/AN: Okay so second chapter! Sorry that it took me so long.
I just couldn't believe my own ears – or eyes for that matter. "I've been here before." I realized out loud making Sticks look at me, worried as I continued. "It's so long ago..I don't understand." Rubbing my forehead with my fingertips I tried to understand what leads my senses gave me. Timetravel. That was the first thing that came into mind. That must be it. "I think somehow we've been thrown back in time or something." I wondered out loud.
"You're not making any sense, and belive me when it's comming from me.." Sticks trailed off a hand on her hip and a raised brow as he ocean blue eyes rested upon me.
I shook my head. "A long time ago, I think I was 12, we fought for the freedom of Mobius." I told her.
"And by we you mean...?"
"Me, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles." I told her, "and these guys, I just don't regonize any of them." I bit my lower lip. Shouldn't I be able to tell who's who? I mean sure It's been a few years but still, 4 years wasn't that long and fighting for your life side by side was not something you just forgot about. "We fought against Eggman, he made everyone into robots. Or well he tried to anyway."
Sticks was now crossing her arms, "really? Our Eggman?" She did not look convinced, not that I could really blame her. Eggman had become more a frenemy over the years. It was like he didn't really try to hurt anyone anymore, not for real anyway. Still a part of me was actually happy that he was still around, Sonic kind of needed him to be, without him Sonic would go crazy, I'll never forget when Eggman took a break from his villany, oh my God Sonic had been unbearable to be around. On the edge and frustrated with nothing to pass his time. Nope, Eggman clearly needed to be there. Besides I really love the adventures as well, I love to fight side by side with my friends. But, with that said and done, this time was not a great time for me. Not at all. I was a scared little girl, my massive crush on Sonic was dreadful and he was in love with Sally which made it all worse. "He was different back then, we all were." I told Sticks when I realized I'd drifted off.
Sticks looked like she was about to ask into it when footsteps followed by a voice caught both of ours attentions.
"Sally?" I exclaimed. And there she was, however she looked nothing like I remembered her. Her hair had gone longer, she looked taller and her kind blue eyes had become hard and cold.
She glared at me and I felt a chill running up my spine. We'd actually been pretty good friends back in the days, even though we both loved Sonic. "It's me. Amy Rose," I told her a bit unsure on how I should handle this situation. "This is my friend Sticks, I'm not sure what's going on.."
"Silence." She commanded, her voice were dripping with poison which made me shut up right at the spot – and I'm not usually the type to be told what to do! But she did had me locked up in a cage and it kind of look like she wasn't all to pleased to se me for reasons I had absolutely no clue about. "How can you be alive?" She commanded to know.
Now this question took me by surprise. I mean, what? Why wouldn't I be? "Ehm.." I started frowning. "I think there's been a misunderstanding." I looked back at Sticks hoping she would back me up a bit.
"How about you let us out of this cage and then we talk?!" She said, arms crossed looking angrily at the princess.
Sally sent her a cold stare. "I don't think so." She said simply.
In the meantime I managed to leave my confusion in the back of my head making the anger step in instead. "What's going on Sally? Why did you lock us up? Where are we? When are we?" She certainly didn't look yonger than us, rather at the same age, but that couldn't be because this world looked like it did many years ago.
For a brief moment I thought I spotted a glince of confusion in her eyes, but just like that it was gone. "Why do you think? You've been dead for four years Amy and for your friend, I don't know her. For all I know you could might as well be spies sent by Robotnik." She told me raising a finger at me like I was some kind of small child.
"What? Amy you're a ghost? You never told me that!" Sticks looked at me offended which make me roll my eyes once again. I swear, someday they might get stucked with all that eyerolling I'm dealing with all day. "And who's Robotnik."
"Clearly I'm not a ghost Sticks." I told her just barely keeping it together, but I really was getting pretty annoyed at this point. "And Robotnik is Eggman...just an younger version of him I guess." I watched her scratch the back of her head in confusion before turning my attention back to Sally. "Look I have no idea what is happening okay? One moment we were fighting Eggman...erh Robotnik at our home in Hedgehog Valley, next thing I know we wake up here, whereever here is." I told her making wild gestures with my hands as I tried to explain my self. Of cause that would have been a lot easier if I had the smallest clue on what was going on.
