Chaos Corrupts Absolutely

Chapter 8

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[Time - 7:15 A.M.]

[Date - July 1st, 23XX)

(Location - Station Square, Residential District, Amy's Apartment)

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{Morning, Amy... Still nothing?} Tails asked over the phone.

Amy sighed as she walked around in her apartment wearing pajamas, having recently gotten up from sleep, awakening to the sound of the alarm on her phone. "No..." She replied solemnly, not even bothering to say good morning. "It's been eight hours and he hasn't sent out a single message or called anybody."

{That we know of...} Tails clarified.

"Who would he possibly be talking to instead of us?" Amy pondered as she held her hand to her mouth.

{I don't know.} The yellow kitsune responded. {I'm just trying to think of things he might be doing.}

Feeling her heart fall to the bottom of her chest, she started crying as she thought about what might have happened to her beloved hero. "What if he's dead?"

{Don't say that, Amy... Sonic is too strong to get taken out by a streetgang.} Tails tried his best to calm her.

"But..." Amy interjected with fear in her voice. "He's shot in the shoulder, what if he's bleeding out in an alley somewhere!? We have to go looking for him."

{Amy, calm down...} Tails asserted {Sonic has been shot before. He knows what to do with his injury. In fact, maybe that's where he's at. He could have gone to a hospital to get the bullet removed and the wound stitched shut. So, try not to jump to conclusions. Believe me, I've been in your shoes numerous times after all of our adventures together and he always shows up acting like we shouldn't have been worried about him in the first place.}

"There's no way Sonic is at a hospital, he hates them!" Amy clarified.

Grumbling at the pink hedgehog's unwavering hastiness, the youthful fox spoke her name several times to signify how serious he was. {Amy... Amy, Amy. He's alright. I promise. I'm not worried about him... yet.}

"How can you say that, Tails?" Amy remarked, "He exploded a... a... a guy! A live human! He went so fast he tore straight through him!!"

Not able to fully understand precisely what Amy herself had witnessed last night, Tails still knew that the situation sounded rather dire compared to other instances. However, in his heart, he knew that Sonic had to have a good reason for basically causing a living homosapien to turn into a pile of ground meat. He knew that Sonic would never outright murder a person without cause. {But, it was in self defense, right?}

"Of course it was..." Amy cleared the air as best as she could. "They were going to kill him. Once they saw they couldn't, when it was just their leader left, the guy decided to try and kill me just so he could hurt Sonic."

{That's self defense in my book.} Tails confirmed.

Walking out into the living room, she went over to and got up on the couch, swinging her feet onto the cushion as she sat sideways. "It was definitely self defense. But, what I'm worried about is his state of mind. He seemed so unstable when I first saw him yesterday morning. After all of that stuff with him feeling ousted by society, feeling like none of them cared about the true him, feeling like they hated him since the previous Death Egg Robot incident; then, to be brutally attacked by the Concrete Junkies BEFORE being kidnapped by our arch-nemesis..." She stopped to take a breath. "I'm concerned he's losing it a little. Eggman was obviously attempting to brainwash him. Who knows what damage to his psyche has been done!"