Fanfiction is property of Josh Kovatch, 2009.

Sonic and Amy

Best of Friends

Chapter 7 (Last chapter): Our First Adventure

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The two hedgehogs, their feelings declared or not, traveled from the end of Stardust Speedway, and were finally in Metallic Madness. Judging by the whirring machines and flickering and blinking lights everywhere, the two somehow knew Eggman was here.

"Wow, such a change!" Amy exclaimed, having seen only a little bit of the Little Planet.

"Yeah, there were such radical changes in scenery on the way here," Sonic commented.

Amy walked forward a little, looking around at the grandeur of the place, before turning back to Sonic and saying, "Well, let's get going! Eggman's sure to be here!"

Sonic smiled and nodded, and the two went forward to begin their first adventure. Immediately, they came to a chasm, with a platform hovering over it. Amy, not aware yet of how tricky this planet was, jumped up onto the platform, only to find it begin compressing itself from the sides.

"Uh oh!" Amy exclaimed, and Sonic called to her, "Amy! Stay in the center!"

Amy did so, scooting her feet as the ends of the platform came closer, until it completely collapsed itself into a small block.

"Sooonic..." Amy said fearfully, and Sonic told her, "Don't be afraid, Amy. It'll open up again."

But unfortunately, the platform opened up going vertically. Now, Amy was being lifted up into the air, and her fear was multiplying.

But before she freaked out, she said to herself, I've gotta be brave. Sonic was to get all the way here to save me. I have to be calm.

Amy took a deep breath as the platform reached the peak of its extension, and then began to retract again. Finally, as the platform stretched out horizontally again, Sonic jumped on and then jumped off on the other side with Amy.

"There, you see? As long as you stay calm like you did, you won't get hurt," Sonic told her caringly.

Amy smiled brightly, but then turned her attention to a roaring buzzing sound.

Immediately, the two hedgehogs turned to a robot with a huge buzzsaw advancing at them.

"WHOA!!" Sonic cried out, as the robot came close to taking out the blue hedgehog. However, his partner quickly beared her hammer and smashed the side of the robot's blade, breaking it and making the robot fall to the ground immobilized.

Amy turned to the blue hedgehog again, and teased, "Yeah, being calm is good. You should try it, Sonic."

Sonic scratched his head, a faint blush on his face, when Amy took Sonic's hand, and then placed a kiss on his cheek, saying, "Thanks Sonic."

Sonic turned to Amy and smiled, nodding, and the two continued on.

In the present, however, Sonic asked, "Did that really happen? I can't remember."

Amy, with a sly smile, replied, "Yep!"

Sonic looked at her and smiled, seeing her devious little grin, and she said, "OK, so I added that little extra part. Doesn't make it bad, right?"

Sonic brushed his face against hers, nuzzling her gently, and answered, "Nope."

Sonic then kissed her on the cheek and, amid a little blushing between the two of them, held each other to keep telling this final chapter.

Back in Metallic Madness, the two jumped down a few ledges and found some more danger: A few bowled out sections in the ground with spikes at the bottom.

Sonic thought for a moment, and then said, "Here, let me carry you."

Amy turned, a little shocked to hear this, but not about to refuse him.

"OK," She responded, her hammer disappearing, and Sonic picked her up, bridal style, as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Hold on, Amy. Here we go."

Sonic pressed his foot against the wall behind him, and, as Amy tightened her hold, Sonic pushed off the wall and rushed over the gaps, going so fast that it never seemed like they went over the gaps.

On the other side of the spike bowls, Sonic put Amy down gently and looked back with her at the bowls.

"Sonic, that was amazing!"

Sonic smiled, scratching his head at her compliment, a little nervous, and answered, "Just doing what I do best."

Amy then said, "Well, you're the best at it!"

Sonic was heartened by this, and smiled, saying, "Thanks, Amy."

The two went on, constantly bombarded with the question, "Should I say it? Should I say I love him / her?"

But the two forgot about that as the came to the next obstacle: A string of huge metal blocks, which were moving up and down.

"We'll have to be careful. Here, let me carry you again," Sonic told Amy.

"Sure thing!" Amy chirped with delight, and as Sonic picked her up, Amy put her face against Sonic's shoulder, appearing to swoon for him.

Sonic noticed this, and smiled, but asked, "Hey. What's with the cuddling?"

"You're so heroic, and..." Amy paused, and Sonic nuzzled her back a little, asking, "What is it?"

"Well... I think you're... handsome, too."

Sonic smiled, touched by her words, and said, "Well, I have to say, you're beautiful."