"You were just battling Robotnik?" Sally did not look convinced. "That's impossible, Tails has been keeping a eye on him for days..."
"Tails is here?!" I bursted out cutting Sally off. Even Sticks looked reliefed at this info. "Can you get him? He can tell you, or Sonic! You can ask him too." I told her feeling like anything would now fall into place. Boy was I wrong. Sallys face once more turned angry...or hurt? I wasn't sure.
"How dare you! You know what happend to Sonic! Afterall it was all your fault! We were friends and you betrayed us all!" Sally shouted at me making the nearest freedom fighters look in our direction.
Okay this was it. I had it now. "I have no idea what you're talking about! What happend to Sonic?!" I felt almost sick to my stomach by now. Did she know something that I didn't? Exactly how long was I out back there? Did something happen that I was not aware of? Just then there was a scratchy sound and we all looked at my communicator which was lightning up just before the most wonderful sound reached my ears. The sound of Sonics voice.
"Ames? Are you there?"
He sounded a bit concerned. Pressing the bottom I held the device closer to my face. "Sonic I'm here. Where are you? Are you guys okay?" I didn't pay Sally much attention by this point, but I could see out of the corner in my eye that she looked pretty weirded out.
A pause, "yes we're fine! I'm here with Tails and Knuckles." He told me, "is Sticks with you?"
"I'm right here!" She exclaimed talking into my communicator.
"Cool, let's meet up so Tails can get us back home from this place, oh and Amy I brought something for you"
"Please say my hammer!" I begged him, at this point I didn't really care about anything else. Bigger picture here you know!
"You got it!" Sonic sounded quit pleased with himself at that statement.
Me? I was overexcited. "Thank you Sonic! You're the best!" I told him happily. I just couldn't wait to get reunited with my most precious possession.
"I know." He told me in his usual cocky tone. I just sighed not really wanted to reply to that, which he probably picked up on, 'cause he quickly changed the subject, "so where're you at?"
Right. We were still locked up. "ehm you're probably not going to believe this but I think.."
"-We're in an alternate universe where Eggbreath won the battle and the future are a lot different from the one we know?" He finished making both me, Sticks and Sally blink in surprice. Sonic was not the one to know theese kind of things. "-Tails figured it out.." he added. Okay so then it all made a lot more sense. "So where were you again?"
Right. Even though he asked me twice now I still haven't answered his question. "Actually we'd kind of been taking hostaged by the Freedom Fighters." I ran a free hand through my quills and licked my bottomlip. Meanwhile Sticks were going crazy jabbering all kinds of insane theories like allways.
"The Freedom Fighters? Like...Sal and the others?" He sounded less pleased at this point. I knew he and Sally had a thing back then. I also knew it ended in a fight and that Sonic ran off never to return, not one of his finest moments.
"Uh am I there too? I would love to meat the other me!" Tails tuned in, excitement in his voice.
Honestly I was not a big fan of Sonic and Sally meeting up after all these years, I couldn't deny that I was still hopelessly in love with Sonic, and I knew what they had were special. However that would not stop me from getting back home. Besides Sonic didn't pick Sally last time, so why would he now? Not that he picked me or anything, being the crazy fangirl that I am I just decided to follow him – because of the adventures ofcause. Yup. Nothing else. "Yeah Sally is here, Tails..ehm you..the other you is keeping an eye on Robotnik..I think." Man that was confusing.
"Oh man, this is giving me a headache!" Knuckles complained. "Can we just go home now?"
I finally turned my attention towards Sally again. "Sally come on, we're not the enemy here, you know me, you know us." I told her glancing at Sticks, "okay you don't excatly know her, but she's mostly harmless." I smiled carefully.
