Elise sat back with her milkshake and listened to the conversations Sonic and his friends were having. It was unfiltered, rude, threatening, and heavily sarcastic- but it wasn't without meaning, or reference to some inside joke. It rather amazed her, as a third person, to see them treat each other in a rather abusive way that was completely understood as joking. It made her think- it made her want to break more of Iblis's wall on her memories. But, as she concentrated more of the invisible wall than on the conversations, Elise slowly came to realize that Iblis's wall only went so far in her memory- unless it involved Silver, who Iblis purposely tried to write out. In fact, everything she couldn't remember was beyond the day that...

"So Elise, you've been rather quiet." Knuckles said, speaking directly to her in a way that nearly made her jump. "There something you want to tell us?"

"Huh?" Elise replied as she looked around. "Oh, um, no not really."

"Okay." Knuckles replied. "Just wondering."

"However," Amy said, jumping in at the opportunity to get nosey, "What's with you and Silver? Are you friends, or more than that?"

Sonic, who had been minding his own business while eating a cheeseburger, almost choked on what he was eating. He went unnoticed, however, and Elise thought about her answer before saying it.

"Silver is my friend." Elise said with a small so-so shrug.

"That's not what I'm asking you." Amy insisted. "Are you and Silver currently seeing ea-"

"Amy!" Sonic quickly said in a mix of anger and panic. This time, everyone did pay him mind and gave him a rather odd look. Sonic felt himself start to shrink below the table with embarrassment. "I'm just saying... maybe she can't remember that much."

"Sonic has a point Amy." Tails then said. "Maybe Elise can't remember anything other than Silver being her friend."

"Oh I do." Elise told them with a rather serious face. "But Silver was my friend before anything else. He was my guardian, and he's never let me down once. Silver's not perfect though, and most of his decisions are horrible- but once he sets his mind to something, there isn't anything he wouldn't do to achieve it."

"And his relationship with you?" Amy then inquired, almost starting to sound distinctly bitter.

"Platonic." Elise said.

"Is that why you're hanging out with Sonic instead?" Amy then asked. The resulting reaction made several citizen not withing the conversation turn around and stare at them; Sonic and Knuckles had stood up suddenly- Sonic was in surprise and Knuckles's had been to set Amy down should she choose to attack. Tails had jumped away from the table and nearly knocked over the busboy in an attempt to run away before things got ugly. Elise's face had gone into a rather confused and slightly humored look as she gave Amy an odd side glance.

"Would you like to come along when we spend time together?" Elise asked, not quite sure what Amy was getting at. "I wouldn't mind if you did, if that's what you're concerned about."

Amy's cheeks started to glow red as she started to give her rebuttal, but was interupted by the sudden appearance of Doctor Eggman in his hovercraft. No one was amused to see him.

"Ah, Princess Elise is it?" Eggman said directly to Elise with a small bow, "It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance at last."

"I don't know you." Elise said in a low tone. Taking the cue, Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, and Tails went into a defensive position in waiting for Eggman to attack.

"No, but I know your friend Silver." the mad doc told her calmly and quite simply. "In fact, without me, he wouldn't have found you any way. So really, when you think about it, we're almost on even ground."

Elise shook her head as she started to get up from the table and backed away from Eggman.

"I don't trust you." she told him. Eggman gave a little sigh as if he had expected this. Surely enough he had, and Orbot and Cubot were behind Elise to prevent her from going anywhere else. Eggman, likewise, was not going to back down any time soon.

"You've hurt my feeling Princess." Eggman told her. "Too bad you're going either way."

In a moment of surprise and unexpected speed, Eggman flew his hovercraft to Elise, scoped her up in one swing, and started to fly away toward his lair. Eggman let down a magnet so Orbot and Cubot would come along as well.

"Good bye!" Cubot said to the rest cheerily enough as they flew away. Sonic was the first to react, and almost started to run after them before being stopped by Amy.

"Amy, what are you doing?" Sonic asked. "We have to get her!"

"'We' don't have to do anything." Amy told him, sounding quite blunt with a rather unreadable face, "She said Silver is her guardian, right? Well, then maybe we should tell him so he can go get her. You heard Eggman- with Silver he wouldn't have known about Elise, so it's going to be Silver that gets her."

Sonic looked at Amy, almost as if she was nuts but he knew there was truth in what she was saying. But Silver wasn't the one that totally just let Eggman get away right now...

. . .

"And you let him get away with it?!" Silver questioned in justified anger. "Eggman knows that Elise has a horrible power in her, and he can find a way to force it out! Thank you, for telling me by the way, but what were you thinking just letting him get away like that?!"

"It was Amy's idea." Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all said at the same time while pointing an accusing finger at the pink hedgehog. Silver turned to look at her with almost the same expression she was giving him. He then walked up to her and gave her an intimidating and very nasty glare.

"If Doctor Eggman gets Iblis out of Elise, you can forget about your fairy tale romance with the blue moron. Permanently. Got it?" Silver told Amy in such a low tone that Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles couldn't hear. Amy looked at Silver as she slowly came to realize what she had done.