"Ho ho ho ho ho!" Sonic snapped his neck back and turned around.

What he saw was something nobody would want to see after a big meal. It was a huge flying machine. Stemming from the nose of the aircraft were two signature red bushes. This could only mean one thing.

"Eggman! Why you?"

Sonic had just left the restaurant. He and Amy agreed on going to his place to call the police and get them on the robbery of his materials.

"Missing something?" Eggman chuckled and turned the ship around.

A window slid open and revealed exactly what had been causing the hedgehog so much trouble for the most of the day; it was the roofing materials. Even before Sonic could react the window shut. The hedgehog knew what it called for. He was going to get his supplies back whether he had to fight Eggman or not.

Turns out he did. Below his mustache a mouth appeared and opened up. A missile came flying out at a high speed. Sonic quickly grabbed Amy and ducked himself and her to the side as the missile exploded.

"That was close Sonic! But I haven't even scratched the surface with what this machine is capable of!" Eggman stated from his open cockpit.

He shut it right after with something that looked like really strong glass. He fired another missile. Sonic dodged again and looked back at Amy.

"Go home! I've got this taken care of."

"No Sonic, I'm staying. Just in case you need help."

Sonic dodged another missile. "Look, I can handle this. I just wouldn't want you getting hurt."

"Come on Sonic, it wouldn't be the first time we've faced Eggman together. Don't you think I can hold my own?"

"Yes, I know you can. It's just that... Well, it's just that if you get hurt, I'll never forgive myself."

Amy sighed. "Alright Sonic, fine. I'll just go back to my home."

The pink hedgehog shook her head. She wanted so badly to stay and to help him. She also, on the flipside, wouldn't want Sonic getting hurt and would never forgive herself if she wasn't there. She ran back to her home, wishing Sonic good luck.

"Thank you."

Now it was back to business. Sonic stared the flying vehicle down.

"Hey Sonic, take a look at this!"

Something went flying up from the top. It was small, black and round. As it was coming down, Sonic realized it to be a cannonball. Instead of running, he reached his hands out and caught it.

"You have been caught!"

Sonic chucked the ball at Eggman's machine. It exploded on contact and shards of metal broke off and fell to the ground.

"Hahahahaha! Was that supposed to hurt?"

Though a little metal was removed, it didn't look like he did much damage at all. Two cannonballs were fired as well as a missile.

Quickly, Sonic dodged the missile, but when he looked up he'd lost the cannonballs. Finally he found them. They were nowhere near hitting him and exploded on the ground in front of the hovering machine.

"Wow Eggman, this is sad. Where's all that new stuff you wanted to use?"

Dr. Eggman growled and did something. A chain came zooming out and attempted to wrap Sonic up. It missed; Sonic jumped over the chain, but grabbed it. Taking his end he tied it to a tree in the area.

Eggman pulled back to try and break loose. He did successfully, but the tree was then launched right in his direction. The ship ducked under it and let the chain go. The tree went flying behind them.

The mustache started acting weird and moving, turning in Sonic's direction. Suddenly bullets erupted from it and the hedgehog found a rain of lead flying at him. Swiftly, he dove out of the way and the bullets all hit the ground.

"You know I'm faster Eggman! Just give up."

"Never! Not until I've shown you what this baby can truly do."

Sonic was starting to wonder about this. What kind of new tricks did the old doctor have up his sleeve?

Eggman laughed from his cockpit.

"I've devised a way of... Slowing you down?"

The flying machine started to freak out, buzzing loudly and shaking violently. Then it gave off a strange vibe.

Staring at it as he tried to figure out what was going on, he suddenly thought.

"I gotta look away!"

Just as he came to the realization that, it hit him; too late. He couldn't bring himself to turn his head. Before he knew it, he collapsed on the floor and started snoring.

"Ha! The hedgehog's helplessly hypnotized! Whenever I choose to wake him up I can do whatever I want!"

Eggman pressed a button and a hand extended from the side of his ship. The hand scooped up and held onto Sonic.

Eggman began thinking. What did he want to do with the hedgehog that had haunted him day and night for so many years?

