Sonic Supers!

by CGMayra

Eggman's got Tails and Sonic needs to save him! But Eggman's plan to use a stolen Chaos G.U.N Gun has Super hedgehogs with no way out! Amy pleas seem to cause a Chaos Emerald rebellion against the Master Emerald. And what is Negative Chaos? Will Amy be able to save the boys and then save herself..? (SonAmy, Shadamy, Silvamy) CONTAINS: Kisses, Teases

3. Chapter 3

Sonic Supers!

Chapter 3(S1)

By: Cutegirlmarya (At the time of this story, I had done a storyboard on youtube, finished a chapter of my original story, and was beginning another semester in my freshmen year at college. I hope the revisions are looking better and better as you read along. I want to try and go back every few years or so and keep editing them. Well, we'll see how that works, haha! But now, on with the show!)

Sonic got to the edge of the cliff, looking down and seeing the vines that hung from Angel Island's floating mass of rock and ground and held a long whistling sound of awe, letting it carry over and down to the ocean until completely being lost in the open space of sky.

The ground to the land below, so far that the eye could only see a flat line of brown and green in the ocean's distance, as if hovering just above, cutting ocean from sky.

Shadow came up after him, having a continuous frown and looking down.

With folded arms he turned slightly at an angle to indirectly show he was speaking to Sonic, "It's a long way down. But it's getting dark. We might as well land and find somewhere to stay for the night."

"Night..?" Amy looked from Sonic's arms to Shadow.

She moved out of his arms to look below her, wanting her own view as Sonic couldn't lean too far with her there without risking-

"W-woah!" A rock slid below Amy's feet, and as it crumbled and began to fall, so did she, until Shadow reached out and grabbed her arm, Sonic speedily seconds before him, and the two pulled her up safely, tugging her to the ground behind them.

Silver had also reached out, but was too slow in response to the other hedgehogs quick reflexes, and slowly withdrew his hand, still unsure of the situation at hand…

Looking to the sun setting so quickly… he knew he hadn't much time either.

"Rose…, how is it possible that you're so accident prone?" Shadow almost growled out, as if his question wasn't really meant to be answered, and he just glared at her until Silver came up to join the others on the cliff's edge, also being careful as he looked down.

"Give her a break, Shadow." Sonic's groaned out, tried and having enough of them picking on her already.

"The cliff's formation isn't very stable…" Silver delicately placed a foot down on a fault, and watched as a huge section next to him slowly seemed to rip itself apart from the longer mass, and slowly hovered away, before the pull of the Master Emerald's influence to keep the floating island aloft suddenly lost it's hold and it went tumbling, inch by inch, to the ocean floor.

The ripples splashed against the raff Sonic had came in, and then powerfully overturned it.

"Awww…" Sonic looked disappointed, seeing as he really was gonna need Silver on this one. Since he wanted to save Chaos Energy for whenever he needed to turn Super Sonic.

After seeing the landmass so easily break off and crumble to pieces, he pulled Amy back to his side from behind him, reaching back to do so, and making sure she was away from any cracks in the ground...

"Hmph. Even so. If she's going to be tagging along behind us, then you'd have better make sure she doesn't step on any further fault lines. If you understand what I mean…' Shadow tone always seemed harsh, giving a less colder stare to Sonic, and then walking along farther from the edge to try and get a better idea of where they should land once taken across the ocean below them.

She looked terribly ashamed again, being called 'trouble' basically by Shadow, and stayed loyally behind Sonic.

But something nagged at her from within, and stirred inside her to prove her worth to the three in saving Tails… somehow…

"It's not like you've never fell from the sky…" she glared his way, making Shadow look back, and Sonic look remorseful as if the comment came from himself. He didn't want any more provoking, because Shadow… looked about ready to explode…

"Or space." She spat out, sticking her tongue at him, and then pulling a piece of her lower eye's skin down to try and get back at him, referring to when he fell from space colony ark when he had decided to save the world instead of destroying it.

"The tension seems to always be high with you guys around." Silver smiled nervously, trying to make a joke of his own and lighten the mood, especially for the poor girl. He must have finally given in and had a heart, staying silent and just allowing her to make her own choices, though thinking them wrong in his own mind, he dared not voice it out like Shadow anymore. Besides, seeing how protective Sonic could be almost unmotivated him in his efforts to try and leave the girl behind them and keep her out of harms way.

He didn't understand Sonic's thinking, but he knew in order to move on, he needed to trust in it. Even just a little.

But… If he was the trigger… as he supposed him to be…

He couldn't always trust him.

He narrowed his eyes just slightly towards Sonic, lost in his own thoughts.

"Ha! You haven't seen them get started!" Sonic chimed in, laughing lightly, until his eye caught Amy's frown as she placed her hands dramatically on her hips, and leaned her head forward, glaring at him now.

"Heheh…ehem. Anyway," he turned back to Silver, avoiding eye contact.

"Think you can fly us down now?"

"Sure. Leave it to me." Silver nodded his head, as Shadow turned to watch back over his shoulder.

He lifted his right hand, and all four of them began to be lifted into the air, floating just a little above the ground.

The three looked below them for a moment, stunned and shaky as they tried to balance themselves in the air.

"And-" Silver wished his hand, being lifted higher in the air, "We're off!"

Silver flew ahead, as the others wiggled in the air, not having any power over how they moved through or flew themselves about, only what position they could fly in.

They felt awkward having their bodies lifted up and carried without their consent to do so, but Amy was enjoying the ride.

"Can't we control it?" Sonic asked, flailing his arms slightly. "W-woah!"

"What's wrong, Sonic? The sea and sky not you're expertise?" Shadow joked, smirking.

"Shut up, Shadow!" Sonic straightened himself up. "I just don't like anything I can't put my feet firmly down on…" he stated, before folding his arms and pouting off to the side. "What? Can't handle being controlled against your will, Shadow?" Sonic muttered to himself, but it was really him who couldn't take it.

"Weeeee!" Amy spread herself out, feeling a bit of freedom as she loop-de-looped and flew around with ease. "This is so much fun!"

The other two hedgehogs looked back behind themselves to see her, and then looked ahead, knowing full well she couldn't control how she was moving. However, she had her hands spread out on the sides of herself, and seemed as though with each movement, her body would fly in the corresponding way.

She flew passed the two as Shadow glared to Silver, and Sonic tried to look down at himself and adjust how he was flying too, seeing if he could do the same as her. Spreading his arms out wide, he tilted in the air, but nothing moved him around.

Sure enough, Silver was smiling as he kept a close eye on Amy's movements, giving her a lot more freedom than the other two, perhaps in his way of apologizing for making her upset with him before.

He used his other hand to control her with, moving her around in the air more animatedly and according to her desire of where she tilted and seemed to want to move than Sonic or Shadow, who we're just on a straight line like himself, to the ground.

"Huh?" Sonic's eyes darted up to Shadow's stare, and followed the line of sight to Silver, before looking at his hand and then Amy, and making the connection, "Hey, what's the big idea, eh?" Sonic, feeling a bit betrayed that he wasn't having the same experience as Amy, frowned and lowered his head to Silver.

"Picking favorites, are we?"

"You'll regret this decision, Silver. Once you realize how dizzy and ill she's going to be once we get down…" Shadow stated, trying to make a point as Sonic looked back to Shadow, and rolled his eyes.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, Shad. But Amy's been on plenty of rides with me, and that rollercoaster is far more enthralling than this!" He gloated, grinning widely with his teeth to Shadow.

"Don't give me a nickname."

"Hey! Sonic-ku! Shad! Silvie! Look!" Amy called out, flapping her hands as Silver let her fly a little higher with each flap. "I'm flying! Haha!" she was really enjoying herself.

However, when she stated each name, probably to support Sonic's comment, Silver's power stopped advancing her upward, and she just hovered in the air for a second.

"H-huh? Hey! What happened to the flap-flap?!" Amy stated, looking upset as she tried to kick her legs and flap her arms harder, trying to move but ending up only angling herself to where her back slowly turned towards the sea below.

"Heey..!" she started running, hands out wide, as she was completely stuck in her spot. "What happened?"

"….Heh…Heh.." Sonic turned back to the boys, an awkward tear drop on the side of his face, scratching nervously and shyly at his nose.

Shadow's eyes were tightly shut as his eyebrow twitched along with the anger mark on his head. "She's just another you…" he grumbled, mostly to Sonic.

Silver blushed slightly, and only on one side of his muzzle, as he exclaimed, "S-Silvie?!" he blinked his eyes, and moved his body slightly back in surprise.

"W-what?" Amy saw the expressions on each of their faces, and didn't understand why they we're acting the way they were. "I give all my friends nick-names…" she let her legs and arms droop down, now flying with her stomach facing down as she had spun all the way around, and looked saddened by their different reactions.

"You….You don't like them?"

The three hedgehogs snapped out of their states, and quickly reacted to her forlorn face.

