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Sonic stared at the ceiling without blinking nor thinking. He was tired, confused and angry all at the same time. He even considered giving up. What could he do? He was trapped on a clumpy bed in a hospital room with a spiky headed dude who burned his face with a cigarette outside of it.

He closed his eyes and tried to remember what his life used to be like. All he saw was darkness, more darkness and even more darkness; he couldn't remember anything. Then before he opened his eyes he saw pink in the middle of the darkness. The pink was Amy, her eyes as blue and fun as the ocean, and her smile happier than Mr. Rogers could ever be.

Sonic opened his eyes and sighed heavily; giving up just wasn't an option. He looked at the clock which said 6:30 and then back at the walkie talkie.

"Can I have ten more minutes?"

There was no answer so he repeated the question.

"Ask me again."

"Can I have ten more minutes?"

"No…wait, one more time."

"Can I have ten more minutes?"

"Hmph, no. Wait, maybe…ask again."

"Can I have ten more minutes?"

"…no, well…eh, ask again."

"Can I ha…" it then clicked that whoever this was playing with him.

Sonic grew irritated and he felt a burst of energy. He immediately started to struggle to get a loose but it wasn't working. He gave it his all and more but that still wasn't enough. He didn't quit though, he kept struggling. That's when Necter walked back into the room.

He saw Sonic struggling and ignored him. He pulled out a cigarette and a lighter and lit it before sitting down. He set the lighter on the stand next to Sonics bed and closed his eyes. Sonic continued to struggle for the next five minutes until he was out of energy. He breathed hard as he looked at porcupine and finally back at the ceiling.

"Are you done?" he asked opening his eyes.

Sonic didn't answer, he just kept breathing deeply as he stared at the ceiling.

"Great. Now if we can start over, I'm Detective Necter and I want to ask you a couple of questions."

"Where is Tails?"

"Let's not go through this again please, it's a waste of time. I just want to get the info and bounce, okay?"

"Where is Tails?" he said again "I'm not gonna answer any of your questions until you answer mines."

"Look who just grew some ba-

"Where is Tails?" he growled.

Necter blew some more smoke in his face and laughed. Sonic coughed and then struggled to free himself again.

"You're not in a position to be making demands." He grinned.

Sonic glared at him "Where is Tails?"

"Six feet under." He laughed some more "The same place you're gonna end up if you don't straighten up your act."

"Where is Tails?"

Necter got up and stood over Sonic. He was about to blow more smoke in his face but then he looked into his emerald green eyes and got distracted by his reflection.

"I look good." He rubbed his spikes "I should be a model or something. You think? Not stuck with this cheap, irritating job."

"For the love of Pete! Where is Tails!" Sonic shouted.

Necter looked a little shocked that he yelled at him but then he sighed and sat down. He took a long drag on his cancer stick and stretched out his legs. He saw he was gonna get nowhere and he didn't have the patience to stay there all day.

"Lucky for you, I got stuff to do later and I don't wanna put them off so I can keep arguing with you. So I'm gonna answer your pointless questions and then you answer mines and I jet, okay?" He sighed again "Miles and the green one, Maniac, have been taken in for questioning."

"Its Manic."

"You say that as if I care." He shrugged.

Sonic ignored him "For what?"

"We need to know something's about you."

"Why?"

"I'm a detective and I was assigned the case, trust, it was not for my leisure." He said "All we wanna know is the basic things. How did you act when you were younger? How was school going? Did you have a history of using illegal drugs? Did someone shoot you or did you do it to yourself? Did you-

"Illegal drugs? Did I do it to myself? Are you kidding me? You think I'm tryna kill myself?"

"Not anymore." He smiled "Now I think you're just a full blooded loon."

Necter then blew a smoke ring "Yes! I've been tryna do that for the longest." He did it again and laughed "That's skill."

Sonic clenched his teeth and growled with frustration. He looked at the clock; 11 more minutes.

"Listen, I don't have time for this." Sonic said "I need you to let me go."

Necter stopped laughing "We all need things kid."

"I'm serious; I have to go save Amy."

"Right, about her. What exactly does she need to be saved from?"

"She's been kidnapped," He said quickly "And I have to find her in ten minutes or he'll kill her."

"Or who'll kill her?"

"I wish I knew." He shook his head.

Necter was silent for a minute "You expect me to believe that? That's bull."

Just when it seemed like all hope was lost the door busted open and Knuckles walked in with three hospital workers right behind him.

