Author's Notes:

Okay, this is officially my very first Sonic story. I've been trying so very hard to fight it but it's been aching at the very core of my soul to get out so I had to let it go.

Let me just begin by saying: I have no earthly clue where this story could/will go. I have a plot--really I do! And the bunnies keep multiplying and everything! But it's the ending where my bunnies all run in terror and leave me to cry in a corner. :tears:

But here we go with the formalities:

DISCLAIMER:

I own absolutely NONE of the Sonic characters like, at all. (Though I do have Tails and Shadow plushies:Sqeeze:) I don't make any money from this story (and even if I could, I probably wouldn't be able to...) and all rights and reserves to all the Sega Team and everyone else involved with Sonic and the crew. The OC character I do own though: she's dedicated to my best friend who loves the games more than I do.

WARNINGS!

1. If you're looking for comic book characters (Sally, etc.) I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. I honestly haven't been keeping up with it and I don't know enough about the storyline in the archie comics to add any of them properly so I refuse to try and diminish/tarnish/or ruin said characters. If you don't like this and can't read a story without any of them...:hands a cookie: sorry this isn't for you.

2. While Shadow will be in the story, I have YET to play Shadow the Hedgehog, so before I even begin, let me say I am SO sorry if I get something wrong with him, background wise. Just politely correct me or something and I WILL fix whatever, if said issue needs to be brought up.

3. There is an original character, but this has a lot to do with Tail's side story/storyline. I know most people don't like OC's so if you don't like them, again, you may not want to/like to, read this story. Oh: and the OC isn't an animal...so if you have a problem with uh...Tails liking a human...um...:cough:

4. Pairings can also be an issue for people. I won't say none of them will be changing, as most of them obviously are, but for now they are as follows:

Tails/OC (One-Sided--for now), Shadow/Amy/Sonic, Knuckles/Rouge, Cream/Tails/Shadow? (See # 5)

If you have a set ship and refuse to sail on any other, then you may not want to read this story. Though none of them are set in stone (Except for Knuckles/Rouge) so I might go anywhere. Suggestions are welcome...

5.This story has the following:

Violence, More Violence, Fluff, Non-Con, Beast, Slash, Sex, Craziness, Maybe gore cause there will be blood, Rape, and hopefully humor.

Important Note: Actually, the words in bold will NOT be in this version of the story. If you'd like to read the uncut content, then email me or go to Adultfanfiction where it's posted as well.

6. I do not have beta reader, so I'll do the best I can. If anyone would like to take this role for me, I would REALLY appreciate it.

If this bothers you in the very least, then please don't read my story. I would love for you to, but really, my bunnies shall eat flames in regards to things you've been warned on. But I love you all anyway!

SUMMERY

Amy Rose has always been in love with Sonic. But what is a girl to do when her rival comes in the form of a certain raven furred hedgehog? What's Shadow to do when all these conflicting feelings while trying to get our favorite hero to see things his way? What's Sonic to do when he just doesn't have a clue of the rivalry?

What's our little cute sidekick Tails to do when he falls for a girl that's not only older, but not his species?

What's Rouge not gonna try to get Knuckles to notice her? Why doesn't Knuckles get a clue?

And just what is that idiot Eggman planning anyway? Why doesn't he know he won't work yet?

Find out these answers and more if you can get past my Author's Notes! (Or you could have just skipped them...)

Ladies and Gents: Here we Go!

Chapter One: Sparks of an Unknown Rivalry

(AKA: There Always has to be a Boring Chapter Where Things are Attempted to be Explained...)

She watched them silently, almost in calculation. The pink hedgehog sent a weary look in the direction of a certain blue hedgehog very close to her then back at her in question.

Her magenta painted lips parted into a small smirk then she gave her a small sign and shivered.

She nodded very slightly as not to be noticed then taking in a slightly loud, broken breath, shivered, wrapping her hands around herself and rocking slightly back and forth.

And they waited, the pink hedgehog refusing to look in a certain direction while the other watched the scene play out intently.

It wasn't as long as she expected.

She watched as Amy's eyes went slightly big for a moment when a gloved hand took her own and pulled her closer to him. She watched as Amy took in a deep, silent breath and holding it, made her move as they'd planed.

She wrapped her skinny arms around his form, brining him close to her and rested her head on his chest, still shivering slightly.

And another waiting game began.

They both waited for his emerald eyes to go wide, for him to hold her away at arms length. To demand to know what she was doing, what she was thinking in his usual immature manner and panicked voice.

