Amy did not have to wait long for her next trial to occur. Mere seconds after the Sonic illusion had been spirited away, Amy was thrown from her feet by a massive shock wave that sent her tumbling head over heels along what felt like...some kind of soft gravel. After 3 seconds of this disorientation, she managed to regain control of herself and she looked back in the direction she had just been hit from. She noticed two black blobs shooting about nearby, both nearly indistinguishable from the other. The single difference that Amy could make out was that one had traces of a sandy pink colour while the other had blue hues to it. As Amy wondered what the purpose of this trial would be, one of the blobs lunged forwards at the other in a charging motion. The attack narrowly missed and the other blob was able to hit the first one from behind. After this one of the blobs began to retreat in Amy's direction. It was at this point Amy could see that it was not a mere blob, but a humanoid creature surrounded in what appeared to be black armour from head to...toe?
The other blob shortly followed and Amy only had enough time to note that it was also humanoid before the first creature shot past her with great speed. Amy just stared blankly at the two creatures as they did battle around her. She had no idea what was going on but she knew she had to do something. "HEY! YOU GUYS! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?". Amy's calling did not deter the two creatures however as they continued to dash and lunge at each other with great precision. "HEY! I'M TALKING TO YOU! I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF I-". Amy stopped herself as she saw one creature releasing what appeared to be a laser beam at the other. It scored a direct hit. But the dark mystery man did not even appear to flinch. Amy's eyes widened ever so slightly. "Did i just step into a war zone or something?". Soon the other creature responded in kind and returned fire with more primitive projectile weapons. Arrows with rockets attached to them. All of them struck their target except for one which carried onwards towards where Amy was. "EEEK!" Amy shut her eyes and covered her face in a vain attempt to dull the impact...but nothing happened. When Amy opened her eyes, the rocket powered arrow had landed just a few inches at her feet. This was all Amy could stand. "Alright! That's it! I'm putting a stop to this!"
With a great haste of her own, Amy dashed forward, reaching back to pull out her Piko Piko Hammer. As one of the creatures dived across her path, She leapt into the air and swung her hammer with great force. It struck a bulls-eye and successfully slowed the creature down. Amy smirked, but soon groaned as she realised that the creature was still too fast for her to keep up. Even at it's slowed speed, it was still retreating faster than she could run. Nonetheless, Amy soon was picking up the pace again and making her way to intercept the creatures who even now appeared to be charging for a big smash at each other. Amy leapt into the air once more, using the swing of her hammer as a boost and similarly lunged forth at the two. She knew should wouldn't be able to stop them, but she knew she had to try. Somehow she just knew. And before she knew it, something happened. Amy was no longer a few doze feet away. She was sitting right in between the two charging creatures. She was confused but knew that there were more pressing matters at present. She firmly gripped her hammer in both hands and stood ready. The distance was closing fast. 17 metres. 10 Metres. 5 metres. There was only 2 metres of space left when Amy finally uplifted her hammer. "I have-". Her hammer swung and hit the first creature dead on the noggin. "-had enough-". The hammer swung below her arm and delivered a sharp uppercut to the second creature. "Of this shit!!!". And before any of the creatures could rise back to their feet, Amy slammed her hammer down into the ground with a most ferocious thud. The resulting shockwave reverberating through their craniums, giving them both a splitting headache...
And at last there was silence. Amy stood in the middle, breathing harshly and with a look of tired frustration on her face. Both creatures appeared to have been incapacitated by the blows to the head and the shockwave. Amy snorted in triumph and promptly made her way over to one of the creatures. She grabbed the head piece of the armour and ripped it off with no effort at all. Inside the armour was an Echidna with grey hair and weary eyes. She promptly ripped the helmet off the other creature's armour too, revealing a Human being with brown hair and a face that looked like it had been carved by years of conflict. Amy then began to talk in a low, hurt voice. "Now...if I could just have your attention please...I require some knowledge...who are you?". Both Human and Echinda gave names and serial numbers, but at this point Amy didn't give a damn about who either of them were. "And just what the hell are you doing fighting like this?". "The Echidna responded in anger. "Fighting to protect my people young girl! From the wretches that are humans. All they do is take and take until there is nothing left!". The human responded with similar vitriol. "Eye for an eye you spineless coward. I lost my entire squadron to a bunch of your savage species mere moments after we had set up camp in this new land! You say we only take, yet what about the lives you took that day huh?". "You would destroy out way of life! Force us from our homes and slaughter us like pigs!". "If this is how you treat people in need then I see no difference. You'll kill anyone who doesn't belong to your tribe just because we are different!". "Because you will take from us what we have worked so hard to achieve. Humans! Nothing more than liars and cheats". "Cheating because we use our brains instead of brute force? Typical savage mindset of a typical savage Echi-".
"ENOUGH!" Amy Rose was now gritting her teeth and trying as hard as she could to keep herself from strangling the two of them. "You two clearly have no respect for each other or life in general. You let your fear and paranoia rule your actions instead of considering anything else. You seek to protect life by eliminating other life. This kind of hypocrisy will just not do! Don't you get it? You're all horrible!" Amy paused for a moment to catch her breath and in doing so, took a moment to look into the eyes of her companions. Both had a mixed expression of shock, anger, guilt and despair. They seemed to be losing their minds trying to process what was just said. Amy breathed deeply and continued in a more calm tone. "I'm sorry you had to hear it like this, but It's the truth. Nothing will change if you kill each other. You'll still be angry and still want to hurt others. That is the kind of thinking that starts wars, or had you forgotten that lives besides yours are affected by your choices? Are we like common weasels? You're supposed to be better than this...we...are supposed to be better than this". Amy trailed off and looked down sadly. "Please...just cease this senseless fighting...try to understand what you're doing...Try to break the cycle...For everyone's sake". Amy couldn't even see both of the creatures' faces and she didn't know if she wanted to. A few seconds of silence followed before a voice spoke out.
"...I've...been in error." Amy turned to see it was the Human who spoke. "...I'm sorry...I should have known...I...I really should have-". "Save your apologies human." The Echidna spoke up. "...save them until I give you mine...I'm sorry for thinking so low of you." Amy held her head in her hands and began to hyperventilate right then and there. Before she could do anything else though, her vision started to blur once more and the world around her felt as if it were fading away. She felt darkness overtake her mind, but it wasn't a malicious kind of darkness. It felt like a peaceful kind of darkness. It soothed and calmed her, making her feel as if nothing had ever happened. "Well well well. You have exceeded our expectations little one. I think you may be what we are looking for". Amy couldn't even respond as her mind blinked away from her for a few brief seconds. When it came back to her however, she was now in a different location. She was in...
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