Cream let out a cough as they walked into the room, to let the others know they were in there. The actresses in the room all froze. They looked up at Amy, a bit shocked to see how pissed off she looked. Sally just smirked and stood up and walked out of the room, passing Amy as she did, "Guess you didn't really need to tell me anything after all Amy, it's already on display for everyone to see." Sally walks past her and out into the hall, as the other actresses followed. After that, Amy and Cream were the only ones left.

"Amy?"

"Go online, and find out exactly what happened." Amy said in a dangerous voice. Cream took a step back, for it almost seemed like she was talking to Shadow for a moment. Cream nodded and took her friends hand as they stepped into the elevator to get to their room. Cream read over and over again, before reading out loud, "Amy, someone made an anonymous post on twitter saying you went into Shadow's room during the middle of the night, and it went viral..."

Amy motioned for Cream to hand her the phone so she could see, "It's probably not a big deal, every celebrity has a scandal. It'll be over soon." Cream didn't give Amy the phone out of not wanting to show her what happened, but Amy huffed, "Cream, let me see."

"But Amy, it's going to hurt your feelings."

"Give me the phone!" Amy finally snapped and Cream handed it over. Amy glared at the screen. There were two pictures posted. One of her standing outside of Shadow's hotel room door, and another with her script in her hand. The photo was uploaded at five this morning, only an hour before she got up. She had been so busy though that she had not even checked the internet that morning. So the post, which at this point had been up for 8 hours, already had many views and shares and was even trending.

'The Second Female Lead For The Show'

"The second female lead for the show Alluring Times was originally supposed to be Sally Acorn. But at the last moment the role was snatched by Amy Rose. Now the truth has been revealed, the pink seductress sold her body."

Amy quickly let her eyes read the comments under the article.

"Get out of the entertainment industry you whore!"

"This slut how dare she seduce my husband!"

As Amy continued scrolling, the comments became more mean. Her face darkened, her grip on the phone tightening as she seethed with anger. In that moment, Cream felt like she was looking at a female and pinker version of Shadow. Amy's chest started to rise and fall quickly, her breathing becoming quicker also, her eyes dilated. Cream put a hand on her shoulder, "Do you want me to contacts the publicity team? I can see if them or the PR can get twitter to delete the posts and the headlines."

"Even if it's deleted the people will still remember. This wont go away as easily as I thought. Plus the photo was uploaded at five this morning, right as people would be waking up. Someone definitely planned this out."

"Do you think... it's Sally?" Cream asked.

"Who else could attract the attention of the public like this? Her motive from the beginning was to soil my reputation. She's been trying to convince everyone from the beginning that I got my role through other means. The staff and crew signed a confidentiality contract, so its not them. The waiters were also supposed to sign a privacy act. So who else could it have been?" Amy gritted her teeth, feeling blood on her lips as she pressed them tighter to her canines. As the elevator dings and they get to their floor, she looks forward and pressed on with determination, "I will not let her use me like this."


"I take it you didn't see it yet."

"See what?" Shadow asked, turning around in his office desk chair. He was smoking again as he looked at the yellow fox curiously. Tails gulped and motioned for him to turn to his computer. Shadow did, awaiting his instructions. Tails let out a sigh, prepared to brace for the worst.

"You're trending on twitter."

"I'm always trending on twitter." Shadow rolled his red eyes.

"The news is a scandal about you and Amy."

Shadow froze, his eyes instantly formed into daggers as they shot to Tails, "WHAT?"

"When Amy came to your room yesterday, someone took a photo of her. They posted it to twitter with a misleading caption, and now everyone is pinging and tagging her and saying things to her. Things that would be inappropriate of me to say."

Shadow tossed his cigarette in the ash tray as he turned to his computer to open twitter. His eyes read comment after comment. He growled under his breath and then threw his entire computer on the floor, "SHIT!" Shadow's mouse broke and made a loud cracking noise, scaring Tails a little bit as he jumped backwards. He looked back at Shadow. There was a burning flame in his eyes, Shadow was extremely pissed.

