Sonic and Knuckles are now fighting Crimson deeper within the Hidden Emerald Palace and they had a hard time fighting him due to his enhanced senses and strength. For example if Sonic so much as tries out his spindash or homing attack, Crimson would either deflect the attack or punch him really hard at him. As for Knuckles it was very hard for him as Crimson is now equal in strength with him but did manage to deliver some blows at the cyborg echidna. Right now, Sonic and Knuckles were now getting hit by a blast from Crimson's cannons which is meant to send them back.
"URGH!" Sonic crashed through a pillar and it broke in two by the impact. Knuckles crashes into a rock pillar which broke apart and collapses right over him leaving his arm exposed.
"Hehehehehehe! Face it you two fools! My powers are twice as much after these upgrades, so give it up!" Crimson cackled evilly walking up to them. He lifts up Sonic and pulled him close to his face.
"No, I won't give up and I won't use my dark side to defeat you!" Sonic said.
Crimson just simply chuckle at his response.
"Oh but you know you want to. Not to mention you really wanted to after I broke your pathetic fox friend's back" Crimson taunts him. But Sonic instantly got angry at hearing that memory, his eyes filled with pure rage. He kicks Crimson off him and growls.
"Don't you dare call him pathetic! YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!" Sonic yelled. He used a really strong homing attack at Crimson and roundhouse kick at the echidna following with a hard uppercut and a very hard knee strike. As much Sonic goes harder on Crimson he refuses to use his dark form against him otherwise he would kill Crimson.
"THIS TIME YOU WON'T GET AWAY!" Sonic yelled angrily and tries to use a hard punch at Crimson. However Crimson activates the thrusters in his boots to fly away before Sonic could hit him.
"Sorry Sonic, I got a emerald to drain! HAHAHAHA!" Crimson grins and flies through the hole on the ceiling to get to the upper floor where the Master Emerald is at. Sonic then heard Knuckles pushing himself out of the debris covered in dirt, bruises and cuts.
"Don't let him get...the Master Emerald...Ugh" Knuckles said to Sonic in a weak voice, he fell onto his knees being too weak to keep moving.
"Got it" Sonic nods. He jumps up to the hole in the ceiling and pursues Crimson.
XLien-Da was still fighting against Amy and she lashes her electric whip at the pink hedgehog again. Amy jumps out of the way and spins her hammer around and hit Lien-Da to knock her back to the floor. By the crash the electricity on the whip turns off. Walking over to the former cult leader, Amy held her hammer up.
"Giving up yet Lien?" Amy said. Lien-Da got up and picked up her whip while groaning in slight pain.
"Give up?! I'm just getting warmed up!" Lien-Da screamed and swung her whip at Amy slicing the Piko Piko hammer in half. Now without a hammer, Amy have to be careful not to get shocked by the sadistic echidna female. With a loud yell Lien-Da slams the whip against the ground and lashes out for another attack.
Amy was too late to react when Lien finally managed to tie Amy with the whip. As Amy struggled to break free, Lien-Da turns on the electricity again and shocks Amy.
"AAAAAAAAGHHH!" Amy screamed as Lien-Da shocks her.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Lien-Da laughed evilly. Amy struggle to resist the pain and reaches her hand out on the whip and with all strength she had she pulled Lien-Da hard right at her. With a hard punch Amy hits Lien-Da in the face and grabs the deactivated whip to break the handle of it.
"I can still fight you!" Lien-Da shouted and launches her fist at Amy and sweep kicks at her. Amy blocks her attacks and countered her next punch with her own.
Then the next Amy did was to thrust kick at Lien-Da in the face and with a elbow strike. Lien-Da was about to do another attack when Amy grabs her cybernetic dreadlock and with a hard pull
she tore off the dreadlock.
"AAARGH!" Lien-Da screamed in pain after her cybernetic dreadlock was torn off by Amy.
"HYAH!" Amy finishes her off with a jab punch at Lien-Da to knock her out cold. Lien-Da was eventually tied by Amy by her own destroyed whip.
"Finally. Hope they will hold her long" Amy said.
She then ran to the direction where the Master Emerald is and to her shock Crimson was getting over there.
"Oh no! No no no!" Amy ran over there.
X
Nebula and Shadow were fighting Metal Scourge and they were getting the upper hand by damaging the robot's thrusters to prevent him from increasing his speed.
"Alright Green Scourge Bot! Take this!" Nebula threw her purple energy blasts at Metal Scourge but it did little damage to the robot. Metal Scourge then attempts to gain speed when Shadow appeared from behind and shoves his fist right through him.