Sally looked like she was having a hard time figuring out if she could trust us. I kind of understood, but still, we were friends. What changed? "I'm not telling you where we are." She then spoke making my face drop. "We meet in the clearing, I'll give you the coordinates, can you write it down?" Sally spoke into the communicator that I held up for her.
"Bring it." Tails replied.
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I'm not sure what made Sally agree on letting us go, but a part of me believes it was caused by her curiosity. She wanted to meet Sonic, Tails and Knuckles from "our world". Me she didn't seem that interessted in. At all. She seemed pretty pissed at me actually.
Once again Sticks and I were blindfolded. We were lead througt the forrest once more. This time with a larger group of people than before, probably just in case we're were setting them up. Honestly I just couldn't wait to get back home to my wonderful beach house, but a part of me was actually curious about all of this. What happend since it all went to hell?
I was forced to stop when the guy holding my arm stopped. The band was removed from my eyes and I noticed we were right back where we started. Seriously?!
Sticks was standing beside me and there on the other side near the treeline I spotted tree figures walking towards us. The blue one holding my beloved hammer.
"Sonic!" I called out in relief and somehow maneged to pull myself free from the guy behind me. I ran towards him, just like old times. I could see a small kinda shy smile spred on his face as he held forward my hammer. My beloved hammer!
I stopped right in front of him and snatched the hammer out of his grip. "My hammer!" I exclaimed joyful and hugged it in my arms.
Sonic just smiled a bit awkwardly "yeah I thought you might missed that." he told med running a hand through his blue quills.
"Thank you Sonic," I send him a bright smile before turning my eyes to Tails. "So can we please get back home now?" I did not want to stay another minute in this place. If we could just go before...
"Sonic?"
Damn it.
Sally had walked up to us and she looked at him with this loning stare. I felt like puking a bit in my mouth however I kept my cool. I am a lady afterall.
Sonic did not look to comfy himself. "Sal...hey..." He said and tried sending her a smile. I looked away for a brief moment to hide my discomfort, this was so not fair!
"How can you be here, I don't understand.." Sally trailed off placing a hand on his cheek and Sonic placed his han over hers.
I sighed dramaticly and started fumbling with my hammer not knowing what else to do. Tails send me a sneaky smile as he walked up to me, "jealouse much?" He teased, but in the innocent way only Tails can master. Sometimes he really can get under your skin, but we always just let him because his kinda cute when his all betterknowing and stuff. Not that kind of cute I may add, more like a puppy chasing it's own tail -kind of cute. Anyway this time his dry comment did not humor me and I send him a death glare which quickly made him aware that I wasn't amused, "ehm I mean...I didn't...I was just..." The funny thing about the young fox was that even though he sometimes came up with these sort of comments he never meant to hurt anyone, and if he did he would immidiatly back down. "Sorry." He mumbled scratching the back of his head.
"It's okay, just tell me that you can get us back home," I commented in a dry tone. Fortunately it didn't seem like any of the others had heard the comment. Sonic and Sally I guess were too lost in each others eyes or something like that. Stupid stupid other dimenssion-thing. I was so reliefed when I heard Sally was getting married in our dimenssion, now I needed to fear her in this dimenssion too? Jeez. Again I like Sally, she's my friend, but I love Sonic and this is just too much.
Tails nodded quickly, "sure! All we need to do is using this remote pointing it at the air, it will open a vortex where out molecules will be parted and then put back together when we reach the right dimenssion, I just need to set the timer so we will end up the right place and..." He stopped noticing me giving him the "you lost me" -look. He smiled apologetically and shrugged his shoulders, "it won't take long." He just assured med.
I noticed Stickes had been let go – or maybe she just got herself loose like me, either way she came up to us sending Sally a suspicious look. "I don't trust you!" She told the princess flat out making me smile a bit. Good old Sticks, never trusting anyone but herself and us – most of the time anyway.
Then there was the sound of shouting, "incomming! Incomming!" Then an explossion near by sent us all flying into different dirrections and I soon realized that we were under attack!
/AN: Please guys take the time to review, it would really mean a lot to me!
