when it rains chapter 2
*RING RING*
"Yello?" Sonic answered his cell phone, still running in the park.
"Sonic…it's Tails…I gotta tell you something, though I'm not sure how you would handle the news…"
"You can tell me anything! And don't tell me I can't handle anything, I've gotten stronger!"
"But this isn't really a physical thing…for you, anyway. It's more emotional and…mental."
"Just spill it out, Tails," he told him, getting impatient.
The fox sighed. "Okay, well, have you seen or heard about the news at all this morning?"
"No, I was out by six o'clock AM. Why?"
"Well, supposedly, a girl was raped…she was found bloody all over, especially from the hips down…"
"Yeah?"
"Sonic, they said it was pink hedgehog about the age of eighteen or nineteen. She was wearing a dress. Now, please don't tell me that does NOT sound like Amy to you…"
"Well, it couldn't be Amy, she's seventeen."
"Well, they said approximately about the age…of course it couldn't be exact. But, Sonic…it is Amy. Me, Cream, and Vanilla are here in the hospital…the doctor checked with us and said it was her," Tails started to sob.
"What…?"
"Just come to the hospital…I'll tell you more."
-Hospital
"You say what now?" Sonic asked, in total shock.
"The doctor said that Amy was raped by at least three guys or more, and she's completely in a mental disease where she thinks she's still being raped – she's reliving the night," Tails explained to him, his voice soft and broken now. "Her…genital is all swollen, and she also got beaten up in some other places…"
"…And how did this happen?"
"They're not sure yet…Amy hasn't woken up from the coma."
"Well, how long will it be until she wakes up?"
"They say by later tonight she'll be up, but they're not entirely sure if she'll still have the images inside her head. Doctor says that she's afraid to be touched now…or even when he's near her, she's freaking out…"
Sonic was absolutely speechless. She's scared to be touched by people. She's scared to be near people, hell she was scared of herself almost.
"There's nothing you could do…to fix this? I mean, you have like…an IQ of 500, right…?" He trailed off, seeing Tails shake his head 'no'.
"It's implanted in her brain. The memory. You can't remove a memory unless she also got amnesia…"
"NO, don't say that she has amnesia!" Cream cried, even more scared now.
"I'm sorry…it's most likely she doesn't."
"This isn't possible. Amy…is not herself?" Sonic asked again.
"No, Sonic…once she wakes up, she'll be afraid. Of everyone. Of us. Of you."
Sonic didn't know whether to laugh or cry. For years he had wished Amy could give up and realize that he wasn't ready for any kind of relationship right now.
But not like this. Not while she had a mental disease.
"So she's not going to be herself?" He asked once more.
"No…she's going to be scared when she wakes up. She's going to want to lock herself in her room and cry and scream. But we have to help her. Step by step. I don't know how long it'll take, I don't know how hard it will be…but we have to try."
"Shit…" Sonic swore, now sitting down on the couch, rubbing his face. He let out a deep breath.
Cream sniffed, getting ready to cry again.
It was quiet though, everyone was in silent tears. Well, Sonic wasn't really crying though. He just cannot dissect the feelings he has right now. Was it hurt, was it happiness? Was it…anger?
Amy was raped by a group of men, and he wasn't there to save her.
He suddenly felt the same feeling when he saw Cosmo trapped inside the glass seal along with Chris, unconscious. He got the same, tingly, angry feeling before he turned into Dark Sonic.
'No…I got to fight this feeling.' He thought to himself.
He wanted to find that group of men, and kill them. He wanted to slice their genitals off and kill them with it no matter how long it takes. He wanted them burned, He wanted them shot, he wanted them to die in hell and never ever live as a breathing organism.
On the other side, he was hurting deep down inside. Amy wasn't going to be herself anymore.
-Night time
By now, the entire Sonic crew was there, except for Shadow.
Knuckles's reaction was angry. He felt the same way as Sonic did, except angrier. He wanted to pull out his metal claws and literally rip their skin off.
Rouge had the same reaction as Tails, shocked and speechless, not knowing what to do anymore. Amy and Rouge had become quite good friends over the years, so it hurt her pretty deeply.