But when the moment never came, and he securely wrapped his own arms around her and held Amy even closer to him, she let a full smirk break on her face as Amy looked in her direction and looked as though she would simply burst with happiness.

She watched as the blue hedgehog rested his chin on her shoulder for a moment then asked:

"Are you cold Amy?"

'Well thank you captain obvious', Amy couldn't help but think with a slight roll of her eyes. But she sighed none-the-less. He was so adorable when he asked such obvious questions.

"A little," she admitted. Well, she really was a bit cold. They were standing in the middle of nowhere really, on the outskirts of the Green Hills, staring at a big long crack in the middle of the ground waiting for the expected to pop out. And with the wind blowing at the late hours of night and no sun to warm the place up–and the fact she had chosen to wear her trademark cherry dress with no sleeves–she was a little cold.

But she'd be lying to herself if she said it was the only reason she was snuggling her precious darling at this moment.

Sonic. Her darling little Sonic–was holding her. Willingly! Okay sure, he might only be doing it because he thought she was cold and trying to comfort her out of politeness–but he was still hugging her and that counted for something, right?

And really, was it so wrong to take enjoyment out of being held by the blue blur–you know– as it didn't happen often? Not that this was Amy's fault either, mind you.

There was a small grunt and a soft thud and both Hedgehogs looked over to see the crimson echidna sitting on the ground, looking agitated and particularly bored.

"Tails," he grumbled, giving him a side glance.

The young best friend of Sonic, a young and small tan creature with two bushy like tails wagging behind peacefully, didn't look up from his task at hand, which was tickering with a small gadget with an equally small screwdriver.

"I thought you said–"

"I know Knuckles," Tails explained softly, but in obvious annoyance, still not looking up.

This was the fifth time Knuckles had questioned him and frankly, the adorable little two tailed genius was getting down right irritated now. But being the rather kind (and wise) creature he was, he didn't speak it. Instead, he ignored Knuckles, as he knew the friend could be impatient and brash at times. It was just his nature.

"But I've rechecked all my data and the answer is still the same. So it's got to be here somewhere, it's just when it will appear that's the problem."

"Why don't you just get Knuckle-head to dig down into the crater and find what we're searching for?" a feminine voice dipped in sarcasm broke into the conversion. She stretched and yawned before continuing. "We're all sick of hearing him whine and we have to put him to some kind of use, right?"

This earned her a rather dirty glare followed by a low growl from Knuckles. She only smirked a little at him and struck her infamous pose, hand firmly placed on her hip. He simply grunted in annoyance and went back to ignoring them. In turn, she adverted her attention to the raven furred creature that stood just a small ways to the left of her.

He had his arms folded tightly in front of his chest, his fierce crimson eyes were trained on a particular though unimportant spot in the crater. His face was unreadable to his thoughts but cold none the less.

Not that the look was usual in the least.

Realizing there wasn't going to be a conversation there, she adverted her attention back to her own thoughts, staring at the crater herself.

Not a very bad year. Nothing overly exciting, but still interesting none the less.

As usual, she was still the sexiest little thing any man had the pleasure of setting their eyes on–not that this ever changed, but it was worth noting.

Still the snow white colored vixen with beautiful violet colored eyes, heavy lidded with long 'come hither' lashes. What would have been her hair if she was human was in it's usual short style, back and out of her face. She wore a skin tight leotard with a heart shaped shell incasing her–rather nice assets– and high heeled snow boots with hearts on the toes to match her equally high gloves.

She had been promoted twice since the ARK incident and was now one of, if not the best, secret agents the government had. But as or right now, she was on a overly deserved and rather long vacation. They all just seemed to pile up–the vacation days-- and finally, her commander demanded she take them. All of them.

Not that she was complaining. This gave her more time to concentrate on her other favored hobby: finding and collecting those beautiful, sparkling rocks that dazzled and made her 'ooh' and 'ahh' as if she was seeing the cutest baby

And one in particular stood out. Not just because it was by far, the prettiest she'd come across and possibly the biggest. And the powers it possessed was just a bonus.

No, it was simply because it was the only gem that she just couldn't seem possess it– nor its adorable yet somewhat dim-witted guardian.

Her eyes settled back on Knuckles, who was completely laying on the ground now, his eyes closed and arms placed behind his back, his scowl of annoyance set in place as his right foot swayed side to side slightly as it rested on his knee.

She sighed. He was probably thinking of his Master Emerald. Not like the idiot thought much about anything else, as she was beginning to think.

She had tried playing hard to get at first. Which isn't a very easy game to play when the subject in question is either too thick to notice or simply just wasn't interested. Wait–not interested?

