Disclaimer and A.N. (AKA Rants and Raves): I own Gyia, Saldar, and Ryu Toukon while Imperfection07 owns Mona and SEGA owns the rest. One more day, one more trouble. Just when you think nothing more can happen to you, Murphy's law takes effect. I almost screamed at an Officer today due to them thinking I didn't know jack about my job. Excuse me. I worked in my job for almost six years now and you've worked in yours for how long and how close are our two jobs? Not even close. Listen to what I have to say due to the fact that I know more about it than you do. Grrrr... I hate overzealous officers. Just because they are commissioned and I'm enlisted doesn't mean a rats ass. A person can only have so much book smarts before it starts to affect common sense levels. Think about it as a 100 point scale. If you have 62 points in common sense that means you have 38 points in book smarts. Yet thats my rant for today. Now on to the Raves or so I would say if I had any new reviews, so instead, heres the next chapter.

Chapter 48: Modern Technology

"It's been a while," Gyia said as she stepped out into the light as she looked the man head on, "Leave for I don't want to fight you."

"I'm sorry, sister, but you must give up this quest," he said as he took a few steps towards Rouge as Knuckles ran out and tackled him as he took a shock from the volts that surrounded him.

"Who is this?" Rouge asked as she scooted a few feet back as she saw the waves of volts run off the mans body.

"That is my other brother," Gyia said as she looked him in the eyes as the waves passed over them and his eyes were entirely white, "His name is Saldar."

"So your Saldar," Knuckles said as he picked himself up off the deck as he was thrown back by the shock he had received when he collided with the other.

"Heard about me, have you," Saldar said with a grin as he uncrossed his arms from in front of his chests as he turned his entire attention towards Gyia, "Will you join me again or are you with these fakers now?"

"We are the fakers," Gyia said outloud as she looked down towards the ground at the words that he used. She had never thought of the others as fakers but she couldn't face her own family in battle. Saldar had to grin at this sudden turn of events as he took in a part of the power from the emerald and flew at the speed of light as he rushed towards Gyia and threw a strong punch right into her stomach as blood came from her mouth as she held onto his hand. Saldar felt his power starting to weaken as Gyia held his arm in place.

"What are you doing?" he called out as the energy began to leave him and in a flash of light, the purple emerald appeared behind him and fell to the ground.

"You've forgotten," Gyia said with a smile as a line of blood was shown running down her chin from the corner of her mouth.

"You bitch," Saldar said as he wretched his arm free from her as she fell to the ground in a thud. He quickly turned around to pick up the emerald again but found a boot to his face instead. The impact made him spin around completely before a jab was landed straight into his chest. He took a few steps back as Rouge and Knuckles moved in front of Gyia to protect her from the mad man.

"What made you like this?" Gyia whizzed out as she held her stomach and found to her amazement that she could no longer feel her legs from the intial impact. She knew it was temporary due to her training and signaled for the rest ignore her injury and continue fighting.

Saldar just straightened himself as he rubbed the side of his head in which he had a few moments before took the kick. "What changed me?" he mocked as he looked towards the group and laughed. "If you really want to know," he said as he took a step near them and almost broke out in a mad laughter, "I think it was a Shocking revolution."

"The bio-chip," Gyia called out as she watched him as he pulled open his trench coat to show the scar on the lower left hand side of his torso.

"I had it removed for him and now he has to do everything that I tell him to do," a man said as he walked into view from the rear side of the boat. He was wearing a full red colored business suit along with matching undershirt, tie and shoes. He wore no cap but let his shoulder length gray hair flow with the wind. He was youthful in appearance but also wise beyond his years. His face was fair and had a pull of power as his eyes showed the evil behind them. Resting on his left hip was a rapier just waiting to be used.

"Who are you?" Knuckles yelled out as he took a defensive position between Gyia and the newcomer.

"I'm just a man who's here to make sure nothing goes wrong," he said as he took a few steps towards Rouge but to both her and Knuckles surprise, it was as if time came to a near halt as he moved. Neither of them could react as he leaned in on her and cupped her chin into her hand. She placed a snarl on her face as she reached up to grab his hands but instead found herself laying down on the ground from a sweep under her legs. The man could be seen picking himself up slowly as he straightened his suit and brushed the dust from his sleeves. "That was just a sample of my abilities," he said as he slowly walked back over towards Saldar who was watching them with determined bloodshot eyes.

"What did you do to him?" Gyia called out as Rouge picked herself up off the deck as Knuckles helped her while keeping an eye on their new adversary.

"I only gave him what he seeked the most," the man said as a smile came to his lips as he placed his left hand on his rapier and got ready to pull it, "I'm itching for a fight. Any one want to take me on?" Knuckles just gave out a shrug as he walked over and picked up a long piece of the metal cable and began to wrap hit around his hand as if it was a normal rope. He knew he would need something to protect himself from that sword and this was the only way he knew how.

"Mind if I get your name before we begin?" Knuckles asked as he shook his arms out to get rid of the stiffness that he had from the shock he had received earlier.

