Chapter 5

Chapter 5

I hopped out of bed quickly the next morning. I'm pretty sure it was morning anyways, you can't really tell in outer space. I wanted to spend time with Sonic as much as I could since he would probably be leaving to go stop Eggman. For some reason, I was hoping I would see Shadow too; it irritated me that I had not thanked him yet for cleaning up my stuff. Although, he had messed it all up in the first place.

"'morning Amy," Tails said to me when I entered the control room. Everyone was in there like we were having a meeting or something.

"'Morning everyone, I thought I was early." I said looking around at all the staring eyes.

"You are, we just started." Sonic said. Hearing him and seeing him made my heart race. I jumped over to him and hugged him. He gave that obnoxious flinch he usually gives when I cuddle to him.

"Get a room you two," Knuckles teased. I let go of Sonic quickly when he said that, realizing I was hugging him in front of everyone. I giggled to loosen the tension I felt. Sonic gave a weak smile back to me.

"Okay, so as we were saying," Rouge said as if implementing I had disturbed them, "Shadow and Sonic will go into the control room and take the Chaos emeralds from Eggman. Knuckles and I will bug the program from the engine room with the password I obtained. We're all infiltrating the base through from where the canon is at. Any questions?"

"I'll be 10 kilometers away with the X-Tornado, correct?" Tails inquired.

"That's right. You'll be our escape pod for when we have to evacuate Eggman's base quick. So you and your friends just sit tight here." What did Rouge mean by that? You and your friends just sit tight here? That was rude. Why couldn't she just say Amy and Cream?

"Alright then everyone, let's go stop Eggman!" Sonic declared as he jumped up. When he said that, I turned my attention to Shadow, who was giving a weird smile to Rouge, who was smiling back. It reminded me of Shadow's WARNING. I held on to Sonic's arm, squeezing it, so he would know that there was something wrong. I had forgotten all about thanking Shadow, and that fear I had when I was around him crept back up on me.

"Alright we're almost there," Tails announced, "initiating invisible shield." I had always wondered how that worked; a shield that made a whole ship vanish? Sonic walked with me out of the room.

"What's wrong?" He whispered. "You're not upset about the mission, are you?" I shook my head.

"It's just, Shadow…"

"Hey you ready to go Sonic?" Shadow came up behind us. Sonic smirked at his rival.

"Just waiting for you, buddy." He said with an intently, friendly, glare at the other hedgehog.

"Let's go stop Eggman then," Shadow said. His gaze was suddenly on me for a quick second. I winced in Sonic's arms, but he let me go as he, Shadow, Rouge, and Knuckles boarded the shuttle.

"Bye Sonic," I said quietly. He winked at me and gave me a thumb up as the doors closed.

"Shuttle has lift off," Tails inquired, "They should land on the canon and sneak in later on." I couldn't help but feel I had made a huge mistake now. Was I wrong to not tell Sonic about what Shadow had said to me? His words were ringing in my ears now, and what was Shadow doing in my room, anyways?

"I'm going to my room," Cream declared, "I'll be right back!" She skipped along with Cheese floating by her side out of the control room. I sighed to wheeze the lump out of my throat. I felt really uneasy suddenly. Tails was quiet as he pressed a few buttons on the control panel. I watched from a distance, since the controls were on a high platform. May be everything was fine and I was just paranoid. Suddenly I felt hard metal bump softly against the back of my head.

"Don't move, Amy." A gun was pushing my head down. I heard it click. Tails looked up quickly to see what was going on.

"Dr. Eggman!" He exclaimed. Eggman's cackle was heard from behind me as I stood there helpless and paralyzed with fear.

"Hello, fox brat, long time no see!"

"Let her go," Tails stammered nervously, "how'd you get on the ship!?"

"Why Rouge and Shadow turned off your security alarm of course." Eggman explained.

"I knew it!" I blared out. "I knew there was something wrong!" Eggman poked the point of the gun at my head.

"Shut up! You should have listened to your instincts a long time ago!" He snickered between sentences. "It's too late now. You're coming with me, Amy. I know that your friends are at my ship right now, but they can't foil my plans if I'm not even there! Let's go!" He poked me again as if telling me to move.

"Tails," I whimpered, even though I knew that was helpless too.

"Stop it Eggman," Tails pleaded, "Take me instead!" Eggman laughed.

"You're going to be my messenger boy, Tails. If Sonic gets back here, tell him I've got his little girlfriend. Besides, I got information from a very important resource that Amy would be a better bargaining chip than you." I realized it when he said that. I realized what Shadow meant now when he told me not to come up here. Just so we're clear, I DID WARN YOU."