"Sir, you cannot go in there." The first one said.

"This is a private room, please leave." The second one said.

"I would hate to have to call security." The third one said.

Knuckles sighed and faced them "Would you people stop following me?"

He then banged their heads together causing them to pass out. He slammed the door and walked over to Sonic, ignoring Necter.

"Sonic we have to go."

"Knuckles buddy, what took you so long?" Sonic couldn't help but grin.

Knuckles then proceeded to free Sonic and at first Necter grinned but then he frowned. Who exactly did this red guy think he was?

"Hey, dreads, this is a private room."

Knuckles ignored him and freed one of Sonics hands.

"Hey red, I'm talking to you."

Still Knuckles ignored him and it was really starting to tick Necter off. As he freed Sonics other arm Sonic grinned at Necter triumphantly which only made him more upset.

"Okay, purple eyes, I see talking doesn't work with you." He stood up and put his hand on his shoulder.

Knuckles stopped what he was doing and faced Necter.

"Don't touch me." He said "I aint got no beef with you but if you don't remove your hand, I will."

Necter didn't remove his hand, instead he pointed to the private room sign with his other.

"I aint got no beef with you either." He laughed "But if you don't leave, I will."

Knuckles removed Necter's hand from his shoulder and then slapped the cigarette out of it. Necter frowned clenched his teeth.

"That was my last one." He growled "You stupid-

Knuckles put his hand over Necter's mouth and pointed to a sign that said no smoking with his other hand. Then he pushed him back and went back to helping Sonic. Necter stood stunned at Knuckles' boldness and then he gritted his teeth.

"You've don't it now gigantic fist." He said softly.

Knuckles looked back at him to see what he was doing. Sonic watched intensively at the angry porcupine. Necter's spikes seemed to be growing longer and sharper and his eyes got colder and colder. The spikes on his head were shooting out and the spikes on his back came through his shirt. He then laughed like a maniac.

"You mess with fire, you get burned!"

He shot some spikes at Knuckles and Knuckles ducked. The spikes got stuck in the wall and Sonic laid back down afraid. Knuckles scrambled to the other side of Sonics bed and began to back up. Necter followed him and then shot more spikes. This time Knuckles couldn't dodge them and they hit his arm. He backed up to the wall and Necter went closer to him.

"You're going down." Knuckles ignored the pain.

Necter grinned and was about to finish him off but a pillow hit him in the back of the head and stuck. He turned around angrily as he ripped the pillow off and was greeted with flames. He fell backwards as Sonic blew more fire from the lighter in his face. Necter growled and jumped up. He slapped the lighter from his hand and then sent some spikes his way. Sonic ducked and then quickly began to try and free his feet.

Before Necter could make another move Knuckles punched him in face and sent him flying backwards into the wall. He got up immediately and spit out two teeth and wiped the blood from his mouth. They expected him to come after them but he didn't. Instead he opened his jacket to reveal a tazer and two guns. They frowned and Necter grinned.

"Oh yeah." He nodded "I'm through playing games."

Knuckles backed up a little so that he was facing Sonic. He walked over to Knuckles and put the gun to his head. He grinned as he breathed extremely hard. His back was to Sonic.

"I've had a gun to my head before." Knuckles said.

"Whoever it was obviously didn't finish the job." He grinned "Think they'll be happy if I did it for them?"

While Necter was smiling menacingly at Knuckles Sonic had just finished freeing his legs. And when the porcupine put his finger on the trigger something knocked him upside the head.

"Ouch!" Sonic looked at the spikes in his hand.

Necter turned around angrily and Knuckles punched him again in the stomach. While hunched over Sonic grabbed the gun from his hand and held it to his head.

Then the door busted open and a doctor stood in the door way.

"What is going-" when he saw the scene he immediately ran away.

"That can't be good." Sonic mumbled.

"You see? I always win. Always!" Necter laughed like a lunatic.

"And you say I'm the full blooded loon." Sonic rolled his eyes.

Knuckles snatched the gun from Sonic and knocked against Necter's head causing him to pass out. Then they heard a siren and red lights began to flash.

"Lock down! Lock down! Emergency! Room 202! Emergency!"

"We have to get outta here." Sonic said.

"Ya think?" Knuckles said heading towards the window.

"I'm not doing that again."

Sonic headed for the door.

"If you get caught…" Knuckles started.

"I wont." He ran out.

