The next morning, the gang made their way to Angel Island, where Knuckles watched over the Master Emerald. It was time to put plan B into action, if the chaos emeralds didn't work then maybe they could get some help from the Master Emerald. Once they made their way to the shrine where the Master Emerald was held, Knuckles stopped everyone in their tracks. He walked up the steps so he could talk to the emerald in private before walking back down to the rest of the gang.

'The Master Emerald is aware of our situation. It wasn't able to work out why Blaze and Silver couldn't be sent back by the chaos emeralds.' Knuckles said with a slight defeated expression.

'So now what?' Rouge asked.

'Well, it said it was willing to try and send them back, although there was no guarantee it would work. I've never seen the Master Emerald so confused or frustrated.'

'So what does it want us all to do?' Cosmo asked.

'Silver and Blaze need to come up to the Master Emerald with me, while the rest of you guys stand by each chaos emerald pedestal.'

'What do we have to do with it?' Amy asked curiously.

'The Master Emerald can use life energy, right Knuckles?' Tails asked.

'That's it, nothing life threatening or even harming but just in case. You all in?'

'Let's do it!' Sonic exclaimed with his usual, cocky grin that made Amy's heart melt.

Knuckles led Blaze and Silver up the grand steps towards the Master Emerald while Rouge, Shadow, Cosmo, Sonic, Amy, Tails and Cream all took a place by each pedestal that usually homes the seven chaos emeralds. Knuckles looked around at everyone to make sure everything was ready to go, he gave Sonic a nod before turning to face the Master Emerald and rose his arms in the air.

'Oh, Master Emerald, hear our plea. Please help us send our friends back to their own home in the future. We call on your power, we call on your help, oh mighty Master Emerald!' Knuckles chanted repeatedly, causing the emerald to glow.

Eventually a green aura began to glow around Blaze and Silver, showing to the rest of the gang that this plan must be working. Suddenly Amy fell to her knees fast and began to pant.

'Ames? Are you ok?' Sonic panicked as he looked over to the pink hedgehog.

'Yeah, yeah I'm fine.' Amy panted a reply, still managing to remain calm.

'It's ok guys, it's just the Emerald. It won't hurt her.' Knuckles yelled out.

Suddenly Amy lay herself on the ground, causing everyone to become slightly nervous. Then Cream and Cosmo fell to the ground as they both let out a shriek of panic. Tails yelled out for Knuckles to make the emerald stop but he wouldn't, Blaze and Silver looked as though they were leaving. It was too dangerous to stop now.

'Ahhh! God, help!' Rouge screamed as she held her stomach and backed up into the pedestal.

That did it, now Knuckles was scared. He began to chant to the Master Emerald, asking it why it was hurting everyone. The emerald's response was fuzzy and detached, he could only make out that something was wrong and it couldn't send them back.

'STOP!' Knuckles screamed.

Suddenly everyone's pain subsided before they collapsed to the ground. Blaze and Silver came back into full view, a little dizzy. They looked around to find four of their friend on the ground in pain. They, along with Knuckles ran down the stairs to see if they were alright.

'Amy? Amy, are you awake?' Sonic asked as he lift her head up a little.

'Huh? Sonic?'

'Yeah, Ames. It's me, you ok?' Sonic smiled.

'I-I'm fine, just great.' Amy smiled a goofy smile as she blushed furiously.

Tails and Shadow picked up Cream and Cosmo who appeared to be passed out, or maybe even merely sleeping. Knuckles barged through everyone to get to Rouge who was still lying on the ground, lightly gripping her stomach. He was very subtle like that…

'Rouge? Are you ok? What's wrong? What hurts?' Knuckles blurted out as he got to his knees and tried to help her up.

'Calm down, Knucklehead. I'm a big girl, I just need a hand standing up.' Rouge smirked.

Knuckles nodded nervously as he blushed a little with embarrassment. Once he had Rouge standing, he held her steady as he looked around at all the others, then looking over his shoulder at Blaze and Silver who had worried looks on their faces.

'I'm so sorry, everyone. I took it too far.' Knuckles apologized.

'It's not your fault, Knuckles. You didn't know that was going to happen.' Sonic smiled as he helped Amy to her feet.

'The Master Emerald is telling me it's also sorry and it wishes it could help, but it can't.'

'Ah don't worry, we'll sort it out.' Sonic said again with a thumbs up.

'Come on, let's get these guys home.' Shadow said, looking at Cream in his arms who was still out to it.

That night, after Cosmo and Cream finally came too, Knuckles spent a good half an hour apologizing to them. They felt awful watching him in such a state of panic but of course the boys couldn't help but lap up his show of fear and affection all meshed into one. Amy made tea for everyone before they all gathered in the living room to discuss the next course of action.

'Alright, so now what do we do?' Amy asked as she took a seat.

'Well, that's two plans down. Surely there will be something else that's bound to work, right Tails?' Cosmo said.

'I'm sure you're right, Cosmo, but I'm running out of ideas. I might need some more help.' Tails sighed.

'How about the Chaotix?' Cream suggested.

'No offense, Hun, but I don't think they could make an entire brain between them all.' Rouge smirked.

'Oh? Even with Miss Tikal?'

'What now?'

'Yes, Miss Tikal has been doing a little work with them recently. I'm sure she would be willing to help us all send Miss Blaze and Mr. Silver back!'

'Well, it can't hurt, right?' Amy shrugged.

'Guess not?' Knuckles admitted.

'Great! Then let's head over there first thing tomorrow.' Sonic smiled.

As everyone slowly made their way to sleep, Amy noticed her grey hedgehog friend out on the balcony hovering the table and chairs, trying to exercise his powers. She cleared her throat as she walked up to him in order not to startle him and he looked at her with a genuine smile before placing the inanimate objects back down.

'How's it going, Amy?' Silver asked casually as he took a seat on one of the chairs he'd just placed back down.

'Oh, not too bad I guess. You?' Amy replied with a small smile as she took a seat with him.

'Pretty good, thanks. I get the feeling there's something on your mind?'

'You got me.'

'Sonic?'

'How'd you know?' Amy asked as she looked up at him with wide eyes.

'Lucky guess.' He shrugged and Amy laughed it off.

'Can I ask you something?' Amy asked without looking at him.

'Sure thing. Shoot?'

'It must have taken a long time for you and Blaze to get to where you are now, right?'

'You have no idea.'

'So how'd you do it?' Amy asked bluntly, taking Silver back a step.

'Well, there was a lot of patience involved. That's for sure! She isn't much of a relationship person, so it just took a lot of time to build our friendship into something more. Finding common grounds, spending time together, talking about everything, not forcing anything. The usual, you know?' Silver told her with a genuine smile.

'I guess so, nothing so far has really worked.' Amy sighed.

'Like I said, patience is the key. Give it time.' Silver said as he stood up and placed a hand on her shoulder.

'Thanks, Silver. Can you promise me something though?' Amy smiled up at him

'What's that?'

'Let's keep this between us. Just until I work out my next move.'

'No worries! Goodnight, kiddo.' Silver smiled.

'Goodnight.' Amy smiled before watching him walk inside.

Amy watched him as he walked into the living room and lay down by Blaze who was fast asleep. He kissed her forehead before dozing off to sleep himself. Amy smiled to herself, wishing she had something like that. She broke off the glance and turned her eyes to the horizon where the moon hung just above. She watched all the stars twinkling in the sky, how beautiful they were. It was such a romantic scene, all she need now was a certain blue hedgehog to make it complete…