"No, no, no, no! That's not it at all, Amy!... umm…" Sonic waved his arms out in front of him, still looking awkward about it, before looking to the other two and gesturing a hand out to them. "It's just… they don't know you that well. It's a little early to be giving them nicknames, right?"

"Hyprocrite! You called him Shad, first!" Amy hollered down, upset with him, clearly, as Sonic continued to scratch behind his head, looking apologetic.

"Well… I was only playing…"

"It's not that I didn't appreciate the sediment..! It's just… I've never been given a nick-name before…" Silver also looked up, explaining himself, and then away, blushing in his shy and awkward state.

Sonic just moved his hands up and down a little bit, "It's okay, Amy… I'm used to it…" he stated, trying to give off a smile but still having his awkward sweat drop, only this time smaller, on the right side of his face, and keeping his eyes closed.

Shadow just turned away with a 'Hmph' and seemed content with ignoring her, adjusting himself in the air.

"O-oh?" Amy brightened up a bit, and then smiled and cheerily kicked her legs out in front of her.

"Yay! I can call you that then, right?!"

The hedgehogs twitched in disbelief, realizing she hadn't understood what they were saying at all.

"Amy…" Sonic blinked his eyes, realizing her innocence and deciding to speak a little bolder. He shrugged up kindly to her, leaning back and acting as though sitting on a chair with a leg bent over the other. "It's just that they're not close to-"

Shadow remained silent, before shaking his head and then complying to them. "I see no reason why we should be discussing this… if she's so bent on keeping her way… why even argue about this? If she wasn't going to retreat home willingly, what makes us think she'll give up on this?"

Silver thought about his statement, looking to him, before nodding and smiling up to Amy. He gestured his hands out, "Sonic was right, everyone has a choice. Bent as you may have been on your choice, I suppose it only fair to also let you call us as you feel you should or wish too. After all… It is you who decides if we're considered your allies or not. So it's almost not our place to critique to judge."

He then politely bowed, "I'm honored to be considered your… friend." He then got back up, and nodded, before turning back to his objective, and speeding off, having the others follow naturally in a row behind him at a little distance apart.

"That darn charm…" Sonic tsked, shaking his head and smiling, mumbling under his breath.

He knew exactly why they we're submitting to her without a word, and it was more than just her stubborn will.

She had a way of getting her way.

There was no doubt about that.

"Stubborn fool." Shadow looked away, obviously angry… or… was he?

He seemed to look at his own reflection, then take a glance at Amy's, seeing the same joy that Maria would have when he did something she considered kind for her.

"Oh, Shadow! You're really kind at heart, thank you!" Maria put a hat back on, Shadow looking away from the sundress she was wearing and seeming to have just complimented her in it.

"Hmph…" Shadow looked away, but with a neutral expression, ducking his head down, as if still being affected by her words.

When the flashback ended, and he realized in a bit of shock that he was still staring at Amy's reflection, he shook his head wildly, and looked upset with himself.

He clutched his head with both hands, feeling it ache, and flinched an eye a time or two in its pain.

"And you can call me, Ames!" Amy giggled, not noticing the attention, as Sonic turned his head, teeth showing through his frown, looking worried at how that was going to be taken.

"A-Amy…" Even he didn't really call her 'Ames'.

"C…Can I just call you….Amy?" Silver asked suddenly, a bit abrupt after her statement, and from his head looking forward, suddenly looked down as well.

Sonic looked back, and gave a disagreeable expression to Silver, lifting his lower lip over the upper one and to the side, "Eeem." He huffed out, not liking them giving in too much to her wishes.

"Don't spoil her." Sonic warned Silver, but with some tossed humor into it.

So not too serious.

With the slight and single chuckle from Silver's backside of his head coming through, Sonic widened his eyes, and looked greatly upset at his mockery of his warning.

"If she wants me to call her Ames, then I may call her that in enough time. If I have it… but don't I also have the right to make my own choices? Even regarding her?" he slightly teased Sonic's protective behavior when it came to Amy, and once again chuckled at the thought that Sonic was only saying those things when it came to her.

'Maybe she's right." He mused to himself, 'Maybe this Sonic is a hypocrite. All but with her.' He closed his eyes and held in a few more chuckles, but Sonic wasn't having it, seeing the unheard thoughts and interpreting it as him making fun of how he was giving Amy special treatment.

Or… suggesting something else…

Wiggling and reaching to the side, Sonic made an attempt over at reaching Shadow, really stretching himself to do so, and grasping the air in his failed ventures to grab hold of him.

"W-what are you-!?" Shadow tried to lean away, but he grabbed hold of his arm, making him struggle and try and hit him off. "L-let me go!"

Without a word exchanged, Sonic succeeded in using Shadow to push him off towards Silver's location ahead of them, getting closer and closer till he locked onto one of his quills.

"H-hey!" Silver turned the flying party to the left, feeling the tug on his quills. "What's going-?!"

He reached his hand up and gripped the quill with both hands, before climbing his way and pulling himself upward over Silver, and then-

Smacked him upside the head.

"Woa-woah!" The whole party flung to one side, before being straightened out.

"Ah! Ow, Hey..! What was that for?!" Silver clutched his head down a moment ago, before looking up to glare at Sonic, not sure what he did wrong.

"Her names, Amy! Stick to it!" Sonic said, almost protectively, as he then let go of his quill, floating his body back, folding his arms and pouting on his back, one leg over the other, showing how upset he really was from Silver's lack of taking his advice.

He moved back to his position beside the three, as Amy sweat dropped, but liked seeing him acting so forward for her.

Was he being… ah! Could it be?!

She slightly squealed to herself, putting her hands over her face before really thinking if Sonic was a little protective… or possessive of her.

In a good way, obviously.

"… I guess if you want too-" Amy put her hands down, cupping them on either side of her face, testing the waters, so to speak, at what Sonic would do if she…

"Don't encourage him!" Sonic shouted back, but not in anger, almost in a demanding but pleading kind of way.

"Hahaha!" she laughed, holding her stomach, and then looking cutely towards him. "Don't worry, Sonic! I only have eyes for you~" she winked to him, before stating, "Amy's fine! Besides, I like my name." she giggled, loving the attention she was getting indirectly from Sonic, as he just looked away, still sitting on air, and looking away with a big pout on his grumpy face.

"Hmph."

"Teehee!"

"Ughh.." Shadow hated every second of this 'ride'.

"Ohh…." Silver was still holding his head, before hearing Amy's words and looking upset, closing his eyes in anger.

'I see… give her what she wants but don't give anyone else the same respect!'

In almost a self-righteous, or gaining justice back in a way, he leaned back and thrust his hand back.

Sonic shot away from the group, making him get flung back to Shadow, spinning in a backward circle as he did so.

"W-W-W-WO-WO-WOAH!" Sonic slammed into Shadow, as Silver 'hmph'ed and flicked his head back, making his quills flow back in his righteous rage.

"That's for truly being a hypocrite.." he muttered, before closing his eyes and looking greatly perturbed by Sonic telling him what to do.

He then seemed to shift in emotions…

Opening one eye, he pulled Amy closer to him and smiled, turning her way and looking to her softly, to the side of himself.

"So… perhaps secretly,… I can still refer to you as… Ames?" He grinned in his question.

He only ever had one friend before.

He really didn't want some Trigger taking his only chance at another away now that one was actually willing to be that trusting of him.

Especially so quickly, she must have a kind heart! Flowing with goodness within her!

"Uhh…s-sure." Amy smiled nervously, but kind of happy Silver was opening up to her a bit more.

"And you can call me by a nick-name too, Shadow!" Amy turned her attention to him, who was ticked off that Sonic had slammed into him and now his back was on him.

"GET. OFF." He flung Sonic off him, making Sonic fly right back as he rammed into Amy.

"AH!" Amy was being flung back with Sonic, clinging to him in fright as Silver watched her be taken, yet again in a since, away from his side.

He frowned a little at watching the two spiral off ahead of him.

"I wouldn't call you anything but what you are! A pest! All of you!" Shadow, looking like his quills had been ruffled by sheer frustration at the annoying company he was forced to sojourned with, shouted and looked in utter fury.

It was quite terrifying actually, he really did look like he snapped…

Silver flew slightly up to his side and leaned closer to him, whispering another inquiry to him as well as when he did Amy, but of course, further apart in fear of getting hit yet again from another one of his kind.

"Don't you call her, Rose?"

"…." Shadow had a very 'unamused' face as he was definitely thinking about punching Silver right then and there…

He seemed to quiver and shake with rage now, his 'ultimate' limit being reached as he couldn't deny that said fact, almost wanting to scream for everyone to shut up and leave him alone.

"I'm surrounded…" he seemed to get a hold of himself, quietly calming himself down, "by fools…".

He growled yet again in his shimming down, fist clenched agitation, before Silver backed down and moved away, submitting to leaving the man alone.

