Disclaimer: If I owned them, trust, I would not be wasting time writing about them.

Sorry it took so long……..I'm not even gonna make excuses; I was just lazy. Yeah, a little was school and little of my mom and other stuff but mostly laziness. I'm trying not to be so lazy though; my grandmother doesn't fail to tell me laziness can kill a person. Anyways……..yeah, lights, camera, action.

"You put up quite a fight back there Rouge."

Shadow wrapped his bleeding hand in a bandage while Rouge made muffling sounds. That was only because she was tied in a chair and tape was on her mouth as Amy. Their muffling noises began to irritate Shadow as he finished with his hand.

"Alright. Since you have so much to say, I'll let you speak your mind, but I'll advise you to think about what you say before you say it."

He ripped the tape off of Rouge's mouth.

"You're a dead man!" Rouge growled.

"So much for thinking." Shadow walked over to Amy "Good luck with that."

"Ow!" Amy cried.

Shadow ripped the tape off of her mouth and took a seat on a desk.

"Congratulations, you are now apart of the game. You were before but now you have a bigger role. Amy can fill you in on all details; if you have any questions ask her."

Rouge then noticed Amy and gave her a smile that said 'everything's going to be fine', and gave Shadow a look that said 'when I get out of this chair……...God help us all'.

"I only snatched you up to anger that hot headed boyfriend of yours." He turned the walkie talkie off "By the way, I need a nick name for him. Any ideas?"

"What are you talking about?" Amy asked.

"You know, I call Sonic, superman and most recently Mr. Unstable. I need a name for the red one."

"How about butt kicker? 'Cause that's exactly what he's going to be doing when he finds you." Rouge said not even trying to hind her anger.

"I don't like your attitude." Shadow said in a matter of fact way.

"Call 1-800-who gives a care."

"I told Amy to watch her sarcasm and the same rule applies to you too."

Shadow was now in her face, trying to scare Rouge, but he was failing.

"Kiss…..My……" Rouge began slowly but harshly.

"Astronauts. Aren't they great? Those are the real heroes. You got to love their zero gravity ways." Amy said quickly.

They looked at her and then Shadow put the gun under Rouge's neck.

"That's no way to talk to someone who controls your future is it?"

"I control my own future." She spit in his face.

Shadow wiped his face "You would think that wouldn't you?" Then he hit her across the head with the gun. "Well you can think again." (Oh my gosh. I REALLY did not want to make him hit her. But I had no choice. How many people, let alone nut jobs, do you know that are gonna let someone spit in their face and get away with it? What about you? I'm not trying to be mean but I know I'm not just gonna stand there.)

"No wonder you two belong together." Shadow mumbled as he walked back to the desk.

Rouge was knocked out and the side of her head was bleeding. (It doesn't seem so bad now that she's unconscious) Amy on the other hand had a shocked/terrified look glued on her face.

"Finally a break from her mouth." He then noticed Amy's expression "Don't worry, I don't plan on hitting you………….as hard."

Sonic and his brothers were in the car driving, trying to figure out their next move.

"What should we do now?" Manic asked.

"May be we should find Knuckles." Sonic suggested.

"No. He'll come back sooner or later." Tails said.

"How about we discuss this over breakfast, eh? My treat." Manic said.

As they were driving Sonic noticed Sally walking and it was only a matter of time before she saw them.

"Speed up! Speed up!" Sonic hissed.

"I'm at a red light."

Too late; Sally walked over to the car.

"Hi Sonic." She said looking at everything and everyone else but Sonic.

"Oh its you." Sonic said thinking about the locker room "Look Sally, don't take this personal but I don't want to see you right now."

Sally didn't hear a thing he said as she was too busy staring at his brothers.

"Who's your friends?"

"My brothers. Meet Not" he pointed to Manic "And Interested" he pointed to Tails "Get it?"

"I'm Manic and that's Tails."

"Pleasure to meet you." Tails said.

"Where are you off too?"

"A place that doesn't involve you attending." Sonic mumbled.