She had to giggle slightly to herself, which earned a quick glance of curiosity from Amy.

She simply refused to believe that anyone, even Knuckles, couldn't hold at least some sort of small interest in her, so she'd have to stick to her theory of him being far to thick to understand the concept of a woman playing hard-to-get.

She then started to drop small hints. A few hidden meanings here, a few winks and playing kicks there. And the idiot still didn't get the message.

But like with trying to steal the Master Emerald, Rouge had no intention of giving up. She wasn't one to beg and she'd never start. But there was more than one way to get an idiot to notice her.

She kicked a small rock in his direction, watching with interest as it hit him on the head and he sat up abruptly, looking in the direction the rock came from and thus, at her.

"We're here on business, not to relax, so let's try to be a tad more professional? Even that can't be too hard for you to comprehend?" she stated sweetly.

He narrowed his eyes at her but stood up none the less, his arms crossed over his chest now. She smirked a tad. Well at least she knew her puppy listened to commands...

Not much had changed for him either, she knew. Sitting around on a floating island, day in and day out, watching a big rock. That had to be boring. And lonely. But really, really boring.

She sighed in slight annoyance. The only time he ever really seemed to come down from Angel Island was when A.) His precious Master Emerald was stolen. B.) Sonic forced him to because he need his help. Which in this case, was the latter.

Rouge wasn't sure what the echidna would ever do if she just flew up to Angel Island on one day and asked him to take her out on a date. She snorted a laugh, earning her another look from Amy and this time, Shadow as well.

Like Knuckles knew what a date was. Not to mention he probably thought she would be trying to trick him out of the Emerald. Not that it was hard to do though. Knuckles was rather gullible and thick.

She then adverted her attention back to the hedgehog standing beside her, still burning his crimson eyes into her form. His face was the same: unreadable and cold with a frown (which she thought was permanent) on his features, but she had gotten to know him enough to know that he was silently asking her a question.

"It's nothing. Funny thoughts. You should try them, they might make you laugh too," she added in a teasing manner.

He simply 'hmphed' and turned his attention back to the crater.

Shadow was still a mystery to her, even now. They had always gotten along rather well, even when they first met on the lost space colony ARK. And after the rather tragic events that played out, even she had to admit to herself that she'd missed Shadow. So imagine her surprise and relief when he had returned–or rather–she had found him. And they had been friends (though whether he thought of them that way was beyond her knowledge) ever since.

He was the quite type, normally appearing to be in a bad mood. But then the fact that he nearly always never smiled and his demeanor was usually threatening and intimidating didn't really help matters. His voice was smooth and surprising calm, yet cold and calculating. And those crimson eyes. She found them quite beautiful yet so painful to look at all the same. They were so intense and seemed to carry all of Shadow's emotions that he refused to display 99.9 percent of the time.

After his return and roaming around the world (she supposed) a while, he finally just stuck around. She supposed there were far too many memories at ARK for him to ever go back to stay, and while Gerald Robotnick was he creator, he didn't seem to fancy working for Eggman either.

So instead he settled on occasionally working with Sonic and his friends, though his casual hours were usually spent alone. And if he did invite company, it only appeared to be Rouge and to a slight surprise and interest, Sonic.

The two, Sonic and Shadow, weren't rivals anymore. Or at least, not as strongly as they were. Hell, they even seemed to get along. But then, she supposed that happens when you save the planet together...

Sonic and Shadow had been getting along rather well. He actually spoke more than two sentences to someone other than her and Sonic seemed to be having a blast showing Shadow 'the ways of Earth' and 'how to have fun'–though most of the time, it ended with Shadow advising Sonic on his own idiotic ways with the cocky blue smirking hero giving a simple shrug or teasing remark of his own.

Shadow appeared to like spending time with Sonic though, much to the annoyance of Amy Rose, who was finding it harder to have some alone time with her darling–not that she really ever got it to begin with.

Amy rose. Rouge smirked as she looked in the couples direction.

She was, without a doubt, the most determined person Rouge had met in the love department. The pretty pink hedgehog still had her sights on the blue wonder that stood at this very moment, holding her close.

When she had finally asked Rouge for her assistance, she hadn't been to surprised but all the same, flattered. And after giving the young love sick girl advice like, "to stop being so 'needy' " and 'annoying' and 'obvious' and "try to be less subtle while still letting it be known that she adored him." Let his own interest come to a peak and let everything play itself out.

IF the interest he carried was in fact, there and for Amy. Not like it would for anyone else–or could it? Hmm...

