The multiverse is vast, endless and filled with unknown mysteries. Most people live in ignorance, in their own bubble, never breaking out of it because why would they? They are comfortable with the way things are. However, there are some that are curious and those that are, no matter what universe (if they are filled with life), are always a hedgehog, a fox &/or a rabbit, echidna &/or a bat. Another trait in these universes is that the main hero is always a male hedgehog and the villain is always an egg-shaped man, though there are times that the hedgehog(s) might also be a villain.

However strangely enough, in this particular universe, the hero is a female hedgehog…

Prologue

She ran lightning-fast, breaking through sound barriers as she evaded the incoming attacks from her assailant. Glancing downwards, she bit her lower lip, knowing that at the height she was, she'd turn into paste the moment she touched the ground. Facing ahead, she chose to ignore that she was traveling on a narrow path, with a metallic copy of herself chasing after her.

Faster…have to go faster!

She was startled when she heard an explosion behind her, causing several upcoming white tiles to suddenly crumble. Jade eyes sharpening with determination, she utilized her momentum to propel her past the obstacle, the harsh wind caressing her pink ponytail while she was airborne. Guiding herself into a flip, she felt the pintsize version of Earth rumble, quake fiercely as the Little Planet started to change, the strong metallic aroma making her feel dizzy.

Darn it!

Her mind fleetingly drifted to a pair of pleading eyes that were so much like her own.

I failed you, even when I promised you that I wouldn't…

Tears sprinkled from the lids of her eyes, obscuring her vision, making the world a blur. She hurriedly brushed her tears to clear her sight, knowing that now was not the time to mourn as she closed in on one of the steel chains that strapped the Little Planet to the mountains on Earth, to keep it from vanishing for a year.

Al-almost there…

She gasped, her feet coming to a screeching halt as sharp metallic claws nearly tore her to shreds. Face to face with menacing crimson orbs, she jumped above her copy, planting her hands onto its head before springing off of it. Landing onto the massive chain, she continued making her way down. Shaking in excitement at the mere thought of landing on earth soil, she did not realize the pair of red orbs targeting her, glistening with orange energy.

Her eyes whited, shock written on her face when two energy beams slammed against the left side of her ribs, tearing straight through her green shirt, sending her tumbling over the giant chain and into the deep woodsy forest tearing small branches of thick tree barks.

Her assailant heading down to eliminate its target, it froze when it heard a voice from within, commanding it to return to its master immediately. Turning around, it instantly saved its objective before moving onto its new one.

Down below and shielded by vivid tall strains of grass and smashed twigs, the pink hedgehog wheezed heavily with each breath she took, her face wrinkled in pain from the metal hedgehog's surprise attack.

I need to get up…have to tell the others…

Lifting herself so that she was resting on her elbows, she cried out when she tried to stand, falling flat on her back from the needle-sharp pain that burst from her ribs.

Let me take a quick break…then I'll be up…and…about-

As her body slackened, her world falling into darkness, the metallic particles that sprinkled from the greying Little Planet kissed the ground, filling the air with the scent of copper.

A SPLASH OF PINK PAINT

Jewel eyes watched her friend, a rabbit with thick brown hair cascading between two large sets of ears, pacing to and fro with worry. Fidgeting with her neckless, the Master Emerald, the bat frowned. She was concerned about their hedgehog friend also, but walking around like a lost puppy would do them no good.

"I'm going out there to look for her," the rabbit said, running a hand through the tuff of brown hair hanging down her forehead.

"Absolutely not," her friend replied firmly, standing and crossing her arms.

"But what if they are hurt, Rouge?" she wrung her hands together, randomly picking up and placing down an empty mug that she had used in the morning.

"Ames is tough, V, She'll pull through and be back soon." She reassured for the rabbit's sake.

"But what if she doesn't get-"

The front door swung open, slamming against the wall roughly, startling the two. In stumbled the pink hedgehog, her face twisted in discomfort as heavy throaty pants escaped her lungs. Her left hand, which was tightly pressed against her injured rib, went limp, revealing a blood-soaked orange cloth. It was wrapped around her body and knotted together to stop the blood flow.

