Desperation

A Close Call

Amy ran as fast as she could down the street. She wasn't as fast as Sonic, but she was still pretty fast. As she ran, thoughts were racing through her head.

This doesn't make any sense. She thought. Eggman's never done anything like this before. He's never just attacked us directly. Cream and Tails are in trouble, Sonic is MIA. "I guess I'll have to take care of this myself." She pulled out her Piko Piko hammer speeding up even more. Seconds later Tails' workshop began to come in view. Amy could see the explosions caused by missiles and gunfire spouting from the roof.

The robot faced Cream and an unconscious Tails. It was chrome and was at least 10 feet tall. It pointed one of its arms at Cream. The arm then shifted into a laser cannon.

Cream gasped and held on to Tails' motionless body, holding him tight.

The metallic horror began charging his weapon.

Cream's eyes widened....

*PIKO!*

A familiar hammer slammed into the automaton's arm, knocking it clean in half. The force of the blow made the automaton stumble. It then turned to its assailant, as if to say "WTF". There stood Amy, hammer drawn, in a battle ready stance, fire burning in her eyes.

"Ok rustbucket! You're going to pay for hurting Tails!" Amy screamed. She lunged at the automaton rapidly swinging her hammer repeatedly and making contact with every swing. She pulled her hammer back and swung with all her might.

*Ka-chank*

The automaton had caught the hammer in its metal claws. It kicked its metal leg and knocked away Amy a big distance from it. Amy quickly jumped to her feet. The automaton then shot out a barrage of missiles. Thinking quickly, Amy pulled out another hammer and whirled around like a tornado.
She repelled the missiles one after another, knocking them throughout the workshop. One hit the ceiling just above Amy causing it to collapse.

"Amy, Lookout!" Cream yelled.

Amy looked up as the debris and large parts of the ceiling fell. "Ahhh!" She screamed.
Cream ran up and pushed her out the way. Parts of the ceiling crashed to the ground, just barely missing the two.
Amy struggled to stand up and as she did, the automaton pointed its missile launcher right at her and Cream.

*Sha-zlak!*

A titanium hammer that seemed to come out of nowhere, slashed right through the automaton and it fell to its metallic knees.

*BOOM!*

Their chrome assailant had exploded right in front of their eyes. Amy stared in awe. She couldn't believe it. As the smoke faded, she saw a figure beginning to come into view. She caught a glimpse of a pair of pink ears and some dark black shades.
The mysterious stranger then began to run.

"Wait!" Amy cried, and began to run after the stranger.

"Amy!" Cream called.

Amy had completely forgotten about Tails. She ran out the workshop doors after the stranger. "Wait, wait!" She cried out, chasing him deep into town. She was catching up to the stranger, when he rounded a corner. She did the same and stopped as she saw he was nowhere in sight. There were only a lot of citizens walking about.
"Where...?" She started to ask herself, until a pink head caught her eye. "Aha!" The stranger quickly ran around another corner. This time Amy was a bit behind.

She rounded the corner...

"UMPH!"

She had ran head-on into someone and fell back on the ground.

"Yo Ames, what's the rush?"

Amy looked up to see a familiar blue hedgehog on the ground, rubbing the back of his head.

She smiled a broad smile.