"A-Amy! Hold on!" Sonic had now gotten his head up looking over her own, moving his head to her shoulder, he tried to figure out how to stop themselves from plummeting to the sea.

"Grrr… SILVER!" he called out, as the two kept spinning towards the water in a on-coursing spinning straight line to the surface of the water...

"O-oh!" Silver, remembering his loss of control, reached out his hand and strained to pull it back up, as Sonic and Amy's momentum started to slow down, along with their spinning.

"A-ah-aha-ahhh!" the two shouted out together, as the sea was only a little ways away now.

"SOOONICCC!" Amy cried out, sealing her eyes shut and placing her head as close to his chest as possibly, squeezing tightly in her dizziness, and also in her fear.

Before long, and no sooner than better, the two slowed down completely, and the tip of Sonic's top quill hit the water delicately… like a feather,…. Rippling through the large ocean, before the two we're then slowly lifted back up toward the other two hedgehogs.

Amy looked down at the sea, above Sonic's turned head, as he was staring down as well.

"Whew! Close one!" he stated, and smiled back to her.

She blushed and smiled, giggling nervously, glad they were both safe before…

She gasped.

His cut was still exposed….

Her eye lids dropped, as Sonic opened his eyes, and looked curiously with an open mouth at her expression, "Oh? What's wrong, Amy?" then followed her gaze to his arm.

"Eh, it's not so bad." He stated, "Should heal soon." He winked to her, making her look back up from his arms, and smile gently.

Clearly though, she was still blaming herself for the cause of injury…

When they finally reached the same altitude as Silver and Shadow, they were already waiting for them, and the atmosphere had thinned out a bit.

"Hmph." Shadow folded his arms, standing up straight now in the air, and cocked his eyebrow up, suggesting his annoyed state of being.

"How long are you two going to hang off one another as if your very lives depended on it?" he stated, frowning deeper again.

"Wha?" The two said together, and looked at one another, slowly turning to see how close their faces were...

Amy on top of Sonic… holding her arms around his neck.

Sonic below, hand tightly around her waist and the other above near her upper back…

"AH!" Sonic released his hold on Amy, slightly pushing her away as he got himself to split from her.

"S-sorry, Amy!" he smiled nervously and closed his eyes, smiling if off and scratching the back of his head.

He then took a glance at Silver, "Let's get down from here! I'm tried of all this… this…"

"Air?" Silver asked.

"Open space?" Amy inquired, not seeming to be hurt by his action due to the fact she's experienced it all her life.

She lifted a finger to her muzzle near her mouth, and tilted her head, trying to guess right.

"Not solid ground?" Shadow looked SO done with everyone…

"Shut up! W-woah…" Sonic screamed out, thrusting his arms down to his sides, feeling disrespected and embarrassed, being mocked, before making his center of gravity in the air go off balance and causing him to have to regain his balance to a steady halt again.

"Hm. I guess we're almost there." Silver turned and flew down, having the others follow after his frame.

"Haha, it's almost like being Peter Pan!" Amy cheered out, putting her fist next to her face and then spreading her arms out again, feeling the wind in her face.

Sonic looked to her and smiled, seeing her back to her usual self again and well-recovered from their last dozy of a fall.

"Yeah, but only lost boys go there, right?"

"Well, they need a mother, right?" She smiled, looking back to him with a cheeky grin. It was though implying the boys couldn't get along without her.

"And what qualifies to that?" Sonic returned her look, but it was much softer and more playful than her own, raising an eyebrow.

He knew full well what she was implying, and didn't believe it at all.

"Hehe, I'm a great story teller." She complied, nodding her head in pride. "Ask me to tell you one, sometime."

As the four landed safely to the ground, Amy wobbled a bit, not used to being on ground again, as Silver caught her and smiled, showing he understood as he let her cling to his arm.

"Well, we made it." Silver stated, holding on to Amy's hand that was wrapped around his arm to support her. "Now what?"

Shadow looked to the small gang and up to the sky. "It's getting late. We took too long…" He scowled, fist clenched so many times that they were almost feeling sore now.

"We'll have to set up camp and wait out the night."

"Does 'wait out the night' mean sleep?" Asked Silver, looking to Sonic off to the side of him.

Amy wobbled, trying to get her balance, and then looked surprised and amazed that all the boys were able to so easily remain upright.

She then realized that Shadow having said she would get like this made since all of a sudden…

All the intense motion of flying and falling in a death-spin would certainly make her a little queasy…

Sonic shrugged, "Never know what's coming out of Shadow's mouth, and if he means it. Let's just do the thing we can understand, and set up camp." Sonic motioned his hand to Silver as he moved on after Shadow, as Shadow found a small plain, not very big, and surrounded by trees.

"….This will do…it's got a hill, so that could be a good vantage point-"

"Sweet! Some twigs!" Sonic picked up some dried wood and held them up, smiling giddily. "Haha~ We can build a fire!"

Amy gasped, "Campfire stories!" she clapped her hands together rapidly.

"Campfire…what?" Silver inquired, after Amy had already let go of him to clap.

"You mean you've never gone camping and had campfire stories before?" Amy looked back to Silver, saddened as she leaned up close to his face.

"Ah…" Silver leaned back, slightly letting himself be a little creeped out by her rapid forwardness, but just answered her honestly.

"W-well… no. I don't think the future carried on that tradition… is it a tradition?" he asked.

"Well that won't do…" Amy went over to some large boulders, and summoned her piko piko hammer. Smashing and breaking the bolder into pieces, she hammered some of them down and set up a ring.

"Oh… perfect!" Sonic had come over with his arms full of small twigs, little logs, and dead branches. "Eugh!" he let the wood fall in the middle of the circle that Amy had set up.

"Already half way there!" he pointed to the pile and then gave a thumbs up, "Now all we need is a match, or some way to-"

"Chaos Emerald. Now."

Shadow walked over, his shoulders hunched, his eyes a look of murder if Sonic didn't hand him a chaos emerald in his opened hand right now.

Passing it, quickly, Shadow crossed his arms in an 'x' over his frame.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow had spiked the heap with a chaos spear, and an instant flame emerged from the timber.

Everyone stepped back, seeing he was 'letting off steam' you could say, as he charged over in a fast-walking pace and sat down, clearly just wanting to be left alone…

"Uhh… nevermind." Sonic had flung his arm up to protect himself, and leaned back, but then looked over to Shadow with his eyebrows in a straight line. "Show off…" he mumbled, and sat down, Indian style.

He reached for the emerald, heard Shadow's 'Don't you dare' be growled out, and withdrew his hand, hitting his knees and making a quick frown to show his though of, 'yikes.'.

"Hehe! I'll be right back!" Amy ran off, as the two hedgehogs watched her leave, before turning their attention to Shadow, as Silver came and sat by the fire as well.

"Cold night, eh?" Sonic began, grabbing a stick from the fire that wasn't affected by the flames yet and poked the fire some more. "Might have to fall into instinct and group huddle tonight~" He stretched, before grinning wickedly, and teased as he looked directly at Shadow.* (*Author's Note: Hedgehogs are solitary creatures, however, they tend to cuddle up to one another, despite their sharp spines, and huddle together for warmth in the cold.)

He didn't seem to care that Shadow wanted to be left strictly to his thoughts…

Shadow glared, but seeing it was a tease, decided to joke right back. "Yes, well, I'm sure Amy will be happy with three men surrounding her tonight. Considering if circumstances fall to that conclusion."

Both Sonic and Silver's faces slowly moved upward or toward the distance, their eyes widened as Shadow's grin slowly got bigger with each passing second the two didn't speak.

It was his silent victory, having shut the two up for hopefully good this time-

"Anyway…" Sonic moved on, blinking his eyes rapidly, and widening his eyes once again, unable to shake the thought of having to plan that out according.

He shook his head and tried to keep a calm composure. "Ehem, want to go hunting?" he never seemed daunted... Just like his friend…

"What?" Silver looked back to him, "I thought the critters here were…"

"Oh! No, no, no, no, no, no!" Sonic shook his head and hands out in front of him. "No. We are not cannibals. I mean, go fishing." He stated, gesturing with his arms.

"Everybody knows fish are acceptable as prey, so no biggie." He shrugged. "Besides, are we really going that far backinto instincts that we're gonna dig for worms?" Sonic laid down on his side, having one hand up to motion as he spoke, and the other holding his head up.

"Heh, what would Amy say to THAT!" he joked, laughing and moving his head back.

"Hmph, the real question is,… are we really going to fall that far from our evolution just because of one night?" Shadow inquired, but sarcastically, as suddenly Sonic's stomach growled quite loudly, making the two look down at him, as he gripped it in embarrassment.

His eyes darted from each dude and back again.

"Hey, I'm not afraid to try one." Sonic admitted, "Now, who's going fishing with me?"

