Chapter 1
Just the Beginning
Disclaimer: ...I don't own anything, namely Sonic games, so ...BYE.
Hm, to be honest, I just started writing, if this turns out to be yaoi...I'm not usually like this...it's just the storyline I was thinking of goes along with it...not that I'm every for this kind of stuff...I'm just in a strange mood...whatever.
"Not necessarily." Was all he said in response. Tails eyed the blue hedgehog evilly, he was sick to death of Sonic being so unresponsive. His tails twitched something of intently, though it was hard for two yellow-orange tails to look intimidating, thus his green-eyed friend laughed.
"You can't just crush her...don't you care?" Sonic paced back and forth, listening to Tails' repetitive lecture. Finally, he sat down and shook his head. He had no answers for himself, let alone Tails. The one thing he could figure out was that he didn't love Amy. She was pretty and probably the nicest girl he'd ever met, but he couldn't bring himself to lead her on anymore. He hadn't thought he had been in the first place, but obviously he was wrong.
"You're not being fair, Tails! I can't pretend to love her! I don't! That's it! I do care about her! She's a good friend of mine and I would never intentionally hurt her feelings! So, for the love of God, back 'off'!" Sonic stood and snarled at the fox, narrowing his green eyes he stormed out, slamming the door behind him. Tails fell on to the brown couch, he stared at the slammed door for a long time. He knew Sonic wouldn't be back, he never came back. He sighed and leaned back in the couch.
Sonic kicked up dirt as he walked away from Tails' little clubhouse thing, he shook his head, muttering curse words incoherently to himself. He eyed the ground for the majority of the time, but he looked up on the occasion to as he didn't slam in to a tree. "What's bothering you, Faker?" Sonic jerked his head up at the sound of the cocky voice.
He whirled, raising an eyebrow in Shadow's direction. "Nothing that you should be worrying about, what are you even doing here?" He crossed his arms, turning completely to see that Shadow was actually up in a tree, standing on it, smirking as usual.
"Hn, shut up, Sonic...I'm certainly 'not' worrying about it, it just seemed rather odd that you were walking in a straight line, dragging your feet, mumbling to yourself." He scowled in Sonic's direction, a skeptical look appearing across his face. He was probably the only person who wouldn't automatically say it was Amy's or Tails' fault. Sonic just laughed and shook his head.
"Get down here, I'm not hollering out to you while you're up in a tree." Shadow shrugged and complied, hitting the ground, this time the look in his eyes somewhat curious.
"Fine, I'm not up in the tree anymore...now, what were you muttering about?"
"Amy...you know, girl-problems...something you'll never have?" He grinned at Shadow's annoyed expression as he said this, "Tails doesn't want me to hurt her feelings and I don't like ...I mean, she's sweet and everything but I don't."
"For your information, I do have girl problems...so don't be stupid." He cocked his head to the side, "But hey, if you don't like her...that is not your fault...he doesn't have a right to yell at you...I mean, maybe because you're a complete loser, but not over that."
"You're hilarious." Sarcasm dripped from his voice. He turned, disregarding the mean portion of the comment and focusing on the part he actually agreed with. "I know, I don't wanna upset her either...but still."
"She'll live, Faker. Just hang in there." He laughed then shook his head and warped before giving Sonic a change to respond again.
Sonic smiled, "Thanks, a lot."
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"Hey! Sonic!" Sonic jumped up, seeing Tails blue Tornado flying at him, he got out of the way instinctively, as Tails' flying the aircraft usually resulted in crashing. He landed smoothly this time though, "Are you still mad at me?" Sonic just shook his head.
"Then, guess who's back?" Sonic seemed curious enough.
"C'mon, Sonic! Doctor Robotnick!" Sonic snarled.
"Aw, gah, he has the 'worst' timing." Tails nodded, then his tails swayed a little bit as he stepped back toward the Tornado and dug through it for no more than five seconds before emerging from the junk in the back of it, triumphant.
"Here we are!" He held a metallic device in his hand, he pressed the button, which quickly follow by the nothing more than cliche Eggman telling them that he was going to kill them 'blah, blah, blah.' The only nonsense that stuck out to Sonic was that he only had one chaos emerald. Sonic laughed at this, who really cared? What could Eggman possibly do with one single emerald.
"Well, I think this is more pathetic than anything he's ever tried!" Sonic rolled his eyes and kicked the hologram machine, sending it rolling across the ground, Knuckles head popped up right in its path, as went his luck.
"Ow, hey!" Tails smiled as he realized who it was.
"Hey, Knuckles...what are you doing here?" Sonic smirked watching Knuckles move his hand back for forth over the place the hologram projector had hit him. "...oh yeah right, like your skull isn't strong enough to withstand a little two inch gadget." Knuckles glared over at Sonic and pulled himself fully from the ground.
