside Eggman's base. Amy sat there waiting for them to come out but noticed something off.

Sonic always comes out in no time, not this time.

Amy sat there for fifteen minutes, she gave up and went inside.

Amy was walking for a long time, her feet were getting tired. She walked up to the edge of the wall and she looked to the side, where robots were checking the corridors of the ship.

'Maybe I should just go back, maybe I just missed Sonic and he left.' Amy thought.

Amy was about to turn around until she heard a door opening.

It was the same girl that Sonic tried to save when Eggman captured her.

"Hello..." Amy whispered.

"Hi..." Elise whispered back to a pink hedgehog.

They both looked at each other.

"Come on, let's go before Eggman sends robots to find you..."

"OK..."

Amy thought they were near the exit, until she noticed they were lost.

Amy looked at her surroundings, she didn't know where to go, either left or right. Amy took her chance and went right, with the girl following her, she might be in trouble. She didn't want her to be hurt or anything it's just harder because she's human. Amy was lost in thought, until a sobbing voice was heard. Amy looked at the girl, but she wasn't the one crying,

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Elise questioned and confused.

Amy shrugged her shoulders, "I thought I heard someone crying and..." Amy trailed off hearing another intake of a short breathe near them and started to cry again.

Elise turned to the pink hedgehog, "I heard it that time..."

Amy turned to her and nodding at each other they followed where the sobbing voice was.

Amy and Elise continued walking, until they heard the sobbing really close to them.

They both looked at a door cell, that seemed really overly protected.

"Stand back, I got this..." as Amy brought out her hammer and started mashing her way in.

Three more times, Amy hammering the door, it finally opened.

Amy and Elise walked in the cell, and looked around. Amy saw a figure near the center of the room, looking at the wall in front of the hedgehog. The hedgehog had its knees close to its chest, face buried its face in its knees, not sobbing anymore, but taking deep breathes.

Amy walked up to the figure and was standing behind the hedgehog, Elise on the other hand was standing next to the door, her hands clutched together, hoping that this hedgehog was ok.

Amy looked at the hedgehog more closely, with the light now showing, and it looked like,

"Shadow?" Amy called out to the hedgehog.

The hedgehog raised its head fast, liked it heard her voice before, and turned its head slowly.

Amy gasped with shock, with wide eyes, and open mouth taking her breathe away, a horrible memory started coming to her, that she didn't want to see again.

FLASHBACK

It was a sunny day, at the city today. As two hedgehogs walked down the sidewalks shopping for clothes well mostly Amy was, but they were looking around the city now.

"So how's Shadow doing?" Amy teased the other hedgehog with a smile.

"He's good, working a lot, but I can deal with it," the hedgehog closed her eyes, she always hated how Shadow had a lot of work to do, he said he'd try getting some time off but his work wouldn't allow him to.

"Come on, I brought you here for a reason, to have fun with your best friend, not to mope around at home all day... Come on I heard they had a sale at the beauty shop!" that brought a smile to the hedgehog's face.

"You still trying to get Sonic to ask you on a date?" She laughed.

Amy just looked down at the ground, "Maybe..." Amy muttered.

"But come on let's go." She watched Amy run to the beauty shop, she smiled to herself.

'This girl will never give up,' she thought. The hedgehog was lost in though, she didn't see Eggman's ship.

Unexpected, something hit hard on Amy's head, hard enough to knock her up. The hedgehog screamed.

"Amy?!"

She took off running to her friend but she was scooped up from the ground and was trapped into a glass ball.

"Now I got you!" Eggman laughed. The hedgehog gritted her teeth together, raised her hand up and used her power to freeze the glass, but something burned the ice, it's so hot in the glass ball.

"Now I wouldn't try your power, you see in this glass ball, I added a heater to make it so hot it can melt ice fast." Eggman laughed.

The hedgehog looked up at Eggman, tried to use her power again, but couldn't. She couldn't feel her knees anymore, she sank to the ground and started to lose conscious.

"Ho, ho, ho, ho!" Eggman laughed as he saw the hedgehog fall to her knees, Eggman had finally caught her, at last. "Now that I finally caught you, we are going to have so much fun together!" Eggman said his last words to her, as they were both taken up to Eggman's ship.

Amy is finally brought back to the real world opening her eyes slowly looking for her best friend but couldn't find her anywhere. Amy looked up and saw Eggman going up with her best friend.

"NO!"

Amy got up seeing darkness blind her eyes but cleared fast and started running to Eggman's ship.

Eggman looked down and saw the pink hedgehog coming after them, then back to his robots.

"Stop her from coming after us! Now!" Eggman screamed at his robots.

Amy stopped running and brought out her hammer, started mashing her away through the robots, but was stopped after another blow to the head. She slowly fell to the ground looking up hearing Eggman's laughs and looking up to see her best friend going up with him. She trembled as she stood up but fell again. She stood up again, bring up her arm raising it calling for her best friend.

Then darkness came.

BACK TO THE PRESENT

"Hey Amy," her best friend calls.

"Jasmine..."

Jasmine smiles at her best friend for finding her after five years later.