"Amy!"

"V-Vanilla…"

The pink hedgehog's quivering legs gave out, causing her to fall straight down. Fortunately, Rouge had hurriedly leaped to her rescue, catching her within her arms as her knees reached the floor.

Fleetingly examining her injury, the bat grimaced. She wasn't a doctor, but she didn't have to be to tell that a nasty bruise had developed, circling the mild gash. Carrying the hedgehog to the couch, she carefully put her down sideways, so that she could take a closer examination of the wound. Clutching the orange bloody cloth that was knotted around her gash, she unknotted it and slowly tugged it from her in one swift motion. Exchanging looks with the damp cloth and her torn skirt, she smiled sadly.

"How is she?"

Stepping back, Vanilla dropped to Amy's side, with a medical kit in hand. Opening it, the metal casing creaking because of overused, she plucked out the materials needed to treat her friend's wound.

Sitting down on the wooden table behind her, Rouge removed her purple fedora hat and began to toy with it, spinning it in small circles.

"You weren't able to save him, huh…" the bat asked.

"I almost did." Amy shivered at the burning yet cooling ointment when it was smeared on the injury by the rabbit, who mumbled an apology. "But Robotnik had let loose this metal version of me."

"So he created Metal Amy," Vanilla said, carefully sticking a wide pink Band-Aid with tiny hearts sprinkled on it.

Rouge's eyes widened, halting the spinning motion of her hat. "Man, he must be obsessed with you."

Briefly staring at the Band-Aid and noticing the decoration on it, Amy gave the rabbit a look.

Vanilla smiled sheepishly. "They are the only kinds I have."

Not bothering to respond, Amy sat up. "That's not all. He also released the metal virus and it's slowly transforming everything it touches to metal."

As Vanilla gathered the first-aid supplies and put them back in the case, Rouge dropped the hat onto her head, making sure her ears popped through the opening before jumping to her feet.

"So, what's our next move?" Rouge asked, tapping her footing anxiously, the rabbit standing upright and rushing to shelve the aid-kit.

Amy's ears flattened, her shoulders sagging down. "I don't know anymore. If I hadn't forgotten to bring the Time Stone that are here with me, I could have probably gotten ahold of the five he has and use them to travel back in time and prevent him from unleashing the virus," Tightening her fist in anger, she swore silently. "But now-now I don't think that's possible…"

Rouge tilted her head and frowned. She's never seen the hedgehog look so…defeated in her life.

"Yes, it is. I can easily sneak inside while you distract that overweight blob and his stupid robot-"

Amy shook her head. "No, you don't understand. This thing that he created, it's highly intelligent. It isn't as fast as me, but if I make a tiny mistake, it will have no problem closing the gap between us. That and the power behind its attack are powerful."

The bat rolled her eyes. "But as I said, I can sneak-"

"There is no sneaking past it." Interjected Amy. "Believe me. I hid when I realized I couldn't beat it, but it found me rather quickly."

The bat waved her hand in dismissal. "You aren't me Ames. I can do it," she said with confidence.

"No."

"You can't stop me, you know."

"I know…but please just trust me on this."

Seeing her pleading look, she huffed in defeat, causing the hedgehog to smile. Rouge hated it when she gave her that look. It always made her feel uncomfortable and guilty if she didn't do as she asked. Vanilla was cute, but Amy had this adorable charm that easily won people over.

Those thoughts usually lead to the hedgehog that was currently a prisoner of Robotnik, Sonic. He has a thing for the pink blur, but unfortunately, Amy doesn't see him that way. She just sees him as a best friend because he was the first friend she had ever made (back then she and V were obviously not in the picture). When she isn't running to her heart's content and saving people, he was the guy she slowed down to hang out with. One would actually think that they were dating when they were seen enjoying each other's company, eating ice cream, and taking in the scenery of Twinkle Park. Rouge smiled when she recalled that time that a newspaper was released, with the two of them sitting on a bench and Amy leaning her head on his shoulder, the title reading 'Has SonAmy finally become a reality?'