Amy's face immediately turned from pink to red, and she stammered, "You think I'm beautiful?!"

Sonic nodded, giving her a sincere smile, and replying, "When I saw you for the first time, I couldn't believe how pretty you were."

Amy's eyes glistened with this, and it seemed to both of them that this would be the moment they'd kiss, but suddenly, above them, a terrible voice rang out, "I love to spoil your cuddle..."

Immediately, both hedgehogs looked up and saw Eggman on a hologram, sneering at them, "And I'm also here to tell you, don't attempt to defeat me. Sonic, you have your friend there, in your arms no less, so I suggest you both leave now, unless you want her to get hurt?"

But before Sonic could retort to any of that, Amy yelled, "No way, Eggman! We're not backing down after what you and your robot did to us!"

Sonic followed suit and added, "Yeah, so you'd better be ready for a fight, Eggman!"

Eggman, however, shook his head, saying, "I would be just as happy to let you leave, but if you must draw this out, then so be it."

With that, Eggman disappeared, and the two, having forgotten their close moment, looked forward, the same fire in both of their eyes, and Sonic asked, "Ready, Amy?"

"Let's go, Sonic!"

As soon as the first box ahead of them began to ascend into the air, the others behind it following after, Sonic raced underneath the first box and ran under every one after that.

The two were close to the end when, by a trap set near the last box, Sonic suddenly hooked his foot on a rung sticking out of the ground and vaulted forward.

"AHHH!" The two cried out, as Amy flew out of Sonic's arms and out from underneath the boxes. However, Sonic was still on the ground under the last one, which began to descend at that moment.

Amy turned and gasped, and then, without thinking, leaped towards Sonic, her hammer in her hands again, and slid across the ground.

Just as the block came down and tried to end Sonic's life, the head of Amy's hammer slid underneath at the last minute. The hammer's durability was unmatched, as it held up the metal box without straining at all.

Amy then pulled Sonic out from underneath, her hammer disappearing then, and the two immediately locked into a hug.

"Thank you, Amy," Sonic said gratefully, as he held her with great warmth, as Amy replied, "There was no way I was going to lose you, Sonic."

The two looked at each other, a look of relief on both of their faces, and they stood up and walked on, holding hands and ready to face the next challenge.

They were faced with it pretty quickly, too, as they came up to a strange looking robot with long arms.

"I've got this one, Sonic!"

Amy quickly ran forward with her hammer and prepared to take it out. However, Sonic saw the robot seem to watch Amy's movement. Sure enough, when Amy swung her hammer down at the machine, it struck its arm up and caught her forward arm.

"AH! What?!"

The robot's arms jerked and Amy's hammer flew out of her hands. Suddenly, it had both of Amy's arms pinned behind her back, making her cry out in pain.

"AMY!"

Sonic was quick to race forward and try to dislodge Amy, but just as he reached her, she was tossed to the side, and now, he was the one in its grasp.

"WHA?! How can this thing be faster than me?!"

Amy slid across the ground after she was thrown, but jumped up and ran back towards Sonic and the robot. However, Sonic then yelled, "Amy! Wait a sec!"

She stopped, confusion and worry on her face, and Sonic explained, "This thing isn't meant to kill. It's just meant to stop anyone who tries to get past it."

"But then I've got to free you!" Amy replied, and Sonic thought for a moment.

"I've got an idea. Throw your hammer at me."

"WHAT?!" Amy protested, hardly able to think about hitting Sonic with her hammer (At least so far in their friendship).

"Trust me, it'll work."

At this, Amy could not say anything more. She could never distrust Sonic. Never.

Amy quickly materialized her hammer, reeled back, and then thrust her arms forward, launching the hammer right at Sonic's chest.

Sonic watched as the colorful hammer came closer, spinning through the air, and he closed his eyes, knowing that this must work.

As if by clockwork, Sonic suddenly felt himself thrown to the side and he, too, slid across the ground. When he looked back, he saw that the robot was now holding Amy's hammer.

"Alright. It worked."

Amy quickly ran over to Sonic and helped him up, saying, "Sonic, I was so worried."

He turned to her with a smile, answering, "What? Didn't believe in me?"

Amy threw up her hands and cried, "Of course I did! I just... still got worried."

Sonic then gently brushed her hand, getting her to look back into his eyes, and he told her, "Thank you, Amy."

Amy's face turned to smiling and she nodded. Then after they maneuvered around the robot, and Amy made her hammer disappear from the robot's grasp, they moved on.

Soon after that, they were still walking, when all of a sudden, a metal pole shot out of the ground. The two stopped and eyed it warily. Then, from the top of the pole, two blades extended outwards and began to spin.

