Author Notes: Ok, here is the long awaited.EIGTH chapter! Hope you like it, because it caused me SERIOUS writers block.

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Chapter 8

"Mwahahahahahahaha!" Robotnick laughed watching the screen as Tails, Amy, and Amara collected another emerald. "They are falling straight into my trap! Just a little bit longer, and they will be mine!" Robotnick laughed again. The shadowed figured eyes glared red, and a smirk was seen threw the dark. He turned around and walked away.

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"So, exactly what is your plan here?" Tikal asked Sonic questioningly. "Well, you see, as long as the master emerald is here, the power of the chaos emeralds won't work, but in this time, the chaos emeralds can't be separated from the master emerald just yet, so, I'm going to use the power of the master emerald!" The two of them where ate the top of the chaos temple shrine. Some of the other echidnas where looking up at them kind of funny. "So, how do you plan on using the power of the master emerald?" Tikal asked. "Just watch!" He smiled. He grabbed Tikal's wrist and put his hand in front of the master emerald. "Chaos, Control!" He yelled and them as well as the master emerald and the seven chaos emeralds disappeared.

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Knuckles looked around at everyone who was know sitting at the table together. "So we know what has happened to you, but the question is, why did it happen to you?" Tails said. Knuckles shook his head. "I don't know, all I saw before I came here was a black figure surrounded in white." He was deep in thought. He had reviewed all the data, all the pre-battles, all the info that they had on the robot. "Ok, so that would mean your not the Knuckles we know.then what happened to the Knuckles we know?" Charla's face went slightly pale and she looked a little worried. "I don't know." Knuckles said. They all fell silent. Knuckles blinked. His head had formulated a plan, and he hadn't even noticed.

"Lets see, I have reviewed all the data that you have on the robot, and the robot is powered by the seven chaos emeralds." "Correct." Tails said. "And the chaos disruptor works well against the robot because it is powered by shards from the master emerald." "Correct." "and you have had one known casualty." "Correct." Knuckles thought for a minute.

He then jumped up and stood in his chair. "Ok, I have figured out a battle plan that may be able to stop this robot once and for all!" knuckles said. Everyone else sighed. "We've tried every battle plan that we could think of." Knuckles said shaking his head. "Everyone has failed." Cream said softly. "What is it that you think makes your plan any different?" Dave said. "Is there a battle plan designer on this thing?" Knuckles asked looking around at the table. "Of course." Tails said, and a control panel opened up in front of him. He pressed some buttons and a holographic screen with all of them and the robot on it. "Just move the pieces as to how your battle plan would work." Tails said. "Right!" And Knuckles began to work on his plan.

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(sheesh, were to go from here.) "How many emeralds do we need now?" Amara said cricking here neck a little. She was sitting crossed legged on the back of the plane. "Just one more!" Tails said with a smile. "I haven't seen Sonic anywhere!" Amy said who was looking over the side of the plane. "I'm sure we'll find him. We always do." Tails told her.

Suddenly a gray cloud appeared from behind the white cloud they had just went threw. "Whoa!" Tails said and ducked. Amy did the same as they flew threw the cloud. Not long after they soon exited the cloud and Tails lifted his head. "Dang storm clouds." He said. He then turned around and saw Amy sitting up taking a breath. He looked to see if Amara was ok, but she wasn't there. "OH NO!" Tails said quickly turning around. "What's going on?" Amy asked. "We dropped Amara!" Tails said. Amy gasped. Tails furiously looked around, then spotted the dive bombing body heading straight for the ground.

Tails quickly went into a severe seventy-five degree dive heading straight for the falling Amara. "Hurry Tails!" Amy yelled. He flipped a button on the control panel and extra boosters came out of the plane and they began to rocket towards her. The ground was coming close way to fast.

Tails calculated how soon she would hit the ground. It would be in about 15 seconds. Tails flipped more switches and turned the plane on to full throttle. He drew close, and five inches from the ground quickly pulled up, just as a heavy thud was heard from the back of the plane.

Tails quickly switched on his landing gears and shut of his extra boosters. He got the plane under control and landed as fast as he could.

He gave a big sigh of relief once the plane came to a complete stop. He turned around and saw that Amara had landed on top of Amy. "Man, she's heavy!" Amy was trying to lift her. "Why did she fall off like that?" Tails asked questioningly. He noticed Amara was unconscious, but he wasn't surprised. "I wouldn't now but," Said Amy. "GET HER OFFA ME!"

Author Notes: I'm so sorry this chapter took so long to get out. I promise the next chapter won't take nearly as long to get out.