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 XII


Floating, that was what it felt it like.

It felt almost like he was drifting through the air as weightless as he felt, but the stuff around him was too warm and heavy to be just some air that he was floating around in, so that left only one option left for it to be, and it was something he had promised himself never to spend more then two minutes in.

Opening his eyes slowly, almost afraid of what he knew he would see when he did so, Sonic still snapped open his mouth to scream as all he saw around him was water. Endless and with no surface it sight. The only reason he could see anything at all was because of the seven gems floating in front of him.

Each one sending out a soft golden glow despite the fact that none of them were even gold like in color. But that fact was lost on Sonic as he began to do what he normally did when faced with a trip into a body of water that he hadn't done willingly, he panicked, clawing and kicking at the transparent substance around him in an effort to escape.

And then opened up to look at him, those deep green eyes that never blinked nor had any pupils. But he could still feel them staring at him. /Why, why you stop me, I was removing bad man, bad man who machines hurt little chao./

Stopping all movement at the sudden intrusion into his head, Sonic watched as the eyes shrunk down to a small size, while part of the water took on the shape and form of Chaos 0, the water monster moving a three fingers hand in front of him.

/Why you attack me, why you hurt me for protecting my treasure chao/ As he was once again hit with a mental question, Sonic felt the water around his head flowed away, forming a large bubble of air for him to breathe in.

Feeling Chaos looking at him as he breathing slowed down from a panic level, Sonic finally found himself able to face Chaos on a more dignified level. "You nearly got me killed, not to mention Eggman and Tails." Spitting out the words, Sonic lifted up a clenched hand to shake it, stopping as it was far to hard to do so without moving his head in the water as well. "It was only because of Shadow that they're still alive."

Not blinking or moving as Sonic spoke, Chaos listen to the words of the blue hedgehog, feeling a bit of surprise at the anger in the hedgehog's words. /You care for them, like I care for Chao? Won't let them be hurt no matter what, will hurt those who hurt?./

Trying to understand Chaos's sentence, Sonic frowned as he got a good idea of what the beast was saying to him. "Yes, Tails is my friend, Eggman's my rival, and I will protect them both if I had too. Well maybe not Eggman, but Tails is a definite yeah."

/You strange, friend Tikal like that, sad I destroy her kind long ago, but they pay for hurting Chao, all who hurt Chao must pay./ Moving closer, Chaos just stared at Sonic without showing any kind of emotion. /Friend Tikal cry sometime from losing friends, I try to make her happy again, but it never work, she always cry again, yet she never blame me for hurting them, never tried hurting back./

Smirking lightly at Chaos words, Sonic had to shake is head. He would have betted that the young Echidna chieftain's daughter would be like that. She had never wanted to them to kill Chaos, only stop him from causing that high a level of destruction again. "Yeah, she's not that bad, but listen, you think you want to call of this hurt Eggman business, he's already beaten and down."

Getting a slightly hesitant look on his face, Sonic stared around him a bit confused. "And while we are talking about Tikal, there's something you should know."

/Friend Tikal missing, pink hedgehog with hammer show up instead./ Chaos replied as he moved even closer to Sonic, almost just outside the bubble of air around Sonic's head. /Pink hedgehog make Tikal vanish by taking her place, worry about friend Tikal, you know where friend Tikal/

"Well, about that." Getting a slightly trouble expression on his face, Sonic wondered how he was going to tell the water monster that Tikal was currently trying to find a way to free Amy without trapping herself again, and how he was going to react to it. "You see, it's kind of like this"


As usual, no wind moved through the world within the Master Emerald, a fact that had Knuckles slightly on edge since he was used to always having at least a mild breeze push against him. Added in was the lack of sounds beyond the happy squeals of the chao playing with Tikal.

Facing the Master Emerald's image behind him, Knuckles took a deep breath and began to calm himself down; it wouldn't do to have a nervous breakdown at a time like this. Besides, it wasn't his style, he was the guardian of this giant green gemstone and he didn't have time for any kind of breakdowns.

"Are you okay?" Tikal's voice reached him as she planted a hand on his shoulder, eyes slightly filled with a longing to them. "Trust your friends, they will find a way to help you."

Blushing a bit from the contact of her hand on his shoulder Knuckles barely managed to make out what it was she had said to him. He wasn't used to being this close to a female and hearing her voice and being able to touch the only other Echidna he had ever, wasn't something he had been prepared for.