"I'm here because Tails told me he wanted to show me something, so shut your trap, Sonic!" He made a face as Sonic just laughed and shook his head at him.
"It's just Eggman being his usual idiotic self!" Knuckles made a face, and sat down.
"Oh, is that all?" Tails nodded as Knuckles looked to him for confirmation. "Since that stupid incident with Black Doom and Shadow, nothing exciting except Eggman's empty threats has happened."
"Are you sure you'd want something else to happen, Knuckles?" Knuckles looked over to Rouge immediately recognizing the close to seductive voice. He shrugged his shoulders at her after a moment, thinking about it more seriously.
"...who all did you tell about this, Tails?" Sonic shook his head, "I told you, don't run and tell everyone as soon as Eggman make a move...it's stupid because he's nothing but a bumbling nuisance."
"Sorry..." Tails looked down.
"Hey, where's Shadow? He told me he'd be here just to laugh at Tails for blowing everything out of proportion again." The bat woman, put her hand on her hip looking around.
"You know, Rouge...you always wanna know where Shadow is."
"That bother you, Knuckles?" Knuckles felt his cheek burn, as he shook his head, staring hard at the ground from the unexpected comeback. Sonic laughed at the two of them.
"Well, Shadow tends to never show up when Tails tells him to be here, I think it's his way of showing he's not part of this little 'group'." He rolled his eyes, "He's so damned idiotic about stuff like that, you know?"
"Yeah, yeah...but, it's kind of cute in it's own little way." Rouge smirked and stared at Knuckles for an annoyed reaction, which she got.
"Heh, not my place to pass judgement on that one, Rouge." Sonic looked over to Tails after the comment, "You didn't tell Amy, I'm guessing?"
"Oh, well, yeah, I told her too, she wasn't home though, so I had to leave a message...sorry for telling everyone, but it seems like the only time we all see each other is when it has to do with Eggman...so I thought this would be a good opportunity."
"Right." Knuckles mumbled, "Eggman's always good for some good get-together times."
"Or for making completely useless inventions."
"Heh...right...juust like his grandfather."
"Cute, faker." Rouge smiled at the two of them, they always seemed to be arguing, but never fighting, they were really weird.
"Hey, Shadow, so you did come!" Tails waved happily at Shadow, who was now standing opposite of the little circle the seemed to have formed.
"Yeah, but only to bug you about being a complete moron, Tails." Knuckles laughed at the comment, though an intense dislike for Rouge's seeming feelings for Shadow was starting to bug him about this particular hedgehog.
Tails pouted, "One time, I think Eggman's going to trick us all, and do something seriously dangerous!"
"...one time...I'm sure." Sonic just muttered the phrase sarcastically, blowing Tails off yet again.
"So, Shadow, any luck with the chaos emeralds? Didn't you say something about looking for them?" Rouge cocked her head in Shadow's direction, waiting for the reply.
Shadow nodded, "Yeah, but leave it to the doctor to get one and screw everything I'm trying to do up...so I do have one, just so I can use chaos control, but that's about the sum of it." Sonic laughed at that.
"Heyy, you guys!"
"It's Amy." Tails smiled and waved at her as she ran towards the five of them, a smile on her face, looking like a girl does when she just gets back from shopping.
"Wow, I didn't expect all of you to be here...what's going on? Is it important?"
"No." Shadow immediately shot down her enthusiasm.
"Well, thanks, Shadow." She made a face at him and shook her head, "...so, you didn't exactly tell me why you called Tails...so what's up?"
"It's nothing really, just a stupid little message from Eggman."
"So truthfully this little meeting is completely pointless, which is why I'm questioning my common sense for why I'm still standing here." Amy giggled at Shadow's comment this time.
"You've got a point there, Shadow...I think I'm about to split too..." Knuckles turned to go when he was interrupted by Sonic's voice.
"On second thought, maybe ya outta stick around for a 'few' more minutes, guys." He was speaking to Shadow and Knuckles but his eyes were set on the sky, as the remainder of them noticed a shadow over taking the area, the familiar ship, complete with red and orange coloring, and hideous face on the side.
"Well, if it isn't the doctor, himself, guess he decided to see if maybe attacking us earlier would get him somewhere." Rouge shook her head at the ship.
"Hey, what's–...?" Amy was cut off by a loud booming explosion, "...what!" The fire from it came from the side facing them, obviously the work of a hole being burned through it. A bright light shot from the hole, looking like a shooting star of sorts.
"Now this could be interesting." Suddenly the ship headed towards the ground, away from them, but towards the ground none the least. Knuckles jerked his head back, "Wow, that thing's gaining velocity fast!" He took a step back as he was the closest to the obvious place where the ship was going to crash.
Honestly, there was no seemingly slow motion as the ship slammed hard into the ground, the resulting shockwave knocking them off their feet. Though, shortly after a mechanical sound could be heard, that of a launching weapon. "Preparing harpoons."