Suddenly, another scream was heard. It was for sure Amy's.
Sonic literally had to resist his last urge to find her and save her.
But she couldn't stop screaming.
"God…" Sonic muttered. After another scream, he ran and followed the voice. He finally reached the room, but the doctors and nurses stopped her.
"Mr. Sonic, wait! You can't go in there!"
"I have to! Ugh, let me go!"
"You can't! She is in too much pain and she'll be scared of you! She is in a bad condition to see anybody right now!"
"I don't care! Let me in!"
"Sonic!" Knuckles yelled. He had followed him after he ran. "You have to listen to them! Amy has to calm down first!"
"I just want to see her!"
"You can't! Don't you understand, Sonic? She's -" He was interrupted by another scream.
"Can't you hear her in there?" He yelled at him. "She needs me!"
"No, she does not! She's going to be scared of you! Why do you think she's screaming in there? The doctor is trying to calm her down, but because he's touching her, she thinks she's being raped!"
"WHICH IS WHY I HAVE TO SAVE HER!"
Smack! Rouge slapped Sonic right across the face.
"You don't get it, do you, blue boy? She's not being raped, she thinks she is. The doctor's trying his best to heal Amy the best as possible, but you can't do anything right now. The best we could do right now is wait for her to calm down, and then we'll go see her."
Sonic stared at her right into her eyes. She was right, but he didn't want her to be.
"Let me go." He roughly pulled away from the doctors' hands. He walked back into the waiting room.
"See, all you had to do was literally smack some sense into him. You gotta slap him, Knuckie," Rouge explained.
"Oh, jeez. Just shut up and let's go."
Sonic literally had to cover his ears to block out Amy's screaming, it was simply non-stop. Cream was bursting into tears, screaming, "make it stop!" and she had to run outside to avoid everyone right now.
"Cream!" Vanilla ran after her outside.
Tails sighed with deep unhappiness and hid his face with his hands.
After a few more hours, the crying finally stopped, and Cream and Vanilla came back in, soaking wet. It was obviously raining out there.
"I guess we should stay here for the night. It's like a downpour and you can't see anything," the mother rabbit explain. Everyone agreed.
A couple more hours passed, and by now, the entire hospital was quiet. Eventually, Amy's doctor came in the waiting room, quite surprised to see everyone still here.
"You must be very good friends to be waiting this long. Fortunately, Amy has calmed down to a certain limit…unfortunately, she still feels very uncomfortable around men…but she did ask for a Cream the Rabbit or a Rouge the Bat."
"I'm Rouge. Cream, are you strong enough to see her…?"
"N-No…not at the moment. Please tell me if she's okay, though…"
"Will do. Lead me to her, doctor."
The doctor lead her to the room Amy was in. Before he officially let her in, he warned her. "Please be careful with her…she's in major mental damage still and I don't want any more harm coming at her."
"Don't worry, I'm one of her good friends."
"Okay. Go on in, then. I'll be right out the door if you need me."
"Thanks." She entered the room, and when she first laid her eyes on the pink hedgehog, her own body honestly did not know whether to have a heart attack or faint.
She did not look like herself at all. She used to have such a cheery pink color. Now she's pale and not so pink anymore. Her jade eyes were before extravagant and so full of life. Now they're empty and lost. She was trembling. She had a look on her face that just screams that she was absolutely scared.
"R-Rouge…" her voice was small and hesitant.
Tears welled up in the bat's eyes. "Yes, Amy?"
"I was raped…"
"I know. I've heard."
"I can't feel myself anymore…I don't feel good and I feel so out of it."
"Oh, Amy…"
"Why'd this happen to me…?"
"Hun, it's…it happens to people…"
"But why me?"
"I don't know, sweetie. I don't have all the answers."
"Why…me…?"
"Do you remember what they looked like?" Rouge asked, changing the topic.
"I can't…visualize anything anymore. I just…feel it. I keep feeling it."
Rouge got the strength to walk up to her. "Try not to," she whispered.
"I do try. But it keeps coming back."