Opening his mouth to reply in some manner, Knuckles quickly shut it up as he saw the look in her eyes, a bit of despair filling him as he remembered that she was willing to have herself get trapped in the gemstone to save Amy without thinking of how it would have affected anyone else. "I know, but as I said, I won't leave unless you are free along with Amy."

Feeling her heart clench up at the words, Tikal turned her head halfway around to avoid seeing the look in his eyes, it was a look she had only seen once in her life, centuries ago when she had been alive, one she hadn't been able to return to warrior who had looked at her like that. "Please, this is how it has to be, I knew that there would be a price to pay for my wish, you shouldn't suffer because of it."

"I do suffer because of it." Knuckles muttered out as he faced her, eyes half closed as he took a deep breath and sighed loudly. "The fact you were freed by Amy's wish should have told what I think of you, for me to be happy, you were freed from this place." Giving her a rather caring look as he finished the sentence, Knuckles reach out and took one of her hands. "I like you Tikal, as more then just the first Echidna I have met, I like you for who you are, and I don't want to leave you, or have you leave me."

Seeing no reaction from her other then shock at what he had said, Knuckles sighed and turned his head away. "I understand if you don't feel the same way, but no matter what you say or feel, I won't let you remain in this place forever."

Looking a bit out of it after Knuckles confession, Tikal just gaped like a fish until she felt him removed his hands from hers. "Wait, Knuckles you love me?" Blushing heavily as his words ran through her head again, Tikal could only stare as she could barely detect a similar blush on his face.

Opening his to reply to her, knuckles blinked as someone else beat him to it. "Why Knuckles, I didn't think that you would love someone, I thought you were all for your emerald?" Or rather someone spoke to him with a very familiar voice while leaned on his shoulder. "Tikal, nice to see you again as well, so Knuckles, you love her."

Moving his shoulder, Knuckles cast a tired look down at Sonic as he hit the ground face first. "Okay Sonic, how did you get here, and where do you want me to hit the least?" Punching one hand into the other at his words, Knuckles eyes held a promise of violence as he watched the blue hedgehog stand up.

Brushing off some imaginary dust from his shoulder, Sonic pointed a hand over Knuckles shoulder. "He brought me here, after we had a little chat."

Turning to face the direction Sonic had pointed in, Knuckles gave a small yell of surprise as he found Chaos standing right behind him, those green eyes of his looking right into his purple ones. "Chaos, when did he."

"You're back." Tikal spoke out softly as she walked up to stand next to Knuckles, one hand briefly touching his arm to make him relax. "I am sorry for leaving, but I am back now, please free Knuckles and Sonic from this place, please."

Not answering her right away, Chaos shifted a bit to look at Sonic who simply gave a smile and a thumps up in return, then over at Knuckles and finally back to the tired and sad looking Tikal. /Friend Tikal, you wish to leave here, like hedgehog Sonic says/

Looking quickly over at Sonic who simply smiled at her, Tikal turned back to face Chaos, her hand sneaking down to hold Knuckles as she lowered her head a bit. "Yes, I like it here Chaos, but I feel a longing for the real world, I want to live in the world outside, to feel the wind on my face, to see time pass, and to be with someone I love." The last barely heard as she muttered it out under her breath.

Not answering her as she turned to lean on Knuckles, Chaos moved back a bit and turned to face eth Master Emerald Image, his green eyes showing no emotion as he planted both three fingered hands on it. "Friend Tikal look after Chao and Chaos, Chaos thank you."

As he finished talking, Chaos's green eyes gave the impression of closing as a powerful bright light erupted around them, the sheer force of it causing everyone to shield their eyes as they felt the world vanish beneath them.


Back in the real world, Amy had dropped to her knees, her mind trying to come up with some kind of answer to what she had just seen. It wasn't possible that her hero could have just vanished like that, it wasn't possible at all, but no matter how she put it, she couldn't deny the fact that Sonic had disappeared in that sphere of power.

Opening her eyes as she struggled to hold back her tears, her mouth spoke the words inside of her mind silently, as if saying them would jinx the blue hedgehog and prevent him from returning, return to her, Tails and all the others, to once again smile that special way that made her feel all mushy on the inside.

Petting the pink hedgehog in a slightly comforting way, Tails kept shooting concerned looks at the Master Emerald, Cream who was hugging Cheese close to her, and everyone else in the room, trying hard not to break down himself. But even as his mind kept trying to say that Sonic was gone for good this time, he couldn't help but feel that the blue hedgehog would once again make it through without any problems.

