Ch. 3

Rememory

By: Cutegirlmayra1 (So… I'm popping these things out, lol! Enjoy the rush of chapters! Whahahaha! Wait, why am I laughing like a villain? That's a good thing. Uh… hahaha? o-o)

Amy was getting close to a rocky ridge above her, she had journeyed here a few times, but it was always unsafe, but nothing that would scare her away.

"Everyone needs a little bit of danger." She said excitedly, but tried to keep her voice down.

Sonic watched her from above, having set up some boulders, and smiled. Looking back over his shoulder, he said, "This is so odd, I'm actually making her the damsel in distress this time. Oh well, she won't get hurt. I'll save her in the nick…" he got up in between the boulders and started to push with his legs. "of… time…augh!" he pushed and pushed, until finally the boulder started to roll. Peering down the ridge, he smiled, "Yes!" he air fisted, and then he moved on to the others.

Amy was keeping up her pace when she gasped at some boulders, gaining speed, and coming her way. "Oh no!" she cried out.

"Don't worry! I'll-" Sonic had just gotten down when Amy suddenly pulled out her hammer, and raced towards the boulders. "Save….you?" his eyes widened, seeing her charging the boulders.

"HYUP!" she swung her hammer, and the boulder shattered, her movements were more advanced than Sonic had ever seen her do before. She was twirling, smashing, swinging with grace and aerobatic movements that left him stunned and staring in awe. "Well… that's impressive…" he gulped. "But not exactly what I was hoping for…"

Amy landed, huffing and puffing, when she noticed she missed one, heading for a gloomy looking Sonic, who kicked a small rock next to him and sighed, bending his whole frame down in defeat.

"Look out!" she cried out, and raced over to him.

"What?" he turned around, seeing the boulder he was about to dodge but Amy stepped in place of him, and swung it right back up on the ridge he had once placed it.

"Phew." Amy held her hammer down, and looked to Sonic, a big smile on her face. "That was a close one!"

Sonic was instantly charmed, but shook his head, pouting at his failure.

"Umm… I'm Amy Rose, remember?"

Her words tortured him from his core.

"Yes…. I remember." He slightly growled out, but tried to stay talkative.

"Hehe, you don't sound too happy..." she moved her quill out of her face, looking cute as ever. "You live around here?"

"I live everywhere." He rolled his eyes, having to explain himself to someone who should know him inside out was awfully annoying. "Ehem… anyway, you alright?"

"Sure am! Your lucky I was around though, or you'd be the one I'd be saying that, too. Haha!" she covered her mouth, and then threw her hammer over her shoulder again. "Anyway, stay out of trouble, mister..?" she motioned for the name.

Sonic just stared at her, in his heart he felt a billion mirrors shatter. How dare she ask his name… how dare she make him stoop to such levels as having to prepare a rockslide just to get her to fall for him again. If her memories were still in there, he was doing an awful job of getting them out.

"Excuse me." He raced by her.

"Uhh… Sir?" she watched him zoom away, and tilted her head. "Huh. He really is shy… either that or prideful." She moved her mouth to the side, silently judging him. "Oh well." She summoned back her hammer, having it disappear, and then continued her run.

"Well, that didn't work." Sonic paced on his favorite hill, trying to think. "AUGH! This is annoying!" he stated, kicking the ground. "There has to be a way to get her to remember me.."

"Remember you?"

Sonic turned around, shocked to see Cubot holding a piece of robotic engineering in his hands. "Why in tarnation would she need to remember you?" he asked, seeming stumped on it.

"…Where are you going with that." The wheels in the hedgehog go round and round.

"What? This? Why, this here be for Eggman's ol'creation of a lifetime! He plans on killing you with it.

Round and round, the wheels in Sonic's head go round and round. "Rrrrreeeeally?"

"Yeah. By the way, where you gonna be at by about noonish?" Cubot asked.

Sonic smiled wickedly. "The west side of the forest." All through midday!

"Alright, I'll-a let The Doc know then." He started to hovered away, singing Home on the Range.

…

Amy was picking flowers in a local valley when a gust of wind sped by her. She blinked a bit, and then looked around, "Huh?"

"Well, hello gorgeous."

She quickly looked up and noticed Sonic leaning with one arm on a tree, his other smugly resting on his hip while his leg cross the other one. Looking quite… dashing.

"Uhh… hello, again… sir." She raised an eyebrow, and slightly smiled in awkwardness.

He walked up to her, being very suave like as he casually laid back next to her. "Stopping to smell the flowers are we?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Her eyes shifted to that of suspicion but interest with intrigue.