"Say good night toaster chest! Chaos Spear!" Shadow eliminates Metal Scourge by blowing the robot's whole body using a chaos spear. Metal Scourge's eyes shuts down and Shadow threw it's remains away.
"There. Now before Crimson gets to the Master Emerald!" Nebula said.
"Yes and quick, if he drains it the whole place is gonna go!" Shadow said.
He and Nebula ran over to the Master Emerald's altar in the palace and they saw a flashing bright light coming from the Master Emerald. To their shock they saw too late that Crimson has sinking his claws into the Emerald causing it to crackle with bolts around and a loud noise as if the Master Emerald was screaming in mental pain.
"YESSSSS! I can feel the absolute power coursing through me!" Crimson laughed maniacally. Sonic arrived and stopped, he could only watch in shock as the former guardian of the Master Emerald is now starting his process of draining the Master Emerald.
X
Outside on the island, it was shaking violently like a earthquake. Both the groups of the Sonic team and the Destructixs felt it too. The Ebony Rogue ninjas then retreats to find Kurai before leaving the island. Tails's group didn't bother to follow them as their concern is now about the island.
"What is happening?!" Fiona asked Tails. The forest falls cliffs started to crack up.
"It's Crimson! He has reached the Master Emerald!" Tails gasps. Fairy looks around worried.
"We must do something!" Fairy screamed.
"And quick now!" Bonnie screamed. Cyo then turns on the wings on his armor.
"Gamer, Fairy! Teleport Bonnie, Fiona and Victory with you. Cyo you're coming with me!" Tails gave the orders to the group.
"Okay Tails!" Cyo thumbs up
"Get ready!" Victory said.
"We're on it!" Fairy and Gamer placed their hands on Victory, Bonnie and Fiona to teleport them to the Hidden Palace.
"Hope we're not too late!" Cyo said while flying next to Tails.
"I got the six chaos emeralds with me. I just hope they will work with Shadow having his" Tails said.
On their way were Hex, Silver, Blaze and Rosie following them to the cave which leads to the hidden Palace.
XAt the red mountains, Selene, Misery and Espio notices the island shaking along with Anti-Tails, Boomer and Julie-Su
"What is going on?!" Espio asked.
"I don't know but it must be Crimson touching the Master Emerald!" Selene said.
"Has our boss gone mad?!" Julie-Su gasped realizing what's going on.
"We must get to safety!" Selene said, grabbing Espio's hand and flew away with Misery. Boomer, Miles flew away in retreat with Julie-Su in hands.
X
Crimson still kept his grip on the Master Emerald to get it's powers, his yellow core started to turn a shiny green.
"Just a few seconds and I'll be invincible!" Crimson laughed. But Sonic and Shadow had a plan however.
"Come on faker! Let's do it!" Shadow glares and rushes alongside Sonic at Crimson.
"NOT IF WE CAN HELP IT!" Sonic shouts and with a hard blow both hedgehogs shoves Crimson off the Master Emerald, which were a forest green color now. Crimson stops in midair by his thrusters. Now the echidna was really angry for the hedgehogs preventing from draining the Master Emerald.
"YOU! YOU HAVE INTERFERED FOR THE LAST TIME HEDGEHOGS!" Crimson screamed bloody murder.
"No! You're not welcome on this island anymore! The Master Emerald shall remain here!" Sonic glared.
"So be ready Crimson, We're ready to fight you to our last breaths!" Shadow said with clenched fists.
Crimson growls in anger having clearly losing what's left of his sanity, fires chaos charged blasts from his laser cannons at the hedgehogs.
Sonic and Shadow moves out of the way and Shadow took out his green chaos emerald.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" He fires his chaos blast at Crimson.
"DIE!" Crimson fires his empowered blast to counter the chaos blast resulting in a explosion when both blasts hit.
The two hedgehogs kept their footings while Crimson was pushed back a bit.
"Sonic! Catch these!" Came Tails' voice, Sonic turns around and catches the six chaos emeralds Tails had with him. With him came the others of the team.
"Shadow, your emerald!" Sonic said. Shadow took out his chaos emerald again.
"Yes, let's do it!" Shadow gave a smirk and the chaos emeralds surrounds the two hedgehogs and in a bright shine they turned into their superforms.
"Let's see if you can handle two super hedgehogs!" Super Sonic grins.
"Oh bring it on! Lets see what my Master Emerald powered body can do!" Crimson yelled, unsheathing his claws as he prepares to fight the two super hedgehogs.