"God…what have they done to you…?"
"They physically and emotionally damaged me."
"Amy, let me ask you something…You surely do remember a Sonic…right?"
"Sonic…Sonic! SONIC!"
"Amy, calm down! The doctor says he can't really trust men to see you yet."
"What? W-Why?"
"He's afraid you'll get scared."
Amy's eyes started to tear up and she didn't care. She let the tears fall down.
"But I won't be…Ugh…well, can I at least see Cream?"
"She's afraid to see what you look like…she'd probably faint at the sight of you by now…no offense."
"No, it's okay…I look horrible, I know…Wait…Sonic does know what happened, right?"
"Yes. He's here right now."
" How's he handling this…?" Amy wondered about this. She couldn't stand the sight of Sonic crying. Well, she never even saw him cry, but still, it's not really what she'd like to see.
"Not well…when you were crying and screaming, Sonic tried to get through here, but since the doctor doesn't trust him quite yet to see you, people stopped him from going through."
"Oh…I think I heard him…I was still numb, I think they put novacaine in me, so I wasn't sure…but I guess it was."
"Yeah. I had to slap him to snap him out of it because he didn't quite get why he couldn't see you."
"Is he crying? Or did he cry?"
"No, he's more angry than sad. I'm pretty sure he wants to rip those guys' genitals off."
"He better…I'm sure once I get better, I'll remember what they looked like. I know for a fact that they were hedgehogs though."
"Okay. Well, that's one detail."
"Yeah…ow…" Amy groaned in pain, rubbing her lower abdomen.
"It still hurts really bad?"
"No…the novacaine is still affecting my body…it's a different pain."
Rouge burrowed her eyebrows in confusion. Then she raised them in realization.
"Oh my god."
"What?"
"No way…this can't be..."
"Rouge, WHAT?" Amy yelled, getting scared out of her wits now, the pain subsiding for a bit.
But Rouge didn't answer for she literally flew out of the hospital room and grabbed the doctor's collar.
"Please tell me…" the bat's sea blue eyes pierced through his own brown eyes. "that Amy isn't…"
"Yello?" Sonic answered his cell phone, still running in the park.
"Sonic…it's Tails…I gotta tell you something, though I'm not sure how you would handle the news…"
"You can tell me anything! And don't tell me I can't handle anything, I've gotten stronger!"
"But this isn't really a physical thing…for you, anyway. It's more emotional and…mental."
"Just spill it out, Tails," he told him, getting impatient.
The fox sighed. "Okay, well, have you seen or heard about the news at all this morning?"
"No, I was out by six o'clock AM. Why?"
"Well, supposedly, a girl was raped…she was found bloody all over, especially from the hips down…"
"Yeah?"
"Sonic, they said it was pink hedgehog about the age of eighteen or nineteen. She was wearing a dress. Now, please don't tell me that does NOT sound like Amy to you…"
"Well, it couldn't be Amy, she's seventeen."
"Well, they said approximately about the age…of course it couldn't be exact. But, Sonic…it is Amy. Me, Cream, and Vanilla are here in the hospital…the doctor checked with us and said it was her," Tails started to sob.
"What…?"
"Just come to the hospital…I'll tell you more."
-Hospital
"You say what now?" Sonic asked, in total shock.
"The doctor said that Amy was raped by at least three guys or more, and she's completely in a mental disease where she thinks she's still being raped – she's reliving the night," Tails explained to him, his voice soft and broken now. "Her…genital is all swollen, and she also got beaten up in some other places…"
"…And how did this happen?"
"They're not sure yet…Amy hasn't woken up from the coma."
"Well, how long will it be until she wakes up?"
"They say by later tonight she'll be up, but they're not entirely sure if she'll still have the images inside her head. Doctor says that she's afraid to be touched now…or even when he's near her, she's freaking out…"
Sonic was absolutely speechless. She's scared to be touched by people. She's scared to be near people, hell she was scared of herself almost.
"There's nothing you could do…to fix this? I mean, you have like…an IQ of 500, right…?" He trailed off, seeing Tails shake his head 'no'.
