When Amy met Sonic By Scott da Hedgehog (In Toni the Mink’s NAoStH series, Amy was an orphan living in Palmtree Panic Zone when she met Sonic, so I adapted that idea for my version of how Amy and Sonic met...) In a distant corner of the planet called Mobius, near a mysterious place called Never Lake, was an area known as Palmtree Panic Zone. Here was located a small community which included one of Mobius’ largest orphanages. And it is here in this orphanage that we find our young heroine, a certain pink 13-year-old hedgehog named Amy Rose... Amy did not know who her parents were or exactly how long she had been here at this orphanage. Over the years, she had discovered she had a talent for tarot cards. As she began to discover more and more of her abilities, she realized that she had a particular talent for predicting events related to the nearby Little Planet. The Little Planet appeared over Never Lake for one month every year. It was home to the very powerful, elusive, and mysterious Time Stones! Amy had found that, among other things, she could predict almost the exact moment when the Little Planet would appear over Never Lake. She often wondered just what sort of connection she had to that place. Was she born there? Amy just did not know, but she hoped to someday find the answers. This particular day, Amy was sitting in the room that she shared with her good friend, another Hedgehog named Rachel (author’s note: Rachel is my sister’s name! I told ya I’d get ya into one of my stories somehow! ^_^). Rachel was reading a magazine while Amy was studying her favorite deck of tarot cards. As Amy pulled a card from the deck and studied it, a puzzled look came across her face. "Hey Rachel! It says that I’m going to meet somebody today who will change my life!" "That sounds good!" Rachel said. "Maybe it means somebody’s finally gonna take you out of this place!" "I don’t know!" Amy replied. "The cards are showing...love?" "Love?! You don’t mean it!" "That’s what they say!" Amy said. She pulled out another card. "Yep, love!" "Ooooooohhhhhh!!!!! You’re gonna meet somebody special today, huh?" Rachel glanced at an article in her magazine. "Hey! What if it’s this guy?" She showed Amy an article about the great hero of Mobius, Sonic the Hedgehog. Amy looked at the picture in the article. "What do you think, Amy? Isn’t he a hunk?" "Yeah, he’s okay!" Amy said with a shrug. "But c’mon! What are the odds of me meeting somebody like that!" What indeed? For at that very moment Sonic the Hedgehog and his friend Miles Prower were approaching Palmtree Panic Town aboard their plane, the Tornado... "We’re almost there, Sonic!" said Miles. "Good! There’s no time for us to lose, Tails!" said Sonic. Everyone who knew Miles called him "Tails" because of his two unique tails. "If Robotnik is really going after the Time Stones, he could really screw up everything! He might even fix it so that me and you are never born!" "Sonic! Over to our left!" Tails shouted. Sonic looked to see a Buzzbomber, one of Robotnik’s mechanical minions, heading straight for them! "Hang on Sonic! I’m gonna try to lose him!" Tails put the Tornado into a roll and dived for the forest below with the Buzzbomber still in pursuit! Tails skillfully dodged the trees and limbs; but no matter how well he maneuvered, the Buzzbomber kept up! A blast from the Buzzbomber’s laser zipped past Sonic’s head! "Shit! He’s still back there! We’re never gonna lose him like this! Tails, take us back up, then head straight for him!" "WHAT?! You’re not serious!" Tails protested. "Do it Tails! I’m gonna spin-dash him!" "In mid-air?! You’ve lost your mind!!" "Just be ready to catch me, buddy!" Tails pulled the Tornado back up above the trees, then turned to face the oncoming Buzzbomber. The two were on a collision course! The Buzzbomber fired off several shots; one of which struck the right wing of the Tornado! "Just hold her steady, Tails! Try to stay under me when I jump!" Sonic charged up for the spin-dash; shots from the Buzzbomber whizzing all about him and Tails. At what seemed like the last moment, Sonic launched himself forth and smashed into the Buzzbomber at full speed, completely destroying it! Sonic unrolled himself and somehow landed back in his customary spot on the top wing of the Tornado. "HA!" Sonic laughed "Eggman’s clunkers are just as dumb as ever! And lousy shots too!" Tails caught his breath. "Sonic, sometimes I don’t know if you’re brave or just crazy!" "Well, I never thought I was all that brave!" Sonic said with a twinkle in his eye. "Uh-oh! Sonic! That wing’s shot up pretty bad! We’ve gotta land somewhere and fix it!" "Alright buddy! Just find a good spot for us to set down! Maybe I can still reach Never Lake on foot!" Meanwhile, back at the orphanage, Amy and Rachel were still talking about the "somebody special" that Amy was going to meet that day. Rachel continued to jokingly point out different "dreamy" celebrities in her magazine; laughing about how this is the one who was somehow going to find his way to this remote area of Mobius and meet Amy that day! "C’mon, Rachel! This is serious! The