They were hard times.

    Now that Sonic was gone, Eggman had taken the upper hand. Everyone had tried to stop him. Well at least Knuckles and Amy did but the best they did was to take one of infinite's eyes as a trophy.

        And Tails well... he just lost it.

    Shadow the hedgehog wanted to try as well.  However, along the way, he met Amy Rose. He still remembers the first time he saw her there on the battlefield. Fierce eyes, dust, and injuries all over her body. Dirty hair and a thought bandage around her waist. Her overly used hammer had now gotten a few scratches but still looked as strong as ever. Her stance firm and delicate but elegant as ever.

The battle was over and both of their bodies laid exhausted as they tried to get their breath back to their lungs. Breathing heavily, looking up at the blue sky that was rapidly growing darker by the second.

"I thought you were going to head over Eggman's main base...what stopped you?". Amy has gotten the courage to speak up to him. It had been many years since they had last spoken, but it was always good to see a "friendly" face.

"I couldn't let you and your group have all the fun." Being the ultimate life form, it was weird for Shadow to be this tired. He felt the rain began to touch his muzzle and without knowing, he found himself completely wet from head to toes. It wasn't a bad feeling, it was one of the few times where he was feeling alive.

"If you want to have more fun...why don't you come and join the Resistance?"

And that is how Shadow the hedgehog joined Amy, Knuckles and everyone else on their mission to stop Eggman's invasion. Pretty romantic, I must say. Amy Rose came back with a legend and everyone was happy to meet him. It was someone who they heard stories of when they were kids. Of times when they were happy and took their freedom for granted. Many lives were taken that day, but a hero had raised to action.

   Shadow was a new challenge to the raising Resistance Hero, Silver the Hedgehog. Even Shadow had to admit that he fought with Silver way more than he would do with Sonic. And it wasn't because Silver was a cocky one, no he was completely different from him.

   Silver is smart, thinks before he speaks, helps people out of pure common good and is really humble. A total hero. If it wasn't because he would flirt all the time with Amy Rose aka the captain, Silver could of have the complete respect from Shadow. Or at least that what Shadow thought.

"Who's that white hedgehog anyways?".  Shadow looked over to Amy who was very concentrated type on her computer at that time. Even in her deep state of mind, she found Shadow's voice rang through her ears.

"That's Silver the Hedgehog. A hero from the future, he came to help us defeat Eggman so his future could be saved from disaster as well." Amy took her sight a moment away from the computer and realized that she needed to put on her glasses before eyes take any more damage from the screen light.

"He looks like a hormonal teenage boy to me," Shadow added as he looked over to Amy.

"But you are a hormonal teenage boy too, Shadow." Amy looked over at him for a bit before going back to look for her glasses. She could have sworn she had left them at the upper casket of her desk.

"Experience is what makes you mature, believe me when I say I've had my own intake on that."

   Amy at this moment would really appreciate if Shadow stopped talking for a second and helped her do something more productive. Don't get her wrong, she likes talking to him. But recently, she has felt how Shadow had gotten 'closer,' to her. He walks with her, makes conversations and even shares his food with her sometimes which she appreciated. But she would really like to be alone sometimes when work was needed to be complete.

"Well, we don't know what he is been through either, Shadow. But that is not of our concern. He is a sweet, pure-hearted boy who is risking his life every day to protect everyone's future and that I respect."

    That shut him up real quick. Amy didn't want to sound mean either. Nonetheless, looking at Shadow's face made her realize that maybe she sounded way too annoyed with Shadow's presence.

"Look, Shadow-" 

"Amy! I think you are looking for this".

Amy and Shadow's attention now headed to the raising hero who walked through the Resistance's main door with that incredible smile of his that made most females on the Resistance fall for him right there and then.

"My glasses! Where did you find them?!". Amy run towards him, her mood changing completely and Shadow noticed this.

"You left them at the training room, I found them before anyone broke them." Silver gently gave them to her and Amy swirled as she grabbed them and put them on.

"Now I can finish my work, thank you, Silver, you really are a life saver!." Amy gave him a hug which Silver responded happily.

That's when Shadow knew he couldn't compete against that.

There was too much history. Past missions he didn't know, in-jokes he wasn't aware of, many moments shared between them and memories that bounded them together.

It's not like Shadow was there for Amy when the news arrived that Sonic passed away. Silver was and he was the only one so far that could calm Amy down on her panic attacks.

And even when his pride hurt, Shadow could never express how grateful he was that Silver would help calm down his girlfriend when he couldn't.

And he respected that.

But now it was living hell. Their mission had failed.  Infinite had created his own army made out of clones in which it completely outnumbers the Resistance's. How? The Intelligence section of the  Resistance still didn't know. There was only one fact known to everyone... more than half of the Resistance soldier's lives were lost. 

And the names were still unknown.