Sonic then said, while walking forward to walk under the blades, "I think Eggman must be running out of tricks."

But then, for no reason Amy could think of at the time, she yelled, "Sonic! Wait!"

Sonic quickly stopped and turned, fortunately just far away enough from the pole to avoid the two blades that stuck out at that moment at chest level with him.

"WHOA!!"

The two saw the first blades fold up, and the next two began to spin. After a few more seconds, they reversed again.

Sonic backed up next to Amy and breathed, "Oh wow, do I owe you, Amy..."

Amy wiped her brow, sighing, and said, "I don't know what caused me to yell. I just got this terrible feeling..."

"Looks like you've got a keen intuition, Amy," Sonic complimented, and Amy put her hands behind her back, acting modest.

"But now, how do we get past this thing?" Sonic continued.

Amy looked back at it and told her partner, "We just need to time it."

Amy then walked forward, Sonic extending a hand towards her to tell her to be careful, and the pink hedgehog stood near the edge of the blade's path. As soon as the bottom ones folded up again, Amy ran forward and then dove, getting out of the way of the blades.

Amy stood up and looked back to Sonic, calling, "Come on, Sonic! If I can do that, you can do it easily!"

Sonic was encouraged by this, and he quickly ran forward, standing where Amy had stood. As the lower blades began to fold up, Sonic ran forward. But then, to his horror, the lower blades came back down!

"WHAT?!!"

"OH NOO!!" Amy screamed, realizing Sonic was heading right to his doom.

Sonic shut his eyes then, and with a quick move, Sonic fell forward, his arms extended, and then pushed off from the ground in an incredible acrobatic move. In a ball, Sonic could see the blades that swung under him, himself just barely out of their way.

Finally, Sonic landed on the other side, and turned around, impressed himself.

"Man, was that close..." Sonic sighed, but suddenly was worried at the tears on Amy's face, and asked, "Amy? What's the matter?"

She then looked at him, her eyes teary, and she quivered, at which Sonic moved forward and wrapped her in a warm hug. Finally, she told him, "I shouldn't have been so reckless. If I had just thought that out more, I wouldn't have almost got you killed..."

She sobbed in his arms, and he put a hand on her head, saying in a soothing tone, "Amy, you did nothing wrong. If you hadn't emboldened me so much, we might have never gotten past that."

Sonic brought Amy's face up to his, gently caressing her cheek with his finger, and he finished, "So don't cry, Amy. We made it."

Amy looked at him with sadness in her eyes for one more moment, but then blinked her tears away and smiled, hugging Sonic again and saying, "You're right Sonic. Thank you."

Sonic hugged her for a few more moments, again wondering whether or not he should tell her how he really felt about her.

But then, a sudden speed increase in the blades behind them made them jump, and Amy said, "Maybe we should get going."

"Agreed," Sonic said, and the two starting running together away from the blades.

After running for a couple of minutes, they soon came upon a door, and there was no way around it.

"I think it's a trap, Sonic."

Sonic was thinking about the same, so he said, "If it weren't for your hammer, Amy, I don't think we'd have made it this far."

"Oh! Good idea!"

Amy took out her hammer and then lobbed it at the door. The door had two sensors on it, and when the hammer tripped those sensors... The door simply opened.

The two hedgehogs looked at it, then looked at each other and shrugged, and walked through the door. Inside, they saw a tube with a cap over the top, and a button nearby. There didn't seem to be any other way out, so Sonic stepped on the button and the cap of the tube opened.

Amy walked to the edge of the tube and looked in, saying, "Man, this is going to be one heck of a ride."

At that moment, Sonic came up behind her, putting his arms around her waist, and asked, "Then shall we go?"

Amy smiled at his touch and answered, "Yes!"

The two then jumped into the tube together, which sucked them down into a small bay, where three other tubes met.

They were floating in midair because of the tubes conflicting streams, so the two looked around and Amy said loudly, "Let's go forward!"

Sonic tightened his grip on Amy and the two leaned towards the forward tube, getting sucked in and going quickly through a bunch of twists and turns. Up and down, left and right, the two were becoming dizzy, but before too long, they emerged at the top of the tube, shooting out of it and onto the ground on their feet.

Sonic let go of his partner and looked back into the tube, saying, "Well... that was fun."

"Yeah, I just hope it's not that sickening if we have to do it again."

Amy then sat down to avoid getting sick, and Sonic sat next to her, putting an arm around her.

It was then that Amy decided to ask, "Sonic? Why was it that you were so determined to save me?"

