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.


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A good deed gone wrong
Part VI
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"What do you think Omega, too obvious?" Rouge asked as she watched the newly planed Master Emerald in her nightclub. The large gem acting as a decoration in a mock copy of the Echidna's emerald shrine.

Humming a bit, the large robot scanned the construction and emerald, running the data through his central parts and trying to form an answer to it. "Insufficient data. Need more to make accurate answer."

Snorting at Omega's words, Shadow looked up from his corner, his normally dark and brooding attitude extra strong that day for reasons he couldn't explain. "That thing only going to get you into trouble." But that wouldn't stop him from making a comment on the bats desire to steal the biggest gem in the world. "You know he'll come right to this place for it."

Looking at him a bit, Rouge slowly nodded as she ran a hand across the surface of the gem. "You may be right, he did see me leave with it." Smirking a bit, she turned to regard the black and red hedgehog. "Guess I'll have to hide it someplace else then."

Still facing the gem, Shadow slowly turned his head at the tone Rouge used. "I'm not moving it, you stole it so you deal with it." Waving his hand, he turned to leave the room when he felt the batgirl grab his shoulder. "Rouge?"

Smiling as sweetly as she could, the white colored bat leaned closer to him and grinned a bit as one finger rubbed one of his quills playfully. "You don't have to move it Shadow, all I want from you, is a tiny bit of help in delaying the echidna and hedgehog in coming here."

Raising his left eye a bit, Shadow looked slightly downwards at the Batgirl smiling back up at him. "What kind of help?"

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Spread out before them as they arrived, Station Square and its tall office buildings dwarfed the five furriers as they walked out from the local train Station. Sonic looking a bit tired as he scratched one of his quills and hid a yawn at the same time.

"Sonic, pay attention." Knuckles grunted out as he cast a quick look around the area. "Okay, first we find the Master Emerald, get it back, and then we return to."

Yawning loudly, Sonic cast an annoyed look over at Knuckles. "Okay Knuckles, we get it. But really, don't you think we can get a bit of rest?" Keeping his eyes straight the red echidna as he spoke, Sonic also cast a meaningful gaze at Tails, Cream and Cheese who looked ready to fall down and sleep where they stood. "None of us have gotten much sleep lately you know."

Shooting one of his infamous glares at Sonic, Knuckles took a step forward as he shifted most of his attention to his emerald tracking skill. "I can't waste any more time Sonic, I'm the guardian of the Master Emerald, and I won't rest until I have it back."

"What about Tikal then, shouldn't she get a chance to rest?" Sonic replied as he pointed at the peach colored echidna girl trying to hide a light yawn behind one of her hands. "Face it buddy, we could all use a rest, we've just finished beating Eggman yesterday, and have only gotten about two hours of sleep since then."

Grumbling soundly as he watched the group, Knuckles finally sighed as he gave in. "Fine, but as soon as I'm rested, I'm going hunting for that thief."

Shrugging, Sonic grinned at the guardian echidna. "I wouldn't expect anything less from you." Then he turned a bit more serious as he looked at the city around them. "Anyone got an idea where we can stay? The hotel's out of the question, I overstayed my hero's free accommodations months ago."

"Well." Tails started as he looked a bit nervously at Sonic. "There is Amy's apartment? Cream has a key to it."

Giving him the infamous 'you have got to be kidding look', Sonic shook his head very negatively. "Forget it, no way am I setting a foot inside that place, I'd rather sleep in the junk yard." Seeing the look Knuckles was giving him, he crossed his arms. "I say we forget resting after all, lets try and find Rouge club, then we can get the emerald back to safety, and a bed to sleep in. What do you say Knuckles?"

Facing Sonic with a very tired expression, Knuckles simply reach out and grabbed Sonic's shoulder, pulling him along the ground behind him as the blue hedgehog protested loudly. "Which way Tails?"

Pointing a finger in the right way, Tails tried to ignore the sight of Knuckles practically dragging Sonic after him, a sight that was drawing in the attention from everyone around. Finally, he walked off as well, but casting a quick look around as if expecting someone else to be there as well.

Overlooking it all from his hiding spot, Shadow smirked a bit. Clearly he didn't have to waste his time delaying them, as Rouge had wanted him to. Which was good, while fighting the faker was fun; it wasn't something he wanted to do right now. He had a far more important thing to do.

Jumping down from the ledge, he activated his jet skates and took off towards Night Babylon, and Rouge's nightclub. She would have the time she needed to move that green hunk of rock moved somewhere else, and he could get back to figuring out how to get G.U.N. of his back, they were starting a bit to obsessive in their hunt for him lately.

Still, something about the group troubled him now that he thought about it. Just where was that pink hedgehog girl that kept on following after the faker, if the whole group was together, shouldn't she have been there as well?

Shaking that non-important thought out of his head, he angled of towards Emerald Beach. Maybe some time in a nice quiet place would bring some answers to his other questions.

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Looking up as a small rumble like sound went through her nightclub once more, Rouge narrowed her eyes and slowly turned away from the van she had borrowed to transport the Master Emerald in. "Omega, did you hear something?"