He was sure of it; the blue hedgehog had been though worse things then that. Escaping the crashing Death Egg as it fell to earth the first time, his battles with Metal-Sonic, Chaos's final form, and getting shot out into space by Eggman, he had survived all of that, so he had to survive this as well.

Giving Amy a well hidden look of concern from his place in the corner, Shadow kept a firm hold on the fake chaos emerald in his hand, not even caring that Metal-Knuckles was no longer connected to it in any way. Clearly the robot had lost the parts needed to hold onto the gem, and had been left behind in the ruined base when it collapsed.

Instead, his mind was focused on what he had seen, the faker, no, Sonic had used Chaos Control in a manner he hadn't seen before, well, Rouge had spoken of it once, telling him he had used to save the Earth along with Sonic when he had prevent the space station Ark from falling. But that matter was beneath him now, so it was ignored, but the look of pain in that young hedgehog's eyes had him momentarily distracted from his previous thoughts, and had him eye her like a protective big brother would a younger sister.

Rouge had moved herself closer to the Master Emerald despite her earlier desire to not have it around anymore. Now that both Knuckles and Sonic was gone, it would need a new guardian, and she was the best one in the room as far as she could see.

All it would take to make sure that Eggman wouldn't get the drop on her again like he just had, was to improve the security of her new nightclub, no robot would be allowed with in a hundred meters of it. Reaching out a hand to touch the gem, she let it fall down to her side and sighed a bit as a well-hidden part of her protested her act of greed in such a moment as this.

Unable to really feel any emotions, Omega kept a watchful eye on the group inside the room, his anger and hate at his creator momentarily fading as he watched the movie file of the golden hedgehog unleashing the chaos power again, the file stopping right as the power fully consumed the golden glowing body.

And from deep with in, a feeling of having seen that golden figure before flowed through him with a strange feeling attached to it as a brief image of a small red bird filled his mind, then it was gone as his robotic mind took over again and had him return his attention to ensure Rouge wasn't hurting herself by standing up, and that no one was going to attack the group.

Just hugging her chao closed, Cream kept rocking back and fourth slowly as she sat on the floor, her mind still trying to figure out why everyone seemed so upset by Sonic's disappearance, hadn't the blue hedgehog survive other fights just a dangerous as this one, of not more.

But even as her mind kept yelling out that the hedgehog was fine, a smaller part of her was feeling the same emotion as the other close friends of Sonic. That maybe this was the final straw in Sonic's reckless life, that he was not going to just walk out of it with a few scratches and joke that it was no big deal to have walked on the edge of life.

As the mood inside the room continued to fall towards depression, barely anyone noticed as the Master Emerald shuddered a bit in its current resting place, It wasn't until it gave another shudder that hit one of Tails machines hard enough to make a sound, did they noticed.

Turning around as one to see what had caused the sound, Amy, Rouge, Omega, Tails, Shadow and Cream stared in wonder as the Master Emerald gave a small shudder once more, its constant glow dimming as if something was struggling to shut it down completely. Then with a final shuddering that almost knocked over the machine part it hit, its light exploded outward, covering everything in a warm blanket of green energy.

As it faded away, the group looked up as one, to see a small group of three familiar furries standing before them, Sonic smirking as he watched the stare at him, Knuckles holding Tikal as she once again had to get used to be alive and outside in the real world.

Staring at the one in the front of the group, the name of him sounded through out the room, as it was halfway yelled out by the ones before him. "Sonic!"

Stepping away from the two echidna's Sonic crossed his arms and grinned a bit. "Hey, what's with the long faces everyone, you know I always come through no matter what the odds are." Taking a deep breath as he finished talking, Sonic mouth slid into a smirk full of confidence.

Staring at her hero, Amy felt a few tears well up in the corner of hers eyes as she saw that he was safe, that he wasn't dead like she had almost begun to believe. "Sonic, you're okay." Then she turned to see Tikal stand up straight as Knuckles pulled his hands away from her shoulders. "You're back, but how?"

Facing the pink hedgehog as he question silenced everyone else, Tikal felt a great deal of sadness well up inside of her, as the last words she had heard just before getting freed again came back to her. "He gave me his life force, Chaos freed me."

"He freed us all." Knuckles added as he watched Amy as well, a look that had the young hedgehog step back a bit as it became clear that he wasn't done with her yet. "I just wonder what he meant when he asked you to take care of him Tikal."

