Here's the next short chapter, we're almost to the main battle scene and some nice parts.
Tails bursts out laughing, Knuckles gets up from his humiliating defeat by Cream. Her, out of all people, beat him! He's the one who trained her, how could he lose? Knuckles glares at Tails, laughing at him.
"Are you okay?" Cream asks him.
"I'm fine." Knuckles tells her, annoyed.
"Uh, Tails, what's so funny?" Cream says to him.
Tails freezes and stops laughing. "Uh, nothing, I really liked that fight."
Cream smiles, but Knuckles still glares at him. "Yeah, what was so funny?" Knuckles asks him in a harsh tone.
"I said nothing."
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
"Well…"
"You know what, how about you fight me!"
"What?!"
"But Knuckles-" Cream tries to say.
"No, come on Tails! Unless you think you're too weak."
Tails frowns, he doesn't want to fight and he probably wouldn't win but Knuckles won't leave him alone till he does. And maybe he could impress Cream…wait, why would he want to do that?
"Okay, okay, just stop being annoying." Tails tells Knuckles.
"Alright!" Knuckles leads Tails a few steps to where he had just fought Cream. Cream skips to the sidelines. "Let's do this foxy!"
Knuckles makes the first move this time. He charges at Tails and punches. Tails slips out of the way, and not knowing what to do, hits him as hard as he can. Now that isn't really that hard. Knuckles smashes Tails in the face. Tails nearly collapses, but he holds. Tails spins around and kicks high at Knuckles. Knuckles catches his leg and pushes it away. He punches Tails back again. Tails gasps slightly but keeps standing. This is going to tougher than he thought, and he thought it was going to be tough to begin with! Tails spins his tails to fly and lands on a big rock. Knuckles charges and punches through it. Tails jumps off at the last second and rapidly kicks at Knuckles. Knuckles has a hard time blocking and gets kicked a bunch in the face. Knuckles staggers back and give Tails time to kick him in the back. Knuckles doesn't hesitate this time and turns around and punches straight at Tails. Tails ducks and sweeps at Knuckles legs with his tails. Knuckles tries to catch his balance, but he falls backwards. He rolls and somersaults back so he can come up on his feet fast, but Tails jumps and hits Knuckles in the face and knocks him down. Game, set and match.
"No!" Knuckles yells. "No, no, no! How did this happen?!"
Tails chuckles. "Sorry Knuckles, I guess you're losing your touch."
Knuckles slams his fist into the ground and gets up. "Fine, then how about you fight Cream?"
"What?! Knuckles I think your going to far now!"
"Yeah," Cream says, "I'm not going to fight Tails!"
"Why not?"
"Because he's my friend!"
"What about me?"
"You're not as big of one."
"Please Cream! Please fight Tails!" Knuckles tries to give her a pitiful look.
"Oh, okay."
"What?!" Tails yells at her. "Cream!"
"He said please." Tails slaps his forehead in disgust.
Cream grabs his arm and drags him to what they are using as a battlefield. "But Cream, I don't want to!" Tails tries to tell her.
"I know, but Knuckles does."
Tails sighs, what's the use? Tails goes to the side he was on when he fought Knuckles and Cream takes the opposite. Tails doesn't want to hurt her though, his mind won't let him, but Cream looks like she's ready to roll.
"Begin!" Knuckles announces.
Cream leaps at Tails and tries to punch him. Tails moves out of the way, but doesn't take the chance at hitting her back. How could he do something like that? Cream turns around and tries to hit him again, but he staggers out of the way. Cream quickly jumps him and kicks him in the back. Tails stumbles, but keeps himself up. He's hoping Cream will get tired and stop because he's not going to attack her. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to happen. Cream smashes him in the face with a blow harder than expected. Actually, not even expected at all! Tails knows, even if he started attacking now she would still beat him. This is incredible, he thinks to himself, she's strong, can fly, and is agile all at once! What a guardian she will make, maybe even better than Chaos! Aw, how sweet, Tails thinks again. Cream interrupts him though when she punches him in the stomach. Tails gasps and everything goes black.
Out of all places, the last Chaos Emerald had to be in the desert. Sonic had already found three Chaos Emeralds and this was the last one, Eggman has two, Shadow has one, and he got one from Tails yesterday when Shadow told Tails to give it to him. Now, he's ready to leave the hot desert the last Emerald was in. He turns around to go, but freezes. He hears a voice, coming from no where.
"Help Sonic!" The voice yells at him. He recognizes the voice right away.
"Amy!" Sonic exclaims. She's in trouble! But Amy is no where near here, how'd he here her voice? Right now, he can't worry about that. He turns around and begins speeding away. Eggman must have her, he thinks. He hears something coming from behind and looks over his shoulder. Shadow is running towards him at full speed.
"Sonic!" Shadow tries to get his attention.
"What are you doing here Shadow?" Sonic asks, "I don't have time for games! I have to get Tails and go rescue Amy!"
"Why, what happened to her?"
"I'm not sure, but I have to save her!"
"Then I'm coming too!"
"You are?"
"I've got nothing better to do."
"Alright, then let's go, to Angel Island!"
"Why?"
"I need Tails to take me to Eggman's base!"
"Oh yeah, then let's go."
They both run off through the sand. Amy hold on…Sonic hopes.