Chapter 11: Was that…?

Minutes later, Midnight got a new makeover. Her hair was done into a bun in the back of her head, she had shining black lipstick on her lips, and she had on neo black eye shadow and black mascara. She had on a black strapless half top, long black pants with a short skirt attached to it, and long black boots. Along with that, she had chained belts with skull jewelry on them, had a couple of pouches with weapons in them, and a choker that had a huge skull clipped on it. Even though Desiree didn't want to pick out an outfit for her, she just chooses what was best for her. Yet again, she began to feel jealous. Nina gave her a big thumb's up as Wrath had hearts in his eyes. Sin starred at her in awe.

"Um…Do I….?" Midnight asked shyly.

"You look so beautiful", Sin walked to her and stroke her right cheek. "You definitely look like a sexy killing machine."

"So, Master, what's her first training lesson?" Nina asked cheerfully.

"I've been hearing rumors about this giant gem called the Master Emerald on Angel Island", Sin explained. "Find it and bring it to me."

"Yes sir", Nina and Wrath saluted.

"Master….Emerald…" Midnight pondered to herself.

"Come on, let's go", Desiree walked out of the room impatiently.

Sin nodded and everyone else followed Desiree. They walked down the stairs until they reached to the bottom step. At that moment, Desiree gave Midnight a mean look on her face. Nina sighed as she shook her head. As for Wrath, he backed up a little just in case there could be a battle.

"Listen up good, little girl", Desiree pointed at Midnight rudely. "Whatever I say, you do it. Otherwise, I'll chop your head off", she pulled out her katana. "Got it?"

"…" Midnight gulped and then nodded.

"Hmph", Desiree clicked her sword back to her belt. "Let's go."

Meanwhile on Angel Island, Knuckles and Rouge were sitting in front of the Master Emerald. They had their arms crossed as they struggled to keep their eyes open. Usually Knuckles would keep an eye on the M.E. by himself, but nowadays Rouge would come by and interrupt his business. So far, they challenged themselves to see who would get to watch the M.E. at night. Most of the times, Knuckles won those rounds. He had to, because Rouge was known as a jewel thief and he didn't trust thieves. All of the sudden, Knuckles slapped himself in order to wake himself up.

"I'm awake…I'm awake…" the red echidna said to himself.

"Dream on", Rouge rubbed her eyes. "I'm a bat, and we don't sleep till eight in the morning."

"Since when?" Knuckles glared at her with tease. "Sometimes, I don't see you out at night."

"Oh, so you're saying that you want to spend time with me?" Rouge winked at him.

"Doh! No-I mean, No-I-Nevermind", Knuckles looked away shyly with a red blush on his cheeks.

"Sure", Rouge giggled.

Suddenly, they felt an evil presence near them. They got up to their feet and got into their fighting positions. Cautiously, they looked around and found nothing. Just then, a sudden intruder came out of nowhere and knocked them down by surprise. After getting hit, both of them sat up. They looked at the intruder and saw that it was an orange hedgehog in a red assassin's outfit.

"Who are you?" Rouge asked as she raised an eyebrow.

"As if we have to tell", Desiree crossed her arms.

"We?" Knuckles got up.

"Sit down", Nina kicked him in the back from behind and he fell down. "We're here to steal this beauty for our master."

"I told you a million times not to tell them our business!" Desiree yelled out to her.

"Sorry", Nina sweatdropped.

Hurriedly, Knuckle and Rouge got back up on their feet. At that moment, they began a two on two battle. Rouge and the orange hedgehog began to fight each other with kick boxing moves as Knuckles and the purple echidna started dodging each other's punch attacks. Time was passing by, but they didn't care. As the four battled each other, Wrath and Midnight appeared behind the M.E. where no one could see them.

"You ready?" Wrath smirked at her.

"I…think…so", Midnight nursed her head a little.

Quietly, they climbed on top of the big green gem as Desiree and Nina continued distracting the red echidna and the white bat. Before the white bat kicked Desiree in the face, she grabbed her foot and threw her out of the way. The bat caught herself from falling off the stairs behind her. Then she charged at the orange hedgehog. As for Nina, she was too fast for the red echidna to lay a hand on her. She dodged every single attack as he panted hardly. Just as the red echidna thought that he could punch her in the face, Nina ducked and then punched him in the gut. He coughed out some blood as relaxed his left arm. The white bat looked back to make sure that he was ok. She gasped as she saw her comrade collapsing on the ground.

"Too easy", Nina crossed her arms and looked down at the red echidna. "You know, he's not half bad looking for a weakling."

"You're gonna pay for this!" Rouge charged at her.

"Uh-oh", Nina looked at her oddly.

Out of nowhere, a rope caught Rouge by the waist and yanked her to the ground. She fell on her back aggressively as the orange hedgehog giggled evilly. Then she looked up at her with hatred. Luckily, the rope didn't pull her stomach too hard for her.

"Hey, come on, let's go", a hissing voice said.

"Alright, alright", Desiree turned to Wrath.

"Sweet", Nina hopped and then got on top of the M.E. and Desiree followed.

"Oh, no you don't", Rogue sat up.

All of the sudden, she gasped. On top of the M.E., besides the orange hedgehog and the purple echidna, she also saw a demon-like bat with red eyes and a familiar pink hedgehog. From the look on the pink hedgehog's face, she looked confused. However, Rouge was able to recognize her.

