Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails " Prower, Knuckles The echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat or other character's made by Sonic Team. I do own RX and Maya hedgehog.

Summery: In a depressed moment, Amy does something no one had expected, and Knuckles must face something he had never expected to, warning, Sonic Adventure 1 - 2 and Heroes spoilers sure to follow as the story progress.

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A good deed gone wrong
Part IV
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Late evening began to fall as Sonic stood before the Master Emerald, his eyes going over every finely cut surface of the huge gem. "So, she's in there?"

Nodding at first as he had his mouth full of heated fish. Tails returned his attention to Sonic as he swallowed the bit in his mouth. "We've tried to contact her earlier, but it failed." Taking another bite of his fish, he chewed it slowly and swallowed.

Scratching his head, Sonic groaned and turned to move back to the to the rest of the group, eyes moving over the group with a tired expression. Cream was sleeping on the ground next to cheese; the Chao giving a soft snoring sound as he snuggled up to his owner

And the peach colored Echidna who was part of the current trouble, she was sitting at the fire solemnly, staring at the other Echidna in the small camp. Following her gaze, he spotted Knuckles standing guard at the shrine as usual, arms crossed and a fierce look on his face.

Sitting down at the fire, Sonic grinned as Tikal gave a quick glance at him, then he snagged one of Tails fish, much to the protesting sound from the fox who had plopped down next to him. "So, how do you feel about being alive again Tikal."

Looking over with a startled expression on her face, Tikal blinked as she went over the rather blunt question from the hedgehog. "I, I'm not sure how I should feel."

Raising an eye slightly, Sonic leaned back and grinned a bit as he held up his fish. "Because of Amy right, well, I wouldn't think of it as something bad, more of like a vacation." Seeing her confused expression, he dropped down onto his back with a simple content sigh, a bit of fish in his mouth as he spoke again. "You get to spend some time out of the green stone, talk with us again, and before you know it, we'll have found a way to get both Amy out of that rock, without having to send you back into it."

Smiling a bit at his statement, Tikal frowned as she looked back at Knuckles. Despite the words of the Blue hedgehog, she knew it wouldn't be that easy to solve this problem. She had taken Amy's place as a living being and Amy was now a spirit trapped inside the Master Emerald, how could one change that to having the two of alive again, without something providing the life-force needed to recreate her body.

To get Amy back out, she would have to trade places with her again, or someone else would have to give up their life in order to free her. "I'm going to try and contact her again."

Opening an eye as he pulled out the remains of his fish, Sonic cast a look over at Tikal as she walked away, a small smile on his face as he leaned up to follow her a bit more. "Take care, and be careful that Knuckles don't bite you for messing with his precious stone."

Laughing a bit, the blue hedgehog suddenly yelped as a fist smacked him on the head, the blow enough to send him down to the ground. "Hey, what's the big idea?" Opening his eyes, he spotted Knuckles looking down at him with a ticked off expression as his fist loomed in the air. "What, are you mad that I insulted your hunk of green crystal again?"

Looking a bit more ticked off, Knuckles grabbed the slightly burnt fish from Sonic's grasp. "No, I'm stopping you from taking what's my share of the food." Stopping just before he taking a bite, he looked over at the blue hedgehog. "And stop insulting the Master Emerald Sonic, can't you take this matter more seriously, Amy's trapped inside of it for crying out loud."

Plopping himself up on shi elbow, Sonic grinned a bit as he rubbed a finger under his nose as he cast a half caring look at the red echidna. "Don't know if I want too Knuckles, after all, if I worry about things too much, I'll end up just a grouchy as you are."

"Who are you calling Grouchy!?" Knuckles yelled back as his left hand crushed his fish into a fine mess. "Maybe if you stopped leading her on all the time, she wouldn't have done something like that?!"

Fully up on his side, Sonic gave Knuckles as a scratching look as he cast the same kind of annoyed look at him. "So tell me Knuckles, how did I get her to wish for Tikal to come back, hmm?"

Tossing the smattered fish away with a disgusted look, Knuckles snapped back around to face Sonic again, not caring that fish landed on Tails head. "You don't see it do you, how your constant brush off hurts her, if she hadn't been so depressed, she might not have made the wish to begin with."

Looking just as ticked off, Sonic smacked his face real up close to Knuckles. "I don't want her to follow me, and it can't hardly be my fault she won't listen when I tell her that."

Glaring right back and pushing his forehead against Sonic's, Knuckles lifted up a fisted hand. "Bah, you never even gave her kind word did you, always acting like she's going to hurt you!"

Holding up his own hand as well, Sonic's eyes narrowed as he spat out a reply. "Have you seen that hammer of hers?"

Lifting his other hand, the red colored Echidna pushed forward slightly with his forehead. "Yes, I was the one who found the red chaos emerald along with her, or have you forgotten that!?" Knuckles roared.

Pushing back with his forehead, Sonic glared down at Knuckles, as it was the red echidna's turn to be pushed back. "You like her that much, you take her!"

Pushing forward harshly, Knuckles eyes narrowed t slits as he felt raw anger form at the way dismissing Sonic had spoken about Amy. "Why you, don't talk about her like that."

Jumping forward and knocking the echidna over, Sonic growled as his nerves snapped, and a whole day's worth of worry came rushing out in one angry outburst. "Shut up Knuckles, all you have to worry about it that rock of yours. Not some rapid fan girl constantly getting in the way or being kidnapped."