Needless to say, the pink hedgehog didn't like that and since that day, the hedgehogs were never seen together again in the public's eyes.

While Sonic took this badly, Amy didn't seem fazed at all…but then again, she sure knows how to put on a mean poker face.

Then the day came. The day that everything changed.

Through encouragement from her and V, Sonic finally admitted to Amy that he loved her and wanted to take her out on a date.

Imagine to their dismay when Sonic came back in tears, heartbroken. He told them how confessing his love for her had been an awful idea. He said when he confessed, she had backed away from him like she had been slapped. A look of disgust had appeared across her face as she told him that she had thought he was different, whatever that meant. After that, she hightailed it out of there, disappearing for a few days.

When she returned, she acted...normal, like nothing had happened, like Sonic hadn't presented his heart to her, only to have her shatter it into pieces. This pissed her and V off because every time the two of them tried to bring it up, she evaded the subject, using excuses such as asking anyone if they wanted something to eat or saying that it was time for her to patrol the city in case criminals start causing trouble.

Eventually, Amy got what she wanted and the whole event was put behind them. The sad part of this was that while she herself and the rabbit had put effort to get the pink hedgehog to talk about what had happened, Sonic had put none. He was a coward. If he truly wanted her, he would have tried harder….

Rouge jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah. What's up?"

Amy nodded, not wanting to hassle her for something that probably wasn't important. "Vanilla wants us to meet her in her workshop, downstairs."

"What for?"

"She has an idea for our next move, I guess," Amy said, walking towards the rabbit's workshop.

"Right."

"Well, I was thinking...since Robotnik has five Time Stones, which are heavy guarded by your metal copy AND has released that metal virus that's slowly spreading, you know, turning everything it touches metallic, why don't we try traveling to another universe-"

"Awww man! Not again with this multiverse crap!"

"You haven't heard me out!" Vanilla cut in before her friend blew her off. "It's to find another set of stones or at least five so you can try to use it with the one here and go back in time and stop this from happening!"

Amy scoffed, "Don't want to hear! It's nonsense. Time travel might-"

"Universe travel," The rabbit corrected cheekily, one of her fingers tracing circles on the messily handwritten schematic.

"Whatever V," Seeing a bag of opened gummy bears, Amy grabbed some and popped them inside her mouth, savoring the soft and juicy goodness. "It can't be done," she said with finality.

Scurrying to one of her many cabinets next to her work desk, Vanilla pressed on. "That's what you said about time travel and you were able to do that-"

"On Little Planet. V, we don't know if it's possible to time travel while on Earth with the stones anyways. It might just be a Little Planet thing! I mean that is where they originated from."

Just then a dreadful thought flashed within her mind. What if the doctor himself had fallen victim to his own virus? After all, this wouldn't be the first time one of his evil schemes has backfired on him. Then that would mean Sonic will have too…she quickly shook those awful thoughts away, reassuring herself that he was fine.

Besides, knowing Robotnik, he had probably built something to protect himself from the virus. He was likely expecting her to attack again, so she knew he was going to keep Sonic alive to use him as bait. Fat Bastard!

Snapping back to the present, Amy lifted a brow as she witnessed the rabbit tossing gadgets of assorted types left and right, her loose blue jeans hanging low and held by her waist.

"What are you looking for?"

"I know I put it somewhere…" She muttered, her face buried deep in the wooden cabinet.

Then something was flung from the rabbit's hand and it landed on her work desk with a loud clank!

Rouge did a double-take when she saw the object on the table while Amy turned pale.

The bat smirked mischievously. "Stressed much, V?"

"Wha-why do you have that here, of all places?!" Amy stuttered.