Her come back was pretty good, more than he expected so he weakly and nervously laughed back, then looked away angrily. 'So… those new memories also replaced your lack of being attractive. Great…' he frowned.

Looking back at her with a smile, he continued his ruse… "Say,… Isn't your last name Rose?" he continued the conversation, still trying to seem irresistibly charming.

"Hmm, yes. Funny how you should mention names, when I have yet to learn yours." Her eyes turned seductive, as she smiled wittily at him. There was no way, no how, this stranger was about to get the better of her.

Sonic's eyes widened, she was better than he every expected, clearing his throat, he obliged. "Sonic. Sonic the Hedghog." He stated.

"Sonic? Like Sonic boom?" The name rolled off her tongue, and for some odd reason, she wanted to say it over, and over, again… but she forced herself to remain calm and find out what this man wanted. Though… he was giving her some hints…

"Yeah! Pretty cool right?" he rubbed the end of his nose. "Cause I'm fast and all."

"Pretty uncreative if you ask me." She picked up another flower and smelled it with grace and indifference to her last comment.

Ouch.

"…." Sonic remained silent for a moment, she had just insulted his name beautifully and it was ticking him off. "EHEM." He cleared his throat loudly. "Not much of a chatter box, are you?" He grew a bit sad saying that. The Amy he knew used to want to tell him every little thing that happened in her daily life. She always tried to make it exciting, but to him, it was like her own lullaby that put him right to sleep. However, if he failed to wake up fast enough, he would awaken to a large hammer upon his bruising head as she angrily would scold him to pay more attention to her. After that, she would wait for him to start talking, and he would be forced to talk about his 'latest' adventure, when she would roll her eyes, wanting to hear more about his 'feelings' but she seemed happy enough to hear him get excited about slicing through the air and busting up another one of Dr. Eggman's machines.

"Sorry, I'm not used to random company." She teased.

He smiled, moving up and taking the opportunity to reach out and cup one of her quills in his hand. "Really..? That's such a shame.." he moved his muzzle through it, he had known her scent better than that of any of his other friends, but for the first time, he was enjoying smelling it.

"Woah." She pulled away slightly, looking a bit dumbstruck by his bold movement. "Heh, me saving you must have been more of an impact than I thought."

Sonic held in a billion laughs all at once. His mind raced to the time he first saved her from Metal, and when she told him she would never leave his side and wanted to marry him and bare his children. He covered his mouth, ever so slightly, with the back of his hand that had reached out for her quills, and snorted out a bit of a 'Pfft.' At her comment. Making it look like he was offended, when really he was just holding back from rolling on the ground, laughing his head off and kicking his feet in the air. "Right… maybe that's just destiny." He played along. "I feel I needed to reward you, forgive me?" he smiled.

"….Your an odd one." She stated, settling down again. "One minute you look shy, then prideful and annoyed, and now… strangely, your turned on?" she huffed out a 'Pfft' back at his and looked like she was indirectly laughing at him. Going back to her flower picking, she looked up at him with a bit of a smile. "You know... I don't know why.. but you seem to be really fascinating. Don't take that the wrong way though."

Sonic's façade suddenly ended, he removed his hand from his mouth and studied her closely.

'Tails was right… she is acting more and more like me.. is this what would happen if I was never in her life? She seems confident… brave, independent, and strong.. maybe it would be better if I never was in her life..' he began to question in his head.

She had spoken out the very sentence he took years trying to put into words. The very words he wished to tell Amy, but knew she would take in the wrong way. "…Oh, how the roles have changed." He shifted back into a criss-cross style with his legs, and looked away. Seeing he was getting no where, he sighed, almost missing Amy's horrible flirting than having to flirt with her himself. Especially if it was like this…Wow, talk about taking something for granted. Now Sonic actually wished he was flirting with the real Amy Rose… at least then his efforts, no matter what they were, wouldn't be in vain.

He leaned back, thinking about it. Something he would normally never do on his own free will. He pictured the same thing he had done, with her quills, and saw her squeeing in delight after a moment of blushing madly at his sudden show of affection. He pictured her closed eyed smile and her gentle but kinda squeaky laugh, how she would beg him to let her try and he would push her away, saying it was a one time thing.

"What? Did you say something? Hey, you're smiling." Amy turned around, seeing Sonic on the ground, smiling as he was day dreaming with his eyes closed. "Must be a good dream." She teased, moving her head away from him and cocking an eyebrow up. "Hope it's not about me…"

His eyes shot open, and he sat up quickly. "Ah…hmm.." he was about to protest, but realized it was probably no use. "Heh…"

He looked up into her eyes, their faces inches apart since he had risen upward.

