After dinner and returning to the hotel, Amy went and got her make up done for her scenes with Shadow today. There was still almost half an hour or preparing after getting her make up done, so she waited. The crew was still setting up and Cream had fallen ill and was throwing up in the bathroom, so Amy just wandered around aimlessly. She ended up at a pavillion as she came upon Shadow. He was standing there and looking across a lake. Amy wasn't surprised to seem him since she knew he had a night scene too. She hesitated before slowly climbing the stairs up to him. Shadow turned and was a bit surprised to see her. He put out his cigarette as she approached and then looked at her with a numb expression.
"Finished preparing for your scenes yet?" She asked quietly. He was a bit surprised that she would initiated the conversation.
"Yeah, but we guys tend to not take as long as you women."
Amy felt the bubbling happiness spread inside her as he spoke to her. He turned to her again, a concerned look on his face, "What happened with that car accident?"
"Blaze rear ended someone."
"Are... you okay?" He asked quietly this time as he went back to looking over the lake.
"I'm fine. How about you? Has your scar healed fully?"
"Yeah... He absent mindedly reached back there. It didn't hurt and was fully healed, but such an incident made him self conscious. He turned around to see Knuckles motioning for them to come, so he sighed, "It's time to start our scenes. Let's get going."
The two walked back to the set from the pavillion to get ready for their scenes. They were about to be shooting the season finale. Amy looked up happily at seeing Silver here with her sister, but before she could greet Blaze Knuckles had pushed her towards the set, saying they had no time to delay.
Blaze had been discussing her future with Silver when she saw Amy and Shadow coming back alone from the pavillion. Halfway through her sentence she had stopped. She lost her enthusiam in the conversation as her heart began to hurt.
After shooting Blaze went with Cream and Amy to makeup. Amy sighed as she rubbed away the heavy feelings of foundation on her face. However there was a smudge she could'nt remove and she looked to Blaze, "Can you get the make up remover out of my bag?"
Blaze nodded and pulled open Amy's purse. She pulled the little container of wipes out of the bag but froze at what she saw inside it. There was a small bottle of ointment cream. It was a prescription, and the name on it said Shadow Hedgehog. Why did Amy have Shadow's perscription? Did he give it to her?
"Blaze?"
Blaze snapped out of her trance and zipped Amy's bag shut and then handed it over to her, "Sorry, I'm a bit dizzy. Please excuse me." Blaze turned and walked out of the make up studio as she walked to the water fountain in between the bathrooms. She took a huge gulp of water and sighed internally.
Blaze stared down at her hands before coming to a conclusion. Amy was the girl Shadow had loved all these years.
"Blaze?" The cat looked up suddenly to see Tails coming out of the males bathroom. Her shocked expression swept away to one of happiness as she greeted him, "Tails, hey. When did you get back from the city?"
"CIty? Which city?" Tails thought for a moment, "I haven't been anywhere all day. I've been in my hotel room sleeping all day."
"Really? Perhaps I confused you with someone else." Blaze forced a smile as Tails nodded and walked away. Blaze growled and held onto the water fountain tightly. Tails didn't have Shadow's car. He hadn't even left the set all day. That meant that Shadow had lied about Tails taking the car this morning. If Tails never took the car out all day, then Shadow was lying. But why?
At HQ, she had mentioned that Amy liked tenders from KFC, then Shadow treats the entire crew to a huge feast of tenders from KFC.
When they got into a car accident, Shadow showed up, examined Amy, and then left.
There was that bottle of medicine in Amy's bag.
And now she found out Tails never actually left.
"It's Amy. It's Amy. He loves Amy." Blaze whispered angrily.
"Blaze?" The cat shot her head up to look over at Silver who was walking towards her, "Are you not feeling well?"
"I'm fine... just a little dizzy." Blaze lied. Silver gave her a soft smile, then wrapped an arm around her waist.
"You don't look good. Let's go home so you can rest."
"It might just be my period is about to come. It's not a big deal Silver." She clinged onto his arm as they walked back to the main set.
Sally never graduated high school. She dropped out, and became a side chick and sugar baby who was willing to please many rich men for money. When she was nineteen she met a film investory at a dinner party. She slipped her number into the mans pocket, and used him to rise to stardom. This was how she entered the entertainment industry. From the age of nineteen to twenty seven, she always had the drive and body to reach the top. Her sugar daddies always recommended her no matter what. As of late, sometimes you couldn't rely on your skills and talents but your body also.
Sally despised Rouge. Rouge was someone who had climbed up that bar without sleeping around, without getting her body or hands dirty. Everyone labeled Rouge as an actress you'd meet only every hundred years. Sally knew there was no surpassing the bat, so instead she turned to sleeping with male cast members to get them on her side as she ruined the lives of female actresses so she could rise to the top. This was until Amy stole her role in the show, that's when the squirrel started to have bad luck. The swing incident restrained Sally, especially since she knew Shadow was wanting Knuckles to investigate. After that she felt as if Shadow knew. Shows started to cancel on her, she was no longer invited on anymore host shows. Sally felt like she was in danger, so she tried to call up all her sugar daddies. But it was like they had all gotten bad wind of her name, none of them would answer her. Sally felt if she could just get one decent commercial, she would be okay. She turned to the last person she wanted to, Producer Robotnik. But night after night of her trying to get commercials through him, she would never get that call.