E123 Omega, Eggman, last E100 model machine unit turned his robotic head and upper body around to face her, his red sensors facing her directly on. "Affirmative, scanning area for source of sound." Stepping away from the van as well, he stood up in his full height, weapon systems activating smoothly. "Have picked several energy readings nearby, consistent with reading from Eggman robots."

Eyes widening a bit, Rouge cast a quick look around the room; her body tensing up as both her agent and thieving skills urged her to be ready for anything. "You sure, I can't hear anything anymore." But, as she thought, there might be a very bad reason that the sound had stopped.

Stepping forward in the direction of Rouge to protect her, Omega focused his complete attention on the south wall of the place. "Picking up increasing energy readings from southern direction."

Even before he had finished talking, a larger part of the south wall vanished in a large explosion, rubble flying through the room causing extra damage to the place.

Coughing a bit from the dust in the air, Rouge stared at the hole with a dark glare. Eggman would pay for destroying her nightclub, then her heart almost stopped beating as she spotted a shape moving through the dust cloud, a shape she could recognize anytime. "Omega, You okay?"

Coming out of the cloud, the large E100 model machine eyes moved down to face her, his weapons armed and ready to lock on to anything that show up to attack them. "No damage sustained doing explosion." Moving his sensor eyes from side to side, they gave the impression of narrowing a bit like normal eyes. "Presence of several Eggman robots picked up, suggest caution."

At the final words from Omega, a clear sound of metal feet striking floor could clearly be heard as another shape began to move out of the dust cloud, several shapes in fact.

Turning to face them, Rouge slipped into a battle position as she recognized most of the shapes on the spot, all but one of them. "Egg-pawns, really, doesn't Eggman think we're serious enough to send something better?"

"He does." Came a cold syntizied voice from the last un-identified shape, the dust settled enough for it to become clear at last. Red colored metal dreads with razor edges hanging down from its head, green irises in the center of grid like eyes glowing dangerously.

Stepping back in surprise, Rouge noted that the robot arms ended in two vicious looking daggers, and two powerful looking robotic legs far more stronger looking then those Metal-Sonic had. "What is that thing, it looks like Knuckles." Rouge spat out as she turned slightly to face the Egg-pawns moving to surround them.

Next to her, Omega had moved his weapons to lock onto the robot instead of the Egg-pawns. "Scans confirm it as an upgraded version of robot model copy MK-III, Metal-Knuckles." Eyes sensors narrowing a bit, the huge E100 model machine stepped forward to close the distance between him and the metallic copy of Knuckles. "Preparing to terminate all Eggman robots."

Lifting up his metal arms in front of him, Metal-Knuckles gave a cold laugh as two small jet engines kicked in and allowed him to hover just above the floor. "You may try, but my order is to destroy anyone who stands in the way of my target, the Master Emerald."

Firing his machine guns, Omega sensors went into high speed as the tracked the other robot bounding from wall to wall, its speed getting enhanced by the jet engines, propelling him to a high enough speed to avoid most of the bigger robots attacks, but not able to even dream of matching Metal-Sonic's speed.

Switching form machineguns to a more powerful weapon, Omega fired off a set of mini missiles from his built in armory and took a grim satisfaction in seeing the Metal copy of Knuckles get knocked back. "I am the most superior Eggman robot, I will win this."

Eyes blazing, Metal-Knuckles would have smirked as the Egg-pawns moved in to attack as well. "Battle mode re-activated, level 7." Shooting forward, the red colored robot smashed both twin dagger like hands right into Omega's body, sparks flying freely as the battle resumed. "You are outdated, and will be destroyed."

Grimacing as she took out another Egg-Pawn, Rouge looked around the room, wishing that she hadn't sent Shadow off to delay Knuckles and his friends. His speed and strength could really be used right about now.

Punching Omega into the air, Metal-Knuckles followed up with a sharp kick that sent the huge robot flying backwards through a wall, and into a small Chao garden on the other side with a large bang. Even as he landed from the kick, he lifted up both arms, dagger like hands gleaming in the dim light. "Time to finish this."

That was when a large roar echoed through the room, with a flash of green light accompanying it. Spinning around to face this new possible treat, Metal-Knuckles sensors locked onto a large, transparent creature made of water, it's feet planted on the top off the master emerald.

Finishing with the last Egg-Pawn near her, Rouge gulped as she had time to see what had caused the metallic Knuckles to stop fighting. Her eyes growing a bit small as the water monster faced her as well.

She had never expected to face the water monster known as Chaos, never. His name had been mentioned to her on the secret files G.U.N. had given her on Eggman, but given that that plan had failed, she had never expected that thing to show up again.

Her attention fully on the water monster, she never even noticed the second round of egg-pawns moving in to attack her, until the first blow fell, followed by a second and third one.

TBC.

AN: Metal-Knuckles has a personality. I decided to give him since I don't like writing about robots that is only able to yell out. "Kill, kill and destroy." Also, there's a lack of Amy in this chapter, in fact she wasn't even here. I'll make up for that in the next one.