But what really surprised Rouge was that Tails didn't seemed to be bothered in the least, and more over, seemed to have an agenda of his own. Of course, he still worshiped Sonic and Sonic always gave as much time as possible to his favorite little buddy, but Tails seemed to be working on projects of his own, with Cream the Rabbit, the annoyingly but likable sweet naive thing that she was.

The little girl in question was right where she thought she'd be: near Tails.

Rouge smirked. Young love. So...adorable. So swee--

"I can't take this anymore!" Knuckles snapped, drawing everyone's attention to him and breaking Rouge out of her reflective thoughts.

"Calm down Knux," Sonic stated, waving him off. "Iit can't be any long–"

"We've been standing out here for three hours. Three Hours!" he exclaimed.

"I know that," Sonic sighed annoyed. "But if Tails thinks–"

"But what if he thought wrong?"

"At least he thinks," Rouge coughed.

Another glare earned.

"I'm not wrong Knuckles, it's just that the situation isn't happening as soon as we all hoped," Tails corrected him in a matter of fact tone, still messing with whatever crazy gadget he had been tampering with since he got there, Cream and Cheese looking over his shoulder to get a peek.

"But if you said it was suppose to happen then and it hasn't happened by then or now, doesn't that mean you're wrong?" Knuckles stated with triumph.

Everyone stared at him.

"Silence, you idiot," Shadow stated firmly, glaring at him as if in pure loathing.

"What did you just say!" Knuckles exclaimed, a small vein popping out on his head as he lifted one of his infamous knuckles threateningly. Shadow glanced at the knuckle than at the person himself and for the first time of the night, a taunting smirk played on his face.

"Try it."

"You guys, just stop and calm down!" Sonic intervened between the two as both got into a fighting stance of sorts. Rouge looked a bit disappointed and Rose looked as though someone had told her she had to marry Eggman once Sonic left her side.

But moments later she bounced back and joined him.

"Yeah guys, this isn't the time for this now, we have to be ready!" she scolded.

"Riiiight," Knuckles sighed. "Ready for nothing obviously, because that's exactly what's happening!"

"Stop being so impatient–"

"–And a jerk–" Amy cut in.

"–and be quite, as your voice is annoying the rest of us." Shadow finished. Then he added "Not that your presence wasn't doing that already."

Knuckles growled at him and prepared to launch himself but a hard rumble quickly put an end to the argument as everyone stumbled, trying to regain their footing before staring at the large crater in the ground again.

"Oh..." Cream breathed in worry as she stood behind Tails with Cheese hiding somewhere in her clothing. Amy clung on to Sonic's arm, worry evident on her face as he watched the crater intently now.

There was another loud rumble and Rouge took a cautious step backward as the ground beneath them start to move unstably.

Then–silence. The earth didn't move again. Whatever it was had stopped.

They all looked at one another slightly but a scream from Cream quickly got their attention.

"Watch out!" Tails cried to the group as he grabbed her hands quickly, his gadget forgotten, and using his two tails like a propeller, flew them safely out of danger behind Sonic and Amy.

In just moments where they had stood a long appendage of steel broke through the earth and landed with a large crash right beside Shadow.

Amy jumped and clung to her hedgehog more and Sonic looked over in his direction calling out to him.

But he only sneered slightly and raised what would have been an eyebrow still staring at the crater.

The earth moved violently again and seven more steel appendages shot from the crack in the earth before branching out and crashing into the ground near our heros before a recognizable evil crackle could be heard over what seemed to be a speaker.

"Soon this world will be under my control. Just six more and world domination will be under my grasp!"

There was another crackle and finally, a large mechanical body–exposing the metal beast to be a spider, came out and completely towered over them, the creator sitting in the very head of the creature, glaring down at them out of a large glass window. He looked flabbergast for a second, then finally, down right annoyed.

"Sonic! And his little friends!" They could hear a low growl escape. "How did you know I would be here! Whatare you little fowl creatures doing here?"

"What does it look like Egghead?" Sonic asked with a smirk. "I thought by now, this part of your schemes would be obvious."

Eggman smirked at him. "Oh, you really think you can stop my latest plans hedgehog."

Sonic gave a bored expression . "Is there even a doubt anymore?"

"Then behold, my latest creation!" the doctor proclaimed grandly, complete with throwing his hands in the air as the mecha spider gave a thunderous roar and prepared to attack the group of heros.

Who weren't impressed in the least.

" Ten minutes?" Sonic yawned, glancing at both Shadow and Knuckles.

"Ten?" Knuckles asked, smirking as he cracked his well...knuckles.

