After the mall, Amy and Cream wanted a bit more time to each other before they parted ways. So they decided to head to the park. Being a nice day it was, at least spend it outside than a big, loud building. Window shopping may be an interesting topic to people, but stressful when others wanted to spend their whole wallet, but can't.
Walking through the park's entrance, Amy began to see things around the area that were now being closed off. Large man holes were still there, but now being covered up by dirt by the workers, and trees were still bare with burnt leafs and broken limbs. She sighed knowing who to blame for the destruction. Cream, however, was in total shock.
"Amy, what happened here?" she asked bewildered by the piles of burnt wood to left covered with construction signs.
The said female sighed, "The usual battle between good and evil as usual. But Eggman really did a number on the place. Not many people are coming in because of it." she explained looking around to only see a few couples and less kids.
Cream's ears drooped a bit, "How sad..." she pouted, "I thought for sure they would fix it up in time. I wanted to bring Cheese and Cherry here sometime.". Amy turned to her slightly surprised.
"Your looking after Cherry?" she asked.
She nodded, "Oh yes. Ms Alicia wanted me to look after her while she and her team do some detective work." she said smiling.
Amy smiled back, "How nice of you. I'm sure with all the destruction happening, the Chaotix would be working hard. I heard Vector found a gold locket worth millions of dollars. He gave it back to the owner and got at least five hundred.".
"Really? At least that money helped keep their business going on." Cream pointed out.
She nodded understanding about the ordeal the group was having. Vector was always trying to get more money so the team would still have a job, but cases were hard to find sometimes. The two friends continued on through the park moving away from the work sites seeing a few here and there that needed to redo.
As they continued, Amy then turned her head to a small little picnic table next to a large tree. She sighed to herself remembering that spot. It was the spot that she and Shadow, before he was turned to a baby, had their daily picnics. Shadow liked that place, cause the tree would give both of them a good shade. Amy would bring his favorite to eat and would occasionally talk about things before getting up and leaving.
Now that her boyfriend was a baby, she couldn't take him out for any dates. Unless it was a 'playdate'. Looking forward, Amy still couldn't help, but feel sad. Hopefully Tails would fix the machine and turn him back to normal, she thought trying to give herself some hope.
"Amy, look."
Her thoughts were stopped quickly seeing her friend pointing forward at the exit of the park. She didn't realize that she and Cream were almost to the end of the park. It was a small little park, but its still a good size to walk through, or maybe excersize. A couple police cars zoomed by the park fences surprising the two knowing two cars might not be good. Amy wanted to know what happened, so she rushed forward ignoring Cream's cries as she made her way through the park's exit and across the street after making sure no cars were coming.
She rushed over towards a store of mechanical appliances and such along with a group full of people. Waisting no time, she ran to the group and immediately forced her way through having some humans grunt in anger, "Excuse me! Coming through!" she groaned passing a few more till she finally got to the end and meeting up to a long line of police tape in front of her.
There she noticed the store itself was completely blown up. The outside was in peices and the inside was a wreck. Almost like a bomb had exploded and a tornado had entered. Amy noticed bits of broken glass and machines scattered all over the ground including a few bits of blood from unknown victims.
"Amy...!" she turned around to see Cream squeezing through the humans like her barely getting through. Amy grabbed her hand and pulled her through hard, "Th-Thank you...what happened?" she asked looking at the scene of the crime.
Amy shook her head, "I'm not sure...but I think I might have an idea on who did it." she answered, then grabbed the tape then proceeded to go through.
"Hey!" she was quickly stopped by a young police man rushing towards her, "This is a dangerous area, so keep away!".
"But, I want to see it more closely!" Amy shouted back.
The police man shook his head, "I won't allow it. Now get back, or-"
"-It's ok, officer. Those two are with us."
Amy, Cream, and the man turned to see their friendly detective, Espio coming up to them holding a black note book and clipboard in hand, "I called them asking to come over. They might know something about this robbery." he told him eyeing the man directly.
The police man cleared his throat and backed away, "Yes.." he said quietly turning away to another part of the group.
