HEY! I'M SO SORRY I"VE BEEN GONE! I was ssssssoooooooo busy with school starting, I seriously had NO TIME and NO EFFORT to do this story- SCHOOL HAS DRAINED ME! anyways, here's the long awaited ch, enjoy!

Chapter 6

I was shocked at what I was seeing; I almost wanted to scream in frustration! How could this be? I stood there tapping my foot with my arms crossed, but I was about to let out my piko-piko hammer. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles encircled what we were all staring at and angry to see.

"What are two thinking? Coming back here to taunt us a little more?" Knuckles asked them punching his gloves together. After all their treachery, they had the nerve to come back onto our ship; Rouge and Shadow! Rouge was the first to speak up nervously, saying, "Calm down Knuckie," she smiled playfully at him, "Look we were tricked by Eggman too so we thought we might be able to help each other out."

"What reason do we have to believe you?" Tails interrogated.

"We brought a peace offering." Shadow answered. He lifted up the green chaos emerald. "Here." He threw it Sonic and he caught it.

"You're giving it to us?"

"We really want you guys to trust us; we felt awful after Eggman pulled that stunt with testing out the experiment on you." Rouge said innocently enough.

"Yeah right," I thought out loud, everybody looked over at my disapproval, "you probably knew you were going to hurt Sonic with whatever that thing was!" I turned my grimacing glare at Sonic. "Sonic, if you want to trust them then fine! But if we get into trouble again, don't say I didn't warn you!" I stomped out of the room satisfied with my announcement. I had been talking to Sonic, but really I wanted the message to get to Shadow; I wanted him to know I was still mad at him. I marched down the empty hall, suddenly thinking about the night before; Sonic's bite mark.

"Looks like I've made peace with my faker," Shadow said behind me. I gasped at his abrupt appearance. "But have I made peace with you?" I winced at the question. Why would he care if I was still mad at him? I finally turned to face him.

"Who cares?" I demanded. "I guess since you're here that means you're okay to stay on the ship with us?" I complained some more, trying not to seem like I was anxious about his appearance.

"Humph. You're right. Guess that means I'll be seeing you around here later." He sped passed me. I gasped at the burst of wind he had caused.

"You jerk!" I yelled out to him, but he probably couldn't here me by now.

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After a while, I went to the kitchen. Cream was making one of her famous strawberry shortcakes. She had just finished putting the batter into the glass pan and placed it into the oven. Sonic sauntered into the room slowly, like he was tired.

He slouched into one of the chairs that encircled the kitchen table. He sighed with a little grunt in his voice as he bobbed his head up to face the ceiling.

"Sonic!" Cream cheered excitedly. She raced over to him with Cheese by her side holding the bowl with batter in it. Do you want the rest of the batter? Its really good!" Sonic didn't even flinch.

"No, Cream." He murmured. "I'm tired."

"But my mom says that it will take your mind of things." She neared the bowl more to his face. Quickly he swat the bowl away and it settled from Cream's hands and hit the floor. Cream gasped and almost started crying; Sonic didn't seem to care. I jumped in right away.

"What's wrong with you Sonic?!" I scolded, "Don't take your stress out on Cream; she doesn't know any better!" He clenched his fists and forced his way to my direction. He pushed me against the wall with his hands on my shoulders.

"She's gonna have to learn eventually Amy: life is cruel." He muttered, unfazed by his actions. He let me go willingly and sauntered out of the room with his head down. I stood, frozen, confused. I almost began shacking. Sonic didn't talk like this; he NEVER talked negatively. Especially not to me he talked this way. I saw Shadow pass by the room and he tilted his head to look at Sonic. He shook his head as he watched Sonic leave. Then he looked up at me. To my surprise he was smiling; a rare occasion for Shadow. He knew something. He knew why Sonic was acting so different and his smile represented his pleasure in watching me worry about it; worry about Sonic.

"Here, Cream," I helped her clean up the batter on the floor. She was sniffling and crying.

"I didn't mean to make Sonic mad." She told me.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Cream." I assured her. "Something's going on with Sonic, that's all."

"She just triggered that 'something', that's all." Shadow added. I wasn't thinking right, I turned around and pushed him.

"No body asked for your opinion! What do you know anyway? Why is Sonic like this? You did something to him, didn't you?!" Shadow shook his head before just walking out. "ANSWER ME!" I yelled out in frustration. Now I was the one who wanted to start crying. I couldn't just give up though; I had to find out what was going on.

"EEEEEEKKKK!" Cream screamed. She was staring terrified at the door way. I turned my head quickly. My jaw dropped. I was about to scream also but the monster grabbed my and dragged me out of the kitchen.