"Har-what? What did it say?" Amy seemed confused, though as she took a step forward Sonic grabbed her arm and pulled her back. The ship was obviously in something of working order because the harpoons launched in all different directions, as if this was some kind of defense again crashing.
An annoyed gasp escaped the green-eyed hedgehog as the large point slashed his arm, luckily enough for him doing nothing more than leaving a deep gash. "Goddammit..." He stumbled away from the direct impact of the spear-like object.
"Sonic, are you okay?" Amy seemed worried as usual, but that was to be expected by her. Rouge also let on a little concern, as she raised her hand to her mouth to cover her shock.
"You think Eggman did that on purpose?" Knuckles looked over to the now sparking ship, disagreeing with his own suggestion, but putting it up in the air for the rest of them.
Shadow grabbed Sonic's wound, turning the hedgehog back towards him, a wince and a gasp through gritted teeth following, surprisingly enough though, Shadow did get slightly gentler with the cut. The grip loosened as he pulled Sonic towards him, "Stop it, Sonic...are you okay!"
"Yeah, are you hurt?" Amy walked over there, putting her hands on his shoulder.
Sonic looked in Shadow's direction for a moment, noticing the black hedgehog was looking at his wounded shoulder now, he looked towards Amy after that. "No, I'm fine."
Rouge shook her head, "Nah, Knuckles, he's not that smart...hey, where'd Tails go?"
Shadow let Amy take it from there, whirling at the question, "Yeah, where did the little fox go?" He let his eyes wander around for a moment, finding nothing.
"I'm over here, guys!" Tails pulled Eggman from the rubble, who was obviously intensely angry that his plan had been foiled once again.
"That damned metallic hedgehog has meddled with me for the last time, I'm going to find that creature and destroy it!" He slammed his fist into the rubble of his crashed ship, which then resulting in him withdrawing his fist and saying "ow" numerous times.
"Mecha giving you some trouble again, Doctor?" Shadow smirked at the doctor as he just scowling at the remark. Tails just smiled reassuringly.
"What happened?" Tails brought Eggman over to the rest of them, Sonic reassuring Amy continuously that he was perfectly fine.
"I was using a chaos emerald to engineer my ships inside, but as soon as it got fully operational, it somehow activated Metal Sonic and he took the emerald and took off, destroying my ship while he was at it!" Sonic laughed at him.
"You can't even control your own creations, Eggman...gimme a break!"
"Quiet, Sonic! You would not have been able to stop him either!"
"Riight...just like I'm 'never' able to stop you." He smirked, giving Eggman a skeptical look then turning in the direction that Metal Sonic went. "Well, Knuckles, we might have gotten that little exciting thing you were talking about, now."
"I really gotta start listening to Rouge more!" Knuckles just shook his head as Rouge nodded in agreement, staring off in the same direction as Sonic.
"Guess we better go track him down and get rid of him before he causes any more havoc than he probably already has, huh, guys?" Rouge looked back at everyone, "However, doctor, you may just want to cool it here, as your experiences with him haven't been to successful."
Shadow laughed, "Yeah..."
Eggman glared, "I'll go find him on my own time, and then I'll get control and kill all of you with him, and take over the world at last! You'll all see." He ran off, not very fast though, considering his size.
"...I feel sorry for that guy sometimes." Tails shook his head.
"Excuse me while I resist the urge to say something lame and stupid about teamwork...hold on, gotta concentrate." Sonic sat down, obviously deeply fighting this little need to be lame.
Shadow laughed at him, "Resist it, Faker, and my opinion of you will definitely go up." He looked over to Rouge now, "Okay...you had a good idea about finding the stupid trash compactor...any ideas where he would go though?"
"Probably to get the rest of the chaos emerald, and the easiest one to get would probably be..."
"...at my house, yeah, yeah." Tails just pouted at Rouge as she looked at him after he said this comment, she actually agreed that he was right.
"I was gonna say in Central City, but yeah, your house is probably the easiest...so let's go there." Using the wings she had, she easily carried herself off the ground. "Here we go."
"C'mon, Shadow...up for a little friendly competition?" He smirked at Shadow, as he lowered the emerald he was about to use chaos control with.
"You're so immature, Sonic...all you ever wanna do it race..." Shadow then proceeded to take off, leaving Sonic rather stunned. He stared after him for a moment, the quickly followed, now angry at Shadow for fooling him in that manner.
"Shadow! You cheater! Now, who's immature!" He made a face, but continued trying to keep up, as throwing away a race was definitely not in his nature, but the odds of him catching were definitely not good,
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Sonic made a face, pulling back skeptically, "Tails is gonna be really mad." Rouge, Shadow and Sonic were all staring at the remainder of what used to be Tails' house. More than half of it was basically demolished, and Sonic stared at the ground after a moment.