As Knuckles finished speaking, the sound of something rolling over on the surface of the Master Emerald gad him turned around to see a chao egg roll around a bit. "What the?" Moving to pick it up, he was beaten to it by Tikal who lifted it down with as much care as she could. "Tikal"

Holding the egg careful, Tikal ran a finger down over the sea blue shell and sighed as a few tears left her eyes. "He's here, he's become a normal chao again." Looking at the gem before her, Tikal shook her head a bit. "All of it that he used to free us is now locked within this gem, and the small amount he had left allowed him to become one of the chao he guarded."

Holding the egg closer to her, Tikal smiled a bit as she turned to face Knuckles again. "I'll keep my promise to him, I'll protect him until he is able do so on his own again."

Nodding a bit, Knuckles reached out a hand and touched the Master Emerald, the large gem shrinking down to hand size again as he willed it. "Where will you go now Tikal, I have to return to Angel Island and resume my guardian ship, but I understand if you would rather stay down here on the surface."

Looking up into the slightly taller Echidna's face, Tikal gave a small smile at him as she moved the egg to a better position. "I'll go with you Knuckles, I would like to get to know you a bit better, so, if you don't mind me tacking along?"

Blushing a bit at the sincere look in those eyes of hers, Knuckles turned to see the rest of the room looking at him with small smirks or smiles. "Oh shut up." Wandering off, he looked over Tikal as she blinked her eyes in confusion. "I'll be waiting for you outside Tikal, so when you're ready, we can leave for Angel Island." The last added as his gaze slid over to land on Tails.

Blinking a bit as well, the two tailed fox jumped up as he remembered that he had the only plane that could get the two echidnas to the island. "Um, I'll go and warm up the Tornado." Walking out, he looked back one more time and smiled as he saw Tikal walk over towards Knuckles. "At least he won't be so lonely on that island anymore."

Pushing off from the wall he had been leaning on while the two lovebirds had talked, Shadow cast a bored look over at Sonic. "Hey faker, its been an interesting day, but I'll take my leave now." Turning to face Rouge and Omega, Shadow raised an eyebrow a bit as he saw the bat leaning on the robot with a tired expression. "You two coming or what?"

Lifting up Rouge, Omega nodded at his silently and most brooding partner. "Affirmative Shadow, ready to return home." as he finished talking, he took a step forward only to get hit in the head by one of rouges boots. "What's wrong Rouge? Am I holding you to hard?"

"Idiots, the night clubs a wreck, where do you two think we're going to stay now huh?" Her voice a bit tired sounding as she glared at them both, embarrassed over getting treated like a young girl by the robot.

Lifting up his hand and allowing a set of keys to glint in the light, Shadow smirked a bit at her. "I borrowed the fox's keys to his lab inside the city, we can stay there until the clubs been fixed." His words reaching Tails who opened his mouth to protest, only to close it when those crimson eyes reached him. "I'll return the keys when the reconstruction is done."

Walking out of the room, Shadow failed to see Tails ears drop down a bit as it mean the young fox was now reduced to sleeping in the spare bed he had in the workshop. "So much for a relaxing night." Picking up the keys for the Tornado, Tails stopped t look over at the others in the room, his eyes stopping as they reached the young rabbit and her chao. "Cream, you want a lift back to your mother's house, it's only a small detour."

Nodding vigorously at the fox, the young rabbit jumped up and pulled her pet chao in close to her, stopping just before Tails as she gave a small bow. "Thank you very much, but are you sure that there will be enough space in your plane for us all?"

Grinning as he walked towards the backroom, Tails smirked a bit as he rubbed a finger under his nose. "Yup, I've been working on a add on for the plane, so now it can handle up to five passengers at once." The fox not seeing the look of concern filling Cream's face at getting to be the one to test out one of his new machines.

Left behind in the room, Sonic smiled a bit at Amy as he stretched his arms up over his head. "Well, I beat, think I'll head back to Station Square and check in at a hotel." Looking over at Amy, he held out a hand towards her. "Want a life to your apartment?"

Feeling her face nearly split from the size of her smile, Amy began to nod when Tikal's voice broke through the haze of happiness surrounding her. "But Sonic, I thought her apartment had been destroyed by Eggman?"