"I will tell you my name if you manage to impress me," the man said as he withdrew his Rapier but threw it aside instead. Knuckles was surprised at this maneuver as he had expected the man to attempt to attack with the sword and not with his leg as a kick was thrown Knuckles way as he just barely had enough time to lean back and let the leg fly within inches of his face. Just as the leg came down, the man spun again as his other leg shot up but Knuckles was ready for this one as he braced to block the blow but not the one coming shortly afterwords. The man felt the block as he hit it but quickly shifted his weight back as he flipped himself backwards as he kicked Knuckles right under his chin with his unblocked leg. The man landed in a kneeling position as Knuckles rubbed the sore spot under his chin as he took a moment to spit out a bit of blood. He laid his head from side to side to crack his neck as he cracked his knuckles at the same time. He was now pissed and was ready to go all out. The man just slowly started to stand straight up as he watched his opponent with careful scanning eyes.

"I think I've just figured you out," Knuckles said as a smile came to his face as he looked towards the man, "You don't have a name because your not really alive." Rouge and Gyia looked towards Knuckles as he readied himself for an attack as confusion overtook their faces.

"Not bad for you to figure out," the android said as it flipped its eyes and shown the pure red they really were. "I'm just a replica of the real thing," it said as it began to circle around Knuckles as it prepared itself for an attack, "If you can't beat me, then you will never see the master."

"Is that so?" Knuckles said as he closed his eyes and placed his fist inside his other hand as he began to focus his inner chi to track all movements around him. He had learned this ability as he focused all his time to defend the master emerald from Robotnik and found it was highly affective against robots. Suddenly he felt the disturbance of the chi around him to his left as he leaned to the side and grabbed the leg and gave it a sharp pull as he fell and twisted down towards the ground. The android fell with a clange as its head hit the edge of the boat and slowly raised to its feet. The top of its head was damaged as a few sparks flew from the top as its eyes light up as it charged towards Knuckles who just rolled to the left and back rolled as he spun his arm and clotheslined the bot into the deck as a crunch came from its direction. He quickly got to his feet as the bot just jarred a little bit before picking itself back up. The chest was dented in a bit from a post that it had just crashed into from the impact.

"I can see that you like to use your opponents force against them," the bot said as it placed a hand onto its chest as if to cover up the dent that was now starting to spark, "This should make for some great data."

"Are you going to talk or are you going to fight?" Knuckles asked as he placed himself into a zen trance and began to scan around. He thought he had felt some slow movement off to his right but he dismissed it as a gust of wind as he tried to keep track of the bot but after a few moments he was suddenly grasped by a close area which he couldn't escape and was thrown towards the cabin which he hit with a painful sound. He started to pick himself up as he was holding his back as the bot rushed forwards and started to place blow after blow on the man. Saldar just stood around and smiled at the event as he watched with the smell of blood in the air.

"Stop it!" Rouge called out as she ran forward and placed a powerful spinning round kick that sent the androids head flying into the water as the body started to slow down and eventually halt the assualt. "Are you okay?" she asked as she picked Knuckles up from the ground who was badly beaten up and placed one of his arms around her shoulders.

"The bot did say that if you won then you would live so I will leave you for now," he said as he looked towards the island as it began to light up from all the lights that were on it. "If you want your friends," he continued as he turned his head to look towards the group, "Head towards the far left of the bay."

"Now why are you helping us?" Rouge asked as she looked towards him in utter confusion.

"I don't like being under their beck and call," he said as he jumped off into the water and sped off on a jetski that was waiting just beyond the bow.

"Can we trust him?" Rouge asked in Gyia's direction which only shrugged and looked towards the island. They had managed to find their friends but now they had to find a way in and idea was coming to her mind. It involved Knuckles and the new emerald that they had just retrieved.

End Chapter 48

"I know a lot of you wanted to have Saldar fight more but I didn't want to chance him to lose or even win just yet," I said as I was currently having a close up of my face as I looked towards the camera.

"As everyone can see," Rouge said as the camera turned to a view of the stage and of her stepping down, "We finally got him calmed down but it took a lot of cohesion."

"You call this cohesion!" I yelled out behind the camera as the barer just laughed as she dipped the camera towards the ground as it took a picture of our feet. She suddenly brought it up as Gyia came down and began to look towards us all.

"Shouldn't you guys not be doing this?" she asked as she motioned towards me as you can see the camera bounce as it signaled that the barer just shrugged.

"I just wish for one thing right now," I said as the camera turned back towards my face.

"And you will be able to receive it once you explain as to your fear of me is," the barer said as she pointed out that she was actually Amy.

"I just feel your going to kill me if Sonic gets hurt and about making Tails and Sonic into a couple," I said as I looked down with my eyes and sweat came to my brow.

"I could do that but I don't plan to as of right now," she said as she took a few steps back as she had the camera turned up towards the ceiling this time.

"Now for my promise," I said as she started to lower the camera towards me. "Untie me this instant!" I yelled as the camera took a full view of me as I was fully bound to the chair from just below my neck all the way down to my feet. Amy just started to laugh real hard as the camera shut off a short moment later.