The rabbit, still having her back turned and digging into her cabinet, froze. Shooting back up, she spun around and right on her table see saw-

Letting loose a high pitch squeak, Vanilla dived for the object, swiped it from the counter, and chucked it back into her cabinet.

"You both saw nothing! Absolutely nothing! Are we clear?!" The rabbit was giving her friends a death glare, daring them to protest and push the subject, but the death in the glare was lost because of her fully flushed cheeks and overall mortified expression.

Thankfully, her friends listened, however, Rouge's sly upturn lips did not.

"Anyways…OH! Here it is!" Vanilla beamed, plucking the wristwatch device and displaying it to the bat and hedgehog.

Amy tilted her head. "A watch?"

"Not just a watch! It's a special one! It's what I call, the Personal Multiverse Time Stone watch or for short, PMS watch!" The rabbit exclaimed, her brown eyes practically glowing as she held out her latest invention proudly.

When Rouge choked back a laugh and Amy face-palmed, Vanilla looked at them confusingly.

"What's wrong?" the rabbit asked, feeling that she was the butt of jokes. She's been frequently told that she was naïve, easily fooled, and slow despite her genius mind. Hopefully, none of those flaws were being shown at this moment.

"Well, uhh, the name…I th-think you s-should add a T-"

"Ames, please let me have this!"

Amy's face fell in disapproval when she saw the bat shaking with glee. Sighing in disbelief, she let her have it; Rouge mentally shouted victoriously. It is kinda funny… in an endearing manner of course…

Coughing to get rid of the giggles, Rouge gestured Vanilla to continue with her little show and tell.

"Okay… so for a while now I've been trying to reverse engineer a Time Stone in order to replicate it." She started, sliding over the deep blue Time Stone for her friends to see. "Once I figured out how it worked, which I'm not going to bother to explain as you two have the attention span of a fruit fly, I started my trial runs and found-"

"Rouge you wanna get something to eat? All that running has made me famished."

The bat nodded. "Sure, why not."

"Okay okay! I'm sorry!" Vanilla blurted out, preventing them from leaving. The rabbit had a bad habit of demeaning those that are not as smart as her when it came to her field of study.

Good thing she had friends that would set her straight when necessary.

"As I was saying during my trial runs, the duplicate stones I created was just that; copies…but only in appearance. I was unable to make my own Time Stone energy, so I decided to drop that idea and settle for utilizing some of the real stone's power and transfer it into the duplicate. It was a success and I needn't be concerned about harming the real stone as its power naturally restores over time. With the collected energy now within my possession, I crafted a smaller version of the stone and placed it in this watch!"

"You know, you could have just said you transferred some of the Time Stone's energy into that watch," Amy said, walking closer to the rabbit to analyze the watch. On the top of the screen, in green font, the word 'Universe' was in display; below it, the number zero. Looks simple enough…

Ignoring her snarky remark, Vanilla strapped the watch on her own left wrist. "This is how it works; each of these numbers represents a universe." With a swipe of her index finger, the zero turned into a one and with another swipe, a two and so on.

"Once you select a universe digit, you just press the button on the side here." She tapped it but didn't dare press it. "And you should become surrounded by Time Stone energy and that will cause your body to match the frequency of the targeted destination."

While Rouge seemed impressed, Amy remained skeptical.

"So I just push this button and poof, I'm gone? To God knows where? This obviously hasn't been tested!"

Vanilla's shoulders sagged. "I-I you're right…but I don't know what else we can do then! We are running out of time! I mean, how long will it take for that virus to cover the planet?!"

"Hell, how long will it take to reach where we are now!? I don't want to become a robot slave for that monster!" Rouge added, worriedly.

"See! We are screwed if we don't do anything, either way, Amy!"

Staring at the watch with contempt, she made up her mind. Turning into a blur, she left an afterimage of herself behind, returning with a fresh set of new clothes, and her hair spiked loose instead of her usual ponytail.

"Let's go outside."

"Okay V, run this back for me again? How exactly does this work? Do I just press the button and I'm gone?"