Now could have been the time. But like all the times until the night they retold this story, Sonic would be too afraid and nervous to tell the girl what he really felt for her.

So, Sonic answered, "Well... When I first saw you, and I began to find out how nice you were, there was no way I could let you go. I needed to see you again. I wanted to be your friend."

Amy put her head on Sonic's shoulder, she herself a little scared to say her true feelings, too, and answered, "Sonic, that's so sweet. And I know, we'll be best friends."

The two smiled, and Amy stood up, stretching, and said, "Well, I'm feeling better! Let's go!"

Sonic nodded and stood up, and the two walked up to another door, which opened automatically again, and they walked through. They saw, across the way, another door, which they started running to then. But as they got a little farther from the first door, they heard a thunderous BAM!! They looked back and saw what looked like...

The lit fuse at the top of this strange looking robot gave it away.

"IT'S A BOMB!!" Sonic yelled, and quickly scooped up the horror-struck Amy and bolted as fast as he could for the next door. He reached it and it opened for them, and just as he ducked behind the wall just inside, they heard the humongous explosion fill the room they were in. The door was shutting just as shards of metal and fire raced for the door. They heard frightening, violent sounds of metal clanging and ripping against the wall behind them.

The two breathed a sigh of relief, and Amy said, "Thank you, Sonic. You keep saving my life."

Sonic smiled and answered, "Yeah, but you've been saving mine too."

Amy nuzzled his shoulder and replied, "What would we do without each other?"

Sonic finished, "Not be nearly as happy as we are now."

They hugged one more time and then looked forward to see yet another tube.

"Think you can do it, Amy? Or should we find another way?"

Sonic was worried Amy might get sick from this, but she looked at him, her resolve deep, and she answered, "No way! Let's do it again!"

Sonic smiled at her determination, and the two pushed the button, entered the tube, and hit the hub where three other tubes joined again. Like before, Amy called to her partner holding her, "Forward!"

They pushed forward and, after not quite as many turns as before, they reached the other side. They came out of the tube and walked out the next door, beyond which, they saw a conveyor belt and a drop beyond that.

"It's moving in our direction. We'll have to run against it," Sonic observed.

Amy nodded at this, and the two jumped on and began to run as fast as they could. Of course, Sonic reached the end of the conveyor belt easily, but saw that Amy was having a bit of trouble. She eventually made it to Sonic, who suddenly swept her off her feet and said, "First class?"

She smiled delightedly and nodded, and Sonic jumped down to another conveyor belt below. He followed the trek of belts until they reached the bottom, and put Amy down again.

They continued on, trying to find an end to this madness, when suddenly, they heard that same terrifying BAM behind them!

They turned to see that huge bomb robot again, at which Sonic yelled, "Amy! Come on!"

The two ran fast again, but Sonic kept a little behind Amy, because he knew what he might have to do. This time, unfortunately, there was no wall to hide behind. The bomb was set at the beginning of a long, flat stretch of floor.

From behind them, the massive explosion went off, and Sonic knew he couldn't let Amy get hurt. He ran forward as fast he could, tackling Amy to the ground and covering her with his body.

Though she was startled by him tackling her, she shrieked in fear, "NO! SONIC! YOU'LL BE KILLED!"

But there was nothing else that he could do, as the metal pieces and extreme heat rocketed towards him. But thanks to a sudden downward slope in the path when Sonic tackled Amy, Sonic's life might just have been spared.

The metal shards flew towards the two, but most of the big pieces, propelled by the explosion at over 600 miles per hour, missed them. But one stray piece came down and, though Sonic was mostly out of the way, hit Sonic on the very tip of his right fin.

"AAAOOWWW!!"

"SONIC! NO!"

Then, the incredible heat wave approached, but died out quickly, though it just began to singe the fur on Sonic's quills and fins.

Once the explosion had finally passed, Sonic sat up, wincing in pain, and asked, "Amy?! Are you alright?!"

Amy then jumped up, suddenly yelling, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! YOU COULD HAVE DIED!"

Sonic looked at her, stunned at her sudden anger. But Amy then realized how she sounded, and just put her face into her hands and began to cry.

She shook her head and said through a trembling voice, "You know... If you *sob* died...I wouldn't want to live anymore without you..."

Sonic crawled forward towards her and took her into his arms, telling her, "And I wouldn't want to be without you either..."

They just hugged, as Amy cried into his chest. They stayed like this for many minutes, until Amy felt her glove that was on Sonic's right fin become wet.

She looked at it, and was frightened to see blood on her glove!

"SONIC! You're bleeding!"