"It's implanted in her brain. The memory. You can't remove a memory unless she also got amnesia…"
"NO, don't say that she has amnesia!" Cream cried, even more scared now.
"I'm sorry…it's most likely she doesn't."
"This isn't possible. Amy…is not herself?" Sonic asked again.
"No, Sonic…once she wakes up, she'll be afraid. Of everyone. Of us. Of you."
Sonic didn't know whether to laugh or cry. For years he had wished Amy could give up and realize that he wasn't ready for any kind of relationship right now.
But not like this. Not while she had a mental disease.
"So she's not going to be herself?" He asked once more.
"No…she's going to be scared when she wakes up. She's going to want to lock herself in her room and cry and scream. But we have to help her. Step by step. I don't know how long it'll take, I don't know how hard it will be…but we have to try."
"Shit…" Sonic swore, now sitting down on the couch, rubbing his face. He let out a deep breath.
Cream sniffed, getting ready to cry again.
It was quiet though, everyone was in silent tears. Well, Sonic wasn't really crying though. He just cannot dissect the feelings he has right now. Was it hurt, was it happiness? Was it…anger?
Amy was raped by a group of men, and he wasn't there to save her.
He suddenly felt the same feeling when he saw Cosmo trapped inside the glass seal along with Chris, unconscious. He got the same, tingly, angry feeling before he turned into Dark Sonic.
'No…I got to fight this feeling.' He thought to himself.
He wanted to find that group of men, and kill them. He wanted to slice their genitals off and kill them with it no matter how long it takes. He wanted them burned, He wanted them shot, he wanted them to die in hell and never ever live as a breathing organism.
On the other side, he was hurting deep down inside. Amy wasn't going to be herself anymore.
-Night time
By now, the entire Sonic crew was there, except for Shadow.
Knuckles's reaction was angry. He felt the same way as Sonic did, except angrier. He wanted to pull out his metal claws and literally rip their skin off.
Rouge had the same reaction as Tails, shocked and speechless, not knowing what to do anymore. Amy and Rouge had become quite good friends over the years, so it hurt her pretty deeply.
Suddenly, another scream was heard. It was for sure Amy's.
Sonic literally had to resist his last urge to find her and save her.
But she couldn't stop screaming.
"God…" Sonic muttered. After another scream, he ran and followed the voice. He finally reached the room, but the doctors and nurses stopped her.
"Mr. Sonic, wait! You can't go in there!"
"I have to! Ugh, let me go!"
"You can't! She is in too much pain and she'll be scared of you! She is in a bad condition to see anybody right now!"
"I don't care! Let me in!"
"Sonic!" Knuckles yelled. He had followed him after he ran. "You have to listen to them! Amy has to calm down first!"
"I just want to see her!"
"You can't! Don't you understand, Sonic? She's -" He was interrupted by another scream.
"Can't you hear her in there?" He yelled at him. "She needs me!"
"No, she does not! She's going to be scared of you! Why do you think she's screaming in there? The doctor is trying to calm her down, but because he's touching her, she thinks she's being raped!"
"WHICH IS WHY I HAVE TO SAVE HER!"
Smack! Rouge slapped Sonic right across the face.
"You don't get it, do you, blue boy? She's not being raped, she thinks she is. The doctor's trying his best to heal Amy the best as possible, but you can't do anything right now. The best we could do right now is wait for her to calm down, and then we'll go see her."
Sonic stared at her right into her eyes. She was right, but he didn't want her to be.
"Let me go." He roughly pulled away from the doctors' hands. He walked back into the waiting room.
"See, all you had to do was literally smack some sense into him. You gotta slap him, Knuckie," Rouge explained.
"Oh, jeez. Just shut up and let's go."
Sonic literally had to cover his ears to block out Amy's screaming, it was simply non-stop. Cream was bursting into tears, screaming, "make it stop!" and she had to run outside to avoid everyone right now.
"Cream!" Vanilla ran after her outside.
Tails sighed with deep unhappiness and hid his face with his hands.
After a few more hours, the crying finally stopped, and Cream and Vanilla came back in, soaking wet. It was obviously raining out there.