"Well in theory, once you have chosen your destination, you do as you do on Little Planet."

"So I run as fast as I can," Vanilla nodded. "Do you really think I can travel anywhere with Time Stone energy even though I'm not on Little Planet? Also, did it ever cross your mind that I might need all six Time Stones to travel? Here, you are giving me less than a quarter of one and it's a fake."

Tilting her head thoughtfully, she responded. "Well, I did tinker with the frequency of the watch's artificial Time Stone so that it matches with that of Earth's, so in theory, it should work here. And to your other question…I may or may not have chipped and melted a tiny piece of the Chaos Emerald shard and put it inside the watch…"

"Vanilla…" If looks could kill… "For someone so damn smart…how can you be so irresponsible?! There is no more, V! We have Emeralds in a box downstairs that are as useless as rocks and you decide that using the last useful shard for this bullshit experiment was a good idea?! And what's worse, you didn't bother to tell me about it!" she said, causing Vanilla to lower her head like a child would when scolded.

"Because I knew you'd react this way…"

"Duh!"

"Sorry! It's just that since a single Chaos Emerald is hundreds of times stronger than a Time Stone, I figured I could use a tiny piece to supercharge it. And yes I know combining the two is a horrible idea, but…it-it was just an itty-bitty piece! I promise!"

Having nothing else to say, she let the rabbit continue.

"This watch is a very early prototype by the way and well, this whole situation is hypothetical. In fact, I don't have the slightest clue how many universes there are! As of today, I could only gather enough information on twenty-six different frequencies outside of this dimension!"

"So that's twenty-seven universes when you include ours."

"Twenty-seven including ours, twenty-six we can travel to…wait…actually twenty-four. Twenty-five and twenty-seven are likely uninhabitable because they give off highly toxic Chaos energy readings."

"What's our universe?"

"Twenty-six."

Amy winced. "It makes me feel uncomfortable that we are sandwiched between toxic universes."

"I agree, but remember they aren't our neighbors exactly. Like you know, across the street or anything. They can't clash with us because…you don't want to hear my scientific explanation, huh?"

"Bingo! All I need to know is that we are safe."

Mentally preparing herself for what was to come, she was about to ask for the watch, but then Rouge decided to drop from the top of Vanilla's home/workshop, getting their attention. She had been keeping an eye out for the virus if it happened to be making its way here.

The panicked expression written on her face revealed that it was doing just that.

"Guys! It's coming! And it's consuming everything it touches, fast!"

Shaking in her shoes, the rabbit did a 'shooing' motion at Amy with her hands, gesturing her to run while staring at the gooey metallic substance swallowing the forest trees whole, transforming it into grey smooth iron.

Without a second thought, Amy took off, causing the rabbit's eyes to widen in shock as she had been snagged along with her.

"Amy, I'll just slow you d-"

"Shut up!"

Clutching onto her friend's back as tightly as she could, she dared to take a glance behind her and what she saw was unbelievably horrifying. She watched as Rouge had taken flight, only to have the metal gooey substance actually leap onto her! Her facial expression warping into that of agony, her beautiful jewel eyes went half-lidded, turning into the soulless color of red, which signified her acceptance.

"Oh God, R-Rouge! It leaped Amy! It freaking leaped!" she mourned, tears spilling from her orbs and scattering into the wind.

"Focus V! I don't have the watch! You still do, so activate it!"

"I-I'm n-not sure w-where we should go!"

"Just freaking chose one! I'm still injured, remember!?"

Feeling movement from her back, Amy coughed, causing her to lose her footing, nearly spiraling out of control.

Amy gasped, screeching to a halt when she suddenly found herself encircled by the virus.

They were trapped.

Vanillin shrieked in fear. "Oh no! We're freaking freaked!"

Looking at the virus, which had for unknown reasons slowed down its momentum, she tilted her head questionably. It's waiting for me to make a move…why? The pink blur faintly bent her legs, fisted her right hand against her waist, and leisurely raised her left hand upward, palm faced up.

