Chapter Fourteen:

Just a little exercise

Amy Rose had always known that there was no such thing as Knights. Well, at least those that saved the day and swept up their love in real life. Even if she did daydream about being saved by, and falling in love with a knight in shining armor every now and again when she was working in her garden or was cooking for her and her new family. It had always been just that, a dream. Nothing real, just a fantasy she liked to visit sometimes on her own, or with young Cream in silly games.

Even today, a day that turned out to be both the worst and luckiest day of her life. Amy had not thought she would be saved by a Knight. Not until that last, horrible moment where the anthro Hunter Robot was about to crush her flat. She could see the mace like hunk of metal in place of a hand, could see it descending on and almost over her.

Then it happened.

He literally came out of nowhere. One second he wasn't there then the next he was, curled into a powerful spin attack and driving the massive Hunter robot back. Abruptly he was gone again, only to reappear beside the female anthro.

Amy yelp as she suddenly found herself moving, and not under her own power but in the arms of the other anthro.

When Amy was able to pull her face out of the spot between his neck and shoulder, she found herself staring into the clearest, brightest emerald green eyes she had ever seen, nothing like her own green eyes. He glanced down at her for a moment to see if she was alright then focused back on running at this impossible speed. Amy was almost completely lost in those eyes and knew that she was blushing rather deeply but couldn't stop. Nor stop the near instantaneous crush feelings starting under her ribcage.

The male hedgehog shifted his grip on her, completely unaware of the spell he had made as he stopped, setting Amy down on her feet.

"Are you okay?" He asked, supporting the female as she wavered, used to doing this now with anyone he just ran with.

His voice wasn't quite as deep as Amy's dream Knight's had been but it was still very nice. Amy shyly nodded her head as she looked up at the other hedgehog, still more then aware of her blushes. He frowned slightly but accepted her nod with one of his own.

His dark blue quills were wild and windswept back into clumps, with lighter, sky blue steaks running through. Most of all his fur was that same dark indigo color of his long quills, his belly, lower chest, mussel and inner ears were a rich brown. Unlike Amy, who was wearing a dress, he didn't have any clothes on except a pair of well warn red and white sneakers. He also had a pair of knuckle gloves on that covered his hand and wrists. Both shoes looked like they could be replaced soon, but still had life in them for now. He was about a few inches taller than she was, seeming even taller than he was with his flared out quills.

There was something about him that Amy couldn't place as the two stared at one another. She, with wide and nearly starry eyes getting herself on cloud number nine. He, looking at her curiously, he had never seen more than a few other anthros, and those had been lupine based, and no other hedgehog ones.

"Thank you for saving me...?" The light pink hedgehog hesitated, not knowing his name. He opened his mouth to say something, maybe his name or maybe to say that she was welcome, but a scream made both snap back to reality and caused him to spin around.

"SOOOONIC!" A woman yelled from back in the clearing.

"Sis!" The other anthro almost paled under his fur for a brief moment.

Amy realized what that 'something' from before was as Sonic the Hedgehog crouched, his muscles tensing. It was in that spit second, just before Sonic took off at an unnatural speed.

She found the impossible. She found something, someone better than a knight in shining armor.

Amy Rose just found a hero.

So it was the worst possible day in her life, as her home and roommates had been attacked by the Hunter robot, but also the best because the world proved that a hero could really exist.

Amy looked back at the forced made clearing she had been in a minute ago. The semi crushed remains of her own car and a few others were to her right, under the still standing trees where the Hunter Robot had been dumping them from taking from the roadway above. A few trees had been knocked over a while ago, to make room for the mech as well as another, though now deactivated second mech. Amy had called it a 'grabber' as it was the thing that had started to pull Amy out of her car, but it hadn't expected anthro strength, or that the girl wouldn't be fully paralyzed with fear.

Amy had a very dense muscles, a little more than normal for an anthro, so she had damaged the grabber-mech before the Hunter showed up. Now the massive mech had a new target down below.

Before Sonic had left at the yell, a few minutes before Jessy gave a yelp and dove to her right and ran in between the giant robot's legs. Pausing as she was lost from sight, the mech didn't seem to be able to know what to do. It was probably around three stories tall; the main body was mostly triangle in shape as was the head. Its arms were long so the mace-like 'hands' could rest on the ground. The legs were quite stubby in comparison to the body.

This is an anime show gone wrong. Jessy thought as she used the few moments she had before the robot finally thought to turn around. She looked around franticly for something, anything... There!

The mechanic bolted and scooped up a large stick.

"Err…nah." She tossed the piece of wood away, it had looked stronger then it turned out to be.

A mental chant of, 'WhatdoIdo?! WhatdoIdo?!' echoed in Jessy's mind as was forced to dodged the impossible reality of a giant robot of death that, apparently, wanted to squish her. Then that mental mantra was interrupted as she found something a bit better than a stick.

Grinning, Jessy almost stepped on the stick and all but pounced on a long, thin piece of scrap metal that must have come from those piles of metal to her right. Not bothering to think of what the scrap piles were at the moment she ran. Why? The Hunter Robot had the bright idea to turn around and had spotted her again.

Again, Jessy ran between its legs.

Hey, it worked the first time! She just didn't think she'd have as much time this round. Jessy looked up at the robot, her mind working as fast as she could get it to. The adrenalin in her system helping more than a little.

The woman paused and stared disbelievingly at the back of the robot. "You have got to be kidding me!"

Well, what was the saying?

Never look a gift-robot in the butt?

"…Err…" The woman paused for the briefest of seconds before she shrugged. "Close enough."