"Guess we should have given Mecha a little more credit for speed, huh?" Rouge put her hands on her hips, "Well if we keep going like this we aren't ever going to catch up to him...he's probably gotten the emerald from Central City by now...I forgot how fast he was going!"
"Take it easy, Rouge...remember? I have an emerald." Rouge looked at Shadow, now relieved.
"That's right! So, we'll have to run into him eventually, unfortunately, he's probably going to do a lot of damage before he needs the last one, so we gotta find some means of catching up with him."
Shadow just looked at Sonic for a moment, "You idiots are really good at underestimating the emeralds and me, aren't you?"
Sonic grinned, "...whatever, Shadow...just go catch up with him."
"Fine, but you got any lame phrases for me before I go?"
"Grah! Shadow, just go, before I do find something to say to you, and trust me, it's not going to be rated G." He smirked and urged Shadow on.
"Ooh, be that way, then, Faker." He warped and Sonic just stood there for a moment.
"Well, I'm going to go to Central City...I might as well see if Mecha has made it there and if he has...I can see what I can do to help with the damage, right?" Rouge held up her hand for a moment.
"Hold it there, hotshot...now, can you please tell me why you wanna hurt Amy's feelings so badly?" Sonic growled at her.
"I don't want to hurt her feelings! I like Amy a lot but as a friend, I don't love her and I'm never going to...so, why don't all of you just get off my back about it, okay?" Rouge sighed.
"Sonic, you always get so defensive about this...I don't understand you in the least...you know...I just want an explanation, but I didn't word it right, okay? I'll give you that...why? Why don't you like Amy?"
He just growled again, "I don't know...my heart's not in it and there is no point in leading her on...I'm going to tell her soon and that's it, okay? So, you, Tails and whoever else who plans on "talking" to me about this...just go the hell away!"
Rouge just shrugged, "You're never going to find a mate if this is how you're going to look at it...you know that, don't you?" She smirked at him, as he just looked completely exasperated with the idea.
"Why don't you go tell Knuckles you like him, or what about Shadow?" Sonic glared at her, seriously angry at the moment.
"...what about Shadow, Sonic?" She put her hands on her hips and looked straight into his green eyes, he seemed genuinely confused on the question though.
"...gimme a break, Rouge...'WHAT' are you suggesting?" Rouge laughed.
"If you don't know what I'm suggesting, why are you talking like you do?" She smiled at him, "I'm not implying anything, Sonic...I'm just saying you really have got to relax about Amy, before you go and blow her off, just give it a little time...give yourself a little time to mature, then see what you want."
He just glared at her, the anger not leaving in his voice, in spite of how nice she was trying to be about it, "Now you're going to call me immature? I'm plenty mature enough to make my own decisions."
"Hah! You don't even know if you like a guy or a girl...don't hand me that!"
Sonic got blood red at this comment, "I do 'not' like Shadow! You have really gotta be kidding me! That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard in my life, Rouge!"
"I didn't say that, you said it, Sonic! You're the one talking absurdities."
Sonic clenched his fists, shutting his eyes and turning away from her, "...well, you know very well that you were implying it...so back off my personal feelings!" He looked back at her, exasperated, "And...stop implying that I'm gay!"
"You said that too, not me!"
"Stop saying that! You know very well I'm only saying it because it's what you're suggesting! It isn't my fault you're manipulative!" He put his hand to his forehead now, "You have got to be the damned most frustrating woman I have ever met!"
"Why thank you, Sonic!" He started to walk off, which was odd because normally when he was leaving he would run from the start.
"...but, why did you even suggest that in the first place, and don't say you didn't, because I know you did." He turned to her one last time, wanting a genuine answer, and she knew a smart-aleck remark wasn't going to cut it.
"Maybe it was because I think it's kind of cute, because I have a little crush on Shadow anyways...and I'm just a girl, you know? But, I don't know why I asked you, I can't really bring myself to ask him about stuff like that...because he's Shadow...and would most likely knock my head off...not that I didn't think you would, but any means...and you did, or you bit it off at least." She looked into two curious green eyes now, finally seeming to have let some of the anger go, "But, back there, when that stupid little...thing hit you...he got really worked up, I've never noticed him do that before...except when we were talking about Maria..."
Sonic made a face, "I don't think Shadow would ever let his mind-set go that way, nor would I, but I definitely don't like Amy...I think I do need to mature a little bit though, maybe I could like her, I don't think so...but maybe...and...well, I'll see you later, Rouge...like Shadow? ...that...he...I can't be thinking like this!" This time he did leave running, which was completely normal.
Hm...guess it probably is going to be yaoi...I might just delete this story if I get out of this type of mood, but hey...I'm just a fangirl, who's ore mature than the typical fangirl.