Knuckles opened the window and put one foot out but then he got back in. He thought he was forgetting something. He looked around the room and his gaze stopped at the passed out porcupine and he walked over to him. He heard security coming so he just quickly threw Necter over his shoulder. He then saw and grabbed the walkie talkie and then climbed out the window. When he got to the bottom Sonic was in a wheelchair with a white beard on and some small round glasses.

"What took you so long ya ol whippersnapper?" he said in an old, dry voice.

Knuckles narrowed his eyes and snatched the beard off with his free hand. He then threw the walkie talkie on his lap.

"Quit screwing around, we need to find Rouge and Amy." He started down an alley.

Sonic followed him in the wheelchair "Calm down, were gonna find them. Thanks for grabbing the walkie talkie." He then noticed Necter and frowned "What did you bring him for?"

"Several reasons." Knuckles said still walking "Weapons, get rid of evidence, keep his mouth shut, ect."

"None of them sound good enough to bring him with us."

Knuckles remained silent as he walked faster. He then hit his foot on a large brick and growled as he used a few choice words. As he grabbed his foot and jumped around he stepped on something else that caused him to slip and almost lose his balance. Luckily he caught his balance but Necter's spike dug deeper into his skin.

"Ouch!"

Knuckles picked up the thing which was a dirty blond wig and chucked it. Sonic rolled up to him and patted him on the back.

"Easy buddy." He said.

"Would you get out of that stupid wheelchair? Aint nothing wrong with your legs!"

Sonic cocked his head to the side with a hurt type look on his face. He was about to get up but then Knuckles pushed him back down.

"No sit." He rubbed his head "My fault Sonic, I'm just really stressed right now."

"What are you stressed about?" Why did he ask that?

Knuckles stopped and looked at him as if he had two heads.

"What am I stressed for? My best friend was shot and he lost his memory. A gun was held to my head for the second time. I was up since five in the morning. Another football game is coming up as well as a test. My girlfriend was kidnapped and God knows what that lunatic Shadow is doing to her. And this porcupines spikes keep poking me!" Knuckles yelled.

"Shadow?" Sonic repeated his name.

He had a flashback of a black hedgehog that looked like him. Except his eyes. His eyes were much different. He remembered him in some classes and even him getting kicked off the football team. But then he remembered the alley.

When the flashback ended he realized Knuckles was calling his name.

"Sonic. Sonic." Knuckles slapped him repeatedly.

"Shadow. It was him." He finally said.

Knuckles hesitated "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything."

He walked away and began kicking stuff as he cursed himself for slipping up.

"Shadow. It was him." He said again.

-Great job Einstein.-

"You're gonna pay." He mumbled.

-Actually Amy is. - he paused- Times up.-

"Well, well, well Amy. How does it feel to know he failed?" Shadow grinned as he turned the walkie talkie off.

Amy shook her head "I don't blame him; it wasn't his fault."

Shadow frowned and mumbled something to himself.

"I would've found you at any cost." He said aloud.

"That's…lovely." Amy tried to find the right word.

Shadow grinned again "Not only did Superman fail but so did Angryman."

Shadow then looked at Rouge who was staring intensively at the ceiling. Shadow looked up there too but saw nothing so he looked back at her.

"How's that name? Angryman." he asked her.

Rouge said nothing but kept staring into space. Shadow sighed with irritation as he was growing tired of them.

"They failed!" he shouted "Don't you two coconuts get it? That means you have to suffer."

Rouge finally stopped daydreaming "I'm hungry."

Shadow looked at her unbelievably "Didn't you just hear me?"

"No, and I honestly don't care. I'm hungry."

"Okay." He nodded and picked up his gun "The special today is bullets. Would you like me to feed you those?"

"You're a laugh and a half." She flashed a fake smile "But seriously, I hope you didn't expect to let me starve."

Shadow growled and closed his eyes trying not to get mad.

"Since they failed, you guys must suffer. Any preferences?"

"Food." Rouge said.

"Can you just like…I don't know…forget they failed and…give them another clue?" Amy asked in a sweet voice.

Shadow smiled "No. If I give them another clue they'll think I'm getting soft and they'll start to get sloppy. I cant have that, plus I-"

Rouged sighed loudly "Yap, yap, yap! That's all you do. If you're gonna shoot us, spare us the friggin lecture and put the bullet between our eyes already. If not, shut up and go get me some food."

"She's speaking for herself." Amy said quickly "I like the lectures."

Then she looked at Rouge as if she was crazy. Shadow looked at Rouge with curiosity in his eyes and rubbed his chin.