The next time she found Robotnik however, she found herself lucky. She already had one of his spare room keys. She used it to open the door, and heard him mid conversation in his room.
"Of all these female celebrities the only one I haven't touched is Rouge. I can't touch her anyway because she's protected by the box office. The one I want who I haven't been able to touch also is Amy. Yeah, her, she's prettier than Rouge by far. Innocent, clean, no plastic surgeries either. I'm defninitley interested in her, but no matter what I do, I cannot seduce her. Maybe she is playing hard to get..."
Sally bit her lip and stepped back out in the hallway, shutting his door behind her.
If she gave him Amy, he would give her anything she wanted, right?
Sally hated Amy's guts, more so than Rouge. This was a win win situation for her. The corner of Sally's smile turned upwards into a smile. She would go through with it this time when she knew Shadow wouldn't be around.
The day it happened was a Friday. The crew was having to reschedule an outside shoot since it wasn't clear out. So they had the evening off and Robotnik treated everyone to dinner. Sally wasn't going to attend since she had started her period, but she heard Shadow was going to be in the city doing business. She dressed herself up and ready to go to the party.
The party was located at a hot spring a few blocks away from the hotel. The temperature of the hot spring was high, so no one soaked for long as it would have been easy to dehydrate. Sally spent a lot of money to send several rounds of boxed drinks. Amy, Cream, and Rouge stayed in the red wine bath with a few other actresses when they had their bottles brought to them. The staff didn't tell them who had treated them, so everyone assumed it was Robotnik.
Perhaps it was because the water was too hot, or she had been soaking for too long. Amy felt herself becoming equal to an active volcano. It was so unbearable like her heart was on fire, she had to excuse herself to the bathroom. She turned on the shower once she entered the washrooms and soaked her face in cold water. When she looked up she noticed her face was abnormally red. She poked it, and her heart rate increased and she became more and more excited. Amy soon felt her strength leave her as she leaned against the bathroom tile. She blacked out, the last thing she saw were a pair of brain legs walking towards her.
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Producer Robotnik soon felt his phone go off. He sighed as he opened it. He was a bit light headed from the hot spring and from drinking. He saw a text from Sally and examined it as best as he could, "A gift for me huh? I better go see what she wants..." He stood up and said he would be back as he left the hot springs and got in his car, heading back to the hotel.
Cream was in deep conversation with the others and only after she came out of the hot spring did she realize that Amy was not around. She had gone to the bathroom a long while ago but had not returned. Cream walked towards it, but even after circling the whole bathroom, she still couldn't find Amy. She then continued to walk around looking for her friend, but she was still not in sight. Cream returned to the locker area and found that Amy's clothes and belongings were still inside. Her things were here so she must still be here! Cream returned back to the hot spring in search of Amy. Worried and panicky, Cream had a bad feeling sink into her chest. When she wanted to return to the hot spring one more time, Rouge stopped her. "Cream, everyone has left, why would you go back in when you just came from there?"
Cream stopped, shouting back, "Rouge, I can't find Amy anywhere."
"Wasn'tshe talking with the others awhile ago? Besides, how can you lose someone that's of age?" Rouge paused for a while guessing, "She could have had an emergency and didn't have time to inform you?"
"But her clothes and belongings are still in the locker!" Cream paused momentarily before continuing, "If she had changed, I wouldn't be so worried, but she's definitely not someoneis comfortable walking around in her bikini."
Rouge started to see the seriousness of the situation, "When was the last time you saw her?"
"It was when she went to the bathroom when she was done talking to us." Cream said as she started to panic some more.
Rouge took Cream by her hand as she walked straight for the hot spring again. Cream looked at the bat a bit confused as the returned to the red wine spring. Rouge looked and saw all the bottles had been cleaned up immediately. She bit her lip as she guessed what happened. She pulled Cream along as they went inside to the management office. She called her manager, "Call the boss of the hot spring, tell him if he still wants to do a collaboration with me than to let me look at the security footage."
After hanging up, she waited at the front of the office before a team went to her and escorted her to the security room. Rouge scanned all the screens carefully until she found the one with Amy in it. She pointed to that one, and had the team enlarge it. She then watched with angry eyes as Sally came walking in with her manager and her assistant. When the four left the room, Cream cried out.
"Sally took Amy. Sally took Amy! And we don't know where! We need to find Sally!"
"Sally wouldn't tell you where Amy was even if you asked her."
"Okay, I'll call the police instead."
"But we don't have any evidence that Sally did anything wrong..." Rouge looked at the video, "From here, it looks like a few people found Amy and were trying to help her. But we all know Sally better than that."
"Okay, than, I shall call Blaze-"
"Okay, stop." Rouge sighed and looked at the security team, "Please take a recording of that clip and send it to my contact information." She pulled out her own phone and looked at Cream with a determined look, "No time, we need to call Shadow."