"Do you even swim?" Silver asked, narrowing his eyes. "I thought the old records of you stated you're greatest weakness was water?"

"…Old… records?" Sonic's interest was peaked, as he started to get up, his eye brows moving up and his mouth opening in joy.

"What kind of… records?" his grin turned cocky as he looked curiously to Silver.

"O-oh, um…" Silver looked away. "I really shouldn't reveal the future, it could destroy the set past-"

Sonic turned to Silver, "Oh, go on. Go on! Tell me of my fantastic legends and lore skillfully crafted from only the most honest of truths~" he insisted, "Am I remembered throughout history as the fastest thing alive? The coolest hedgehog known to hedgehog kind? The greatest crime fighter, ro-butt (robot) kicker, and speediest egg-party crasher in all of time?" he rubbed underneath his nose, laying down on his side, in such great pride.

"W-what..? W-well.." Silver looked up again, a goofy grin at first, but then frowned, and pushed Sonic away from him with his ability.

"W-woah!" Sonic fell on the fire, "YEEOW!" he jumped up, clinching his butt, and running wildly around.

Looking frantically, he found a lake and jumped into it.

Popping his head up with a sigh, he suddenly realized where he was, and started to flip out. "H-help me!" he hollered, flopping his arms around. "I'll drown!"

Shadow sighed, not even looking over his shoulder to Sonic, but only seeing him from the corner of his eye. Grabbing the stick, he commented, "I hope they have a record of that…" he smartly remarked, and then poked the fire.

"You're in the shallow end." He stated.

"H-huh?" with blinking eyes, Sonic got up, and looked down at himself. The water was just up to his belly.

He flopped his arms down and looked up with another pout on his face as he turned around angrily at the two boys.

He lifted his head with dignity and pride as he stomped his feet up and out of the water, marching back out of the water.

"And if you were wrong? Would none of you tried to-" He suddenly stopped, hearing something in the distance.

Before he could finish, he heard a splash and looked behind him.

"I'LL SAVE YOU, SONIC!" Amy swam over to him, fighting the water as it splashed all around her face in her frenzy to get to him.

Now he just felt even further embarrassed, sweat dropping and frowning as the two hedgehogs looked on at the scene.

Silver held a hand up to his face to hold in a chuckle, having thrown him in the lake only to wipe the arrogance off his face, but never expected Amy's heroic actions. Shadow just groaned, turning back to the fire and not dealing with his forced situation any longer than he had too.

Not even caring about her effort, Sonic turned around, sighing and looking up in a defeated way at trying to redeem himself, and walked out of the water.

"H-huh?" Amy slowed her pursuit to his rescue after seeing him just up and walk out of the water.

She felt confused, "W-wait! Sonic!" She got up and ran after him, both arms extended as she sat next to him near the fire, dripping just as he was, as he wiggled his head out and got the other two, and her, wet.

"Serves you two right." He flicked his nose, and didn't seem to be addressing Amy, going back to poking the fire with a stick.

"I thought you were going fishing?" Silver commented, before seeing Sonic's glare and knowing that was a silent warning to knock it off.

"I was worried…" Amy finally spoke up again, softly, and looked to his scar.

"What if you got infected? Or catch a cold!?" she put her hand on his forehead, but he was too fed up with everything that he didn't even flinch at her touch. "Or..or a big evil gater tried to eat you!"

"Amy, we know a gater. And he's our friend." Sonic commented in short sentences, looking his own way of 'done' from Shadow's kind.

Shadow, noticing this, got silent pleasure out of seeing his resentful and exhausted expression. 'At least that annoying smirk is rid of… for now.' He thought to himself.

Looking over to Shadow, they both carried the same frowning expression, and for a moment, as they turned away, Shadow to the fire and Sonic just out and to nowhere in particular, the two seemed to share a slight understanding of one another.

But not really.

He just didn't have the energy or motivation to try anymore.

He squeezed one of his quills out and got some water out of it, as Amy looked saddened by his disregard of her.

"W-well.. I'll be right back again then…brr…" she shivered slightly, getting up, not really wanting to leave the warmth of the fire.

"Hold on, you can stay and at least dry yourself first." Sonic lifted a hand to stop her, but she just smiled kindly at his gesture and shook her head.

"No, no. I'm okay. Really, I'll be right back!" she waved taking off.

"H-hey! What about all that talk about catching colds and-" Sonic stopped himself when she was out of sight, and into the darkness of the forest. "Annnnd… she's gone." He stated, flopping back down on the ground, lifting a leg up, and groaning in his wet, cold self.

"Haha, can all you do is complain with grunts and groans?" Silver asked.

"This is your fault." Sonic stated, turning with little energy and barely giving him another glare.

He lifted his hand and rubbed his face with his wet gloves, "You pushed me into freezing cold water, and now, you might be the reason me and Amy get ammonia."

Silver moved back, feeling the regret and sad truth of that statement, and looked away.

"I…I didn't mean too.. I was just protecting the future!" he defended.

"Yeah, right." Sonic rolled his eyes. "Cause it's that big of a deal…"

"W-what are you saying? What exactly do you mean by that?!" Seemed Silver got offended by that statement, as he looked back to Sonic, getting up and leaning down toward him, aggressively.

"I mean exactly what I said. Did I stutter?" Sonic glared back at him, his head coming up as he leaned forward and wrapped his arms around himself, trying to retain the last shreds of warmth his body had left.

They were all tried from their days… even before Tails was reported missing, they all were doing their own thing until this came about.

"From what you've told us from before, doesn't sound all that grand. Just another day, if you ask me."

"Grrr… The future is-!"

"YOUR future, Silver. Remember, we're all dead by the time you're born."

"Why you-! Don't you even care about what future you shape!?"

"Probably a pretty AWESOME one. Too bad you weren't born yet to see it." Sonic mocked, sticking a finger under his nose and being snotty again, looking to Silver.

Silver clinched his teeth and shook his fist. Then, Sonic slowly uncurled his tongue from his mouth and let it flop out at Silver, making a small sound effect as he did so.

"THAT'S IT!" Silver flew up slightly in the air, hostility in his eyes as Sonic got up too, knees bent to the ground as his left hand was down, supporting his body, but right hand up, ready to fight as like with Shadow in the jungle, egging him on after that water-dunk, hoping to spar some revenge before Shadow did, in fact, speak up.

"Enough! You two act like rotten children!"

The two slowly got back down, seeing that his hostility was ten-times more intimidating right now then Silver's.

And besides… Sonic knew that if Shadow joined in, fighting two hedgehogs who seemed to hate his guts, wasn't going to be the best option at this point.

"..Well… at least I wasn't born white, like a BABY."* (*Author's Note: Hedgehogs are born pink, then grow white spines. Sonic is calling Silver a child by referring to his white adolescent quills.)

"YOU-!" Silver was about to leap into the air again, but Shadow grabbed his chest fur and slammed him back down, using his super speed.

"H-he-hey!" Silver tried to wiggle out of Shadow's hold on his chest, but Shadow didn't let him go.

Glaring down at him, he stated, "He's only egging you on. If you truly aren't a child, then don't let your emotions get the better of you." he then roughly released him, and walked back to sit down.

Silver got up, dusting himself off and slightly re-adjusting his chest fur.

"Hmph…Well…Whatever." He turned away, seeming very conflicted about what to do next.

Sonic just grinned widely and 'Hehe~'d in victory through his teeth, glad he miscalculated. "Looks like Shadow's on my side!" -until Shadow turned around and punched him in the stomach.

"Ohffph!... eerr… What made you the…ack… 'wise old grandpa' of this group, huh!?" Sonic rubbed clutched his stomach, his eye twitching, as Shadow slowly withdrew the fist and Sonic bent down.

"I'm here to save Tails! Not fight with the likes of all of you!"

He stormed off for a moment behind them, regaining his composure, but then turned back, about to say words but not having them form properly as he just spat out random beginnings of things but never finished them.

He paced, his frustration and tiredness reaching its own limit. Then, finally after the repetitive walking back and forth behind Shadow and Silver's frames, he finally threw a bit of a fit or tantrum. Flinging his arms in the air, he began to vocally vent his frustrations.

"Great! We have no food, and Amy's off doing who knows what, probably getting kidnapped again, while we're here arguing about things that don't even matter!" After he was done talking, he folded his arms, shivering a bit from the brisk wind that iced his sides and back, before continuing on, ignoring it.

"Why did I even think this team thing would work out, anyway?" he questioned himself.

"I should of just stuck to Tails and Knuckles… at least it's easier to calm Knuckles down than the likes of you two!" He looked away.

His ears bent slightly…

He remembered… the times with Knuckles and Tails… of having the company of friends around him. Friends who wouldn't dunk him in the lake so late at night! Or, well, at least not so begrudgingly.