"That's interesting." He said softly "Whatever you say."

"Good, I also say go get me food." She said.

Shadow turned the walkie talkie back on and spoke in it.

"Failure is not an option, it will not be tolerated."

-What are you going to do?-

He then aimed the gun carefully at Rouge and shot her in the arm.

"Ahhhhhh!" Rouge cried as her head fell.

Amy, petrified, began to scream as well. Shadow then aimed the gun at Amy carefully (which only made her scream louder) and shoot her in the arm as well.

Ahhhhhh!" Amy cried as well and her head fell too.

Shadow put the gun down and picked up the walkie talkie.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." He shook his head "If only someone had saved them." He grinned.

-You will pay dearly- It was Knuckles

"I'm sure." Shadow said sarcastically.

-Do we get anymore clues- It was Sonic

"Tomorrow but…who knows if they'll last that long." He said cruelly "They certainly wont if you guys fail again."

He turned it off and looked at the two girls who were crying and bleeding. Other than the muffled cries of agony they were making all was silent.

"Shhhh." Shadow said calmly "It's only a flesh wound, nothing life threatening." He paused "I'm not ready to kill you two yet."

He then got Rouge's phone and searched through the contacts. He was surprised he found the number he was looking for.

"Why do you have Sally's number? Were you two friends?"

Rouge ignored him and closed her eyes as she struggled to ignore the pain.

"Amy? You don't find this shocking?" he insisted.

Amy didn't answer either but then Rouge mumbled something.

"What?" Shadow asked.

"I'm hungry." She said a little louder.

Shadow grinned "Yeah sure, I'll get you food. Just answer my question."

"Prank calls." She said weakly "We prank called her often."

Shadow rolled his eyes and wondered why he didn't think of that. He then dialed Sally's digits.

"Hello?" Sally said happily "Scourge?"

Shadow laughed "Fiona is gonna kill you."

She hesitated "Who is this?"

"Its me."

He didn't even have to tell her as she recognized his voice.

"How did you get my number?" she asked with a fearful voice "What do you want?"

"I got another job for you."

"I'm not your employee." She said rebelliously.

"You are now." He said "And lets not go through that whole conversation we went through before, okay? Go to Hedgehog Headquarters and look underneath the fifth table. You'll see a note, grab it and shoot it away."

"…okay." She said reluctantly.

"And…I need you to find Sonic and Knuckles. They'll be rolling a porcupine in a wheel chair around…I need you to steal the wheelchair and run."

"Why?"

"Employees don't ask questions." He sighed "Take the wheelchair with the porcupine in it to Grey alley and leave it. Oh and if there are cops around let them know where the escapees are." He paused "Then you can go home or school or whatever and do whatever you do until I call you again."

"Where am I supposed to find them at?"

"If I knew that I would've told you before, don't you think?"

"This is ridiculous."

"No, I tell you what's ridiculous. What's ridiculous is the fact that you're still on this phone talking to me about what's ridiculous when you should be carrying out the tasks I just gave you. Now that's ridiculous!" He growled "Now, do as you were told."

"Who do you think you are?"

"Who do I think I am?" he asked "I'm the person who's gonna be responsible for your bloody death if you don't get off this phone right now and do as told…I'm also the person who's gonna call Fiona as soon as I get off this phone.

She grew silent and finally the line went dead. Shadow closed the phone and set it beside him. He wasn't gonna call Fiona, he didn't care that much. He just sighed as he pulled the roll of tape out and ripped two pieces off. He then proceeded to put them on the girls.

"I'm leaving shortly and I wont take long." He paused "The wisest thing to do is sleep. If you try to escape I will know and the next shot won't be a flesh wound." He sighed "Please believe me, because in actuality I don't like hurting you guys. I honestly don't, but a lesson must be learned one way or another…I'll return soon." He paused "With food." He started to walk but then he paused again "And maybe diapers."

He took nothing but himself and left out the window shutting it as he went.

Whoa, I haven't updated on this story in forever. Sorry about that…and sorry about what I'm going to tell you next. I wont be updating on this anymore. I'm way too busy and I'm lacking ideas and now that I read it over I'm starting to think this story is dumb. The only reason I updated at all was because I wanted to tell you that it's up for grabs. As much as I dislike this story I'd still like to see it done. So, with that being said, the first person to review that they'd like to start this story over or start from where I left off can have it. Okay? Awesome. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO EVER REVIEWED, I APPRECIATE IT. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST THING SINCE BUTTERED TOAST!

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