"I guess we should stay here for the night. It's like a downpour and you can't see anything," the mother rabbit explain. Everyone agreed.
A couple more hours passed, and by now, the entire hospital was quiet. Eventually, Amy's doctor came in the waiting room, quite surprised to see everyone still here.
"You must be very good friends to be waiting this long. Fortunately, Amy has calmed down to a certain limit…unfortunately, she still feels very uncomfortable around men…but she did ask for a Cream the Rabbit or a Rouge the Bat."
"I'm Rouge. Cream, are you strong enough to see her…?"
"N-No…not at the moment. Please tell me if she's okay, though…"
"Will do. Lead me to her, doctor."
The doctor lead her to the room Amy was in. Before he officially let her in, he warned her. "Please be careful with her…she's in major mental damage still and I don't want any more harm coming at her."
"Don't worry, I'm one of her good friends."
"Okay. Go on in, then. I'll be right out the door if you need me."
"Thanks." She entered the room, and when she first laid her eyes on the pink hedgehog, her own body honestly did not know whether to have a heart attack or faint.
She did not look like herself at all. She used to have such a cheery pink color. Now she's pale and not so pink anymore. Her jade eyes were before extravagant and so full of life. Now they're empty and lost. She was trembling. She had a look on her face that just screams that she was absolutely scared.
"R-Rouge…" her voice was small and hesitant.
Tears welled up in the bat's eyes. "Yes, Amy?"
"I was raped…"
"I know. I've heard."
"I can't feel myself anymore…I don't feel good and I feel so out of it."
"Oh, Amy…"
"Why'd this happen to me…?"
"Hun, it's…it happens to people…"
"But why me?"
"I don't know, sweetie. I don't have all the answers."
"Why…me…?"
"Do you remember what they looked like?" Rouge asked, changing the topic.
"I can't…visualize anything anymore. I just…feel it. I keep feeling it."
Rouge got the strength to walk up to her. "Try not to," she whispered.
"I do try. But it keeps coming back."
"God…what have they done to you…?"
"They physically and emotionally damaged me."
"Amy, let me ask you something…You surely do remember a Sonic…right?"
"Sonic…Sonic! SONIC!"
"Amy, calm down! The doctor says he can't really trust men to see you yet."
"What? W-Why?"
"He's afraid you'll get scared."
Amy's eyes started to tear up and she didn't care. She let the tears fall down.
"But I won't be…Ugh…well, can I at least see Cream?"
"She's afraid to see what you look like…she'd probably faint at the sight of you by now…no offense."
"No, it's okay…I look horrible, I know…Wait…Sonic does know what happened, right?"
"Yes. He's here right now."
" How's he handling this…?" Amy wondered about this. She couldn't stand the sight of Sonic crying. Well, she never even saw him cry, but still, it's not really what she'd like to see.
"Not well…when you were crying and screaming, Sonic tried to get through here, but since the doctor doesn't trust him quite yet to see you, people stopped him from going through."
"Oh…I think I heard him…I was still numb, I think they put novacaine in me, so I wasn't sure…but I guess it was."
"Yeah. I had to slap him to snap him out of it because he didn't quite get why he couldn't see you."
"Is he crying? Or did he cry?"
"No, he's more angry than sad. I'm pretty sure he wants to rip those guys' genitals off."
"He better…I'm sure once I get better, I'll remember what they looked like. I know for a fact that they were hedgehogs though."
"Okay. Well, that's one detail."
"Yeah…ow…" Amy groaned in pain, rubbing her lower abdomen.
"It still hurts really bad?"
"No…the novacaine is still affecting my body…it's a different pain."
Rouge burrowed her eyebrows in confusion. Then she raised them in realization.
"Oh my god."
"What?"
"No way…this can't be..."
"Rouge, WHAT?" Amy yelled, getting scared out of her wits now, the pain subsiding for a bit.
But Rouge didn't answer for she literally flew out of the hospital room and grabbed the doctor's collar.
"Please tell me…" the bat's sea blue eyes pierced through his own brown eyes. "that Amy isn't…"