"Hmph. And you called me the baby?" Silver looked to Sonic, glaring back at him before looking ahead again. "And the future does matter, alright!? It's my job to protect it. How would you feel if someone undermined you're whole purpose, huh?" he spat back at Sonic, closing his eyes and holding his hands out in front of him, as if figuratively holding his destiny and purpose out in front of him.

Sonic looked back to Silver, and slowly his glaring frown went away, and his face grew softer as he looked away again.* (*Author's note: If you're wondering why they look away so much, it's more than just an 'anime/animated' thing. Animals look away to dispel further aggressive responses, as if to not challenge each other, and show they're not looking for a fight. Also, men just avoid eye contact when getting 'deep/semimetal/emotional' about things. Not all men, I'm kinda being general, but it's something I've just noticed, haha! …That… or you can blame my inexperience in writing when I was younger! I'm still editing and learning, give me a break xP lol)

"Oh… Right…" he let his arms fall, and thought about his purpose….

What was his purpose?

He's mostly just a guy who loves adventure…

No…

He shook his head, smiling fondly towards the ground.

To protect the people of his home world… and anyone that needed him for that matter… he was a hero, and to silver, he was a hero of the future.

"Alright…Alright!"

He went back to the group near the fire, sitting down, and letting some contending air go.

"…No more undermining someone's life. Deal?" The three looked to each other, and Silver and Sonic then nodded to one another.

"Hmph, there seems to be hope for you two, yet." Shadow commented, as Sonic and Silver then looked to each other, and smiled with a laugh.

A new brotherhood was beginning to form in those moments, when Amy came back with a hand crafted basket of fruits, berries, and dead beaten fish.

"Anyone hungry?" she asked, smiling.

"YEAH!" Sonic cheered up, as Silver made an open smile and awed slightly with a gasp at all the food she found.

"Dig in!" She put the basket down and sat down by the fire, smiling happily. "What would you two without me? I'm like the glue in this group! You'd be swabbling and bickering without my protection and assistance!"

Everyone kinda stared at her, having already solved a bit of their differences.

Looking at each other, they all seemed to silently agree to let her have this one, and began to reach in and grab some food.

Shadow had to walk over to reach it, as Silver took one at a time, plopping the berries into his mouth, and chewing.

Amazed, he seemed to have never tasted this kind of food before, and started to have a few hover up near his hands, as he shot a few with his fingers into his mouth, and continued to smile at the new taste and experience he was getting.

Amy Rocked on her heels, before sitting down and leaning back and forth, continuing the motion.

She held her knees and watched the boys begin to eat, glad she could provide in some way.

She leaned her head at an angle on her knees, growing sleepy and cold.

"Thwanks Awmy." Sonic said with a mouth stuffed with food.

Silver roasted two fish over the fire with his green telekinesis power, and then pulled one back, blowing on it before taking a bite.

"Hmph, there may yet be a purpose for you as well, R-..Amy." Shadow quickly stopped himself from using his supposed 'nick-name' for her and ate some berries, popping them in his mouth.

"Hehe~ you're welcome! And you can call me Rose, Shadow. It's okay! I think it's very formal of you." she grinned. "Although, I'm sure we're closer than that." She looked away, thinking of what she had said on space colony ark, before continuing to watch the other two eat her prepared banquet… in a sense.

"You'll find I'm useful in more ways than one!" she had done it! Proved a little more of her worth.

Shadow turned his gaze to her for a minute, stopping himself from putting another berry in his mouth, as he studied her carefully after hearing her words.

Shifting his eyes back and forth and peering into each emerald green eye, he seemed to be thinking about her words and then looked away, apparently not sure how to respond to them.

Was that sincerity?

She was awfully friendly with Silver as well…

Maybe it was just in her nature to trust so readily.

Amy grinned, before remembering something, "Oh!" she jumped up, taking something tucked under a folded leaf, and running to Sonic. "Hold still!"

"Hmm?" Sonic looked down, having a hand in his mouth as he was shoving more food into it.

She unraveled the leaf, as the two other hedgehogs stared on at her odd behavior.

Dipping some green goop it looked like she mushed up herself, she scooted closer on her knees to Sonic's side, and smiled. "Turn please." She cutely stated.

He looked confused.

"Just do it!" she puffed up her cheek, not liking the hesitation. "I'm not gonna poison you, geesh!"

Sonic shrugged, and turned, his gash healing up already but still showing through in torn but not bleeding or showing anything more than pink skin flesh.

She lightly placed the goop on it, as Sonic shivered, "Cold…".

Amy hummed a chuckle, "It's meant to be soothing. I hope it doesn't sting, that could mean that it's still open."

"Oh…"

"Em-hmm." Amy continued to giggle.

As she applied it, the two watched on, seeing the loving care she took with each delicate scoop and touch of Sonic's arm and body.

He looked like a toddler getting a bath…, having his hand still getting berries and shoving them in his face, chewing, he looked on with a look of allowance and bored ease, seeming to not care about her gesture or how she applied the medicine at all.

"Lift your arm, please."

He did so, lifting it up as she began to trail down the gash, as if painting a portrait, and following the long scrappy line down.

Shadow and Silver's eyes never left her hands, even though Shadow was at an angle, something about her expression and how she handled treating Sonic was strangely…

Rupturing.

It was as though they were living vicariously through Sonic, as if both men were wondering what it would be like to be handled and treated in such a way.

Such a very… loving… delicate… soft way.

"Does it hurt?"

"Em-em." Sonic shook his head, remaining silent.

"Good.." Amy spoke softly, letting her fingers linger… something in her also wanted to keep applying the medicine, even though she was practically finished…

She ignored the persistent feeling, having felt it before many times, and closed up the leaf with the goop in it, putting it down and smiling up to Sonic. "All done!"

The two other hedgehogs, having grown tense in some weird way, relaxed at her ending words, and silently let out held in air.

They both shook off the feelings, quite literally shaking themselves and their heads, trying to perhaps dispel whatever enchantment Amy had placed on them…

Conveniently enough… Sonic also shook the same way they did.

"So? Ehem… Is this uh… is this what you were doing? When you left, I mean." Silver asked, looking to Amy only out of the corner of his eye.

"Oh? Um.. one of the things, yeah." Amy smiled.

"One?" Sonic inquired, turning back to her.

"Y-yeah, but that's a surprise!" she grinned, "Now, time for a campfire story!" she spread her arms up and wide, bouncing herself on the ground as she then retrieved her hands back towards herself and clapped them wildly again, like a girl would. "Okay, okay, okay! Once there was prince of fire." She began.

Sonic rolled his eyes, thinking this would be another love story.

Silver seemed to be interested, listening and tilting his head at her words.

Shadow seemed to be ignoring her, and kept eating his food.

"Aren't you hungry?" Shadow cut her off, making her flop her arms down, disappointed and looking a little cutely upset he interrupted, but then put a finger up to her mouth.

"I um… well, now that you mention it…"

Her stomach growled, as the three all rose their heads and slowly moved them towards the direction of which the sound came from.

Amy blushed, embarrassed, and covered her face. "Maybe just one~" she then opened herself up and held up her pointer finger.

"I just wanted to make sure you all ate! I mean, growing heroes get a growing appetite, right?"

Each man looked at her in a since of silent and disbelieving wonder.

"Amy? You deserve to eat as much as we do."

Sonic stated, smiling at her sweetness, but also just stating plain sense.

"Yeah, it's unright for you to not eat on account of us."

Silver's words were full of a valor, as he pushed a bowl of food towards her, and smiled.

"You should eat with us."

They all looked back at Shadow, surprised by his words.

"If you're starving tonight, you'll only be complaining and weak by morning. It's only common logic."

He continued to eat.

Amy smiled, seeing that was maybe his way of showing he cared.

She grinned, overjoyed that she had won their favor, it seemed.

"Thank you! Thank you all so much! I'm happily dine with you all tonight! Emmm… I'm so excited!"

She began to eat, as everyone gave another glance to her.

Silver smiled.

Sonic smirked at her antics, and scooped up a bowl and chugged its contents down.

Shadow 'hmph'ed after staring at Amy eating and continued to his food.

"At least we can all agree on something."

Sonic stated.

The two hedgehogs looked up, surprised, hoping he wouldn't say something like what they initially thought he meant…

"Food!"

Silver sighed in relief he didn't go for the obvious joke, and Shadow just shook his head in irritation and went back to feasting quietly and isolated more towards the fire than the others.

After telling a frightening story of spooks and scares, truly surprising Silver, mostly because he didn't know till later they were only make believe, the team began to grow even more exhausted.

Amy kept asking if everyone liked the story, wanting to be praised, but the boys would only either smile at her or make small comments on this and that, which would make her grow grumpy, but her actions were always very cute and funny.

This only encouraged them though, until finally, the cold of the night became too apparent to ignore, along with their drowsy eyes.

"Whelp, time for bed!" Amy cheered, getting up and stretching.

She didn't look at all exhausted, though that may just be how she was.

Full of energy.