Sonic looked at her glove and gasped, saying, "It really did get me. Oh man..."

Quickly, Amy jumped up and sat down behind Sonic, looking with hurt eyes at how much Sonic had just done to save her life.

"Here, Sonic, it's not that bad. I'll help you."

Amy then pulled off her blood stained glove and tore it open. Using strips of the cloth, she was able to put bandages over the wound and tie it with a long piece of her glove.

"Did it take off a piece of my fin?"

"No, Sonic. It split the fin down the center for about an inch, but it's going to heal and be just the same."

Sonic turned then and took Amy's ungloved hand, saying, "Thank you Amy."

He didn't know what made him want to, but he brought Amy's hand her to his mouth and kissed it, and then the two embraced again.

In the present, Sonic smiled about having actually done that, saying, "I wanted to tell you, so much. But I couldn't think of a way to say it right, at the time. So I just wanted to be affectionate when I could."

Amy looked at him and said, "That was one of the most frightening moments of my life, but when you covered me, I didn't have any doubts anymore. I knew you loved me Sonic, as much as I loved you."

They locked eyes again for a few moments, before Amy moved forward this time and took Sonic's lips, kissing him with the love she wanted to show him on that day.

After kissing for a few seconds, the two broke away and laid back down, continuing their story, which they only wished more and more included their first kiss.

Sonic was now all ready to go, and after one last hug, the two hedgehogs stood up and began to make their way on.

It wasn't long before they reached another door. Sonic went in first, and Amy followed close behind. This time, there was no tube, but just a ramp going up to a chute. As they climbed up, Sonic thought that something was amiss here. Just as he thought that, he heard a metallic ping just over his head. Before he could even look up at what had made the sound, he felt himself start to feel extremely unusual.

It was Amy who cried out, "Sonic, your body!"

He whirled around to Amy and was horrified at what he saw: She was getting taller, which meant...

"I'm shrinking?!"

The laser that had hit Sonic was a shrink ray, indeed, and before it could make Sonic any smaller, Amy took out her hammer and bashed it, destroying it quickly.

But by the time she had destroyed it, Sonic had shrunk from his normal four foot height to just under a foot tall. Amy looked at him with worry in her eyes, kneeling down and asking, "Sonic, what are we going to do?"

Sonic looked at himself and at Amy, saying, "I don't know. I think all we can do is keep going. Hopefully there'll be a beam that'll make me big again."

"Well, until then, let me carry you now," Amy offered, and Sonic looked up at her and nodded, smiling and saying, "OK, if you want to, Amy."

"Of course I do, Sonic. I love to return the favors you did me."

Amy gently wrapped her hands around Sonic and lifted him, having him sit on one of her hands while she held him to her stomach with the other.

"Thank you Amy. Now let's get going."

She nodded, and ran up to the top of the ramp, which indeed was the top of a chute. She sat on the edge and pushed forward, holding Sonic firmly as they slid down.

They reached the bottom, and now entered into a really tall room. The walls were bare, and there seemed to be no elevators or stairs to get up from here.

"Now what, Sonic?"

"Amy, look over there."

Amy looked forward and saw a springboard on the opposite side of the room.

"Do you think that'll make it all the way to the top?" Amy asked, walking towards it and seeing the ledge way above it.

"No, but that one will," Sonic said, pointing towards the wall opposite to the ledge. Amy looked up there and saw a small ledge with another springboard.

"OK. This is going to be a little scary..." Amy said, but Sonic soothed her, "Don't worry. You'll be just fine, just make sure to run and then jump towards that small ledge first. Then do the same up there."

"OK, I'll do it, Sonic."

Amy then positioned herself behind the springboard, lined up with the ledge, and without hesitation, she ran forward and jumped up and onto the spring. She was thrust into the air, going just the right speed to reach the other side and land on the ledge. She came down with just a soft thud, landing on her feet, and Sonic cheered, "Great going, Amy!"

Amy smiled down at her small friend, and then got ready to make the next jump. Once again, she hit the springboard and flew up into the air just high enough to reach the ledge above. But danger struck when she reached the ledge, and she only landed on the edge of the ledge, her feet threatening to slip off.

"WHOA!!! SONIC!!!"

Sonic was tossed out of her hands and onto the ledge, but he jumped up with all the speed he could. But it was too late. Amy's feet suddenly slipped out from underneath her, and she fell.

And grabbed onto the ledge.

"AHH! SONIC!"

Though Sonic was a foot tall, he didn't care. He had to save Amy. With all of his might, he grabbed one of Amy's wrist, the one without a glove, with both of his hands and turned to run.

