Chapter 5

Eggman took me with him back to the ARK. I was so nervous I would see Sonic there; I just didn't want to have gotten in the way again! And Shadow; he knew this was gonna happen to me! That, that..!

"Sonic," Eggman announced through a big intercom, "I have a little surprise for you in the central space room. Why don't you come pay Amy and I a visit?" He hung up the intercom and turned to me. I was standing there, once again, with a gun pointed to my head.

"Well now, this is all too familiar, isn't it, Amy?" He teased. I ignored his snickering and looked around the round room. It was the same room we had been in when Eggman demanded that Sonic give him a chaos emerald, before he almost blew Sonic up in space (Sonic Adventure Battle 2). I waited anxiously for the doors to open, this time Tails wasn't here to comfort me. After a while of silence, Eggman tied my hands around this pole that was connected to a machine- this machine hadn't been here before, and it kinda looked like a case. There was something inside this, case.

"Amy!" Sonic dashed in after Shadow and Rouge, then Knuckles.

"Oh, Sonic!" I cried to him. "Hey, stay away from Shadow and Rouge! They're-" Rouge cut me off after she kicked Knuckles back into the other room. Shadow tried attacking Sonic too, but Sonic slid passed him so he could be in front of me. Shadow tilted his head at Sonic with a smirk.

"Hello, Sonic," Eggman pulled the tension towards him, "Now's not the time to be fighting back." He pushed the gun more into my head. "Now, why don't you come over here and stand in front of this machine?" Sonic glared at him, with a smirk, and waltzed calmly towards the case.

"No Sonic…" I whimpered.

"Shut up." Eggman threatened. "Now, Sonic, let's try one of my grandfather's flawless experiments on you!" Eggman pushed a few buttons on the case and it opened.. A demonic cloud poured out of the case, and it circled the entire room.

The mist I was inhaling was clogging up my throat! I was freaking out, I fell to my knees as I started coughing and gasping for air. I tried crawling but my hands were still tied to the pole. The air I had left was slowly choking me, until somebody cut my hands free and picked me up by the waist and pulled me forward. Whoever was holding me didn't stop running until we reached the doorway and everything was clear again. We both fell on the floor in relief and started gasping for the clean air around us.

When I turned my head to the side and saw who was lying next to me, I yelled.

"You?!" I retorted to my rescuer.

"Hmph. Well that's a fine response. You're welcome for saving your life, by the way." I slapped him on the cheek, ignoring his snickering and taunting.

"You tricked me!" I yelled.

"I did just the very opposite, Amy." He stated. I knew what he meant when he said that. "I WARNED you, remember? I told you not come here and see this."

"Oh yeah? See what exactly? What's that, that creature gonna do to Sonic?!"

"Hmph. You'll find out." He snickered, rubbing his red cheek. I was getting rather tired of his teasing. I grabbed the fur on his chest with both hands and pulled him up to me.

"Listen you!" I yelled with all my fury, "If you don't tell me what's going to happen, I'll tear you to shreds!" He grabbed my arms and held them tightly. I winced in pain.

"You're brave," he commented, "trying to threaten me, of all people, takes guts." He leaned in closer. "I don't have time to be afraid of you, though." His smile slowly faded. "Please, don't get involved."

"What do you mean by that? If my Sonic's involved, of course I'm gonna be a part of it!" I retorted.

"You don't get it, do you?" He chuckled, "a girl like you will get hurt in a situation like this, so leave while you can." He actually sounded worried, which scared me for some reason.

"You're the one who doesn't get it! When you love someone you don't just leave them to die!" I pulled my arms away from his grasp. He let go willingly since he appeared to be shocked by my answer. I was about to march back into the center room, but Sonic beat me to it. He came out, with scratches and bruises, and was breathing hard. "Sonic!" I fell to his side.

"Well, looks like the professor's project did a number on you, Sonic." Shadow taunted. Sonic looked up at him and smirked.

"Indeed, I guess that means you aren't the Ultimate Life Form then." Sonic teased back. Shadow grimaced. Then, an abrupt howl emerged from the room. I gasped.

"Sonic..?" I was hoping he would say what was inside that had made the noise, but instead he looked back in the smoky room before picking me up.

"We're outta here, Amy." He explained, then he dashed off into the halls, leaving everything and everyone behind. We jumped in the shuttle and saw Knuckles inside of it, already preparing to blast off. I couldn't help but notice that he had a boot mark on his cheek.

"Ready, Sonic?" he asked. Sonic nodded his head and Knuckles didn't hesitate to fly the escape pod away. I twirled my head towards the back so I could see the ARK fading into the black abyss that was space.

"Are you okay, dude?" Sonic had asked Knuckles. "You got a few kick marks on yuh!"

"I'm fine, but what about you? Gees Sonic, you're all cut up and stuff!" I turned my attention to the wounded Sonic, who winced when I touched his shoulder.

"Sonic?" I asked faintly, "What was that thing that did this to you?"

"It doesn't matter." He snapped.

"Well it matters to me!" I barked back. He looked up at me seriously, I flinched because Sonic never seemed to have a serious face.

"I don't care, just leave it alone." He snarled. I kept my mouth shut the rest of the trip back to the X-tornado. When we finally got there, Sonic walked on without saying a word.

"Yay, they're back!" Cream exclaimed.

"Hey, you guys made it!" Tails praised. "How did it go? Did you stop Eggman?"

"Well, not exactly." Knuckles answered. "But, I'm sure there wasn't even a real weapon except for whatever it was Sonic fought."

"Oh wow," Tails gaped at Sonic's bloody wounds, "What happened? You okay Sonic?"

"I'll live." He replied flatly. "Now, if you'll excuse me, its late. I'm gonna go clean myself off and go to bed." He waltzed slowly towards his room. Well obviously something was wrong, so I ran after him. We were walking in the hall by ourselves and even standing next to him he didn't say anything.

"Sonic, why won't you talk to anyone?" I finally spoke up.

"Because, I don't want to talk." He mumbled. He was holding onto the side of his neck.

"Um, what's wrong with your neck?" he didn't answer. I didn't care how pissed off he was, I wanted to see what he was covering. I pulled his hand away.

"Amy!" He yelled. I couldn't believe it. Sonic had a bite mark on his neck. I was so shocked that when he pushed me away I didn't move a muscle. "What's wrong with you?!" He demanded.

"Sonic… what is that?" He put his hands on my shoulders.

"Listen, Amy, don't tell anyone about this, okay?"

"I…"

"Promise me!" He shook me a little, expecting an answer. He seemed angry as it was. And whatever had given Sonic that bite mark, he didn't seem to want anybody to know what it was.

"Okay," I promised weakly.

"C'mon Amy! You can't say anything, got it?" He sounded a bit distraught and his green eyes were staring hard into my own.

"Alright, I won't tell anyone, Sonic."

BC737: Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I was on vacation, then I hit writer's block, then I lost my compassion for the story altogether! But I watched a couple of Sonic AMV's on youtube, then I got my inspiration back! Sorry about that, haha. Anyway thanks for reading and thanks for the reviews!