"I want to show you guys my surprise! Tehee~"

She dashed into the forest with a her arms out to her sides, seeming excited about it.

"I wonder if she made a hammock for us?" Sonic smiled, getting up.

"Yeah?" Silver looked to Sonic, a bit excited too, as he got up to follow her. "What's a … hammock?"

"Really? What does the future have? Floating beds?"

"Perhaps she's made a bed for all of us…"

Sonic glared back a warning at Shadow, and Silver blushed and fidgeted, getting nervous.

"Drop it,… Shadow." Sonic finally warned, a little more vocally this time.

"Well, if push comes to shove, we'll have to survive the night." Shadow explained, keeping his face forward, as if not seeing what Sonic was getting so worked up over. "It's purely for surviving without freezing to death."

"…. "

"I-I second with Sonic,… Amy should have a say in this too." Silver lifted a hand up, reminding the two that it wasn't up to them. "After all, we've all agreed she is the master of her own spirit." He paraphrased in his own way, but they all stopped when they saw Amy up ahead, waving to them.

"This way!" she cried out to them, and skipped ahead, excited to show them her masterpiece!

"First one to Amy gets to pick where he sleeps!" Sonic raced ahead, as Silver's eyes widened, and eh dashed forward.

Shadow dashed by both of them.

"W-what!? Hey! What are you fighting for!?" Sonic sped up, but Shadow didn't answer him, even when they were right next to each other. "Eh... silently challenging me then, huh?"

Shadow smiled, and turned his head to Sonic, "Or perhaps, I just like to worry you."

Sonic blinked his eyes, "Over a bed..?"

"Or how far away I can be from you." He mocked Sonic, smirking to him from the side.

"And perhaps… how close to Amy."

He looked forward, showing no expression on his face this time.

Sonic's face quickly shifted, slightly concerned if Shadow was being serious or not.

Silver zipped by the two of them.

"Hey!"

"I-I cannot allow you two to fight over her! You don't even know the sleeping accommodations!" he looked really flustered at having to say that, as Sonic sweat-dropped awkwardly that Silver would think they were fighting over Amy, and Shadow just seemed annoyed by the implied statement.

"He was trying to egg me on, Silver! He wasn't literal!"

Shadow remained silent, but smiled and closed his eyes, "Hmph."

Amy waited patiently, she hadn't run that far… what was taking them so long?

She suddenly noticed the boys flew right past her, bickering one to another, and looked blown back a bit, her quills sticking up ever so slightly.

She gave a look of 'Oh men.' And just barely rolled her eyes, before turning around to face the three who were still darting about in a huddled discussion while racing around.

"Ehem." She cleared her throat, and sucked up a ton of air, puffing up her chest as she leaned back and then screamed forward, "WRRRRROOOONNNGGG WWAAAAYYYY!"

The boys heard the cry from a distance and stopped, turning around, they smiled and raced back.

Birds flew off in a distance, much like the beginning scene of her chase with Sonic, as she sighed at the memory.

"Now he pays attention to me… when two other guys are around." She pouted, but then laughed internally at the irony of that.

"I wonder… could Sonic get jealous?" she mused over the thought, suddenly imagining Shadow and Silver presenting her flowers on bended knee, and Sonic stomping in, throwing a tantrum as he made his way to Amy, before picking her up, and whacking Silver on the head, saying, 'Her name's Amy! Stick to it!' and then racing off with her in his arms.

She cooed at the idea, moving her body around with her hands on her cheeks, hearts flying around her.

However… those birds weren't the only thing that heard her cry…

As Amy continued to daydream, moving in random directions, a giant crashing sound landed little aways from her from behind.

Its large stature crashed against trees, making it's way to her.

Then, a large claw slowly lifted its self, the metal against metal making it creak slowly as it did so…

Before smashing it to the ground just behind Amy.

Her eyes flicked open.

She turned around, and immediately gasped at the three-headed dragon before her.

"AHHH! SONNNIIICCC!" She pulled out her hammer, and started hitting away it's heads that came like snakes launching out at her.

"Get away, get away, get away!" she could barely see it in the darkness, but it's eyes flashed every few seconds, in intervals, yellow color, before reeling their heads back, and spraying out freezing wind.

Getting hit with it, she was suddenly frozen for a moment, feeling the ice slowly melt after the dragon's had closed their mouths.

"H-hap…" she tried to say 'help' but her whole being was frozen solid.

"We're here!" Sonic cried out, skidding to a halt, as the others followed in slowing down and stopping, before looking up to see the new robot.

"What?!" Sonic stepped back, seeing the creature, and lifting a leg up and flailing his arms at the surprise that came over him at seeing it.

"It's another one of Eggman's robots." Shadow got into position, pulling out his Chaos Emerald, and ready to make a run at it.

"Amy! We have to help her!" Silver powered up, raising in the air and having his aura channel throughout him.

"Let's go!" Sonic raced forward, as the two followed behind and to his sides, as they began to circle the robot.

"Chaos Spears!" Shadow ripped through the dark with chaos energy, having the spears take out a head instantly, having it explode.

"Heh, too easy." He grinned, and continued to skate around the robot.

"Take this!" Silver swiped the air, denting some spots on one of the dragon's necks, before ripping it off through his telekinesis. "I hate to admit it, Amy… but-" he paused for a moment, looking at the robot before Shadow zipped past him.

"You really are no good for stealth missions." He said over his shoulder, and Silver smiled, seeing as he stopped him from saying something that could have been bad.

Shadow's comment was meant in the best of ways, as a poking tease, not so much an insult like before…

"Can you handle the wind?" Sonic circled up the last dragon's head, and whacked in his ball form it's upper head, making it explode and ripple down the next, as the body hunched down.

The three landed together, and high-fived.

"Alright!"

"Hmph. Too simple. When will the Doctor every make something complicated for once."

"I'm just glad it was taken care of so quickly, let's get to Amy and-"

"W-what was that!?" Sonic felt the ground underneath him quake, as the other hedgehogs shook too.

"Oh no!"

The three looked to the dragon robot, suddenly realizing it wasn't a dragon at all!

The body got up, staggering, and suddenly, metal from it's back and inside the robot formed six fresh new heads, as they roared to life.

Their eyes flickered yellow, and they burst forth the icy freeze wind.

"It's a Hyyyydrrraaa!" Sonic quickly ran from the streaming winds, as the Hydra-bot would turn itself to keep up with him.

"Then how do we destroy it!?" Silver shouted out, flying above to dodge, but a head reeled up after him, and knocked him down as it froze him.

"Dang it!"

"Silver!" Amy, having defrosted already, and with a shivering body, swung hard to break Silver of the ice.

"Thanks, Amy… I am in your debt." He nodded a kind bow, before flying back into the frey.

"Hehe~ Don't mention it!"

"Amy!" a muffled cry was heard.

Looking over, Amy noticed Sonic also iced, and quickly rushed over.

"Not a problem!"

Shadow was continuing to destroy the heads, and left one still waving around it's snake like head.

"Silver! Raise it up!" he instructed, as Silver nodded.

"Right! Leave it to me!" he grunted in his efforts, and slowly, the one Hyrda-bot head left lowered it's head in fright, his two feet and long, stabilizing tail wiggled in it's struggle to be set free.

Amy whacked Sonic out of the ice, cracking it so he could escape.

He spun out, and landed, winking behind him with a raised hand that saluted her, "Thanks Amy! I owe you one! Appreciate it!" before racing up a tree.

"You're mine!" he spiraled through the hulking mass of hard dark, purple steel.

Finally breaking through, he destroyed the hovering Hydra-robot from the inside, having it shake it's snake like head up in simulated robot agony, before it exploded and Sonic came landed down.

"Yeah!" he struck a pose, as the other two joined him, and Amy joined in on the side.

"Great job, team!" Sonic flicked his nose, and then looked to Amy. "Great way to make yourself useful,…Amy!"

She held her hammer tighter, that praise meaning everything to her.

"See? Told you I was great!" she spun her hammer, but it just hit the side of her head, and she rubbed it, "Oww…"

She then looked to each hedgehog, "Is everyone alright?"

They nodded.

"Are you?" Silver gestured to her, looking over her to see if there was anything wrong.

She shook her head, holding her hammer behind her, "Nope! I'm peachy keen! Just… brr… cold.." she put her arms over the other, still holding her hammer as she shivered. "But I'll be fine."

Sonic looked over her too, just making sure that was the case, and nodded, seeing as she was perfectly fine. "If you say so." He smiled.

"I do say so!" She proudly put her hands on her hips, and giggled.

"Glad you were being careful." Shadow folded his arms, teasing her, but also scolding her for getting herself into trouble again.

"Ohhh… must you blame me for everything?!" Amy cried out, upset she couldn't win his praise quite yet.

"Yes… until you can prove that you're not the reason danger follows us everywhere we turn." He gestured his hand out, and then clearly showed that half of what he was saying he really felt. "You're like a magnet, you know that?"

