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 and Advance 3 spoilers sure to follow as the story progress.
A good deed gone wrong
Part V
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Location: Unknown
Time: Unknown.
Eggman, the greatest genius super villain currently alive slammed a hand down onto his command chair. For more then a day he had sulked over the recent set back in his world conquest plans because of that blue hedgehog.
It had been such a good plan too, ripping the world apart into seven parts for a more easy conquest. And it would have worked, the humans and furries were shocked, unable to defend themselves, and then that blue rodent showed up and messed up everything.
Gmerl had turned traitor on him after getting exposed to the seven chaos emeralds at once, most likely the reused parts of the Gizoid he had salvaged played a part in this. Still, even if he had lost this time, there was always a backup plan. Now if only he could figure out which one to use, it would be even better.
Entering a command onto his Eggman network, he watched as several logs scrolled over the screen, each one a recount of how he had lost to the hedgehog, from the many Death Egg's, to the Time Stone's attempt and everything else.
While the most successful to date, the Metal-Sonic project had been put on hold indefinitely. Having that blue robot turn on him and take away his Egg-pawn army, and Egg-fleet had been one to many wrong doings on that copy's behalf that he would ever tolerate.
Silver-Sonic maybe?
Quickly pushing past that log, the egg obsessed scientist growled. That thing didn't even deserved to be in his logs, after such a great failure it had been. Didn't even last two minutes against the blue menace, his first version of the Eggman mecha had lasted longer then it in battle.
Still brooding after five more minutes of going through his past plans, Eggman sat up as a loud annoying beeping filled the room to a flashing red light. "Ah, my Egg spies picked up something." Moving his fingers across the controls, he grinned as a static filled image formed.
Smirking as he watched the fall of Angel Island and Rouge's theft of the master emerald play out, he began to chuckle lowly. "Ah, such a wonderful turn of events, yes, I can use this." Standing up, he smiled as several more commands brought up one of the lesser plans he had written off as worthless. "Most interesting, while I don't have any use for that gem right now, this is an opportunity I can't ignore."
Laughing in his usual way, Eggman turned to face the stasis pods lining the back wall of his command room. "And I also have the perfect pawn to help me with this plot as well." Pushing a button on the side of the pod, he watched as life returned to the robots eyes, the metal body gently lowering to the ground as the glass shielding slid open.
Facing its creator, green eyes flashed in reorganization as it stepped fully out of the pod, metallic feet clanging loudly as they hit the floor. "Awaiting instructions, doctor."
Smirking as at the words form his creation, Eggman stepped out of the way and revealed the image of Rouge's balloon carrying the Master Emerald. "Good, I want you to get the Master Emerald for me, and if Rouge or any of her allies gets in your way, destroy them."
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Floating gently above the ocean, Rouge's balloon stood out clearly as the sun began to rise in the distance. Waking the jewel-loving girl who had begun to question certain parts of her plan, as one thing had become clear to her. It hurt sitting on the huge gem for hour after hour.
The thought that she should have packed a pillow as well came to mind after only half an hour. Not to mention it was rather cold up here, and Station Square was still only a small dot on the horizon. "Should have brought something to help this thing fly faster."
Standing up as she spoke, Rouge stretched her slightly aching legs out and took a small walk on the gem, facing the direction of where she had come from with a thoughtful look.
She had done it at last; the biggest gem in the world was hers, and hers alone. All she had to do was keep it from the echidna, and his friends, and she's know forever after as the biggest jewel thief ever. Even if she cut it up, there'd be enough to have her set for life.
Tapping her foot on the green glowing surface, she blinked as the gem glowed a bit brighter then before, dulling down again as she focused on it some more. "Now what?" She was sure she had seen it, but her thoughts turned away as something more important came up.
Station Square was finally starting to look like a city rather then a small dot on the horizon. And there, coming closer to her was the special escort she'd sent for. "Almost home now baby, soon you will get the joy of meeting my other precious gems."
As if in a response, the gem's glow dulled a bit as the surface gave a faint rippling effect. The same effect one would see in a pond getting hit by a drop of water.
Looking a bit worried, Rouge stood up again. While she had seen the master emerald more then once, never had it done that before, at least not when she had been near it.
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Backing up as Chaos moved again, Amy watched as the water monster continued to look around with a more urgent feel to him then before. "Ah, is something wrong?" The question sounding both strange and stupid to her as soon as she finished asking it, of course something wasw rong, why else would the world have shook like that.
Refocusing on her, Chaos whole body rippled as he slowly turned back into a puddle, a puddle that was moving rapidly towards the Master Emerald. /Master Emerald, tamper, unknown person./ Reaching the large gem, the puddle that made up Chaos's body spread out over the surface of it. /Guardian not like unknown person, friend Tikal still missing./
Witha rather confused expression on her face, Amy slowly walked up to get a closer look at what the water monster was doing, while still keeping a bit of a distance just in case he decided to go on rampage again.
Looking into the emerald, as she got closer, she stopped as she saw a rather strange image of the outside world, with a very familiar batgirl in the middle of it. "Rouge." The name left a bad taste in her mouth as the Bat girl seemed to talk to something, that stealing bat always treated her and Cream like a bunch of little children, hadn't she faced Eggman more times then her. "What's she doing in there?"
Chaos's body moved around at her question and reformed a bit to face her. /Master Emerald moving, she do it somehow, can't see guardian or friend Tikal./ Silence followed a bit as Chaos returned to watch the image inside the Master Emerald.
Retuning her attention the image of Rouge, Amy slowly felt her anger fade away as a question formed in her head. "If she's stolen the Master Emerald, how will I get back out to my Sonic?" And with that simple question, her world crashed as she dropped to her knees.
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Waves gently crashed onto the sandy shores of Angel Island, something which had only happened a few times in all of Knuckles life, a sad but painful reminder of every time he had failed as guardian. And this time, it had been in front of the one who had led to the creation of the duty in the first place.
Bowing his head, Knuckles sighed as he studied the sand beneath his feet. "I've failed, again." Turning his head to face the peach colored female echidna next to him, he shook his head. "I'm sorry, I seem to be failing every time I have to live up to my duty as the guardian of this place."
Planting a hand on his shoulder, Tikal shook her head negatively. "No one can be ready to fight all the time, you were tired from the current events, and who knew that bat girl would try a sneak attempt." Trying to pull the red echidna out of his depressed state, she looked over at Tails, Sonic and Cream for help in the matter.
Shrugging in reply, Sonic focused on the ocean as well, a small grin forming on his face as he grabbed Knuckles other shoulder. "Hey, it doesn't matter if she stole it or not, just as long as we get it back right?"
Looking at him, Knuckles grinned a bit as well, a small amount of the depression leaving him. "Right, but we still face the problem of getting Amy out the emerald." Turning to face Tikal, he smiled a bit gently. "And if we can do it without having you return to it."
Smiling a bit at his words, Tikal slowly shook her head. "You don't understand, Amy's taken my place as a spirit inside the gem, unless we find something with enough life force power to replace hers, it won't work."
Turing around, Sonic focused on Tails and Cream with a new light of determination in his eyes. "I'll leave that up to you buddy, if anyone can figure out how to solve that, it's you." Smiling at the two tailed fox, the blue hedgehog turned back to face the horizon. "Now, let's get out there and get back the Master Emerald, so we can save Amy, again." The last added a bit later as Sonic shook his head.
TBC.
AN: Yeah, Eggman shows up as well, can't have a Sonic story without him in it. Still several chapters to go, but I'm getting closer to the more action filled parts. Still not decided on any couples, but I'm starting to lean towards a Knuckles/Tikal while Amy is still slightly undecided.