Eyes narrowed as her happiness shattered to be replaced by shock and anger, Amy cast a dark look over at Sonic as her left hand pulled out her trusted Piko Piko hammer. "You let Eggman destroy my apartment!" Her voice hitting a rather high note as her hammer was pulled back to lash out at him.

Holding up his hands, Sonic backed a way a bit. "Well, we did need a place to stay, and Eggman must have seen us enter it somehow, so when he tried to take Tails prisoner he kind of blow up the wall and burnt out the inside of it."

"He what!" Amy roared out as her eyes flashed with rage. "And you let him? You idiots, I don't have the damage from an Eggman attack insurance policy! Morons!"

Moving rapidly towards the door, Sonic gave a small grin at her. "You know, I wasn't there at the time, but Tails was, so if you want to blame someone, blame him." Bolting out the door before Amy could reply or yell again, Sonic was off running as fast as she could.

Leaning on the side of the small workshop, Knuckles cast a surprised look at Sonic, and then slid it to the side as he saw Amy stomp out through the door, her hands holding her hammer rather tightly. "Let me guess, he's running away from you again?" His voice neutral as he was staring to think they would never change no matter how much advice they got.

"The coward." Amy grunted out as she sent her hammer back to where it came from. "Now what do I do, my apartment's wracked, all my stuff is gone."

Cringing a bit at her words, Knuckles quickly moved a bit away from her, as it most likely wasn't a good idea to let her know that he could have stopped Eggman's attack, if he had stayed behind instead of following Sonic. "Well, don't you have a place you can stay at until it is repaired?"

Sighing a bit, Amy looked back into the workshop, her eyes half closed in anger still. "Hey Tails, I'm going to have to spend the night here, and don't protest, it's thanks to you and Eggman my homes been trashed." The faint sound of Tails moaning either in defeat, protest or sadness followed Amy's statement as she walked in. "I heard that you know, and how hard can it be for a genius like you to make a guest bed anyway?"

Walking out of the place, Tikal cast a look back in as she heard Tails and Amy argue over who was going to sleep in the guest bed as Cream giggled in the background. "They're rather lively aren't they?" Smiling a bit as she spoke, Tikal turned to face Knuckles. "I should thank Amy, if it wasn't for her wish, I wouldn't be free again."

Rising an eyebrow again, Knuckles looked over at the door as Tails walked out from the inside. "Better do it now, as we'll be leaving shortly."

Walking out as well, Cream giggled a bit as she petted Tails on the back in a comforting way. "Don't worry, my mom has a guest you can borrow, it's not that hard to move either so you shouldn't have any problems with it." Giggling a bit as the fox moaned in defeat again, she looked up at Knuckles who simply nodded back at her as they passed.

Inside the room, Tikal looked over at Amy as the young Hedgehog dropped into a chair and sighed as leaned back in it with a content smile on her face. "Amy?"

Looking up at her name, Amy smiled a bit as she saw who it was. "Tikal, so, are you and Knuckles going to be together now that you're out of the gem for good?"

Giggling a bit at the pink hedgehog's blunt approach, Tikal blushed a bit as she thought about it. "Well, he's not bad on the eyes, plus he so sweet once you get past the tough exterior." Looking over at Amy, her eyes turned a bit determined as she saw Amy grin back at her. "And I hope you remember what I told, Sonic might not want someone to follow him, but he might want to have someone run with him."

"I remember." Amy replied as she still grinned a bit at Tikal. "So I'm giving him a bit of breathing space from now on, it might also give me some time to think of a good way to approach him without having him run off." Her eyes closing a bit as a small daydream started up, she grinned a bit as it began to overpower reality around her.

Moving the chao egg a bit to a better position again, Tikal smiled a bit again as she gave a small bow. "Anyway, I wanted to thank you Amy, for getting it all started so I could be free again." Standing up from her bow, she saw Amy nod at her as she blushed from embarrassment. "Well, I had better get going, if we have to reach Angel Island before nightfall."

As she turned, she heard Amy move a bit behind her, the young hedgehog walking over to the door with her. "Take care of yourself Tikal, and Chaos, and Knuckles too." Waving at the red colored guardian, she received a small look in return. "I guess he's still a bit upset that I messed with his emerald."

Laughing a bit at Amy's comment, Tikal wiped away a tear. "You know he's just to too shy to thank you for this, it's his nature." Waving back at Amy as she walked off, Tikal handed the Chao egg over to Cream as she felt Knuckles help her up into the back seat of the Tornado. "Be seeing you Amy, drop by the island if you have the time."