As soon as the order to retreat was given, Shadow, who was given the mission to infiltrate to Eggman's base, rushed from his location to the battlefield. But he didn't find Amy.  He began to feel panic, and if it wasn't because he knew that Amy was a skilled fighter, he would of have lost it by now.

"Mr. Shadow, you should head over the Resistance's Head Quarters, Captain Amy didn't seem like herself...we are away from danger now, so please go ahead". One of the soldiers reassured Shadow, he placed his hand on the rookie's shoulder and gave him a grateful look.

    After that, he went as fast as his legs allowed him. It began to rain so hard that even Shadow's good vision wasn't enough to keep him from falling once in a while.

Covered with mud from head to toes,  Shadow entered the Resistance's base, the room was dark and the only thing that could be seen was the computer's screen that emitted light showing, again and again, the happenings of today's tragedy.

"If you are looking for Amy, she's not here". Knuckles was sitting on a chair, his head down, looking at the floor. "I think today was too much for her".

    Shadow knew what he meant. Although Amy was a strong individual, she had her limits. Shadow had to admit that this were the days that he was scared the most. He loved Amy so much, but the thought of saying something that might hurt her in the state that she was in right now  , scared him the most.

"Where is Silver?". Shadow asked in hopes that the white hedgehog was already taking care of his beloved.

"That's the thing...Silver didn't come back".

It took Shadow one hour to finally find her. The rain covered her fully, her wet dress mashed against the grass. Her piko piko hammer lying next to her, her knees and legs touching the floor.

    Shadow's heartbeat began to increase as he saw Amy's face began to change drastically.  If Amy's pain was an ocean, Shadow wanted to be drowning on it. He preferred anything but the involuntary pain Amy was inflicting on him by her suffering like this.

    Shadow's feet were paralyzed as if they were glued to the ground. Shadow was everything but a good boyfriend, and he knew that. Whenever Amy had one of her panic attacks, Silver would be the one to be there for her. That was something that Shadow could never do because he was selfish. Shadow couldn't just bare it. He never could, he was always scared of hurting her. He didn't want to cause any type of harm to his beautiful cheerful girlfriend.  He just didn't want to ruin the best thing that has ever happened to him but now... he regretted it.

He regretted not even trying to be better for her.

But every time he saw her like that...he would break.

       Her beautiful laugh had become a desperate scream. Her soft skin was now covered with self-inflicted scratches. And her delicate body moved front and back in a fast manner. Once in a while, her head would make an impact with the ground until blood would come out of her skull.

And there was nothing Shadow could do. He wasn't strong enough, he never was. He was a pathetic piece of trash, something that should have never be born, a complete disaster. A  worthless failure. 

But not her... no, not her.

"Shadow, Silver is...Silver is-"

"Do you remember when you asked me to be your boyfriend?".

    Shadow's sudden voice startles Amy as she put her up to face him. Her pupils dilated from crying as she noticed Shadow in front of her, kneeled as he grabbed her hands and began to caress them.  Amy stared at him with a blank expression on her face.  By this, Shadow continued his tale.

It was their seventh mission together and the tension between them was obvious, at least that's what everyone on the Resistance would say.

"It's just like when we met, remember?.", Amy was lying next to Shadow, the battle was over and the rain had stopped. The clouds began to disperse and little by little sunlight was passing through it.

"Shadow..."

    Shadow turned his head to face Amy as she did the same. The light shone on her face, making her look like a goddess.  And Shadow couldn't do anything but to be awed by her.

"...would you allow me to be by your side...forever?"

"Amy...I have done terrible things, I am a failure, I made mistakes that don't let me sleep at night. Do you really want to be with someone as broken as me?"

"You are wrong . You are more than that...that's not you... No, you are anything but that... no, not you."

"You told me that you were broken, but the one who had always been broke was me.", Amy's voice cracked as she felt Shadow's lips touch her hand.

    Shadow wiped away the tear that was slowly making its way down to Amy's chin.

"Even when you are broken, you helped me picked up my pieces and put them back together. Amy, you may be broken, but this time I promise you, I'll be by your side...forever."

"I am sorry that you have to deal with this horrible side of me. That you feel the need to repair me. I am a mistake, a failure, a-"

    Shadow placed a gentle kiss on Amy's lip, interrupting her.

"You are wrong. You are more than that. That's not you...no, not you."

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A/n: Sorry for the long wait, I had been working on some other personal ShadAmy fanfictions that are on process. I hope this is somewhat what you wanted, I enjoyed writing this since its a bit out of my comfort zone. I am aware this is somehow a bit different from what you asked me. This wasn't Amy's first breakdown/panic attack but it was Shadow's first time responding to it; I wanted to create a powerful scene to that so therefore I changed it up a bit. I apologize for that, hopefully you can still enjoy reading this .Thank you for the opportunity and thank you for the beautiful prompt idea.

In any case, if anyone wants to know, Silver was found alive. So yupiii!

If anyone has any other prompts request or ideas, send me a dm! Thank you :)