"To the diner not far from here." Tails said.

"Mind if I join?"

"Yes." Sonic said harshly.

"No." Manic glared at Sonic "Why the attitude?"

She hopped in and they headed to a nearby diner and got a small table near the window. They all ordered except Sally, who was not hungry.

"Sonic you never told me you had to brothers."

There's a reason for that – Sonic thought to himself. "Yeah, it must've slipped my mind."

"So you're Sonics ex girlfriend?" Manic asked.

"Absolutely."

"Not." Sonic added. "Hey can we go to the bathroom really quick?"

"Why?" Manic asked.

"Just come on." He got up "You too Tails."

The three brothers headed into the bathroom; unfortunately Sonic forgot to take something important.

"Hello?" Sally spoke into the walkie talkie.

While waiting she was bored and noticed the walkie talkie on the seat. When there was no response, Sally set it down and sighed.

"Sally."

Sally looked dead at the WT (Walkie Talkie) and said hello.

"I have a business proposal for you."

"Who is this?" Sally asked.

"I'll tell you if or when I want to. Although I doubt you don't know."

"……How do you know me?"

"Can we skip all the pointless questions please? I need you to do me a favor."

"So you want me, Sally, to do you, a total stranger, a favor?"

"If you like to dumb things down yeah. You are going to inform the police you know where Sonic is." Shadow said slyly.

"Why would I do that?"

"Because you do."

"That doesn't mean I want to rat him out." Sally said.

"You don't like him anyway. And it's not a question of want. You are."

"Right because you're my dad."

"……….Your sarcasm is not needed. Listen to this." There was a pause "Help me! Help me!" It was a female's voice. It was Amy.

"Amy?" Sally said quietly.

"And Rouge too. She's just………taking a nap."

"Amy and Rouge? Shadow." It clicked to her.

"Bingo." Another pause "Do you know what that means?"

"No."

"It means I can kidnap whoever I want, whenever I want and not only that, but I can get away with it too………and if you don't obey………guess who's next on my list."

Sally didn't answer as she already knew the answer.

"And the difference between Amy, Rouge and you………they have someone looking for them, while you on the other hand won't."

Realization set in to Sally and she knew everything he said was true. So she had no choice.

"Why can't you do it?"

"Sonic already hates me. Serious animosity. If I do it, it'll make him even angrier, and anger is one thing that blinds someone from achieving their goal. And no matter what anyone thinks………I want him to achieve this goal."

"So if I do it…….it'll make him mad at me?" Sally said.

"What do you think?"

Sally was about to make a rude remark but Sonic and his brothers were on their way out. She quickly put the WT back down and acted normal.

"Hey, uh, Sally, we were kinda wondering if you……." Tails started.

"I was just leaving." She got up and left quickly.

Although it struck Sonic as odd he shrugged it off.

"So he has Amy and Rouge?" he asked.

"Yeah. What should we do now?"

"Maybe we should ask for a clue." Tails suggested.

"Shouldn't we wait until Knuckles is here?"

"No he'll have his own clue."

Manic twitched a little when he heard the WT and put his hand over the mouth piece.

"Yo, shouldn't we turn this thing off? He can hear everything we say."

"We can't, what if we miss a clue?" Sonic said.

"So he can hear whatever we say but he can turn his off whenever he pleases?"

"Unfortunately yes, he has the upper hand." Tails said in an apologetic voice.

Manic, now ticked off, removed his hand and slumped down.

"Here's your order." The lady brought them their meal.

They began eating except for Manic and Tails took a notice.

"Manic why aren't you eating?"

"Not hungry." He pushed his food away before throwing some money on the table and leaving. "I'm going to the car."

Tails was concerned and stopped eating while Sonic grabbed Manics plate and began eating it. When they were finished they left and noticed the car was gone. Tails called him while Sonic leaned against a wall and waited. It was then Sonic noticed the police down the street.

"Manic said he'll be here in a few."

"We should get out of here." Sonic said tugging at his brother's arm.

"Why?"

