Puffy white clouds began to fill the crystal blue sky as Sonic dodged overgrown trees, with Amy in his arms.

Her heart was beating faster than she could ever remember; she hadn't gone this fast in years and now the thrill had returned! Bringing thousands of memories flooding through her mind.

As Sonic jumped off a cliff, Amy let out a shriek of excitement as together they plummeted to the grass below.

As they took off again through an endless field, Sonic started laughing to himself.

"What's so funny?" Amy asked looking at him with a puzzled expression!

He carried on laughing, shaking his head as he ran.

"I was just thinking about the times I use to run with you in my arms, in some weird way I kinda missed it."

"I was thinking the same thing you know! … Except the other way around of course"

Sonic chuckled "That could be interesting…you running with me in your arms, we will have to try that sometime"

He winked at her as she laughed.

A few seconds later they arrived at Tails' workshop, only to find it empty!

Searching the place over in a matter of milliseconds, Sonic let out a grunt and strolled to the door.

"Amy stay here! I'm going to find everyone"

Running away from the building Sonic ran to the forest he was near with Amy, he was sure it was this place that they saw Tails and Cream.

"Tails!" Sonic screamed at the top of his voice.

No one answered…

"Cream!" He tried again, this time he heard a rustle in the bushes behind him and some slight giggling.

Sonic rolled his eyes and stared at the bush, "No time for jokes Tails, we got trouble!"

"What trouble?" Said a voice coming from inside the bush.

Tapping his foot impatiently Sonic said, "Eggmans back!"

"WHAT?!" Screamed a fox jumping out of the bush, closely followed by a young rabbit.

"Hello Mr Sonic" Cream said politely, no fear emerging on her face from the mention of Eggman!

"Hey Cream, we have to get back to the workshop now!" Sonic blurted out.

"Ok you go get Knuckles and Rouge and we will meet you there!" Tails said, beginning to spin his twin tails. "Come on Cream!"

The young rabbit flapped her ears fast and rose into the air elegantly.

Sonic didn't say bye, he just ran off in search off Knuckles and Rouge.

On Angel Island Sonic ran to the shrine, positive he would at least find knuckles there, if not Rouge.

As the shrine came into his view, Sonic saw two figures fighting viscously around a large green emerald.

Rolling his eyes once more Sonic ran to them and stuck himself in the middle of the fight.

"STOP!" He shouted at the top of his voice, jolting both fighters back into reality.

Knuckles and Rouge instantly stopped at the sight of Sonic and stood surveying each other whilst panting.

"What do you want Sonic?" Knuckles shouted not his eyes away from Rouge.

"Yea I was just about to take my emerald!" Rouge replied

"ITS NOT YOUR EMERALD"

"Shut up will you!…You need to get to Tails' workshop!" Sonic shouted at them both.

"I'm not leaving my emerald"

"Then take it with you" Sonic replied, "Eggmans back!"

Knuckles and Rouge's face dropped at the mention of the Dr's name.

"So? Are you going to come?" Sonic asked.

"Were coming, were coming" Knuckles replied picking up the Master Emerald and following Sonic back to the workshop.

Back at the workshop the gang got to work, Tails was sat in front of a large pc, typing in word after word trying to find Eggman's base.

Sonic was stood directly behind him, watching intently, but not understanding a single thing he did.

Knuckles was sat on the couch next to the Master Emerald, polishing it thoroughly.

Rouge was just round the corner from Knuckles, trying to find the perfect opportunity to steal the shimmering emerald.

"Its no use Rouge, I know your there!" Knuckles laughed not taking his gaze from the emerald's glistening surface.

Amy and Cream were in the kitchen together, cooking dinner for the group. Cream buttered a dozen bread rolls, as Amy made a soup from Vanilla's recipe.

"He's really hidden himself away this time! I can't find him!

Sonic shook his head, "No Tails, remember he did something like this last time, we will find him"

"I know, but this time he's made it even harder, don't worry I'll leave the computer to look for a…."

Tails was thrown out of his seat as a huge jolt ran through the house.

"What the hell was that?" Sonic said, standing up.

He ran outside, only to be greeted by 5 steel robots looking down at him.

They were all 10 times bigger than Sonic, and were covered in a dim grey metal, their eyes glowed a dark red, which instantly reminded Sonic of Crimson!

Running back inside the house Sonic grabbed a hold of Knuckles and began to run out of the workshop once more shouting, "Eggmans attacking everyone stay here, Tails keep looking"

Outside Sonic dropped Knuckles from his grip and began his attacks.

Knuckles stood brushing dust off of himself, then looked up at the robots.

He froze from the sight of them, to him; they were nothing like the tin cans from the olden days.

"Knuckles don't just stand there, do something" Sonic screamed from the middle of a spin dash, which unfortunately didn't leave a scratch.