"I know!" Eggman clapped his hands together as his eyes twinkled with a cruel glimmer. He pressed a button. The back of his machine rumbled a little. A door opened up and out came a small bed. "Time for some... surgery," Eggman placed the hedgehog on the bed.

He saw his control panel. He could do anything he wanted to kill Sonic. What was most important was taking his time to enjoy the experience of finally defeating his rival. He brought out a blade and it began to lower itself, ready to chop Sonic in two. The blade inched closer to the oblivious, peaceful hedgehog.

"Sweet dreams."

The blade was all but touching him. It trimmed one of the spikes on his back in half. Then it gashed Sonic's back and a spurt of blood came gushing out.

Eggman watched the event unfold, enjoying it immensely. But then the machine grumbled and shook slightly. Eggman shrugged.

"Weird."

He went back to watching the death of Sonic. "Wait! What? How? What happened?" Eggman shouted in dismay.

To his disbelief the blade had been taken off from the mechanical hand it was attached to. He rolled down his cockpit window. There, in front of him stood Amy. She was holding her hammer and scowled at him. Her eyes were filled with such a sense of rage, and worry, that even Eggman couldn't believe it.

"What were you doing to Sonic?" She shouted enraged.

Eggman quickly composed himself and just smiled. "Why I killed him of course."

"You!" Amy screamed, "You beast! You killed Sonic!"

Even Eggman was a little intimidated now. He'd never seen the fire in her eyes that he did now.

"I prefer to call myself a genius."

"Who cares what you call yourself. You're a no-good madman bent on killing a single, little hedgehog! Not to mention he means the world to me!"

"First of all I'm bent on revenge. Second of all I want to kill you all."

"This conversation," Amy picked up the blade that she broke off, "Is over!" She threw it like a frisbee at the apparatus Eggman was driving.

He gulped as it hit. Not only did it hit, it shred the metal. Eggman right away realized it had hit the engine as well as all of the other important parts to that kept the ship running.

"No!" He bellowed, "You evil," A boom went off from the machine, "No-good," Another boom, "Please KS100, let me finish before you blow up. Anyways. You evil, no-good, son of a-" Before he could continue the machine exploded and Eggman was sent flying, as well as Sonic.

"Sonic!" Amy shrieked as the unconscious body started its descent.

Quickly she ran under it, dropped the hammer, and got ready to make the catch. She caught him, but then yelped in the pain of catching the hedgehog by his sharp spines. She sighed in relief of not dropping him.

Now, Amy didn't have time to be mad at Eggman or watch him soar out of sight, or to observe the remains of the machine crumble. She had a mission. As quickly as she could, she ran home. Once she got there she kicked down the door. She got to her couch and laid Sonic down on his back.

Her hands was covered in blood. "Whoa."

She turned his body around and saw the cut Eggman had given him. "He cut him deep."

She quickly ran and brought a roll of paper towels with her. Taking one out, Amy began to wipe the surface blood away. Then she noticed that he was missing one of his back spines. She brought out her first aid kit and found the bandages. Taking them, the hedgehog wrapped up the wound.

"Sonic?" She whispered in his ear, hoping he'd wake up.

He didn't even move. "Sonic?" She tried again, tears now forming. Nothing.

"Sonic?" She said, louder now.

Tears started falling from her eyes, dripping from her cheeks. Still, he didn't show any signs of life. "Sonic!" She screamed now, desperately.

She shook his body violently, without any results.

The thought that he was really dead was starting to sink in. Tears were now endlessly streaming down her face. She couldn't take it. A life without Sonic would be agony.

"Sonic? Please, wake up! You're not dead!"

She turned him around and looked for a heartbeat. No chest movement. She felt all of his vital areas. Nothing encouraged her. "Oh my gosh, Sonic no!"

Without even thinking, her head closed in and kissed his cheek.

"This life is a fairytale, right?"

Sadly, it wasn't. Nothing changed. Sonic, or at least the body that used to be Sonic's, was just laying there. Motionless, there wasn't a sign of life to be seen.

Amy broke down. The tears were now waterfalls. She put her head in her hands. It was impossible to comprehend.

Sonic? Dead? They didn't go together at all.