Chapter 9: Proposition?

Somewhere far away

Amy and Rose walked down to the Mission Room, where they could find out if they had any missions to do since the both of them were really, really bored. Even though Rose wanted to train, Amy had dragged her away from the training facility nonetheless.

"I still don't understand why I had to come with you to find out if we had any missions to do today, your perfectly capable to find out on your own." Rose complained yet again, since Amy had dragged her away from her favourite training facility Rose had complained the whole way there.

"Well I thought I might get you away from that stupid training facility and from your stupid training for once, I mean why can't you relax, I haven't even seen you once relax properly your always tense." She finally said, taking a deep breath afterwards. Rose glared at her before answering.

"I can't allow myself to relax, and for my 'stupid training' as you put it, keeps me focused." Rose said in a much calmer tone then Amy had. When they got there Rose tapped in the code to open the door. The door opened as Amy and Rose stepped in, inside was some slots around the room and for every slot there was a name of a member of Angels 4 Hell but for security there was a thumbprint scanner besides the slot, Rose placed her thumb on the scanner near her slot as so did Amy. When the thumbprint was identified correct she received a letter with a blue ribbon around it, this meant that it was semi- important but Rose always treated her missions as if it was urgent. Rose opened her envelope and read the instructions that were inside. After a couple of moments Rose dashed out of the Mission Room and into her room, where she got changed into her 'Battle suit' as she would call it. She was just about to leave when she saw an exhausted Amy running past her room and then coming back into view when she realised that Rose was in her room. She had to admit that she forgot all about Amy and had left her behind but she still looked funny nonetheless, and thus she chuckled slightly.

"Don't... You... Ever... Run... Without... Me... Ever... Again..." Amy said in between deep breaths, this made Rose chuckle even more.

"So... I take it that you are gonna come with me?" she said giving Amy the chance to change her mind.

"Yes... I am... Why not?" she asked now realising that Rose didn't want her to come.

"It's a killing mission," she paused not wanting Amy to come with her since she knew that Amy didn't like the sight of blood, but for Rose to her it seemed amusing... "I know how uncomfortable you get when I kill someone so I'm giving you a choice, do you still want to come?" Amy nodded; she wanted to learn how to kill someone with showing any regret, usually when she tried to kill someone, she couldn't bring herself to do so and thus Rose had to takeover from her. She couldn't understand how Rose could kill just like that, without showing any mercy, without showing any regret, and without showing any emotions. Rose had walked out of the room and walked over to where Amy was standing she looked at the watch that was on her arm, she then pressed the button on the side which would teleport them to their destination.

Meanwhile

Sonic was walking through Mobius in his 'disguise' he had keep to the shadows, not wanting to be noticed by the other people who were doing their daily routine. Why was he doing this? Well, Sonic was looking for the right place to make his move. Tonight will be the night where he would become bad, to steal or destroy something that had his sights on. Although he felt nervous of doing something that was against everything that he stood for but he had a good reason, for Amy. And she was more important then his stupid pride, he realised that now.

Back Then...

Amy rushed past the people that walked past her, she ran to her best friend's house, hopefully he wouldn't find her there, hope, the only thing that she could cling onto for now. She took out her key and tried to open the door, her whole body was shaking thanks to what she had just experienced moments ago. When she finally got the door she rushed to her room, being very careful to not make any noise that Cream would notice. She couldn't bear to talk to anyone at the moment, just to think that this morning she was the happiest girl to ever live but now look at her; she couldn't even go out without thinking about 'him'. She locked her bedroom door, tears that she never knew she had flew freely from her eyes and onto the pillow of which she held tightly to her chest, but what could she do about it? Nothing, she couldn't force him to love her; all she could do was to accept it, accept the fact that he doesn't love her, accept the fact that he hated her. She collapsed on her bed, holding onto any last emotions that she had left aside from the hurt and the pain that he had inflicted on her.

Now to Amy...

Amy on the other hand was on the rooftops of one of the buildings in Mobius, her and Rose was waiting for the perfect moment to complete their 'Mission' Rose watched the unsuspecting target for a couple of moments, occasionally she would ask Amy to see what the target was doing, Amy would stare at Rose for a moment before answering her, What was she, blind?. Amy then saw a movement in the corner of eye. She alerted Rose who watched the moving figure also. She then signalled Amy to take care of the figure while she would take care of the target. Amy nodded and used her skills to carefully sneak up behind the figure, but unfortunately the figure back flipped behind Amy and grabbed a hold of her arms therefore leaving her with not much movement to counter the surprise attack.

