I felt a drop of thick liquid splash on my cheek. Then another followed by with more drops. The ringing in my ears was leading out to quiet beeping noises. I slowly opened my eyes to quickly shut them back and shutter.
Hanging upside down across from was Ryan. His face was shot in to the point of not being able to see his eyes because they were caving into his face, forming a bloody mess.
I stalled for a moment to gain control over my stomach and opened my eyes again to try and find a way out of the flipped car. I was slowly regaining composure and remembered Mami was in the back seat. I looked back to find that she was hanging upside down, still unconscious.
"Mami, Mami get up." I called out to her but she didn't budge.
After a few more calls, I gave up and tried to unhook the seatbelt that was practically cutting into my hip bone. After a few good tugs it unfastened and, gravity being the bitch she is, fell down onto the roof.
I crawled back to Mami and shook her until her eyes fluttered open. She looked pale and her violet eyes were dulling over, most likely from shock. I unhooked her seatbelt and she went down a bit more quietly than I did. She looked at me and a moment of silence issued between us, until reality quickly hit me back in the face.
"Amy! S-S-Shadow his been shot. We need to get help before he," Her voice choked a bit before the last word exited her mouth, "Dies." Mami started crawling out of the car and onto the cool sandy desert outside, along with me doing the same.
We stood out taking in our surroundings and I took out my phone to call the police.
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Three hours have gone by since Shadow was taken to the emergency room at Casino Hospital. Ryan's body was taken to the morgue, Mami and I had our small cuts and scraps cleaned up.
Mami was a mess while sitting in the Waiting Room. Her hair was coming undone, her sweater ruffled and torn a bit, and her legs were constantly shaking from both nerves and the blasting A/C.
Knuckles, Rouge, and Tails had arrived only 30 minutes ago and were far more roused than us, though we were practically in the mess that got us here. Knuckles had brought me some coffee and Mami hot chocolate, when the doctor finally walked in.
"Um, hello, my name is Dr. Nelton. Are you all here for Shadow?" The Doctor looked like he could be well past his fifties, with his beard that extended across the lower portion of his face to the point of believing it was the thing that was talking.
"Yes, how is he?" Rouge asked concerned with her partner's well-being.
"Ah, well the good thing is we did enough for him to not end up in ICU, but it looks like he won't be waking up for a couple of days. To tell you the truth it was amazing. The bullet wounds he received were practically healing all on there own even with the severity of it, all. All we had to do pretty much was take out the bullets. But, yes, you can visit it now if you like, but sadly we don't accept robots into coma patients room because it messes with the monitors."
Robots? What did he mean by robots?
I looked over at Rouge and for the first time I noticed it. A big shiny robot with blaring green eyes and the omega symbol plastered on its right shoulder was standing next to Rouge. My mouth fell slightly agape as I stared at the robot until he looked at me.
"What are you looking at?" The robot spoke in its cliqued robotic tone. Rouge just looked at me and smiled.
"Oh, Amy, I forgot you haven't met Omega, yet. His been living with Shadow, but after we told him what happened to him, he was first in line to visit his fallen comrade." Omega lowered his arms in a form of greeting.
"Hello, Omega. My names Amy Rose, sorry we had to meet on such bad circumstances." Omega just nodded making mechanical noises and moved off to Shadow's room, along with the others.
Shadow was hooked up to an IV and bandaged up more than both I and Mami combined. Mami was leaning on his bedside, her head resting on his shoulder, fast asleep. Everyone else was surrounding his bed.
"Well, he looks better than when the ambulance had taken him." I said trying to break the uncomforting silence.
"Yeah, when he wakes up, no matter how he feels, his going to try and get out early, no matter what." Knuckles sighed and sat down.
Mami was nuzzling into Shadow's shoulder as her lips were forming soundless words. I smiled a bit happy that they both were safe.
"Hey, let's leave them for a bit. Mami called her brother so he said his going to be here in a little while." I looked at everyone else as they exited. I looked back and couldn't help but smile, but then remember what Shadow said about the serial killer possibly being close by. I just hoped it was Ryan.