Ok, now that I got tha last few chaps up the two reviews can start again. Once I get to about 20 reviews, I'll know whether or not to keep going. Ok, here we go.


IMPORTANT

Does anyone even want this to continue? I'm losing interest, that is if you are. Tell me if I should discontinue this story or not, plz.


The sun lay just beyond the horizon, one of those 'the sun is huge and red' western-style days. A light breeze was blowing, and the ocean looked beautiful with the sky a purplish color straight above, fading into pink then yellow, and dark-dark bluish clouds. Rouge was lying with her head on knuckles' lap with her arms behind her head, looking up at him as he stared out over the ocean, with a calm smile and eyes half closed. He had his arms on her waist and shoulder. She watched his every move. He looked down at her. She smiled back, then reached up to kiss him, which she succeeded in. They sat lip locked for what seemed like forever, until they broke into a hug. Rouge closed her eyes. 'Now this is how I like it.' She quickly opened them to see three dark figures off in the distance. She tapped Knuckles on the shoulder, making him turn around. He was smiling, but his smile quickly faded. Now standing in front of them was Team ShaDuxX, with Shadow in front, as always. Shadow smiled evilly.

"Hello, echidna breath." Knuckles clenched his fists.

"What the hell do you want?" Yuri stepped up.

"Shut up. We need to talk to you. Big boy talk." Knuckles sneered as Yuri said that last line.

"No funny stuff, Shadow." Shadow nodded. Kamex nodded, too, then spoke.

"Yeah, this isn't Tellytubbies, dear boy." he said darkly. Knuckles sneered. Shadow now spoke.

"I see you're missing you're precious jewel. What, you chickened out and stopped guarding it, because the alone time and lack of publicity finally got to you and was too scary for poor Knuckles?" Knuckles popped a vein in his forehead.

"YOU WATCH IT YOU-"

"SHUT UP DAMMIT! Calm down, red face. Now, back to the point. You should watch your friends more closely." Knuckles stood up.

"What do you mean?" Yuri nodded towards Rouge.

"Think about it. Everyone who wasn't with you and Rouge when you went to that diner." Knuckles flinched when Yuri said this.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW AB-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Knuckles flinched again. "Not everything is what it seems. Take it into consideration." Just then, Sonic could be seen running towards them.

"Hey! Knuckles!" Shadow looked towards him and sneered.

"Faker. Dammit." Sonic walked up to them and waved.

"Hey, Knux! And hey, Shad! Long time no see!" Shadow sneered again, then looked towards Knux.

"Trust nobody, echidna breath." He waved at Sonic. "And faker…" Sonic gave the thumbs up. "… smell ya later." Sonic flinched, pissed, as Shadow said this and chaos controlled away.

"Hey! That's my line!" Knuckles turned to the ocean with his head down. Rouge walked up to him and hugged him. Knuckles grabbed her hand in response.

'What the hell is that bastard talking about?' Rouge kissed him on the cheek.

"Ignore him. He's always intimidating. We could never trust him, anyway." Knuckles took this in and hugged her. As he did, something flashed black in the distance beyond the water. Sonic and Knuckles and Rouge looked, curious. "What the hell was that?" Sonic shook his head.

"I don't know..." As they looked out, they could barely see what looked like a small wave way in the distance. They just brushed it off until they heard Frynic's voice.

"It's way out there! And it looks like its gaining a decent amount of size! The three turned to see Frynic, Hitail, and Team Restlex. Suddenly, all the water from the beach sucked out into the ocean a few feet, making the beach bigger. Sonic stood wide eyed.

"This is not good." he said with a mumbling tone. All of a sudden, Tails, Ynaffit,

and Mijjett flew overhead.

"Quick Sonic! The Chaos Emeralds!" Everyone nodded. Then everyone was running towards Amethyst and Emerald Islands. When they arrived, Sora was looking at the wave, not at all worried. Tails flipped out.

"How can YOU not be worried! We're all gonna die!" Sora looked at Tails calmly.

"Ignore it." Everyone gasped at her.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN IGNORE IT? ARE YOU SHITTIN INSANE?" Sora bowed her head and closed her eyes.

"It's fake." Everyone was now spellbound again. Liartra walked over to Knuckles.

"Ok. If it's fake, this punch won't hurt Knux." Liartra swung as hard as he could, connecting with Knuckles' lip.

"AHH!" He fell back a little, in pain. Everyone stared. Knuckles looked at Liartra.

"YOU LITTLE!" he dove at Liartra, but Thystan stepped in front of him and held his hand out.

"No. Calm down." They all turned to watch the wave, which was now fully visible and huge beyond all reason. They just watched, trusting their dear purple echidna friend.

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As he sped towards the wave on his hoverboard, Draith held a large ball in his right hand. He looked at it and scratched his head. "I still don't see how one small ball can stop a six hundred foot wave…" He shrugged and sped ahead. When he approached, he flinched a bit. "That's a damn big wave!" He came up right behind it and pushed a few buttons on the ball, backing up. He then threw it at the wave and headed full speed back to Mastermind's Island. "He never un-succeeded." As he looked back, he saw a large explosion, with purple mist. "O……….k…….."

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The gang watched as the wave disappeared. "What…. Fuck…." They all stood wide eyed for literally five minutes. Then Hitail broke the silence.

"WANNA PLAY TAG?" Nobody answered. Knuckles took this in for

a while, then nodded and turned to her with a large smile and eyes as big as CD's. Rouge stepped back a bit. "Whoa! What the hell is wrong with you?" Knuckles inched towards her and gently pushed her out of the way. He stared at Sonic, who stared back in a state of confusion and fear. Knuckles dove at Sonic and tagged him.

"YOU'RE IT!" Knuckles took off running, and Hitail followed. Everybody stared wide eyed for a minute, then shrugged as They ran. Sonic stood alone now.

"Ahh, jeez… oh well." He then sped off in Knux's direction.