Amy crawled out from under the tape and held it up for Cream to follow, "Thanks, Espio." she said now walking behind him after he motioned them to follow, "So you said this was a robbery?".
"Yes. We know it is because the cable wires have been cut from outside." he explained, "Somehow, someone proceeded to cut the cords so the cameras inside and out wouldn't find out who it was, then blew out the entrance to steal what was inside.".
"But, didn't any bystanders see this culprit?" Cream asked slightly nervous.
Espio shook his head, "This happened when it was dark out. After the explosion was heard, people called the police, but they got here too late. The firefighters came and took out the fire, but at least a dozen people were harmed in the attack. That's why their still here trying to see what happened. But we got eye witnesses telling us that it either mutants, or robots.".
Amy raised an eyebrow, "Uh...mutants?" she asked.
Shrugging his shoulders, he continued, "Either they were drunk, or they thought of seeing large aliens outside. But with the robot idea, we might know who it was.".
Espio took the two away from the crowd and over towards an ambulance that was still parked with a few police guarding the area. Over there, they met up with the rest of the team. Vetor was by the ambulance talking with another police man trying to see what else they could try to do to help, Charmy was inside the car holding a big first aid box next to Alicia, who was sitting down on a small bench taking care of one of the many victims that were caught in the explosion.
Amy quicly rushed over towards the open back of the car, "Amy!" Charmy shouted happily seeing her before his 'sister' noticed.
Alicia turned to her while wrapping the medical wrap around an elder mans arm, "Amy, Cream! What are you doing here?" she asked.
"We were walking in the park till we heard the commotion. Did anyone get seriously hurt?" Cream spoke up first seeing the injured man inside.
"Yeah, but their ok in the hospital. This guy says he saw what happened before he got away." the little bee continued turning to the man.
He looked like he was in his late forties still wearing his work shirt and pants, but now covered in blood and dirt. His brown hair was a mess and had a few scrapes on his face. He looked up at them, but looked away in fear. Alicia sighed, "Sir, we want to help you, but right now, you need to tell us. What did you see?" she asked trying to hide the annoyance in her voice.
"He's been liked this since. We tried asking, but he's too scared to tell us." Espio said looking back at the two.
Cream looked down sadly, "How sad." she pouted.
Amy sighed herself, "I feel awful for him. Must've been very bad seeing the people around you getting hurt by the explosion, thinking that it was the end of the whole thing..their whole lives.." she said sadly looking at the man sympatheticly.
"I-It was..."
All four turned to him surprisingly. The man finally lifted his head up to see them again feeling like he could cry, "It was bad...seeing the costumers, my friends being blown up like that, it was...terrible.".
Alicia turned to Amy shocked a bit, the turned back to him, "Sir, your friends are safe. Everyone is doing just fine. I assure you about that, could you please tell us what happened?" she gently urged him.
The man sighed not wanting to go into detail, but couldn't contain it anymore, "I...I saw...somthing dark outside. My friends didn't think of it after closing...we went back till the lights went out...then we saw the figure coming up to the doors of the store. He sat something down, then turned away quickly. My coworker went over to see what it was, but the thing...it was a bomb. It blew up and threw us back. They were all out, but...I thought I could see that...it was something horrifying.".
Charmy felt a little skiddish hearing what happened. Amy intervened wanting to know desperately who it was, "Did you see who it was?" she asked.
The man shook like he was freezing, "It had red eyes. He looked like one of you...but he looked like...that hedgehog...our hero...he turned on us..why...?" he whimpered covering his face with his hands.
"Red eyes?" Espio copied.
"Looked like the hero?" Cream followed.
Everyone was quiet thinking of who it was. After a few seconds, they all suddenly gasped.
"Metal Sonic!"
Happy Halloween everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed this. I wanted to add a few serious stuff to it. If it's bad, I'm sorry bout that. I'm not good at all this police stuff and crap. But I wanted to put in a good part to make to make it more epic. Well not epic, just cool I guess. But you all get to see why I put this in in the next chapter!
Also, Cherry is Alicia's special Chao friend. I wanted to have a little cameo of her in it.