"Staring danger down in the face! That's our Amy!" Sonic gestured to Shadow, then Amy, and stood between them, not liking everyone giving her so much attention.

"But it sure did take you guys long enough." Amy leaned forward in fake annoyance, just teasing, with her hands on her hips. "You should know, I expect a fast audience."

She unsummoned her hammer, as Sonic gave her a look.

She only giggled her joke.

"But I hope it wasn't destroyed!" she ran to her creation, "Phew~ It's alright." she turned to the hedgehogs, then stepped aside for them to see.

"Yeah, what about that surprise..?" Sonic reminded her again, as the three walked over to her, their curiosity peaking in how long it was taking to discover what was in store that Amy had made.

All curious about how they were going to sleep…

"Tah-dah!~ My surprise for everyone!" she swung her arms to the side, wiggling her hands to look dramatic, as she revealed….

"A pile of leafs?" Silver observed, and looked at it, confused.

He stepped up to see if he had misread its design or something… but nope.

It was a pile of leafs.

"Not just ANY pile of leafs! You're bed leafs!" she squat down and patted it, before gesturing out to it, as if it was a masterpiece, and her eyes shined at the glory and pride of her accomplishment. "You three sleep here!"

The three hedgehogs looked at each other for a second, then the pile of leafs.

"Um…."

"Well, sorry it's not a hand fashioned basket of goodies, geez."

"Well…."

"Oh, just sit in it! You don't know a good thing till you've tried it!" she sat down on the leafs, wiggling her butt into them and then lay down. "Aw~ So serene and green…" she joked.

Seeing no one made an attempt to sit down with her, she turned her head to look up at the three of them, wondering why they hadn't moved yet.

"Well? Come on!"

Once Amy had positioned herself down on the leafs, the boy suddenly started walking over to it.

She giggled, leaning back and resting, sighing out a peaceful release of air, as they began to sit down around her.

She looked up to each one as they sat, and laughed a little, leaning her head up and turning around to see what they thought of it.

Sonic slightly pushed Amy a little away, before going on her right side. Laying down, he put his hands behind his head, and closed his eyes, testing it out.

"It's not cold." Sonic admitted, and then opened an eye to Amy, smiling. "Better than the ground."

"See?" she squee'd in delight, and looked to the other two, put at them as they also took their seats to lie down.

Silver was about to take her left, but Shadow abruptly out-stepped him, and immediately sat down at her side, a little close, as if accidentally since he was almost fighting for the spot, and then laid down.

"See? How does it feel..?" Amy asked, completely innocent to the boys' quarreling.

"It's…" Shadow looked to Amy, and smiled, having his head next to her, and eyeing her features tenderly, but with speed as to not cause awareness. "Nice."

"I'm comfortable, at least." Sonic moved and turned himself more towards Amy, getting a silent growl from Shadow, seeing as he cut him off, as Sonic stuck down his eye's lowerlid and taunted him.

Almost a 'back off!' in a goofy child's play way.

Silver looked around, before finally moving above Amy, and sitting up top, arching her.

"I'm…" before Silver could say anything, the two other hedgehogs glared a warning, as if saying to not offend her.

Amy's eyes sparkled with the hope that he liked her creation.

"…Just fine." He smiled to her, nervously avoiding the gazes of the two other hedgehogs.

'Since when was Shadow so sensitive about her feelings, anyway?' he thought to himself, adjusting in place.

Amy beamed, as if the sun shone on her face tonight.

But then she looked surprised by something.

"Silver?"

"Hmm?" he looked down at her, his back facing her, so he had to turn and angle his head to look over himself to her.

"Why don't you sleep next to Sonic or Shadow?"

The idea made him fidget, and he quickly tried to think of an excuse…

'A-an excuse? But why!? I mean… well… ah-ha!' before he could realize why he wanted to stay there, his mind had already come up with a solution.

"If we huddle in a circle, we'll stay warm quicker. And… well,… because you're a girl, we want to make sure you're warm too. So we're taking the wind for ya." He smiled kindly, and nodded his head.

Sonic and Shadow looked to each other from across Amy, both having the expression of never having discussed that before, and not sure how to respond to it.

"W-well, that's kind of you… but…" Amy leaned up, having looked around her to realize her folly in not telling the boys sooner…, "Though that's a very kind um… strategy,… well, um." She nervously moved away from the boys, making them, in return, nervous.

"What's wrong?"

"We didn't mean to make you nervous… we won't-"

Shadow cut Silver off, "Amy, this is only for a night. Besides, it's instinct to-"

"No, no, no, no, no! You don't understand!" Amy waved her hands in front of her, blushing terribly. "I-I-I thought ahead!"

The boys all lowered their eyelids slightly, not seeming to like that news…. And what it could imply…

"I'm sleeping somewhere else for the night!" she chimed, putting her hands behind her back and looking cuter than a sunbeam.

The boys' looked away.

"…Isn't that…" Silver began, looking awfully worried.

"Dangerous?" Shadow looked back at her, what seemed to be deep concern spread across his face.

"Where?" Sonic cut them both off from their question.

His eyes lingered in a stern sense of right and wrong, not wanting Amy to be all alone… and especially when the cold of the water was just drying up to a freeze…

"Uh… just over there… around that tree…" Amy pointed, as the hedgehogs followed her finger's directions.

They all squinted their eyes, as if judging the location and not thinking it good enough.

"I made my own bed of leafs, I'll be fine!" She smiled, trying to avoid the conclusion; it seemed, of sleeping in a huddled circle.

"But… w-won't you get cold?" Silver asked, moving Shadow's hand off of his mouth.

"O-oh, I have extra leaves." Amy swung her body back and forth, rocking on her heels as she looked down, not making eye contact.

"…" the boys all stared at her with annoyed expressions.

"..You sure, Amy?" Sonic asked, sounding genuine. "Won't you be… I don't know… afraid? It is late in the night…" he gestured his head out into the wilderness, as Amy looked back towards that direction, hearing sounds…

She shook her head, "Boy, you guys are really something." She made a face, then sighed out a muffled chuckled through her hand. "You're so protective of me all of sudden! Haha! That just shows you're all really good men!" she nodded, happy to see their noble sides.

They continued to look up, concerned for her well-being, as they all seemed to agree on one particular, silent thing…

Amy needed to be with them.

"I just figured it was indecent. Even if I do consider you boys to be my close friends, whom I do trust dearly,… it just seems not fit for a young lady… that's all." She shrugged.

However, looking back at the hedgehogs, they didn't seem to be pleased very much with her 'planning ahead' maneuver.

"Well…" Shadow folded his arms, "If you get cold… there's room." He stated, and turned on his stomach, ready to go to sleep.

"And we don't bite." Sonic rolled his eyes, seeming to be offended, as he rolled over as well, opposite from Shadow, and leaving the gap there.

Even with the cold, no way was he getting near him…

"G-goodnight,…" Silver turned from the others as well, before leaning over and smiling to her, "Ames…"

Amy smiled, but Sonic just darted a quick glare to Silver, before rolling back over to his place.

"…Sleep tight,….Amy." Sonic softly whispered, as Amy was walking away.

She looked back, something told it wasn't so bad, if she curled up and said goodnight, but another part of her didn't think it was alright.

Sonic was her life-time love, so that's a no.

Shadow and Silver are very new to her… plus, one tried to destroy the world, and the other claims to be from the future.

So no.

"T-thanks… all of you… I know I haven't been… well, the easiest to deal with…"

"Hmph, you think?" Shadow muttered, making Amy bend her ears and pout at him, annoyingly.

"Ehem, but I thank you for the offer." She bowed slightly. "Have a wonderful night! And sweet dreams!" she waved and ran off.

LATER, IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT.

Sonic's ear twitched, hearing a small noise in the night.

Opening his eyes slightly, and then shaking his head, he got up and let his ears find the noise.

Turning his head, and also positioning his ears in all kinds of directions, he finally picked up on what it was.

Worriedly, he was about to get up slowly and leave, but the leafs we're too loud for him to sneak by.

"H-hmm?" Silver woke up, and Sonic freezed, holding one hand up as the other had already crunched down on the pile.

"…You hear that?" Silver lifted a sleepy head, and looked tiredly and weakly up to Sonic.

Sonic dropped the act, and frowned.

But, regrettably, he lowered his head, and nodded his reply.

"So.. you heard her too?"

The two turned, as Shadow got up, wiping some leafs off his head.

His body faced towards Amy's direction.

"I was gonna go, but I was smart enough to not move through the leafs." He stated, looking back at Sonic, as if it was all his fault they all woke up.

Sonic glared and pouted, but then heard Amy shiver in her sleep again….

"Okay, group meeting." Sonic bent down, looking at the two hedgehogs.

"It has come to my attention…that Amy is freezing." He put both his hands together, flatly as he said this, and swung them down.