With every ounce of his strength, Sonic ran to pull Amy up. His legs moved like insect wings, and his face scrunched with effort.

Amy, despite how unlikely it was for her to make it, felt herself being dragged up slowly. She kept trying to help Sonic by climbing up with her feet, but the smooth wall only made her jerk Sonic back.

But he would never give up. He would not let Amy die when he could stop it. He ran as hard as he could, his feet slowly making headway.

Finally, after five harrowing minutes, Amy was finally high enough to bring her leg up and climb onto the ledge. Sonic saw this, and when Amy finally made it, he let go and stopped running, immediately falling to the ground in exhaustion.

Amy looked and crawled over to him. He was panting hard, and his arms and legs felt numb.

"Oh, Sonic... I'm so sorry..."

Sonic looked up tenderly at Amy and said, "You- didn't- do- anything- wrong..."

Amy then gently scooped up Sonic in her arms and cradled him.

After a couple of minutes, Sonic's face was content, a smile shining through, making Amy warm, and he told her, "You did great, Amy."

"You did too."

With one finger, Amy caressed Sonic's arms and legs, at which he sighed with relief.

"We'll be out of here, soon," Sonic said, "We just got one more scientist to thrash."

Amy smiled with resolve and said, "Right!"

Amy stood up, carrying Sonic again, and took off. They came soon to another set of conveyor belts, this time not going against their path.

"I'll go slowly, Sonic," Amy told him, knowing he was probably worried about another trap.

"Right."

Amy let the conveyor belt take her to the drop, at which she hopped down and began to go the other direction. But just as she neared the drop on that side, a huge cylinder appeared from nowhere and nearly crushed both of them!

"WHOA!!" Amy cried out, backing up as fast as she could. When the cylinder touched the ceiling and began to go back down, Amy jumped on the top of it and waited. However, it only led them down to a dead end.

"Amy! Go in there!"

Amy agreed, and ran inside the dead end, running against the conveyor belt. Once the cylinder had risen back up, she jumped down to the last conveyor belt, which led them out of this treacherous danger.

They kept going for a little while longer, going slowly, when all of a sudden, another laser suddenly popped out of the ceiling of the tunnel they were in, and began to fire a continuous beam.

Sonic looked at it and said, "Amy, this must be it!"

"Are you sure, Sonic? What if it only makes you smaller? Or worse?!"

Sonic, however, knew this had to be the laser he wanted, and said, "Don't worry. It'll work."

Amy then set him down and Sonic walked towards it, turning back to Amy and walking backwards so he would know when to stop.

"Here goes."

Sonic then stepped into the beam and felt himself changing immediately. To both of their relief, Sonic and Amy's eyes were becoming level again, and just as Sonic had reached Amy's same height, he stepped back out of the beam.

"Whenever you're ready," Sonic motioned with a smile to the laser.

After a bash from Amy's hammer, the two hugged again, now both the same size like before, and they moved on, ready to take on the evil scientist.

Who had been watching them all this time, of course.

"ARRRGHH!! All these tricks and traps, and they are STILL heading for me?!" Eggman sputtered.

Eggman shook his head, knowing they were nearing his lab. Even worse for him, he only had one more robot to use, and a pretty mediocre one at that.

But the scientist also believed that it wasn't over until it was over. He went right outside his lab and pressed a button to get into his final robot. It might not be much, but perhaps, the scientist thought, it would be just enough to win.

Meanwhile, Sonic and Amy had walked into the final part of the Little Planet, where this part of Metallic Madness could use some new metal to replace the rusted and damaged metal here.

"This is near where Eggman kept me," Amy told Sonic.

"Then we must be close."

They kept going, ready to take on the maniacal scientist, when suddenly, the floor dropped out from beneath them!

"WHOA!!" The two of them cried out as they slid down a chute into a small, square room. They stood up and looked up at the walls, and saw they were too high to reach the ledge about 30 feet above. But then, from the ceiling far above them, they saw, descending towards them, a huge sheet of metal, big enough to fill the floor of the entire room!

"Sonic! It's coming right for us!"

The two hedgehogs, however, saw, as it came closer, that this piece of metal had holes of rust so big, they could fit right through it.

"Don't worry, Amy, we can fit through those holes."

They waited, standing next to each other, as the first piece of metal came down. They jumped up and grabbed the edge of one of the holes and climbed through, only to suddenly find another coming right behind that.

"Uh oh! Let's hurry, Amy!"

The two ran across the first sheet to line up with a hole in the next one. One by one, they used the worn sheets' holes to make their way to the top. Finally, they were close enough to jump and climb up. They jumped for the ledge at the same time, but whereas Sonic pulled himself up quickly, Amy slipped as another sheet was close to pushing her back down.