"You got me…"

He teased, as he watched her lose her confidence and seem to melt at his words, she just stared at him, confused of what she was feeling but completely mesmerized by the moment. Almost hypnotically she didn't move, but her eyelids slid down as he moved closer, there noses almost over lapping when…

"Well, well. What do we have here?" Eggman spoke up, looking wickedly evil today as he rubbed his thumb and pointer finger on his mustache. He was inside his new ginormous robot, that had a big window screen on the top that slid over its round frame. It's silver body looked ready to fight, as Sonic grimaced.

"Now…? I thought he said noon! That little…" he growled out.

"Wait, you know Eggman?" Amy snapped out of the weird sensation her body made her feel as she looked mindfully up to Eggman. "He must be here for me." She concluded.

"What?!" Sonic looked shocked. "Why would he be here for you?!" he asked, outraged.

"I've been defeating him time and time again since I was young." She spoke back, getting up and looking ready for battle, taking her stance, which looked like a baseball player readying for bat. "You might want to stand back, I don't know what he'd do to you." she warned.

"….." Sonic stood up, getting ready to fight too.

"What? What are you doing?! You could get hurt!" she declared.

"Hmph, so could you." Sonic realized she needed to see him fight, to prove that it wasn't her that was meant to be this stories hero.

"….Hmph, suit yourself. But I can't always be there for you." she secretly was worried about him fighting, but her mind was telling her to focus on Eggman instead.

"Don't worry…" he took his moment and tried for another one. Grabbing her hand on her hammer and looking deep into her eyes again, "I'll be there for you." he stated.

She looked back and forth, each time studying his eyes, not sure what to make of his weird gestures as her heart kept skipping a beat.

She shook her head, and moved his hand away from her, "There's no time for whatever your trying to pull here!" she shouted, "We need to introduce that robot's knees to the ground."

"Haha, I think I know a guy. Will power, I believe, he's great at introductions." Sonic used his witty banter to compliment hers, as she looked over at him, and smiled cockily. He returned her compliment for his statement with a friendly wink, as if to say she wasn't so bad at witty banter herself.

"Go! Robo37 Mighty Claw!" Eggman shouted, the robot struck a pose, having it's one hand with a giant claw on it gleam in the sunlight. Then its other hand, a jackhammer, smashed itself into the ground where Sonic and Amy were. Both skillfully dodging as it drilled into the ground next to them. Its claw hand then reached out for Amy.

"Amy!"

"I've got this!"

She swung towards the ground, causing her to blast upward and land on the robot's hand, right between its claws as she swung again with one hand, spinning herself upward to get more power into it, and after three more hits its bent and the wires keeping it together ripped off, causing it to crash to the ground.

"Alright, Amy! Talk about de-clawed!"

"Have fear! For Amy Rose is here! Haha!"

"….."

Sonic remembered how she used to say, have no fear, Amy rose is here! And how having that simple sentence change just slightly could say so much about how long gone his Amy was…

Sonic didn't dwell on it long, though it brought misery to him like a wave upon a shore, it quickly withdrew the same as he saw the jack hammer coming at him.

"Not today, Eggman. I'm not in the mood." He stated under his breath, having his usual spirited attitude lost by her words.

He dashed up the robot, finding the weak spot in it's neck area where some inner wire work was exposed he slid in and started tearing the robot up from the inside out. Amy watched in wonder, at how fast the robot was failing.

"NOOO! Not while I'm still here!" Eggman tried to use the jack hammer to drill its way into itself, it worked, but now Sonic and the jack hammer were trapped.

"Sonic!" instinctively called out Amy, she didn't know why she was so attached to this stranger, but she knew she had to save him. 'It's just in my nature!' she told herself, and jumped up the robot, putting her hammer in the crevice of the robot's neck, she used all her strength as it suddenly began to creek and split open even more.

"W-wait…WHAT!?" Eggman noticed her strength in an instant, and wondered how she had gotten that powerful in such a short time. "Wait… What did you do!? Give something up or gain something!?" he questioned her, but she didn't understand what he was talking about and so she didn't focus on it. Pushing down more, the robot's head finally snapped off. Having the robot's head decapitated, Sonic popped his head out rather comically, blinking and looking around.

"Sonic!"

Hearing her use his name the way she used to call him, with so much admiration and devotion, made him smile. "We make a pretty good team!" he commented, allowing her to take his hand into her outstretched one and help him out.

"I…I thought you were crazy.." she stated.

Sonic laughed, pulling her close. "To be honest…" he said, devilishly handsome and in the best tone of voice he could possible summon up. "I am." He teased.