"A-Amy…I don't think that's gonna work here!"

Without warning, the goo rose like a tidal wave, forming an ominous shadow above its prey. The virus didn't hesitation in crashing onto them this time, consuming the two and silencing Vanilla's screams.

All was quiet.

…

A bubble suddenly rose, flourishing like a new budding flower, converting the grey matter into light green Chaos energy.

Out came Amy, bursting from within the deadly liquid, the potent coppery scent in the air making the both of them gag.

Vanilla blinked in confusion as Amy touched the ground beyond the infected area and continued running to build up the speed she had lost.

"How did you know?"

"I didn't."

"Maybe-"

"Oh for the love of God, select a universe, V! I'm hurt and tired!" Amy whined, the pain in her ribs worsening.

"Right!"

Hurriedly flicking through the universe numbers, Vanilla decided to go with 7. Expecting the worse, she closed her eyes, pushed the start button and…

Nothing happened.

Opening a single orb to examine what went wrong, she cursed when she saw an icon of a red circle in the middle, spinning in a brisk continuous loop. Clicking on the icon, the number zero popped on the screen along with a percent sign. Below that, in small letters, the word 'diagnostics…' appeared.

"I heard you swear! You never swear! Why did you swear!?" Amy asked with concern, making a sharp right turn.

"An error of some type occurred! It's currently running diagnostics!"

Amy jumped and made a sharp turn to the left when she saw the metal goo attempt a surprise ambush from a crater she nearly stepped on. This thing is clever! I have to remain vigilant or it will gobble us up for real this time. I doubt I have enough power to pull that technique off again…

"How long will that take?!"

"Well, right now it's at 19%."

"Okay…look, up to this point, I haven't been using my maximum speed because I have you with me-"

"You should have left me!"

"You have the watch, V!" Amy bit her lower lip when various small sharp objects, most likely rocks and twigs of all sorts, constantly skinned her kneecaps. "Anyways, the reason why I didn't was because I was afraid you would fall off, but considering what we are dealing with, we are short on options. I'm going to go as fast as I can! As long as you hold onto me as tight as possible, without choking me of course, you shouldn't fall off."

"A-are you sure? What if I do?"

"You better pray to God that I somehow catch you."

"Oh gosh! Go! It's catching up to us!" Vanilla screamed, making her friend flinch.

"Quit blowing my ear off and stay quiet so I can concentrate!"

"Sorry!"

As the rabbit hid her face in the nape of her friend's soft quills to protect it from the brutal wind turbulence, an aura of pink energy enveloped Amy as she propelled forward, sending a thrill of exhilaration up and down her spine; the excitement declined when fear and a sense of urgency came to the surface.

Amy loved running. She loved how the breeze felt against her hair as she blows past urban areas, forests, and smooth landscapes. She loved how water droplets splashed on to her when her cycling feet touched oceans, cooling her off after having run through high dry areas such as the desert. However, running from danger? No. She abhorred it. It removed the joy out of it, as she's constantly worried about the impending danger that lurks about, in this case, a virus which was devouring the planet at an accelerated rate.

Vanilla muffled a shriek as Amy boosted up a mountain, shooting into the air and past its peak, the sudden freezing wind causing the rabbit to shiver; the heat that Amy's body produced while running was more than enough to keep her warm in cold temperatures.

Amy used her Power Stomp move, smashing through ice on the mountainside with a satisfying crack, eluding the virus which had lunged towards her at all sides. Taking off immediately after landing, her feet kicked up snow as she maneuvered from sharp icicles plummeting from the roof of the cave, the pink blur hissing in pain when tiny ice fragments had managed to nick her arms. Darn injury is slowing me down!

Green eyes went wide when she saw the metal virus slowly seeping through practically every crevasse of the mountain. It's trying to corner us again!

