Wishes Of Eternity: I wonder, too. That's my favorite scene in the game since Knuckles and Rouge is the best sonic couple EVER!

Kagome: Hi! I'm back, and have a few ideas for this chapter. Since I typed your eyes out last chapter, I'm gonna shut up and start the disclaimer, than add a note.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic. I don't own Tails. I don't own Knuckles. I don't own Shadow. I don't own Rouge. I don't own Chris. I don't own the patience to write any more names down, so I don't own anything in this story but my crappy ideas and crappy characters. Oh! And Shadow! …I wish like hell…

Note: Eggman's robots Boko and Diko…I don't know which is which, so I'm gonna guess. The yellow dude's Boko and the silver round guy is Diko. Correct me if I'm wrong and I'll fix it.

CH 4

"So," Sonic tried to understand. "Rouge really doesn't have amnesia? She faked it?"

"But that doesn't sound like her." Chris commented. Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, and Chris where all in the X-Tornado, heading for Station Square.

"She didn't fake it." Knuckles explained.

"What are you talking about?" Chris asked. "You just said…"

"She was lying. Before she ran off, I asked her something. Something that Rouge would have answered differently if she had been faking it."

"Than why did she lie?" Tails asked.

"I get it." Shadow said. "Isn't it obvious?"

After exchanging glances with each other, Sonic, Tail and Chris still had no clue what was going on.

"Bat girl didn't want to worry echidna, so she acted like she faked her amnesia." Shadow explained. "That way echidna wouldn't try to help."

"We have to get Rouge back!" Knuckles exclaimed. When everyone looked at him he realized he said the wrong thing. "I mean, the Master Emerald. Unless we get Rouge back-"

"Save it echidna." Shadow said. "We have to save your girlfriend."

This made Knuckles turn more red than he already was.

MEANWHILE; STATION SQUARE!

"So, batgirl." The man from the phone call said. He was defiantly…fatter…than Rouge pictured. And his mustache must have been bigger than Rouge herself. "Did you get the Emeralds?"

"Yes…" Rouge sighed.

"We finally won for once!" a yellow robot exclaimed.

"Yes. Eggman finally came up with a good idea!" a silver one replied.

Rouge's eyes widened. Eggman? That meant…

"Give me the Master Emerald pieces back!" She demanded.

"Batgirl," Eggman started, hopping she hadn't heard Boko and Diko. "You don't get it."

"I know who you are!" She exclaimed. "You're Eggman! I've heard of you from Knuckles!"

"Well…looks like I've been figured out. Too bad you can't stop me!" Eggman said. "With your amnesia, you can't possibly fight me."

Rouge kicked him…right down there…. While he was off guard, she grabbed the Emeralds and ran.

MEANWHILE: ON THE X-TORNADO

"If we don't find that bat soon…" Knuckles started.

"Hey, isn't that her?" Chris pointed out a bat running, Master Emerald pieces in hands.

"Yeah…that's her…" Knuckles said. "Tails! Land us!"

After landing on Emerald Coast, the group ran for Rouge. After a minute, they finally caught up.

"Batgirl!" Knuckles yelled, snatching the Emerald pieces. "Give me those right now!"

"Look…" Rouge started. "About earlier…I was-"

"Save it!" Knuckles was defiantly pissed. But since he didn't know how to act towards Rouge, he couldn't control it. He wanted to tell her it was okay, but didn't know how. "I don't care. Amnesia or not, you knew not to steal the Master Emerald."

"It was a trick-" Before she could try to explain to Knuckles, he walked off, unwilling to talk to her.

"Don't blame yourself, Rouge." Tails told her. "Knuckles just…"

"Why don't you come back to the mansion with us?" Sonic offered.

"It's okay…" Rouge said. "I'll be fine here. Knuckles hates me now, so…"

"But Rouge…" Chris started. "You can't just stay out on the streets."

In the end, they convinced Rouge to return.

"Look." Rouge tried yet again to explain things to Knuckles. "Eggman tricked me…I saved the Emerald when I found out, though."

"Why did you even listen to him?" Knuckles demanded. "Before you were tricked, you were still gonna give them away. That's bad enough."

"I though it was someone from the government. Besides that, it was for you I did this!"

"For me?" Knuckles raised an eyebrow. "You stole from me for me?"

"Before I knew it was Eggman, he threatened to hurt you. I also thought I had been sent on a mission to steal from you when I…so I couldn't tell you…"

Knuckles was beginning to understand. "Its okay, Rouge. Just don't try anything like that again."

"I won't"

Kagome: Grr! I did it again! The chapter was shorter than my attention span! It's Monday morning and I'm dieing to post this online, but my best friend called the other day and is gonna call any day now. She moved to Germany so I can't call her because it's VERY expensive. She can only call ME! And it's always at the worst timing. In other words, this is going up on Wednesday. If I finish watching my anime stuff, I might get to write the sixth chapter before Wednesday! If not, I can now post stuff on Thursday, too! It's another official library day for me! So, ja ne!