"Is that...?" Rouge pointed at her slowly.

Desiree, Nina, and Wrath smirked as Midnight looked at the white bat in awe. Then they vanished in thin air along with the M.E. After that, the island began to shake rapidly. In order to get out in time, Rouge quickly freed herself from the tight rope. Then she got up and ran to the unconscious red echidna. Gently, she picked him up and held him by the waist. Then she flew up in the air and escaped Angel Island. As she looked back, she noticed the island in the sky falling down slowly.

"I've got to tell the others", Rouge said to herself. "But…was that pink hedgehog Amy? It can't be…I thought that she was dead…What's going on?"


Returning back to Sin's castle, Desiree and the others appeared in his room by a black flash. Sin clapped twice as he walked to them. Nina and everyone else got off of the M.E. as he came up to them.

"Well done", Sin smirked. "Was it hard?"

"No way", Nina titled her neck on both sides and listened to the bones crackle. "It was easy."

"Has Midnight fought yet?" Sin looked at his bride.

"Well, um…no", Nina answered nervously. "Instead, she ended up getting the emerald with Wrath."

"At least she's developing some thieving skills", Sin placed his hands on Midnight's shoulders. "That's not that bad. However, I want you and Desiree to take her down to the prison cells and train her", he looked at Nina.

"Yes sir!" the purple echidna saluted happily.

"Cha", Desiree stomped out of the room.

"Oh, boy…" Wrath said. "Hm, I wonder what's taking Kage so long."

"You have to forgive her", Nina chuckled nervously. "She's um…Not having a good day right now…"

"Well, that's her loss", Sin looked back at Midnight. "Can you stay up a little longer to train?" he asked her nicely.

"Sure", Midnight nodded.

"Go", Sin looked at Nina.

"Ok!" Nina took Midnight's hand and they ran out of the room.

"Well…You seem happy", Wrath crossed his arms as he looked at the master.

"Yes, it is true", Sin walked to the window. "Finally, I'll be able to marry the woman of my dreams. And I can finally take over the world. But…I need more of those Chaos Emeralds."

"Yes sir", Wrath bowed.

"Not now…We'll wait until Midnight's done developing some fighting and killing skills", Sin suggested. "But it won't be long…"


Desiree went to her small bedroom and closed the door. She then walked to her small size bed with white covers on it. Sighing heavily, she got on top of it and looked at the ceiling. Apparently, she didn't want to waste her time training Sin's new bride. She was jealous, because she couldn't get a second chance to be with him. Even though he killed her and brought her back to life to be his servant, she was still in love with him. However, she had to try to deal with it. She yawned as she closed her eyes and went to sleep.


The next day, Knuckles opened his eyes. He looked around and found himself in a purple bedroom. Then his eyes landed on Rouge, who had a worried look on her face. He sat up slowly as he held his stomach in pain.

"Are you ok?" Rouge asked.

"Yeah", Knuckles rubbed his belly. "Where are we anyway?"

"You're in my house", Rouge said.

"What happened last night?" Knuckles asked.

"Um…This could get you mad…But they took the Master Emerald", Rouge explained slowly.

"They what!?" Knuckles gasped.

"I tried to stop them, but they had me down on the ground", Rouge waved her hands. "Not only that, but I saw a familiar face."

"Who?"

"I think it was Amy's…It's possible that she was brought back to life or something…"

"No way….We have got to tell the others about this", Knuckles locked his fists together.

"Yeah, let's go", Rouge got up from her chair and then left the room.

"Hey, wait up", Knuckles got out of the bed and followed her.


Meanwhile, Shadow was walking Tails and Sonic to find Kia's house. At first, they slept longer than he did, so he had to wait. Right now, at 12:00, they left the Mystic Ruins and returned to Emerald Town. Somehow, Sonic started having a bad feeling about meeting this 'Kia'. That name sounded so familiar, but he couldn't figure out why.

"Hey, guys!" a recognizable woman's voice yelled out.

"Rouge?" Tails asked he and the boys stopped and looked back.

"We…have…some…problems", Rouge and Knuckles panted in union.

"Like what?" Sonic asked.

"First of all, a few crooks stole the Master Emerald the other night", Knuckles answered.

"Oh, no!" Tails gasped in fear. "That's not good."

"Second…One of the goons looked familiar", Rouge spoke.

"What do you mean?" Shadow asked.

"I dunno if I was dreaming or not, but I could've sworn that I saw Amy", Rouge explained.

"Wha-what?!" Shadow asked in shock.

"Calm down, dude", Sonic said with a sweatdrop falling down from his forehead. "Maybe it was someone else that looked like Amy."

"Oh, yeah?" Rouge crossed her arms. "She didn't lay one finger on both of us, plus she looked like she's seen us before."

"Then that means…She was brought back to life?" Tails asked curiously.

"It's possible", Rouge pondered. "I never thought that there was such thing."

"So what do we do?" Knuckles asked a specific question.

"Hm…" Shadow pondered. "Follow me."


Looks like Shadow has an idea, eh? Well, it seems that the gang meets the witch doctor! But why does Sonic have a bad feeling about her? Familiar? Hmm…gotta think…I wonder how Nina's gonna train Amy…Oh, well, tuned in next time!!