"AMY!"

Sonic quickly grabbed Amy's arms and yanked her up from the pit, saving her just as the next sheet would have crushed her.

"Whew..." Sonic breathed, wiping his brow.

"That was much easier since you're bigger now, Sonic," Amy said adoringly.

Sonic smiled at her, and the two stood, and Sonic said, "I think the rest of this is going to be easy. Whaddaya say? Shall we finish this?"

"Yeah!"

The two ran forward, closing in on the final section of the Little Planet.

As they neared another door, Amy said, "I remember this. Metal Sonic took me through here to get to Eggman's lab."

The two went through the door and were in a small room with another door on the other side. But as they approached this one, it didn't open.

"Huh? What's with this door?" Sonic asked, bewildered.

But as he puzzled over the door, something caught Amy's eye. She looked up at it and saw a small robot slowly appearing above Sonic, with a laser gun aiming right at him!

"Sonic!" Amy cried out, pulling Sonic back from the door.

"WHOA!!" Sonic exclaimed, just as the laser hit the ground where he was standing.

Amy looked back up at the robot, but then watched it disappear again.

"Where did it go?" Amy asked.

Sonic had only just seen it, and answered, "It must use a cloaking device. Just watch around the room."

They waited for a few seconds before they caught sight of it just to the side of where it was before. Sonic jumped up for it and tried to hit it, but it disappeared quickly and Sonic missed.

The two waited again, but couldn't see it. Fortunately, when the robot fired its laser again, it missed Amy.

"AH! Why you!" Amy angrily yelled, bringing out her hammer.

She waited, and then saw it once again appearing. She threw her hammer directly at it, and it smashed right into it.

"Alright! Got it!"

"Nice going, Amy!" Sonic told her, giving her a thumbs up.

But just as Amy turned to give a thumbs up too, Sonic saw another suddenly appearing right behind her.

"AMY!" Sonic yelled, running forward before the robot fired. Sonic leaped from the ground and jumped right on top of the robot, pushing it to the ground and crushing it.

"Wow, thank you Sonic!"

Sonic smiled, but then turned to the door, and said, "It's open now."

Amy turned and looked, too, and indeed, it was open for them.

They walked together through this final door and prepared to face Eggman. But the door that Amy was taken through into Eggman's lab wasn't here.

"It was around here somewhere..." Amy pondered out loud.

But before long, they heard that familiar evil laugh, and the wall began to open. Slowly, they saw a huge robot descending from the ceiling, and inside, sure enough, was Eggman. He was in a very unusual robot. It had four thin metal blocks on a rotating ring around his main pod. It moved to protect him from all sides.

"So, we finally meet for the last time."

"Eggman, we're going to defeat you to teach you never to mess with friendships ever again," Sonic told the scientist, ready to take on this final robot.

"You won't come between the two of us ever again, Eggman," Amy added, bringing out her hammer for this.

"We shall see. Foolish hedgehogs! Prepare to meet your doom!"

Immediately, the ring on Eggman's ship began to spin faster, the four metal blocks, which Sonic and Amy soon saw had razor sharp edges, moving around the ship, making it dangerous to attack it.

"NOW DIE!!!" Eggman roared, piloting the robot forward towards the two of them. They both jumped in different directions, and Amy turned and threw her hammer right at Eggman. The hammer, however, hit one of the blades and was knocked to the side.

Eggman turned to Amy and said, "Well, that was a good try, but now you're defenseless!"

"So are you, Eggman!"

Eggman heard Sonic say this from behind just before he felt the blue hedgehog ram into the back of his ship, which was unprotected for that moment by the blades. With the hit, the bottom blade fell out from the ship and clattered to the ground.

Eggman spun around and shouted, "YOU! YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF HERE ALIVE, SONIC!!"

But this time, as Eggman advanced towards Sonic, the missing blade left a big hole in his defenses. Amy summoned her hammer back over to her, and she threw it once again after timing it just right.

WHAM!!!

"AHH! WHAT?!" Eggman yelled, hearing yet another one of his blades fall to the ground.

"Without all your blades, your odds of winning just got worse!" Amy yelled at him, confident that the battle would be theirs.

Sonic then ran up next to Amy, and then, Eggman yelled, "Well then, our time might then be... CUT SHORT!!"

