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By the time the moon had risen over Knothole, it's beaming light glowing in through the windows and into the living room, everyone was settled in and eating dinner while chatting away about the day's events. The sound of their laughter radiated all the way outside, making Amy smile as she closed her eyes and listened to them.
She let out a blissful sigh as she felt herself sink into the lush, thick green grass, feeling the cool blades sift through her fur, little did she know someone was headed in her direction. Sonic was headed down the garage stairs, merely checking on the Chaos Emeralds when he noticed the fuchsia bundle lying peacefully in the grass.
A smile subconsciously came over his muzzle, watching her soak in the serene environment, before he quickly forced it away. He wandered over to her, accidentally snapping a twig underneath his sneaker as he closed in on her, causing her eyes to snap open and stare up at him with a smile once the initial shock had passed her by.
'What are you doing out here?' Sonic asked bluntly as he looked over her.
'Just soaking up the peace and quiet,' Amy answered, her smile fading noticing his never appeared, 'you?'
'I was just checking on the emeralds.' Sonic admitted as he took a seat next to her.
Amy nodded as if to acknowledge him before letting out another sigh and closing her eyes again, not expecting him to continue any conversation she might try to bring up. She made the effort to clear her mind again, despite her blue hero's presence, and let a relaxed smile make its way back across her face through a sigh.
Sonic turned to look at her suspiciously, cocking a brow as he watched her intently. It suddenly occurred to him that she was still in her training gear, the sliming black and pink crop top and underwear, minus the robe and knuckles guards. He couldn't help trace her body up and down with his eyes, impressed and more than satisfied with what he saw before snapping himself back to reality.
'What are you smiling at?' He questioned, making her flutter her eyes open and look up at him.
'I'm just happy? Feeling very accomplished after today, now it feels good to just relax and take a breath, I guess.' Amy responded before closing her eyes again.
Sonic nodded to himself, thinking about the day's events and how well she had done, despite how much he didn't want to admit it. He still didn't want anything to do with the entire ordeal, still firm on not wanting her to go ahead with becoming an agent, but it was finally dawning on him that there would be no changing her stubborn mind.
'Alright, get up.' He smirked as he got to his feet.
'What?' Amy questioned as she opened her eyes and looked up at him questionably.
'You still have another test for today, now come on.' Sonic smirked, getting into battle stance.
'Are you serious?' Amy asked, wide-eyed with a hint of a smirk.
Sonic cocked his brow at her through an involuntarily smile, causing the fuchsia hedgehog to confidently shrug it off and get to her feet. She prepared herself the same way she had done in every other battle of the day, determined to make herself appear confident, maybe even a little cocky, when really she couldn't make the rush of nerves die down.
With that, Amy leapt forward in an attempt to pin him to the ground, only for him to speed out of the way and behind her to take her to the ground. It took only a split second for the fuchsia hedgehog to react, using all her strength too roll them over so she was on top, just able to flip over and hold him there.
In the heat of the battle, she began swinging punches to which Sonic would avoid and throw a few back as they continued to roll around on the ground. Once the blue blur had finally managed to remain above her for at least a second, he pinned down her hips with one hand while the other took her hands into his and pinned them above her head.
All of the oxygen miraculously left her chest, unable to keep fighting when she had registered where her sapphire hero was touching her. She stared up into his eyes, in a little shock as she panted, undeniably exhausted from their spirited battle. Sonic looked down into her eyes, a cocky smirk plastered across his face until he realised their proximity, now a little more nervous.
'Admitting defeat?' Sonic smirked.
'I think I kind of have to at this point.' Amy giggled nervously, still in his grasp.
Sonic chuckled back, their smiles slowly fading away as they realised neither one of them was moving out of their hold. They stared into each other's eyes, deeply and intently, before Sonic slowly started to lean forward. Closer and closer, ever so slowly as his fingertips gradually traced down her arm, eyes closing and now only a lips distance away, and then-
'Oh, come on!' Knuckles screeched from the living room.
'Ha ha! Yes! Told you so, Knucklehead!' Manic's voice cheered.
The two hedgehogs in the grass suddenly snapped back to reality at the shock of the loud chatter coming from upstairs, forcing them to smile awkwardly at one another before Sonic quickly got up to his feet and extended an arm out to the rosy teen, offering to help her up to which she gladly accepted by taking his gloved palm gently in hers.
'Ames, you don't have to do this you know?' Sonic whispered, their hands still in each other's hold.
'Sorry?' Amy cocked a brow suspiciously.
'All of this. We all know you're a skilled fighter and strategist, but we need you here with us. Not at G.U.N with all of those agents who don't know when they could be-'
'You still don't really think I can do it, do you?' Amy cut him off sharply as she pulled her hand away.
'Amy, I didn't say that, I just-'
'Then what are you saying, Sonic? Do you think I can do it, or not? Stop screwing around and start telling the truth!'
'I… I just…' Sonic stammered and trailed off after a few seconds, bowing his head.
'That's what I thought.' Amy sighed painfully before she turned on her heel and ran home.
Everyone rose with the sun the following morning, ready to get a start on the following areas Amy would have to master before she was tested in a few weeks' time. Amy arrived to the garage just after everyone else, dressed the way Rouge had instructed her and looking fit and ready to go, bar the red and puffy eyes which Rouge was quick to notice.