Jessy took a running start and jumped up, her left hand curling around the first rung of the built in ladder that ran up the robot's back. Desperately trying not to think where she was on the Hunter Robot's oddly shaped anatomy, Jessy fumble to get another hand hold and still hang on to her chuck of metal. Her foot caught a hold and she pushed off and with a move that she knew that was going to come back and bite her butt later, Jessy managed to get up the ladder and a better hold.

Okay, now what?

The Hunter Robot turned again making Jessy yelp, clinging to the ladder rungs, "Ah…crap! What do I do now?!"

Once again she was looking around and yet another adrenalin boost surging through her. There was also that voice of reason that was demanding to know what the hell Jessy thought she was doing.

"Oh to hell with it," Jessy said as she sucked in a deep breath and yelled, "SOOOONIC!"

The robot turned once again, trying to find the owner of the yell and the mechanic re-attached herself to the rungs…

Mechanic.

Jessy froze. She was a mechanic! This was a robot ("Duh!'). Robots were made up of metal, parts, pieces, armor, ladders, maces, joints…

"Jessy!"

Ignoring her adoptive brother Jessy looked up and to the left at the shoulder joint of the Hunter Robot.

Sonic landed behind her, feet braced flat on the robot's back, one arm wrapping around her middle and the other hand closing over the rung she had a death grip on. "Come on sis we got to g-"

"Sonic! There!" Jessy let go with her left hand, trusting Sonic to keep her from falling. "There! So that spin-y-blade-y-quill thingy you do, at its joints! They aren't armored like the rest of it!"

"But," Sonic started but was whacked in the ear.

"GO!" Jessy grabbed a rung again when Sonic's supporting form left. She watched him run up the Hunter Robot's back to its shoulder. For a moment he looked at its head then jumped strait up. Curling into what looked like blurring indigo sphere with sharp spines all over; Sonic dropped down onto the joint and started cutting away. The blue hedgehog had to break away four times to regain his balance, and get a good breath of air, before he worked his way through.

Thud!

The mace arm crashed to the ground and Sonic dropped down as well and leaped away from the off balanced robot as it teetered. He focused on one of its legs, the knee joint and tensed.

Wham!

"Oh no!"

"Sonic!"

Jessy and Amy both cried out as the remaining mace hand of the Hunter Robot connected with Sonic's back, flinging the hedgehog off into the woods. Jessy from her perch more then half way up the ladder at what she thought was a hatch, Amy from the edge of the clearing.

"How dare you!" Amy screamed as she ran forwards, scooping up her oversized hammer from before by the twitching grabber-mech.

Jessy just had a glimpse of the pink furred Anthro and her hammer before the robot moved and the woman had to cling tighter.

"Be safe Sonic, be safe, be safe..." the woman prayed, wishing the spirits of the winds to her brother to watch over him as she twined her legs around a rung. Gripping another with her left hand Jessy used her right to stab at the seal around the hatch she had found.

"Come. On. Open. Up. You. Stupid. Hunk! Of! Junk!" With each word Jessy stabbed the seal trying to rip a part of it open. If it was an o-ring type seal that it seemed like, than she only had to wedge out or tear apart one piece then all Jessy had to do was angle that scrap and pry open the hatch by leverage. She could use the same metal piece to jam the internal systems.

Shop class 101, lessen one: You can stall any kind of engine with surprising simplicity. I.e. drop a tiny wrench into a big engine at the wrong place and it'll stall. Or cause total chaos and havoc, not to mention damage.

That's just what Jessy was planning on doing.

As long as the hatch wasn't locked that is...

"Rrrraah!"

Both females stared, one because her target wasn't where it should have been, the other because she had never heard Sonic growl.

Oh, and Jessy found out that if the hatch had a lock, her adoptive brother's attack has jarred it lose. She also found out it was very easy to fall into that big black hole where the hatch use to be with Sonic's second attack to knock the mech at a strange angle.

"...ouch." Jessy winced, slowly lifting a hand to the back of her head and gently poking it for overly sore places. She found two and a half spots, plus something damp on her right shoulder.

"Aw...cra- Ooooooo...that's pretty."

The mechanic stared up at an indent in the 'wall' right above her head. In it was a fist sized red gem that seemed to be glowing from the inside out. Jessy stared, and stared...and stared some more…

There seemed to be something inside every female, and many males as well, that whenever something shiny, glowing, sparkly, and an all-around very pretty gemstone (or crystal), the person seemed to almost go into a trance of sorts for a few seconds. The 'Ooo..that's pretty...' response.

A reverberating crash from outside slapped Jessy back to reality.

Hmm… It might be in her best of interest to get out of there before Sonic tore the robot apart. Jessy flailed about for half a minute before getting her balance. Standing she looked around for the hatch...up there!

That was farther up then it should have been. Did this mech have semi-sub space generator in it? IT had to have considering the inside dimensions of the Hunter was bigger and didn't match up with the out.

The gemstone flashed, dragging Jessy's gaze back to it, but this time she wasn't under its spell. Thus she saw how wires and other goodies connected to the base and trailed off into the dim internals.

The mechanic quirked an eyebrow and tilted her head.

"That looks important..." She smiled, reaching out to pull the stone free.

Pop.

"That was easy." It had almost fallen out and into Jessy's hands, as if it wanted out.

There was another resounding and very jarring crash again, sending

"Ow." Jessy lifted her head away from the glass like thing she had fallen onto and made a mental note to pull one or both of Sonic's ears when this was over.

The woman paused midway of getting up, hands braced on the glass like material under her pamns that were slick. Frowning, Jessy wiped away some of the damp condensation and used the still glowing stone to see what was under it.

"Oh my God..." Jessy sucked in her breath at seeing the pale fur and small form under her. She screamed out for Sonic just as the world imploded.

I'm so evil =D

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