Up on the shrine, Tikal removed her hand from the Master Emerald. Her eyes moving to stare in the direction of the shouts she had heard. Her eyes widening as she spotted Sonic and Knuckles rolling around like two kids while trying to hit the other one. "Stop, both of you. Don't fight please."

Rushing towards, she stopped as she got close enough to try and stop them, Tails doing the same as he grabbed Sonic's shoulder, Tikal holding onto Knuckles as well as she could. "Please, stop."

Pulling himself free of Tails, Sonic turned to the side and snorted a bit. "It's all Knuckles fault, if he hadn't gone and acted like a jerk I'd." Trailing off his rant, Sonic looked away as he noticed Tikal's pleading look. "Okay, I'll stop fighting, if Knuckles stop bugging me about Amy."

Turning her look onto Knuckles, she saw him nod as he walked back to the master emerald again. "Wait Knuckles." Calling out, she grabbed his arm and held it for a few seconds, letting go as she noticed him looking at it; she blushed a bit as she watched his purple eyes move up to her face questioningly. "Can I, talk with you for a minute?"

Seeing the peach colored Echidna blush a bit at how her question had sound, Knuckles ignored the smirk Sonic sent him, as he did want to talk with her again, but hadn't know how to get around to doing it. "Okay."

Smiling in gratitude, Tikal slowly walked over to the sit at the other side of the fire, Knuckles sitting down next to her, but with a bit of distance, as he still wasn't sure how to act around her.

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Night had fallen over the small world inside the Master Emerald, the fact making Amy shiver a bit as she still sat on the ground, her knees drawn up closer to her, and head tucked down to avoid looking at anything as she wondered how things had turned out this badly..

Holding back a sob, she closed her eyes more tightly as her back pressed up against the great doors. She was scared and alone, she wanted her Sonic to show up and comfort her, she wanted Tails to talk in that techno babble he always did, she would even settled for the tense silence around Knuckles.

Just so she wouldn't be here, alone with a water monster and a bunch of Chao. She was cold, tired, but strangely not hungry. Come to think of it, had she even needed to drink anything, eat or even rest since she came here? Lifting her head, she noticed the faint glow from the master emerald, the green light filling the air with a calm feeling to it.

And standing in front of it, she noticed the transparent figure of Chaos looking back at her, then it turned and slid down the stairs as a puddle, reforming at the bottom of the shrine, still staring at her with the same look as before.

Standing up from her sitting position, Amy slowly walked forward, careful not to wake the Chao or upset the water monster anymore.

Finally, after what seemed like hours to her, she stood almost with in range of the water beast, her eyes moving from side to side as her pulse increased a bit. "Um, I'm Amy, nice to meet you." Smiling a bit at him when she finished introducing herself.

The sound of water drop hitting a body of water sounded trough the air as Chaos's body rippled a bit, his eyes moving to look right into her own. /Know you, saw you with blue hedgehog and Chao./ stepping forward enough to tower over her a bit, the green, formless eyes lowered to still stare at her. /Where friend Tikal at?/

Opening her mouth as the same calm voice rang through her head, followed by the water sound as before, the pink hedgehog opened her mouth and voiced out the surprise going through her. "You can talk?"

At that moment, a sudden shock went through the area, sending her back to land on her behind roughly, if it wasn't for the two liquid like arms grabbing her gently, puling her back up as an angry roar came from Chaos, the Chao screaming in surprise and scattering in all directions.

Ignoring the fact that a water monster was holding her, Amy cast a scared look up at him. "What's going on?" Looking to the former enemy of Sonic's for an answer.

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Forced out of his sleep by a sudden and intense shaking, Knuckles sprung up from his resting place, startling Tikal and Cream who both moved back a bit in shock at his quick motion. "The Master Emerald!" Alerting Sonic, Tails, Cream and Tikal to the origin of the shaking, as he took of running in its direction.

Turning their heads to follow him, the two females and males spotted the strangest sight they had yet seen. A giant white balloon with a masked bat's head on the side was hovering in the air, the giant green gem attached to it with a series of cables.

And sitting on the very top of the gem stone, looking as arrogant as ever, a white female bat pulled one more on the jet flame release cord, sending another jet of hot air into the balloon, lifting her and the precious cargo up into the night sky.

Noticing that they had spotted her, Rouge gently waved her free hand and smiled at them. "Hey Knuckles, just thought I'd take this baby to a place where it can be really cared for." Patting the stone surface, she grinned more to herself then to the group below her. "And don't worry, I'll take real good care of it."

Looking up with pure anger in his eyes, Knuckles faced the Maser Emerald and it's captor, the batgirl blowing him a kiss as her balloon gently moved away from him. "Rouge!!" Rushing forward, he was force to drop to his knees as another tremor went through the island. "No!"

Then he felt his body grow light as a feather, wind rushing past him as he dug his hands into the earth for support. Angel Island were falling again, and all because he had once again failed in his duty as Guardian,

TBC.

AN: Angel Island falling is an old idea that is widely used by many people in fanfics, and while I'm going with that, I'm not going to let the Master Emerald get shattered as it has been used to many times in my opinion. Feel free to add a comment about the story so far, I love feedback, it makes me happy and helps removed the problems.

Also about the balloon description, bare over with me, I don't know the first thing about them, only what they look like and that they need hot air to fly.