"May I ask what a pretty looking girl like you, attack someone like me?" the figure whispered in Amy's ear. Amy tired to attempt to wriggle out of his grip but to no avail.

"Hmph, as if I would give you my reasons," She replied after knowing that it was no use to struggle out of his strong grip. Sonic grinned (yes that's right the figure is Sonic) not believing his luck to find Amy once again. Sonic let go of Amy and let her face him. Amy had a quick scan at him. He wore what seemed like baggy jeans, a sleeveless top and a grey jacket over it, he also wore some dark shades, Amy smirked at the thought of Sonic wearing some shades, she mentally slapped herself for thinking of such a thing, she didn't want him back in her life so why was she continuing to think about him?

"Well, then may I ask what are you doing jumping off rooftops?" Sonic replied while folding his arms, noting the fact that she had came down from the roof and tried to attack him. Amy glared at him for a moment but then a sudden thought entered her mind, 'Jesus Christ he's HOT!!!!' she was shocked for a moment but then she regained composure and calmed down. 'Calm down girl, you only just met him' it was then that Sonic smirked at Amy when she didn't answer his question. Although Amy didn't know that the man standing in front of her was Sonic, nonetheless that smirk of his made her melt inside. Just then Rose had landed besides her with a ticked off look of her face. Amy looked at Rose for a moment, trying to figure out why she was so ticked off, but as always her eyes show no emotions, instead her facial expression showed it for her.

"Forgive me for intruding, but who are you?" Rose said with the hint of sarcasm in her voice. Sonic smirked again, even though smirking wasn't his style it always seemed to hide his true identity or so Shadow had said. Sonic bowed before answering.

"My name is Blackout," he paused so he could flash a smirk at Amy who was still aroused by his previous smirk, he and Shadow took what seemed like hours into figuring out a name that would hide his true name, but at last they came to a decision "I assume that the girl beside you is with you?" he said referring to Amy. Rose nodded, and then glanced at Amy, to see if she was ready to end this conversation and leave, but instead she found excitement in her eyes, she glanced back at Blackout and back at Amy again. Rose knew that look anywhere, Amy was obviously intrigued by Blackout and thus very eager to find out more about him, Rose elbowed Amy in the gut slightly to gain her attention, once that was succeeded she tilted her head to the side opposite Blackout, signalling that she wanted a quick word with her. Once both pink hedgehogs were out of earshot of Blackout, Rose started talking.

"Amy, I know that look in someone's eyes, your curious, curious about what heis like," Rose glanced at Blackout who was leaning against the wall – Shadow style. Amy also glanced at Blackout before answering, since he had smirked at her, her and her mind was in an endless battle. There was a question that had entered her mind, and thus she was confused of what she wanted, but drawing in a deep breath, she came to a conclusion.

"Can I recruit him Rose?" she asked a surprised Rose who was staring at her.

"Whoa hold on there Amy, we don't even know what his background is, for all we know he could be a spy. Or he could be a homicidal maniac..." Rose said grinning out the last bit.

"You're a homicidal maniac too you know." Amy said while pouting while Rose faced Amy, her arms crossed obviously proud of it.

"Why thank you, I do try my best." Rose bowed slightly while still smirking at Amy, before she came back to the matter at hand. "Well, I suppose you could recruit him, but he's going to have to prove worthy first." And with that she walked off and towards Blackout who tilted his head in Rose's direction, wondering what she and Amy had been talking about.

"May I ask you another question," not waiting for a answer Rose continued "do you have a strong stomach?" Rose said with confidence, while Blackout paused for a moment not sure what she was getting at, but thought that it would be better if he had answered her question.

"In answer to your question," he paused thinking about the consequences to his answer, but figured that there weren't any bad consequences he continued to answer "Yes, I do have a strong stomach although I fail to associate this to our previous conversation." he said calmly, remembering that Shadow had told him to act out of character of his true identity, thus making it harder for Amy to realise it was him.

