Rouge floated there for a moment, examining herself, admiring her new powers.
Absolutely amazing...
She floated up and looked at all around her, trying to decide where to conquer first, she saw the giant floating land mass, Floating Island, off in the distance.
Hmm, make a lovely place for my main kingdom...
The bat grinned and took off towards the unsuspecting island.
Knuckles was standing there looking at the empty space where the Master Emerald used to be.
These are Floating Island's final moments...
Knuckles looked at the hourglass, it depicted there was an hour left until the island's ultimate demise.
"I wish there was something I could do." Knuckles said, with a long, deep sigh.
He then heard a familiar female voice which he cringed at "I could give the emerald back, that is if, you surrender the island to me!"
He turned to face Rouge "What happened to you?"
Rouge grinned at the look on his face "It is amazing what happens when you mix a sword of Acorns with a Master Emerald!"
Knuckles gasped "So, the sword of Acorns did survive?"
Rouge nodded "So did your Master Emerald, now, do we have a deal?"
Knuckles hesitated "...no."
Rouge looked at him wide eyed.
"What? Your bravery amazes me, then so does your foolishness, don't you know you are facing the world's most powerful figure, Empress Rouge?"
Knuckles nodded with gritted teeth "I know who I am talking to, and I know how much I despise you. You entered my life and flipped it upside down, and you expect me to trust you that easily? HA! I am not that much of a fool!"
Rouge growled at him "I was offering you a second chance and you throw it back in my face!"
Knuckles snarled back "No, you offered yourself a snatch at the island's jewels!"
Rouge snorted at him. "You think so lowly of me?"
Knuckles nodded "Yes I do, you are a low life piece of scum!"
Rouge growled at him "You'll pay for such a comment!" Rouge braced herself in an open position, arms outwards, legs pulled back, mouth open "AHHH!" She screamed as the chamber shook.
"No! What are you doing?" The chamber began to cave in as Knuckles run out.
This is the end...
The Tornado was floating in mid air as it watched the Floating Island with caution.
"Sonic, you can sense Chaos energy, what is happening to Floating Island?" Tails asked, Sonic concentrated a moment.
"It is slowly getting drained of its power!" Sonic grimaced.
"I hope Knuckles is okay!" Tails said, sounding worried. Sally nodded
"You guys, we ought to move in!" They looked around and saw Amy and Tekno land on the plane.
"This is dangerous, what are you two playing at?" Sally said with a low growl in her throat.
"Listen princess, you might be going through difficult times, but it doesn't mean that I will let you boss me about and treat me like shit!" Amy said with a growl.
Sally looked shocked "How dare you talk to me in such a fashion!"
Amy shook her head "No! How dare you! Who do you think you are? Being a princess doesn't make you a god!"
Sally trembled for a second "Y-you are right.. Sorry Amy..."
Amy then leaned over to Tails in the pilot seat, completely ignoring the princess and her wishes "Time to go, full speed ahead!"
Rouge trembled as the aura surrounding her grew, her power increasing tenfold as each bit of energy was absorbed into her.
"Hmm, limitless power, all mine!" Knuckles looked at her and felt the island begin to drop.
"You crazy bitch!" Knuckles called to her, Rouge glared at him, malevolent intent present in her burning eyes.
"As I power up with limitless energy you still oppose me?" Rouge said with a deadly tone in her voice "You are either brave or a fool!"
Knuckles sighed "I am a fool for not killing you when I had the chance!"
Rouge hovered down to the ground and powered down "I always beat you, you never had a chance even when I wasn't super charged by the Master Emerald!"
Knuckles got into a fighting stance "I will defend the island to the finish!"
Rouge shook her head at him "Tsk tsk tsk, you never learn, do you?"
Knuckles grinned "On contrary, it is you that never learns.. While you may be able to fight fire with fire, never try and fight Chaos with Chaos.." He then jumped into the air and turned into Hyper Knuckles "It's dangerous.."
She grinned "You oppose me with that? Bring it!"
Knuckles nodded, he then flashed out of sight and reappeared in front of her eyes and started throwing punches, Rouge dodged with expert agility and amazing speed, Knuckles spun into a ball and wedged her against a wall.
"Damn you!" Rouge generated a shield, which repelled Knuckles and allowed her to unwedge herself "You are a helluva a lot stronger than before."
Knuckles grinned "Well, expect nothing less from me."
The syndicate's ship slowly touched down on ground.
"Hmm, the Master Emerald did survive after all.." Zachary muttered as he climbed out of the ship.
Vichima also climbed out "So sir, I guess it is time to claim our prize?"
Zachary nodded "Come Shadow, Vichima, the Master Emerald is around here somewhere!" Just then a wave of power spread across the island and knocked them over.
Shadow climbed back up. "Sir, the amount of Chaos energy present on the island is incredibly dangerous!"
Zachary grinned maliciously "Hmm, how much Shadow, how much Chaos energy is here?"
Shadow focused for a moment "Enough to power my hyper form!"
Zachary's eyes widened "Enough to make you perfect? That much! Unbelievable, well, absorb what you need and attack Mobius, we will conquer the Floating Island!" Shadow nodded and started to float.
Sonic, Sally, Amy, Sally and Tekno were fast approaching the Floating Island in the Tornado.
"Tails, the Tornado's Chaos sensor is going crazy!" Tekno said, Amy and Sally then looked over at Sonic, who was looking a tad green.
"Oh no! Stop!" Amy cried, they then saw Shadow fly off down toward Mobius, Sonic's anger for the black, now silver, hedgehog triggered and he transformed and jumped off the Tornado and followed him.
Time to end this, Shadow...