"And the means." Amy mumbled out as the plane began to take off, her eyes following it until it was just a spec in the distance before heading back inside. "Great, now I'm alone again, and Sonic's gone for now, but at least I can think of a way to get him to like me." Dropping back down into the chair, Amy sighed a bit in happiness as she enjoyed the softness of it. "Now, how do I convince Sonic to let me run with him, instead of following him"


Grumbling as he sat silently in his back up lab, Eggman still had a frown on his face as he turned to view the computer screen before him with a critical eye. "Memory programming, 67 complete." Smirking widely at the news, Eggman stood up and did a light stretch as he turned away from the screen. "I may have the lost a base, the Master Emerald and a battle mecha."

Walking towards a lone chamber in the middle of the room, Eggman grinned as he planted a hand on the glass and metal tube there. "But it matters not, the status of your progress more then makes up for those losses, and while I would have liked it to be more, it is good enough for now."

Turning around to leave, Eggman cast a last look over his shoulder. "Rest well my creation, for when the times come, you shall destroy Sonic, and all who stand against me." Laughing as he left the room, Eggman didn't notice the red glowing eyes coming from the inside of the tube.

As the door closed, a single metallic hand pressed against the window glass and pushed gently on it. "Soniiicccc." The name drawn out as the hand clenched up into a fist as the pair of red eyes glowed even brighter from inside the tank. "Destroy."


Standing on the edge of Angel Island's new emerald shine as the island rose up into the sky , Knuckles cast a look back at Tikal as she smiled at him. "So, you ready to head over to your new home?" His voice a it unsure sounding as he walked closer to her.

Nodding at him, Tikal took his hand and smiled a bit as she broke out into a blush. "Lead the way Knuckles, and don't worry, I won't mess up your place that much."

Grinning a bit in embarrassment from her comment, Knuckles wondered how she would react to his home, not that it was that much of a place to stay to begin with, it only had one sleeping place, a table and a old log to sit on. Almost all of his time was spent at the Master Emerald anyway and.

Blushing even harder, Knuckles felt his blood pressure rise a bit as he remembered that there was only one bed at his home, then he forced it down and felt a bit more relaxed as he considered if he should sleep sitting on the log, or settled for making a makeshift bed of leave and sand.

Next to him, Tikal still grinned as she had seen the brief look passing through his eyes, but didn't decided to play on it as it was getting rather late, and she was looking forward to some sleep. Maybe she could convince him to help her look for the materials needed to make an extra bed tomorrow.


"And Tikal's free and living with knuckles right now." Cream told her mother as they walked along the beach, her eyes shining a bit with happiness for her friends before stopped as she noticed something up ahead of them, something familiar that she hadn't expected to see again. "Emerl!"

Running forward, she stopped as she noticed it to be a gold and black colored robot and not the familiar robot she had met so long ago. "No, it's not him, I think its Gmerl." Cream exclaimed as her mother simply stared down at the robot lying on the beach before them.

She didn't hear her daughter talk about bringing him back to life, all she saw was a robot that had been built by Eggman to hurt her daughter and her friends. "Cream, are you sure that's a good idea?"

Twirling around to face her mother, Cream giggled a bit as she placed her hands on her back. "Don't worry, I'm sure Tails can make him become a good robot, please."

Feeling her resolved fail before her daughters pleading expression, Vanilla finally shook her head. "Okay, but make sure that Tails does a good work okay, I don't want it to hurt you."

Jumping up in joy at her mother's words, Cream barely avoiding hitting Cheese as he moved in to get a better look. "Thank you mommy."

The end.

AN: First, the last part led the story into the Sonic Advance 3 ending, so I hope I haven't spoiled it for anyone. Second, this is the final chapter, and the one where all things got cleared up, I hope everyone like the way I got those trapped in the Master Emerald freed again, and aren't mad at what happened to Chaos.

Originally I intended to go with the idea of using plants to free them after a friend suggested it to me in an e-mail, then I changed my mind and decided to have Chaos do it instead. And for the curious ones, I had envision an idea of Knuckles and Tikal having to take up residence in the Mystic ruins area in the end as well, following the sinking of Angel Island as it had landed in too deep a part of the ocean for it to reach the bottom safely.

Also, feel free to tell how you thought of the whole story, what was good, what was bad, and where it could have had some improvements, or a lot, remember, the more reviews I get, the happier I am.

Signing out for now,
Demino.