Eggman's last two blades, at that moment, then fired out from his ship and headed right for the two hedgehogs. As they approached, they had flipped and were now two huge swords, trying to end the two hedgehogs. However, they were both quick, and they avoided both of them. Eggman then retracted them, but Sonic jumped on one, and as it came close, Sonic jumped off and delivered a hard, gravity driven kick into Eggman's ship again. As the two blades tried to reenter their slots, only one stayed in, the other hitting the ground.

"ARGH!!" Eggman grunted, his ship now falling to the ground and bouncing on the last blade like a pogo stick.

Sonic and Amy looked to each other and Sonic asked, "Shall we finish this, Amy?"

"Yeah!"

Sonic then grabbed Amy around the waist and ran with her towards Eggman. When they got close, Sonic tossed Amy as high as he could into the air over Eggman.

Eggman was flailing his arms and screaming as Amy brought out her hammer one last time, raising it up over her head and coming down on top of Eggman, bringing down a quaking blow that pressed Eggman far down on his last blade. When the tension grew too strong, Eggman was blasted through the roof by his pogo blade, flying high into the sky, screaming as he was finally defeated.

But his last exit made the rusted Metallic Madness suddenly begin to shake.

As Amy landed on the ground, she and Sonic felt the shaking become violent.

"Amy! Let's go!"

"Right!"

Amy, after putting away her hammer, was scooped up one last time by Sonic, and he ran and jumped into the hole Eggman had made. Quickly, they raced across the collapsing rooftops, making their way to get off the planet. Buildings and other structures crashed around them, but they weren't afraid.

Sonic raced for the chain that he had climbed to get here in the first place, and headed down it with all due speed. After finally breaking through the gravitational pull of the Little Planet, Sonic, with Amy, jumped off and landed, finally, on the stable ground of Mobius. They looked up as Sonic set Amy down as the chains to the planet shattered, and the planet rose up into the sky, Metallic Madness a pile of rubble now. They watched it go, slowly and majestically, back into space, where it would disappear from this place and come back in who knows when.

"We did it, Sonic," Amy finally broke the silence, and took Sonic's hand.

"Though we were through a lot," Sonic started, "I would never change anything that happened."

Sonic then squeezed her hand back, and the two turned to each other, when Sonic said, "Except, for what I said about why I saved you."

"Sonic..." Amy said, wondering if she knew what he was going to say.

"Amy... When I saw you for the first time, it wasn't friendship I saw in you... It was..."

Sonic paused, but Amy gambled and finished for him, "Love at first sight?"

There was an instant of tension, but it was broken when Sonic smiled, nodded, and told the girl, whose hands he was now holding, "Yes, Amy. I do love you..."

"Oh Sonic..." Amy began to say, tears building in her eyes, "I love you too!"

They moved closer, nervously, both of them trembling, but when their lips touched and they kissed for the first time, all of their emotions swept them up like a river. They would never forget this moment.

"If it had really happened," Amy, in the present, said, smiling and thinking dreamily about it.

"Yeah, we might have never kissed on that day, Amy," Sonic said, knowing that they had just added that last part in, wishing they had really kissed on that day, "But I'm happier we became best friends first. Because it made this day so much more happy for me."

Sonic's own eyes began to water a little, and Amy's did too as she said, "Me too..."

They looked into each others' eyes once again, and with the story ended, Sonic told Amy, "If I had the chance to change the way we fell in love, Amy... I would never change anything that happened."

"Me neither... I love you," Amy whispered to Sonic, and he answered, "I love you too."

And, for real, they shared one last long loving kiss. The whole story had lasted them several hours, and they wanted nothing more than to cuddle up together on the couch and fall asleep in each others' arms. And they slept more soundly than any night of their lives.

Though, since the Little Planet, Sonic and Amy had had a plethora of adventures, and many near disasters and quarrels, some of which nearly broke their friendship, they both knew, from that first day, from that first moment when they saw each other, until this night when they kissed and loved for the first time, they would never change a thing that had happened in their lives. Everything they did together, whether it warmed their hearts, made them worry for the other's safety, or make them angry or upset at each other, was cherished by them. Because the best of friends would never forget a thing that happened in their relationship. Because it all led to this wonderful love.

They would never forget. Never.

And they would sleep peacefully until the morning, when they would remember their friendship... was now love.

Sonic and Amy: "Thanks for listening to the story of our love. We hope you enjoyed it. We loved telling it."

The author: "Nine months after starting this, I want to say thanks to everyone who read and reviewed. I would especially like to thank everyone who stayed patient between chapter four and five. Though I'm sad that the fic has ended, I'm not sad about how it turned out. Thanks to everyone again, and don't worry, there will be some more Sonic and Amy in the future!"

Sonic and Amy: "Alright!"