Before Sonic responded police circled around them. A man in a trench coat and hat walked towards them. They guy looked like a porcupine.

"Sonic. We just want to talk." He said.

"Sorry, I don't have the time." Sonic backed up.

"That's too bad. That means my buddies here will have to do extra work."

He emphasized extra work and Sonic noticed the police reach in their pockets and pull out guns. But they didn't look like regular guns.

"They need it; it looks like all those donuts caught up with them."

Sonic grinned and the porcupine frowned.

"Hey, I'd love to stay and chat but I got work to do so……..bye."

With that Sonic zoomed off but he didn't make it far before he realized he left Tails. He ran back to get him and along the way he felt an eerie pain shoot up hit up thigh. He looked back and felt………….. a needle? No. A dart. A dart that was making him feel dizzy and funny. Sonic ran trying to find Tails but he had no such luck. Finally he saw the porcupine holding his brother or he thought it was Tails. He wasn't sure; his vision was blurred. Finally after running in a bunch of circles Sonic collapsed and went to sleep.

When Sonic woke up he found himself back in the hospital and it almost looked like the same room. The only difference was he was tied down to the bed and the porcupine was there. His trench coat was still on but his hat was off and he had more spikes on his head than Sonic thought was possible. His eyes were ice blue; they looked so cold, as if they were frozen. He was smoking a cigarette and he didn't seem to care that he was sitting in the chair right next to Sonic. He also had a clipboard on his lap and a frown the clearly said he didn't want to be here.

Sonics head was pounding and he could barely talk straight.

"Wally Tally." Sonic mumbled.

"What?" the porcupine looked at him.

"The walkie talkie." Sonic said a little louder.

"Right. It's on the other side of you. Hey kid, aren't you too old for toys?"

"Toys? It's a matter of life and death." He paused breathing heavily "What did you in-in-inject me with?"

"That doesn't matter now, now does it?" he paused "I just want to ask you a couple of questions."

"Why am I here? Where is Tails?"

"Did you not just hear me say I'm asking the questions? First…..why did you escape in the first place?"

"I had to save Amy."

"Okay." He wrote something down "And did you succeed?"

"No because some spiky headed kook took me back to the hospital." Sonic said harshly.

The porcupine grinned and blew a puff of smoke dead in Sonics nose. Sonic started coughing a little.

"My name is Necter." He wrote something down "Who is Amy?"

"What are you writing down?"

"Who is Amy?" Necter repeated himself.

Sonic clenched his teeth and looked away not wanting to answer him.

"Look kid, the longer it takes for you to answer me the longer it's going to take for you to save this so called Amy."

"She's real."

"And so is the 1000 dollar bonus my boss promised me; kid, can we get serious, you're too old for this."

Sonic spit in his face. After Necter wiped him face, he sighed and put his cigarette on his cheek. (I had no choice!)

"Ahhhhh!" Sonic yelped in pain.

"That's what you get you miserable hedgehog! You're lucky I didn't shove it down your throat!"

Necter threw his cigarette down and stepped on it.

"Now, I'm going to leave for a second and when I return were going to start over." He left out and Sonic could hear him mumbling "I waste of a perfectly good cigarette."

Sonic was mad but he wasn't going to give up. He tried to get a loose again and again failed.

"I've change my mind, lucky you, eh?"

Immediately the anger left Sonic and confusion replaced it.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"I've decided to give you another clue."

Sonic was about to say something but he was interrupted.

"What a coincidence, your mind changes after the pol—" It was Rouge "Unless you want to get knocked out again I suggest you shut your trap…………You're next clue it under the table you sat at with Amy at Hedgehog Headquarters. Oh and Knuckles clue is there too so I suggest you find him if you can. You have 20 minutes."

Sonic sat in silence not confused or angry just…..not sure. He wasn't moving or thinking…..what could he do?

"Your time starts now."

I hope this chapter was alright, sorry again it was late and all. I'll try not to let it happen again. I should have the next chapter up soon. Bye. -AquaRaven