"I wonder... There is a body on the second floor in the hotel; I want you to retrieve something from him." Rose said chuckling slightly, knowing what she wanted to ask him.

"Whoa, hold on there, why I should listen to you?" he said once again being calm. Rose chuckled again, as if she didn't know.

"Don't give me that," she looked at Amy who gave her a confused look, not sure what Rose was going to ask him, and not sure why Rose suddenly looked at her. "I can sense it, you're..." she paused trying to find the right word "Curious," Amy head snapped at Rose who merely smirked at her reaction. "Both of you are curious, not sure who either of you are, but there is that something that makes you drawn to each other... Am I correct?" Rose said raising a brow. Amy immediately looked to the ground when Rose had said that, she glanced at Blackout who too looked at little nervous and uneasy, on the other hand Rose chuckled. "Well then, I have a proposition for you Blackout," Rose watched his ears perked up before she continued, "A certain pink hedgehog has to recruit someone this year for a certain organization called Angels 4 Hell, and she was thinking that you might be a good recruit. Even though I have no idea what your background is, I am not allowed to choose who she can recruit and who she can't, therefore I shall give you three tests but the question that I am about to ask you is merely an acceptance to this proposition." she deliberately refused to say Amy's name, fearing that if Blackout refused the proposition that she was about to give him then Amy would be in danger. Of course Sonic was eager to hear this so called proposition but he kept his cool fearing that Amy might catch on.

"Very well, you have my attention, please continue." Sonic said, keeping his calm and steady tone.

"As I have said before there is a dead body of a man that had a little 'accident'" she smirked out the last part before continuing. "I want you to bring me his arm... All of the pieces, if you please." Rose watched the shocked look on both Amy and Blackout's faces, while she found it amusing, she had to admit that she didn't have to go to extreme lengths on which way she would kill her victims but in a way, it always amazes her on how she does them. Blackout looked at Rose to see if she was joking, but he couldn't found any signs of such and so he walked past Rose and Amy, slowly enough to see a hint of concern in Amy's eyes as he walked past. "Oh and here, you may need this too." Rose had tossed a bag at Blackout who caught it swiftly he then jumped onto the spot where Rose when she and Amy was watching the target, all of a sudden a strong smell of blood came from a window to the right, still thinking of Amy he quickly jumped through the window and took a glanced at the corpse. He quickly picked up the pieces, jumped out of the window and dashed back to Rose and Amy. Rose and Amy waited patiently, that is until Amy happened to speak up.

"Rose, may I ask what the hell were you thinking?" Amy asked the calmed and quiet Rose opposite her. Rose looked at Amy for a moment before speaking.

"I have no idea what you're talking about Amy..." she said before throwing one of her throwing knives upwards and catching it between her fingers, doing all this with her eyes closed.

"You didn't have to ask Blackout to do that!! I mean what is the point of it?!?!" Amy said exploding with anger while Rose kept throwing the same knife upwards and catching it between her fingers.

"All I was merely doing was to see if he was good enough for Angels 4 Hell, and also to see if he was a good enough training partner for you." Rose said calmly, once Amy had given her a chance to talk.

"What do you mean by training partner?" asked a confused Amy.

"Once you have recruited someone, you are supposed to teach and train with them until they have recruited someone else. Why do you think I have stopped training with Starlight?" Rose said while Amy took a moment to take in all the information given to her. It was now making sense to Amy; the first person Rose had recruited was Starlight, Starlight was under Rose's training that is until Rose had recruited her. But by doing so Rose had given Starlight the chance to train with Dash, and to also bring Amy into her new life. Amy was about to say something but then Blackout had jumped in between the two pink hedgehogs holding a bag with blood seeping through the bottom.

"I have brought what you have asked." Blackout said, trying hard not to sound too bothered about the fact that he had touched pieces of an arm of a dead person in the building opposite them. Rose on the other hand was grinning slightly.

"Well done Blackout." Rose continued to grin as she took the bag from Blackout and quickly took a glance at the pieces inside it. "And now for your first test Blackout." Rose finally said when satisfied that Blackout had done what she had asked him to do. Blackout took a deep breath before listening to Rose's first test.

Can I just say that this chapter was extremely hard for me to do, but nonetheless I have done it for all of my readers/fans who are reading this story and have given me loads of input about my previous chapters, thank you all!!