Knuckles punched the rapidly weakening bat backwards, he wasn't in good shape either, she reached backwards and pulled out her sword.
"You are better than I thought.." Rouge said as she hyper ventilated, fatigue visible on her body, tears in her costume, caused by the intense combat she had put herself through.
That Echidna is asking for it... Time to end this...
Rouge lunged forward and started swinging the sword of Acorns around, Knuckles barely dodged a few times and then her blows with the sword began to connect with his bruised and fatigued body, Knuckles ducked under the sword and retaliated with an uppercut, she downwardly spiralled out of control, she then back-flipped and caught the wind with her wings, balancing herself.
"So, Rouge, you gonna give the Master Emerald back?" Knuckles said with an energy ball charged and ready to fling at her .
"No, I won't!" Rouge shouted, he threw the energy ball, which she easily deflected with a brandish of the sword of Acorns "Did you think you would get me that easily?"
Knuckles frowned "I was hoping so."
Rouge laughed "You under estimate me.." Rouge said as she readied the sword "You will regret such a fatal error!" She flew forward and took a swing with the sword, Knuckles barely dodged and Rouge made a tiny scratch on the side of his stomach and a bit of blood flew out "Come on, Knucks, you are pathetic." Rouge taunted, Knuckles then disappeared and reappeared with a fist in her stomach.
"Oof!" She cried as he withdrew his fist.
"Am I now?" Knuckles asked with a grin. Rouge began to cough up a little blood and Knuckles smiled, he cupped his giant fists together and brought them down on her, she flew downwards and landed in a pile of rocks, he flew after her and tore through the rocks, he punched her and her cries of pain were heard. He then picked her up and threw her, by which time, her clothes were completely ruined and she was badly injured, Knuckles climbed out of the rocks and strolled toward her, she opened one lidded eye and glared at him.
"Think you have won?" She said, Knuckles just grinned.
"Yes, I do! Why? You think I haven't?"
Rouge nodded "There is hell to pay when Rouge the Bat is denied that which she wants!"
Knuckles shrugged "That maybe so! But there isn't a lot you can do in your current condition..."
Rouge grinned slightly "Just watch me!" She slowly floated into the air and screamed, piercing the ears of all those within a 20 mile radius, drawing the attention of the Chaotix who run to the scene.
"Oh no, what is that wench up to now?" Julie cursed as she stared at the new self-appointed Empress Rouge screaming into nothingness, Knuckles charged toward her and was repelled and rendered unconscious when a beam of white light surrounded her.
If I lose, so does everyone...
Hyper Shadow grinned as he flew over the terrain of the Emerald Hill, which had some old Chaos defence systems installed in it, which reacted when they sensed the overly powerful Shadow arrive on the scene, the cannons opened up and shot at him, he noticed Super Sonic gaining on him.
"Chaos Control!" He shot a green beam at the beam that was coming toward him and refracted into lots of different beams, they all skimmed past him, Super Sonic just grinned as they came toward him, with the agility of a bird, he weaved in and out between them, he then continued to chase Shadow, who then destroyed the cannons "You are persistent, aren't you?" Shadow said, Super Sonic just maliciously growled as he flew at top speed toward Shadow, the silver hedgehog leaned backwards and barely escaped the charging angry hedgehog, who just skimmed over the top of him "Hmm, I can see you want to play! Play with this, Chaos Control!" Hyper Shadow once again released the green beam from his hand, Super Sonic vanished from sight and reappeared out of the beam's path, he then shot a red laser from his eyes, which clashed with the opposing silver hedgehog "Damn! You mean business, huh?" Hyper Shadow said as he saw Super Sonic charging again, Shadow grinned.
Man, even when he is crazed, he is still that same persistent blue hedgehog...
Shadow kicked the hyperactive yellow hedgehog in the face, catching him off guard, he then somersaulted and kicked the hedgehog downwards, Super Sonic crashed into the ground and slowly started to get up again.
"Oh no you don't! Chaos Control!" Shadow shot the green beam again and before Sonic even noticed, the beam had struck him.
"AH!" Super Sonic cried.
"Hmm, you are remarkable, nobody can usually combat my Chaos Control, I will miss you, a respectable rival!" Shadow said a tad grim before grinning again, intensifying the Chaos Control.
"You, you think that the power that flows through me can be controlled?" Super Sonic said with a growl "I will teach you to underestimate my powers! I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN TRULY CONTROL CHAOS!" The yellow hedgehog was engulfed with his own yellow fireball of power-ball, which spread outwards and engulfed Shadow.
"You are remarkable, but you are wrong, for I, Shadow the Hedgehog, am the only one who can truly control Chaos!" Shadow screamed as his own power reached it's maximum level, the silver ball of power was struggling against the golden one and vis-a-vis.
"Why don't you surrender?" Super Sonic said as he effortlessly released power from himself, Shadow however was struggling.
"Surrender? Never!" He focused and found the Floating Island in his mind and channelled the energy from there into himself, making himself stronger.
Hmm, this is gonna be a long battle...
Zachary and Vichima watched as Rouge continued to release her power, decimating the earth and soil of the Floating Island beneath her feet, Knuckles opened his left eyelid and saw her and her power.
"Rouge, stop, what are you doing?" Rouge grinned at him.
"What does it look like? I am destroying your ancestor's legacy!"
Knuckles got up and clutched his arm "I... won't let you..." He said as he dragged his feet
"You think you can stop me?" Knuckles spread his arms out and held his hands near the white light that surrounded her "Please Master Emerald, hear my pleas..." Knuckles began.
Sally, Amy, Tekno and Tails climbed out of the landed Tornado.
"Okay, Floating Island is minutes away from ocean impact, time to move in!" Sally said, Amy nodded at her, they ran forward, a beam of Chaos fired in their direction, they dived as it tore the turf from the island and scorched the soil.
"Whoa! Things are heating up!" Amy said as she got up, Sally tackled her to the ground as another beam fired towards them "Man, we gotta move fast!" Sally said as she brushed herself off.
"Thanks, Sal!" Amy said as she done the same to herself, Tekno picked the pink hedgehog up, Tails did the same to Sally and they flew off toward the battlefield.
Knuckles stood there, sweat trickling over every part of his body.
"I order you, stop Rouge!" He said, the sword she had outstretched in her right hand began to shake, the green gem flashed with a luminescent light and blinded all that watched the scene, the green light faded and all was gone.