"We won't even need five faker," Shadow stated, finally uncrossing his arms and glaring at the machine, trying to find the best weak spot. There was slight disappointment in his eyes however. What a waste of waiting three hours. But then again, the chaos emerald–any for that matter–was worth it.

His thoughts were broken by annoyance.

"Sonic," Amy said cautiously, worry evident on her face. He turned to look down her and winked. "No worries Amy! We'll just smack Egghead around a little, get what we came for, and then we can all go home."

"And then you and I can go on a date?" she questioned hopefully. Sonic's face fell into a weak smile (and slight eye twitch) as he said "Um...I'll get back to you on that..."

"Sonic, stop flirting with your girlfriend and get over here!" Knuckles demanded as he dodged quickly out of the way of one of the strong appendages that swung at him forcefully through the air.

Amy let go of Sonic and he was off in a blur. She glanced over to see Shadow glaring at her. Those crimson eyes of his were staring intently into her own and finally, she blushed, looking away. In a moment, he was gone as well.

Noting the incident for later review, Rouge finally stepped forward, expanding her wings. "Guess I better help. Not that it's worth my time, but you know men. They just can't do anything right be themselves." She winked at Amy and Cream before flying into combat.

"Do you think they'll be alright?" Cream said with worry. Tails nodded and gave her confident smile. "You know Sonic would never let us down. We're all perfectly–"

His sentence was cut off by Amy grabbing them both and diving out of the way of a large leg flying in their direction, crashing to the ground a few feet behind them.

"Watch it!" she screamed angry, pulling one of her mallets out of thin air and preparing to swing as another leg came in her direction.

With a cry, she swung it as hard as she could and watched in delight as it broke at the middle and a piece of the leg went flying in the opposite direction.

"Amy, stay out of the way!" she heard Sonic yell at her as he quickly dodged a shot fired by an enraged Eggman from one of the spiders many eyes just above where the Doctor was operating the machine.

"Why do you even bother -grunt- to bring her faker?" Shadow demanded as he flipped out of the way of a yet another leg Knuckles had knocked off in his direction. Just one more and he'd forget who he was suppose to be fighting.

"I'm only trying to help!" Amy shot back though she really wasn't sure to who.

Sonic turned to look at her, pausing. "But I don't want you to get–naaaaahhh!"

He was cut off by one of the mechanical legs knocking him into the ground with a hard thud.

"Sonic!" Amy and Tails screamed together, both rushing forward.

"Don't move you idiots!" Shadow screamed harshly at both, causing them to stop. He quickly ran forward and in a blink, had picked Sonic up before the leg could come crashing back down on him.

He zig zagged quickly out of the way as the other legs tried hard to stomp on them , Rouge coming from the rear. Using all her force, she kicked one leg clear off causing it to collide with another, knocking it off and both to the ground.

Shadow paused to let Sonic down to the ground, with Amy running over. She eyed them for a moment, Shadow laying Sonic on the soft dirt while Sonic groaned groggily, frowning as he tried to pull himself together.

Finally, she spoke up. "Is he–"

"He'd be better if you did as your told and stay out of the way," Shadow snapped.

Amy gulped slightly but frowned, determined to hold her ground. "But I was only trying to–"

"It's not needed nor wanted," he cut her off rudely, turning finally to glare at her. "You'll only get yourself caught or worse and he'll just end up wasting time trying to save you when we could be done with this."

She opened her mouth to speak but Sonic opening his emerald eyes cut her off.

He sat up, shook his head, and forced a smirk. "Awww Shadow. I know you love me and all but really, I'll be alright. No need to cry."

Shadow scowled and letting him go abruptly, turned away from him. "Haul ass faker. We don't need you to get lazy on us. Asking you not to be reckless would be beyond pointless to the point foolish."

Sonic rolled his eyes as he got to his feet, dusting himself off. "Let's take Egghead down, shall we."

Shadow nodded and Sonic blazed off again, homing in on the glass that separated Eggman and the rest of the world and attacked it now that most of the legs were gone and the mecha could no longer stand on it's own.

Amy walked forward but Shadow shot her a back glance, sneering. "Stay."

Then he'd rushed off as well. Amy stared at the spot as Cream and Tails run up to her, staying out of the way off the whole ordeal. Both knew better than to get in the way when either Amy or Shadow got into one of their 'moods'.

They asked if she was okay and for a while, she didn't answer, only looked. Then seeming to come to some silent agreement with herself, she looked in determination and nodded, pulling out another hammer and running forward much to the protest of both Cream and Tails.

No one and nothing was going totell her when she could or couldn't protect her hedgehog.