"Shadow, do you want me to talk to the twitter officials and see if I can get them to delete the post?"

"Yes," Shadow glared at the wall, then picked up his phone, "And then I will handle the rest by myself."

Tails nodded and left. He didn't want to make Shadow madder than he already was. There was work to be done as the fox left the room quickly. Shadow instantly became concerned about Amy's well being. What if she saw all those messages to her. He opened his phone and dialed Amy's number.

"Hello?"

There was something different about her voice today. It was sharper, angrier, annoyed. The moment he heard it he lost all his senses. He wanted to ask if she was alright. He clenched the phone. For years he held back and didn't call her and ignored her. All those years, he had wanted to reach out to her but was too scared, just like he is now.

"Shadow?"

"Oh, uh, sorry. Did you see the news?"

"Yes... I'm sorry. I didn't know I was being followed or even photographed. But still, I had my lines with me, I don't understand why someone would try to make a story out of something like me rehearsing my lines. I'm really sorry."

"I'm not mad at you for the scandal. Tails is taking care of it and I'll be doing my own investigating. Do you have anyone here in the hotel or that we work with who would do something like this?"

"... I don't. Give me a second to ask Cream something, I'll be right back, okay?"

"Okay...?" That was kind of shocking.

On the other end, Amy turned and looked at Cream with a smile. "Recently, were there any shows or promotions or ads that were going to host Sally?"

Cream thought about it, her ears twitching a bit, "I heard there was a popular host show that was inviting her." Amy grinned, then got back on the phone with Shadow a moment later.

"I'd like to be Top Mobian's show's guest next week."


Shadow stood up and left his hotel room. He made a beeline for the set, ignoring the looks he was receiving from crew and set members and the hotel workers. As he passed Sally Acorn, she gave him a smirk, and something about it instantly irked him. He ignored it though as he went downstairs, exited the hotel and walked to the part of the hotel lot that Rouge was filming today. As he approached she had finished her scene. The white bat had her makeup removed and was heading to her car. Shadow quickly walked over, standing between her and the car. She looked very amused.

"Mr Doom and Gloom, how may I help you?"

Shadow huffed, feeling embarrassed for having to do this, "I need you to help me out."

"Only if you'll sleep with me."

"Not happening you bat."

"Geez Shadow," Rouge opened a bottle of mineral water, "I was just kidding, you're probably to cold to be intimate with anyway." She took a sip of her water, "What if I asked you to give me ten percent of the company's shares. Would you do it?"

"Yes." Shadow agreed without hesitation. Rouge smirked a little at this, becoming more amused by the second.

"Shadow, you know what ten percent means right? It's investors, me, would have a say in the future productions."

"I know."

"And you do know that you only own fifty five percent of the shares in the entertainment industry, right? If you sell it to me, then the company could remove you as the CEO and pick someone else. You've spent years building this company, are you sure you'd be willing to just sell it to me for this one girl?"

"Why are you talking so much! Will you help me or not?!" Shadow huffed and stomped his foot angrily, getting more impatient. Rouge smiled,

"Shadow in all the years I've known you, I've never once seen you ask anyone for help. I remember the first time I met you and the boss of a coal company wanted to be your sugar daddy."

"Oh god, please, don't remind me."

"And I know you didn't agree to it," Rouge continued, "Which is why that investor made your life hell for a long time. During a fight scene, they agreed it would be a fake fight scene. But when they filmed, they hit you over and over again with real punches and you took it. It caused you to be in bed for half a month. I saw how much shit you had to go through, and even though you could have quit, you didn't. As cold blooded as you are, when you get motivated, you look really incredible."

His act having been seen through, Shadow sighed, "Your nonsense is extraordinary today." He turns to walk away from her, done with the conversation. Rouge pulls on his wrist and laughs.

"No! I'm kidding, I really don't want shares." She releases his wrist as he turns to give her an annoyed look. "I just want you to answer one of my questions first."

"What's the question, Rouge?"

"First of all, I think I speak for both of us when I clarify I'm not interested in you. You're too... cold and gloomy for my taste. But do you actually love Amy?"

