AMY'S POV

Once again, we stood gathered around Mission Room. We had failed once more at getting Sonic to stop. Now, the wheel that was supposed to work was gone, and with it, my Sonic. As we all stood there, at sunset, I decided to voice my thoughts.

"So far your plans haven't worked have they?" I sigh sadly. I saw Tails gave a big nod with the others giving smaller nods in my peripheral vision. Tails must be as upset as me, if not more. Those two are practically brothers. What was the nickname... Oh yeah. Li'l bro'. If that doesn't tell you something, nothing will.

"Not quite, but I'm confident that if we just keep trying we'll eventually come up with a plan that will work." Chuck responded, trying to cheer all of us up. I saw him glance at Knuckles, who was having pain killer cream rubbed on his back by Ella. "Hm. I got it! In fact, it's the best plan I've had all day! We just need a little help from a friend. Mm hmm." A pang of sadness erupts in my chest when he says need a little help from a friend and I bit my lip. The words Can't Stop echo in my head. You know he's right, a voice says in my head, Sonic does need some help from a friend.

I already knew that! You think pointing it out is going to help? I retort.

How should I know? I'm just a voice in someone's head. The voice said in a squeaky, high pitched way that reminded me of a little girl.

Shut up, you little brat! I scream.

Make me. If the voice had a face it would be smirking. I took out my hammer.

"Amy, are you okay!" Tails' voice screamed, waking me from my daydream.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine," I reply, snapping the rest of me back to reality, "just daydreaming 'sall."

"Must've been one really intense daydream." Knuckles comments from his position on the floor.

"What exactly does that mean?" I demand.

"Amy, please don't hurt Knuckles. He didn't do anything wrong. You were having a very intensive daydream." Cream says innocently, hands in front of her.

"Chao! Chu!" Adds Cheese with a nod. I put my hammer away, knowing that Cream and Cheese would've probably seen things they aren't supposed to see if I beat Knuckles up. But if he ever brings up the topic again, Cream and Cheese or no Cream and Cheese, I would knock him senseless.

"Now that that's been taken care of, who would like some leftover stew?" questioned Ella. Everybody said 'me'. Everybody except myself, that is. In the early evening sky, I could've sworn a star had just winked at me before shooting across the sky. Let this all be over soon. I wish in my mind to the shooting star. Someone pats me on the shoulder, and I turn around. A yellow-orange, two tailed fox meets my eyes.

"Hey Amy, you going to join us?" Tails inquires.

"Nah, I think I'll just stay here and think some more. I'm not that hungry anyway." I reply.

"Neither am I." Tails sits down, to prove his point. I join him.

"Are you worried?" I quietly ask. Sky blue eyes stare into my grassy green ones. In the eyes, I see worry and nervousness.

"A little." He shyly admits. "Nothing like this has ever happened before. I don't really know how to react. It's like what happened that while ago, when… Never mind," he told me.

"What?" I ask.

"No freaking out?" he counters. I give a nod. "Remember the little chocolate lover?"

"Oh, yeah." I say breathlessly, remembering what had happened.

"Yeah," he agrees. "All I can do is hope things work out okay in the end." My stomach gave a small growl. "You sure you're not hungry?" he smirks, rising. Chaos, those two are alike.

"I guess I'm a little hungry." I admit. He offers his hand down, I take it, and he pulls me to my feet.

"Well then, let's eat." He starts to walk away and I followed, feeling better now that I had talked to somebody about my feelings who understood exactly what I meant.

EGGMAN'S POV

Once again, I watch the monitor. I hadn't taken my eyes off it most of the day. Sonic was still running, but appeared to be asleep while doing so.

"Sonic is running himself ragged! He must feel as worn out as an old sneaker." I comment. "This would be the perfect time to launch a sneak attack against him!" I exclaimed, the plan already formed in my mind. "Ready?"

"Aye-Aye!" My two robot assistants answer.

"I'll do it right after my nap." I say, listening to the complaints as the lights shut down. I ignore them and fall into a deep slumber.

Okay, here it is. You know, this story's almost over. 2 more chapters and the epilouge. In case people are wondering why there are mistakes in the author notes, let's just say that I type everything except the author notes on MS Word, and it has a good spelling and gramer checker. Not much to say, besides the previous title. Alright, it was a line from the japanese version of Sonic X(I don't speak Japanese, I just read subtitles.). Happy Memorial Weekend!