Sliding down an ice ramp, she contracted her leg muscles before she boosted off the slope, planning to take out the rocky wall in front of her in order to escape. With a wave of her hand, pink spears of Chaos energy flew from her fingertips, crashing into the wall harshly, hopefully softening it enough for her to blast right through it. She cried out with joy when she downright wrecked the wall, leaving the cave seconds before the goo converted the entire mountain into steel, the powerful rays of sunlight reflecting off its surface brightly.

"C-c-c-cold! S-so cold!"

Looking to where she was landing, Amy responded. "Well, it's gonna get hot!"

"Please don't say lava!" Vanilla knew these areas have two or three active volcanoes.

Amy grimaced as she watched the virus smother the volcanoes and its lava rivers, turning them into metal while airborne, the intoxicating iron smell making her head briefly spin.

"Thankfully, no. Those are gone now because of the virus! We're heading into the desert! By the way, how far is it now?!"

"45%!"

"Damn it!"

"Sorry!"

Dry and hot wind slammed into Amy's face when she reached the ground, the sand kicking upwards as she resumed running at top speed. With a powerful burst of speed, she blasted forwards and in seconds, she was going at the speed of four-hundred miles per hour.

Amy didn't even have to look behind her to know that the goo was gaining in on her. What the hell!? I'm the fasting thing alive!

Narrowing her eyes, they became a radiant pink as she was determined to prove nothing can outrun her.

Boom!

Amy burst forwards, severing the distance between her and the virus, her heart pumping boiling blood the faster she went. She gasped when the goo swarmed around her, intending to engulf them both. Planting a hand on the sand filled ground, the pink blur drifted to the right, barely dodging the virus.

"65%!" Vanilla cried out, hating that she couldn't smash her palms against her ears. How can Amy tolerate this? I feel like I'm going to go deaf and…oh I feel a little dizzy! Hehe!

Squinting, Amy saw that they were approaching the ocean.

Boom!

Now going at five-hundred-sixty miles per hour, Amy reached the ocean, the fresh cool water splashing about in torrents, drenching their skirt, pants, and shoes.

"Amy…"

"Yeah?!" Amy shuddered when she felt Vanilla's nose nuzzle the nape of her neck and…did she just sniff me?

"What's your shampoo? Your hair smells good!" She giggles, sighing as her arms loosened. Thankfully when she realized she was slipping off, she griped Amy firmly again.

Aw shit, she's getting delirious! All of these weather and scent changes are screwing with her. If I keep this up, I'll kill her! I can't go faster than sound with her!

"Talk to me Vanilla!" Amy frowned when the virus reached the ocean. It seemed that the virus travels quicker on water because it had no problem catching up with her again.

"85%..."

Almost there

Craning her neck to the left, her mouth dropped in horror when she saw that she was approaching Empire City. All those people…I'm not going to be able to save any of them! Shit!

She could already hear the screams of panic and she had yet to reach the city!

"Amy…it hurts…my ears and head hurt…" the rabbit whimpered.

Hearing Vanilla say that with such pain tore at her heart so much, that she had no choice but to slow down or she would risk giving her friend permanent damage.

"Okay V, I'm going to slow down!"

"No…please don't."

"But you're hurting!"

Vanilla moaned. "I know but…wait…I just remembered something…"

Hearing a soft click, a calming tune hummed into her ears. She then felt a barrier encase her and hopefully, Vanilla.

"Ahhh much better!"

"What did you do?"

"Don't be mad! I forgot that I had incorporated a feature on the watch that allows the user to form a barrier around themselves with a push of a button! It's to protect you from high-speed travels and injuries from battles!"

Amy rolled her eyes. "Only you, V. I can break sound speeds and feel fine, but the battle protection thing is good."

"Remember, it's just a-"

"Prototype!" She cut in, trying to mimic her friend's voice. "So I can go faster?!"

"Knock yourself out! Just don't go beyond sound speed-"

BOOM!

Now going at six-hundred-seventy miles per hour, just a hundred miles short of breaking sound, the metal virus didn't have a chance in catching them.

Vanilla hurriedly used Amy's hair as cover.