Shadow was quiet for a moment before he released a deep breath.

"Yes."

"How much do you love her?"

"A lot, a lot more than you could imagine."

"Shadow," She said seriously, "You could have fixed all this without coming to me. Someone in your crew wants to harm Amy. You want to use this career destroying move for Amy's advantage, correct?"

"Yes, I'll find whoever did this, and wish they had never set foot in my industry." Shadow said.

Rouge smirked and pulled out her phone. She opened her twitter app, tagging Amy and Shadow, as she sent out a massive tweet.

"Wow, I was in Shadow's room last night too rehearsing lines with them. How come this person didn't capture me on photo and only Amy? They weren't doing anything except discussing the script. People have nothing better to do these days than to spread rumors and create false stories. Can't we just go on happily shooting our scenes? Please and thanks, stop hating on my beautiful friends!"

Rouge smiled as she sent the massive tweet out. "There, now Amy's name will be cleared, and you will get some free publicity from it. How pitiful though, whoever went through all that hard work to get Amy's name run through the mud, just didn't know who they were messing with."

Shadow nodded and confirmed, "I hate those types of people. You come into my industry to act, not cause me trouble and to stir up drama." He looked around. People nearby were on their phones and looked shocked. Most of them had probably just seen Rouge's newest tweet. Her turned and glared at the bat, "Don't you dare tell anyone that I love Rose. This needs to be between us."

"What did you say? I didn't hearrrrr youuuuu" She put her hand up by her ear teasingly. He muttered under his breath and then turned to walk away before Rouge's phone rang. She grinned from ear to ear. "Hey, Amy's calling me." He quickly turned back around to sit down beside that bat. Grumbling a bit as she answered the phone sweetly, "Hello~"


Rouge's fans were as powerful as Shadow's. Many of them retweeted her tweet. Knuckles even, being the director, retweeted the tweet as well, standing in to defend Amy. When he did this, all the cast and crew members who wanted to be on his good side also retweeted it. Even Sally felt forced to retweet it. In the end, what would have been endless pages of hate messages towards Amy because people sending hate messages to the ones hating on Amy. The situation resolved quickly as Cream had shown the post to Amy. Amy frowned a bit and was confused. Yes she and Rouge were getting close, however, they weren't that close. Amy grabbed her own phone and called Rouge very quickly.

"Hello~"

"Rouge, I just saw your post. Thank you so much for your help." Amy sounded so grateful and happy over the phone, the complete opposite from how she sounded when she was on the phone with Shadow.

"Ah dont thank me, thank - ah, i mean, yes, i mean, it was nothing. I know you wouldn't do something like that. I know there are all kinds of suspicious people on the crew and cast who would do anything like that for attention or if they had something against you."

Amy raised her eyebrow. Did someone ask her to help out with the situation? She shook her head and pushed it to the side, "Well, thanks to you, all of that is pushed to the side. Let's all hang out and go eat somewhere, it'll be my treat to say thanks."

"Of course! You didn't come to my party so you should make it up to me." Rouge teased on the other side of the phone.

"Great, I'll set up a time and let you know! Thank you again Rouge!" Amy hang up quickly and fell backwards on her bed, smiling happily.


Rouge shut her phone and turned to see Shadow still sitting there. He had clearly decided to stay so that he could eavesdrop. Rouge smiled, "Shadow, what are you still doing here?"

Shadow ignored it, "How is she?"

Rouge let a frown fall to her face, "She sounded happy, but at the same time, it sounded like she had been crying before she called me. Maybe because she was so happy to have that out of the news."

"She was crying?" Shadow glared at nothing in particular and Rouge giggled before falling into a pit of laughter, "Oh my gosh, I was just kidding! You should have seen your face!" She wiped a laughing tear away, "She sounded alright, so she should be fine now."

Before Rouge could continue, Shadow said in a dark and low tone, "Crazy bat..." before he left and walked over to his car, getting in and shutting the door. Rouge just smiled.

"You two are so in love, its ridiculous." Rouge muttered to herself.