cards have never been wrong before!" Amy drew another card "And right now they’re saying that the Little Planet has just appeared!" "It has?" Rachel replied. "Yeah! Just this morning, they say! You want to go see it?" "I can’t do it today." Rachel said "I’ve got cafeteria duty!" "Bummer!" said Amy. "Well, I’ll just slip out and have a look!" "Alright, Amy! Let me know if you run into your ‘dream lover!’" Rachel said with a laugh. Ivo Robotnik smiled a malicious smile. Everything was going well for him today. He watched as his robotic minions were in the final stages of turning the Little Planet into a gigantic fortress, secured to a large rock formation by a huge chain! He had correctly estimated the time when the Little Planet would appear. Presently, his robots were turning the planet almost literally upside down in search of the Time Stones. Once they were in his possession, he could alter time any way he saw fit! Everything was going well indeed! No sign of that meddling Hedgehog yet! Once Ivo Robotnik had been Ovi Kintobor, a good friend of Sonic! Now he was completely consumed by darkness; Ovi Kintobor had been drowned in a sea of evil named Ivo Robotnik! One of his Egg-Robos reported to its master. "Master Robotnik! Buzzbomber 327 reported the presence of the Hedgehog just before it was destroyed!" "Ahhh, so the Hedgehog is on his way?" Robotnik responded in a voice that was pure evil and hatred. "Wonderful! For I have a little surprise waiting for him when he does arrive!" In a nearby alcove, a pair of red eyes glowed ominously as if on cue". Amy Rose walked the wooded path from Palmtree Panic Town to Never Lake. She was still thinking about what the cards had said: she was going to meet somebody special today! Amy just had to laugh about it at this moment; who was she going to meet on this lonely pathway? Just as Amy neared a large clearing, she stopped short. In that clearing was a large biplane! She watched from behind a tree as she saw a two-tailed Kitsune working on the damaged wing. Suddenly from around the corner of the plane there appeared a Hedgehog! Not just any Hedgehog either, but Sonic! The famous Hedgehog who had thwarted Dr. Robotnik so many times! Amy could hardly believe her eyes! Could this be who she was supposed to meet today? It couldn’t be just coincidence that their paths should just cross like this after what the cards had told her that morning; the cards that were never wrong! "Well" Amy thought "I guess I could at least find out why they’re here!" She approached the plane. "How’s it coming, Tails?" Sonic asked somewhat impatiently. "Real good! We’ll be back in the air before you know it!" "Excuse me?" a voice behind Sonic said. Sonic jumped back. He spun around to see a young girl Hedgehog! "A girl?!" Sonic said "Hey girly, don’t you know better than to sneak up on a Hedgehog like that?!" "I’m sorry!" Amy responded. "I just wanted to know what you were doing here...uhhh...Sonic?" "Ohh, well, yeah, I’m Sonic! Sorry I barked at ya just then! Who are you?" "My name’s Amy Rose!" "Well... Uhhhh... Nice to meet you Amy!" Sonic looked at her. "Yes, very nice to meet you indeed." He thought. Sonic snapped out of it "No time for me to be thinking about that now!" He thought. "And I’m Miles Prower, but everyone calls me ‘Tails!’" "Nice to meet you, Tails!" Amy said. "So, just what were you two doing out here?" "Well, our plane ran into a little trouble!" Tails said, pointing to the wing. "Yeah!" added Sonic "And we’re in a hurry to get to Never Lake!" "Never Lake?! I know where that is! Actually, that’s where I was going!" said Amy. "Really?" said Sonic. "Yeah! I can lead you there! C’mon!" "Now wait a minute, girly!" said Sonic "We’re not going to Never Lake to sightsee! It could be dangerous! Robotnik might be there! Me and Tails got wind that he was looking for the Time Stones and..." "Don’t worry about me! Besides, you said you were in a hurry and I know a shortcut!" Sonic took Tails aside "What do you think, Tails?" "Go on, Sonic! I’ll stay here and fix the Tornado and catch up later!" Tails whispered to Sonic. "Besides, I think she likes you!" "Yeah? Well, this is no time to be thinking of any of that!" Sonic looks back at Amy "She is cute, though!" "Sooooo?" "Sooooo, you get to work on fixing that wing, and I’ll go with Amy! Uhhh, I mean I’ll go to Never Lake with her!" Sonic walked back toward Amy "Okay, lead the way, Amy!" "Alright! Just follow me! I’m sure the famous Sonic will have no trouble keeping up!" "Huh? HA! No trouble at all!" Tails watched them disappear down the path. "Poor Sonic!" Dr. Ivo Robotnik watched from his Little Planet headquarters as his old adversary Sonic approached. Standing next to him was his greatest creation yet, Metal Sonic! "Yes, Hedgehog! Soon you shall meet up with Metal!" Just then, Robotnik noticed that someone else was traveling with Sonic. "Now what have we here? Well, well, Sonic has a little girl Hedgehog with him! Well isn’t that sweet?" Robotnik pointed to Amy Rose on the viewscreen. "Metal! Let’s give our Hedgehog friend a chance to play hero! Grab that girl!" THE BEGINNING...