'Amy, I told you that you needed to get a lot of sleep.' Rouge scolded gently as she tried to clean her fuchsia friend up in the bathroom.
'I did get sleep.' Amy stated bluntly.
'If I'm not mistaken, someone cried themselves to sleep at all hours of the morning. Stop me if I'm wrong, but I think you need to start spilling your guts.'
'It's not a big deal, just Sonic being… Sonic.' Amy spat his name, immediately regretting it.
'Amy, what-'
'For Chaos' sake, girls, let's go!' Shadow called from the living room, cutting off the ivory bat.
'Come on, let's go.' Amy sighed.
The bubble-gum heroine quickly brushed past her friend and stormed down the hallway, determined to get the day started and everything else off her mind. Rouge let out a frustrated sigh, annoyed that Sonic is clearly still screwing with her and that she didn't know what he had done this time. She followed Amy out of the bathroom and downstairs with everyone else.
'Alright, Amy, time for speed training!' Silver exclaimed excitedly as he directed Amy to the two set up treadmills.
'So, what does she have to do here?' Cream asked with a small smile.
'Silver and Amy will get on these treadmills here and gradually set the speed to as fast as they can. Eventually Amy will need to be as fast as at least Rouge, and getting closer and closer to Silver's speed.' Shadow answered the young rabbit.
'Seems like quite a challenge.' Tails smirked a little.
'Up for it, Amy?' Blaze added.
'Let's just do it.' Amy answered a little too sharply as she stepped onto the treadmill.
As the two hedgehogs slowly got going, Sally and Tikal by Amy's treadmill and Manic and Knuckles by Silver's, the others held back to watch. Sonic stood firm with his arms crossed and eyes fixated on the two pairs of running legs. No one could guess by his firm, blank expression, but he couldn't stop replaying those few seconds of bliss from the previous night in his head.
'So, tell me, what did you do this time?' Sonia questioned as she walked to his side and mirrored his stance.
'What are you talking about?' Sonic cocked a brow, his voice still even.
'I was just chatting with Rouge,' Sonia began, 'She was cleaning Amy up in the bathroom this morning.'
'Why? What's wrong with Amy?'
'You tell me.'
Sonic watched Silver and Amy get off the treadmills so the fuchsia hedgehog could break before going again with the ivory bat before turning to face Sonia curiously. His magenta sister was still watching the tests unfold before her, watching Rouge step onto the treadmill before Amy. The two girls began at a jog and slowly worked their way up before Sonia finally turned to face her brother.
She gave him a knowing look, one he had seen all too many times from her. He was about to protest, insist he hadn't done anything as usual, but he figured he would humour her. Pretending to think, until he genuinely grew curious as to what could have made Amy so upset. He guessed she did leave there last night pretty upset after he- oh.
'Alright, so Amy and I were alone together last night.' Sonic shrugged.
'Uh, what?' Sonia's eyes widened.
'We were just sparring and talking, that's all.' He lied.
'Right, ok.' The magenta hedgehog rolled her eyes before walking off.
Sonic watched her walk off, headed towards Cosmo, before he got to thinking. He still stood by his opinion, of course: Amy shouldn't be doing this. However, he knew Sonia was contemplating some other reasons as to why he thought this, all of which he knew would be wrong. His gaze turned to focus on Rouge and Amy getting off the treadmill, both exhausted. Which got him to formulating a plan…
'Ok, my turn.' Sonic stated firmly has he brushed past Amy and onto the treadmill.
'Oh, boy.' Tikal winced.
'Here we go.' Knuckles and Manic mumbled in sync.
'What do you think's going to happen?' Cosmo questioned.
'So many possible outcomes…' Sally sighed.
For Amy to do what was consider 'well' in this round, she had to at least beat Rouge's speed which was a 23.7. Silver had gotten up to a 45.6 before they stopped him in fear the treadmill would explode, Sonic's score probably ending up somewhere similar. The only difference with this round is, despite Sonic and Amy not knowing or at least admitting it, everyone knew they would be able to rile each other up and push each other to keep going.
And to no surprise, that was exactly how it went…
Regardless of the fact Amy was almost certain either her legs were going to cave beneath her or her lungs were going to collapse, she kept on running and running, refusing to let Sonic prove her wrong. She had made a personal best, getting up to 22.3, and she was determined to beat it even if it was going to kill her.
'Give up yet, Ames?' Sonic said through gritted teeth as he controlled his breathing.
'You wish.' Amy panted, her words setting her lungs ablaze.
This made them both more and more determined by the second, her pace picking up rapidly along with his. Within a minute, she had beat Rouge's speed by getting up to 26.8, much to the ivory bat's both delight and dismay, Shadow's impressed surprise and Sonic's shock. It only took those few seconds of initial shock before the blue blur tripped over his own feet, sending him flying backwards off the treadmill and into a bush.
Everyone gasped, including Amy, who brought her speed down to a jog, a walk and then jumping off. Her first thought was to react and run over to see if her hero was alright, but then she figured he probably deserved it. She walked over to him, a cocky grin hiding a giggle plastered across her face as everyone else stared on in shock, bar Rouge and Sonia who wore the same expression as the fuchsia heroine.
'Still don't think I can do it, Sonic?' Amy smirked over him, causing him to groan in both pain and humiliation.
'Yeah, that's what I thought.'