As I kept struggling to get Metal Sonic's cold grasps off me and stared at his uncanny yet adorable face, hoping to scare him off with my Do-Not-Anger-Me-Because-I-Have-A-Short-Temper face...questions began filling my mind. If Sonic did not let Eggman transform him into a robot...where would Eggman and Metal Sonic take me? Why did Eggman wish to turn a sweet, funny hedgehog like Sonic into some emotionless robot? Would he turn me into some robot instead? My expression changed to worry. No. Fear. I loosened my hands on Metal Sonic's. I shivered and gazed down at my animal friends. Sonic would never let the innocent meet such a horrible fate. Neither would I if the roles were reversed.

I called an evil robot who was hurting me cute, though. Did I wish to still be in the safety of the real world? No. I would rather become a boring robot for the rest of my life than remain in the world full of anti-creativity. You readers agree with me, I know.

I could have interrogated Eggman, but this was not the time. Though, that did not stop my abnormal side from threatening him. I closed my eyes before letting out my anger. "If you transform me or Sonic into a robot, I will shave...hold it, you are bald. I will shave off your cactus and...glue it to your head with superglue!" I opened my eyes. "Sonic, do you or your friends have superglue or a shaver?"

"I do not know what a shaver is...but I have superglue," Knuckles confirmed.

"You do not shave, Knuckles?" Sonic questioned. "And why do you have superglue?"

"In case that somebody ticks me off or tries stealing the Master Emerald."

"Wait," Amy joined in. "Is that why the chair was stuck on my bottom?"

He hesitated. "...absolutely not. We are friends. Either someone else has superglue or stole mine." He pointed his fist at Sonic and spoke above a whisper. "I do think that Sonic did it. He does not love you the way that you love him."

Amy did not buy it. I had known Sonic for only an hour and a half and knew that he was innocent.

Even from up in the sky, I clearly saw the rage in Amy's eyes. Her kindness had disappeared, but her eagerness remained. Her eagerness to flatten Knuckles. She lifted her huge hammer and smashed it...next to him, leaving a small hole in the ground.

"Once this battle is over, I will superglue your butt to a chair," Amy warned. "Then...I will make a pancake out of you!"

Knuckles gently punched his open fist. "Think that you can take me down? Besides, would you actually want to harm Sonic's best friend?"

Tails slowly turned his head towards him. "Want me to ram you with my plane?"

Shadow was rubbing his forehead. "Why must I put up with these jokes for heroes?"

"What is happening?" Eggman asked.

If you believe that Knuckles supergluing Amy to a chair is weird, you have not read weird yet, which is now!

"SO YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT I AM CUTE?" Metal Sonic questioned, snapping my attention back to him.

I growled, "You would be cuter if you set me down and left me and my friends alone."

His hand left my body - only to find my cheek and used its pointy fingers to stroke it. "YOU ARE CUTE WHEN YOU GROWL."

My heart skipped a beat. "W-what?"

"NOBODY - NOT EVEN THOSE LADY ROBOTS - HAS EVER CALLED ME CUTE."

"Did you just call me cute?"

He gently grabbed my chin and cocked my head to one side. "HUH. NOW THAT I AM LOOKING AT YOU AS A HUMAN INSTEAD OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE..."

"Excuse me?"

"...YOU ARE UNLIKE ANY CREATURE THAT I HAVE EVER CAPTURED, HUMAN OR ANIMAL. I HAVE TO KNOW THE NAME OF THIS BEAUTIFUL MORTAL."

Did a robot hedgehog fall in love with me only because I called him cute? It states in my description that Metal Sonic would be crushing on me, so...

I laughed nervously, praying that his sudden change in demeanor was a sick joke. "You are talking as if you are in love with me."

"ANY MALE MORTAL NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU IS A FOOL."

"But...if every dude loved me...you would have loads of competition."

"Fair point. Luckily, I know how we can keep that black hedgehog from falling for you."

"You mean Shadow? Oh, he does not love me. I am out of his league."

"But you love him."

"Nothing more than a friend who saved me twice."

"You started blushing when I said, 'black hedgehog.'"

Up until now, Sonic and his buddies were busy arguing about shavers and superglue. Eggman was busy telling them to shut it. Shadow was nowhere. He probably got sick of the bickering and vanished.

He left without saving me? He left me in the hands of a vicious scientist and an insane robot? I knew that I was too obnoxious to be his type.

Nobody overheard the robot professing his love for me. But when I tried denying my love for Shadow...

"I...do not love him! You hear?! I do not love Shadow! I am nothing like the girls from the real world who fall in love with the first guy whom she spots! Shadow and his friends are my friends!" I sighed. "My only friends."

I heard a low voice. "We are friends?"

Metal Sonic and I gazed down. Standing right below us was...Shadow. Curiosity was written on his face.

My entire face was burning. "You did not hear all that - did you?"

"Every word."

"Oh, gosh." I slapped Metal Sonic's face, but he did not flinch. "Ow!" I held my throbbing hand. "I should have seen that coming."

"Real stupid, Alinta," Shadow remarked. "But I admire your strength."

"NOT FOR LONG!" Metal Sonic declared.

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