Chapter 3

Amy twiddled her thumbs. She was bored. Sonic had been gone for longer then he normally was. Tails had fallen asleep pretty quickly, so Amy had no one to talk to. Suddenly, she heard someone pound on the door. She went to get it.

"What happened?" she gasped.

Sonic was holding an unconscious Knuckles who was bruised and burned. Sonic's face was downright depressed.

"I found Knuckles on Angels Island." Sonic said in a low voice. "He was in bad shape… As you can see. He said, something about a black hedgehog taking his Chaos Emerald and the Master Emerald." Sonic shook his head sadly. "Turns out only part of the Master Emerald was taken. And Angels Island is slowly, very slowly, falling to the ground." Sonic ground his teeth together in frustration. "Who is this hedgehog anyway? I'll bet he was the one who attacked Tails. When I get my hands on him…" Sonic gestured what he would do, which was hard, considering he was holding Knuckles.

"Come inside." said Amy, holding the door open. Sonic nodded his thanks, and went to the medical room and lay Knuckles in the other bed. He sat down and put his head in his hands. Eggman must be behind this somehow, but how? Suddenly, the communicator watch on his wrist lit up, and showed Rotor.

"Hey Rotor." said Sonic glumly. "What is it?"

"What's wrong Sonic?" asked Rotor, concerned.

Sonic explained what happened. Rotor was nodding.

"Actually, that's sort of what I wanted to talk to you about."

"It is?" Sonic searched his mind, and the only thing he could come up with, was that their Chaos Emerald had been stolen. "Was your Chaos Emerald stolen?" he asked.

But to his relief, Rotor shook his head. "No." he said. "Something else was stolen. I realized why my cloning machine won't work quite right. The key part of it was stolen! And with that key part, you can easily make another cloning machine! Maybe Eggman stole it, and that black hedgehog is a clone… Of you!"

Sorry this chapter is so short! I'll update soon!