Almost on cue, Amy sneezed, and the three hedgehogs looked behind Sonic's back, before quickly huddling up again, making this quick.

They're concern was apparent in their quick agreements, making sure everyone was going to be decent and just men.

"Shadow, you get the left, Silver… take your blasted front, and I'll take the right. Just how we got it last time, deal?" Sonic was like the quarterback of the football team, getting the play in order.

The two other hedgehogs nodded.

"We'll simply curl up, it's part of instinct. If we huddle around her, she'll naturally want to curl, and when that happens…" Shadow looked to the other two, waiting for them to pick up on what he was meaning.

"Ball forms aren't indecent~" Sonic chimed, grinning, and hoping that good enough for Amy too.

"I may also not like this arrangement of sorts… but we must stay warm. And for Amy's own good,… she needs us." Silver admitted, as the two others nodded with him.

"Ball forms. I'll take care of Amy curling, you guys just keep her warm." Sonic moved quickly, as if this was just like saving a friend.

The two looked to each other, not sure what he meant by, 'take care of Amy' but they continued on after him.

Making their way to Amy, they took their places, and embraced Amy, giving her warmth almost instantly.

Her quills slightly spiked, only a defense mechanism, as Shadow and Silver looked worried, silver most of all because he was going for the embrace over the head.

Sonic rolled his eyes and chuckled, he slowly reached up and slightly scratched her behind the ears, and her quills bended downward again.

Finally, he traced a line of her ear, before stopping on a certain spot behind her headband…

Gently pressing down, he then pushed with a little force, and suddenly, Amy curled up into a ball.

"….How did you know that?" Silver whispered, both the hedgehogs were in wide-eyed amazement at the expertise of Sonic's motions.

As if he just knew.

"Hello? I'm Sonic The Hedgehog." Sonic bragged, pointing to himself.

The two looked very annoyed, knowing he was bluffing.

"…Alright, you caught me!" he surrendered that notion. "I've known her since she was 8. She would race after me and often times, fall asleep while we star gazed or if she convinced me to stay a while. She was awfully lonely, I would always take her home and she'd look so… so alone." He sat down, as the two listened intently to his story, moving around the pink ball to give her warmth, still feeling her shiver.

"She was alone?" Shadow was looking at Amy, before shifting his eyes back to Sonic.

"…Yeah." Sonic looked down, before putting an arm over Amy. "She was."

The two looked down at Amy.

"That's so… sad." Following Sonic's example, Silver placed a hand over her head, feeling her shivering start to stop, as the warmth of their combined body heats began to work.

"Amy's not sad, though." Sonic smiled, closing his eyes. "She's very strong. She's very strong willed. She won't give up without a fight. Especially if she believes it's right."

Shadow looked to his expression, seeing that Sonic wasn't truly with them anymore, but rather, back to the old days, reminiscing within his own mind.

"She can be a handful when she wants to be though." He chuckled lightly, making sure to stay silent.

Silver watched his expression, the façade he kept up for so long slowly coming down as he spoke of her, and Silver's fascination with her began to steadily increase.

He never knew about Sonic's friends before, only about what the ancient records said about them.

"She's has to learn to survive on simply her own skills and pure moxie. I know she seems like a lot, and she can be. Heh, trust me. But it's only because she wears her heart on her sleeve… and is very passionate about what she believes in. She goes in with everything she's got, a hundred percent each time! Amy's no slow-poke either… I've never known a girl to smile so genuinely… with so much light and …"

He opened his eyes, looking down at her, "Love." He said fondly.

Being a little lost in his rambling thoughts, he looked up, and widened his eyes.

He may have accidentally over done his telling of Amy's personality… because both the hedgehogs around her were now staring very intently towards her, as if questioning their initial impressions of her, and feeling sorry for ever having doubted her and pushing her away.

"Heh, don't fall in love now." Sonic rolled his eyes, and curled up.

The expression stung on his tongue though, leaving him with a bad taste.

He normally wouldn't say such a thing…

So, why did he?

The two looked up.

Silver a very neutral expression, but Shadow glared, as if insulted, and huffed as he flipped himself over and curled up as well.

Like he would fall for such a girl!

Silver… didn't quite understand.

He looked down at Amy's small ball form and thought her an odd sort… but kind.

He smiled at that.

She was very kind.

He closed his eyes and thought of his first encounter with her. Her boldness and how she never gave up. Never backed down. Stuck to her guts. Leaving nothing to chance, she would always get the goals she set out to do done and accomplished.

He liked that.

A go-getter it seemed.

Much like himself, in a strange way.

He then curled up.

And the three fell asleep.

The following morning, Amy uncurled and stretched.

Yawning, she smacked her lips, making that weird tongue sound, before looking down to noticed the colored balls all around her.

"Eep!"

Raising up quickly from her spot, she thurst her hands upward, and let out a small and quiet shriek.

So that's why she was so comfortable last night!

Silver's ball form rolled down to her back, since her head wasn't against it now.

Amy blushed and tried to slowly move out of the middle, crawling backwards out and then stepping away.

She 'phew'd and was about to tip-toe away.

That's when the balls unrolled.

Three pairs of eyes slightly opened, looking tried and annoyed at her.

She smiled and laughed nervously.

But the next second-

The boys had reached up and grabbed her, pulling her back into the pile, and overlaying her with Sonic and Shadow's arm that faced towards her, having their legs make her legs immobilized, and Silver hugged her head and neck, as he also tried to sleep on between her left shoulder.

She was blushing mad now, she couldn't move, and they we're forcing her to let them keep her warm.

"W-was it instinct?!" she whimpered out, bending her ears back in submission.

"…Something like that…" Sonic mumbled, his head shifted, he was still very much asleep, but was slightly waking up.

His head moved over the side of her head, as her eyes widened, realizing that these hedgehogs were probably up all night trying to keep her warm!

"We couldn't let you freeze to death…" Silver trailed off, still very tried with his lack of sleep.

He also moved his head and rubbed it slightly against hers, but not on purpose, he was just shifting and started moving his body the other way, letting go of her head and neck while moving his arms up and over, stretching himself.

"You we're shivering and keeping us all up with pity... What do you expect?" Shadow just spat out, and held her closer to him.

"Besides,… why aren't you thrilled right now?" he slyly mumbled out, causing her to shriek silently again, but this time, from a longer gust of breath.

"Shadow..." Sonic mumbled, pulling her more to him now and away from Shadow. "Shut up…"

"W-wa-w-wait!" Amy got up slightly, struggling to be free of their half-asleep-mumbling and actions only to be pulled down again.

"Offph! Are you guys even fully awake?! AH!….quit it!"

The boys all opened one eye, before their faces started to look more and more awake.

They're faces suddenly looked around in horror.

They looked to each other.

"AHHH!" they all jumped up, not having realized their actions due to just waking up.

"Amy! What happened!?" the first thing Sonic was to say.

"We weren't in our ball forms!?" Shadow looked bewildered, and turned to Amy, "What's going on? When did you wake up?"

"W-we heard you whimpering in your sleep…" Silver began, looking very apologetic. "We just couldn't let you freeze to death! Isn't that immoral?" he tried to explain.

"..S..So.. you were asleep." Amy adjusted her hair and dress, realizing they were only mumbling in their sleep a moment ago.

She sighed, and looked away, putting her hands on her hips, and thinking about what all transpired.

She then sighed, "I knew I should have stayed with you three, anyway. I was just being stubborn. Thank you for doing the right thing." She admitted, bowing to them politely before then shifting completely and pulling out her hammer.

"Now… I want a detailed report about everything that went down last night… NOW!" she swung her hammer to smash the middle section of where she was sleeping, making the ground shake and the leafs burst up from their resting spots.

Silver looked amazed, Shadow almost astonished at her powerful strength, and Sonic just looked frightened.

"Now, Amy, please! We didn't do anything!"

"Oh yeah?" Amy's eyes burned with a fire that made all three of them pause for a moment in concern for their own well-beings…

"How'd I curl up into a ball then?"

Her eyes meant business.

Sonic gulped, and then shrugged his hands out, "I.. Instincts?"

(…WOW…. I um… I want to apologize for my LAST rough draft of this… I… I should have reread it… I remembered writing it REALLY late at night and early into the morning, I was literally loony off of no sleep, but that's no excuse. FORGIVE. ME. It was just… not a good story. I'm going to slowly improve it. As you can see, I put more game elements into it. I really like how that Hyrda-bot turned out! :D Hope you do too! Obviously, there are still a lot of anime elements, but I'll try and widdle that down as I go. I wanted to show the three bickering to further emphasizes Amy's role, but as you can see, they don't quite see her worth completely, just yet ;) I plan on making her 'usefulness' more apparent to us, but less apparent to them right away. For those who have read this story, it'll make sense why I'm doing that. K! Well! Thanks for stickin' with the reading! Till next chapter's editing! :D)