"We have to do something! We need to get her to a hospital!"

"That won't do any good." said the elderly Sonic. "This is a whole new kind of venom, luckily I brought the…"

He suddenly realized that he wasn't wearing anything on his back.

"Where's my backpack!?!"

"You left it back at the manor." said Cosmo.

"KEEP AMY'S HEART BEATING!"

Without saying another word he ran off.

Sonic's older self ran back to the manor as fast as he could, taking out some of the venomous half formed snakes on the way. He was still fatigued from running from the snake but he shook it off. He didn't stop running until he reached the manor and found his backpack on the stairs.

"Please be in here!"

He searched through the contents of his backpack until he found the plastic box with the vile inside that contained the clear glowing liquid.

"YES!!!"

He took his backpack and started running back to the place where the others were. He was just about there when suddenly he felt a sharp jolt of pain pumping in his chest, and his vision started flashing red.

"NO! NOT NOW! PLEASE NOT NOW!!!" he thought "Got to fight it… Must reach… Amy… my heart."

Sonic and the others saw him stumble and fall to the ground.

"I think he's having a heart attack!" exclaimed Tails.

"Forget me! The… The antidote!"

Sonic saw the glass vial that his older self had accidentally dropped, it was rolling away, Sonic ran as fast as he could, but before he could reached the vial it fell over a cliff and shattered on the ground below. He ran back to his older self who was having convulsions.

"Please tell me you have more!"

"Na… No… but… listen to me…"

He unstrapped his time-watch and held it up to Sonic.

"Go… back… into… the past… take my… my… journals… they… will… tell… tell… you the antidote… Take… Cosmo… with you."

Sonic took the time-watch and the backpack full of his older self's journals.

"Why take Cosmo?"

"You'll… need her…"

Sonic's older self looked at Helen and Tails trying to keep Amy's heart beating while Chris and Knuckles kept trying to fight off the baby snakes.

"Don't let her go… don't ever… let her go… cherish her… always… always… all…" but he couldn't finish.

Cosmo felt his forehead.

"He's dead…"

"Then we can't let his sacrifice be in vain… Guys, keep her alive! Cosmo and I are going to get more of the antidote!"

Sonic and Cosmo both held onto the time watch and Sonic set the time he wanted them to go to. He then pressed the main button and they disappeared in a bright flash of light.

Chris and the others had to pull back because the snakes were coming too fast. Meanwhile Helen and Tails kept trying to keep Amy's heart beating.

"Come on Amy, stay with me."

They could tell Amy was fighting it with all her might, but she was losing.

"Sonic…" she said weakly.

Amy wasn't aware that Sonic was no longer there beside her.

"Sonic… don't leave me… please don't… leave me."

"It's okay Amy; you're going to be fine."

"Sonic… Sonic… Please don't leave me… Please don't leave me… I want to be with you… only you… forever…"

"Just hold on Amy, please!"

"Sonic… I love… I love… I… love… you…"

"Quick! Someone perform CPR!" exclaimed Tails.

In the next couple minutes there was a bright flash of light, Sonic and Cosmo had returned, but they weren't alone.

"RAAARRREUGH!!!"

"KIEYOOOO!!!"

"It's Godzilla Junior and Crystal!"

Using her telepathy Cosmo asked the son of Godzilla and his mate to help them defeat the snake creatures; they agreed and started blasting the snakes into submission.

(Confused about the son of Godzilla having a mate? Read all bout in my fanfic the Monster Island Adventure if you haven't already)

"We got the antidote!" said Sonic "How is she?!"

"She gave us a bad moment but she's still breathing…"

"Then let's not delay… The poison could have spread by now… we'll have to inject it in several places."

They took the glowing clear vial that Sonic and Cosmo had brought with them and injected the contents first into Amy's arm that had been bitten, then into her chest, and anywhere else they thought it might be necessary.

"Now the hard part… we wait."

In no time at all Junior and Crystal had dealt with the rest of the snake creatures. Meanwhile Sonic and the others were all huddled around Amy.

"Come on Amy… Come on… I need you to pull through… for me."

Suddenly Sonic noticed something.

"The time-watch, it's gone!"

Instantly the books and the backpack in Cosmo's hands also disappeared. They all turned around and saw the body of Sonic's older self disappear as well.

"He's gone… That means we did it! She's going to be okay!"

Amy still hadn't woken up by the time they got back to the manor. Sonic sat next to her bed waiting for her to wake up.

"What was the antidote?" asked Tails.

"Crystal's blood." replied Cosmo.

"Excuse me?"

"That snake was a chaos mutant, like the ones Dr. Eggman used to fight us on Monster Island; it swallowed a Chaos Emerald just like Crystal. Sonic's older self had discovered that since Crystal was also a Chaos Mutant her blood had the antibodies that could eradicate the snake's venom."

"Wait a minute, you said it swallowed one of the Chaos Emeralds?" asked Knuckles "Then we better go and get it."

"Yes, but… we'll do it ourselves. I think we should leave Sonic alone right now."

"Wait a minute… Something's not right." said Cream.

"What?" asked Cosmo.

"Well, Sonic's older self came back in time and helped us save Amy, but then that means Sonic wouldn't have to come up with a way to travel through time so he could come back and save her, so as a result he wouldn't come back to save her, she would die and he would have to come find a way to travel through time and try and save her, and if he ceased to exist then why do we still remember him?"

"Chow?"

That was actually a very good question, but no one knew the answer to it.

"It's best not to think about it, those kinds of questions only hurt your brain." said Chris.

Sonic just sat in there waiting for Amy to wake up. His older self was right; he didn't know what he had until he almost lost it. Now he knew what he had to do, but he wasn't sure he'd be able to do it. Suddenly he realized he still had the golden amulet his older self had given him. Almost all day he made jokes at his elder self's expense; it wasn't until now that he realized that he was right about everything.

"Come on, talk to me." he said looking at the amulet.

"Listen up hot shot."

"Agh!"

Sonic saw his older self's face in the amulet's jewels.

"Just be brave and admit it to her, it will only hurt your pride for a moment. You can do it, I believe in you… Bye-bye."

"Okay…"

It was late into the night when Amy started to stir, so Sonic gathered up all his courage, to be honest he'd much rather be fighting Gigex the Impaler again then do what he was about to do.

"Sonic… Sonic…"

"It's okay Amy… I'm here."

For a second Amy started to cry, then she sat up and hugged him tightly.

"OH SONIC! I JUST KNEW YOU'D SAVE ME!"

"Did you think I was just going to let you die?"

Amy didn't stop crying.

"It's okay Amy… It's over."

"Yes… but… I almost gave in… I almost died! I didn't know how long I could fight the venom… The only thing that kept me fighting… was you… I kept thinking about you… because I love you… I want to have a future with you… I want marry you and have kids with you someday… I love you!"

Amy hugged him tighter and cried even harder against him. It wasn't desire at all, it was need, acute and to the point of pain.

"Please… Please Sonic… Just tell me you love me… tell me you love me as much as I love you."

Sonic had said it before, but he was just being nice, this time he knew he had to mean it. He kissed Amy on the cheek and showed her the amulet.

"I love you Amy Rose, and I'm going to make all your dreams come true."

(The End)