Sonic landed back on his feet and began to run up a different robot's leg.

The robot swung its arm at Sonic, but missed as he dodged and headed straight for its head.

Knuckles began to run at a robot and threw a punch into its side; it stumbled sideways but quickly regained its balance.

The robot retaliated and knocked Knuckles back against a tree, with a loud smash!

Sonic saw the attack out of the corner of his, but brought his attention back to his victim as he Spin dashed into its neck, he went straight through the metal, ripping colourful wires apart as he appear at the other side.

With a thud the robot fell to the floor unable to move and its piercing red eyes faded.

One down 4 to go Sonic thought to himself, as he noted that Knuckles was up fighting again.

"Sonic!" Something shouted.

No please…Not Amy…It's to dangerous

He turned around as a sickening feeling filled his stomach; Amy was running from the workshop hammer in hand, towards the group of robots.

"Let me help!" She shouted as she speed past Sonic, swinging her hammer at full force.

"No Amy!"

Too late! Her hammer made impact with a robot's leg but no effect was made. Though the robot quickly retaliated and threw Amy against a tree, it walked back over to her, picking her up again and throwing her towards a cliff.

As she hurtled closer and closer to the edge Sonic ran and caught her mid air, landing on the cliff's edge. He quickly threw himself back and an unconscious Amy fell on top of him.

He saw the same robot walking towards them once more, so Sonic jumped up hauling Amy into his arms and ran towards a panting Knuckles. As he ran Sonic felt a trickle of warm liquid run down his arms from Amy's head.

"Knuckles! Take Amy back to the workshop and send Tails, he knows what to do!"

Knuckles didn't need persuasion; he scooped Amy into his arms and began to run away to the workshop.

Sonic turned on his heel and ran circles around the group of robots, a gust of wind issued from Sonic's speed and with its force, knocked a robot off the cliff.

With 3 more robots to defeat, the odds weren't good, but Sonic kept fighting until he heard the sound of an engine.

Finally! Took him long enough

Tails flew across the sky firing bullets at the robots.

Sonic jumped up into the air landing smoothly on the wing of the plane, giving tails a thumbs up!

"Lets get them!" Sonic cheered.

They both took off in the plane and flew towards the 3 remaining robots.

"Sonic…catch!" Tails shouted from the cockpit as a hatch open n the plane and a golden ring flew from it.

Sonic dived off the plane a closed his hand around the ring, feeling himself gradually getting faster whilst turning into a ball. He flew through the air heading for one of the robots and cut his way through its body, giving it the same torture as the robot before him.

As he reappeared he got a glace of Tails shooting a robot off the cliff.

Now there was one robot left, Sonic could feel the excitement building up inside of him as that memorable feeling filled him.

One more! Great…lets get this over and done with

As he prepared to run the last robot began to speak, as Tails flew in circles over its head.

"Mission failed! Self destruct in 3…2…"

"RUN!" Sonic Screamed at the top of his lungs, taking off towards the workshop. As the robot said 1 Sonic felt his whole body rise from the floor and fly across the grass as the robot exploded behind him.

He landed in the grass, tossing and turning until he finally came to a stop.

He lay there panting; looking up at the grey clouds surrounding him, and then slowly began to stand whilst patting dirt from his body.

Tails had landed outside the workshop and watched as Sonic ran to his side.

"That was one tough battle, but something about it seemed easier than the others we've had." Sonic said looking out at the wreckage in front of them.

"Yea, I know it seemed like Eggman wanted us to beat them with ease!"

"Oh well now that's over let's go check the computer"

They both walked in the workshop together the find everyone surrounding Knuckles and Amy.

Amy was lay on the sofa with Cream pressing a damp cloth against her head, she had bruises covering her arms and chest and face and lay motionless, the only sign she was alive was the steady rising from her chest.

Knuckles was sat in a chair next to her with Rouge tending to some nasty gashes across his chest and legs.

Sonic walked up to Cream and sat by her with Amy.

"I'll take over Cream, you go and help Tails!" He said gently.

She handed him the cloth and he sat in her place applying the damp cloth to Amy's head.

Rouge left the room closely followed by Knuckles as they went to get some drinks.

When they were completely along Sonic kissed Amy on her head and stroked her soft pink quills.

5 minutes later, Tails burst through the door making Sonic jump. The rest of the gang closely followed him as Sonic stood from his position.

"I've found Eggman's base!" Tails shrieked with happiness.

"Well? Where is it?" Sonic asked eagerly.

At this point Tails' face dropped as he looked down.

"Well?"

"Ermm…Sonic…It's under water!"

"Un…Under…Water?" Sonic whispered.

He felt a rush of fear and nausea overcome him as he fell to the floor, being consumed in darkness!