Amy chuckled nervously, not sure why she liked this so much, but Sonic was kinda enjoying how she wasn't being easy to woe, though he missed her reactions a bit.

"WOAH!" The two felt the robot shake as Amy clinged to Sonic. "We have to get out of here!" she warned.

"Hold on!" Sonic, going back to his old heroic self, jumped off the robot as it began to spark and explosions came from within it.

"It's going to fall!" Amy warned, seeing the size of it. "We'll never make it in this direction! It's falling towards us!" she held her breath in fear.

"Heh." Sonic noticed how she wasn't purposefully doubting his abilities, she had forgotten them. With a great big grin, he looked back at her.

"W-why… why are you smiling! We could be seriously injured!" she warned.

"….You were so much cuter when you believed in me…" he stated, making her look at him with a confused look.

"What?"

"Hold on!"

Sonic sped ahead, Amy felt he whiplash hit her, since she had forgotten how to avoid that with Sonic.

"Wo-a-a-ah! You're..You're so fast!" she exclaimed, amazed by his speed as if it was the first time seeing it… for with her current predicament… it was.

Sonic looked back at her face, sadness filling his face once again. "…Yeah…" he stated, "I always was…" he muttered, annoyed, but with a hint of sorrow.

The robot fell, but they were light years from it as he skidded to a halt, placing her down. "…You okay?.." he asked, feeling awkward at the situation. He was missing her so much, more than he thought he could ever miss someone. This… girl. She was NOT, in any circumstance, his Amy…his Amy…

He had never used a possessive in front of Amy's name before… and he quickly turned from her, not even wanting to see her face right now.

"Wow! You were amazing! I thought Me and my group of friends were the only ones that could take down Eggman! Hey, you should join us!" she happily said, and waited for his response. "H-hey… what's wrong..?" she asked, looking confused that he was facing away from her. "Sonic..?" She reached an hand out to him.

Sonic..?

It used to be…

Sooonnniccc!

With so much love and adoration in her voice.

So much happiness… just mentioning his name…

He could never understand why she was so happy to be around him…

But he found that he was happy if she was happy.

If she was safe.

Sonic lifted his head. "You're not Amy…" he stated bluntly.

She pulled her hand away in a twitch from hearing his words. "W-what? Of course I'm Amy. I'm Amy Rose!" she defiantly protested.

"No…" he didn't move, but his voice was harsh, and unyielding to her pleas against him. "You have lost yourself. You gave away your memories of me to the shrine to try and stop the demon horde that was coming against us… you gave away… me…" he lowered his head, closing his eyes and squeezing them shut. "You are Amy Rose, but your not. You embody who she could have been if she never knew me. Her hero. I'm the one that fights Eggman day and night with Tails and Knuckles and all my other friends by my side. You would support me, you cared about all our safety, and you loved me enough to lose me to try and save us all…"

"…Love…?" Amy slowly stepped back. "Sonic… what's going on? Why are you saying al this all the sudden..?" she was scared, she didn't like what he was saying, that her whole life was a lie?! Who was this guy that she should listen to him!?

"…. Because… because I miss her…" He turned around. "And I promise, not you, but her, that I will find a way to bring her back, even if it means I have to sacrifice something for her as well." He stated, looking cold in his eyes and strict in his conviction.

He knew what he had to do now… and that this wasn't working…

"Sorry, Tails.." he muttered, as he was about to race to the shrine.

"Stop!" Amy finally dashed forward and grabbed his back quill, as she quickly released it, her eyes widening, staring at her hand as if she didn't know why she did that. "I…I don't understand what your saying… but if what your saying is true…" she closed her eyes. "I feel… at times… that there's someone else in me. Like… something else is feeling things for me… Love… I think my heart remembers that…I don't think it forgot it.. because when I'm with you… I can feel who you are, like I know you. Like…" she giggled nervously as she tried to put into words what she was feeling, "Like I can feel safe around you… even though all my life I've had to rely on myself, I feel like I don't have to when your around… and I've only known you for two days! I must be crazy but that's how it feels like…" she gripped her chest, feeling her heart race within her.

"I don't think I can let you go… I think you're the missing thing… the thing I've been searching for… please… can't you learn to love this me?"

"…."

Sonic walked up to her, and placed his forehead right on hers, "I can't… love someone… I don't know…" he admitted, as Amy's eyes began to water.

"W..Why am I crying?" she felt her eyes.

"Because the real you… that still lives in your heart… she glad I'm still gonna save her." He then cupped her cheek, and gazed into her eyes. "I will give anything… to have you back."