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Chapter 5: Meeting Metal Amy

Later that night, at Amy's House, the supposedly locked front door was picked at and opened. Seconds later, a silent intruder entered the house. The uninvited guest slowly and silently crept over to and up the stairs. He passed right by Shadow's room, glancing in for a second at the sleeping hero. Then the intruder walked up to Amy's room. He walked in, stepped up to Amy's bed, pulled back the covers, and pulled out a little bottle and a cloth.

He carefully poured some of the bottle's contents onto the cloth and slowly lowered it onto the sleeping maiden's face. When her nose and the cloth made contact, Amy bolted awake and screamed a muffled scream as loud as she could, "Shadow!!!"

With that, she fainted to the effects of the chemicals and was carried silently through the open window.

Shadow's ears twitched at the muffled scream, and he flew awake. In mere milliseconds he was in her room before her bed. "What's wrong?"

"I had a bad dream." Answered someone from beneath the blankets. "It's nothing really. Sorry to wake you."

"It's no problem. Want me to stay in here and keep you company until you fall back asleep?"

"No thank you. Thanks for the offer though."

"Okay, good night then." Shadow said as he left back for his room and fell back asleep.

"Good night." The figure said as it sat up to reveal itself. It was the Metal Amy.

The next morning, she awoke and went downstairs. Good, the fool's not yet awake. She quickly wrote him a note and left the house.

Later, Shadow awoke and also went downstairs, only to find a note on the kitchen table.

Dear Shadow,
I'm going over to Sonic's for a while. If you wanna, you can meet me there. See ya'!
-Amy

"Okay then. I'll just make myself some breakfast and head over there." In seconds he was out the door and heading down the street. When he arrived, he found "Amy" kissing Sonic. He felt his heart break, but he didn't shed any tears.

"What the-?! I doubt you have an excuse this time Amy!!" Shadow screamed in a rage.

"You're right! I don't. Except for the fact that I love Sonic. I just couldn't help but fall in love with him all over again." She then looked into Sonic's eyes and kissed him again. This whole time, Sonic was just standing there, he looked a little worried, but didn't say anything in the long run. Sonic was just standing there, frozen in a state of shock, almost like a deer looking into car headlights. Amy had pinned him against the wall forcefully, and Sonic certainly wasn't returning the kisses. He was like a mannequin that could blink every once in a while. Shadow was in a rage. He just left the building and ran, really fast, really far; hoping to outrun the pain he felt in his heart.

"Wait, Shadow!! It isn't what it looks like!!!" Sonic yelled as he recovered from the shock.

"Don't worry Sonic, it's just us now.." Amy said.

"Am I the only one that sees that as a bad thing?" Sonic retorted.

***

Run, just run, if I run, it'll be as if nothing ever happened. If I run away, everything will return to normal. Everything's fine, just keep running... Shadow thought as he ran. Wait, maybe if I defeat Sonic, Amy will come back to me. If I show her that I'm better, If I prove myself, maybe... With that last thought, Shadow stopped running. Then he slowly turned around, and ran all the way back to Sonic's house.

When he arrived, Sonic was once again under Amy's power, literally. He was sitting on the couch and she was sitting on his lap, arms around his neck.

"Thank god you're back Shadow-" Sonic began.

"I know. I'm gonna settle this once and for all, faker." Shadow replied.

"What do you mean? You gotta-" Sonic asked.

"Oh, you'll find out soon enough." Shadow replied as he threw a punch at Sonic so hard that he was sent straight through the back of the couch and into the wall.

Amy had gotten up just in time and left the house to leave Shadow and Sonic to their brawl.

***

"YES!!" Eggman screamed. "My plan's finally working! At this rate, Sonic won't live past tonight!! Haha!!" He was overjoyed. In the meantime, a crying figure sat tied up in rope next to him.

Silent tears fell from the damsel's face as she watched the fight on the monitors. It was the real Amy. She was not only crying for her crush and her love, but for herself. She felt so bad she had to let them go through this. She felt even worse that she was once again captured; that she was once again the tool. She would always be seen as the weakest link, always be captured. She always felt weak and powerless. Like Shadow and so many others, she hated that feeling. Why couldn't for once, she be the hero? She be the savior of another? But it was but a mere dream, especially now. The two most beloved people in her life were about to die at each others hands and it was all her fault. There was nothing she could do.

"Doctor." Metal Amy called as she entered the main control room through the double doors behind Eggman. "Everything went according to plan." Still observing the brawl, Amy noticed that Sonic wasn't fighting back; it was then that she finally understood what Eggman was planning to do.

"And according to plan, after Sonic's dead and out of the way, what are you going to do?" Eggman giddily asked, full of anticipation.

"Destroy the Ultimate Life."