Jumping over cars, drifting left and right to avoid the incoming ones, and sliding under trunks were the small dangers that she was confident that she could overcome. The pink blur shattered windows as she ran up a tall skyscraper, before Power Stomping into an office. As the metal virus turned everyone in the office into soulless metal versions of themselves, she boosted out of the building and broke into another, drifting to the right when she landed in the room, evading the goo as it sprung at her. Leaping from the building, she ran downwards until she touched the ground, bursting forwards until she made it out of the city, which was surely now filled with nothing but robotized people.

"V?!"

"100%"

Amy gave a beaming smile. "Great! Push the freaking button so we can get out of here!"

"Got it!"

And she did.

Amy was immediately shinning in blue Time Stone energy, causing currents of electricity to spark from the hedgehog's feet. Amy needn't be told that this was it, it had worked. She knew too well how it felt to use the Time Stone's power. However, because it was laced with Chaos energy…oh boy…

"Hold on, V!"

BOOOOMM!

A supersonic boom reverberated in the air as the pink blur exploded onwards, shredding straight through the ground like it was paper and finally going beyond seven-hundred-seventy miles per an hour. As her speed increased, so did the pain in her ribs, however with pure will power backed up by the desire to save her planet, she pushed past it, ignoring her body's cries for rest, ignoring the tears that were threatening to spill because of her recent loss, ignoring the tears that wanted to roam free from her stress and worry of her best friend, who's currently being held prisoner at the doctor's base, which had attached itself against Little Planet akin to a parasite.

Bastard…

An unadulterated animalistic roar thundered from her lungs as a space ripple materialized from thin air, tearing open a giant hole ahead of them. Her scream never faltered as the space-time ripple widened, causing powerful winds and static to dance around the electromagnetic field it was producing.

Then, as a pink bolt of lightning struck her, they went inside it, vanishing completely.

A/N: So yeah, I have not written a Sonic story in a LONG time. I'm not sure this place is even that active, but I'll go for it.

This story is a very small spinoff off of my other story, The Other Me, WHICH YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ TO UNDERSTAND THIS (but why not read it? =) This plays with the idea of the multiverse/time travel, which I absolutely love. This is pretty much The Other Me 2: A Splash of Pink Paint. Why? The title sounds nice to me.

I do not plan to make this story long. In fact, I'm aiming for less than half of my other story's length; about 10 or less chapters.

Some Things:

1. The inspiration for this story came from the ongoing Sonic the Hedgehog 2018 comic. Right now, the team is dealing with the metal virus that Eggman had released on the planet. It's a fun read and very well drawn! Check it out. A quick google search can help you find where to read it if you are interested.

2. As of right now, Amy is indeed wearing her classic outfit from Sonic CD. Later on, she will get a different outfit, which everyone can see displayed on my fanfic's cover art. I did not draw ANY of that, but I did put it together to make it look nice. Also, the cover art gives you a rough idea on how the rest of the characters will look like.

Lastly...

Universe 26 Character Bio

Amy the Hedgehog

1. Age 19.

2. The fastest thing alive in U26.

3. Cocky, caring and has a hard time opening up to others.

Vanilla the Rabbit

1. Age 18.

2. One of the smartest people on planet Earth.

3. Is condescending, belittles others who aren't as intelligent as her (doesn't mean she isn't a nice person). However, she can be rather slow and naive, thus tends to be a bit of a pushover. She is also very unorganized and messy.

Rouge the Bat

1. Age 22.

2. Agile, a master at sneaking in and out of highly secure places undetected. She is also the guardian of the Master Emerald, which is a neckless in U26.

3. She has a sassy and mischievous personality. Her weakness? Lockpicks. She has kleptomania, even though she denies it (no, she did not steal the Master Emerald...right?).

I hope ya'll enjoyed this and excuses me for my spelling and grammar errors. I'm not the best at it, but I try.

(Update 6/30/20 - Combined the Prologue with the first chapter)

(Posted: 4/22/2020)

~Gater~